Education

1982 Ph.D., Stanford University, Department of Anthropology.
1974 B.A., University of Southern California: social science with an emphasis in international relations.

Academic Honors

1974 Phi Beta Kappa, University of Southern California.
1972 Pi Delta Phi (national French honor society).
1970-74 Trustee Scholar, University of Southern California.

Professional Experience

1996- Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan-Dearborn.

1995- Editor, Anthropology and Education Quarterly.

1990-96 Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan-Dearborn.

9/94-9/95 Director of Women's Studies Program, University of Michigan-Dearborn.

Coordinated interdisciplinary curriculum with 27 faculty members, revised requirements for the minor, raised funds for library orders, prepared to co-host 1996 meeting of the Michigan Women's Studies Association.

1984-90 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan-Dearborn.

1984 Instructor, English as a Second Language, Los Angeles Community College, Los Angeles.

1982-84 NICHD Postdoctoral Trainee, Socio-Behavioral Group, Mental Retardation Research Center, Neuropsychiatric Institute, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.

1977-82 Adjunct faculty member in cultural anthropology, women's studies, and education at various California universities.

1970-74 Teacher's assistant, tutor, tutorial center coordinator in South Central Los Angeles.

International Experience

Guinea, West Africa: Fieldwork and teaching of a graduate course in Conakry and fieldwork in Forécariah prefecture March-June and September-November, 1998, (5 months).

Supervision and training of a 10-person research team (1 month, Conakry) and fieldwork (1 month, Forest Region), February and April, 1994.

France: Language study, 1972 (one month); fieldwork: 1976 (three months); 1978-79 (eleven months); 1981 (one month); 1988 (four months); 1989 (two weeks); 1994 (one week), 1998 (one week).

England: Undergraduate study of international relations in London, 1972-1973.

Fluent French, good Spanish.

---Teaching---

Courses Taught

Introduction to Anthropology (four fields)
World Cultures (case study approach to cultural anthropology)
Introduction to Women's Studies
Culture and Sexuality
Culture and International Business
Honors Seminar: Anthropology of Literacy
Language and Society
Psychological Anthropology
La recherche qualitative (Institut National de Recherche et d'Action Pédagogique, Guinea)
Doing Anthropology (ethnographic methods)
Education and Culture

Nominated twice for UM-Dearborn's Distinguished Teaching Award.

Member of doctoral committees, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Department of Anthropology for Heidi Schweingruber (1995-97), and University of Michigan-Ann Arbor School of Education, for Barry Arbreton (1992-1994), Diane Ems Holt-Reynolds (1989-90), and Sylvia Twymon (1988-90).

Doctoral oral examination committee, Ouyang Huhua, City University of Hong Kong (2000).

---Research---

Research Interests

Educational reform in global context
Schoolteachers' cultures for teaching
Gender and schooling in West Africa
Urban France
Cultural models of mental retardation

Grants and Fellowships

5/00-4/01	Spencer Foundation, "Teaching by the Book: Scripted Teaching and Professional Autonomy in Guinea." ($34,293)
1/98-4/99	Spencer Foundation, "Constructing 'Good Pedagogy' in Guinea: Global, National and Local Dialogues." ($118,860)
5/96-9/97	University of Michigan-Dearborn, Talking about Gender in the Classroom (small grant for analyzing interviews field notes from Guinea).
7/95-	Council on Anthropology and Education, subsidy for expenses and course release to edit Anthropology and Education Quarterly. (Annual grant of approximately $10,000, for 6 years; one-time grant of $1500 toward computer)
1/95-	University of Michigan-Dearborn, How Gender Matters in the Classroom (small grant for transcribing videotapes from Guinea).
1/94-6/94	World Bank, "A Study of Girls' Everyday School Experiences in Guinea, West Africa." ($48,866)
3/93-3/94	Morbach Grant for Research on Children, University of Michigan-Dearborn, "What 'Readiness' Means to Schoolteachers." ($1,382)
1/88-6/89	University of Michigan Rackham Faculty Research Grant for a comparative study of teachers in France and the United States entitled "National Culture and Teaching Culture." ($9,228)
1986-92	Various grants for research from the University of Michigan and the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
5/85-9/86	University of Michigan Rackham Faculty Research Grant for a study of staff at work activity centers for developmentally disabled adults entitled "The Acquisition of Cultural Models: An Ethnographic Study." ($5,774)
1978-81	National Institute of Mental Health National Research Service Award for pre-doctoral training.
1978-80	National Science Foundation Grant for Doctoral Dissertation Research.
1976	Council for European Studies Pre-Doctoral Fellowship.

Current Research and Scholarship 

Editor, Anthropology and Education Quarterly.

Official journal of the Council on Anthropology and Education, published by the American Anthropological Association, received by 846 subscribers and 522 libraries. Receives 45-90 manuscripts annually, with acceptance rate of 35%. Reintroduced regular book reviews. Appointed December 1994 to a three-year term, and re-appointed November 1997 to a second three-year term.

under review	Entre xénophilie et xénophobie: l'ambivalence dans l'adoption d'une nouvelle méthode de lecture [Between xenophilia and xenophobia: ambivalence in the adoption of a new method for teaching reading]. Submitted to Éducation et Sociétés.
forthcoming	What counts as the mixed method of reading instruction in Guinea? Fractures in "the" global culture of "modern" schooling. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April 24. Under revision for submission to Comparative Education Review.
forthcoming	Teaching by the book in Guinea: Professional culture and state interests (with Boubacar Bayero Diallo, paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 17, 2000.

Book

Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M.
  in press Teaching Cultures: Knowledge for Teaching First Grade in France and the United States. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. ("Language and Social Processes" series, edited by Judith Green.

Uses participant-observation and cross-cultural comparative research to examine the relationship among professional knowledge, lay knowledge, and national cultures.

Refereed Journal Articles

Henriot-Van Zanten, Agnès, and Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt
  1992 L'anthropologie de l'éducation aux Etats-Unis: Méthodes, théories et applications d'une discipline en évolution [The anthropology of education in the United States: Methods, theories and applications of an evolving discipline]. Revue française de pédagogie, no. 101, 79-104. 

Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M., Régine Sirota, and Martine Mazurier
  1991 Elementary Education in France, The Elementary School Journal, 92(1): 79-95.

Reed-Danahay, Deborah, and Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt
  1991 Backward Countryside, Troubled City: French Teachers' Images of Rural and Working-Class Families. American Ethnologist, 18(3): 546-564. 

Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M., and Daniel E. Moerman
  1989 "Functioning" from the Perspective of Production Supervisors, Mental Retardation, 27(5): 325-329.

Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M.
  1989 Degrees of Distance Between Teachers and Parents in Urban France, Anthropology and Education Quarterly 20(2): 97-117.

  1985 Taking Sides: Resolution of a Peer Conflict in a Workshop for Retarded Adults, Pragmatics and Beyond (Amsterdam: John Benjamins Press) 6(6): 41-74.

  1984 Teacher Interpretation of Student Behavior: Cognitive and Social Processes, Elementary School Journal 84(3): 315-337.

Book Chapters 

Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M., and Ntal-I'Mbirwa Alimasi
  in press Are Pedagogical Ideals Embraced or Imposed? The Case of Reading Instruction in the Republic of Guinea. In Margaret Sutton and Bradley Levinson, Eds., Policy as Practice: Toward a Comparative Sociocultural Analysis of Educational Policy. Norwood, NJ: Greenwood Publishing.

Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M., Marianne Bloch, and Aminata Maiga Soumaré
  1998 Inside Classrooms in Guinea: Girls Within the System of Interaction. In Marianne Bloch, Josephine Beoku-Betts, & Robert Tabachnick, Eds., Women and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Power, Opportunities and Constraints. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner Publishers.

Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M.
  1996 Behind Schedule: Batch-Produced Children in French and U.S. Classrooms. In Bradley Levinson, Douglas Foley, and Dorothy Holland, Eds., The Cultural Production of the Educated Person: Critical Ethnographies of Schooling and Local Practice. (pp. 57-78). Albany: SUNY Press. 

  1987 Cultural Knowledge for Teaching First Grade: An Example from France, in Interpretive Ethnography of Education (pp. 171-192), George D. Spindler & Louise Spindler, Eds., Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Edited Monograph 

Henriot-Van Zanten, Agnès, and Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt, Editors
  1992 Anthropologie de l'éducation: Etudes ethnographiques de la scolarisation des enfants d'immigrés [Anthropology of education: Ethnographic studies of immigrant children's schooling], special theme issue of the Revue française de pédagogie, no. 101, Oct.-Dec.

Technical Reports 

Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M., Marianne Bloch, and Aminata Maiga Soumaré
  1994 Inside Classrooms in Guinea: Girls' Experiences. Final Report to the Ministry of Pre-University Education, Republic of Guinea, and to the World Bank. 

Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M.
  1986 Acquiring Cultural Models of Developmental Disability: A Case Study of Supervisors and Teachers at Two Work Activity Centers, final report to host agency, June 2.

Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M., and Barbara Hunt
  1977 The Charles Armstrong High School for Specific Learning Disability: Report on the Program and Students' Progress During Its First Year, study commissioned through the Action Research Liaison Office, Stanford University.

Reviews, Comments, and Other Publications

Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M.
  in press Publier dans une révue scientifique étrangère [How to publish in a foreign refereed journal], L'Éducateur, Institut National de Recherche et d'Action Pédagogique, forthcoming February 1999.

  1999 High School Identity Games (Introduction to an impromptu theme issue). Anthropology and Education Quarterly 30(3):271 (September 1999).

  1997 Stories from Educators' Lives (Introduction to an impromptu theme issue). Anthropology and Education Quarterly 28(2):151 (June 1997). 

  1997 How to Publish in the AEQ. In Council for Anthropology and Education column, Anthropology Newsletter 38(2):41; 38(3):35-36; 38(4):38(5):28 ("serialized" in February, March and April columns). 

  1996 Editor's Preface to Theme Issue: Racial and Ethnic Exclusion in Education and Society. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 27(2):139-140 (June).

  1996 Racial and Ethnic Exclusion in Education and Society. Anthropology Newsletter 37(5):20-21. 

  1996 Re-reading Moffatt's Coming of Age in New Jersey, FOSAP Newsletter (Federation of Small Anthropology Programs). 

  1996 Human History: The BIG Picture. Under Our History, The John Arnold Show Page, under http://www.BlackAmericaOnline.com.

  1993 Review of Cultural Complexity: Studies in the Social Organization of Meaning by Ulf Hannerz. SAE Bulletin (Society for the Anthropology of Europe) 7(2): 11 (May). 

  1991 European Models of Schooling, Council on Anthropology and Education column, Anthropology Newsletter, 32(3), April. 

  1990 In the Field, (review of Ethnographers in the Field, Self, Sex, and Gender in Cross-Cultural Fieldwork, and Children in the Field), Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 15(2&3): 74-77 (June & October).

  1989 Psychological Anthropology in Elementary School Classrooms, Society for Psychological Anthropology column, Anthropology Newsletter, 30(4): 13 (April).

  1988 From the Perspective of Production Supervisors: An Ethnographic Study of Sheltered Workshops, Ability and Enterprise (publication of the Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work), 2(6)/3(1): 6 (Summer). 

  1987 SPA Celebrates Its 10th Birthday (a history of the Society for Psychological Anthropology), Past Is Present column, Anthropology Newsletter 28(9): 3. 

  1987 National Culture and Teaching Culture (invited comments on two cross-cultural studies of teachers), Anthropology and Education Quarterly 18(1): 33-38.

  1984 On Taking Everything Into Account (invited reaction to M. L. Dobbert, et al., Cultural Transmission in Three Societies), Anthropology and Education Quarterly l5(4): 316-319. 

Platt, Martha, and Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt
  1984 The Speech of Mentally Retarded Adults in Contrasting Settings, Socio-Behavioral Group Working Paper no. 28, Mental Retardation Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles. 

Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M.
  1982 What Counts as Success in a French First Grade: An Exploration in Cognitive Anthropology, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Stanford University. Dissertation Abstracts International 43(1): 203A. 

  1980 "Cognitive Style" and School Failure, in Schools, Cities and Teaching, 2nd ed. Alfred Lightfoot and Leon Levitt, Eds. Ginn and Company.

Conference Papers 

Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn
  2000 What counts as the mixed method of reading instruction in Guinea? Fractures in "the" global culture of "modern" schooling. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April 24. 

  2000 The many dimensions of educational "borrowing" and "adaptation": A case of reading instruction in Guinea. Presentation of my study of reading ideals in Guinea with discussion by African and North American respondents, at the annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, San Antonio, March 8.

  1999 Entre xénophilie et xénophobie: l'ambivalence dans l'adoption d'une nouvelle méthode de lecture [Between xenophilia and xenophobia: ambivalence in the adoption of a new method for teaching reading]. Paper presented at the colloquium, Xénophilie/xénophobie et diffusion des langues, École Normale Supérieur Fontenay/Saint-Cloud, France, December 17. 

  1999 Teaching cultures: Insights from a comparative ethnography of education. Invited panelist on the anthropology of education at the annual meeting of the American Educational Studies Association, Detroit, October 28.

  1999 Interviewer/discussant, When teachers share more responsibility for their own professional development: Diverse voices from an innovative experience in Guinea. Panel organized by John Schwille and Martial Dembélé, presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montréal, April 22, 1998.

Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn, and Ntal-i'mbwira Alimasi
  1999 Competing criteria of good reading instruction: Ministry, donors and teachers in the Republic of Guinea. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Comparative and International Studies Association, Toronto, April 17. 

Bloch, Marianne, Kathryn Anderson-Levitt, and Aminata Maiga Soumaré
  1998 Classrooms, Community and Gender in Guinea, presented in the symposium "Women and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa," American Educational Research Association, San Diego, April 13, 1998. 

Bloch, Marianne, Kathryn Anderson-Levitt, and Aminata Maiga Soumaré
  1996 The Good News from Guinea, presentation in a panel on "School Effectiveness in Developing Countries," annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, March 9. 

Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M., Marianne Bloch, and Aminata Maiga Soumaré
  1995 Inside Classrooms in Guinea: Girls Within the System of Interaction, paper presented at the annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, Boston, March 30. 

Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M., and Karen Duhart
  1994 The Unripe Child: Cultural Construction of a "Natural" Concept, paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, December 1. 

Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M.
  1993 Global Trends in the Cultural Construction of Childhood, paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 21.

  1993 Classrooms "Behind the Times": Modern Ideals in the Genesis of Teaching Cultures, paper presented at the Midwest Regional Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, Michigan State University, East Lansing, October 30. 

  1993 Behind Schedule: Batch Produced Children in French and U.S. Classrooms, paper presented at the 13th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Mexico City, July 30. 

  1990 What's French about French Teachers' Views of the Classroom?, paper presented at annual meeting of American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 30. ERIC Document 340 706. 

  1989 Memory and Ideals in French Classrooms, paper presented at annual meeting of American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 16. ERIC Document 347 127.

Reed-Danahay, Deborah, and Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt
  1988 "Backward" Peasants and "Unstable" Workers: Teacher Images of Families in Rural and Urban France, paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Phoenix, November 18. 

Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M.
  1987 School and Home as "Us" and "Them" in Urban France, paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 19. 

  1987 Cultural Knowledge for Teaching in France: The Rhythm of the School Year, paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Washington, D. C., April 20.

  1986 Acquiring a Cultural Model of Mental Retardation, paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, December 4.

  1984 Strategies for Persuasion in a Group of Retarded Adults, paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Denver, November 16.

  1983 French Schoolteachers' Model of the Six-Year-Old, paper presented in the symposium on Folk Theories of Childhood, annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago.

Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M., and Alma Hertweck
  1982 Teachers' Interpretations of Students' Behaviors in French and American Classrooms, paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, April. ERIC Document 220 541. 

Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M.
  1982 What Counts as Success? Isolated Classroom Incidents and the Construction of a Student's Career, paper presented at the Third Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, February.

  1981 Memory and Talk in Teachers' Interpretations of Student Behavior, paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Los Angeles.

  1980 The Meaning of 'Searching' in a French First Grade, paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D. C. ERIC Document 202 241.

  1979 Identifying What Counts as Success in a French First Grade, paper presented at the California Educational Research Association, San Diego, November 11.

  1979 More Than Meets the Eye: Making Sense of Classroom Behavior in France, paper presented at the Southwest Anthropological Association, March 29.

Symposia and Panels Organized 

2000 "Getting Published: Journal Editors Spell Out Tacit Rules," a workshop sponsored by AERA's Professional Development and Training Committee, at annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April 25. 

1992 "Bridging the International Gap: The Social Context of Educational Research Outside the U.S.," panel at annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, April 24.

1990 "Visual Images of Schooling Around the World, I and II," panels at annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 29 and November 30.

1989 "Sources of Teaching Culture in Comparative Perspective," symposium at annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D. C., November 16.

1989 "Students', Parents' and Teachers' Views of Schooling in Cross-Cultural Perspective," panel at annual meeting of American Anthropological Association, Washington, D. C., November 17. 

1988 "Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Formal Education," panel at annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Phoenix, November 19 (with Deborah Reed-Danahay).

1987 "'Worlds Apart': Images of Teachers and Pupils in European Schools," Invited Symposium of the Council on Anthropology and Education and the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 19 (with Deborah Reed-Danahay).

1983 "Folk Theories of Childhood: The Impact of Cultural Notions on Adult-Child Interaction," symposium sponsored by the Society for Psychological Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 17. 

1981 "How Teachers Make Decisions," Invited Symposium of Division C, Section 3, annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Los Angeles, April l4.

Presentations

2000 A global culture of schooling? Presentation to research seminar, Graduate School of Education, University of California Santa Barbara, May 26. 

2000 Getting published. Presentation to the Association of Graduate Students in Education, University of California Santa Barbara, May 25.

1999 Les idéaux pédagogiques, embrassés volontiers ou imposés? Le cas de l'apprentissage de la lecture en Guinée. Invited talk, classe de DESS (Masters' students), département des sciences de l'éducation, la Sorbonne, Paris, December 16.

1999 Discussant, symposium on "The Ethnography of Educational Policy: Moments of Formation, Moments of Negotiation." Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 19 

1999 How to publish in the AEQ. Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 20.

1999 A global culture of schooling? How "Western" ideas move to Guinea. Provost's Roundtable, University of Michigan-Dearborn, September 29.

1999 Panelist, "When teachers are more responsibility for their own professional development: Diverse voices from an innovative experience in Guinea." Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, April 22.

1999 Competing criteria of good reading instruction: Ministry, donors and teachers in the Republic of Guinea (Ntal-i'mbwira Alimasi), presented at the annual meeting of the Comparative and International Studies Association, Toronto, April 15.

1998 Les grands axes théoriques de l'anthropologie de l'éducation, et L'ethnographie de l'éducation&emdash;une philosophie de recherche, series of three lectures to the sociology students, University of Conkary, November 10-12.

1998 Les revues scientifiques, two-day workshop for about 50 representatives of all the institutes of higher education and research in Guinea on editing refereed journals and on publishing in international journals, INRAP, Conakry, Guinea, June 13-14.

1997 Editors' Roundtable, American Educational Research Association, March 27.

1997 Invited Speaker, University of Michigan-Dearborn Honors Convocation, March 21.

1996 The Unripe Child: Concepts of "Immaturity" in Anthropological Perspective, Provost's Roundtable presentation, UM-Dearborn, October 8.

1996 The Cultural Production of the Educated European, Society for the Anthropology of Europe luncheon roundtable, at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 21.

1996 Panelist, "Demystifying Academic Publishing," American Educational Research Association, April 9.

1995 Invited speaker, annual Susan B. Anthony luncheon, University of Michigan-Dearborn, February 7.

1994 Forms of Schooling: France vs. Guinea, panel on Visual Images of schooling, American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, November 30.

1994 Gender in the Classroom: Guinea, Department of Behavioral Sciences Brown Bag Talk, University of Michigan-Dearborn, November 17.

1989 Civilizing Parents: The Unending Mission of French Schools, colloquium presented to Michigan State University Institute for Research on Teaching, May 11 

1989 Anthropologists Look at Schooling Through Other Lenses, colloquium given at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor School of Education, January 13.

1989 Les approches de l'anthropologie de l'éducation aux États-Unis, presentation to Groupe de Sociologie de l'Éducation, Université de Paris-V, April 28.

1988 Informal presentation to the Psychology Department, Université François Rabelais, Tours, France, June 22.

1988 Un regard ethnologique sur les représentations des maîtres, presentation to Sociology of Education team at Université de Lyon-II, May 24.

1987 Line Staff as Common-Sense Counselors, Michigan Rehabilitation Conference, Flint, October 21.

1987 Putting Cultural Differences in Context, Seminar on Michigan Business and the International Arena, University of Michigan-Dearborn and the Detroit Consular Corps.

1986 The American Weekend: Cultural Rhythms Revealed by Life in a Group Home, presentation to UM-Dearborn Honors Program, with Shari McNeese.

1986-89 Ethnographic Research in Modern Organizations, presentations to Business 580, Workshop in Qualitative Research Methods, Madonna College.

1984 Teachers' Cognitive Models of Classroom Interaction, invited participation in a working conference on "Learning to Teach: Acquiring the Knowledge Base of Classroom Practice," Research and Development Center for Teacher Education, University of Texas at Austin, July 12.

1980 Panel discussant on "Combining Micro and Macro Approaches in the Ethnographic Study of Language and Cognition," annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D. C., December 5.

Academic Consulting

1999 Consultant on using video analysis for market research, Morpace International, Dearborn, February.

1994 Consultant on the French educational system for a project on comparative university-entrance procedures, Harold Stevenson, Principal Investigator, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Center for Human Growth and Development, March.

1991-92 Reviewer, Field-Initiated Studies Grants, Office for Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education 

1989 Consultant on ethnographic method, Emergent Writing Project, Elizabeth Sulzby, principal investigator, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, February.

1989 Content Consultant, "International Business: Social Environment," a film produced by Madonna College, Charlotte Newhauser, Executive Producer, February.

1986 Consultant, Project on Teaching Writing through Ethnography, Detroit Public Schools and University of Michigan-Ann Arbor School of Education, David Bloome, principal investigator.

Affiliations

American Anthropological Association
American Ethnological Society
Society for Psychological Anthropology
Society for the Anthropology of Europe
Council for European Studies
Council for Anthropology and Education
American Educational Research Association

---Service---

International and National Professional Service

Member of the Editorial Board, 1999-present, and American correspondent, 1998-present, for the new journal Éducation et Sociétés: Revue internationale de sociologie de l'éducation, Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique, Paris. 

Member of the Editorial Boards of The Elementary School Journal, 1991 to present, and of Ethos: Journal of the Society of Psychological Anthropology, 1987 to present.

Referee for American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Ethos, Elementary School Journal, Linguistics and Education, Curriculum Inquiry, SUNY Press, Division G of the American Educational Research Association, National Science Foundation.

4/25/00 Panelist, On Getting Research Published, Spencer Foundation Spring Forum of 1999 Dissertation Fellows, New Orleans. 

11/93- Member of the Board of the Council on Anthropology and Education. Elected Member-at-Large in 1993; Assistant Program Chair for 1994; serving ex officio as Editor of the Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1995-2001.

4/91-4/92 Program Chair for Division G (Social Context of Education), American Educational Research Association. Reviewed and selected 56 symposia and volunteered paper sessions.

11/87-12/90 Chair, Committee on Transnational Issues in Education and Change, and Member of the Board, Council on Anthropology and Education. 

1986-87 Treasurer, Society for Psychological Anthropology.

1984-87 Secretary, Corresponding Editor for Anthropology Newsletter, and Member of the Board, Society for Psychological Anthropology.

University Service

9/00- Elected member at large, College of Arts, Sciences and Letters Executive Committee.

7/99- Chair, Agenda for Women committee.

7/99- Anthropology advisor and discipline representative to Department of Behavioral Sciences Executive Committee.

3/99-5/99 Member, CASL Dean Search Committee.

3/98 Facilitator, How to Write for Publication: An Insider's View, workshop for junior faculty sponsored by UMD Provost's Office, March 5.

2/98 Donation of 12 books to Mardigian Library on behalf of Anthropology and Education Quarterly. 

3/97 Facilitator, How to Write for Publication: An Insider's View, workshop for junior faculty sponsored by UMD Provost's Office, March 21. 

2/97 Donation of 10 books to Mardigian Library on behalf of Anthropology and Education Quarterly. 

11/96 Organizer of Denise Troutman's visit for Women's Studies Speakers' Series. 

9/95-98 Member, Advisory Board, UM-Dearborn Child Development Center. 

9/95- Member, Grievance Committee, Department of Behavioral Sciences. 

1/95-98 Elected to UM-Dearborn Graduate Board.

10/94 Consultant to Diversity Volunteers Committee.

9/94-9/95 Co-chair of an ad hoc group to promote an Agenda for Women for the UM-Dearborn campus (with Sheryl Pearson).

 9/94 Member, campus committee on Family Mentoring Center.

3/2/94 Organizer of campus visit by Ann Stoler for Women's Studies Speakers' Series. 

1993-96 Member, Library and Information Technology Committee. 

9/93-1/94 Member of the Board, UM-Dearborn Women's Commission. 

5/93 Principal author of annual report on Women's Studies Program.

11/92-3/93 Co-chair of Focus Group on Adjunct Faculty, AAUW Campus Initiative on Equity and co-author of the Focus Group's report (with Valerie Murphy) 

1992- Faculty advisor to Anthropology Club. 

1991-94 Member, College Academic Standards Committee. 

1991-93 Organization of Department of Behavioral Sciences brown-bag talks (with Michael Akiyama, Robert Hymes).

9/91-9/96 Anthropology and Geography discipline representative, Department of Behavioral Sciences Executive Committee. Coordinate discipline course schedule, hiring of adjunct faculty, discipline self-review, liaison with department. 

1990- Women's Studies Faculty Committee. 

9/90-4/92 Member, Divisional Board III, University of Michigan Rackham Program for Support of Faculty Creative Endeavors. 

3/90-6/91 Member, Academic Affairs Advisory Council Subcommittee on Research. 

1987-88 Member of Behavioral Sciences Department Search Committee for a developmental psychologist. 

6/86-6/88 Member of the Advisory Board, University of Michigan-Dearborn Child Development Center. 

9/85-2/88 Member, Campus Grants Committee.

Presentations in colleagues' classes and campus-wide panels--once or twice a year.

Development of new courses and revision of courses for graduate credit to meet needs of Education students--periodically.

Community Service

1999 Interviewed on marriage, religion and history since 3000 BC on the John Arnold Show, syndicated to Detroit (WCHB-AM), Baltimore, Washington D.C., and Montgomery, October 8. 

1999 Interviewed on the origins of war and social class on the John Arnold Show, syndicated to Detroit (WCHB-AM), Baltimore, Washington D.C., and Montgomery, September 28. 

1999 Interviewed on evolution and creationism on the John Arnold Show, syndicated to Detroit (WCHB-AM), Baltimore, Washington D.C., and Montgomery, August 31. 

1997 Interviewed for Black History Month on the John Arnold Show, WCHB-AM, February 3 and 8.

1996 Schools around the World: Beneath the Differences, a Global Culture?, lecture presented to the Adult Learning Institute, an Elderhostel affiliate, Oakland Community College Orchard Ridge Campus, October 2. 

1996 Advised John Arnold of WCHB-AM talk radio in planning a month-long look at the history of humankind for Black History Month; interviewed twice on the John Arnold Show, January-February 

1995 "The Hidden Gifted: Girls Are Gifted, Too," presentation with Dr. Kathleen Clark to Gibson Lecture and Discussion Series, Gibson School, Redford, November 30. 

1995 Collected 1000 kg. of used French textbooks to send to schools in Guinea (with Martine Mazurier). Shipping costs of $800 paid by the World Bank. 

1991 Guest commentator, "Home for the Holidays" Telethon, Dearborn/Dearborn Heights Facilities and Services for the Retarded, November 22. 

1990 "Reading Instruction in France and the U.S.," presentation to Dearborn Chapter, American Association of University Women, March 7. 

1990-92 Member of the Sunday School Board, Workmen's Circle Michigan District. 

1989 Collected behavioral science books to send from UM-Dearborn to the Bendel State University Library, Ekpoma, Nigeria. 

1985 Presentation on "Women and Work from Stone Age to Industrial Age," Adult Education

1985 Presentations on "Ethnicity in the U.S.A.," Social Security Administration offices, Dearborn and Inkster, Michigan, May. 

1985 Presentation on "Women in the Work Force," Social Security Administration office, Dearborn, Michigan, March.

1982 Panel discussant on "Los Angeles: Ellis Island of the Pacific," Commitment, KNXT-Channel 2, Los Angeles, February.