Résumé of Noel B. Salazar

Table of contents

• Basic information
• Academic qualifications
• Research and expertise
• Language skills
• Professional memberships
• Other professional Activities
• Fellowships & awards
• Selected publications

• Full C.V. (PDF-file)

Basic information

Noel B. Salazar
University of Pennsylvania
School of Arts and Sciences
Department of Anthropology
University Museum Rm. 323
3260 South Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6398
U.S.A.
Phone: +1 215 898 7461
Fax: +1 215 898 7462
E-mail: nsalazarsas.upenn.edu

Academic qualifications

Research and expertise

Dissertation: Envisioning Eden: A glocal ethnography of tour guiding (Advisors: Dr. Sandra T. Barnes & Dr. Peggy R. Sanday)

My research interests include:

• the anthropology of tourism and travel
• globalization and localization, or 'glocalization'
• public interest anthropology
• transnationalism & cosmopolitanism
• identity & representation, power relationships, critical theory
• linguistic anthropology: discourse-centered approaches, multi-modal semiotics
• Indonesia (Southeast Asia), Tanzania (East Africa), Belgium (Western Europe)

I have done fieldwork in Yogyakarta (Indonesia) and Arusha (Tanzania), using the following mixed-method methodologies:

• Participant and direct observation (with audio-visual recording)
• Exploratory and in-depth ethnographic interviews
• Semi-structured questionnaires
• Archival research in local libraries and archives, and collection of secondary sources
• Graphical mapping of global networks and connections
• Data analysis and interpretation with ATLAS.ti and UCINET

I have lived and worked in Belgium, France, Austria, Italy, the UK, and the USA. In addition, I have traveled extensively in Europe, the Americas, Australia, Asia, and Africa.

Language skills

• English, Spanish, French, and Dutch: Reading fluent, Writing fluent, Speaking fluent
• German and Italian: Reading fluent, Writing functional, Speaking fluent
• Indonesian and Swahili: Reading fluent, Writing functional, Speaking functional
• Portuguese: Reading functional, Writing basic, Speaking functional
• Secondary education in Classical Latin and Greek

Professional memberships

• American Anthropological Association (Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology)
• European Association of Social Anthropologists
• Society for Applied Anthropology (Tourism Interest Group)
• World Anthropologies Network
• Tanzania Studies Association
• Indonesia and East Timor Studies Committee
• Tourism Research Information Network (TRINET)
• IGU-UGI Commission on the Geography of Tourism, Leisure and Global Change
• Asia Tourism Research
• Development Studies Association - Tourism Study Group
• Global Development Network
• South-North Network Cultures and Development

Other professional activities

• Anonymous manuscript reviewer for Current Anthropology, Anthropology Matters, Boletín de Antropología, Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, Tourism Review International, and International Journal of Tourism Policy
• Founding member of the Public Interest Working Group at the University of Pennsylvania, 2005-
• Research Assistant for Dr. Sandra T. Barnes: The involvement of the U.S. public and private sector in sub-Saharan Africa (African Studies Review 48), 2004
• Member of survey panels conducted by the Center for Sustainable Destinations, National Geographic Society, 2002-

Fellowships, grants, and awards

Selected publications

Forthcoming

N.d. Imaged or imagined? Cultural representations and the “tourismification” of people and places. To appear in Cahiers d’Études Africaines.

N.d. “Enough talking!” Asian tourists redefining the roles of Asian tour guides. To appear in Civilisations 57(1/2).

N.d. Tourism development and modernity in Africa. To appear in Le Bulletin de l’APAD.

Peer-reviewed

2007. Towards a global culture heritage interpretation? Evidence from Indonesia and Tanzania. Tourism Recreation Research 32(3):23-30.

2006. Touristifying Tanzania: Local guides, global discourse. Annals of Tourism Research 33(3):833–852.

2005. Tourism and glocalization: "Local" tour guiding. Annals of Tourism Research 32(3):628-646.

2005. Resolving conflicts in heritage tourism: A public interest anthropology approach. International Journal of Heritage Studies 11(5). (Co-editor with Benjamin W. Porter; Special Issue)

2004. Heritage and tourism, PIA and global interests. Anthropology in Action 11 (2/3):2-60. (Co-editor with Benjamin W. Porter; Double Issue Special Edition)