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Curriculum Vitae

Departments of Anthropology & Family and Community Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
3260 South Street
Philadelphia PA  19104-6398

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Campus office:  430 Anthropology  Museum
Tel: 215-746-1937    
 
CURRENT POSITION

Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology and Family and Community Medicine, Departments of Anthropology and Family Medicine and Community Practice, University of Pennsylvania (Hired 07/01/2007)
 
GEOGRAPHICAL FOCUS

Latino/a immigrants, inner city United States, Puerto Rican diaspora, Central America and the Western Caribbean.
 
FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Fluent Spanish and French
Conversational Portuguese

EDUCATION

Post-Doc         1986    École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Ph.D.            1985    Stanford University, Anthropology
M.A.             1980    Stanford University, Food Research Institute
                         (Development Economics)
M.A.             1980    Stanford University, Anthropology
B.A.             1978    Harvard College, Social Studies

ACADEMIC PRIZES

2008    Virchow Award from the Society for Critical Medical Anthropology.
        For book, In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
2000    Centre National des Lettres Translation Prize from the French Ministry of Culture.
1997    Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology.
1996    C. Wright Mills Prize from the Society for the Study of Social Problems of the American Sociological Association.
1996    Victor Turner Award for Ethnographic Writing (honorable mention) from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association.
1996    Anthony Leeds Prize (honorable mention) from the Society for Urban Anthropology of the     American Anthropological Association.
1996    Robert Park Award for Community Studies (finalist) of the American Sociological Association.
1996    Association of American Publishers Scholarly Publishing Division prize (honorable mention).

TEACHING AND RESEARCH POSITIONS

2008-present    Senior Fellow, the Center for Public Health Initiatives, University of Pennsylvania
2008-2010       Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania.
1998-2007       Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
2003-04         Research Scholar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
1999-04         Chair, Department of Anthropology, UCSF.
1998-99         Chief,  Division of Medical Anthropology, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF.
1988-98         Professor, Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University.  (Elected Chair 1/97; Elected Acting Chair 6/96; Promoted to Professor 8/96; Promoted to Associate Professor 6/92; Tenured 6/93).
1993-94         Fulbright Research Professor at the Maestría en Política Económica para Centro América y el Caribe [Masters Program in Political Economy for Central America and the Caribbean] of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Costa Rica, Heredia.
1990-91         Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation.
1985-88         Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri.
1984            Visiting Researcher, Centro de Investigaciones de la Costa Atlantica, Nicaragua.
1979-80         Researcher, Centro de Investigaciones e Estudios de la Reforma Agraria, Nicaragua.
 
FIELDWORK

2007-present--Violence, HIV risk-taking, and relations with law enforcement among Puerto Rican street-based youth in North Philadelphia.
1994-present--HIV risk among homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco.
1994-present--Undocumented day laborers and former guerrilla fighters from El Salvador in the San Francisco Mission District.
1999-present--Follow up fieldwork among children of former crack dealers in East Harlem (visits).
1999-present--Follow up fieldwork among Ngöbe banana workers in Bocas del Toro, Panama and Talamanca, Costa Rica (visits).
1996-present--Oral history of a French forced laborer at the I.G. Farben plant at Auschwitz during the Holocaust (visits).
1997-2000          Street-based substance abusers in Montreal and Vancouver, Canada (visits).
1995-97            (Proto-)Gang members in the San Francisco Mission District.
1992               Street Children in Bolivia: La Paz, El Alto, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz. (Summer/Spring).
1985-91            Puerto Rican crack dealers, East Harlem, New York: Full-time 1989-1991; summers 1986-1988; part-time 1985.
1985-86            African and North African immigrants in Paris (la Goûte d'Or).
1982-83            United Brands banana plantation in Costa Rica and Panama (for doctorate).
1979-86            Miskitu communities of northern Nicaragua: 1979-1980 for the Center for Investigation and Studies of the Agrarian Reform and the National Literacy Campaign of Nicaragua; summers 1983-1985 and winter 1986 for the Centro de Investigaciones y Documentación de la Costa Atlántica.
1979               Mopan and Kekchi Maya communities of southern Belize (for Masters).

 

GRANT AWARDS

1996-2010             NIH R01-DA10164  “The Logics for HIV Risk Among Homeless Heroin Injectors.” $3,414,320.  (PI)

 

2008-2009             CHRP (on subcontract from PI Riley)         "HIV, Environment and Risk Among Unstably Housed Women Study (HERS)”      $21,000.  (PI)

                             

2007-2011             NIH R01 MH078743 (on subcontract from PI Comfort)    “HIV Risk among Male Parolees and their Female Partners.” $41,655. 

                              $100,000 (PI).

 

2006-2009             R01 DA017389 (on subcontract from PI Kral)                   “Sexual Risk for HIV/STIs Among Women Who Inject Methamphetamine.”

                              $200,000.   (PI)

 

2008-2010             NIH R01 DA021627 (on subcontract from PI Kral)           “Qualitative Exploration of Low-Frequency Heroin Injectors not in Drug Treatmentt”

            $100,000.   (PI)

 

2007-2009             California Department of Health Services 06-55787            “Study of Substance Using Youth Populations in Northern CA.  $12,000 (Ethnographic Consultant).

 

2005-2007             NIH DA10164-S1             “Diversity Supplement for Under-Represented Ethnic Minority Graduate Student on The Logics for HIV Risk Among Homeless Heroin Injectors.”

                              $80,000.  (PI)

 

2003-2007             NIH R01-MH64388          “A Random Controlled Trial of HIV Adherence Case Management and Modified Direct Observation Therapy”

                              $2,347,926.  (C0-I)

 

2002-2007                  NIH R01-NR08324 (on subcontract from PI Grinstead)           “HIV Risk Reduction for Women with Incarcerated Partners” $1,500,000.  (PI)

 

2003-04                 Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton and National Endowment for the Humanities grant for “Confronting the Diseases of Civilization: The moral economy of addiction and the ethics of public medicine.”  $45,000.

 

2003-04                 Russell Sage Foundation small grant 87-03-04 for “Confronting Inner City Social Suffering in the County Hospital:  Teaching Doctors to Heal Poverty.” $50,000.

 

1999-01                 University AIDS Research Project (UARP): “Poly-drug Use and HIV Risk Among Homeless Heroin Injectors.” $120,000

 

1999                      Supplement to NIH R01DA10164 “The Logics for HIV Risk Among Homeless Heroin Addicts.” $31,000

 

1993-94                 Fulbright Research Scholar, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Heredia, Maestría en Política Económica para Centro América. (Summers). $30,000

 

1993-94                 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation for “In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio.” $60,000

 

1990-91                 Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation. $50,000

 

1989‑90                 Social Science Research Council/Inter-University Program for Latino Research, and the Committee for Public Policy Research on Contemporary Hispanic Issues and the Committee for Research on the Urban Underclass for “Culture and Economy in Spanish Harlem.”   $35,000

 

1989                      National Institute on Drug Abuse (R03-DA06413) “Crack Dealers in East Harlem.”  $30,000

 

1988‑89                 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Grant for “Ethnicity, Income Generating Strategies and the Inner City.”  $13,000

 

1985‑86                 Auditeur pensionne, École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

 

1985-86                 Bourse Chateaubriand (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs) for “Ethnographic Research Among Second-Generation North African Immigrants.”  $12,000

 

1982‑84                 Inter‑American Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship for “Ethnic Relations on Costa Rica's Atlantic Coast.”  $18,000

 

1978‑82                 Stanford Graduate Fellowship.

 

1975‑78                 Harvard Scholarship.

 

BOOKS

In Press            Righteous Dopefiend. Berkeley: University of California Press. “Public Anthropology” Series. (First author with co-author Jeff Schonberg.)

 

1995    In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Series “Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences”.) Paperback 1996.  Seven printings.

           

            --French translation with new preface and epilogue: En quête de respect: le crack à Harlem. Paris: Editions du Seuil. (Série Liber, directed by Pierre Bourdieu.)  2001. [Translated by Lou Aubert].

 

            --Updated Second U.S. Edition with new Preface and Epilogue. 2003.

 

            --Italian translation with new epilogue:  Cercando rispetto. Drug Economy e cultura di strada, Rome: Derive Approdi 2005 [Translated by Alessandro DeGiorgi].

 

            --Norwegian translation into braille and recorded media for the Norwegian Library for Talking Books and Braille, Oslo, Norway (In Press).

 

            --Chinese edition with Peking University Press.

           

1989    Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Central American Banana Plantation. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. (Series, “Studies in Atlantic History and Culture”.)

           

            --Spanish Translation (with update and revisions): Bananos, etnia, y luchas sociales en Centro América. San José, Costa Rica: Departamento Ecuménico de Investigaciones (DEI), and Maestría en Política Económica de la Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica. 1994.

 

EDITED VOLUMES

2004    Violence in War and Peace. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. (Second editor with co-editor Nancy Scheper-Hughes.)

 

1993    Niños vulnerables. La Paz (Bolivia): Dirección Nacional de Prevención de Drogas, Ministerio de Salud. Secondary co-editor with co-editors Franklin Alcaraz del Castillo et al.

           

            --English translation: Forgotten Children. La Paz: Ministry of Human Development, National Secretariat of Health and Social Welfare. 1995.

 

1989    Amérique centrale, special issue of Les temps modernes  Vol. 44, nos. 517-518. Co-editor Marc Edelman. 375 pp.

 

1989    Ethnic Relations in St. Louis, special issue of City and Society Vol. 3, no. 2. Co-editor Ann Rynearson. 178 pp.

 

1983    Revolution in Central America. Colorado: Westview Press. Co‑edited with SCAN.

 

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

 

2008    “Understanding Illicit Substance Use in the Real World.” Medical Education 42: 513–543 (Third author           with Dan Ciccarone and Sharad Jain.)

 

2008    “The Mystery of Marijuana:  Science and the U.S. War on Drugs.”  Substance Use & Misuse  43: 581-           583.

 

2008    “Sofferenza e vulnerabilità socialmente strutturate. Tossicodipendenti senzatetto negli Stati Uniti.” In             Antropologia: Violenza Vol 8, num. 9 & 10. Rome: Meltemi. 2008.

 

2006   “Reinterpreting Ethnic Patterns among White and African American Men who Inject Heroin: A Social

Science of Medicine Approach.”  Public Library of Science (PLoS) Medicine. 3:10:1805-1815. (First author with co-authors Alexis Martinez, Alex Kral, Brian Edlin, Jeff Schonberg, Dan Ciccarone.) <http://medicine.plosjournals.org/archive/1549-1676/3/10/pdf/10.1371_journal.pmed.0030452-L.pdf>

 

2006 “The Price of Adherence: Qualitative Findings From HIV Positive Individuals Purchasing Fixed-Dose Combination Generic HIV Antiretroviral Therapy in Kampala, Uganda.”  AIDS and Behavior 10:4:437-442.  (Secondary co-author with co-authors J. T. Crane, A. Kawuma, J. H. Oyugi, J. T. Byakika, A. Moss, and D. R. Bangsberg.)

 

2005 “Epilogo 2005: L'esasperazione strutturale degli abusi sul sottoproletariato [The Structural Exacerbation of Lumpen Abuse]” Pp. 339-349. In Cercando Rispetto:  Drug economy e cultura di strada.  [author Philippe Bourgois]. Milan: Derive Approdi. 2005.

 

2005 “Un ‘apartheid intime’: Dimensions ethniques de l’habitus chez les toxicomanes sans-abri de San Francisco.”  Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 160:32-45. (First author with co-author Jeff Schonberg).

 

            --English version:  “Intimate apartheid:  Ethnic dimensions of habitus among homeless heroin injectors.”  Ethnography 8:1:7-33.  2007.  (Winner of Virchow Prize from the Society for Critical Medical Anthropology).

 

            --Spanish version:  “Apartheid íntimo:  Dimensiones étnicas del habitus de  heroinómanos en la calle.”  Pesar  [Spain].  In Press.

 

2005 “Social Structural Production of HIV Among Injection Drug Users.” Social Science & Medicine 61:5:1026-1044. (Secondary co-author with co-authors Tim Rhodes, Merrill Singer, Samuel Friedman, Steffanie Strathdee).

 

2005 “ ‘You Can’t Do Nothing in This Damn Place’: Sex and Intimacy Among Couples With an Incarcerated Male Partner.” The Journal of Sex Research 42:1:3-12. (Secondary author with co-authros Megan Comfort, Olga Grinstead, Kathleen McCartney and Kelly Knight.)

 

2005 “Missing the Holocaust: My Father’s Account of Auschwitz from August 1943 to June 1944.” Anthropological Quarterly 78:1:89-123.

 

2004 “U.S. Inner city apartheid and the war on drugs:  Crack among homeless heroin addicts.”  In Unhealthy Health Policy: A Critical Anthropological Examination Castro, Arachu, and Singer, Merill  (Eds.)  Pp. 303-313. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.

 

—Revised French version as: “Le crack et l’économie politique de la souffrance sociale.” In  Villes et toxicomanies:  De la connaissance à la prévention. Michel Joubert, Pilar Giraux-Arcella, and Chantal Mougin, eds. Pp. 85-92. Paris: Erès.  2005.

 

2004 “Everyday Violence and the Gender of Hepatitis C Among Young Women Who Inject Drugs in San Francisco.”  Human Organization. 63:3:253-264. (First author with co-authors Bridget Prince and Andrew Moss.)

 

2004 “Masculinity and Undocumented Labor Migration: Injured Latino Day Laborers in San Francisco.” Social Science and Medicine. 59:6:1159-1168.  (Second author with co-authors Nick Walter and Margarita Loinaz.)

 

2004 “The Everyday Violence of Gang Rape.”  In Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology. Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Philippe Bourgois , eds. Pp. 339-343.  Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

 

2004  “Introduction: Making Sense of Violence.” In Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology. Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Philippe Bourgois , eds. Pp. 1-27. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. (Second author with co-author Nancy Scheper-Hughes.)

 

2003    “One Hundred Years of United Fruit Company Letters.” In Banana Wars: Power, Production and History in the Americas.  Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg, eds.  Pp. 103-144.  Durham,  North Carolina: Duke University Press.

 

2003    “Explaining the Geographic Variation of HIV among Injection Drug Users in the United States.”  Substance Use and Misuse. 38:14:2049-2063 (Second author with co-author Dan Ciccarone.)

 

2003  “Forward.”  In Laughter out of Place: Race, Class, Violence and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown, Donna Goldstein, author.  Pp. xiii-xvii.  Berkeley: The University of California Press. (Second author with co-author Nancy Scheper-Hughes.)

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2003 “University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine.”  Academic Medicine. 78:10:1060-61.

 

2003  “Crack and the Political Economy of Social Suffering.”  Addiction Research and Theory.  11:1:31-37.

            --Spanish translation as “Crack-cocaína y economía política del sufrimiento social en Norteamérica.”  Monografias Humanitas 5:95-103. 

 

2002  “Hepatitis C Virus Seroconversion Among Young Injection Drug Users: Relationships and Risks.”  Journal of Infectious Diseases.  186:11:1558-64.  (Secondary co-author with co-authors Hahn JA, Page-Shafer K, Lum PJ, Stein E, Evans JL, Busch MP, Tobler LH, Phelps B, Moss AR).

 

2002  “The Politics of Photographic Aesthetics: Confronting the HIV Epidemic among Heroin Injectors in Russia.”  International Journal of Drug Policy. 13:387-392.  (Second author with co-author Jeff Schonberg.)

 

            --Spanish version published as: “Politica y Estetica Fotografica: Una Documentacion Critica de la Epidemia de HIV Entre Usuarios de Heroina Inyectada en Rusia y Estados Unidos.” Ecuador

 

2002  “Cross-Methodological and Theoretical Dialogue: Anthropology and Epidemiology on Drugs.”  International Journal of Drug Policy.  13:259-269.  

 

2002  “Ethnography’s Troubles and the Reproduction of Academic Habitus.”  International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.  15:4:417-420.

 

2002    “The Violence of Moral Binaries: Response to Leigh Binford.”  Ethnography.  3:2:221.

 

2002    "Social Context of Work Injury among Undocumented Day Laborers in San Francisco" Journal of General Internal Medicine.  17:221-229.  (Secondary author with co-authors Nicholas Walter, Philippe Bourgois, H. Margarita Loinaz, and Dean Schillinger.)

 

2001  “Culture of Poverty.” In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, Smelser, NJ and Paul B. Baltes, eds.  Pp. 11904-11907. Oxford: Pergamon. 

 

2001        “Soft Tissue Infections Among Injection Drug Users—San Francisco, California, 1996-2000.”  MMWR Weekly.  50:381-384. (Secondary author with co-authors Dan Ciccarone, Josh Bamberger, Alex Kral, Brian Edlin, Chris Hobart, Philippe Bourgois, Al Moon, Ed Murphy, Hobart Harris, David Young)

 

2001    “Epilogue à l’edition Française.” Epilogue to the 2003 edition.  In En quête de respect: le crack à Harlem.  Pp. 385-394.  Paris: Editions du Seuil.

 

2001    “Préface à la version Française.” Preface to the 2003 edition.  In En quête de respect: le crack à Harlem.  Pp. 17-25.  Paris: Editions du Seuil.

 

2001    “The Power of Violence in War and Peace: Post-Cold War Lessons from El Salvador”.  Ethnography 2:1:5-34.

           

            --Reprinted in Istmo Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos Issue 8 enero– junio 2004 <http://www.denison.edu/collaborations/istmo/n08/articulos/power.html>

 

--Edited version published as “The Continuum of Violence in War and Peace: Post-Cold War Lessons from El Salvador.” In Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology, Scheper-Hughes N and Bourgois P, eds. Pp. 421-430. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.

 

--French translation published as “La Violence en temps de guerre et en temps de paix: Leçons de l’après-guerre froide: l’exemple du Salvador.”  Cultures & Conflits 2002; 47:81-116. <http://www.conflits.org/index825.html> & <http://www.conflits.org/index827.html>

                                                                    

--Spanish translation published as “El poder de la violencia en la Guerra y en la paz: lecciones pos-Guerra Fría de El Salvador.”  Apuntes de Investigación del CECYP 8:73-98, 2002.

 

--Spanish translation published as “Mas alla de una pornografia de violencia: Lecciones desde El Salvador.” Chapter 1 in Jóvenes sin tregua: Culturas y políticas de la violencia.  Francisco Ferrándiz   Carles Feixa compiladores. Barcelona: Editorial anthropos. 2005. 

 

--German translation published as “Die Macht der Gewalt, Lehren aus El Salvador.” Das Argument 263:148-162, 2005.

 

2001    “Buprenorphine: ‘Field Trials’ of a New Drug.”  Qualitative Health Research 11:1:69-84.  (Second author with co-authors Michael Agar, John French and Owen Murdoch).

 

2000    “Violating Apartheid in the United States: On the Streets and in Academia.”  In Racing Research, Researching Race: Methodological Dilemmas in Critical Race Studies, Francis Winddance Twine and Jonathan Warren, eds.  Pp. 187-214.  New York: New York University Press.

 

2000  “Disciplining Addictions: The Bio-politics of Methadone and Heroin in the United States.”  Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 24:2:165-195.

 

2000  “Needle Exchange, HIV Infection and the Politics of Science: Confronting

Canada's Cocaine Injection Epidemic with Participant Observation.”  Medical Anthropology 18:325-350.  (First author with Julie Bruneau.)

 

2000    “Comment on Sidney Mintz’ “Sows’ Ears and Silver Linings: A Backward Look at Ethnography.””  Current Anthropology 41:2:177-178.

 

1999  “Drogues, pharmacologie, et discours social en France: perspectives ethnographiques.”  In Les drogues en France: politiques, marchés, usages, Claude Faugeron, ed.  Pp. 77-85.  Geneva, Switzerland: Georg Editeur. (Principal author with Tarek Elhaik.)

           

            --Spanish translation published as “Drogas, farmacologiá y discurso social en francia: perspectivas etnográficas” Revista Análysis 2002;4:70-76.

 

1999  “Theory, Method, and Power in Drug and HIV-Prevention Research: A Participant-Observer's Critique.” Substance Use and Misuse 34:14:2153-2170.

 

1998  “Heroin Addict Habit Size in Three Cities: Context and Variation.”  Journal of Drug Issues 28:4:921-940.  (Second author with co-authors Michael Agar, John French, and Owen Murdoch.)

 

1998  “Families and Children in Pain in the U.S. Inner City” Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood, Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Carolyn Sargent, eds.  Pp. 331-351. Berkeley: University of California Press. 

1998    “Just Another Night in a Shooting Gallery.” Theory, Culture and Society 15:2:37-66.

 

            --Updated edited version published as “Welcome to an East Harlem shooting gallery.” In Reflecting on America: anthropological views of U.S. culture, Clare L. Boulanger, ed. Pp. 148-161. Boston: Pearson Education, Inc. 2008.

  

1998  “The Moral Economies of Homeless Heroin Addicts: Confronting Ethnography, HIV Risk and Everyday Violence in San Francisco Shooting Encampments.” Substance Use and Misuse 33:11:2323-2351. (Feature article followed by commentaries “Ethnography of Substance Use.”)

 

1998    “Una historia callejera en El Barrio.” Educación y biblioteca: revista mensual de documentación y recursos didácticos 88: 44-45.

 

1997    “Résistance et autodestruction dans l'apartheid Américain.”  Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. 120:60-68.

                                   

            --German translation published as “Crackdealer in East Harlem: Widerstand und Selbstzerstorung unter Amerikanischer Apartheid.” In Drogen Dealer: Ansichten Eines Verrufenen Gewerbes, Bettina Paul and Henning Schmidt-Semisch, eds.  Pp. 167-182. Freiburg, Germany: Lambertus. 1998.

 

            --Revised English translation: “Understanding Inner City Poverty: Resistance and Self-Destruction Under U.S. Apartheid.” In Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines, Jeremy MacClancy, ed.  Pp. 15-32.  Chicago, Il: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

 

--Edited version published as “US Inner-City Apartheid: The Contours of Structural and Interpersonal Violence.” In Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology, Scheper-Hughes N and Bourgois P, eds. Pp. 297-303. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.

 

            --Reprinted in: Revista Análysis 2002;4:57-68.

 

--Spanish translation published as “Pensando la pobreza en Gueto: Resitencia y Autodestrucción en el Apartheid Norteamericano” in Etnografías Contemporánias. 2:2:25-43.

 

1997    “Overachievement in the Underground Economy: The Life Story of a Puerto Rican Stick-up Artist in East Harlem.” Free Inquiry for Creative Sociology 25:1:23-32. Special issue, Gangs, Violence, and Drugs.

 

            --Reprinted in Gangs, Drugs, and Violence. Alberto G. Mata ed. Edwin Mellen Press. In Press

 

1997    “Social Misery and the Sanctions of Substance Abuse: Confronting HIV Risk Among Homeless Heroin Addicts in San Francisco.” Social Problems. 44:2:155-173. (First author with secondary co-authors Mark Lettiere and James Quesada.)

 

--Reprinted In Drugs, Alcohol, and Social Problems, James Orcutt and David Rudy, eds. Pp. 257-258.

 

1996    “Extrême souffrance sociale dans l'Inner City américaine: la politique du welfare familial dans East Harlem.”  La revue M 85/86:50-60. 

 

Bourgois 1996  “Confronting Anthropology, Education, and Inner-City Apartheid.” American Anthropologist 98:2:249-258.

 

1996    “In Search of Masculinity: Violence, Respect, and Sexuality Among Puerto Rican Crack Dealers in East Harlem.” British Journal of Criminology 36:3:412-427.

 

            --Reprinted in Men’s Lives, 5^th Ed., Michael Kimmel and Michael Messner, eds.  Boston: Allyn and Bacon.  2000. 

 

--French translation as “Violence, respect et sexualité chez les revendeurs de crack portoricains d’East Harlem.”  Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales.  18:3:55-76. 2002. http://remi.revues.org/document1610.html

 

1996    “Office Work and the Crack Alternative Among Puerto Rican Drug Dealers in East Harlem.” In Urban Life 3^rd Edition, George Gmelch and Walter Zenner, eds.  Pp. 418-431. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.

 

1995    “Hope To Die a Dope Fiend.” Cultural Anthropology. 10:4:587-593. (Second author with co-author Charles Pearson.)

 

1995    “From Jibaro to Crack Dealer: Confronting Capitalism in Spanish Harlem.” In Articulating Hidden Histories: Exploring the Influence of Eric R. Wolf, Jane Schneider and Rayna Rapp, eds.  Pp. 125-141. Berkeley: University of California Press.

           

            --Reprinted in Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History, 2^nd Ed., R. Jon McGee and Richard L. Warms, eds.  Pp. 315-329.  Mountain View: Mayfield Publishing Company. 2000.

 

            --Adapted version reprinted in Mapping the Social Language: Readings In Sociology, Susan Ferguson, ed.  Pp. 232-243.  Braintree, MA: Mayfield Publishing Company. 1999.           

 

1995    “The Political Economy of Resistance and Self-Destruction in the Crack Economy: An Ethnographic Perspective.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 749:97-118. Special issue, “The Anthropology of Lower Income Urban Enclaves: The Case of East Harlem”.

 

1993    “Exorcising Sex-For-Crack Prostitution: An Ethnographic Perspective From Harlem.” In Crack Pipe as Pimp: An Eight-City Ethnographic Study of the Sex-For-Crack Phenomenon, Mitchell Ratner, ed.  Pp. 97-132. Lexington MA: Lexington Books. (First author with co-author Eloise Dunlap.)

           

1993    “A la poursuite du rêve Américain: culture et idéologie dans l'économie du crack.” Les temps modernes 47:548:133-161.

 

1993    “La mobilisation ethnique.” Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 99:53-64.

 

1992    “Une nuit dans une shooting gallery: enquête sur le commerce de la drogue à East Harlem.” Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 94:59-78.

 

1992    “Homeless in El Barrio: la vie d'un dealer Portoricain de Harlem.” Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales 93:59-68.

           

            --Shortened version reprinted in La misère du monde, Pierre Bourdieu, ed.  Pp. 205-217. Paris: Editions du Seuil. 1993.

           

            --Revised English version in The Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Societies, Pierre Bourdieu, ed.  Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1999.

           

            --Translated editions in German, Portuguese, Spanish and Japanese.

 

1990    “Confronting Anthropological Ethics: Lessons From Central America.” International Journal of Peace Research 27:1:43‑54.

           

            --Expanded and revised version “Confronting the Ethics of Ethnography: Lessons From Fieldwork in Central America.”  In Decolonizing Anthropology: Moving Further Toward an Anthropology for Liberation, Faye Harrison, ed.  Pp. 110-126. Washington DC: Association of Black Anthropologists and American Anthropological Association. 1991.

 

            Spanish translation “Éticas antropológicas en confrontación: lecciones etnográficas de Centro América.” Estudios Sociales Centroamericanos 54:101-117. 1990.

 

—Reprinted in The Applied Anthropology Reader, James McDonald, ed.  Pp. 26-39.  Boston: Allyn & Bacon.  2002.

 

—Reprinted in Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader, Antonius. Robben and Jeffrey Sluka, ed. Boston: Blackwell Publishing. 2006.

 

1989    “In Search of Horatio Alger: Culture and Ideology in the Crack Economy.” Contemporary Drug Problems 16:4:619-649.

           

            --Reprinted in Supplement to Cultures & Conflict, Sunil Khanna, ed.  Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.  Forthcoming.

 

            --Reprinted in Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice, Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine, eds.  Pp.57-76. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1996.

           

            --Reprinted in Drugs, Crime and Criminal Justice Volume II: Cultures and Markets, Crime and Criminal Justice, Nigel South, ed.  Pp. 109-126.  Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishers. 1995.

           

            --Shorter version in “Crack in Spanish Harlem: Culture and Economy in the Inner City.” Anthropology Today 5:4:6‑11. 1989.

           

            --Reprinted in Talking About People: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Anthropology, William Haviland and Robert Gordon, eds.  Pp. 113-119. Mountain View CA: Mayfield Publishing Co. 1993; pp. 88-94. 1996.

           

            --Reprinted in Applying Cultural Anthropology, Aaron Podolefsky and Peter Brown, eds.  Pp. 26-33. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co. 1994. Second edition; Third edition, pp. 212-219. 1994.

 

            --Reprinted in Medical Anthropology.  Cecil G. Helman ed. Ashgate Publishing.

                       

1989    “Confrontations ethniques dans la révolution sandiniste.” Les temps modernes 44:517/518:282‑308.

 

1989    “Amérique centrale: perspectives Américaines.” Les temps modernes 44:517/518:7‑13. Co‑author Marc Edelman.

 

1989    “If You're not Black You're White: A History of Ethnic Relations in St. Louis.” City and Society 3:2:106‑131.

 

1989    “Introduction: Black and White in Color.” City and Society 3:2: 101-105. Co-author Ann Rynearson.

 

1989    “West Indian Immigration to Costa Rica and the Origins of the Banana Industry.” Cimarron 11:1/2:58‑86.

 

1989    “The Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua.” In Sandinista Nicaragua Part I: Revolution, Religion, and Social Policy. An Annotated Bibliography with Analytical Introductions, Neil Snarr, ed.  Pp.  135‑163. Ann Arbor: Pierian Press. Series: Resources on Contemporary Issues. Co-author Charles Hale.

           

            --Spanish translation: “La Costa Atlántica de Nicaragua.” Estudios sociales Centroamericanos 54:157-177. Co-author Charles Hale. 1990.

           

            --Expanded version prepared with Hans-Petter Buvollen as Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast‑‑An Annotated Bibliography. Oslo, Norway: PRIO Inform No. 6, 101 pp. 1986.

 

1988    “Conjugated Oppression: Class and Ethnicity Among Kuna and Guaymi Banana Workers on a Corporate Plantation.” American Ethnologist 15:2:328‑348.

           

            --Reprinted in Inquiry at the Grassroots, William Glade and Charles Reilly, eds.  Pp. 55-81.  Washington D.C.: Inter-American Foundation.

 

1988    “Les Miskitos du Nicaragua.” Journal de la société des américanistes 74:2-10.

 

1986    “The Miskitu of Nicaragua: Politicized Ethnicity.” Anthropology Today 2:2:4‑9.

 

            --French Translation: “Les Miskitos du Nicaragua: guerres et ethnies.” Babylone [Paris] 5:67‑84. 1986.

           

            --Original version: Révolution, Ethnicity and Violence.” In Vers des sociétés pluriculturelles: études comparatives et situation en France, Association Française des Anthropologues, ed.  Pp. 467-474. Paris: ORSTOM. 1987.

 

1986    “The Black Diaspora in Costa Rica.” New West Indian Guide Nieuwe West‑Indische Gids 60:3/4:149‑166.

 

--Reprinted in Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean: Social Dynamics and Cultural Transformations, Norman Whitten, Jr. and Arlene Torres, eds.  Pp. 119-132. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1998.

           

            --Revised version: “Blacks in Costa Rica: Upward Mobility and Ethnic Discrimination.” In Costa Rica, Marc Edelman and Joanne Kennan, eds.  Pp. 161‑169. New York: Grove Press.  1989.

                                               

1986    “Guerre ou autonomie: les Miskitos du Nicaragua.” Journal de la société des américanistes 72:242‑248.

 

1985    “Ethnic Diversity on a Corporate Plantation: Guaymi Labor on a United Fruit Company Plantation in Panama and Costa Rica.” Cambridge MA: Occasional Paper No. 19 of Cultural Survival. 52 pp.

           

            --Excerpt reprinted in “Hazardous Pesticides in Panama‑‑Guaymi laborers at Risk.” Cultural Survival Quarterly 9:4:37‑38. 1985.

 

1985    “Ethnic  Minorities.” In Nicaragua: The First Five Years, Thomas Walker, ed.  Pp. 201‑216. New York: Praeger Publishers.

           

            --Revised Spanish translation: “Las minorías étnicas en la revolución nicaragüense.” Estudios Sociales Centroamericanos 39:13‑31. 1984.

           

            --Reprinted as “Etnicidad y revolución en Nicaragua.” Civilización  [Mexico] 3:111‑138. 1985.

 

1985    “Nicaragua's Ethnic Minorities in the Revolution.” Monthly Review 36:9:22‑24.

           

            --Reprinted in Nicaragua: Unfinished Revolution, Peter Rosset and John Vandermeer, eds.  Pp. 459‑472. New York: Grove Press. 1987.

 

1984    “Racismo, división y violencia.” Dialogo Social 17:164:18‑25.

           

            --Revised version published as “Etnicidad y lucha de clases en la subsidiaria de la United Fruit Company en Costa Rica y Panama.” Boletín de antropología americana [Mexico] 8:63‑74. 1983.

           

            --English version: “Racism and the Multinational Corporation” Indigenous World/Mundo Indígena 2:3:4-8. 1984.

 

1981    “Class, Ethnicity and the State Among the Miskitu Amerindians of Northeastern Nicaragua.” Latin American Perspectives 8:2:22‑39.

           

            --Revised version: “The Mosquitia in Revolution: Nicaragua's Indigenous Minority Question.” In The Nicaraguan Revolution, Thomas Walker, ed.  Pp. 303‑318. New York: Praeger Publishers. 1981.

 

1981    “La Mosquitia y la Revolución: informe de una investigación rural en la Costa Atlántica norte.” In La Mosquitia en la Revolución.  Pp. 89‑149. Managua: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de la Reforma Agraria (CIERA). C0-author with Georg Grünberg.

           

            --Excerpts in German translation: “Die Miskitus und die Revolution. Die Probleme der Indianishen Minderheiten Nicaraguas.” Taz-Journal 2:70-79. 1980.

 

 

GENERAL AUDIENCE PUBLICATIONS (Selected)

 

2004    “March 19” (diary included in David Glenn’s profile “The Buzz in Higher Education.” The Chronicle of Higher Education 50:31:A6 (April 9).

2003    “Correspondances new-yorkaises: Entretien avec Philippe Bourgois.” Vacarme [Paris] (été) 24:120-123.

2001  “Mutation des Usages de Drogues en Amerique du Nord: Entretien avec Philippe Bourgois.”  Peddro Prevention Education Drogue [UNESCO/ONUSIDA] December pp. 22-25.

“Dossier Crack.”  Alter Ego  21:8-10.

1997    “Philippe Bourgois: Current Research” Chronicle of Higher Education November 21:B8 (Feature section: “What 15 Top Anthropologists Are Working on Now”.

1995    “Workaday World, Crack Economy.” The Nation (December 4) pp. 706-11.

            --reprinted in Crisis in American Institutions, 11^th ed.  Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

--Reprinted in The Applied Anthropology Reader, James McDonald, ed.  Pp. 149-155. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.  2002.

1995    “The Fine Art of Fitting In.” Harper's Magazine (November) pp.20-22.

            --excerpt in Cultural Anthropology, Barbara Miller, ed.  P. 36.  Boston: Allyn & Bacon. 1999.

1991    “Growing Up in East Harlem: An Ethnographic Perspective.” The American Enterprise (May-June) pp. 30-33.

1990    “Entrevista: Philippe Bourgois, Ilusos de traficante.” Veja [Brasil] 23:37:5-7, (September 19).

1989    “Just Another Night on Crack Street.” New York Times Magazine November 12, pp. 52‑53, 60‑65, 94.

            --Reprinted in Applying Anthropology: An Introductory Reader, Aaron Podolefsky and Peter Brown, eds.  Pp. 133-138. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co. 1992.

1989    “Culture du refus: Interview avec Philippe Bourgois et Terry Williams.” In Le Nouvel Observateur (May 18-24) p.108.

1982  “Running for My Life in El Salvador: An American Caught in a Government Attack that Chiefly Killed Civilians.”  The Washington Post February 14. pp. C1,C5.

1982  “At Night We Ran, Hoping the Babies’ Cries Would not Alert Salvadoran Army Patrols.”  San Jose Mercury January 28. p. 9B.

 

VIDEOS

1998    “Speedballing: Booting and Jacking: A Three Person Share.” Pilot video sponsored by NIDA's Community Research Branch, Washington DC. [Produced with Raul Pereira, Jim Quesada, and Mark Lettiere.]

1995    “Risky HIV Practices in San Francisco”. Video series sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).  Distributed by NIDA's Community Research Branch, Washington DC.

 

HUMAN RIGHTS PUBLICATIONS (Selected)

1996    “Just Another Night in the Emergency Room.”  The SFUI Quarterly 1:1:22-24.

1987    “The Miskitu Conflict on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua.” IWGIA Newsletter 49:69-87.

1986    “Guerre et dialogue en Moskita.” Ethnies [Paris] 4/5:51-52.

1986    “Les Guaymis: les damnes de la plantation.” Ethnies [Paris] 4/5:43-45.

1986    “Defense Testimony of Philippe Bourgois, Anthropologist.” In Por Amor al Pueblo: Not Guilty/The Trial of the Winooski 44, Ben Baily et al, eds.  Pp. 41-54. White River Junction (VT): Front Porch Publishing.

1985    “Philippe Bourgois, 26 Year Old North American.” In Forced to Move: Salvadoran Refugees in Honduras, Renato Camarda, ed.  Pp. 15-17. San Francisco: Circle Publications.

1982    “Eyewitness Report: El Salvador.” Mesoamerica 1:2:1-2.

1982    “Question of the Violation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in any Part of the World...” United Nations Economic and Social Council document No. E/CN.4/1982/NGO/15, (Feb. 12):1-3.

1982    “What U.S. Foreign Policy Faces in Rural El Salvador.” Monthly Review 34:14-30.

1982    “Statement of Philippe Bourgois, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University.” In Presidential Certification on El Salvador. Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, 97th Congress, Second Session Vol. I, Feb. 23, 1982: 176-200.

            --Entered by Rep. Tom Harkin into the Congressional Record 128:6. [1982]

 

PUBLISHED POLICY REPORTS, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, WORKING PAPERS, ABSTRACTS (Selected)

2001  “Forging an Epidemiology/Ethnographic Dialogue: A Cultural Anthropologist’s View.”  In Street Children and Drug Abuse: Social and Health Consequences.  NIDA Meeting Summary Report.  P. 8.  Washington DC: National Institute on Drug Abuse. 

2001  “Explaining Drug Preferences: Heroin, Crack and Fortified Wine in a Social Network of Homeless African-American and White Injectors.”  In Proceedings of the Community Epidemiology Work Group.  NIH Publication #01-4916.  Pp. 411-418.  Washington DC: National Institute on Drug Abuse.  (First author with co-author Jeff Schonberg.)

2001  Biological and behavioral predictors of soft tissue infections in injection drug users. In: Community Epidemiology Working Group Meeting, National Institutes of Drug Abuse.  San Francisco, California.  Dec 12-15.  Secondary co-author with co-authors Dan Ciccarone, Brian Edlin.

2000  “Risk Factors for Abscesses in Injectors of "Black Tar" Heroin: A Cross-Methodological Approach.” In: 128th APHA Annual Meeting.  Boston, MA.  November 12-16.  Boston, MA. Secondary co-author with co-authors Dan Ciccarone, EL Murphy, Alex Kral, KH Seal, JD Moore, et al.

1999    “La caricature américaine: apartheid culturel et luttes identitaires.”  Thirtieth Anniversary Colloquium Presentations of the Centre de Recherches Sociologiques sur le Droit et les Institutions Pénales of the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique and the Ministère de la Justice. Paris, France: CD-ROM. First author with secondary co-author Tarek Elhaik.

1997    “Extreme Social Suffering in the U.S. Inner City: An Ethnographic Perspective on Family 'Welfare' Policy.”  In The New Urban Marginality in the Dual Metropolis: Poor Urban Youths in France and the United States; Towards a Research Agenda, Manuel Castels and Eric Klinenberg, eds.  Pp. 55-70. Research Monograph #1, Center for Western European Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

1996    Heroin Habit Size: Context and Variation. Rockville MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse.  Second author with co-authors Michael Agar, John French, Owen Murdoch.

1995    "Participant Observation Study of Indirect Paraphernalia Sharing/HIV Risk in a Network of Heroin Injectors."  Final Report to the Community Research Branch Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research, Community Epidemiological Working Group of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.  Washington, DC.  June 20.  39 pp.

1993    “Accuracy in Substance Abuse Research: An Ethnographic Perspective from El Barrio.” In Problems of Drug Dependence: 1992 Annual Scientific Meeting of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Inc. Washington DC: National Institute on Drug Abuse Research Monograph Series #32. p. 77.

1993    “From Marcus Garvey to Mamachi and Miskitu Autonomy: Politicized Ethnicity along Central America's Atlantic Coast.” Cambridge: Center for International Studies Working Paper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

1990    “Hypotheses and Ethnographic Analysis of Concealment in the Underground Economy: The Economic and Ideological Dynamics of the Census Undercount.” Ethnographic Exploratory Research Report #6. Washington, DC: Bureau of the Census, Center for Survey Methods Research.

1987  “The Black Experience in Costa Rica: Racism and Upward Mobility.” In Vers des sociétés pluriculturelles: études comparatives et situation en France, Association Française des Anthropologues, ed.  Pp. 203‑211. Paris: ORSTOM.

1983  “Etnicidad y clase en una subsidiaria de la United Fruit Company en Costa Rica y Panamá.” In Memoria del seminario Costa Atlántica de Centroamérica, Carmen Murillo and David Smith, eds.  Pp. 107-130. San Jose, Costa Rica: Confederación Universitaria Centroamericana (CSUCA).

1980    “Bemerkungen zur Anekennung des Gemeinschaftslandes in der Mosquitia [Community Land Tenure Patterns in the Moskitia].” Taz‑Journal 2:75. (Co-author with Georg Grünberg.)

 

BOOK REVIEWS AND TRANSLATIONS

2003    “Vice Grip: ‘Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market’ by Eric Schlosser.” Washington Post June 22 pp. BW03.

1987    “Review of Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra's Plantation Belt 1870-1979.” By Laura Ann Stoler. L'Homme 27:3:157-158.

1981    “The Third Social Force in National Liberation Movements.” By Orlando Nunez Soto (translated from Spanish). Latin American Perspectives 8:2:5-21.

 

CONFERENCE PANELS ORGANIZED (Selected)

2003    “Real Bodies.” American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 20. Co-Organizers Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Loïc Wacquant.

2000  “Challenging Medical Anthropology.” Joint Annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Society for Medical Anthropology, San Francisco, March 21-26. Co-organizer Gay Becker.

1996    “Ethnography in San Francisco: Critiquing Body Politics and Culture.” 95th annual meeting of the American Association of Anthropology, (panel sponsored by the Society for Urban Anthropology), San Francisco, Nov. 20-24. Co-organizer James Quesada. 

            --Expanded version of panel at the 9th annual meetings of the California Studies Association, San Francisco, Feb. 3-5, 1997.

1995    “HIV on the Margins in San Francisco.”  Meetings of the Southwestern Anthropological Association, San Francisco, April 6-8. Co-organized.

1992    “Challenging the American Dream: Ethnicity at Work in San Francisco”  91st Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, December 2-6. Co-organizer Bernard Wong.

1988    “Ethnicity in St. Louis: Ethnographic Perspectives” at the Annual Meetings of the American Ethnological Society, St. Louis, March 24‑27. Co-organizer Ann Rynearson.

 

PLENARY and KEYNOTE PAPERS PRESENTED (Selected)

 

2008   

2008    “L’abus lumpen sous le néolibéralisme:  Les services médicaux pour toxicomanes sans domicile fixes aux Etats Unis.” Colloquia at the Ecole D’Etudes Sociales, Lausanne, Switzerland.  April 18.

2007    "La violence dans nos terrains de recherches. Une rétrospective ethnographique sur 25 années,” « Les Débats:  Actualités du terrain. » Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, October 25.

2007    "Débat avec Philippe Bourgois sur la pauvrete urbaine.” Universite de Paris, Sorbonne, Sciences Politiques.  July 18.

2007    “Impossible Patients:  An Ethnographic Perspective for Public Health from Anthropology,”

            Plenary Talk, Center for Public Health Retreat, University of Pennsylvania. November 29.

            --Also presented adapted version to Addiction Research Seminar Series, Univ Penn.  April 28, 2008.

            --Also presented to Health Services Research Seminar, Dept Medicine, Univ Penn. May 7, 2008.

            --Also presented to Center for Behavioral and Mental Health Research, Dept Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Sept 15, 2008.

2006    “Revolutionary and Intimate Violence Among Youth: Ethnographic Perspectives, 1979 to 2006.”  Third Annual Human Rights Summit at SFSU: Roots of our Future, San Francisco State University.  May 3.

2005    “Conflictos étnicos entre consumidores de heroína y crack que viven en las calles de San Francisco, California.” 30th Anniversary Commemoration, Instituto de Estudios Sociales, University of Costa Rica. November 25.

2004    “Water Works?  Implications for Low Threshold HIV Prevention”  South Wales Department of Public Health. Sydney, Australia. September 30.

            --Also presented adapted version to San Francisco General Hospital, Grand Rounds in Internal Medicine. November 1, 2005.

2003                  “Heroin, Crack and Homelessness in Black and White: Photo-Ethnography from San

Francisco.”  International Federation of Catholic Universities Forum on Substance Abuse.  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  November 26. 

2002        Une comparaison des Épidémies de Cocaïne intraveineuse et de Crack.”  World Forum: Drugs, Dependencies Impacts and Responses.  Montreal, Canada.  September 24.

2001    “Ethnicity, Gender and Self-Respect among Homeless Heroin Injectors and Crack Smokers: An Ethnographic Perspective From San Francisco.”  Plenary paper at First Annual Conference “Economy, Culture and Community” Trinity College, Ireland. June 21.

1999  “Immigration, Violence et Virilité.”  Plenary presentation at Esprit/Le Monde conference, Paris, Nov. 24.

1999    “La caricature américaine : apartheid culturel et luttes identitaires.”  Thirtieth Anniversary Colloquium of the Centre de Recherches Sociologiques sur le Droit et les Institutions Pénales of the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique and the Ministère de la Justice. Paris, France, October 14-16. Co-presented with Tarek Elhaik.

1997    “The Pornography of Violence: Re-Confronting Fieldwork in El Salvador and the U.S. Inner City.”  Plenary Presentation at the Canadian Anthropology Society/Congress of Learned Societies, St. John's, Newfoundland, June 13.

1997    “Facing Power and Theory Instead of Policy Among Homeless Heroin Addicts and HIV-Prevention Researchers”. Keynote symposium of the Society for Applied Anthropology “Confronting Urban Apartheid.” Seattle WA, March 5.

 

INVITED PAPERS PRESENTED (Last 5 years only)

 

2008    “La lumpenización de la violencia política bajo el neoliberalismo: Una retrospectiva etnográfica sobre 25 años en las Américas.” FLACSO, Antigua, Guatemala, Oct 3.

2008    “Lumpen Abuse under Neoliberalism:  A Photo-Ethnographic Perspective on Homeless Heroin Injectors.” Department of Anthropology, New York University, Sept 25.

            --Also presented to Ethnographic Research Seminar, Dept Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Sept 26.

2008    In Search of Respect;  Ten Years Later, Philomathean Society, Univ Penn. Sept 23.

2008    “Le mystère des évolutions des épidémies de drogues: Un défi pour la santé publique.” Santé Publique, Université de Sherbrooke, Montréal, June 6.

2008    “Neoliberal Lumpen Abuse in the 2000s:  25 Years of Ethnography and Violence in the Americas.”  Presented at the Conference, Violence and Citizenship in Post-Authoritarian Latin America, Princeton University, March 7.

2006    “Intimate Apartheid among African American and White Homeless Heroin and Crack Users in San Francisco” Annual Sociology Graduate Student Conference, New York University.  April 1.

2006    “Lumpen Abuse:  Emergency Medical Services for Homeless Heroin Injectors and Crack Smokers”  Health and Behavioral Sciences Colloquium, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center.  March 14.

2005    “Ethnic Conflict and Risk: A Qualitative Perspective on Homeless Heroin Injectors” Drug Users Seminar, San Francisco General Hospital. January 12.

2005    “Anthropology and the Contradictions of Harm Reduction.” Department of Public Health, Geneva, October 6.

2005    “Miedo Urbano y Pobreza: Foto-etnografía de Drogas y Súfrimiento Social.” Periferiak Conference, Bilbao, Spain. April 29.

2005    “Apartheid Intimo: Una Perspectiva Etnográfica de Heroinómanos en la Calle.”  Graduate Program in Social Sciences, University of Deusdo, Bilbao, Spain. April 28.

2004    “Intimate Apartheid among African American, White and Latino Homeless Heroin Injectors” Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. December 3.

            --Also presented expanded version to Johns Hopkins University, Department of Anthropology. October 3, 2005.

            --Also presented to University of Geneva, October 6, 2005.

            --Also presented to University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anthropology, December 5, 2005.        

            --Also presented revised versions in Spanish to Museu nacional, Post-graduate Programs of Anthropology, Rio de Janeiro.  August 25, 2005.

            --Also presented to Universidad Federal de Pernambuco, Post-graduate Programs, Sociology and Anthropology. September 2, 2005.

            --Also presented to Universidad Federal de Parana. September 5, 2005.

            --Also presented to Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social, Centro de Antropología  Social. Buenos Aires, Argentina. September 8, 2005.            

2004    “Explaining the Crack Epidemic Through an Ethnography of Social Suffering and Inequality” Health Disparities Seminar, University of California, San Francisco. November 17.

            --Also presented in French “Time, Place, and Value: Economic Anthropology” Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro August 23, 2005;

2004    "Confronting Apartheid among Homeless Heroin Injectors and Crack Smokers in San Francisco"         

School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales. Sydney, Australia. September 29.

2004    “Homeless Addicts in the County Hospital”  Bioethics Seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.  January 7.

2003    “Heroin, Crack and Homelessness in Black and White” Anthro Dept. California State, Long Beach.  May 6.  

2003        Drugs, Poverty and Racism: A Photo-Ethnography of Taboo Social Suffering in San Francisco” California State University at Long Beach “The World We are Making” Odyssey Project. May 6. 

--Also presented Anthro. Dept. Princeton.  October 23.

--Also presented Social Sciences Seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.  December 4. 

2003  "Comment parler de la pauvreté, de l'inégalité, de l'exclusion, de la drogue et de la violence aux USA?" l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France. March 25.

2003  “Homelessness, Addiction, HIV, Hep-C, Abscesses: What’s Culture Got to Do with It?”  California Medical Facility, (State Prison) Vacaville.  January 21.

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS PRESENTED (Last 5 years only)

2006    “Help me!’ and ‘Leave me alone!’: The pregnancy Experiences of Homeless Youth in Berkeley” 134^th APHA Annual Meeting.  Boston, MA.  November 4-8.  Boston, MA. (Co-author with Colette Auerwald, Marcela Smid, Karen Sokal-Guiterrez.)

2006    “How to Think about Non-Adherence and Self-Destructive Behaviors:  Medical Services for Homeless Heroin Injectors.”  Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco.  April 28.

2006    “Gendered Violence and Hepatitis C Infection among Youth Injectors in the Haight: An Anthropological Perspective.”  Grand Rounds, Pediatrics, San Francisco General Hospital.  April 18.

2005    “Ethnicized Habitus: Opening the Black-and-White Boxes among Homeless Heroin Injectors.” Putting Bourdieu to Work, University of California, Berkeley. May 13.

2005    “Ten Years of Structural and Symbolic Violence in my Ethnographic Practice: Case Study of Revolutionary Intimate Violence among Salvadoran Guerillas and their Families.” Violence and the Americas, UC Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies, Berkeley. April 16.

2004    “Black Tar Heroin Use May Explain Lower HIV Prevalence among Injection Drug Users in the Western United States.” Poster presented at the International Aids Conference, Bangkok.  (Co-author with Dan Ciccarone and Ben McMahan.)

2003    “A Community of Addicted Bodies: Extreme Social Suffering among Homeless Heroin Injectors.” American Anthropological Association, Chicago. November 20.

2002  “Poster: HIV and Hepatitis C Virus Co-Infection in a Cohort of Young Injection Drug Users in San Francisco.”  XIV International AIDS Conference.  Barcelona.  July 11.  (Co-author with Page-Shafer K, Lum P, Hahn J, Stein E, Davidson P, Moss A.)

2002  “Heroin, Crack and Homelessness in Black and White: An Ethnography from San Francisco.”  The Extremes of Social Space Conference, Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam.  June 11.

2002  “Sexo Lumpen: Dos Perspectivas Etnográficas de Vendedores de Crack Puertorriqueños y Heroinómanos Desamparados Blancos.”  Conferencia Internacional sobre Masculinidades en América Latina, FLACSO, Ecuador.  March 23.

2002    UCSF AIDS Health Project, San Francisco.  February 5.

2001  “Cultural Diversity in Medicine” Panel Member.  Russell Sage Foundation Working Group. New York.  October 12.

2000    “Heroin, Crack and Homelessness in Black and White: An Ethnographic Perspective on Drug Preferences.”  NIDA Community Epidemiology Work Group.  San Francisco, California.  December 14.  Co-author Jeff Schonberg.

2000  “Forging an Epidemiology/Ethnography Dialogue: A Cultural Anthropologist’s View.”

            NIDA Conference on Street Children and Drug Abuse: Social and Health Consequences.  Los Angeles, California.  September 17-19.  Photos by Jeff Schonberg.

2000  “Addiction: What’s Culture Got to Do with It?”  Symposium on Transitions to Addiction: What We Know and What We Need to Know.  National Institute on Drug Abuse.  Rockville, MD.  April 27-28.

2000 “Confronting the Logics for Needle Sharing Among Homeless Heroin Addicts: A Challenge for HIV Prevention Outreach.”  17^th Annual Universitywide AIDS Research Program Meeting. February 25.  Photos by Jeff Schonberg.

2000  “HIV, Hepatitis, Abscesses and Social Suffering among Homeless Heroin Injectors

and Crack Smokers: What's Culture Got to Do With It?”  Grand Rounds at San Francisco General Hospital.  February 22.  Photos by Jeff Schonberg.

            --Also at Veterans Administration Hospital, San Francisco.  May 30, 2000. 

            --Also at Northern California Society for Addiction Medicine, San Francisco.  August 31, 2000.    

 

MEDIA PROFILES/ACADEMIC REVIEWS/EXTENDED INTERVIEWS (Selected)

Book Reviews of In Search of Respect

2003    “Une ethnographie urbaine entre sociologie critique et anthropologie culturelle,” Critique (Florence Weber, author); “Paroles d’américains” France Culture Radio Interview March 25.

2002  Anthropologie & Societes 26:2-3:279-281; Revue Francaise de Sociologie 43 :607-610

2001  L’Affiche 93:66-67 ; Le Monde 4/20:8-9; Le Monde des Livres 6/29; Nouvel Observateur 24:65; Politique Internationale Fall 2001: 467-468; Politis 4/19:32-33 ; La Quinzaine Littéraire 6/1-15 ; VEI Actualité October 2001 :271 :40; Coup de Cœur 5/28;  Cultures en Mouvement 7/8; Etudes October; Les Inrockuptibles 292:58-59; Libération 4/5:6; Magazine des J’eus de Rôles « Backstab » 6/19; Metafort.org/inventaire 15: ; Canadian Broadcasting Company (French Edition)5/18; France Culture radio broadcast show.

1998  Identities 5:1:107-122; Revista de ciencias sociales 4 (January):314-328; Tucson Weekly 5/28:32.

1997  American Anthropologist 99:3:678; Anthropology and Humanism 22:2:205-215; British Journal of Criminology 37:4:689-692; Gender and Society February:134-136; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 3:2:377-8; Radical History Review 69:243-260.

1996  Anthropology and Education Quarterly 27:625-626; Choice 33:8; Contemporary Sociology; Criminal Justice Abstracts June:186; Critical Criminology 7:2:123-128; Social Science and Medicine 25:2:165-9; In These Times January 8:30-31; The New York Review 2/1:16-20; San Francisco Bay Guardian Jan. 31-Feb.6:8-10; WPIX TV San Francisco; London Review of Books July 4:12-13.

1995    New York Times 12/27:B6; Washington Post 12/28:C2; Nation 12/25:836-9; Chronicle of Higher Education 12/8; Library Journal 11/15:90; Medical Anthropology Quarterly; Chicago Tribune 12/22; Philadelphia Enquirer 12/17:K1,6; The San Francisco Examiner 9/15:; The San Francisco Review of Books March/April:28; San Jose Mercury 12/ Salon http/www/salon.com issue 2; The Source February:28; Kirkus Review Sept. 15; Publishers Weekly Sept. 11:67.

 

            Interviews/Featured Reviews (Selected)

2006    Garreaud Alvaro and Malventi Dario. Viaje al centro de la ciudad opaca: diálogos con Philippe Bourgois. Alteridades 16:32:83-100.

2006    d’Eramo, Marco. “Una campagna poco stupefacente.” Il Manifesto 10/27:3.

2004    Sociological Review 52:S2:129-147.

2004    Creagh, Sunanda. “United Front Pays Dividends” The Sydney Morning Dispatch, Health and Science Section October 7: 8.

2004    Interview, Norman Swan’s Health Report, Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Company. October 11. (re-broadcast January 3, 2005) http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/helthrpt/stories/s1266654.htm

2004    Interview on JJJ Youth Radio Station of the Australian Broadcasting Company. September 28.

2004    Glenn, David. “The Buzz in Higher Education.” The Chronicle of Higher Education 50:31:A6 (April 9).

2003    Paulle, Bowen.  “Philippe Bourgois in Amsterdam: An Interview.”  Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift 30:4:544-574.

2003    Radio France Culture (Nicolas Demorand Show) 3/21; Odyssey show of WEBZ Chicago Public Radio 11/19; “Un Français de New York en visite à Paris: le “White boy” de Harlem” Alter Ego 40:8-9.

2004        Radio France Culture 9/4; KGNU, Interview on the War on Drugs, National Public Radio 06/26; Radio française de Radio-Canada, Marie-France Bazzo Talk Show 09/26

2001    New York Times 3/15:G1; Max 7:81-82; “The California Report” KQED, National Public Radio on “Drug Users and Health Effects of Sharing Needles” 11/24; KCSM Public Television segment on the California economy 12/5; Olhare Seguros “Intercâmbio Científico” 3:2:12-13.

2000  Photographs on East Harlem fieldwork by Susan Meisalas featured in Magnum Degrees Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, M. Ignatieff, ed.  Pp. 504-506.  London: Phaidon Press; “From the Cell to the Community, AIDS Research in California” Western Journal of Medicine 173:122.

1999  KUSP radio show “Bookgram;” KALW radio show “City Visions” (NPR affiliates); San

            Francisco Examiner 8/15:A1,18-19.

1998        Chronicle of Higher Education feature: “What 15 Top Anthropologists Are Working on Now,” November 21:B8.

1996    KPFK radio 7/30 (Jerry Brown’s “We the People”)

1989-92  Phil Donahue Show 5/3/89; National Public Radio 12/22/89; New York Times; People Magazine 5/22/89; Le Nouvel Observatoire; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation TV; WOR radio talk show 5/2/89; KGO Michael Krasny talk show 1/10/92; Science 11/89/1376-1380; U.S. News and World Report 11/12/90:36, and 8/19/91/53; Fortune Magazine 8/1/89:168; etc.

 

            Book Reviews of Ethnicity at Work (Selected)

1995-96  Labor History  pp.36-38

1991    Theory and Society 20:393-401; American Journal of Sociology 97:1:235-237; American Historical Review Feb:297; Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales; Journal of  Social History 24:3:661-663.

1990        St. Louis Post Dispatch 1/10; American Anthropologist 92:1084-1085.

 

            Features on Central America Research (Selected)

1997    BBC Television, Arena Program “Bananas”.

1982    Phil Donahue Show; National Public Radio; Le Monde.

 

EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Member of Editorial Boards: After Culture; Anthropologie et Sociétés; Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry; Drogues, Santé et Société [Canada]; Emergent Anthropologies; Ethnography; Ethnography and Qualitative Research; Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa [Italy]; Human Organization (Journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology); International Journal of Drug Policy; Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse; Public Anthropology Series, University of California Press; Revista Análysis [Colombia]; Santé et Société; Sexuality, Research, and Social Policy; Substance Use and Misuse

 

Current Ad Hoc Referee for: Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales; AIDS & Behavior; American Anthropologist; American Ethnologist; American Journal of Sociology; American Sociologist; Anthropological Quarterly; Anthropology Today; Centre National de Recherche Scientifique [France]; Blackwell Publishing; Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños; Columbia University Press; Contemporary Drug Problems; Cultural Anthropology; Culture and Agriculture; Ethnic and Racial Studies; Ethnography; Ethnohistory; Free Inquiry for Creative Sociology; Harvard University Press; ISER (University of the West Indies); International Migration Review; International Journal of Peace Research; Journal of Ethnicity and Substance Abuse; Journal of Latin American Studies; Journal of Latin American Anthropology; Journal of Urban Health; Medical Anthropology; Medical Anthropology Quarterly; National Science Foundation; Oxford University Press; Qualitative Sociology; Rutgers University Press; Science; Social Justice; Social Problems; Social Science & Medicine; Theory and Society; Theory, Culture & Society; University of Chicago Press; Urban Anthropology and International World Systems; Wenner-Grenn Foundation; Wisconsin University Press

 

ADVISORY BOARDS

2008-present        Member of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Panel on Macroeconomic Conditions and Youth Violence

2003-present  Latin American Risk Reduction Alliance.

2003-2004 Epidemiological/Ethnographic Contact for San Francisco, “Pulse Check Trends in Drug Abuse” Executive Office of the President, Office of National Drug Control Policy.

2003-present  Society for Applied Anthropology Fellow

2002-present  Drogues, Santé et Société

2001-present  Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

2000-2003  Margaret Mead Award Selection Committee

2000-present  University of California Press, Public Anthropology Series.

1999-present  Academic Advisory Council of the National Campaign Against Youth Violence

1999-present  Journal of Ethnicity and Substance Abuse, Ethnography

1998-present  Human Organization

1994-98             Project Rebound San Francisco State University

1996-present  San Francisco Urban Institute Quarterly Editorial Board

1984-present  Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers. 

                          University of California, Los Angeles

1993-98             San Francisco Public Research Institute

 

COMPLETED RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS  (As Co-Investigator Only)

2000-01  “Center for Aids Prevention Center Grant” funded by NIH/NIMH

                  P50 MH42459-15 ($2,000,000) PI Tom Coates.

2000-01     “Culture and Behavior in the Medical Curriculum” funded by The California Endowment Foundation ($485,000) PI Nancy Adler and Melanie Tervalon.

2000-03     “Community-Based HIV Prevention in Five Counties” funded by NIH/NIMH # U-10 MH61536 ($1,000,000) PI Tom Coates and Carlos Caceres.

1999-02  “HIV and Hepatitis in Young Injectors: A Community Study” funded by NIH/ NIDA R01 DA12803-01 ($1,500,000) PI Andrew Moss.

1999-00     “Secondary Syringe Exchange and HIV Prevention” funded by University AIDS Research Program # R99-57-115 ($120,000) PI Brian Edlin.

1999-03     “HIV and Hepatitis in Young Injectors: A Community Study” funded by NIH/NIDA # R01 DA12803-01 ($1,500,000) PI Andrew Moss.

1999-01     “Role of Syringe Access and Risk Factors for HIV Transmission.” Funded by NIH/NIDA # R01-DA11591 ($750,000) PI Martin Schechter.

 

CONSULTANCIES AND RESEARCH POSITIONS (Selected)

1997          Evaluation of Needle Exchange and Outreach Services for Intravenous Drug-Using Youth, Ministry of Health/Direction de la Santé Publique and British Colombia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. Montreal and Vancouver, March, 97; Nov, 98.

 

1997          The Use of Alternative Financial Services by Low Income Households in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Washington DC, Consumer Federation of America.  (Funded by the Ford Foundation. (Summer).

 

1997          Evaluation of Needle Exchange and Outreach Services for Intravenous Drug-Using Youth, Ministry of Health/Direction Santé Publique. Montreal, March 6-16.

 

1994          Director, Ethnographic initiative for San Francisco of the Epidemiological Working Group of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (contracted by T. Head and Co.): “Indirect Needle Sharing Among Homeless Heroin Addicts”.

 

1992          Directed ethnographic seminar and research diagnostic for the Ministry of Health of Bolivia for the “Proyecto de Investigación\Concientización en Prevención del Uso Indebido de Drogas en Niños de la Calle”  [Research and Prevention Project with Drug Using Street-Children] (Contracted by Macro International Inc. and Development Associates Inc.). La Paz, Bolivia Administered by Development Associates, USA. (Spring and Summer).

 

1989-91  New York Project Director “Nine City Sex for Crack Study”. National Institute on Drug Abuse.  Contracted by Birch & Davis Co..

 

1988-90  Principal Investigator. “Concealment in the Underground Economy: The Economic and Ideological Dynamics of the Census Undercount in the Inner City”. Joint Statistical Agreement (#88-24) with the U.S. Bureau of the Census.

 

1988          Visiting Researcher.  Ethnic Conflict Program, Peace Research Institute of Oslo, Norway. (Summer).

 

1986-87  Diagnostic study of Miskitu refugees for Catholic Relief Services, New York; and the Centro De Investigación y Documentación de la Costa Atlántica, Managua, Nicaragua. (Winter).

 

1985-86     Resident Researcher. Groupe de Recherche sur les Migrations Internationales GRAMI), Laboratoire d'Economie Politique, École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

 

1985          Visiting Researcher. Nicaragua, Centro de Información y Documentación de la Costa Atlántica (CIDCA). (Summer).

 

1982          Visiting Researcher. Consejo Superior Universitaria Centroamericana, San Jose, Costa Rica.

 

1980          Feasibility Study for Literacy Campaign in Indigenous Languages, Managua, Literacy Campaign, Ministry of Education. (Fall).

 

1979-80     Resident Researcher. Managua, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de la Reforma Agraria, Instituto de Reforma Agraria (CIERA‑MIDINRA).