Christine Nutter El Ouardani
Christine Nutter El Ouardani
3845 Farquhar Ave., Unit 206
Los Alamitos, CA 90720
(773) 614-1415
EMPLOYMENT
2014- Assistant Professor, Department of Human Development, California State University,
Long Beach
2013-2014Lecturer, Department of Comparative Human Development; University of
Chicago
EDUCATION
2013Ph.D., Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
2004M.A., Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
2002B.A., International Relations and Psychology, Michigan State University
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2016College of Liberal Arts Humanities Research Stimulation Award, CSULB
2014Richard Saller Dissertation Prize, University of Chicago, Honorable Mention
2014Henry Memorial Award for Best Dissertation, University of Chicago
2010-2011Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
2009-2010Gianinno Dissertation Write-Up Fellowship, University of Chicago
2008Bernice Neugarten Prize Lectureship, University of Chicago
2007-2008Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
2007-2008National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant
2006-2007American Institute for Maghribi Studies Long-Term Grant
2004-2006 National Science Foundation 3-year Graduate Research Fellowship
2003-2004 Behnke-Harris Fellowship, Irving Harris Foundation
2002-2006 University of Chicago Graduate Fellowship
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Publications
El Ouardani, Christine N. (In Press) Corporal Discipline Reform in a Rural Moroccan Classroom. Anthropology and Education Quarterly.
El Ouardani, Christine N. (In Press) Innocent or Intentional?: Interpreting Oppositional Defiant
Disorder in a Preschool Mental Health Clinic. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry.
Chapin, Bambi, Christine El Ouardani, and Kathleen Barlow. 2015. Socialization. In Oxford
Bibliographies in Anthropology. Ed. John Jackson. New York: Oxford University Press.
Nutter-El Ouardani, C. 2014. Childhood and development in rural Morocco: Cultivating reason and strength. In D. Bowen, E. Early, and B. Schulthies (Eds.), Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East 3rd ed., 24-38. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Submitted
El Ouardani, Christine N. (Revise and Resubmit) Making Ambivalent Subjects: Performing and Playing at Corporal Discipline with Children in Morocco. American Ethnologist.
In Preparation
Discipline and Development: Negotiating Childhood, Authority, and Violence in Rural Morocco. (Book manuscript)
UNPUBLISHED ORAL PRESENTATIONS (Selected)
Refereed Solicited Presentations
2016Validating Intentionality: What Counts As Evidence When Diagnosing Disruptive Behavior Disorders in Preschool-Aged Children?. Paper accepted and to be given at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Minneapolis, MN, November 18.
2015Playful Violence, Violent Play: Discipline and the Development of Child Agency in Rural
Morocco. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Denver, CO, November 19.
2015Pleasure and Disgust in Talk about Violence in Rural Morocco. Paper presented at the Society
for Psychological Anthropology meetings, Boston, MA, April 11.
2015Diagnostic Dilemmas: How American Clinicians Make Sense of Young Children’s Aggressive
Behavior. Paper presented at the Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group Meeting,
Long Beach, CA, March 13.
2013 Developmental Disability and Disordered Households in Morocco. Paper presented at the
Society for Psychological Anthropology Meetings, San Diego, April 13.
2013 Authorizing Kinship: Corporal Punishment and Ambivalence in Morocco.” Paper presented at
the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL, November 23.
2012Care and Kinship in Rural Morocco: Gesture, Affect, and Play in Disciplinary Practices. Paper
presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, CA,
November 16.
2012Authority, Exchange, and the Painful Clinical Encounter. Presented at the Society for
Medical Anthropology meetings, Baltimore, March 28.
2011 Becoming ‘Arubi: Negotiating Rural Moroccan Identity Through Teasing and Play. Paper
presented at an Invited Session at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings,
Montreal, November 18.
2009 Refiguring Child Injury and Pain in Rural Morocco. Paper presented at the American
Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, December 2-6.
2009Performing Corporal Discipline: Children, Violence, and Islam in a Moroccan Village. Paper
presented at the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Biennial Meetings, Monterey Bay, CA March 26-28.
2005Negotiating Intentionality: Conceptions of Preschoolers’ Moral Agency in a Children’s Mental
Health Clinic. Paper presented at the Psychological Anthropology and American Ethnological
Society, Joint Biennial Meetings, San Diego, April 10-13.
Refereed Conference Panels
2015Christine El Ouardani and Elise Berman. Violent Talk and the Production of Social
Experience. Society for Psychology Anthropology Meetings. Boston, MA, April 7-9.
2013 Christine El Ouardani and Elizabeth Fein. Disorders of Development: Child and Youth
Mental Health in Changing Cultural Contexts. Society for Psychological Anthropology
Meetings. San Diego, CA, April 4-7.
2012 Christine El Ouardani and Amy Cooper. Rethinking the Boundaries of Care, Intimacy, and
Health. Society for Medical Anthropology Meetings. Baltimore, MD, March 27-31.
2009 Christine El Ouardani and Bianca Dahl. Children and Global Development: Embodiment,
Intervention, and Figuration. American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings.
Philadelphia, PA December 2-6.
2005Bambi Chapin and Christine El Ouardani. Competing Conceptions of Children: Cultural
Models in Institutional Settings. Society for Psychological Anthropology Meetings. San Diego,
CA. April 10-13.
Invited Talks
2016Care or Neglect?: Corporal Discipline Reform in a Rural Moroccan Classroom. Invited talk
given at Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, September 9.
2016Beating as a Form of Care: Gesture, Affect, and Play in Disciplinary Practices in Rural
Morocco.Invited talk given at the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, New Directions Symposium, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, April 14.
2014Children’s Rights and Corporal Punishment Reform in a Moroccan Primary School. Invited talk
given at the 10th Joint Area Centers Symposium—“Children and Globalization,” University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, April 11.
2010 Injury, Pain, and Violence in Morocco. Invited paper presented at the Clinical Ethnography
Workshop, Stanford University, May 11.
2008 Socialization Practices and Conflict Resolution in a Rural Moroccan Village. Paper presented at
the Fulbright Fifteenth Annual Maghrebi Area Studies Symposium, Rabat, Morocco, April 17.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, California State University Long Beach, Department of Human Development
HDEV 407: Cultural Approaches to Child and Adolescent Mental Health
HDEV 470: Internship Practicum / Seminar
HDEV 403: Acquisition of Culture: Social Processes in Cross-Cultural Context
HDEV 320: Research Methods in Human Development (Qualitative and Quantitative)
Lecturer, University of Chicago, Department of Comparative Human Development
CHDV 26219: Critical Approaches to Child Mental Health
CHDV 35423: Violence and Trauma
CHDV26309: Life Course, Generation, and Globalization in the Arab World
Instructor, University of Chicago, Department of Comparative Human Development
CHDV 26228: Ethnographic Methods
CHDV 29800: BA Honors Seminar
CHDV 26219: Critical Approaches to Child Mental Health—Bernice Neugarten Prize Lectureship
Preceptor, University of Chicago, Department of Comparative Human Development (2010-13)
Writing Instructor, University of Chicago, “Reading Cultures” Core Curriculum (2010-12)
Teaching Assistant, University of Chicago, Department of Comparative Human Development
CHDV 20500: Psychological Anthropology (Autumn 2003)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Ethnographic Fieldwork
2006-2008Two years of ethnographic research with families, in schools, and in medical clinics in Fez, Morocco and surrounding rural areas.
2006Three months of preliminary research in Fez and Casablanca, Morocco. Language
training in Moroccan Arabic.
2005Two months of preliminary research in Fez, Morocco. Language training in
Moroccan Arabic.
2003-2004Nine months of ethnographic research in a child psychiatric clinic looking at emerging diagnostic categories with preschoolers.
Other Research Experience
2003Co-authored a small-scale research study for the non-profit organization Free the
Children, documenting the psychological impact of war trauma on child soldiers in Sierra Leone.
2003-2004Participated in the development of a coding schema looking at disruptive behaviors in preschoolers and coded videotapes of disruptive behavior for the Chicago Preschool Project at the University of Chicago, Department of Psychiatry.
2002-2004Interviewed women about their experiences of giving birth and developed coding schema
for mother-infant interaction videotapes for the Chicago Doula Project, at the University of Chicago, Department of Psychiatry.
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2003-2005Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Extern, Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School,
University of Chicago
2001-2002Advocate, Safe Place Domestic Violence Shelter, Michigan State University
2000Intern, American Embassy-Paris, Political Section
1997-1998Youth Coordinator/Research Assistant, Free the Children International, Toronto, Canada
SERVICE
Service to the Profession
2016Ad-hoc Reviewer, Palgrave-MacMillan Book Series
2016Reviewer for the ACYIG Newsletter
University Service
Fall 2016-presentCLA Faculty Council
Fall 2016-presentCo-Chair, Tenure-Track Search Committee
Fall 2016-presentCo-Organizer, Research Seminar
Fall 2016-presentMember, Budget Committee
Fall 2015-Spring 2016Co-Chair, Tenure-Track Search Committee
Fall 2014-Spring 2016Member, Curriculum Committee
Fall 2014-Spring 2015Faculty Advisor, Human Development Student Association
Spring 2015Alumni Committee Member (Planned Alumni Day event)
LANGUAGES
English (Native); French (Fluent); Moroccan Arabic (Fully Conversant)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Ethnological Society
American Institute for Maghrib Studies
American Anthropological Association
Anthropology of Children and Childhood Interest Group
Foundation for Applied Psychiatric Anthropology
Middle East Interest Group
Society for Medical Anthropology
Society for Psychological Anthropology
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