Curriculum Vitae Highlights

Education

Columbia University, M.A. 1977,
M.Phil. 1979, Ph.D. 1984
Mary Washington College, B.A. 1975

Denison University, 1992-present
Bard College (visiting appointment), 1989-1992
Hunter College (adjunct appointment), 1981-1982

Recent Publications Books

* Planning the past: heritage tourism and post-colonial history at
Port Royal, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006.

* Race, Class and Political Symbols: Rastafari and Reggae in Jamaican Politics, New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1985. Issued as paperback Fall, 1989.

Articles

* "Social Consciousness in Dancehall Reggae," in Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts 2e, edited by David Goldblatt and Lee B. Brown, (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2004), 392-399.
* "Heritage Tourism Development and Unofficial History in Port Royal, Jamaica," Social and Economic Studies 52:2 (2003), pages 1-27.
* "Presenting the Past: The Construction of National History in a Jamaican Tourist Site," in Modern Political Culture in the Caribbean edited by Holger Henke and Fred Reno, University of the West Indies Press, 2003, pages 141-180.
* "What Anthropology can teach us about Race and Ethnicity," Remarks (Newsletter of the ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities), XX (3) April 2002, 3-4.
* "Half the Story: The Uses of History in Jamaican Political Discourse," Caribbean Quarterly 45 (1), 62-77 (March 1999).
* "The Descent of (White) Man: Race and Gender in Human Evolution Exhibits," Museum Anthropology 20 (3), 1997. Reprinted in Annual Editions: Physical Anthropology, 1999.
* "Conspiracy Theories as Ethnosociologies: Explanation and Intention in African-American Political Culture," The Journal of Black Studies 28 (1) September, 1997, 112-125.

Presentations

* “Social Memory and International Politics at Havana’s Anti-Imperialist Plaza,” presented at the Caribbean Studies Annual Meetings, Trinidad, May, 2006.
* "Commemorating Caribbean public scholarship: the memory of Walter Rodney in Jamaica," co-authored with F.S.J. Ledgister, presented at the American Sociological Association meetings, San Francisco, August 2004.
* "Pirates as a metaphor in popular and political culture" presented at the Caribbean Studies Association Annual Meetings, St. Kitts & Nevis, June 1, 2004.
* "Rastafari in Jamaican Politics," invited presentation for students of Professor Ennis Edmonds, Kenyon College, April 20, 2004.
* "Commemorating Caribbean public scholarship: the memory of Walter Rodney in Jamaica," co-authored with Fragano Ledgister, presented at the Atlanta University Center Conference on Walter Rodney, Atlanta, Georgia, March 23, 2004.
* "Heritage Tourism Development and Unofficial History in the Community of Port Royal, Jamaica," presented at the Caribbean Studies Association Annual Meetings, Nassau, May 31, 2002.
* "Inventing History at Port Royal" Tuesday Faculty Lunch, Denison University, April 16, 2002.
* "Columbus ‘pon Vibes: Lyrical Counter-Histories in Jamaican Popular Musi" presented at a conference entitled ?Uncovering Connections: Cultural Endurance between Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean,? Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, March 15-16, 2002.
* "Managed Hearts under Bullet-Proof Vests: Teaching Social Process through Police Ride-Alongs." co-authored with Leah J. Smith, presented at the American Sociological Association meetings, Anaheim, California, August 2001.
* "Representing Jamaica: Gender in Dancehall Reggae Music," DePaul University, Chicago, April, 2001.
* "Lyrical Counter-Histories: Oppositional Narratives in Jamaican Popular Music," presented at the American Sociological Association meetings, Washington, D.C., August 2000.
* "Presenting the Past: The Construction of National Identity in a Jamaican Historical Site," presented at the Caribbean Studies Association meetings, St. Lucia, June, 2000.