CURRICULUM VITAE

Steve Striffler
University of Arkansas
Department of Anthropology
Old Main, 330
Fayetteville, AR. 72701
striffler@hotmail.com

Education
Ph.D., Anthropology, New School for Social Research, 1998
MA, Anthropology, New School for Social Research, 1994
MA, Political Science, University of Michigan, 1991
BA, Political Science, UCLA, 1989

Scholarships/Awards
Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellowship, How the Poor Constitutes Community, Northwestern University, 2005

Best Book Award, Latin American Studies Association, Labor Studies Section.

President's Book Award, 2001, Social Science History Association

Full-time Research Assignment, University of Arkansas, Spring, 2003

Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellowship, Creating the Transnational South, University Cente for International Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 2000-2001

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Yale University, Program in Agrarian Studies, 1998/9

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Award, 1997/8
[Program in Violence, Domination, and Aggression] Wenner-Gren Anthropological Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1996/7

Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship

Johnson Dissertation Fellowship, 1995/6 & 1997/8

Janey Program in Latin American Studies Research Grant, 1994

New School for Social Research, Scholarship, 1991-1994

New School for Social Research, Research Assistantship, 1993-1995

Employment

Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellowship, How the Poor Constitutes Community, Northwestern University, 2005-2006.

Associate Professor, Anthropology and Latin American Studies, University of Arkansas, 2003-Present

Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Latin American Studies, University of Arkansas, 1999-2003.

Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellow, Creating the Transnational South, University Center for International Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2000-2001.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, 1998-1999.

Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, New School for Social Research, 1998.

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology, The College of Staten Island, CUNY, Staten Island, New York, 1997.

Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador, 1995-1997.

Research Assistant, Department of Anthropology, New School for Social Research, 1992-95; 1997.

Teaching

Taught

Power and Popular Protest in Latin Americ

Gender and Politics in Latin America

Anthropology and History, (Graduate Course)

Honors Colloquium: Food, Migration, and the Americas

Honors Colloquium: Karl Marx: Life, Times, and Legacy: Method and Theory in Cultural Anthropoloy (Graduate Core Course)

Culture and Political Economy, (Graduate Course)

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Honors

Latinos in the U.S.

Additional Teaching Interests

Latino Studies

Immigration/Transnationalism

Race and Ethnicity

Political Ecology

Social Movements

Theory

** Department Honors Advisor 2001-Present

Books and Articles

Books:

Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America's Favorite Food Yale University Press. 2005.

Banana Wars: Power, Production and History in the Americas. Duke University Press. Co-edited with Mark Moberg. 2003.

In the Shadows of State and Capital: United Fruit, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995. Duke University Press. 2002.

President's Book Award, Social Science History Association.

Best Book Award, Latin American Studies Association, Labor Studies Section.

The Ecuador Reader: History, Nation, and Politics. Under contract with Duke University Press.

Shades of Empire: The Americas in a Global Age. In Progress.

Articles:

Published

We're All Mexicans Here: Poultry Processing, Latino Migration, and the Transformation of Class in the South, in The American South in a Global World, edited by James Peacock, Harry Watson, and Carrie R. Matthews, UNC Press. 2005.

Class Formation in Latin America: One Family's Enduring Journey Between Country and City, for a special issue of ILWCH (International Labor and Working-Class History Journal). Spring 2004, No. 65.

Undercover in a Chicken Factory, in UTNE, Jan/Feb 2004.

Introduction, (with Mark Moberg) to Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas (with Mark Moberg). Duke University Press. 2003.

The Logic of the Enclave: United Fruit, Popular Struggle, and Capitalist Transformation in Ecuador, in Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas, Duke University Press. 2003.

Migrating Multinationals, Persistent Peasants, and a Slippery State: The Origins of Contract Farming in Ecuador's Banana Industry, in Plantation Society in the Americas Vol VI (2 & 3) (Fall 1999): 223-255. [actual publication date: Summer 2003]

Inside a Poultry Processing Plant: An Ethnographic Portrait, Labor History 43:3 August 2002.

Communists, Communists Everywhere!: Forgetting the Past and Living with History in Ecuador's Coast. In Culture, Economy, Power: Anthropology as Critique, Anthropology as Praxis (edited by Belinda Leach and Winnie Lem). SUNY Press (2002).

Clase, Genero, e Identidad: La United Fruit Company, Hacienda Tenguel, y la Transformación de la Industria Bananera, Ecuador Debate, November 2000.

Wedded to Work: Class Struggles and Gendered Identities in the Restructuring of the Ecuadorian Banana Industry. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 6(1), 1999, 91-120.

(with Gazi Shbikat) Arkansas Migration and Population. In Arkansas Business and Economic Review, Vol 33(3). Fall, 2000.

Under Contract/Accepted For Publication/In Press:

Tyson Foods, Holly Farms, and the Rise of Big Chicken, article for an edited book in a series on Globalization in the Sunbelt with University Press of Florida.

Culture in History: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and the Restructuring of the Banana Industry, to be published (in Spanish) in an anthology by FLACSO on Perspectives on Culture.

Book Reviews:

Bucheli, Marcelo. 2005. Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, NYU Press. Hispanic American Historical Review.

Sawyer, Suzana. 2004. Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador. Duke University Press. For American Ethnologist.

Taylor, J. Gary and Patricia J. Scharlin. 2004. Smart Alliance: How a Global Corporation and Environmental Activists Transformed a Tarnished Brand. Yale University Press. For Orion, a leading environmental magazine published in the Northeast.

Grossman, Lawrence S. 1998. The Political Ecology of Bananas: Contract Farming, Peasants, and Agrarian Change in the Eastern Caribbean. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Caribbean Studies Association Newsletter.

Mayer, Enrique. 2002. The Articulated Peasant: Household Economies in the Andes. Westview Press. American Ethnologist, Volume 30, Number 3, August, 2003.

Coyle, Philip. 2001. Nayari History, Politics, and Violence: From Flowers to Ash. University of Arizona Press. Journal of Anthropological Research, vol. 59, 2003.

Fink, Leon. 2003. The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in Nuevo New South. University of North Carolina Press. Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Winter 2003.

Whitten, Norman. 2003. Millennial Ecuador. University of Iowa Press. Journal of Latin American Anthropology, forthcoming.

Invited Lectures/Presentations

Chicken: Linking Production and Consumption in America's Favorite Meat Center for International and Comparative Studies, Northwestern University, October 21, 2005.

Black Empire: Coal, Coke, and Crude in Colombia, Latin American Studies, Northwestern University, November 2, 2005.

Neither Here nor There: Mexican Migration and the Poultry Industry, Northwestern University, Department of Anthropology, November 28, 2005.

Movement and Migration in Latin American History, Vanderbilt University, March 2005.

We're All Mexicans Here, University of California, Santa Barbara, Feb. 2004.

On Foreign Ground: Mexican Immigrants to the U.S. and the Trip Home, at William and Mary, October 30th, 2003.

We're All Mexican Here: Poultry Processing, Transnational Migration, and the Transformation of Class in the U.S. South at Harvard University, September 22nd, 2003.

We're All Mexican Here: Poultry Processing, Transnational Migration, and the Transformation of Class in the U.S. South at Yale University, Program in Agrarian Studies, September 19th, 2003.

Searching for Home in the Transnational South: Mexican Migration, Gender, and the Poultry Industry at University of Kansas, April, 2003.

Race, Migration, and Poultry Processing, at Pomona College, February, 2003.

We're all Mexican Here: Poultry Processing, Transnational Migration, and the Transformation of Class in the U.S. South. at UC-Santa Cruz, Department of Community Studies. January, 2003.

Gender, Migration, and the Poultry Industry, at Middlebury College, October, 2002.

We're all Mexican Here: Poultry Processing, Transnational Migration, and the Transformation of Class in the U.S. South at the University of Chicago, May 2002.

Anthropology and Activism in the Poultry Industry, at University of Texas-Austin, May, 2002.

Poultry and Latin American Immigration into the South. At Duke University, History class on Latinos in the US, April 2001.

King Chicken: Tyson Food, Transnational Migration, and the Transformation of Class in the U.S. South. At CUNY-Graduate Center, Colloquium, March, 2001.

Class Struggles and Gendered Identities in the Restructuring of the Ecuadorian Banana Industry, at Queens College, March 2001.

Culture at Work: Poultry Processing, Transnational Migration, and the Transformation of Class in the U.S. South. At the University of California, San Diego, February, 2001.

The Transnational South at "Bridges Between Cultures: Moore County and MesoAmerica." At Moore County School, February, 2001. [Outreach to High School Teachers].

Mucho Trabajo, Poco Dinero: Poultry Processing, Transnational Migration, and the Transformation of Class in the U.S. South. At Stanford University, January, 2001.

"The Logic on the Enclave: United Fruit, Peasant-Worker Struggle, and Capitalist Transformation in Ecuador." At Yale University's Conference celebrating 10 years of the Program in Agrarian Studies. New Haven, May, 2000.

Communists, Communists Everywhere!: Forgetting the Past and Living with History in Ecuador. At Duke Universty's Latin American Labor History Conference. Durham, April, 2000.

Wedded to Work: Class Struggles and Gendered Identities in the Restructuring of the Ecuadorian Banana Industry. At the University of British Columbia as part of a Conference on “Gender, Race, and Socia Class.” Vancouver, January, 2000.

Gendered Identities and Class Struggles in Ecudor's Banana Industry, the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS., October, 1999.

Gender and Working-Class Struggles in the Ecuadorian Banana Industry at Drew University, Madison, NJ., April, 1998.

Bananas, Chocolate, Shrimp, and Gold: Changing Landscapes and Ecologies in Southern Ecuador. Invited Lecture for the Tropical Resources Institute of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University, November 3, 1998.

Communists Communists Everywhere!: Forgetting the Past and Living with History in Ecuador's Coast. Invited lecture for the Columbia University Cultural Pluralism Seminar, Columbia University, November, 16, 1998.

Conference Papers

Neither Here nor There: Memories of Home Among Mexican Immigrants, for AAA Meetings, Fall 2005.

The Human and the Animal, at Labor and the Environment: Points of Departure, the 22nd Annual Latin American Labor History Conference, April 22nd - 23rd, 2005

Transnational Agribusiness and the Shaping of Identity in Latin America, at Labor and Globalization: A Mini-Conference sponsored by Ford Foundation (day before LASA meetings). October 6th, 2004.

Anatomy of a Corporate Takeover: Tyson Foods, Holly Farms, and Big Chicken, Southern Labor Studies Conference, Birmingham, Alabama, April, 2004.

Tender Chickens, Tired Workers: Towards a Social Archeology of the Corporate Merger,”American Anthropological Association Meetings, New Orleans, November, 2002.

We're all Mexicans Here: Inside (and Outside) a Tyson Poultry Plant, at a conference at Yale University on The Chicken: Its Biological, Social, Cultural, and Industrial History, May, 2002.

Immigration as Gendered Class Formation: Poultry Processing and the American Working Class in the US South, for the American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington, DC. November, 2001.

Culture at Work: Poultry Processing, Transnational Migration, and the Transformation of Class in the U.S., for the 23rd Annual North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, October, 18-20, 2001.

To process your chicken and eat it too: Poultry Processing, Transnational Migration, and the Transformation of Class in the American South. For the panel on Multi-locational Ethnography,” at the AES/CASCA meetings, McGill University, May, 2001.

Bill Roseberry, For a Roundtable In Memory of William Roseberry: Historical Anthropology, Marxist Anthropology and the History of Anthropology, at the AES/CASCA meetings, McGill University, May, 2001.

Hate the Work, Love the Job: Transnational Migration and Forms of Resistance in the Poultry Industry. For a workshop on Fight or Flight: Resistance and Accommodation in the Modern World, at the University of Memphis, Center for Research on Women, March, 2001.

Mucho Trabajo, Poco Dinero: Poultry Processing Transnational Migration, and the Transformation of Class in the U.S. South. For the Transnational South” Seminar at the University Center for International Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill.

Peasant Struggle and the Formation of State and Capital in Ecuador's Coast, 1925-1955. For the panel on State Formation in Modern Ecuador at the XXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in Miami, FL., April, 2000.

Impossible Choices: Forgetting the Past and Clashing with History in Ecuador,”For the panel on “Figurations in Historical Ti at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago IL., November, 1999.

Constructing and Imagining the State: The United Fruit Company and Popular Struggle in Ecuador's Banana Industry. For the panel on “Encountering Capital: Power and Conflict in the Global Banana Industry” at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA. December, 1998.

Communists, Communists Everywhere!: Understanding Defeat and Betrayal in Ecuador's Coast. At the Colloquium Series, Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, November, 20, 1998.

From Ecuador to Colombia: The Political Roots of Contract Farming in the Global Banana Industry. For the panel on The History of Bananas in Colombia: New Perspectives at the XXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in Chicago, IL., September, 1998.

Communists, Communists Everywhere: Fighting over History in Ecuador's Southern Coast. For the panel on Political Economy and the Production of Culture: The Politics of Historical Anthropology at the Annual Meetings of the American Ethnological Society/CASCA, Toronto, Canada, May, 1998.

In Search of Workers: Agricultural Restructuring in Ecuador's Coast. For the panel on Globalization, State Power, and Struggles of Identity at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC., November, 1997.

Towards an Ethnographic Understanding of Capital: Making Fun of Authorities in Coastal Ecuador. At the conference on Shaping Anthropologies: Perspectives from New York. New York, February, 21-22, 1997.

The Invention of Cultural Diversity: Foreign Capital, Plantation Management, and Labor Control in the Southern Coast. For the panel on The Exercise and Representation of Socio-Cultura Diversity in Ecuador” at the Primer Congreso Ecuatoriano de Antropologia, Quito, Ecuador, October, 1996.

State, Politics, and Capitalist Transformation in Coastal Ecuador. For the panel on State, Community, and Politics at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC. November, 1995.

Panels Organized

The Corporate South: Disney, Tyson, and Wal-Mart, for the Southern Labor Studies Conference, Birmingham, Alabama, April, 2004.

Marxism, Anthropology, and History: Essays in Honor of William Roseberry, for the American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington, DC. November, 2001.

Transnational Migration, Agro-Industry, and the Transformation of Class in the U.S., for the 23rd Annual North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, October, 18-20, 2001.

Encountering Capital: Power and Conflict in the Global Banana Industry. For the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA., December, 1998.

Globalization, State Power, and Struggles over Identity (with Caitrin Lynch). For the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC., November, 1997.