Director and Senior Lecturer 259 Hewes Street

JANUARY 2017

CURRICULUM VITAE

SAM BECK

New York City Urban Semester Brooklyn, NY 11211

New York State College

Of Human Ecology Cell 516-659-6994

Cornell University Office 212-746-2273

Olin Hall Fax 212-746-8312

445 East 69th Street, # 324

New York, NY 10021

EDUCATION

1980-1981Post-doctoral Fellow in Alcohol Studies, Department of Anthropology, Brown University

1978-1980Post-doctoral Research Fellow, IREX, Romanian research

1979 Ph. D. Anthropology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

1973 M.A. Anthropology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

1969 B.A. Anthropology, Portland State University

1967-1968 Year Abroad, University of Zagreb, Yugoslavia

ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION

Present-Director, New York City Urban Semester, College of

1992 Human Ecology, Cornell University.

1992-Director, Field and International Study Program, College

1988of Human Ecology, Cornell University.

1985- Eugene Lang College, New School for Social Research,

1988 Associate Dean, Assistant Dean, Assistant Dean of Planning.

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

1985- City of Providence, Rhode Island, Acting Director of Public

1982 Programming, Director, Program Manager, Museum of

Natural History

TEACHING

1992- Senior Lecturer and Director, Urban Semester Program,

present College of Human Ecology, Cornell University.

1998-2005Faculty Member, New York Presbyterian Hospital Department of Pastoral

Care and Education

1998-Tutor, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Medicine Patient

2005Society II-Medical Ethics

1992Director and Senior Lecturer, Field and International Study Program,

1988-College of Human Ecology, Cornell University.

1985-Faculty Member, Eugene Lang College, New School for

1988Social Research.

1984Lecturer, Department of Anthropology and Soviet and East European Language and Area Center, Harvard University.

1983Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Urban Education Center, Rhode Island College.

1981-Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology, Barnard

1982 College/Columbia University.

1978Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Utah.

1975- Teaching Assistant, Department of Human Development,

1976University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

1973Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

2016-2017Community Health Fairs and Actions in North Brooklyn

2013-2016Data collection, input and analysis of Affordable Housing intake form, medical related data.

2012Development of a “peoples’ museum” in North Brooklyn, La Museo de Los Sures in collaboration with Churches United for Fair Housing and Los Sures, Southside United Housing.

Curated La Museo de Los Sures photographic exhibition of archived photographs owned by Los Sures United Housing.

Chronological History of Williamsburg.

Analysis of workshop data generated for Churches United for Fair Housing.

Developed intake form for CUFFH affordable housing workshops that includes medical history.

2011Census analysis (2012) of North Brooklyn gentrification and displacement processes with Churches United for Fair Housing and Urban Semester student Steven Han.

2010-presentCommunity participation project with Churches United for Fair Housing.

2009-2011 Academic semester project: North Brooklyn Latino (and others) Oral History Project.

2006Unique summer session for pre-med students, an eight week session. Seminars with physicians and medical college administrators. Seminars with local level leaders from Williamsburg, Brooklyn and two separate sections through which Cornell students have contact with inner-city children and youth from Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant..

2005Unique summer session for pre-med students, an eight week session. Seminars were developed with physicians and medical school administrators. Seminars with local level “popular” religious practitioners, representing relatively new immigrant populations and American natives (Haitian Voudun, Korean Buddhism, Jewish Hasidism, Native American). A unique photograph project was developed with teenage boys from Bedford Stuyvesant, “Good Health in the Hood,” developing deeper insights into the practice of communication across socio-cultural and economic boundaries.

2002-Community service learning student placements in cooperation

2006with South Side Community Mission, Beginning with Children Charter School, Nuestros Ninos Child Development Center, Northside Catholic Academy, and the Saint Nicholas Neighborhood Preservation Corp, Ghetto Film School, Bedford Stuyvesant after school academy.

2002-Development of the North Brooklyn Community Directory in cooperation

2003with South Side Community Mission, Beginning with Children Charter School, Nuestros Ninos Child Development Center, Northside Catholic Academy, and the Saint Nicholas Neighborhood Preservation Corp.

1995- Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association, “Alternative

2000 Visions” with 20 South Bronx children (ages 7-14, photographic project of community, exhibit and oral presentations at opening. Between four and

ten Cornell University undergraduates learned about the South Bronx with the children.

1994-Women’s and Children’s Health Center of Western Queens, New York

1998 Hospital/Cornell Medical Center. Health education outreach. Students

developed outreach material for local communities and provided presentations in community settings. Up to two Cornell University students learned about community Clinics and the populations they serve.

1994-Burn Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York. “Ouch!...Be

presentCareful,” Newsletter for Burn Victims and The Ones They Love. In collaboration with Vivian Youngblood. Also direct services provided by students. This is part of a pre-med program that takes place in New York Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell Weill College of Medicine. Students work with burn patients, often children, help them move body parts, often help clean burn wounds, and learn about the culture of medicine and socio-cultural issues related to the nature of burns among children and adults.

1994-TAPP Program (Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting Program), New York

presentPresbyterian Hospital/Cornell Medical Center. Direct service, program development, health education outreach. Up to five students are folded into this program to assist young teen mothers and mothers to be to adjust to an unfamiliar and often times threatening medical culture. They help socialize the young patients and assist them through difficult times in the clinical setting. One Cornell University student became “god-mother” to one of the teens. Cornell students learn about women’s, adolescent, pre-natal-neo-natal and pediatric medicine and team-based medical care.

1994New York City Schooling. Participants have included the Harvey Milk

2004School of the Hetrick-Martin Institute, East Harlem School at Exodus House, Banana Kelly High School, and North Brooklyn Schools (see below). Mentoring and other direct services. Up to 32 Cornell undergraduates are distributed over the landscape to schools, each of which decides the nature of support they need from the students. Most engage in tutoring that usually results in bonding and the transfer of unintended information, such as college life and issues related to boundary crossing. Cornell University students learn about the nature of life among children in some of the most disadvantaged parts of New York City. Not inconsequential for most teachers, Cornell students relieve some of the stresses and strains of teaching 25 or more students.

1994Unique relationship established with the Beginning with Children School

presentand Beginning with Children Foundation. Mentoring, in-class and pull-out services, and other program services, including research. As above, students bond with the children and vice versa, with powerful unintended learning produced by them through the development of mutuality. Teachers appreciate the support they get from our students. As many as sixteen students have participated in a semester.

1994Unique relationship established with Nuestros Ninos, pre-school. Direct

present services, supporting schooling activities, pre-and after-school. This part

of the program began by providing Cornell students to a Spanish mono-lingual setting to enable pre-schoolers to assimilate English, enough so that they would gain the confidence necessary to enter public school settings. Up to four students participate.

2000Unique relationship established with the South Side Mission, Williams-

presentburg that includes North Brooklyn schools: Beginning with Children, Nuestros Ninos, the Northside Academy, Fort Green Community Charter School. On each site, students have participated as mentors to children and assisted teachers in the classroom. As is the case for the above mentioned school programs, Cornell University students gain the insights of what it is like to live in a primarily people of color neighborhood and the resiliency and power found among residents to improve their lives.

BOOKS and SPECIAL ISSUES

2016“The Hassidim of North Brooklyn.” Teresa A. Booker, ed. Public Space, Public Policy, and Public Understanding of Race and Ethnicity in America: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Akron, Ohio: The University of Akron Press. Pp. 51-76.

2016Towards Communities of Practice in Global Sustainability.” (edited with Carl Maida) Anthropology in Action; Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice. Special Issue. Berghan. Vol. 23 (1 & 2)

2015Public Anthropology in a Borderless World. Sam Beck and Carl Maida, eds. Brooklyn: Berghahn Books.

2014Toward Engaged Anthropology. Sam Beck and Carl Maida, eds. Brooklyn: Berghahn Books.

2006Experiential Learning, Lived Practice, and Knowing-in-Action. Special Issue. Sam Beck, Guest Editor. The Anthropology of Work Review, Society for the Anthropology of Work, American Anthropology Association. XXVI (2).

2001Radicalizing Anthropology? Toward Experiential Learning. Special Issue. Sam Beck Guest Editor of Radicalizing Anthropology. The Anthropology of Work Review, Society for the Anthropology of Work, American Anthropology Association. XXII (2): 1-6).

1992Manny Almeida’s Ringside Lounge: The Cape Verdean Struggle for their Neighborhood. Providence, RI GAVEA-Brown Publications

1981Ethnicity and Nationalism in Southeastern Europe. (co-edited) with John W. Cole). Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, Antropologisch-Sociologisch Centrum.

ARTICLES and CHAPTERS

2016“The Hasidim in North Brooklyn.” Public Space, Public Policy, and Public Understanding of Race and Ethnicity in America: An Interdisciplinary Approach. The University of Akron Press: Akron, Ohio. Pp.51-76.

2016“Introduction: Towards Communities of Practice in Global Sustainability.” (with Carl Maida) Anthropology in Action; Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice. Berghan Journals. Special Issue. Vol. 23 (1): 1-5.

2016“Knowledge Production and Emancipatory Social Movements from the Heart of Globalised Hipsterdom. Williamsburg, Brooklyn.” Anthropology in Action; Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice. Berghan Journals. Vol. 23 (1): 1-5.

2015“Introduction” (with Carl Maida) Pp. 1-35. Public Anthropology in a Borderless World (co-edited with Carl Maida). Brooklyn: Berghahn Books.

2015“Urban Transitions: Graffiti Transformations,” Pp. 314-350. Public Anthropology in a Boerderless World (co-edited with Carl Maida). Brooklyn: Berghahn Books.

2014“Facilitating the initiation of the physician’s professional identity: Cornell’s urban semester program. (with Peter Goldstein and Carol Storey-Johnson). Perspectives in Medical Education.

2013“Introduction: Toward Engaged Anthropology” with Carl Maida. Sam Beck and Carl Maida, eds. Toward Engaged Anthropology. Brooklyn: Berghahn Books.

2011“Public Anthropology as Public Pedagogy: An Autobiographical Account.” McKenna, Brian and Antonia Darder, eds. The Art of Public Pedagogy: Should ‘The Truth’ Dazzle Gradually or Thunder Mightily? Special Issue Policy Futures in Education 9((6). 6.asp

2009“Introduction: Public Anthropology Public Anthropology. Special Issue, nr. 2, Sam Beck and Carl Maida, Guest Editor. Anthropology in Action; Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice Anthropology in Action; Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice. Bergham Journals. 17(1): 1-15.

2009“Introduction: Public Anthropology.” Public Anthropology. Special Issue, Sam Beck, Guest Editor. Anthropology in Action; Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice. Bergham Journals. 16(2):1-13.

2006“Healthy Wednesdays in Our Hood.” In

Hofman, Nila Ginger and Howard Rosing, editors.

Pedagogies of Praxis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on
Course-Based Action Research. Boltom, MA: Anker Publishing.

2006“Introduction: Experiential Learning, Lived Practice and Knowing-In-Action.” Sam Beck, ed. Special Issue. The Anthropology of Work Review (peer reviewed), Society for the Anthropology of Work. XXVI (2):1-5.

2005“Community Service Learning.” Bulletin of the General Anthropology Division. 12: 1-2.

----“Anthropology and Service Learning: A Personal Journal,” In Festschrift in honor of John W. Cole (manuscript).

2003“Becoming a North American Anthropologist.” Society for the Anthropology of North America, Anthropology News. February P 47.

2002“Radicalizing Anthropology: Community Service Learning,” Special Issue, The Anthropology of Work Review, Society for the Anthropology of Work. XXII (2).

2000Community Service Learning: Where is Anthropology? Anthropology News, Society for the Anthropology of North America. October.

1993“Racism and the Formation of a Romani Ethnic Leader.” In George E. Marcus, Editor, Perilous States: Conversations on Culture, Politics and Nation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

1992“Persona Non Grata: Ethnicity and Romanian Nationalism.” Christine Gailey, ed. Dialectical Anthropology; Essays Presented to Stanley Diamond. University of Florida Press.

1991Toward a Civil Society: The Struggle Over University Square in Bucuresti, Romania, June 1990. Socialism and Democracy. 13: 135-154. (Revised from 1991a)

1991a“Contested Space: The Symbolic Nature of the Romanian Revolution in 1990.” Working Papers on Transitions from State Socialism: Cornell Project on Comparative Institutional Analysis; Center for International Studies, Cornell University.

1991b“What Brought Romanians to Revolt.” Critique of Anthropology. 11(1): 7-31.

1989“Introduction: Ethnic Identity as Contested Terrain.” Dialectical Anthropology, 14: 1-6

1989a“The Origins of Gypsy Slavery,” Dialectical Anthropology, 14: 53-61.

1988“Romanian Americans: New Directions in Studying Ethnics,” in Romania and America, Paul Quinlan, ed. Oakland, CA: American Romanian Academy of Sciences.

1987“Privat-Bauern in Rumanien: Die sozialistiche Umgestaltung in den 1970er Jahren,” Osteuropa, 37 (11): 851-861.

1987a“Cape Verdeans,” Rhode Island Labor History. Rhode Island History Journal (Contributor and Associate Editor)

1986“Tsigani-Gypsies in Socialist Romania: Ethnicity, Class and Public Policy.” Giessener Hefte fur Tsiganologie. 3(1-4): 109-127.

1986a“Indigenous Anthropology in Socialist Romania.” Dialectical Anthropology. 10: 265-274.

1985“The Romanian Gypsy Problem.” Gypsy Lore Society North American Chapter Publications. 2:100-109.

1984“Ethnicity, Class and Public Policy: Tsigani/Gypsies in Socialist Romania.” Papers of the V. Congress of the Southeast European Studies. Belgrade, edited Hot H. Shangriladze and Erica W. Townsend, Columbus, Ohio, Slavica Publishers for the U.S. National Committee of AIESEE.

1983“Longshoremen’s Union Local 1329.” Rhode Island Working, Paul Buhle, Scott Molloy and Gail Sansbury, eds., Providence, RI.

1982“East European Folk Arts Festival.” Newsletter of the East European Anthropology Group. 1(1): 4-5.

1981“Alcohol Use in Eastern Europe.” Newsletter of the East European Anthropology Group. 1(1): 4-5

1981aThe Hmong from Asia to Providence (co-authored by Amy Catlin.) The Center for Hmong Lore, Providence, RI, Park Museum Publications. Pp. 40

1981bNha Distino: Cape Verdean Folk Arts (co-authored by Stephen Cabral) Providence, RI, Park Museum Publications.

1981cFocus on Fox Point: Cape Verdean Displacement (videotape), Providence, RI, Fox Point Community Center.

1981d“Romania: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Development.” (co-authored by Marilyn McArthur). Ethnicity and Nationalism in Southeastern Europe. Pp. 26-69. Sam Beck and John W. Cole, eds. Amsterdam: Antropologisch-Sociologisch Centrum.

1980“Sedentarization of the Pastoral Nomadic Qashqa’i.” Ethnologica. 1(3): 71-84; 156-157.

1979“Transylvanian Ethnicity: A Critique of ‘Ethnocide in Romania.’” (co-authored by Romanian Research Group). Current Anthropology 20 (1): 135-148.

1979a“Telepulesformak Es A Parast-Munkas Egy Erdelyi Kozossegben” (The Transformation of Peasant Workers in Upland Transylvania). Paraszti Trsadalom Es Muveltsega 18-20 Szabadban As Ulesszak Felscalalasa. Volume VI: 103-110 Budapest, Hungary: Magyar Neprajzi Tarasasag and Szolnok, Damajnisch Janos Muzeum.

1976“The Emergence of the Peasant Workers in a Transylvanian Mountain Community.” Dialectical Anthropology. 1(4): 365-376.

TRANSLATIONS

1980“The Pollution of Folklife,” by Harry Brauner, Ethnologica, 1(3): 83-89 (from Romanian).

1980a“Traditions of Interdisciplinary Research in Romania,” by Romulus Vulcanescu, Ethnologica, 1(3): 90-100 (from Romanian).

REVIEWS

The Anthropology of East Europe Review, American Ethnologist, American Quarterly of Soviet and East European Studies, Journal of American Folklore, Anthropology in Action

EDITOR and EDITORIAL BOARD

2013-presentMember of Editorial Board, Anthropology in Action; Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice. Berghahn Books.

2006-2014Member of Editorial Board, Self Help and Self Care. Baywood Publishing Co., Inc. Editor, Fred Massarik.

1989-93East European Anthropology Review (co-editor, David Kideckel, University of Central Connecticut).

DELIVERED PAPERS, DISCUSSANT, ORGANIZED SYMPOSIA, CHAIRED SYMPOSIA

2014Invited discussant, Roma Policies in Romania: Between Ethnicity and Social Vulnerability: The Perspectives of Nicolae Gheorghe. August 5–7. Bucharest, Romania, Roma Cultural Museum.

2014Invited discussant, Ethnicity: Political, Social and Cultural Construct. Bucharest, Romania (August 11-12).

2013Co-Organized and chaired (with Carl Maida) Cultural Expression, Social Knowledge, and Political Consciousness in Social Movements.” 112th Annual Meeting of the AAA in Chicago. November 20-24.

2013“Neighborhood, Community, Sustainability and Political Consciousness in An Urban Social Movement: Latinos in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.” 112th Annual Meeting of the AAA in Chicago. November 20-24.

2013“Knowledge Production and Emancipatory Social Movements from the Heart of Globalized Hipsterdom, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.” IUAES 2013 World Congress: Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds in Manchester, England. August 5–10.

2012Organized and co-chaired (with Carl Maida) “Collective Identity and Collective Memory in Movement Cultures.” 111th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco, CA. November 12-18.

2012“The Commons As a Social Movement: Latino Williamsburg in the Struggle for Their Neighborhood.” 111th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco, CA. November 12-18.

2011Organized and co-chaired (with Carl Maida) “Craft and Consciousness:

Improving Life Chances in Twenty-first Century Cities.” 110th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Montreal, QC, Canada, November 16-20.

2011“Creating a Redundant Workforce: A Turn Towards Pedagogies of Practice.” 110th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Montreal, QC, Canada, November 16-20, 2011.

2010Organized and co-chaired (with Carl Maida) “Civic Aesthetics and Transformational Urbanism.” 109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association in New Orleans. November 17-21.

2010“Urbanism, Graffiti and Urban Aesthetics: Defining Disparities Through Art.” 109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association in New Orleans. November 17-21.

2009Organized and co-chaired (with Carl Maida) “Public Anthropology and Aesthetic Productions.” 108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November.