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tim wallace and quetzil castañeda, organizers

2009 Workshop Participants

Christine Preble
University at Alblany, PhD Candidate

North America, Caribbean, cruiseship industry, mass tourism, visual anthropology

Noelle Hildebrand
Masters in Anthropology
Concordia University

Mexico, Guatemala
Topics = Volunteer Tourism; motivations of recipient communities

Laurier Turgeon
Director, Institue for Cultural Heritage
Laval University
Laurier.Turgeon@hst.ulaval.ca

Starting a project on intangible cultural heritage, cultural tourism and communities in Quebec. Recently involved in developing joint MA Program in cultural heritage between Laval and State University of Haiti

Sarah Luna
University of Chicago
sarah.luna@gmail.com

Sex work and sex tourism; US/Mexico border

Uzi Baram
New College of Florida
Baram@ncf.edu

developing course materials on tourism, undergraduate research, implications of tourism and local history beyond current heritage debates

Elana Chipman
Anthropology, Binghamton, SUNY
echipman@binghamton.edu

China, Taiwan.
pilgrimage networks, cultural production, religious tourism, tourism and economic development; Interests include teaching anthropology of tourism

Lauren Bae
Teachers College, Columbia
lsb2127@columbia.edu

Tourism industry of Northern Vietnam
Politics of representation in choosing sites of tourism, what is spoken about these sites, especially Loa Lo Prison aka Hanoi Hilton (where US bombers were held); self-reflexivity of those who work within tourism, globalization, identity

Sarah Lyon
University of Kentucky
sarah.lyon@uky.edu

Alternative Niche Tourisms, specifically agritourism in Central America and USA; teaching anthropology of tourism

Rosalyn Hammrisuk
Columbia University
rosalynhan@gmail.com
rh2417@columbia.edu

medical anthropology, medical travel/tourism, governmentality



2008 Workshop Participants

Anderson, Chris
U Southern Cal
christian.alan.anderson@gmail.com

Tourism research in Taiwan, Hainan, India

Bach, Jaime
U Montana

Area = Oceania, kiribati
Topics = globalization, gender, environment, identity, heritage issues

Chandru, Uma V.
Int'l Institute of Art, Culture, and Democracy
umavchandru@gmail.com

Interested in critical perspectives and interventions in tourism and heritage studies. How do indigenous tourism sites differ from other forms of tourism in terms of tourists' experience and community benefits (India).

Chapman, Catherine catechapman@gmail.com

Student of anthropology with extensive background in tourism (hospitality).  Looking to bridge my experience with a focus to decide on a grad program

Michael O'Neal
MONeal@hlscc.edu.vg
H.L. Stoutt Community College
Tortola, Br. Virgin Islands

Tourism and sustainable development issues
Prior research: tourism as development strategy in British Virgin Islands

Evans, Carol Jo cjevans@mail.ecsu.edu

Local resistance to tourism development

Geary, David
U British Columbia
dgeary@interchange.ubc.ca

Politics of world heritage, tourism development, landscape aesthetics & urban planning in the context of Buddhist sites in N. India

Hansrisuk, Rosalyn
Columbia U
rh2417@columbia.edu

Int'l medical trave and medical tourism of Arab Muslims to Bangkok health facilities

Harvey, Rachel
U Florida
raharvey@ufl.edu

Cultural tourism in the African townships in Cape Town, South Africa

Knoll, Eva-Maria
Austrian Academy of Sciences
eva-maria.knoll@oeaw.ac.at

Current work: reproductive tourism in Europe
Future work: Tourism in the Indian Ocean

Landry, Timothy
U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
tlandry2@illinois.edu

Benin, West Africa - explore ways tourism affect or even facilitate local religious practices such as Vodun

Lulle, Aija
U Latvia
aija@LZA.LV

Transnationalism, circulation of knowledge, practices, artifacts, etc.
Alt. email: aija.lulle@gmail.com

MacCarthy, Michelle
U Auckland
www.auckland.ac.nz (anthro dept.)

Research Area: Melanesia. Cultural Tourism, esp. issues of authenticity and commoditization of culture, tourism of "the exotic other," tourist expectations & local presentation of culture, role of anthropologist in the community, etc.

Murray, Andrea
Harvard U
aemurray@fas.harvard.edu

Eco-tourism; Tourism Dev't in Okinawa, Japan; Int'l politics of eco-tourism dev't (esp. Japan & small island nation neighbors)

Nicholls, Heidi
SUNY at Albany
hjnich@gmail.com

Tourism Imagery; indigeneous tourism: economic & power structures, performative self & expressions of identity; embryotic tourism; political ecology Locales: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Southwest, Caribbean

Shinnamon, Felicia
Global Exchange (San Francisco)
134acacia@sbcglobal.net

Interests: experiential, educational tourism for advocacy and social change
Current: researching activist, socially responsible tourism as practiced by Global Exchange

Stegeborn, Wiveca
U of Jromsoe, Norway
Wivaca_Stegeborn@hotmail.com
Alt. email: wiveca@msu.edu

"Veddahs" or Wanniyala-Aeflo - Ind. People of Sir Lanka - endangered people, only 2000 left, relocated to "Rehabilitation Villages" for National Park and Irrigation Dams

Strom, Signe Therese
U Perugia
(Italy ?)
signestrom@gmail.com

Representation of Maasai culture in the context of tourism; comparison ecotourism & mainstream tourism; conservation of nature vs. local use of resources; sale of souvenirs - material culture; change of gender relations due to tourism

Thampy, Gayatri
Ohio State U

Interests: household interest, land tenure reforms, neo-liberalism, globalization, tourism
Current research: household decisions re land use in Bocas del Toro, Panama

2007 Workshop Participants

Dr Joyce D Hammond

 

Dr Nancy McDowell

 

David I. Beriss

 

Shirley S. Lin

 

Judy K. Kemp

 

Jennifer Lutton

 

Sue A Taylor Ph.D.

 

Joseph J Kinsella Ph.D.

 

Aixa Aleman-Diaz

 

Amy Sommer

 

Joshua A Crosby

 

Stacey A Pereira

 

Ryan T Klataske

 

Stacy L Camp

 

Gregory C Mitchell
Northwestern University
gcmitchell@northwestern.edu

Gay sex tourism in Brazil, cultural and folkloric performances for tourists

Margaret E Hathaway

 

Ms. Kathleen G Clendaniel

 

Anne-Mette Hermansen

 

Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels

 

Keith Edwards

 

2006 Workshop Participants

Amato, Jessica V

 

Cavanagh, Kimberly K

 

Ishihara, Reiko

 

James, Jason C.

 

Klimova, Julia G

 

Kubein, Adele M

 

Lukavic, John P

 

McMurray, David

 

Rosado, Sybil D

 

Sinervo, Aviva

 

Skoczen, Kathleen N.

 

Stoll, Courtney D

 

Wade, Riannan

 

Williams Castro, Fatimah

 

Williams, Megan

 

Winston, Amy

 

2005 Workshop Participants

Rowe, Sarah M

 

Conran, Mary

 

Scarangella, Linda

 

Grandia, Liza M

 

Sisson, Bryan D

 

Houston, David L

 

Smith-Wenning, Kathleen

 

Kaul, Adam R

 

Wydra, Michelle M

 

Lehrer, Erica T

 

Matheny, Nicole A

 


2004 Workshop Participants

Peter J. Sutherland

 

Helen Regis

 

Michael Harkin

 

Jami L Leibowitz

 

Elena Barron

 

Corine Holly

 

Leah D Cook

 

Thet S Win

 

Eva-Maria Knoll

 

Matthew D Smith

 

Kimberly A Ferlauto

 

Julie M Tate-Libby

 

Marissa D Margosian

 

Barbara T Parkinson

 

Veronica L McClain

 

Mr Bryan D Sisson

 

David R Odo

 

Rumiko Tachibana

 

Keren Solomon

 

Sara Ackerman

 

Michael Stausbuerg

 

Robertson Allen

 


2003 Workshop Participants

Jackson, Edith

 

Medina, Noel B Salazar

 

Porter, Amy L.

 

Reed, Ann M.

 

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