Gerald F. Murray 2017
Department of Anthropology Home address
University of Florida 1706 N.W. 26th Way
Gainesville, FL 32611 Gainesville, FL 32605
Home phone (352) 374-4149
Skype: murranth Cell phone: (352) 359-1927
Email:
CURRENT POSITION: Retired. Emeritus. Dept. of Anthropology U. of Florida
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: Columbia U. (Anthropology), 1977
B.A.: Harvard, Magna Cum Laude (Soc. Rel.), 1968
UNIVERSITY FACULTY POSITIONS
2017 S.E. University, Nanjing Visiting faculty, spring semester
2013-2016 Sichuan University Visiting faculty, summer international program
19852010 U. of Florida/Gainesville. Assoc. Prof. of Anthropology
19771985 U. of Mass./Boston. Assistant and Associate Professor
19761977 Teachers College/Columbia. Visiting Assistant Professor
19741976 U. of Mass./Boston. Instructor in Anthropology
19731974 Yale University. Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology
COURSES TAUGHT
Graduate: Anthropological Linguistics, Seminar in Caribbean Anthropology, Seminar Haiti and D.R., Language and Culture, Seminar Religion and Violence,
Undergrad: Introductory Anthropology, Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean, Anthropology of Religion, Anthropology of Judaism, Descriptive Linguistics, Language and Culture, Applied Anthropology, and Peasants.
NON-ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT IN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
1974-2014 Research and/or consultation contracts in 15 countries with 28 organizations (v. below).
1982-83 Director of a USAIDfunded Agroforestry Project in Haiti. I won the Anthropological Praxis Award while Director.
1970 Taught English and H.S. equivalency to migrants in NYC
1964-66 Peace Corps Volunteer, Dominican Republic.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Fluency: Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, German, Italian
Familiarity: Modern Standard Arabic, Palestinian Arabic, Portuguese, Modern Greek, Russian, Papiamentu, Mandarin.
Ancient languages: Latin, Biblical Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic.
I have taught: English, Spanish, Haitian Creole
PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS
I have published 4 books, 24 articles, and have prepared over 70 applied anthropological reports for 30 public and private agencies based on fieldwork in 15 countries. I have presented scholarly papers at conferences in 7 countries (USA, UK, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Panama, Kenya, Norway)
RESEARCH AND CONSULTATION EXPERIENCES
The Caribbean is my area of major fieldwork. But I have done briefer fieldwork, most of it connected with contract research assignments, as follows.
Regions and countries:
Caribbean: Haiti, Dominican Republic
Meso-Amr: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, Panama
S. Amer.: Peru (both Andes and eastern rain forests).
Africa: Burundi, Cameroon, Ghana, Madagascar
Middle East: Palestine (Gaza Strip), Israel
N. Amer.: U.S.A. (Inner-city Head-Start, migrant camps, and urban public health clinics)
Basic and applied research topics:
Environmental program design, monitoring and evaluation.
Anthropology of religion
Sustainable development, agroforestry, biodiversity, deforestation, hillside agriculture
Ethnic conflict resolution. Human trafficking. Cross border displacement and migration
Indigenous and peasant land tenure, land use, and market systems
Involuntary resettlement; natural disaster resettlement; human impact of dams;
Public and private educational systems
Urban microenterprise
Institutions that have given me contracts, grants, or other professional service requests:
Public: USAID, World Bank, UNESCO, Inter-American Development Bank, Peace Corps, OAS, IICA, Inter American Foundation, Office of Technology Assessment (U.S. Congress), United States Southern Command, Amer. Ass’n for Advanc. Science, Int’l Development Research Corp. (Ottawa), Helvetas (Zurich, Switzerland), Embassy of Canada (PortauPrince, Haiti), Norad (Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) through Int’l Law and Policy Institute (ILPI)
Private: Pan American Development Foundation, Save the Children, McKinsey and Company, Higher Education for Development, World Wildlife Fund, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, URS/Daines Engineering, Ilan Orly & Co. Law Offices (Tel Aviv), L aw Office of H. Nelson Meeks (Los Angeles), Winrock, Development Alternatives Incorporated, Tropical Research and Development, Management Systems Inc., Datex, Energy Development/International, Scientific Certification Systems, Adventist Development Relief Agency,
Professional Organizations
Society for Applied Anthropology (Fellow), American Anthropological Association, National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, Society for the Anthropology of Religion
BOOKS
2012 Pelo Bueno Pelo Malo: Antropología del Salón de Belleza en la República Dominicana. (Book co-authored with Marina Ortiz). Santo Domingo: Fondo para el Financiamiento de la Microempresa. 447 pages.
2010 La Frontera Dominico-haitiana. (Book co-edited with Haroldo Dilla et. al.) Santo Domingo: edited volume published by Inter-American Development Bank and Pan American Development Foundation.
2005 El Colegio y La Escuela: Antropología de la Educación en la República Dominicana. Santo Domingo: Fondo Micro. 398 pp.
1997 El Taller: Un Estudio Antropológico del Uso y Reparación de Automóbiles en la República Dominicana. Santo Domingo:Fondo para el Financiamiento de la Microempresa. 325 pp.
1996 El Colmado: Una Investigacion Antropologica del Negocio de Comidas y Bebidas en la República Dominicana. Santo Domingo: Fondo para el Financiamiento de la Microempresa. 375 pp.
ARTICLES, REPORTS, AND OTHER WRITINGS
2015 Dinámicas ambientales binacionales En la Región Enriquillo / Saumatre (Azuey: Informe sometido al OBMEC, Observatorio Binacional De Haití y la República Dominicana. Port-au-Prince: European Union and Quisqueya University.
2015 Dominican-Haitian border markets. In Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer, eds., Informal Market Worlds - Atlas: The Architecture of Economic Pressure (Rotterdam:NAI010 Publishers, pp. 136-141)
2014 The greenhouses of Kenscoff / Furcy Haiti. Report submitted to the University of Florida’s Office of International Programs concerning the impact of greenhouse technology on agri-cultural productivity and on women’s role in farming and marketing. 35 pp.
2012 Review of Norwegian Support to Strengthening Citizens’ Political Influence in Haiti through the National Democratic Institute (NDI). Report prepared for Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the International Law and Policy Institute. 69 pp.
2010 Lenguaje y raza en la frontera dominico-haitiana: Apuntes antropológicos. In Haroldo Dilla et. al eds. La Frontera Dominico-haitiana. Santo Domingo: book published by the American Development Bank and Pan American Develop. Foundation. Pp. 241-281.
2010 Haitian and Dominican relations: An anthropological exploration of racial and ethnic perceptions and sentiments. Report submitted to Inter-American Development Bank and Pan American Development Foundation, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. May 2010. 42 pages
2010 Ethnic relations on the Haitian / Dominican border: Patterns of peaceful coexistence and conflicts. Report submitted to Inter-American Development Bank and Pan American Development Foundation, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. February 2010. 55 pages.
2010 Bondye, the earthquake, and the Haitian Catholic Church. In the Bulletin of Hortus Conclusus, No. 16, May 2010. Artas, Palestine (West Bank). (A 2 page summary of religious dimensions of the Haitian earthquake.)
2010 Border communes of the eastern Cul-de-Sac: A needs assessment and a program proposal. Report submitted to Save the Children in Haiti, March 2010. 86 pages.
2010 “Haiti, Agroforestry and the Earthquake” Invited paper presented at the conference The Ecology and Ecosystem Services of Native Trees: Implications for Reforestation and Land Restoration in Mesoamerica. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama. January 21-22, 2010.
2010 The role of trees in post-earthquake Haiti. Invited paper at the “Seminar on Haiti after the Earthquake” organized by the Oslo Peace-Building Center and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Oslo, May 12, 2010
2010 Water, trees, and credit: A plan of action in post-earthquake Haiti. Invited presentation at a Conference on Watershed Management and the Reconstruction of Haiti. The conference was organized by the Clinton Foundation, the Haitian Ministry of Agriculture, the Yale University School of Forestry, and World Vision. New Haven, May 19, 20, 21.
2009 “La crisis de Rio Limpio: Informe sobre la destrucción económica de una comunidad campesina de la frontera dominicana.” Report on human rights abuses perpetrated by the Dominican State against Dominican farmers and Haitian laborers in a border community. The report was shared with government officials and community members.
2007 Communes of the Haitian Cul-de-Sac: A rapid rural assessment of Thomazeau, Cornillon, Ganthier, and Fond Verrettes. Report prepared for Save the Children / Haiti. 84 pp.
2006 Fwontyè nou / Nuestra Frontera: Haitian and Dominican NGOs. Midterm evaluation of a binational product along the Dominican / Haitian border. Report prepared for the Pan American Development Foundation and USAID. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
2006 Book Review of The Rebirth of Hasidism: 1945 to the Present Day. Jacques Gutwirth. London: Free Association Books. 198 pp. Anthropos: International Review of Anthropology and Linguistics 101:2, pp. 615-7.
2005 Book Review of The Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History. Richard Lee Turits. Stanford University Press, 2003. 384 pp. American Anthropologist 107:1, pp. 170-1.
2005 Cocolo dancing tradition – Dominican Republic: an Evaluation Report. Report prepared for International Council of Social Sciences and UNESCO for the Second Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
2004 (With M. Bannister) Peasants, agroforesters, and anthropologists: A 20-year venture in income-generating trees and hedgerows in Haiti. Agroforestry Systems 61:383-397.
2004 (With G. Smucker). The uses of children: A study of trafficking in Haitian children. Report prepared for USAID / Haiti. 175 pp.
2004 La niñez en peligro: Un estudio sobre la trata de niños haitianos. Translation from the English of the preceding report. Translated by Gerald Murray and Maria Alvarez.
2003 Pautas para una consulta pública sobre la construcción de represas en Panamá.
Report prepared for the Panama Canal Authority under contract with URS/Daines.
25 pp.
2003 Elementos de una metodología para evaluar los impactos de un embalse sobre la
calidad de vida en las comunidades afectadas. Report prepared for the Panama Canal Authority under contract with URS/Daines. 33 pp.
2003 Los próximos pasos en las cuencas occidentales de Panamá. Report prepared for the Panama Canal Authority under contract with URS/Daines. 14 pp.
2002 Book review of When the Hands are Many: Community Organization and Social
Change in Rural Haiti, by Jennie M. Smith. American Ethnologist
1999 Philo-Semitism or Anti-Haitianism: Trujillo and Jewish Holocaust Refugees. The Latinamericanist. Dec. 1999
1998 The fading frontier: An anthropological analysis of the economy and social organization of the Haitian-Dominican border. Report prepared for USAID, Dominican Republic, co-authored with Matthew McPherson and Tim Schwartz. 85 pp.
1996 Campesinos de la cuenca sureña: Antecedentes antropológicos y pautas para intervenciones institucionales. Report prepared for GTZ and IICA, Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep. 22 pp.
1995 Peasants, projects, and anthropological models: Fragile causal chains and crooked causal arrows. In Science, Materialism, and the Study of Culture, M. F. Murphy and M. L. Margolis, eds. U. of Florida Press, pp. 159-184.
1995 The volunteer niche in post-embargo Haiti. Report prepared for Peace Corps, Washington, D.C.
1994 The Tree Project: Guidelines for reincorporation of high volume wood tree planting in rural Haiti. Report prepared as a member of USAID's Environmental Task Force. Port-au-Prince: Pan American Development Foundation
1994 Desde Africa hasta Haiti: Fases evolutivas en la relación entre ser humano y bosque. In Humanidad y Naturaleza, Jose Serrulle Ramia, ed. Santo Domingo: Fundacion Ciencia y Arte. Pp. 23-56
1994 Technoeconomic, organizational, and ideational factors as determinants of soil conservation in the Dominican Republic. In Economic and Institutional Analyses of Soil Conservation Projects in Central America and the Caribbean, Ernst Lutz, Stefano Pagiola, and Carlos Reiche, eds. (World Bank Environment Paper Number 8). Washington, D.C.: World Bank, pp. 131-149.
1993 The organization of rural development projects under conditions of political repression: The case of Haiti. Invited paper presented at the Caribbean Conference on Alternative Production, Work, Management, and Organization. Havana, Cuba, Dec.5 -- Dec. 11, 1993.
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1993 Transformations in Cuba: The dismantling of State Farms. Unpublished report submitted to the Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Anthropology, U. of Florida.
1993 The socioeconomic impact of wood tree plantations on the southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica: An evaluation of the Stone Forestry gmelina project. Gainesville, Fl: Tropical Forest Management Trust and Scientific Certification Systems. 42 pp.
1993 The Maya of Quintana Roo: evaluation of a program on the periphery of a biosphere reserve. NYC and Cancun, Mexico: World Wildlife Fund and Amigos de Sian Ka'an. 55 pp.
1993 Peasants, trees, and the domestic mode of production: Competing program models. Paper presented at the meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, San Antonio, Texas, and March 10 -- March 15, 1993.
1993 Institutional systems and community systems: Observations on child survival activities in Haiti. Port-au-Prince: USAID/Haiti and Datex. 22 pp.
1993 Tree planting by Ghanaian villagers: An evaluation of ADRA/Ghana and Peace Corps tree planting initiatives. Silver Spring, MD: Adventist Development Relief Agency (ADRA). (78 pp.)
1992 Emergency aid to the poor of Gainesville: An analysis of the database of the Catholic Charities Bureau. Gainesville, FL: Catholic Charities. (44 pp.)
1992 Natural resource use by farmers and fishers of southern El Salvador: A USAID Project Paper social soundness analysis. San Salvador: USAID (48 pp).
1991 The tree gardens of Haiti: From extraction to domestication. In D. Challinor & M. Hardt Frondorf (Eds.), Social forestry: Communal and private management strategies compared (pp. 35-44). Washington, D.C.: School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University.
1991 The phantom child in Haitian Voodoo: A folk-religious model of uterine life. In K. Davis & E. Farajaje-Jones (Eds.), African Creative Expressions of the Divine. Washington, D.C.: Howard U. Press, pp. 4-26.
1991 The determinants of soil conservation in the Dominican Republic: Operationalizing the concept of "culture". Washington, D.C.: World Bank
1991 Campesino, árbol, e Iglesia: Un proyecto de reforestacion intermediado por la Iglesia. Estudios Sociales (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) 84: 73-85.
1991 Response to comments by David Weiss on my review article "Rethinking the Wings of the Dove." Tradition 25(3):106-107 (A journal of the Orthodox Rabbinic Council of America)
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1991 Globalization and the nation state: An anthropological perspective on the evolution of political structures. Washington, D.C.: McKinsey & Co.
1990 Anthropology, evangelization, and abortion: Applications of emics and etics. In T. Headland, K. Pike, & M. Harris (Eds.), Emics and etics: The insider/outsider debate (pp.144-163). Sage.
1990 Anthropology, evolution, and Judaism: Rethinking the wings of the dove". Tradition 25(1):81-90. (A journal of the Orthodox Rabbinic Council of America.)
1990 'Bon-dieu' e os ritos de passagem no Haiti rural: determinantes estruturais da teologia e dos rituais pos-coloniais. Estudos Afro-Asiaticos (Brazil) 19:5-28. Translation of 1985.
1990 Land tenure and trees in the Central Plateau: Anthropological guidelines for project design in Haiti. Port-au-Prince and Wash. D.C.: Organization of American States. (160 pp.)