Fielding Graduate University

Areas of Instruction:

• KA754A (Introduction to Epistemology and Cultures of Inquiry) 
• KA703 (Systems, Society, Culture, Community)
• KA713 (Social Change)
• KA715 (Structural Inequality and Diversity)
• KA716 (Global Studies)
  

Scholarly & Professional Interests:

• Globalization, International Migration and Diaspora
• Race, Ethnicity and Gender
• Diversity and Social Justice
• Structural Inequality
• Social Change
• Ethnographic Research Methods
• Ethnography of Organizations
• Caribbean culture and Society.
• Human Rights and Immigrant Rights
• Environmental Justice and Sustainability

Professional Memberships:

• American Association of University Professors
• American Anthropological Association
• Society for Applied Anthropology
  

Honors and Awards:

• 2001 Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Immigration and Ethnicity Research Center, Florida International University. Research and Creative Scholarship Award, University of South Florida
• O'Connor Chair, Visiting professorship, Colgate University
• "Cannonball" Adderley Memorial Fund Fellowship, Center for Afro-American Studies, U.C.L.A.
• Chancellor's Patent Fund Grant, U.C.L.A.; N.D.E.A. TITLE VI (NDFL) Fellowship.
  

Publications:

• 2012 Humane Migration: Establishing Legitimacy and Rights for Displaced People. Kumarian Press.
• 2011 “Violating Human Rights in the U.S. Immigration Detention System.” Human Rights Forum, Anthropology News 52(2): 27.
• 2010 “Life Imitating Art? A Day in the U.S. without Undocumented Workers.” Reader Supported News, August 3, 2010. http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/104-104/2584-life-imitating-art-a-day-in-the-us-without-undocumented-workers
• 2005, Globalization, Diaspora and Caribbean Popular Culture, Ian Randle Publishers  
• "Caribbean transnationalism as a gendered process," Latin American Perspectives, (forthcoming); 
  
• 2001 “Globalization and the Diaspora-ization of Caribbean People and Popular Culture.” Wadabagei: Journal of the Caribbean and Its Diaspora vol. 4(1): 1-38.
• "The internationalization of kinship and the feminization of Caribbean migration," Human Organization, 1993

Presentations:

• 2012 “Campaigning against Fractured Immigrant Families.” Paper presented at the 72^nd annual conference of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Baltimore, MD, March.
• 2011 “Policing Immigrants and the Illusion of Security.” Paper presented at 71st Annual conference of Society for Applied Anthropology, Seattle, WA. April.
• 2010 “Working with Amnesty International for Immigration Detention Reform.” Paper presented at 70th Annual conference of Society for Applied Anthropology, Merida, Mexico. March.
• 2007 “Contradictions, Paradoxes and Social Injustice in Fortress America.” Paper presented at annual conference of American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC. November.
  

Other Professional Activities:

• Visiting Associate Professor, Africana and Latin American Studies, Colgate University.
• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, University of South Florida
• Director, U.S.F. Ethnographic Field School, Trinidad and Tobago.