RICHARD H. ROBBINS

Curriculum Vitae

ADDRESSES:

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Essex, NY 12936

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Department of Anthropology

State University of New York

Plattsburgh, NY 12901

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EDUCATION:

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

North Carolina. Department of Anthropology.

Ph.D.,

New York University, Washington Square, New

York. Department of Anthropology.

MA

Rutgers--The State University, New Brunswick

New Jersey. Department of Psychology.

BA

CURRENT POSITION:

SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, SUNY at Plattsburgh

OTHER ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

Acting Vice President for Academic Affairs 1985-1986

The Vice President for Academic Affairs is the chief academic officer of the college. The

Deans, Associate and Assistant Vice Presidents, Director of the Library and Academic

Computing, the Registrar and Director of Continuing Education report directly to the

Academic Vice President.

Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs, State University of New York at

Plattsburgh. 1979 to 1985

The duties of the Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs include directing the

College's General Education Program, coordinating graduate programs, directing the

Freshman Seminar Program, developing program articulation with two-year colleges, and

developing programs and services for transfer students, directing the Individualized Major

Program, coordinating interdisciplinary institutes, and coordinating the National Faculty

Exchange Program on the Plattsburgh campus.

Visiting Faculty, University of Virginia, Semester at Sea. Spring 2010

Fellow at the Institute for Ethics in Public Life, Plattsburgh State University, Fall

2000

Visiting Fellow, University of Edinburgh, Science Studies Unit. 1982 to 1983

Professor of Anthropology, SUNY at Plattsburgh, 1996 to 2002

Associate Professor of Anthropology, SUNY at Plattsburgh, 1972 to 1995.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, SUNY at Plattsburgh, 1969-1972

Instructor, SUNY at Plattsburgh, 1966-1969

Visiting Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Summer 1972

SELECTED COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY-WIDE, or SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS[1]:

. Promotion Review Board, 2001 to present

. Member, College Committee on Distance Learning, 1996-present

. Member, Curriculum Committee of the Faculty Senate, 1995-1997

. Member, President's Committee on Academic Computing, 1992-1996

. Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Student Access to Computers

. Member, University Awards Committee of the Research Foundation of the State University

of New York, 1991-1993

. Member, Editorial Board, ERIC monographs in Higher Education 1991-92

. Chairman, Short-Range Planning Sub-Committee, and member of the Computer Services

Committee, 1987/88

. Vice-President, Faculty Senate, 1978-1979

. Chairman, Presidents Summer Committee to Review General Education. 1978

. Chairman, Undergraduate Studies Committee of the Faculty Senate, 1977-1979

. Member, Presidential Committee to Define the Mission of the College. Summer 1977

. Sub-Committee Chairman, University Awards Committee of the Research Foundation of the

State University of New York, 1978-80.

. Member, University Awards Committee of the Research Foundation of the State University

of New York, 1977-1980.

. Member, Upward Bound Program, SUNY at Plattsburgh, 1974-1976

.

Director, Living-Learning Community, SUNY at Plattsburgh, 1974-1976. As Director I

initiated and developed a living-learning environment in which faculty offices of the

Department of Sociology and Anthropology were relocated in an existing dormitory. The goal

of the Community was to create a learning environment that encouraged faculty-student

interaction.

. Chairman, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, SUNY at Plattsburgh, 1973-1975

. Member, Canadian Studies Program,

SUNY at Plattsburgh. 1973 to present.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Courses I have taught include Introduction to Anthropology, Native Peoples of North

America, Culture and Belief, Anthropological Theory, Intentional Communities, Cross-

Cultural Understanding, American Culture, Identity and Culture, Anthropology and History,

Medical Anthropology, Culture and Alienation, the Anthropology of War, Medicine and

Society, and Anthropology and Global Perspectives, the Anthropology of Food and the

Anthropology of Stuff. Other teaching duties include a workshop on alcoholism, Freshman

Seminars, a special seminar on Acadian Studies, lectures in Canadian Studies, a course on

Science, Technology and Values, a workshop for Primary and Secondary school teachers on

using group-inquiry in the classroom, an Honors Course for Presidential Fellows, and

participation in the Looking for America Freshman Course Cluster.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

. The Twelve Tribes: A Religious Commune (continuing)

. Naskapi Patterns of Physical and Mental Health. June through October, 1989

. The Impact of Social Change on the Naskapi of Schefferville, Quebec. Summer of 1988

. The social and economic history of an Acadian fishing village in Northeastern New

Brunswick. Field research conducted in the summers of 1974, 1975, 1976, and the Fall of

1975.

. Fieldwork Director in Schefferville, Quebec, Summer 1968. My responsibilities included

directing three graduate students in their research on Naskapi Indians.

. Dissertation research on economic change and adaptation of Naskapi Indians in

Schefferville, Quebec. January to August 1966

. Political Change among the Cree Indians on Hudson's Bay, Summer 1965.

ADDITIONAL RESEARCH INTERESTS

. Religious communities

. World-systems and the expansion of capitalism

. Social history of science and the sociology of knowledge

. Technology and Society.

. Anthropological study of belief systems.

. Teaching and the use of group-inquiry in the classroom

. Technology in Teaching

GRANTS AND HONORS:

American Anthropological Association AAA/McGraw-Hill Teacher of the Year Award, 2005

SUNY University Distinguished Teaching Professor, 2002

Research Grant on New Religious Movements, Summer 2001, SUNY Research Foundation

Selection by Choice (the Journal of the Association of College and Research Libraries )

for An Outstanding Academic Title of the year for 1999 for Global Problems and the Culture

of Capitalism.

SUNY Technology and Instruction Grant, Summer 1998

Recipient of the 1994 Textbook and Academic Authors Association Excellence Award for the

outstanding text in the social sciences and humanities Cultural Anthropology: A Problem-

Based Approach.

SUNY Grant for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education to develop computer software

and written guidelines to enhance collaborative writing (with Pat Hoffman and Penny

Dugan), 1992

Institutional Research Grant from the Canadian Consulate for Research on the Relationship

between Socio-Cultural Environment and Health among the Naskapi Indians of Schefferville

Quebec, 1989

Consortium for International Cooperation in Higher Education, Course Development Grant

1988

Canadian Consulate Grant for Research on Economic Dislocation among Naskapi Indians in

Scherfferville, Noveau Quebec, 1987/88

SUNY Research Foundation. Grant for the Improvement of Undergraduate Instruction, 1982.

National Endowment for the Humanities, Consultant Grant for the Development of General

Education, 1978-1979

National Institute of Mental Health. Grant for research on population movement and

economic change in Northeastern New Brunswick, Canada, 1977

Recipient SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1977

Donner Foundation Grant for Research on social change in an Acadian fishing village, 1975

SUNY Research Foundation Grant for the study of drinking behavior among the Naskapi

Indians, 1971

National Institute of Mental Health, research on economic change among Naskapi Indians

and Director of Field Training Program, 1968

National Institute of Mental Health, research on political change among Cree Indians,

1965

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

2005

The History of Technology: The Western Tradition, in Sal Restivo, Edited, The Oxford

Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Society. Oxford University Press

2005

Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism (3rd Edition) Allyn & Bacon, Publishers,

Boston, Mass.

2004

"The Political Economy of Twinkies: An Inquiry into the Real Cost of Things." In, J.-L

Chodkiewicz and R.E. Wiest, Editors. Globalization and Community: Canadian Perspectives.

University of Manitoba. Anthropology Papers 34

2004

Talking Points on Global Issues: A Reader. Allyn & Bacon Publishers, Boston, Mass

2002

Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism (2nd Edition) Allyn & Bacon, Publishers,

Boston, Mass.

2001

Anthropology on the Net (with Larry J. Zimmerman and Doug Gotthoffer). Boston: Allyn &

Bacon

2001

Cultural Anthropology: A Problem Based Approach (3rd Edition) Peacock Publishers, Itasca,

Illinois

1999

Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism. (Selected by Choice: the Journal of the

Association of College and Research Libraries, as an Outstanding Academic Title of the

year for 1999.)

1999

Ethnic Violence and the Question of Political Sovereignty. In Perspectives Anthropology,

edited by Richard Deutsch. Coursewise Publishing Inc., St. Paul, MN

1998

Quick Guide to the Internet for Cultural Anthropology (with Douglas Gotthoffer). Allyn &

Bacon Publishers, Boston, Mass.

1997

Cultural Anthropology: A Problem-Based Approach, Second Edition. Peacock Publishers,

Itasca, Illinois

1993

Cultural Anthropology: A Problem-Based Approach. Peacock Publishers, Itasca, Illinois.

(Recipient of the Textbook and Academic Authors Association Excellence Award for the

outstanding text in the social sciences and humanities for 1994.)

1992

Anthropology, Science, and the Culture of the Classroom. with James Armstrong. In

Teaching Anthropology Creatively, edited by Paul Erikson.

1988

The Belief Machine. Published on the web at

http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/richard.robbins/Belief/belief-machine.htm

1985

Scientism and the New Liberal Arts. Proceedings of the North Country Workshop on Science,

Technology and the Undergraduate Curriculum. State University of New York at Potsdam.

1985

Anthropology and the Teaching of Human Values (with Phillip DeVita). In Anthropology and

Education Quarterly, Special Issue, Teaching Anthropology 16:251-256

1983

The Freshman Reader. Edited and Written with Phillip DeVita, Thomas Moran, and Douglas

Skopp SUNY at Plattsburgh

1982

The Individual and Society: The Influences of John J. Honigmann. In Culture and Ethos

edited by Ann McElroy. Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly, Volume 7, nos. 2-3

1981

The Rationale for General Education. Proceedings of the 2nd Annual SUNY Inter-Campus

Conference on General Education

1975

Canadian Native Peoples: A Review Essay. The American Review of Canadian Studies Volume

1, #5

1974

Anthropological Fieldwork, with Phillip DeVita. In Our Way, Their Way, edited by Amin

Islam. Mss Corporation, New York.

1974

Identity and the Interpersonal Theory of Disease. In Social and Cultural Identity edited

by Thomas Fitzgerald. University of Georgia Press

1973

Identity, Culture and Behavior. In The Handbook of Social and Cultural Anthropology,

Edited by John J. Honigmann. Rand McNally

1973

Alcohol and the Identity Struggle: Some Effects of Economic Change on Interpersonal

Relations. American Anthropologist, Volume 75, 99-122. Reprinted in Beliefs, Behavior and

Alcoholic Beverages: A Cross Cultural Survey. Edited by Mac Marshall, University of

Michigan Press. 1979 Also Reprinted in Alcohol and the North American Indian. Edited by

John Hamer and Jack Steinbring.1980, University Press of America

1969

Economic Change and Ecological Adaptation among the Schefferville Naskapi. McGill

Subarctic Research Laboratory Reports, Volume 4

INTERNET SITES:

1996-present

Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism (http://www.plattsburgh.edu/legacy) A multi-

purpose site that includes, among other things, course material, an Internet course,

support materials for the book, Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, a "global

update" feature, and an extensive collection of links to Internet resources on global

issues.

1998-present

The Online Global Problems Reader (with Gloria Bobbie)

(http://www.plattsburgh.edu/legacy/gpr.htm) An extensive collection of Online articles,

information, and simulations on global issues designed to be used for undergraduate

courses, for secondary school students, as well as a general audience.

1998-99

Courselinks: Anthropology (http://www.coursewise.com)

Editor of the anthropology section for Coursewise Publishing (Houghton-Mifflin). The

editor is responsible for a monthly column addressing issues of anthropological concern,

maintaining a list on annotated links to anthropological resources on the Internet, and

designing worksheets and Online quizzes.

SERIES EDITOR:

2008- Routledge Press

Series for:

Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology

Anthropoplogy of Stuff

Published Volumes Include:

Re-Imagining Milk by Andrea Wiley

Lycra by Kaori O'Connor

Coffee Culture by Cathering Tucker

McCounterfeiting, Inc. by Yi-Chieh Jessica Lin

Volumes in Preparation Include works on:

Alcohol

Trash

Bicycles

Branding

SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS, INVITED PRESENTATIONS, AND KEYNOTE ADDRESSES:

2008 The (Im)Morality of Economic Growth. Invited address at Western Washington

University, November 18, 2008

2008 Violence, the Informal Economy and the Neoliberal State. Paper presented at a

conference on Violence and Weak States, University of Vermont, March 27, 2008

2007

"William Jennings Bryan and the Secularization of Politics and Religion the United

States: A Cautionary Tale." Paper Presented for the session Anthropology at the

Intersection of Religion and Politics at the Annual Meeting of the American

Anthropological Association, November 28

2007 Countering Student Counter-Culture Invited presentation at a workshop, Tips for

Teaching Anthropology by recipients of the AAA/McGraw-Hill Award for Excellence in

Teaching Anthropology, for the 2007 Meeting of the American Anthropological Association

2006 Sustainability and the Reconceptualization of Economic Life . Prepared for the

session Sitting on Our Hands: Silences about Sustainability and Local Engagement

organizered: by Sarah Lyon, Peggy Barlett, and Rick Wilk for the 2006 Meeting of the

American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA.

2006 Constructing Classroom Culture. Invited presentation at a workshop, Tips for

Teaching Anthropology by recipients of the AAA/McGraw-Hill Award for Excellence in

Teaching Anthropology, for the 2006 Meeting of the American Anthropological Association,

San Jose, CA.

2006 Polanyi s Paradox Revisited: Rethinking Economic Theory on Growth. Paper Prepared

for a Conference, "Anthropologues et economistes face a la globalisation," sponsored by

Faculte des Sciences economiques et sociales at the Universite de Lille 1, March 16-17,

2006

2005 Activism and the Decline of Civic Participation in the United States. Invited

Address Delivered at Alternative Days. Sponsored by Alternatives. Montreal, Quebec.

September 10, 2005

2005 Educating for Global Citizenship in the Society of Perpetual Growth. Keynote Address

Delivered at LaGuardia Community College, at a conference on Educating for Global

Citizenship, New York City, September 1, 2005

2004 Anthropology and the Market. Workshop on Globalization and Trade, Chestnut Hill

College, Philadelphia, PA, March 11, 2004

2003 Citizen Activism and the Decline of Democracy. Gannett Lecture Series on

Globalization, Human Rights and Citizenship. Rochester Institute of Technology, September

25, 2003

2003 Anthropology, Global Studies, and Public Policy: A Proposal Regarding the Real Cost

of Things. Paper given at a Session on The Interface of Anthropology and Global Studies at

the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. March 19-23, 2003

2002

The Business of Diversity. Keynote address delivered at a Conference on The Business of

Diversity, City of Plattsburgh, August 22, 2002

2001

Religious Intolerance and the Rights of Children. Invited paper delivered at the annual

meeting of the Center for the Study of New Religions, London School of Economics, April

21, 2001

2001

Globalization and Human Rights: An Anthropological Perspective. Plenary address and panel

participation at a conference on Globalization and Human Rights: Are They Compatible?, at

Rochester Institute of Technology, April 19, 2001.

2000

The Political Economy of Twinkies: An Inquiry into the Real Cost of Things. Keynote

Address delivered at a Conference on Globalization and Community sponsored by the Society

for Applied Anthropology of Manitoba, March 11, 2000. Winnipeg, Canada

1997

Nicki, Mickey, and Barbie: Kinderculture in America. A paper prepared for the SUNY at

Plattsburgh "Last Lecture Series," a series of lectures in which selected faculty are

invited to give an address "as if" it were her or his "last lecture." The paper is Online

1967

The Two Chiefs: Changing Leadership Patterns among the Great Whale River Cree. Paper

delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Anthropological Society, Montreal,

Canada

Editor's Choice Columns:

Editor's Choice Columns were a monthly feature of the Perspectives: Anthropology site at

Coursewise.com. Each article contained web links to relevant sources. The following

columns are available at

http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/richard.robbins/legacy/editors_choice/editors_choice.htm

January 15, 1999The Debate Over Population Growth

February 15, 1999The Disappearance of Indigenous Peoples

March 15, 1999Violence and the Nation-State

April 15, 1999Anthropology and Global Hunger

May 15, 1999Culture and Disease

September 15, 1999Anthropology on Consumerism

October 15, 1999The Devastation of East Timor

November 15, 1999

Culture and the World Trade Organization (WTO

)

January 15, 2000

Anthropology and the Environment

February 15, 2000

Anthropology and Race:

The Rise and Persistence of Scientific RacismMarch 15, 2000

The Hidden Cost of ThingsApril 15, 2000

The IMF/World Bank Protests

[1] This does not include various departmental and college-wide search committees

[2] I generally have not kept a record of public talks or other class presentations given

on the PSU campus or to local audiences. I have, however, reconstructed those given in

2001.

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