MARK SCHULLER
Department of Anthropology University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3210 (805) 893-2516 ph (805) 893-8707 fax marky@umail.ucsb.edu Spring Quarter Office Hours: HSSB, Room 2045 Wednesdays, 10 – 11:50 a.m. DISSERTATION RESEARCH Killing with Kindness? Impacts of International Assistance on Participation and Autonomy of Women’s NGOs in Post-Coup Haiti
EDUCATION (return to top)
2000 – present	Anthropology University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
MA 2002	Anthropology UCSB
BA (with honors and distinction) 1996	Anthropology, Sociology and Philosophy University of Minnesota, Morris (UMM)
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION (return to top)
Haiti;NGOs; civil society; globalization; power and resistance; women, culture and development; race and gender; urban anthropology
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS (return to top)
2005	Albert Spaulding Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, UCSB
2004	Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation Dissertation Fellowship
2004	Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award (alternate - State Department prohibited student research in Haiti during field tenure)
2004	Finalist, IIE-Fulbright Student Research Competition (finalist)
2004	Albert Spaulding Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, UCSB (declined)
2003	Humanities and Social Science Research Grant, UCSB
2003	Albert Spaulding Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, UCSB
2002	Pre-Dissertation Site Visit Grant, Department of Anthropology, UCSB
2002-7	Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation
2001	GLBA scholarship, Santa Barbara, CA
2000	Regents Fellowship, UCSB
1998	Nolte Scholarship, University of Minnesota
HONORS AND AWARDS (return to top)
2002	Community Service Award, Lavender Graduation, UCSB
2002	Dixon/ Levy Award, Graduate Students Association, UCSB
2000	Streetworker of the Year Award, St. Paul Area Coalition for the Homeless
1994	Outstanding Student Leader Award, UMM
1993	Morris Academic Partnership Award, UMM
1992-6	Dean’s List, UMM
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE (return to top)
September – December 2005	Interview and archival research methods with international development institutions in Washington, DC.
June 2005	Three-week interview, observational and archival research at international funding institutions that fund Haitian women’s NGOs in Brussels and Geneva.
October 2003 - May 2005	Twenty-month dissertation fieldwork in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Studying effects of bilateral funding on participation and autonomy in women’s NGOs.
Summer 2002	Participant observation, interview, archival and survey research, exploring patterns and common concerns among NGOs in Haiti.
Spring 2002	Graduate Research Assistant for Professor Susan Stonich, Department of Anthropology. Study using given theoretical models to classify NGOs in Haiti.
Winter 2002	For Anthropology, Policy and Practice course, Susan Stonich, Professor. Lead a research team of graduates and undergraduates to study patterns of housing discrimination in Isla Vista, CA.
Spring 2001	Graduate Research Assistant for Professor Susan Stonich, Department of Anthropology. Comparative study of transnational advocacy networks.
Fall 1999	Director of research project sponsored by the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota. Analysis of public participation into City of St. Paul’s Consolidated Plan and comparison of previous plan with actual city activities.
Fall 1999	Team member with Professor Ed Goetz, Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. Survey of the affects of an eviction on a tenant’s living conditions.
September 1993 - June 1994	Morris Academic Partner with Professor Ishtiyaque Haji, Philosophy Department, UMM. Literature review on Islamic Ethics, translation into philosophical notation.
PUBLICATIONS (return to top)
2006	thomas-houston, marilyn and Mark Schuller, eds. Homing Devices: the Poor as Targets of Public Housing Policy and Practice. Lanham, Md. Lexington Press, in production, scheduled for February 2006.
2006	“Jamming the Meatgrinder World: Lessons Learned from Tenants Organizing in St. Paul.” In m.m. thomas-houston and M. Schuller, eds. Homing Devices, pp. 155-176.
2006	Mark Schuller and marilyn thomas-houston. “Introduction: No Place Like Home, No Time Like the Present.” Homing Devices, pp. 1-19.
2003	Book review: When the Hands Are Many by Jennie Smith (2001) Journal of Haitian Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, spring 2003.
2000	Will the Real Superman Please Stand Up? Original play. Debuted at the Minnesota Fringe Festival, Minneapolis, MN, July 30 – August 7, 2000.
2000	Davis, Laura, Laura Jelinek, Melissa Manderschied, and Mark Schuller. 2000. “CDBG Workbook.” Minneapolis: Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, January 2000.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE (return to top)
Instructor of record
2004 - 2005	Instructor, Intwodiksyon pou ONG, Université de Fondwa 2004
Fall 2004	Instructor, Antwopoloji ONG yo, Faculté d’Ethnologie, Université d’État d’Haïti
Head Teaching Assistant
Spring 2006	(scheduled) Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology, UCSB
Fall 2001	Anthropological Approaches to Law - Department of Law and Society, UCSB
Teaching Assistant – UCSB
Winter 2006	Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
Spring 2002	Elements of Traditional Chinese Culture
Fall 2005	Graduate Fellow, UCSB Washington Center Program
Winter 2002	Anthropology of Gender
Winter 2001	Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
Fall 2000	Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
Teaching Assistant – UMM
1994 – 1996	Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (4 quarters)
Winter 1996	Introduction to Physical Anthropology
Course Guest Lectures
November 2005	“Life and Debt Matters: Haiti’s Current Situation,” for Sociology 580.001 – Social Policy Analysis, American University. Instructor, Salvador Vital-Ortiz.
July 2005	“Development, Globalization, and International Politics: Challenges for NGOs in Haiti,” for Anthropology / Environmental Studies 130B: Third World Environments. Instructor, Susan Stonich.
June 2003	“Haiti in a Latin American Context,” for Anthropology 134: Cultures of Latin America. Instructor, Michele DeSando.
March 2003	“Haiti’s Women’s NGOs as Critical Civil Society Actors,” for Women’s Studies 70: Women and Development. Instructor, Molly Talcott.
February 2003	“Perils of Third-World Organizing With or Against Development,” for Anthropology / Environmental Studies 130C: Third World Environments. Instructor, Susan Stonich.
LECTURES/ PRESENTATIONS (return to top)
Invited Presentations
February 2006	(scheduled) Invited participant at NGO/ International Health Workshop, Santa Monica, CA.
March 2004	“An Anthropological View of the Last Days of the First Democratically Elected Leader of Haiti,” for the African American Studies Program, Anthropology Department, and Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
June 2002	“What Makes an NGO Grassroots?” At International Shrimp Action Network conference, Santa Barbara, CA.
March 2002	Invited symposium: Department of Black Studies, University of Florida. “No Place Like Home: the Politics of Planning and Participation of Public Housing Policy.”
Presentations at Academic Conferences
March 2006	Organized double session, “Stemming the Rise of Disaster Capitalism,” 66^th Annual Society for Applied Anthropology meetings, Vancouver, BC.
March 2006	“NGO Implementation in a Successfully Failed State,” for panel, “Timing and Spacing Development.”
December 2005	“Directing Democracy, or the Uses of NGOs in Haiti,” in session on direct democracy in Latin America, for 105^th Annual American Anthropological Association annual conference, Washington, DC.
October 2005	“Learning from Haiti’s 200-Year-Old Ménage-à-Trois: Globalization, the State and Civil Society,” 17^th Annual Haitian Studies Association conference, Boston, MA. A
October 2003	“Globalization and Other Challenges to Developing Haiti’s Human Capital,” 15^th Annual Haitian Studies Association conference, Miami, FL.
November 2002	Organizer of panel, “Spaces of Contest: Race and the Public Sphere,” 102^nd Annual American Anthropology Association conference, New Orleans, LA. Presented paper, “Mèsi Desalin: Notes on Race, Color and Deliberative Space in Present-Day Haiti”
October 2002	“Understanding Haiti’s ‘Cold War:’ Impressions of Civil Society and NGOs in Haiti,” 14^th Annual Haitian Studies Association conference, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
December 2001	Co-organizer of double invited (Association of Black Anthropologists and Association for Africanist Anthropology) panel, “Public Housing in the New Millennium” with Dr. marilyn thomas-houston, 101^st Annual American Anthropology Association conference, Washington, DC. Presented paper, “Jamming the Meatgrinder World: The Making and Unmaking of a Tenant Movement in St. Paul.”
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING (return to top)
1998-2000	Community Organizer, St. Paul Tenants Union
1998-9	Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
1997	Community Organizer, Corcoran Neighborhood Organization
1996	Community Organizer, City Parents United/ Pillsbury Neighborhood Services
1996	Associate Editor, Lavender Magazine
SERVICE (return to top)
2005 – present	Board member, For My People Productions
2003	Member, Voices for Global Justice collective, for KCSB (campus radio station)
2002-3	Co-chair, Anthropology Graduate Student Association, UCSB
2002-3	Graduate student representative, Faculty Senate, UCSB
2001-3	Co-Facilitator, Bi-Centric, Women’s Center, UCSB
2001-2	Lead Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, UCSB
2001-2	Member, Graduate Student Association constitution committee, UCSB
2000-2	Departmental Representative, Graduate Student Association, UCSB
1998-9	Treasurer, West Bank Community Coalition, Minneapolis, MN
1997-9	Board member, West Bank Community Coalition
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS (return to top)
American Anthropological Association
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
Society for Urban, National and Transnational/ Global Anthropology
Caribbean Studies Association
Haitian Studies Association
Society for Applied Anthropology
FOREIGN LANGUAGES (return to top)
Fluent and literate in (Haitian) Kreyòl
Literate in French
COMMITTEE (return to top)
Mary Hancock, Anthropology Department / History Department
Catherine Maternowska, University of California, San Francisco
Chris McAuley, Black Studies Department (on leave 2005-6)
Susan Stonich, Anthropology Department/ Environmental Studies Program, chair

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