Jane W. Gibson CV

Jane W. Gibson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Anthropology

University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas 66045

Contact Information

Email: jwgc@ku.edu

jwgc13@gmail.com

Phone: 785-979-5714 (mobile)

Education

1983 BA cum laude in Anthropology and Environmental Studies Baylor University, Waco, Texas.

1985 MS in Environmental Studies Baylor University, Waco, Texas.

Thesis: Institutional Bias and Structural Change in Texas Agriculture.

1992            Ph.D. in Anthropology University of Florida, Gainesville.

                    Dissertation: Skin and Bones: Politics and Consequences of Natural

                    Resource Management in Shellcracker Haven, Florida

Distinctions, Honors, and Awards

1986-89 Presidential Graduate Research Fellow University of Florida, Gainesville.

1998 Promoted to Associate Professor and Tenured University of Kansas, Lawrence.

2001 Robert C. McNetting Prize for Outstanding Paper in the Journal of Political Ecology, awarded by PESO, the Political Ecology Society.

W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence. University of Kansas, Lawrence.

Sabbatical Award. University of Kansas.

2007-present Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology.

Keeler Family Intra-University Professorship
NSF Summer Institute for Research Methods: Qualitative Video Data Analysis I Duke University Marine Lab; Beaufort, North Carolina
NSF Summer Institute for Research Methods: Methods in Ethno-ecology.

Duke University Marine Lab; Beaufort, North Carolina.

2011-12 Senior Administrative Fellows Program. University of Kansas.

Sabbatical Award. University of Kansas.
Research Intensive Semester. University of Kansas

2015-2019 Executive Board Member andSecretary of the Society for Applied Anthropology

Academic Appointments

2010-15 Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas

2009-10 Acting Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas

1998-present Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas.

1992-98 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas.

1990-92 Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida.

1985-86 Lecturer, Baylor University, Institute of Environmental Studies.

1983-85 Teaching Assistant, Baylor University, Institute of Environmental Studies.

1982-83 Research Assistant, Baylor University, Institute of Environmental Studies.

Publications and Applied and Creative Works (*refereed; °applied works)

Published and Applied works

2019*

In Defense of Farmers: The Future of Agriculture in the Shadow of Corporate

Power. Jane W. Gibson and Sara E. Alexander, eds. University of Nebraska Press.

2019*

Livelihood Imperiled. Introduction to Farming the Future: Challenges, Innovations, and Farmer Adaptations in a Rapidly Changing World. University of Nebraska Press.

2019*

Automating Agriculture: Precision Technologies, Agbots, and the Fourth Industrial

Revolution. In In Defense of Farmers: The Future of Agriculture in the Shadow of Corporate Power. Jane W. Gibson and Sara E. Alexander, eds. University of Nebraska Press.

2019*° The Price of Success: Population Decline and the Transformation of Community in Western Kansas. With Benjamin J. Gray. In In Defense of Farmers: The Future of Agriculture in the Shadow of Corporate Power. Jane W. Gibson and Sara E. Alexander, eds. University of Nebraska Press.

2018 April 2018 Board of Directors Meeting Highlights. SfAA News. May 1, 2018.

2017 March 2017 Board of Directors Meeting Highlights. SfAA News. May 22, 2017.

2017 Book review: BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water, and Neoliberal

Governance in India. Simanti Dasgupta. American Ethnologist 44(2):364-365. May 2017.

2017 November Meeting Highlights from the SfAA Board of Directors. SfAA News. March 8, 2017.

2016*° Regulating the Ogallala: Paradox and Ambiguity in Western Kansas. With

Benjamin J. Gray. In The Economics Of Ecology, Exchange, and Adaptation: Anthropological Explorations. Donald C. Wood, series editor. Research in Economic Anthropology. Volume 36: 3 - 32

2016 Notes from the Board. SfAA News. June 2016.

2015 A Few Notes on the 2015 Fall Meeting of the SfAA Board of Directors. SfAA News. December.

2014*° Farmers’ Decisions to Intensify and Extend Corn Production Near Kansas Ethanol Plants. With Chris Brown (lead author), Eric Hanley, Jason Bergtold, Marcelus Caldas, Vijay Barve, Dana Peterson, Ryan Callihan, Jane W. Gibson, Benjamin J. Gray, Nathan Hendricks , and Dana Peterson. Applied Geography 53:141-148.

2013*° Actor Networks, Farmer Decisions, and Identity. With BJ Gray (lead author). CAFÉ, Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment 35(2):82-101.

2010* Planting Food or Fuel: Developing an Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Farmers’ Decisions to Grow Second-Generation Biofuel Feedstock Crops. Comparative Technology Transfer and Society. With Stacey White, J. Christopher Brown, Eric Hanley, and Dietrich Earnhart.

2009° A Study of Lawrence Gardeners’ Motivations and Practices. For the Lawrence Sustainability Network Support for Local Urban Gardeners. With Shelley Koch, Department of Sociology, University of Kansas. Unpublished report.

2006°

“Laid Back”: A Study of Tourist Experiences and Perceptions in Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica. Presented to ATEC and the community of Puerto Viejo,

July 5, 2006.

2005°

Report to the National Marine Fisheries, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Agency. U.S. Government. Washington D.C. The Importance of Shrimp and Oyster Fisheries to Communities in Plaquemines Parrish, Louisiana. January 2005.

2004 Monograph. Skin and Bones: The Management of People and Natural Resources in Shellcracker Haven, Florida. CA: Wadsworth.

2003° Informe: El ecoturismo y su impacto en la comunidad de Puerto Viejo de Talamanca. Report delivered orally and in print to the community. 67 pp. Unpublished report.

2003° Informe: El ecoturismo y su impacto en la comunidad de Manzanillo. Report delivered orally and in print to the community. 65pp. Unpublished report.

2003° Informe: El ecoturismo y su impacto en la comunidad de Gandoca. Report delivered orally and in print to the community. 65 pp. Unpublished report.

2003° Informe: El ecoturismo y su impacto en la comunidad de La Palma. Report delivered orally and in print to the community. 62 pp. Unpublished report.

2002*° Sacando cuentas entre la conservación y el desarrollo: la especulación de las empresas transnacionales en Golfito, Costa Rica. Cuadernos de Antropología Numero 12. Octubre. Pp. 135-151. University of Costa Rica, Departmento de Antropología.

2002° Where do you hang your hat? Practicing Anthropology Vol 24, No. 3.

2000 Book Review. Peasants Against Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica. MARC EDELMAN. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. In American Ethnologist.

2000*° Living by the Land and Rivers: Southeastern Ozarkers of Missouri. with the assistance of Kelly Stenson and Eric Dean. Report to the National Park Service. 175 pages.

1999*° Balancing the Books on Conservation and Development: Transient Corporate Investment in Golfito, Costa Rica.

Winner Outstanding Article in the Journal of Political Ecology, awarded by the PESO, The Political Ecology Society, awarded March, 2001.

1999 Bottom Democracy: Pretty Dolls and Tight Pants in Government. presented by Professor Omafolabo Ajayi. Produced and directed by Jane Gibson. Edited by Jane Gibson and Erin McKee. Presentation to the African Studies Conference: Africa and the Democratic Wave. September 23-25, 1999.

1999° Where Do You Hang Your Hat? Ethnographic video. Produced by Visual Anthropology II under the direction of Jane Gibson. Directed by Visual Anthropology II with the assistance of Jerry Nyhof, Keith Staples, and Paul Bryant. Videography and editing by Jane Gibson, Scott Blair, Gretchen Johns, Jim Bricker, Rich Bologna, James Rives, and Joyce Smith. Department of Anthropology: University of Kansas. English. 41 minutes. VHS.

1999° Walking United: Avancemos. Ethnograhic video. Produced, directed, and edited by Jane Gibson and Roberta Dougan for the Polus Center of Boston. English. 10 minutes. VHS.

1999° Health and Tradition in the Cabecar Indigenous People’s Reserve, Chirripó, Costa Rica. Ethnographic video. Produced and directed by Jane Gibson. Videography by Jamie Kelly, Ismael Oropeza, Jane Gibson, and Carlos Van der Laat. Spanish with English language subtitles. Department of Anthropology: University of Kansas. 20 minutes. VHS.

1998° Salud y tradición en la comunidad Cabecar de Chirripó. Ethnographic video produced and directed by Jane W. Gibson. Videography by Jamie Kelly, Ismael Oropeza, Jane Gibson, and Carlos Van der Laat. Department of Anthropology: University of Kansas. 20 minutes. VHS.

1998° Walking United: El Sondeo. Ethnographic video. Produced, directed, and edited by Roberta Dougan and Jane Gibson for the Polus Center of Boston. Videography by Jane Gibson and Eric Neudel. Department of Anthropology: University of Kansas. 11 minutes. VHS.

1998° Reporte Final del Censo de Guayabo, Turrialba, Costa Rica. con Srta. Karla Kral y Sra. Margarita Bolaños. Requisito por la Asociación de Desarollo de la Comunidad Guyayabo. Universidad de Kansas y la Universidad de Costa Rica. Diciembre.

1998*° An Essay on Sustainable Use: Harnessing the Market for Conservation and Development. Georgia Journal of Ecological Anthropology 2:85-95.

1998° Slam! Video ethnography produced, directed, and edited with Cheryl Lester and Janet Rose. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, Department of Anthropology. Broadcast May 6, 1998.

1998° Working Matters: The Social Sciences at the University of Kansas. Video ethnography produced, directed, and edited with Stephen Pite for the College of Liberals Arts and Sciences, University of Kansas.

1998° A Little Costa Rica: Video ethnography. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, Department of Anthropology.

1997* Living by the Wetland. Invited contribution to Alligators and the American Land Ethic. by Martha Strawn. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

1997 Introduciendo Netscape Navigator Gold y el World Wide Web con John Hoopes. Invited Instructional Videotape produced by John Hoopes. Directed, videotaped, and edited by Jane Gibson. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, Department of Anthropology.

1996* The Social Construction of Whiteness in Shellcracker Haven, Florida. Human Organization 55 (4):379-89.

1996* Boots, Belts, and Baggage: Taming the American Alligator. Culture & Agriculture 18(2):37-46.

1994 Race, Poverty, and Justice: Looking Where the Street Light Shines, with James E. Carpenter. Invited contribution to The Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy, 3(3): 99-111, Spring 1994.

1992 Field Notes: On Coming to KU. Invited contribution to ab origine 4(1):11-14.

1990° Mi Voto es Secreto: the Nicaraguan Election, February 1990. with Paul Doughty, Philip Williams, Kurt Bergren, Kathy Gladden, Heike Amelung. National Ad Hoc Coalition of Sister Cities, Gainesville, Florida.

1990° Matagalpa, Nicaragua: Election Observer’s Journal. Invited contribution to The Gainesville Iguana 4(6):2, 12-15.

1989-90 Over 50 articles and photographs of local interest in The Gainesville Sun and other Florida newspapers.

1987 Book Review of Development Strategies and the Status of Women: A Comparative Study of United States, Mexico, Soviet Union, and Cuba, by Margaret Leahy, Lynne Reinner Publishers, Inc., Boulder, 1986. in Journal of Inter American Studies and World Affairs, Fall, 29 (3):141-43.

F. Invited Scholarly Presentations

2018 In Defense of Farmers. Invited presentation to the annual meeting of the Nebraska Farmers’ Union. Lincoln, NE, December 7, 2018.

2018 Digital Communities in Rural Western Kansas. Presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology. Philadelphia, PA. April 2018.

2016 Farms without Farmers: Agbots and the Future of Industrial Agriculture. Presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology. Vancouver, CAN. March 2016.

2013 Hot and Dry: Kansas Farmers, Climate Change, and Water, to be presented March 22 at the meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology.

2008 Panel member: Anthropology and the Media, sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, April 10, 2008

2008 Panel member: The 11th Hour, a film and panel discussion sponsored by EARTH, University of Kansas, April 3, 2008.

2006 Caribbean Tourism Development. Presented to faculty and students in International Environmental Law, a collaborative program between the University of Costa Rica and the University of Florida. University of Costa Rica, San Pedro. June 28, 2006.

2006 Thesis and Dissertation Research Possibilities in the Valle del Diquís, Costa Rica. Merienda presentation, Department of Geography, University of Kansas. November 2, 2006.

2006 Movimientos sociales recientes de los inmigrantes en Estados Unidos: una mirada antropológica. Presented at the Sede del Atlantico, University of Costa Rica, Turrialba, Costa Rica. June 6, 2006.

2006 Disembedding Tourism: Neoliberalism and Social Network Security in Host Communities in Costa Rica and Belize. Presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 25-29, 2006. Vancouver, British Columbia.

2005 Mixing Oil and Caribbean Water: Tourism Development in Talamanca del Sur, Costa Rica. Presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology. March, 2005.

2004 Tourism in Talamanca del Sur. Presented to the KU-UCR Symposium: “Educational Collaboration in a Global Society: The Role of State Universities. April 7-9, 2004, University of Kansas.

2004 Advocacy in Complex Research Sites with Multiple Stakeholders. Presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology. Dallas, Texas. March 31-April 4.

2003 El impacto del desarrollo ecoturístico en el bienestar de las comunidades de Puerto Viejo, Manzanilo, Gandoca, y La Palma. Provincia de Limón. Estudio comparado. III Congreso Costarricense de Antropología. 02-04 Diciembre. Museo Nacional de Costa Rica.

2001 Una Ciudad Para Todo: workshop on video production offered to people with physical disabilities in León, Nicaragua. December 5-12, 2001.

2001 Outside the Neoliberal Box: Using Tourism Impact Assessment in the Search for Social and Ecological Sustainability. Presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology. March 27-April 2, 2001. Merida, Mexico.

2000 Report On Research In Progress: Ecotourism In The Monteverde District Of Costa Rica. Presented to II Simposio: Costa Rica: Desarrollo Humano y Sostenibilidad: Retos y Perspectivas para el Sigo XXI.” February 7. San Jose, Costa Rica.

2000 Visualizing Costa Rica: Healthcare and Tradition Among the Cabecar of Chirripó. Presented to II Simposio: Costa Rica: Desarrollo Humano y Sostenibilidad: Retos y Perspectivas para el Sigo XXI.” February 8. San Jose, Costa Rica.

2000 Where Do You Hang Your Hat?: Homelessness in Lawrence, Kansas. The Case for Participatory Action Anthropology. Invited presentation to the Society for Applied Anthropology. San Francisco, CA. March 21-26, 2000.

1999 Meeting the Needs of Homeless People in Lawrence Kansas. Presented to the Kiwanis Club of Lawrence, Kansas. October 7, 1999.

1999 Discussant. “Applying the Anthropology of Place”. presented to the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Tucson, Arizona. April 21-25, 1999

1999 Applied Visual Anthropology: Challenges and Opportunities. Invited presentation to the Brown Bag Series. Graduate Student Anthropology Association. Department of Anthropology. University of Kansas. March

1998 Unlikely Alliances: Countering Nationalism in U.S. Identity Politics. invited presentation for the International Seminar Series for Faculty, April 13, 1998.

1997 Golfito, Costa Rica: Un Caso de Sacrificio Ecológico. presented to the II Congreso de Antropología in Guatemala City, Guatemala, October 6-9.

1997 In the Beginning, There was the Company. presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 5-7, 1997, in Seattle, Washington.

1997 Writing the Dissertation. presented to the Graduate Student Anthropology Association’s Professional Growth Seminar, April 19, 1997.

1996 Value-Added Conservation: Applying a Psycho-Behavioral Model to a Socio-Ecological Problem. Environmental Colloquium Series, April 5, 1996, Hall Center, University of Kansas.

1996 Happiness and Hostility in the Hospitality Trade. presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 27-31, 1996 in Baltimore, Maryland.

1995 Turista Consumista: Shop Until You Drop in Golfito, Costa Rica. Latin American Studies Merienda Series, November 16, 1995, University of Kansas.

1995 Constructing Race and Ethnicity. presented to Joane Nagel’s seminar, Sociology 970, November 22, 1995, University of Kansas.

1995 The Potential for Research in KU’s Study Abroad in Golfito Program. Invited slide presentation sponsored by University of Kansas Studies Abroad Program, October 10, 1995.

1995 An Essay on Sustainable Use: Harnessing the Market for Conservation and Development. presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 30, 1995, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

1995 Living by the Wetland. presented to the Society for Photographic Education, Atlanta, Georgia, March 17, 1995.

1994 Popular Media Representations of First Peoples and Environments in Latin America. Summer Seminar: Cultural Continuity: Lessons from Latin American Environmental History, sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, June 13-17, 1994, University of Kansas.

1994 Race, Poverty, and Justice: Looking Where the Street Light Shines. with James E. Carpenter. Annual Spring Symposium: The Working Poor: Paychecks, Poverty Lines, and Policy Choices. University of Kansas Law School, March 3-4.

1993 Value-Added Conservation in Latin America: Lessons from Florida. presented to invited faculty from the University of Kansas at the Waggoner Colloquium, sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, November 10, 1993.

1993 What Do Assimilation Theories Have to do with the Real World? presented to the Asian-American Students Association, October 27, 1993, University of Kansas.

1993 Videography as a Research Method in Anthropology. presented to the Undergraduate Anthropology Students Association, April 8, 1993, Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas.

1993 From Pioneers to Poachers: Social Constructions of Whiteness. presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology, Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, March 12, 1993.

1992 Racism and Poverty in Shellcracker Haven, Florida. guest colloquium, Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas, Lawrence.

1989 Anthropology and Resource Management in Florida's Alligator Industry.presented to Florida Wildlife Program, University of Florida, Gainesville.

G. Other Scholarly Presentations

2017 Precision Agriculture: Dystopic Future or Utopian Vision. Presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology. March 2017. Santa Fe, NM.

2014 Growing Biofuels: The Influence of Corn Prices on Environmental Stewardship among Kansas Farmers. Presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology. Albuquerque, NM. March 2014.

2014 End of the Ogallala: A Failed Double Movement. Presented to the American Anthropological Association. Washington D.C. December 4, 2014.

2014 Cultural Dimensions: How Kansas Farmers Think about the Future of Water. Water Conference: University of Kansas. January 17, 2015.

2013 Hot and Dry: Kansas Farmers, Climate Change and Water. With BJ Gray. Presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology. March 22. Denver, CO.

2013 Climate Change and Communities in Western Kansas. With BJ Gray. Presented to the American Anthropological Association. November 20. Chicago, IL.

2012 Western Kansas Farmers’ Attitudes and Experiences with Water. Presented to the Governor’s Water Conference, October 31, 2012, in Manhattan, KS. With BJ Gray.

2012 ‘Til the Well Runs Dry’: Farmer Adaptation to Climate Change in Western Kansas. Presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 2012, Baltimore, Maryland.

2011 ‘A Little Scary These Days’: Extended Agency and Farmer Decision-making. With BJ Gray. Presented to the American Anthropological Association. November 20, 2011, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

2011 Climate Science, Agricultural Policy, Farmer Decision-making, and the Cross-Disciplinary Experience. With Stacey White and Adam Benfer. Presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 30, 2011, Seattle, Washington.

2010 Growing Gardeners: Building Community and Food Security in Lawrence, Kansas. Presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology, Merida, Mexico. March.

2009 Disembedding Work. Presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico. March 21, 2009.

2008 Law and Local Order: Community Responses to Two Protected Areas in Costa Rica. Presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology, Memphis, TN, March 29, 2008.

2000 Tourism Impact Assessment (TIA): Participatory Empiricism in the Measurement of Ecotourism. with Sara Alexander. Presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology, San Francisco, CA. March 20-26, 2000.

1999 Applied Visual Anthropology: Ethical Dilemmas and Opportunities. Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Tucson, Arizona. April 21-25, 1999.

1999 Cross-Cultural Collaboration, Participatory Research, and Empowerment. with Karla Kral and Margarita Bolaños. Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Tucson, Arizona. April 21-25, 1999.

1994 Value-Added Conservation: Putting a Price Tag on Natural Resources.presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology, Annual Meeting in Cancún, Quintana Roo, México, April 13-17, 1994.

1992 Skin and Bones: The Management of Alligators, People and Other Natural Resources in Shellcracker Haven, Florida. American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings in San Francisco, December 2-6.

1991 What We Need is a Good Hurricane. presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology, Charleston, South Carolina.

1989 Florida's Evolving Alligator Industry. presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 5-9.

1989 Boots, Belts, and Baggage. an ethnographic video concerning relations of production in Florida's alligator industry. presented to me Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 5-9.

1988 Food Networks Among Low-Income Households of Rural and Urban Alachua County, Florida, presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology, Tampa, Florida.

H. Fieldwork and Other Research

2018-present A study of “efficiency” as a discursive project of agribusiness and as a resistance strategy of industrial farmers.

2015-2018 A study of the introduction and implications of precision agriculture, automation, digital technologies, and robotics in industrial agriculture.

2009-14 A study of farmer land and water use decisions.

2009 Study of the experience, meaning, and value of subsistence gardening to Lawrence, Kansas families, with the assistance of Shelley Koch and students enrolled in he service learning course.

2003-08 Study of post traumatic stress disorder and its effects on the family and community of a Vietnam combat veteran.

2002-08 Study of ecotourism in Talamanca del Sur, Costa Rica.

2006 Preliminary exploration of research possibilities in the Valle del Diquís, Osa, Puntarenas, Costa Rica. October 11-17.

2003 The Importance of Fisheries to Families in Southern Louisiana. Contract research for the National Aeronautics and Oceanic Administration. National Marine Fisheries Services Project. Washington D.C.

2001-02 Una Ciudad Para Todo: a study of mobility and access issues for Nicaraguans with disabilities living in León.

2001-02 A Collaborative Longitudinal Study of the Impacts of Ecotourism on Household Livelihood Security and Vulnerability in Costa Rica and Belize. with Dr. Sara Alexander.

1999-00 A Visual Study of the Relationship between Public Art and Community-Building.

1999 A Collaborative Pilot Project: Measuring the Impacts of Ecotourism on Household Livelihood Security and Vulnerability in Belize and Costa Rica. with Dr. Sara Alexander.

1998-00 A Study of the Relationships between Scots-Irish Communities and Landscape in the Ozarks National Scenic Riverways of Eastern Missouri.

1998-99 An Ethnographic and Visual Study of Homelessness in Lawrence, Kansas.

1998 Preliminary research regarding the impact of ecotourism in La Suiza and Guayabo, Cartago, Costa Rica.

1998 Videographer and Consultant to Transitional Resources, Inc., a U.S. NGO interested in establishing a prosthetic clinic in Nicaragua and training Nicaraguan prosthetists.

1998 Collaborative and Participatory Research Methods Across Cultures. Field tested in Costa Rica.

1995-97 “Ecotourism” Impacts in Central America.

1995 The Socio-Economic and Socio-Ecological Consequences of Tourism in Golfito, Costa Rica.

1993-95 Imagery, identity, poverty, and resource management in Florida.

1990 A study of the Nicaraguan local and national elections with special attention to the city of Matagalpa.

1989-92 Rural community development, growth and development of the state of Florida, and natural resource management; dissertation research.

1988 Commercial hunters and fishers in North Central Florida.

1987 Food networks among low income households in Alachua County, Florida.

1984-85 Scale-bias in Texas agriculture; thesis research.

1984 Integrated Farming Systems: An Agro-Energy Project, San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

1983 Breastfeeding vs. bottlefeeding in Altapexi, Puebla, Mexico.

Grants, Fellowships, and Other Awards

Major Extramural Proposals

2016 Establishing a community conservation area to protect the critically endangered Banggai Crow and other point endemic species. Co-I with PI Prof. Mochamad D. Indrawan. National Geographic Society. $14,500. Funded.

2009-14 Farmers’ Decisions to Grow Crops for Fuel. IPSR Center for Environmental Policy. Co-I with 11 other scholars from KU and KSU and PI Dietrich Earnhart. National Science Foundation. Funded for five years: $2.7 million.

2009 Food vs. Fuel: Kansas Farmers’ Decisions to Grow Crops for Fuel. IPSR Center for Environmental Policy interdisciplinary team submission to the KU Transportation Research Institute. Funded $153,000.

2001-02 A Collaborative Longitudinal Study of the Impacts of Ecotourism on Household Livelihood Security and Vulnerability in Costa Rica and Belize. with Dr. Sara Alexander. National Science Foundation award: $161, 225.

1999 A Collaborative Pilot Project: Measuring the Impact of Ecotourism on Household Livelihood Security and Vulnerability in Belize and Costa Rica. with Dr. Sara Alexander, Baylor University. National Science Foundation award. $30,000.

1998-00 A Proposal to Study the Relationships between Scots-Irish Communities and Landscape in the Ozarks National Scenic Riverways of Eastern Missouri. National Parks Service. $34,940.

1998 The Impact of Ecotourism on Household Livelihood Security in Belize and Costa Rica. National Science Foundation. $200,000. Not funded; revised and resubmitted; funded 1999 (see above).

1996 “Stuck in the Middle with You”: Intergroup Relations Among Youth in Garden City and Kansas City, Kansas. Carnegie Corporation. with Ken C. Erickson, Jacob U. Gordon, and Donald D. Stull. $179,238. Not funded.

1993 Alligators and the American Land Ethic. with Martha Strawn, MFN, University of North Carolina, Charlotte. National Endowment for the Humanities. $59,473. Not funded

1986-89 Presidential Graduate Research Fellowship. University of Florida. $47,000. Funded.

Minor Extramural Proposals Funded

2001-02 Una Ciudad Para Todo: A Proposal to Create a Collaborative Public Education Documentary Concerning Mobility, Access, and Social Integration of Nicaraguans with Missing Limbs. Submitted to the Polus Center for Social & Economic Development. $3500. Funded.

Major Intramural Proposals: Funded

2008 Secured university funds to re-establish the multimedia suite with a Media 100 and hardware to run it. $5014. Funded.

2006 A Proposal for a Keeler Family Intra-University Professorship. Awarded for Spring 2008 to study ethnobotany with Dr. Kelly Kinscher.

2000 A Proposal to fund publication of the results of an NSF- and GRF-funded study entitled: “A Collaborative Pilot Project: Measuring the Impact of Ecotourism on Household Livelihood Security and Vulnerability in Belize and Costa Rica.” General Research Fund. University of Kansas. $7000. Not funded.

1999 A Proposal to Upgrade Anthropology’s Multimedia Laboratory. Submitted to theCollege of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Kansas. $18,750. Funded $14,000.

1998 Representing “the Other” in Ethnographic Collections: Theory, Method, and Ethics in Digitizing Artifacts. Submitted to the Center for Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellows Program. $4000 Funded.

1997 Visualizing Ethnography: A Proposal to Enhance Student Training in Multimedia Production. Submitted to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Kansas. $30,438. Funded.

1997 Internationalizing the Curriculum at KU. Proposal for Development of a Cultural Anthropology Field School. International Programs, University of Kansas. $1000. Funded.

1995 A Pilot Study of the Socio-Economic and Socio-Ecological Impacts of Ecotourism in Golfito, Costa Rica. General Research Fund, University of Kansas. $5000. Funded.

1993 Social Construction of Whiteness in Shellcracker Haven, Florida. New Faculty Research Grant, University of Kansas. $5000. Funded.

Minor Intramural Proposals: Funded

1992-present KU Faculty Scholars International and National Travel Awards

2004 Carroll D. Clark Fund, Department of Anthropology. With Jack Hofman.

2000 International Programs. To support participation in the second KU-UCR symposium in San Jose, Costa Rica, February 6-9, 2000. $700.

1999 Carroll D. Clark Fund. Proposal to support participation in the second KU- UCR symposium in San Jose, Costa Rica, February 6-9, 2000. $200.

1998-99 Carroll D. Clark Fund. Proposal in support of video documentation of homelessness in Lawrence, Kansas. $300.

1998 Center for Teaching Excellence Small Grants Program. A Proposal to Produce an Instructional Manual for the Media 100. $250.

1995 Carroll D. Clark Award. Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas. $210.

1994 Carroll D. Clark Award. Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas. $210.

J. Professional Memberships

Society for Applied Anthropology

Society for Economic Anthropology

Political Ecology Society (PESO)

K. Language Skills

English – native speaker

Spanish – competent speaker and reader