Schuller, Mark

Schuller, Mark
African American Studies and Anthropology
Assistant Professor
Social Sciences

Phone: 718-262-2611
Office Location: AC-3A03
mschuller@york.cuny.edu
http://www.potomitan.net/

Office Hours  
Tuesdays  12-12:50 
Wednesdays  2-2:50 
Thursdays  12-12:50 
Education:
Degree Institution Field Dates
PhD  University of California, Santa Barbara  Anthropology - Global Studies and Women's Studies emphases  2007 
MA  UCSB  Anthropology  2002 
BA  University of Minnesota, Morris  Anthropology, Philosophy, Sociology  1996 
Mark Schuller is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology at York College (CUNY). He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on globalization, NGOs, civil society and development in Haiti. His insights have been published in public media, including: Huffington Post, Counterpunch, Common Dreams, and the Center for International Policy, and media interviews, including the BBC, Al Jazeera, and Democracy Now! He is co-director / co-producer of documentary Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy (Documentary Educational Resources, 2009). He also co-edited Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction (Alta Mira, 2008) and Homing Devices: the Poor as Targets of Public Housing Policy and Practice (Lexington, 2006). He chairs the Society for Applied Anthropology’s Human Rights and Social Justice Committee and is active in many grassroots efforts, including earthquake response.
Areas of Expertise:
Anthropology
Haiti
Globalization
Development
Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
Gender
Social Movements
Disasters
Books in Field Of Expertise:

Renee Bergan and Mark Schuller, directors/producers. Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy. Cambridge, MA: Documentary Educational Resources, 2009. .

Nandini Gunewardena and Mark Schuller, editors. Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction. Lanham, Md: Alta Mira Press, 2008. .

marilyn thomas-houston and Mark Schuller, editors. Homing Devices: the Poor as Targets of Public Housing Policy and Practice. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2006. .

Articles in Field Of Expertise:

Mark Schuller. "Haiti’s Disaster after the Disaster: the IDP Camps and Cholera." Journal of Humanitarian Assistance. : 1-28.

Mark Schuller. "Shattered and Scattered: Haiti's Quake Through the Lens of Human Rights." North American Congress on Latin America. Volume 43, Number 4 July-August 2010: 20-27.

Mark Schuller. "Trauma and Solidarity in the New Haiti." North American Congress on Latin America. Volume 43, Number 3 March-April 2010: 4.

Mark Schuller. "From Activist to Applied Anthropologist to Anthropologist? On the Politics of Collaboration." Practicing Anthropology. Volume 32, Number 2 Winter, 2010: 43-47.

Mark Schuller. "Gluing Globalization: NGOs as Intermediaries in Haiti.." Political and Legal Anthropology Review. Volume 32, Issue 1 May 2009: 84-104.

Mark Schuller. "Participation, More than Add Women and Stir? A Comparative Case Analysis in Post-Coup Haiti." Caribbean Review of Gender Studies. Issue 2 September 2008: 1-34.

Mark Schuller. "Haiti’s Food Riots: an Early Warning Sign of the World’s Food Crisis." International Socialist Review. Issue 59 May-June 2008: 3-5.

Mark Schuller. "Haiti’s 200-Year Ménage-à-Trois: Globalization, the State, and Civil Society." Caribbean Studies. Volume 35, Issue 1 January-June 2007: 141-179.

Mark Schuller. "Invasion or Infusion? Understanding the Roles of NGOs in Contemporary Haiti." Journal of Haitian Studies. Volume 13, Issue 2 Fall 2007: 61-85.

Mark Schuller. "Seeing Like a ‘Failed’ NGO: Globalization’s Impacts on State and Civil Society in Haiti." Political and Legal Anthropology Review. Volume 30, Issue 1 May 2007: 67-89.

Chapters in Field Of Expertise:

Mark Schuller. "Mister Blan, or the Incredible Whiteness of Being an Anthropologist." Erin Taylor, ed. Fieldwork Identities in the Caribbean. 2009: 125-150.

Mark Schuller. "Deconstructing the Disaster after the Disaster: Conceptualizing Disaster Capitalism." Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction. 2008: 17-27.

Mark Schuller. "Haiti Is Finished! Haiti’s ‘End of History’ meets Ends of Capitalism." Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction. 2008: 191-214.

Mark Schuller. "Jamming the Meatgrinder World: Lessons Learned from Tenants Organizing in St. Paul." Homing Devices: the Poor as Targets of Public Housing Policy and Practice. 2006: 159-180.

Mark Schuller and marilyn thomas-houston. "Introduction: No Place Like Home, No Time Like the Present." Homing Devices: the Poor as Targets of Public Housing Policy and Practice. 2006: 1-19.

Reviews in Field Of Expertise:

"Anthropology Now" September 2011: 78-8..

"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology" November 2008: 478-480.

"Journal of Haitian Studies" Spring 2003: .

 
Professional Honors, Prizes, Fellowships:

Association for Political and Legal Anthropology student paper prize: November 2007.

National Association for the Practice of Anthropology - third prize: November 2006.

Grants-In-Aid:

National Science Foundation, NGOs and Nation Building: Impact of NGOs on Haiti’s internally displaced people (IDP) camp committees. 2011: 98500.

HEDIP, Haiti Education on Displacement Issues Project. 2011: 9500.

PSC-CUNY, NGOs and Nation Building: Haiti's IDP camps post-earthquake. 2011: 5998.

John F Kennedy Junior Foundation, Research on Haiti's IDP Camps. 2010: 2726.

PSC-CUNY, Impacts of NGOs on Neighborhood Associations in Haiti. 2010: 3000.

PSC-CUNY, Grassroots Urban Associations in Haiti. 2009: 4500.

Offices Held In Professional Societies:

Chair, Human Rights and Social Justice Committee, SfAA: March 2010 - present.

Other Professional Activities and Public Service:

Member, Human Rights and Social Justice Committee, SfAA: March 2007 - March 2010.

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Schuller, Mark Schuller, Mark
Assistant Professor
Social Sciences