Curriculum Vitae

Bruce D. Roberts

Professor
Department of Anthropology and Earth Science
Minnesota State University Moorhead
Moorhead, MN. 56563
USA

Office: King Hall 213
Phone: (218) 477-2043
Fax: (218) 477-4224
Email: robertsb@mnstate.edu

Dissertation

The Historical and Ecological Bases of Economic Opportunity and Inequality in Elgeyo-Marakwet District, Kenya.
Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh

Grants and Awards

• Fulbright Lecturing Award. United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Conducted at Guru Ghasidas University, Bilaspur, India. January - June 2008.

• Faculty Development Grant, Minnesota State University Moorhead. Summer 2006.

• Roland and Beth Dille Fund for Excellence Grant, Spring 2004.

• Faculty Development Grant. Minnesota State University Moorhead. Summer 2001.

• Summer Grant for the Improvement of Instruction, The University of Southern Mississippi. Summer 1997.

• Summer Faculty Research Grant, The University of Southern Mississippi. For short-term research conducted in Republic of Kenya. Summer 1995.

• Aubrey K. Lucas Endowment for Faculty Excellence, The University of Southern Mississippi. For short-term research conducted in Republic of Kenya. Summer 1995.

• Fellowship for Training and Dissertation Research, Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies. Carried out at Michigan State University and in the Republic of Kenya, June l989-June l992.

Courses Taught

Introduction to Anthropology; Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; Peoples and Cultures of Africa; Ecological Anthropology;
Medical Anthropology; Human Biological Variation; Traditional Cultures; Magic, Witchcraft and Religion; Ethnographic Research Methods;
History of Anthropological Theory; Economic Anthropology; Cultural Aspects of Aging; Globalization and Anthropology; Anthropology of Tourism.

Publications

• East Africa: History and Economic Development. In Encyclopedia of the Developing World, Thomas K. Leonard, ed. Routledge, New York. 2005 Volume 1. Pp. 499-504. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc. 
• Jomo Kenyatta. In Encyclopedia of the Developing World, Thomas K. Leonard, ed. Routledge, New York. 2005 Volume 2. Pp. 905. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc.
• Impact of Development on Peasants. In Encyclopedia of the Developing World, Thomas K. Leonard, ed. Volume 3. Pp. 1256-1258. Routledge, New York. 2005
•  Subsistence Living. In Encyclopedia of the Developing World, Thomas K. Leonard, ed. Volume 3. Pp. 1500-1501. Routledge, New York. 2005.
• The Incorporation of Maize in Africa. In The Globalization of Food. Leonard Plotnicov and Richard Scaglion, eds. Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press. 2002.
• Always Cheaply Pleasant: Beer as a Commodity in a Rural Kenyan Society. In Commodities and Globalization: Anthropological Perspectives. Angelique Haugerud, M. Priscilla Stone, and Peter D.Little, eds. 2000. Pp. 179-196. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc.
• The Kalenjin, and The Keiyo. In Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Everyday Life, Timothy Gall, ed. 1997. Pp.230-235, 240-244. Cleveland: Eastword Publications.
• Reverse Culture Shock in Familiar Settings: Coming to Grips with Post Olympic Reality. Anthropology Newsletter. November 1997. Volume 38, No. 9, Pp.32-33.
• Review of Eldoret: An African Poetics of Technology, by Richard Swiderski. American Anthropologist. 1997. Volume 99, Number 1, Pp. 218-219
• Livestock Production, Age and Gender among the Keiyo of Kenya. Human Ecology. 1996. Volume 24, Number 2, Pp. 215 230.

Papers Presented at Professional Conferences

• African Student Adaptations To Life In The United States and The Ephemeral Concept of African Unity. Presented as part of Invited Session "New Diasporas: Implications for Theory and Methods in Africanist Anthropology" at the 1999 American Anthropological Association Meetings, Chicago, IL. November 19, 1999.
• Maize Diffusion and Its Incorporation into the African Rural Landscape. Presented as part of Invited Session "Cultigen Diffusion and History" at the 1998 American Anthropological Association Meetings, Philadelphia, PA. December 5, 1998.
• All Work and No Pay: Women Shouldering the Burden of Gender Expectations and Economic Autonomy in Sub Saharan Africa. Co authored with K. Chimene Gecewicz. Presented at 39th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in San Francisco, California. November 1996.
• Competing Paradigms and Hungry Hippos: The Search for the Elusive Marble of Truth in Anthropological Theory. Presented at the Invited Session "Teaching The History of Anthropological Theory: Strategies for Success" at 94th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C. November 1995.
• Beer as a Commodity in a Rural Kenyan Society. Presented at the Society for Economic Anthropology Meetings. Sante Fe, New Mexico. April 1995.
• Ageism and Development in Africa: An Analysis of Two Kenyan Societies. Co authored with Samuel P. Thomas. Presented at 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Society in Atlanta, Georgia. December 1994.
• The Historical and Ecological Bases of Economic Opportunity and Inequality in Elgeyo Marakwet District, Kenya. Presented at 36th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Boston, Massachusetts. December 1993.
• Livestock Production, Age and Gender among the Keiyo of Kenya. Presented at Invited Session on Livestock and Gender in African Production Systems. 91st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, California. December 1992.

Invited Lectures

• Women in Africa. University of Southern Mississippi Committee on Services and Resources for Women Brown Bag Seminar, February 6, 1996.
• Beer as a Commodity in a Rural Kenyan Society. University of Southern Mississippi Institute for the Study of Modern Life Symposium. April 1, 1996.
• Reflections on Fieldwork in Kenya. Hattiesburg Public Library, October 7, 1997.
• Modernization in Africa: Problems and Prospects. African Studies Noon Talk Series, Center for Strategic and International Security, Mississippi State University, September 15, 1998.
• The Humane Species: Lessons from Africa. Deans Lecture Series. Minnesota State University Moorhead. March 22, 2001.
• Tribes, Ethnicity and Culture in Kenya. St Mary’s University of Minnesota, International Series. March 8, 2005

Academic Employment History

• July 2010 - December 2010. Associated Colleges of the Midwest. Tanzania Study Abroad Program Visiting Director.
• August 1999- Present. Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor. Department of Anthropology and Earth Science. Minnesota State University Moorhead.
• August 1993 May 1998. Assistant/Associate Professor. Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Southern Mississippi.
• January 1992 May1993. Adjunct lecturer. Department of Sociology Anthropology, Towson University.
• Summer 1992. Teaching Fellow. College of General Studies, University of Pittsburgh.
• September 1990 December 1991. Lecturer and Research Associate. Department of Anthropology, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya.

Memberships in Professional Societies

American Anthropological Association
 Association for Africanist Anthropology
Culture and Agriculture
African Studies Association

Professional Service

• Reviewer for Oxford University Press and McGraw Hill( 2005, 2007).
• External reviewer for Bennington College (2005).
• Reviewer for Harcourt Brace, Broadview Press, Human Ecology/Plenum Press (1993 1999).
• External Evaluator for Anthropology program at College of Charleston (1997)
• Vice Chair, Mississippi Delegation to the National Summit on Africa (1999).

University Honors/Awards

• 2002-2003 Academic Affairs Council Award for Excellence in Service to the Community
• 2001-2002 Advisor of the Year Award by the Center for Student Organizations.

University/Departmental Service

Moorhead State University/Minnesota State University Moorhead

• Global Studies and International Affairs Committee, (August 1999-Present; Chair from 2004 to present).
• International Studies Program Committee (October 2003 - Present; Co-Director with Dr. Andrew Conteh).
• Canadian Studies Task Force. (December 2002 – 2004).
• Peer Review Committee for College of Social and Natural Sciences (Fall 2004 – present)
• Chair of Department Institutional Review Board ( Spring 2004 – present)
• Chair of Department of Anthropology and Earth Science Search Committee for a replacement position in Anthropology (Fall 2004-Spring 2005).
• Member of Department of Anthropology and Earth Science Search Committee for new position in Geology and replacement position in Geography (Spring 2001).
• Faculty Advisor for Support International, an MSUM student organization (Fall 1999-Fall 2006).
• Steering Committee for Annual Student Academic Conference (August 1999-Spring 2005).
• Departmental Webpage maintenance and modification (Fall 1999 - Spring 2006)

University of Southern Mississippi

• Academic Council, Honors Council Representative (August 1998-May 1999)
• College Council, College of Liberal Arts (1994-1996)
• Committee on Services and Resources for Women (1993-1999, Co Chair 1997-1998)
• Liberal Arts Summer Faculty Research Grants Committee (1995-1999, Chair 1996)
• University Honors Council (1996 present; Vice Chair 1998-1999)
• Faculty Advisor to the African Student Association (1998 1999)
• Search Committee for Chair of Economic Development (Fall 1998 Spring 1999)
• USM Child Care Task Force (1999)
• USM Anthropological Society Faculty Advisor (1993 -996)
• Departmental Library Liaison (1995-1999)

References available upon request.