Faculty Publications
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2025 Boke, C.; Kelly, S.; Spang, A.. "Assessing the 2023 Floods in Rural Vermont: Multimodal Methodology and Community Science for Mitigation in the Black River Valley." Natural Hazards Center Weather Ready Research Reports.
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Sosin, Anne N., & Carpenter-Song, Elizabeth A. 2024. Reimagining Rural Health Equity: Understanding Disparities And Orienting Policy, Practice, And Research In Rural America. Health Affairs, 43(6), 791-797.
2024. Effects of Tibetan Herbal Formulas on Symptom Length and Reduction among Ambulatory Patients with SARS Co-V2 Infection: A Retrospective Cohort Study. T. Tidwell, T. Namgyal, et al. (S.R. Craig is senior/last author). Brain Behavior and Immunity Integrative 5(2024) 100051. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbii.2024.100051.
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DeSilva, J. 2021. First Steps. How Upright Walking Made us Human. HarperCollins.
2021-25
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- Higher Education Investment in the Arab States of the Gulf: Strategies for Excellence and Diversity, ed. Dale F. Eickelman and Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf (Berlin: Gerlach Press, 2017)
http://www.gerlach-books.de/attachment/INFO%20Gerlach%20Press_Eickelman_... - Africa and the Gulf Region: Blurred Boundaries and Shifting Ties, ed. Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf and Dale F. Eickelman (Berlin: Gerlach Press, 2015)
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- “The Modern Face of Ibadism in Oman,” in On Ibadism, ed. Angeliki Ziyaka (Hildesheim and New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2014), pp. 151-63.
- “Social Science under Siege: The Middle East.” In Serendipity in Anthropological Research: The Nomadic Turn, ed. Haim Hazan and Esther Herzog. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2012, pp. 213-27.
- “Media in Islamic and Area Studies: Personal Encounters,” Oriente Moderno 91, no. 1 (2011): 13-22.
- “Mainstreaming Islam: Taking Charge of the Faith,” Encounters, no. 2 (Spring 2010): 185-203.
- “Not Lost in Translation: The Influence of Clifford Geertz’s Work and Life on Anthropology in Morocco.” In Clifford Geertz in Morocco, ed. Susan Slyomovics. London: Routledge, 2010, pp. 67-77.
- “Culture and Identity in the Middle East: How They Influence Governance.” In Fighting Chance: Global Trends and Shocks in the National Security Environment, ed. Neyla Arnas. Washington: National Defense University Press and Potomac Books, 2009, pp. 157-72.
- “Foreword” (pp. vii-xi) and “Interview with Muhammad Shahrur” (pp. 501-23) in The Qur‘an, Morality, and Critical Reason: The Essential Muhammad Shahrur, trans. Andreas Christmann. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
- “Madrasas in Morocco: Their Vanishing Public Role,” in Schooling Islam: The Culture and Politics of Modern Muslim Education, ed. Robert W. Hefner and Muhammad Qasim Zaman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007, pp. 131-48.
- “Social Sciences and the Qur’an,” in Encyclopedia of the Qur’an, vol. 5, ed. Jane Dammen McAuliffe. Leiden: Brill, 2006, pp. 66-76.
- “Clifford Geertz and Islam,” in Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues, ed. Richard A. Shweder and Byron Good. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2005, pp. 63-75.
- “First Know the Enemy, Then Act,” in Anthropologists in the Public Sphere: Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power, ed. Roberto J. Gonzalez, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004, 2004, pp. 214-18 (First published in the Los Angeles Times, 2001).
- Muslim Politics, co-authored with James Piscatori, new edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.
- Public Islam and the Common Good, ed. Armando Salvatore and Dale F. Eickelman Leiden: Brill, 2004
- Muslim Politics , with J Piscatori, new edition (2004).
- New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere, 2nd edition, co-edited with Jon W. Anderson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2003.
- The Middle East and Central Asia: An Anthropological Approach, 4th edition. Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall. 2002.
Endicott, Kirk. "Peaceful sociality: The causes of nonviolence among the Orang Asli of Malaysia." In Jon Henrik Ziegeler Remme and Kenneth Sillander, eds., Human Nature and Social Life. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 97-109. 2017.
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Fannin LD, Seyoum C, Venkataraman VV, Yeakel JD, Janis CM, Cerling TE, Dominy NJ (2025). Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution. Science 389: 488–493.
The Politics of Digital Repatriation and its Relationship to Indigenous Data Sovereignty, in Digital Humanities, London: UCL Press, 2023.
Recalibrating the Museum: The Physical/Digital Repatriation of Te Hau Ki Turnaga, University of California, 2018
Wai262 and GeoAI: Expanding Mātauranga Māori Sovereignty in the Digital Age (forthcoming)
2023. Fleskes, R. E., Cabana, G. S., Gilmore, J., Juarez, C., Karcher, E., Oubré, L., Mishoe, G., Ofunniyin, A. A., Schurr, T. G. Community Engaged Ancient DNA Project Reveals Diverse Origins of 18th Century African and African descendants in Charleston, South Carolina. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120(3), e2201620120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2201620120
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Book Manuscripts
Diasporic Agency: Transnational Racial Leverage and Challenges to Exceptionalism in Brazil (Under Contract with Columbia University Press Series Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past/Present/Future)
Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022)
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
2022 "Latent Blackness: Afro-Brazilian People, History, and Culture in São Paulo, Brazil" in Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 26(3-4): 451-467.
2021 "I Africanize São Paulo: Vision, Race, and Afro-Paulista Visual Culture" in Journal of Global South Studies 38(1): 107-124.
2021 "Satirical Antiracism: Digital Protest Images in Afro-Brazilian Media," in Visual Anthropology Review 37(1): 31-51.
2017 "All Tangled Up: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Mariana Rondón's Bad Hair" in Black Camera 9(1): 47-61.
2017 "Representing Black Girlhood in Brazil: Culture and Strategies of Empowerment" in Communication, Culture, and Critique 10(4): 609-625.
2016 "The Help, Unscripted: Representing the Black Revolutionary Domestic in Afro-Brazilian Media" Feminist Media Studies 16(6): 1043-1056.
2016 "Learning to Transgress: Law 10.639 and Teacher Training Programs in Brazil" Transforming Anthropology 24(1): 70-79.
2015 "'Do I Look Suspicious?': Digital Acts, Narratives of Resistance to Police Violence in Brazil" College Language Association Journal 58(3-4): 286 – 302.
2013 "(En)countering Exceptionalism: Afro-Brazilian Responses to the Rise of Obama." Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 8(3): 323 – 335.
Edited Volume Chapters and Commentary
2023 "I Africanize São Paulo" in International Journal of Fashion Studies 10(2): 249-53.
2022 "bell hooks's Oppositional Gaze and Black Feminist Film Production in Brazil." In Women's Studies and Communication 45(4): 450-456.
2022 "Afro-Brazilian Creative Workers Speak: Juliana Vicente's Standpoint Cinema." In Women- Centered Film in Brazil: Filmmakers and Protagonists of the Twenty-First Century. Jack A. Draper III and Cacilda M. Rêgo, eds. Albany: SUNY Press, pp. 217 – 232.
2016 "But You (Don't) Look Like an African American: African Diaspora Looking Relations between Brazil and the United States." In Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production: Diaspora and Black Transnational Scholarship in the United States and Brazil. Gladys Mitchell-Walthour and Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 99-111.
2013 "Resistance Televised: The TV da Gente Television Network and Brazilian Racial Politics." In Watching While Black: Centering the Television of Black Audiences. Beretta Smith-Shomade, ed. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, pp. 207 – 219.
Greenleaf, Maron. 2024. Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon. Duke University Press.
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A Maverick Boasian: The Life and Work of Alexander Goldenweiser. University of Nebraska Press. Forthcoming in 2022.
Kitchel, N.R. and Desilva, J.M. (2021), First AMS radiocarbon date and stable C:N isotope analysis for the Mount Holly Mammoth, Vermont, USA. Boreas, 50: 862-870. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12517
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2025. McLeester, M., Ferwerda, C., Alperstein, J., Overstreet, D., Grignon, D., and Casana, J. Archaeological evidence of intensive indigenous agriculture in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, USA. Science, 388(6751): 1083-1085.
2024. McLeester, M. and Casana, J. (Eds). Finding Fields: The Archaeology of Agricultural Landscapes. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association: Volume 35, Issue 1.
2023. McLeester, M., Anastasio, A., and Grignon, J. Enduring Legacies of Agriculture: Long-term Vegetation Impacts of Ancestral Menominee Agriculture, Wisconsin, USA, Ethnobiology Letters, 14(1): 80-91.
2020. McLeester, M., & Schurr, M. Paleoclimate of the Little Ice Age to the Present in the Kankakee Valley of Illinois and Indiana, USA Based on 18O/16O Isotope Ratios of Freshwater Shells. Environmental Archaeology, 26(6), 555–566.
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Slobe, T. (2023). Language and Student Political Participation in Chile (Doctoral dissertation, UCLA).
Slobe, T. (2018). Style, stance, and social meaning in mock white girl. Language in Society, 47(4), 541-567.
Slobe, T. (2016). "Creepy-ass cracker" in post-racial America: Don West's examination of Rachel Jeantel in the George Zimmerman murder trial. Text & Talk, 36(5), 613-635.
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2025. Thayer, Z., Bufferini, R., Tovo-Rodrigues, L., Oliveira de Oliveira, I., Hallal, P., Rivera, L. M., & Freitas Silveira, M. Evolved birth physiology meets modern birth practice: Sustained effects of planned cesarean delivery on child hair cortisol in Brazil. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Wang, J., Y. Tang, Y. Zheng, L. Jiang, X. Ma, Y. Hou, G. Sun (2025). Early evidence for pig domestication (8,000 cal. BP) in the Lower Yangtze, South China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, no. 24: e2507123122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2507123122
Maya Saints and Souls in a Changing World. Austin: University of Texas Press [now out in Spanish with a new preface as "Los que estamos aqui": comunidad e identidad entre los mayas de Santiago Chimaltenango, Huehuetenango, 1937-1990. Eddy H. Gaytan, tr. Serie monografica, no. 15. South Woodstock, VT and La Antigua Guatemala: Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies and Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamerica, 2006]. (1992)