KERI VACANTI BRONDO
Curriculum Vita
Department of Anthropology
304 Manning Hall
University of Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee 38152
EDUCATION
2006 Ph.D., Anthropology, Michigan State University
Concentration in Culture, Resources, and Power (Department of Anthropology)
Graduate Certificate in Latin America and Caribbean Studies (Center for Latin America and Caribbean Studies)
Graduate Specialization in International Development (Center for the Advanced Study of International Development)
1999 M.A., Anthropology, Iowa State University
1997 B.A., Anthropology, Minor: Philosophy, University of Delaware
Graduated with Degree with Distinction and Advanced Honor’s Certificate
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015-Present Director, International Studies Program, University of Memphis
2015-Present Academic Director, Governor’s School of International Studies, University of Memphis (effective Sept. 2015)
2013-Present Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Memphis
2007-2013 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Memphis
2005-2007 Lead Social Scientist for Cayos Cochinos Marine Programme; Operation Wallacea.
*Currently continue as Conservation Management Scientist (2007-present).
2004-2007 Project Manager for Future of Work Project; Visiting Assistant Professor; College of Social Science, Michigan State University
2003-2004 Assistant Director, Coordinator for Gender, Justice and Environmental Change Program (GJEC), Women and International Development Program, Michigan State University
PUBLICATIONS
Books
… Brondo, Keri Vacanti. (forthcoming 2016, under contract) Cultural Anthropology: Contemporary, Public, and Critical Readings. Oxford University Press.
2013 Brondo, Keri Vacanti. Land Grab: Green Neoliberalism, Gender, and Garifuna Resistance. University of Arizona Press.
* Nominee for Michele Z. Rosaldo Book Prize, Association of Feminist Anthropology
2010 Brondo, Keri Vacanti and Tara Hefferan. (eds.) Intersections of Faith and Development in Local-Global Contexts. NAPA Bulletin, Wiley-Blackwell.
Refereed Journal Articles and Chapters
2015 Brondo, Keri Vacanti. The Spectacle of Saving: Conservation Voluntourism and the New Neoliberal Economy on Utila, Honduras. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 23(10): 1405-1425.
2014 Farr, Matthew, Keri Vacanti Brondo, and Scout Anglin. Shifting Gears: Bicycle Infrastructure in the American South. In Sustainability as Myth and Practice in the Global City. Edited by Cindy Isenhour, Melissa Checker, and Gary McDonough. Cambridge University Press. Pp. 285-305.
2012 Brondo, Keri Vacanti and Linda Bennett. Career Subjectivities in American Anthropology: Gender, Practice, and Resistance. American Anthropologist 114(4): 598-610.
2011 Brondo, Keri Vacanti and Natalie Bown. Neoliberal Conservation, Garifuna Territorial Rights, and
Resource Management in the Cayos Cochinos Protected Area. Conservation & Society 9(2): 91-105.
2011 Brondo, Keri Vacanti. From Fishing to Tourism? Conservation, Development, and Garifuna Activism in the Cayos Cochinos Marie Protected Area. Cengage Learning’s Anthropology CourseReader. Detroit: Gale, 2011.
2010 Brondo, Keri Vacanti and Marietta L. Baba. Last In, First Out: A Case Study of Lean Manufacturing in North America’s Automobile Industry. Human Organization 63(9): 263-264. Erratum published (to correct title) in 69(4): 417.
2010 Brondo, Keri Vacanti and Katherine Lambert-Pennington. “Coalition of Trust” or “Trust Me I Know What’s Best”: When Southern Progressivism Meets PAR-informed Engaged Scholarship. Urban Anthropology, 39(3):199-339.
2010 Brondo, Keri Vacanti. Practicing Anthropology in a Time of Crisis: 2009 Year in Review. American Anthropologist 112(2): 208-218.
2010 Connolly, Robert and Keri Vacanti Brondo. Incarnate Theology and the Social Gospel: Exploring the Mississippi Model of Episcopal Medical Missions to Panama. In Keri Vacanti Brondo and Tara Hefferan’s (eds.) Intersections of Faith and Development in Local-Global Contexts. NAPA Bulletin 33(1): 31-49.
2010 Brondo, Keri Vacanti and Tara Hefferan. Resource Guide for Anthropologists Working in Faith-Based Development. In Keri Vacanti Brondo and Tara Hefferan’s (eds.) Intersections of Faith and Development in Local-Global Contexts. NAPA Bulletin 33(1): 161-70.
2010 Brondo, Keri Vacanti. When Mestizo Becomes (Like) Indio…or is it Garifuna?: Negotiating Indigeneity and 'Making Place' on Honduras' North Coast. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 15(1): 171-194.
2010 Brondo, Keri Vacanti and Laura Woods. Garifuna Land Rights and Ecotourism as Economic Development in Honduras’ Cayos Cochinos Marine Protected Area. In Vanga Surendar Reddy’s (ed) Ecotourism-Sustainable Development. Nagarjuna Hills, Punjagutta, India: Amicus Books. The Icfai University Press. Pp. 87-113. (*reprint of Brondo and Woods 2007, originally published in Ecological and Environmental Anthropology)
2009 Brondo, Keri Vacanti, Carla Guerron-Montero, and Catherine Kingfisher. The Squeaky Wheels Squeaks Again: Reflections on the Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology. Voices 9(1): 5-8.
2008 Brondo, Keri Vacanti. La pérdida de la tierra y el activismo de las mujeres garífunas
en la costa norte de Honduras. Journal of International Women’s Studies 9(4): 372-394
[Spanish translation of Brondo 2007]
2007 Brondo, Keri Vacanti. Garifuna Women’s Land Loss and Activism in Honduras. Journal of International Women’s Studies 9(1):99-116.
2007 Brondo, Keri Vacanti and Laura Woods. Garifuna Land Rights and Ecotourism as Economic Development in Honduras’ Cayos Cochinos Marine Protected Area.” Ecological and Environmental Anthropology 3:1(2-18).
2005 Brondo, Keri, Marietta Baba, Sengun Yeniyurt, and Janell Townsend. Fertile Ground: Homegrown Loyalty Makes for Globally Competitive Industry. In EPIC 2005. American Anthropological Association. University of California Press. Pp. 158-166.
Non-refereed Journal Articles and Chapters
2011 Brondo, Keri Vacanti, Natalie Bown and Laura Woods. Protecting Garifuna Territory for Whom? Gender, Power, and Ecotourism in the Cayos Cochinos Marine Protected Area. Practicing Anthropology 33(4): 13-18.
2010 Brondo, Keri Vacanti. Rights, Roots and Resource Control in Honduras' Cayos Cochinos Marine Protected Area. Special Issue “Recent Perspectives on Ecotourism” (edited by David Fleischer and Rodrigo Paranhos). Electronic Journal of University of Brasilia, Brazil.
Book Reviews
2011 Brondo, Keri Vacanti. Review: Black and Indigenous: Garifuna Activism and Consumer Culture in Honduras by Mark Anderson. American Ethnologist 38(3): 598-600.
2011 Brondo, Keri Vacanti. Review: The Meskwaki and Anthropologists: Action Anthropology Reconsidered by Judith M. Daubenmier. Journal of American Ethnic History 30(4) 77-79.
Encyclopedia Articles
2012 Brondo, Keri Vacanti. Joseph K. Golson (ed.), Tennessee Consumption and Waste. Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste. Sage Publications.
2009 Brondo, Keri Vacanti. Women’s Leadership in Anthropology. In Sarah Brewer (ed.), Gender and
Women’s Leadership: A Reference Handbook, Volume 2. Sage Publications. Pages 650-659.
Technical and Agency Reports
2015 Stephens, Daryl, Keri Brondo, and Kyle Simpson. Public Perceptions of Forest Health, Use, and Management in Memphis, TN’s State Natural Areas: A report on public understandings and perspectives of the Lucius Burch State Natural Area and Old Forest State Natural Area. Submitted to The Nature Conservancy of Tennessee.
2015 Brondo, Keri, Bill McKinney, Mary O’dell Butler, Kyle Simpson and Sanne Roijmans. Exploring the Relationships of Anthropological Practitioners to Academic Departments. Committee on Practicing, Applied, and Public Interest Anthropology. American Anthropological Association.
2014 Brondo, Keri and Kyle Simpson. Public Fishing at Shelby Farms: A Study of Weekday Anglers. Shelby Farms Nature Conservancy.
2013 Brondo, Keri, Katherine Lambert-Pennington, Linda Bennett, Michael Hagge, and Robert Connolly. A Snapshot of Engaged Scholarship at the University of Memphis: 2012 Survey Results from the Engaged Scholarship Faculty Committee.
2013 Brondo, Keri. Amicus Brief - Garifuna Community of Triunfo de la Cruz and its Members, Honduras
(Case No 12.548). Inter-American Court of Human Rights. July 5, 2013. Case heard May 14, 2014 in
San Jose, Costa Rica; Spanish translation became part of expert testimony.
2012 Brondo, Keri. COPAA Visiting Fellow Final Report. Consortium for Practicing and Applied Anthropology Departments.
2012 Bennett, Linda A. and Keri Brondo. AAA Resource Panel for External Tenure and Promotion Review and Program Review. American Anthropological Association. http://www.aaanet.org/profdev/AAA-Resource-Panel-for-External-Tenure-and-Promotion-Review-and-External-Program-Review.cfm.
2011 Bartlo, Wendy D., Keri Brondo, Elizabeth K. Briody, and Shirley J. Fiske. “Linking Anthropology Graduates to the Job Market,” Report to CoPAPIA, February 26, 2011.
2011 Bennett, Linda, Keri Brondo, Sunil Khanna on behalf of the AAA and CoPAPIA. Guidelines for Evaluating Scholarship in the Realm of Practicing, Applied, and Public Interest Anthropology for Academic Promotion and Tenure. American Anthropological Association. [Online] Available: http://www.aaanet.org/resources/departments/upload/Final-T-P-Document-2011.pdf.
2011 Brondo, Keri. Dive Shop Perspectives on the Establishment of a Voluntary Entrance Fee for Protected Waters in Utila. Submitted to Bay Islands Conservation Association (BICA), October 2011.
2011 Brondo, Keri. Recommendations for Volunteer Programming, Fundraising, and Community-Research Collaborations at the Iguana Research Station. Submitted to Iguana Research Station, June 24, 2011.
2010 Fiske, Shirley J., Linda A. Bennett, Patricia Ensworth, Terry Redding, and Keri Brondo. The Changing Face of Anthropology: Anthropology Masters Reflect on Education, Careers, and Professional Organizations. AAA/CoPAPIA 2009 Anthropology MA Career Survey. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association.
2009 Brondo, Keri Vacanti, Linda Bennett, Harmony Farner, Cindy Martin, and Andrew Mrkva. Work Climate, Gender, and the Status of Practicing Anthropologists. American Anthropological Association. [Online]. Available: http://www.aaanet.org/_cs_upload/resources/departments/28201_1.pdf
2008 Wasson, Christina, Keri Brondo, Barbara LeMaster, Trudy Turner, Maia Cudhea, Kelly Moran, Inez Adams, Andrea McCoy, Megan Ko, Tomoko Matsumoto, and Maria Raviele. We’ve Come a Long Way, Maybe: Academic Climate Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology. American Anthropological Association. May 12, 2008. [Online]. Available: http://www.aaanet.org/_cs_upload/resources/departments/17366_1.pdf
2008 Brondo, Keri, Andrew Mrkva, and Katherine Lambert-Pennington. Beltline Community Action Process Report. Submitted to Jacob’s Ladder Community Development Corporation and Beltline Neighborhood Association. May 19, 2008.
2007 Brondo, Keri Vacanti and Natalie Bown. Economic Structure and Attitudes Towards Conservation in Honduran Coastal Villages. In Operation Wallacea Science Programme Annual Report, edited by T. Coles, D. Smith, and R. Field. UK: Operation Wallacea. Pages 98-101.
2006 Brondo, Keri and Laura Woods. Operation Wallacea Social Science Field Report 2006. In Marine Field Research Summary: Cayos Cochinos Marine Site, June-September 2006. Page 7-10. UK: Operation Wallacea LTD, 2007.
Professional Newsletters & Commentaries
2015 Hicks, Kathryn, Rita Harris, Keri Brondo and Robert Marczynski. University of Memphis and the Sierra Club Team up to Promote Education, Advocacy & Activism at Grassroots Environmental Conference. Anthropology and Engagement Blog, Anthropology & Environment Section, American Anthropological Association. March 2, 2015. [Online]: http://www.aaanet.org/sections/ae/index.php/university-of-memphis- sierra-club-grassroots-environmental-conference/.
2015 Brondo, Keri. Understanding Practitioner-Academic Department Relationships. Anthropology News. March/April 2015 http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2015/04/09/understanding-practitioner- academic-department-relationships/.
2014 McKinney, Bill, Keri Brondo, Mary Butler and Kyle Simpson. Towards an Increased
Understanding of Relationships, Value and Forms of Compensation between Practitioners and Academic Departments. Anthropology News August 2014. [Online]: http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2014/08/01/exploring-the-relationship-between-practitioners-and-academic-departments/.
2014 Bennett, Linda and Keri Vacanti Brondo. Effectiveness of Tenure and Promotion Initiatives for Applied and Practicing Anthropologists: An Ongoing Discussion. Anthropology News 55(7-8):23, 25.
2014 Brondo, Keri and Linda Bennett. Internships and Practica: Teaching Tools For an
Engaged Anthropology, Part 1. Anthropology News. March 2014.
2014 Brondo, Keri and Linda Bennett. Internships and Practica: Teaching Tools For an
Engaged Anthropology, Part 2. Anthropology News. March 2014.
2013 Brondo, Keri and Courtney Dowdall. Five Years Out: CoPAPIA Report. Anthropology News
54(9-10): 33.
2012 Ferguson T.J. and Keri Brondo. Online Research Library Now Available. Anthropology
News, October 2012.
2009 Brondo, Keri Vacanti and Linda A. Bennett. Gendered Dimensions of Applied Work Environments: COSWA Survey Report. Anthropology News 50(5): 34-36.
2008 Brondo, Keri and Ruthbeth Finerman. Strengthening Communities in the Mid-South: Engaged Anthropology at the University of Memphis. Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter 19(1): 34-35. February 2008.
2007 Brondo, Keri Vacanti and Christina Wasson. COSWA Update. Anthropology News. May 2007.
2006 Brondo, Keri and Marietta L. Baba. Ethnography of Women in US Business. Anthropology News. April 2006.
Oral Histories
2008 Life in the Beltline: A Collection of Oral History Films Made by Youth in the Beltline Community of Memphis, TN. Co-edited with Andrew Mrkva. August 2008.
2007 Interview with Marietta L. Baba by Keri Vacanti Brondo, Applied Anthropology Oral History Project of the Society for Applied Anthropology, East Lansing, Michigan, in the Oral History Collection of the University of Kentucky. May 24, 2007.
PRESENTATIONS
Conference Organizer
2014 Community Health, Environmental Justice, and Clean Energy. Sierra Club’s 13th Annual Grassroots Community Conference. University of Memphis. (co-organized w/ R. Harris of Sierra Club, R. Marczyinski and K. Hicks).
Organized Sessions
2015 Suzanne Kent, and Keri Brondo. Anthropology, Hosts and Guests in the Affect Economy: Anthropology’s Engagement with Voluntourism, Service-Learning, and Alternative Breaks. American Anthropological Association, Denver, CO, 2015.
2014 Brondo, Keri, Bill McKinney and Mary Butler. Towards an Increased Understanding of Relationships, Value, and Forms of Compensation between Practitioners and Academic Departments. Society for Applied Anthropology, Albuquerque, NM, March 18-22, 2014.
2014 Brondo, Keri and Kathryn Hicks. Food Justice, Food Sovereignty and Community-Building: The Place of Community Gardens, Farmers Markets, and Public Fisheries in Memphis, TN. Society for Applied Anthropology, Albuquerque, NM, March 18-22, 2014.
2014 Bennett, Linda and Keri Brondo. Evaluating the Effectiveness of COPAA and CoPAPIA Tenure and Promotion Initiatives on Applied, Practicing, Engaged and Public Anthropology. Society for Applied Anthropology, Albuquerque, NM, March 18-22, 2014.
2013 Dygert, Holly A., Keri Vacanti Brondo, and Andrea Friedus. Anthropological Engagements with Post-Development: Markets, Voluntourism, Humanitarianism and the Will to Aid. American Anthropological Association 110th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, November 20-24, 2013.
2013 Bennett, Linda and Keri Vacanti Brondo. Success in Anthropology: The Place of Internships and Practica. American Anthropological Association 110th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, November 20-24, 2013.
2013 Kent, Suzanne and Brondo, Keri Vacanti. Disconnects in Development: Friction, Resource
Rights, and the (Im)Possibility of Collaboration and Empowerment? Society for Applied
Anthropology Annual Meetings, Denver, CO, March 19-23, 2013.
2011 Brondo, Keri Vacanti, Wendy Bartlo, and Mary Odell Butler. The Changing Job Market and
Student Training: Linking Anthropology Departments and Practice. American Anthropological Association 109th Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, November 16-20, 2011.
2010 Brondo, Keri, Linda Bennett, and Niel Tashima. Evaluating Applied, Practicing and Public Interest Anthropology: Reflections on Tenure and Promotion Guidelines. Invited session, Committee on Practicing, Applied, and Public Interest Anthropology. American Anthropological Association 108th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, November 17-21, 2010.
2009 Lambert-Pennington, Katherine and Keri Vacanti Brondo. The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People - Power, Politics, and Performances of Indigeneity. American Anthropological Association 107th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, December 2-6, 2009.
2009 Lambert-Pennington, Katherine and Keri Brondo. Shouting Out, Standing Up: Community Voices and Urban Community Development, Part 1 and Part 2. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meetings, Santa Fe, NM, March 17-21, 2009.