CURRICULUM VITAE
Joan Eileen Gross
Professional Positions
Oregon State University 2002-present Professor
Department of Anthropology
Northwest Interinstitutional Council Fall 1999 Director
on Study Abroad in Angers, France
Oregon State University 1998-1999 Director
Difference, Power and Discrimination
Program
Oregon State University 1995-2002 Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Oregon State System of Higher 1995-1996 Resident Director, Education, Lyon and Poitiers, France Study Abroad in France
Oregon State University 1989-1995 Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Northwest Interinstitutional Council Spring 1992 Assistant Professor
on Study Abroad in Avignon, France
Philadelphia Folklore Project 1988-1989 Research Associate
University of Texas at Austin 1981, 83-84 Research Assistant
Drs. Brian Stross, Joel Sherzer and
Gregory Urban
Education
Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, 1985
M.A. Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, 1981
B.A. Anthropology, Spanish, University of Montana, 1979
Scholarship and Creative Activity
A. Books
Teaching Oregon Native Languages. (Editor and co-author) Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2007, 160pp. Reviewed at http://128.97.165.17/media/files/vol7-1-WYLeonard.pdf
Speaking in Other Voices: An Ethnography of Walloon Puppet Theaters. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Press, 2001, 337 pp. Reviewed at http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=thdanc_fac&seiredir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fclient%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26q%3DGross%2BSpeaking%2Bin%2BOther%2BVoices%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8#search=%22Gross%20Speaking%20Other%20Voices%22
B. Refereed Articles and Book Chapters
Creating Healthy Bodies in Rural Ecuador at a Time of Dietary Shift (with Carla Guerrón-Montero, Michaela Hammer, and Peter Berti) In Food, Agriculture and Social Change: The Vitality of Latin America. Stephen Sherwood, Alberto Arce and Myriam Paredes, eds. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Food Activism: Researching Engagement, Engaging Research. In Food Health: Nutrition, Technology, and Public Health. Janet Chrzan and John Brett, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2017.
Caminando Hacia Adelante, Mirando Hacia Atrás: En la Primera Línea de las Transformaciones Alimentarias en el Ecuador. (Joan Gross, Carla Guerrón, Peter Berti, Michaela Hammer) ICONOS Revista de Ciencias Sociales, numéro 54, January 2016. http://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/iconos/issue/view/131
Binational Learning Communities: A Work in Progress. Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, volume 8, issue 2, Summer 2015.
The Future of Sustainability as a Product of the Present: Lessons from Modern Food in Ecuador. (Stephen Sherwood, Myriam Paredes, Joan Gross and Michaela Hammer) Rivista di Studi sulla Sostenibilità, 2014. http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDarticolo=52640
Food Activism in Western Oregon. In Food Activism: Agency, Democracy and Economy. Carole Counihan and Valeria Siniscalchi, eds. New York: Bloomsbury 2014, pp.15-30.
Dumpster Diving. Entry in Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste. Bill Rathje and Geoffrey Golson, eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. 2012.
Constructing a Community Food Economy. Food and Foodways 2011, 19:3.
The Double Binds of Getting Food among the Poor in Rural Oregon. (with Nancy Rosenberger). Food, Culture, and Society. 2009, 12:4.
Capitalism and its Discontents: Back-to-the-Lander and Freegan Foodways in Rural Oregon. Food and Foodways, 2009, 17:57-79. Reprinted in Taking Food Public: Redefining Foodways in a Changing World. Psyche Williams-Forson and Carole Counihan, eds. New York: Routledge, 2012.
Defendiendo la (Agri)Cultura: Reterritorializing Culture in the Puerto Rican Décima. Oral Tradition, 23.2 (2008):1-16.
Teaching about Globalization and Food in Ecuador (with David McMurray) Food, Culture, and Society 10:3, Fall 2007.
A History of Difference, Power and Discrimination at Oregon State University (with Janet Nishihara) In Teaching for Change: The Difference, Power and Discrimination Model. Jun Xing, Judith Li, Larry Roper and Susan Shaw, eds. Boulder: Lexington Books 2007, pp. 5-16.
Phat In Don Kulick and Anne Meneley (eds.) Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession. New York: Penguin/Tarcher 2005.
Visions of the Homeland in Puerto Rican and Franco-Maghrebi Diasporic Music (co-authored with David McMurray) In Alec Hargreaves (ed.) Minorités ethniques anglophones et francophones: études culturelles comparatives. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2003, pp. 91-114.
Symbolism, Popular Drama, and Politics and Art in Belgium, 1886-1910, Comparative Literature and Culture. vol. 5.3, September 2003.
Arab Noise and Ramadan Nights: Rai, Rap, and Franco-Maghrebi Identity, Reprinted in Gender in a Transnational World: Introduction to Women's Studies. Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan, eds. McGraw-Hill, 2002.
Halloween aux Etats-Unis d’Amérique: une vue personnelle. Halloween – passage, eds. Annick Marchant and Marie-Claude Thurion. Musée de la Vie wallonne, 2001, pp. 29-38.
Regional accents of global music: The Occitan Rap of Les Fabulous Trobadors. (co-authored with Vera Mark, Penn State U.) French Cultural Studies 12(34) February, 2001, pp. 77-94.
Arab Noise and Ramadan Nights: Rai, Rap, and Franco-Maghrebi Identity, Reprinted in The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader. Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo, eds. Blackwell, 2001.
Belgian Language Politics in Performance. Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Symposium about Language and Society, 1999, pp.104-114.
Rai, Rap and Ramadan Nights: Franco-Maghrebi Cultural Identities. Reprinted in Political Islam, Joel Beinin and Joe Stork, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
La política del uso del idioma non oficial: el valón en Bélgica, el tamazight en Marruecos. (Translated from The Politics of Unofficial Language Use: Walloon in Belgium, Tamazight in Morocco. ) El Vigía de Tierra 2/3, 1996-97, pp. 181-204.
Arab Noise and Ramadan Nights: Rai, Rap and Franco-Maghrebi Identity. (Equally co-authored with David McMurray and Ted Swedenburg) (updated Diaspora article) In Displacement, Diaspora and the Geographies of Identity. Smadar Lavie and Ted Swedenburg, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996.
Belgium. In European Anthropologies: A Guide to the Profession, Vol. 1 Ethnography, Ethnology, and Social/Cultural Anthropology. Susan Rogers, Thomas Wilson and Gary McDonogh, eds. American Anthropological Association/Society for the Anthropology of Europe, 1996.
Popular Culture as Contested Terrain: The Case of Tchantchès. Anthropological Quarterly 67(2) April/July 1994, pp. 62-70.
Arab Noise and Ramadan Nights: Rai, Rap, and Franco-Maghrebi Identity. (Equally co-authored with David McMurray and Ted Swedenburg) Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 3(1) 1994, pp. 3-39.
The Politics of Unofficial Language Use: Walloon in Belgium, Tamazight in Morocco. Critique of Anthropology 13(2) 1993, pp. 177-208.
Berber Origins and the Politics of Ethnicity in Colonial North African Discourse. (Equally co-authored with David McMurray) PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 16(2) June 1993, pp. 39-57.
Multilingualism in Morocco. In Contemporary Cultural Anthropology Michael Howard Glenview, IL: HarperCollins 1993.
Rai, Rap and Ramadan Nights: Franco-Maghrebi Cultural Identities. (Equally co-authored with David McMurray and Ted Swedenburg) Middle East Report September/October, 1992, pp. 11-17
Walloons. In The Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Volume 4, Europe. Linda A. Bennett, ed. Boston: G.K. Hall and Co. (Macmillan) for the Human Relations Area Files, 1992, pp. 276-278.
The Form and Function of Humor in the Liège Puppet Theater. In Humor and Comedy in Puppetry. D. Sherzer and J. Sherzer, eds. Bowling Green, Ohio: Popular Press, 1987, pp.106-126.
Transformations of a Popular Culture Form in Northern France and Belgium. Anthropological Quarterly 60(2) April, 1987, pp. 71-76.
Creative Use of Language in a Liège Puppet Theater. Semiotica 47(1-4) 1983, pp. 281-315.
C. Reviews
Ariana Gerstien and Monteith McCollum (filmmakers) Milk in the Land: Ballad of an American Drink. Ecology of Food and Nutrition, volume 49, issue 2, 2009.
Alain-Philippe Durand (ed.) Black, Blanc, Beur: Rap Music and Hip-Hop
Culture in the Francophone World. (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2002) Language in Society 33(3) June 2004.
Camille O’Reilly (ed.) Language, Ethnicity and the State, Vol 1: Minority Languages in the European Union. (New York: Palgrave, 2001) American Ethnologist 30:1, February 2004.
Bambi B. Scheiffelin, Kathyrn A. Woolard, & Paul V. Kroskrity (eds). Language Ideologies: practice and theory. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). Ethnos 64:1, 1999.
John Cowley. Carnival, Canboulay and Calypso Traditions in the Making. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) Journal of Folklore Research 35: 2, August 1998.
Renee Fox. In the Belgian Chateau: The Spirit and Culture of A European Society in An Age of Change. (Chicago:Ivan R. Dee Inc., 1994) American Ethnologist 24:3, August 1997.
Beverly Seckinger. Letter from Morocco. (Independent video 1991) Visual Anthropology Review, Vol 9:2, Fall 1993, pp. 139-140.
Ellen Basso. In Favor of Deceit: A Study of Tricksters in an Amazonian Society. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1987) Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 103:408, April-June. 1990, pp. 231-232.
D. Monographs
Philadelphia Folklife Resources: a guide to local folk traditions. (Co-authored with other members of the Philadelphia Folklore Project, I authored 51 of the 285 entries) Philadelphia Folklore Project Oct., 1989 (183 pages).
Comprehensive Discussion Guide for the Ethnographic Study of Traditional Puppetry. (Equally co-authored with Corinne Kratz) Austin, TX: Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 1980 (25 pages).
E. Working Papers, Reports and Abstracts
Exploring Rural Issues in a Frontier Oregon Community. (edited and wrote introduction with Nancy Rosenberger) Occasional Papers in Anthropology, No. 1/ April, 2011. David McMurray, series editor, Oregon State University.
Food Insecurity in Rural Benton County: An Ethnographic Study. (with Nancy Rosenberger) Rural Studies Program Working Paper Series, Spring 2005.
International Issues Group Report, Spring 2002.
UAPR of the International Degree Program, Spring 2001.
People and their environment in Peru and Ecuador, Written for classroom use, Spring 2001.
Bringing Folklore to the Public. (with Deanna Kingston and Monica Rojas) Abstracts of the 52nd Northwest Anthropological Conference, Northwest Anthropology Research Notes 34(1), 2000.
Environmental Literacy and Sustainable Development in Peru and Ecuador: Educational Challenges for the Next Milenium. Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program. United States Department of Education, 1999, pp. 45-55.
An Assessment of the Difference, Power, and Discrimination Program at Oregon State University. March 1999. 54 pages + appendices. (Co-authored with students, Laura Henderson, Courtney Lonergan, and Sheila Ford. I organized the work, wrote 6 of the 9 sections and edited the document.)
CLA Marketing Survey Focus Group Report submitted to Jeffrey Hale, Director, External Relations, College of Liberal Arts, OSU, 6/18/98, 7 pages. (Co-authored with student, Courtney Lonergan. I did 95% of the writing.)
Evaluation Report: Comparison of Profile, Program Choice and Progression toward Self-Sufficiency within ABE/GED, Even Start, and JOBS (co-authored with Paula Harris (major author) Tami Cheshire, David Solomon and John Young) September 30, 1994, 200 pages. (I did extensive editing on the report and met regularly with the student-authors throughout its preparation)
History, Identity and Popular Culture in the Franco-Maghrebi Diaspora, Abstract. Proceedings, Western Society for French History, Volume 21. Riverside: University of California Press, 1994.
Evaluation Report for the Even Start Family Literacy Program. (Co-authored with John Young, Paula Harris, Tere Herrera and Deanna Kingston) August 15, 1993, 115 pages. (I authored 95% of the non-appendix part of the report [34 pages] and the first 7 pages of the appendix material.)
Evaluation Report for the Barbara Bush Family Literacy Project. (Co-authored with John Young and Paula Harris) August 16, 1993, 11 pages. (I authored 95%)
The Cultural Politics of Rai: Syncretism in the Franco-Maghrebi Diaspora. Final Report for CLA Research Grant, submitted January 1993.
A Performance Centered Approach to the Puerto Rican Décima. Final Report for CLA Research Grant, submitted December 1991.
Analysis of Popular Performances of Three Generations of Working Class Puppeteers. Final Report for Wenner-Gren Grant #4838, submitted Spring 1991.
F. Ethnographic Films and Exhibits
Studying Folk Performance. Da Vinci Days, Corvallis July 18-19, 1998 (co-organized with Deanna Kingston and Monica Rojas.)
Puerto Rican Décima Singing, shot in 1990 and excerpted for classroom use.
Patterns and Functions of Language in the Liège Puppet Theater. 30 minute videotape. Austin, Texas: Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology 1981.
G. Translations and Edited Works
Nenquimo, Ima Fabian. Tome Waorani Ponino: Nenki Wenga Itota Tono Waorani Beye / El Origen de los Waorani: Los cuatro Dioses de los Waorani y el Hijo del Sol / The Origen of the Waorani: The four Gods of the Waorani and the Child of the Sun, Quito: Ministerio del Ambiente – PRAS, MDG-F. 2010. I did the first English translation from Spanish of this origin myth.
“The Dream that Saved me from Death in the Black Lagoon” personal narrative recorded in Ecuador, translated from the Spanish and edited into written form, with commentary for classroom use, 2000. (used in ANTH 314, 452 and SPAN 317). 2000.
ReVisions. The Difference, Power and Discrimination Program, OSU. Vol 5:1 Spring 1999.
H. Articles in Non Refereed Journals
Undergraduate Academic Program Review Commends Program Strengths. International Degree Program Newsletter, Fall 2001, vol 8:1, p.1.
Sociolinguistics as a DPD Course: Challenges and Successes. ReVisions 1(2) May 1994.
Far From Puerto Rico: Décimas about the Immigrant Experience. Works-in-Progress 2(3) Spring 1989, pp. 4-5.
The Life and Times of a Puppeteer. Works-in-Progress 2(2) Winter 1989, p. 6.
La Princesa for a Day: Sweet Sixteens in Philadelphia. Works-in-Progress 2(1) Fall, 1988, pp. 2-3.
Southeast Asian New Year's Celebrations. Works-in-Progress 1(2) Spring, 1988, pp. 6-7.
I. Work in Progress
Interculturality and Food Sovereignty
J. Papers Presented at National Professional Meetings and Invited Talks
Exploring Evidence, Accidents, and Discoveries in Critical Food Systems Education, Invited Panel Discussant, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis, MN, November 18, 2016.
Technology and Food Security. Organizer and Discussant. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. March 30, 2016.
The Taste of Freshness, The Taste of Home. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Denver CO, November 20, 2015.
Complexities of Food Sovereignty: Agrifood Activism in Oregon and Ecuador. Fifth International Conference on Food Studies. Blacksburg, Virginia. September 18, 2015
Complexities of Food Sovereignty: Agrifood Activism in Oregon and Ecuador. In panel "Territorialidades Rurales" del III Congreso Latinoamericano y Caribeño de Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO-Quito, Ecuador. August 27, 2015.
Food Sovereignty Discourses in Oregon and Ecuador: Comparative Scalar Practices. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., December 5, 2014.
Paradigmas Cambiando—Todo Está Conectado. Invited Talk, Bienal Internacional del Cartel, Universidad Latina de América, Morelia, Mexico. October 30, 2014.
Paradigm Shifts—Everything is connected. Invited talk, 2014 Food Security Summit, Corvallis, Oregon. October 21, 2014.
Heterogeneity in family-level nutrition in Northern Ecuador. (with Carla Guerron Montero, Michaela Hammer and Peter Berti) Interpretive Policy Analysis Annual Meeting, Wageningen, Holland. July 3, 2014.
Participant Observation: Embodied Intersubjectivity in Qualitative Research. Invited talk, Latin American Institute of Social Science (FLACSO), Quito, Ecuador, May 21, 2014.
Endogenous Pathways to Food Sovereignty: Working with Positive Deviance in the Andes Roundtable organizer and participant. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM. March 22, 2014.
La Comunidad de Aprendizaje Binacional (with Juan Antonio Trujillo Myriam Paredes, Daniel López-Cevallos, Megan Patton-López, Fernando Ortega, et al.) Panel session presented at the VI Congreso Iberoamericano de Desarrollo y Ambiente, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Quito, Ecuador, December 13, 2013.