Schuller, Mark

Overview
Curriculum Vitae

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

Phone: 718-262-2611
Office Location: AC-3A09
mschuller@york.cuny.edu
http://www.potomitan.net/

Office Hours
Tuesdays	5-5:50
Wednesdays	5-5:50
Thursday	10-10:50

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

In addition to understanding contemporary Haiti, Schuller’s research contributes to globalization, NGOs, civil society, and development. APLA paper prize winner, Schuller has published five peer-reviewed articles and two book chapters about Haiti, in addition to several on-line articles in public media. He co-edited Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction (2008, Alta Mira) and co-directed / co-produced documentary Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy (2009, Documentary Educational Resources). Schuller also co-edited Homing Devices: the Poor as Targets of Public Housing Policy and Practice (2006, Lexington), culminating four years of full time organizer experience in Minnesota

Areas of Expertise:: Anthropology
Haiti
Globalization

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. "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. "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. "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. "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:

"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.