Erik Reavely

Department of Anthropology

301 Alumni Building, CB# 3115

UNC Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3115

Phone: (919)962-1243 Fax: (919)962-1613

reavely@email[DOT]unc.edu

http://www.unc.edu/~reavely

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

PhD, Anthropology of Meaning and Social Systems, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

(2008) Dissertation title: Discipline & Caring: The Cultural Politics of Youth Work.

MA, Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2002) Thesis title: The Politics

of Youth Violence: At Large and In Person.

BA, (Honors) Anthropology, Minor in Education, University of California - Santa Cruz (1997)

Honors, Fellowships & Grants Received:

Ø Cabrillo College, Aptos California. High Honors (1994, 1995)

Ø University of California, Santa Cruz; Undergraduate Teaching Assistantship (1997)

Ø University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Departmental Fellowship (1999-2005)

Ø Office of Distinguished Scholarship and Intellectual Life Outstanding Teaching Assistant (2002)

Ø Archie Green Occupational Folklife Fellowship (2003)

Ø Graduate Teaching Fellow (2003-2006)

Ø Transportation Grant, UNC Chapel Hill Graduate School (2006)

Ø Society for the Anthropology of North America St. Clair Drake Student Travel Award (2006, 2008)

Delivered Papers:

Reavely, Erik P. (November 2000) "Engaging Youth Violence: Alternative Practices in Public

Space." In Engaging a Localized Public Anthropology: Forming Partnerships with the

Communities in Which We Work. Lassiter, L.E. & Cook, S.R. Poster Session to the annual

conference of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco.

Reavely, Erik P. (November 2001) “The Politics of Youth Violence: Context, Identity and

Fracture in the Space of Welfare Capitalism.” In Discerning the Neoliberal Moment: Emergent

Structures of Feeling and Political Rationalities in Government, Health and Research.

Braitberg, V. E. & Shaw, S. J., Paper presentation to the annual conference of the American

Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C.

Reavely, Erik P. (2004). “Risk Management, Folk Individualism and the Culture of

Privatization.” In Contra-Subjectivities & Discursive Possibilities: Reflections on Identity,

Power and Agency. Reavely, Erik. Paper presentation to the joint conference of the Society for

the Anthropology of North America and the American Ethnological Society, Atlanta, GA,

2004.

Reavely, Erik P. (2006). “Politics of Youth Violence & the Cultural Production of

Institutionalized Insubordination” In Creative Insubordination: Novel Perspectives on

Resistance to the Homogenization of Schooling. Chip Perkins and Angela E Arzubiaga

Organizers. Paper presentation to the annual conference of the American Anthropological

Association. San Jose, CA.

Reavely, Erik P. (2007) “The Cultural Politics of Youth Violence Prevention.” In

Anthropologists Addressing Youth Violence in a Global Context. Chair; Mark C Edberg. Paper

presentation to the annual conference of the American Anthropological Association,

Washington DC.

Reavely, Erik P. (2008) “The Cultural Politics of Youth Work.” In Youth, Immigration, and

Activism. A paper presented to the annual conference of the American Ethnological Society &

Society for the Anthropology of North America, Wilmington, NC.

Reavely, Erik P. (2008 - forthcoming) “Organic Expertise and the Cultural Politics of Youth

Work.” In The Cultural Politics of Exclusion, Fragmentation and Disconnect. Organizer &

Chair: Erik P. Reavely, an Invited Panel to the American Anthropological Association annual

meeting by the Committee on Minority Issues in Anthropology. San Francisco, CA.

Conference Panels Organized:

Reavely, Erik P. (2004) Organizer & Chair, Contra-Subjectivities & Discursive Possibilities:

Reflections on Identity, Power and Agency. Panel presentation to the joint conference of the

Society for the Anthropology of North America and the American Ethnological Society,

Atlanta, GA

Reavely, Erik P. (2008 – forthcoming) Organizer & Chair, The Cultural Politics of Exclusion,

Fragmentation and Disconnect. A panel invited by the Committee on Minority Issues in

Anthropology to the American Anthropological Association annual meeting, San Francisco,

CA.

Professional Objectives:

My professional objectives are to integrate teaching, research, and the development of youth work practice through the combination of anthropological service-learning curriculums, collaborative scholarship, and partnership with community organizations. I have broad teaching and youth work experience from community studies and social science courses in non-profit alternative schools, experiential learning, and adventure-based-counseling in private-sector programs, to university anthropology curriculums employing service-learning to address the culture of human service work, social change, and inequality in the United States. Service-learning blended instruction is ideally suited for teaching ethnographic participant-observation methods while strengthening community partnerships that also facilitate productive and reciprocally valuable research. I have significant experience working with and linking community organizations to university volunteer groups, as well as bringing community leaders into the classroom to present their work to the academic community and participate in critical reflection. I believe the perspective anthropological methods provide on the intersection of meaning, social conditions, and human behavior contributes to critical reflection and democratization of human services, education, and access to resources for disadvantaged groups. By linking students and community organizations together through collaborative anthropological scholarship, integrating methods of ethnographic reflection with community-oriented development, I believe real improvements can be made in the way that local communities are empowered to critically reflect on, and enact change toward the conditions that situate their everyday lives.

Teaching Experience & Courses:

Training Experience:

Ø Minor in Education, UC-Santa Cruz

Ø Teaching Assistantships, UC-Santa Cruz – 1997 & UNC-Chapel Hill – 1999-2003

Ø Graduate-level coursework in Sociology of Education

Teaching Experience:

Ø College Courses Taught:

§ General Anthropology - General introduction to four-fields of anthropology; Physical, Archeological, Linguistic and Socio-Cultural

§ Habitat & Humanity - Cross-cultural survey of the relation between symbolic architecture and social organization

§ War & Society - Critical survey of the relationship between violence, cultural meaning and social and political-economic inequality (cross-listed with Peace War & Defense curriculum) (2 semesters)

§ UNITAS (co-instructor) – Year-long service-learning curriculum in which students living together in a dorm critically engage ideas about community, citizenship, service, and volunteerism in the social contexts of the U.S. while participating in an anthropology seminar and local community service organizations (two years)

§ Anthropological Perspectives in Cultural Diversity - This course explores the relationships between political and economic inequality, and cultural perceptions of difference and human diversity

§ Cultural Anthropology: Through course-long research projects and cross-cultural readings, this course conveys the methods and concepts of cultural anthropology as it engages a range of human behaviors, environments and customs. (hybrid course)

v (Syllabi for these courses are available at http://www.unc.edu/~reavely > Anthropology > Syllabi)

Ø High School Courses Taught:

§ Introduction to Cultural & Social Anthropology: A year long course integrating readings and discussions of anthropological concepts and methods with hands-on research projects in student’s communities; integrated classroom, grades 8-12.

§ Community Leadership: Community-collaborative curriculum for raising alternative school students’ awareness of social, economic, cultural and political issues in the history and contemporary context of African American experiences in the urban South.

§ Ecology & Earth Science: Aquarium lab-based practicum exploring biological and physical cycles, processes and relationships with emphasis on Scientific Methods.

Courses Prepared to Teach: I am prepared to teach courses on the Anthropology of work and social work; youth, education and schooling; violence and peace; cultural diversity; healing & medicine; globalization & local culture; architecture & society; and four-field introductory curriculum in biological, archeological, linguistic, and cultural anthropology.

Statement on Teaching Methods:

In addition to introducing students to the range of perspectives and concepts anthropology has developed to examine the range of human experience, I construct curriculum and course-experiences with the goal of developing students’ critical reading, writing, and thinking skills. Implementation of these goals is achieved by integrating; a) structured classroom discussion-exercises that identify key elements of readings or films (theses, narrative, rhetoric, use of concepts, etc), with b) in-class methods activities that introduce students to observation, interview and interpretation techniques, and c) term-projects that require proposals, outlines, literature reviews, field research (interviews, participant-observation), peer-to-peer draft-reviews, and ethnographic essays. By introducing students to the process of ethnographic research, interpretation, and writing these curricular methods accomplish both the instruction of anthropological perspectives and methods, but also a curriculum in critical literacy. My future objectives also include building on my previous experience in service-learning curriculum development and instruction to bridge critical thinking in the classroom and ethnographic research projects drawn from service in community development and social work.

Research Training & Experience:

Ø Methods Training:

Public Documents/ Library Science; Collection, indexing, and annotation of public and archival documents and information for bibliographic review and analysis

Ethnographic Methods: Training in theoretical issues and practices of participant-observation and interviewing methods (formal and informal, life history), as well as anthropological analysis and ethnographic writing

Qualitative Methods: Training in interdisciplinary issues and practices of qualitative theory, analysis, writing methods as well as participant-observation and interviewing methods (individual and focus group)

Certifications: Questionnaire Design; Cognitive Interviewing, Odum Institute UNC-Chapel Hill, 2004. Theoretical and practical issues in designing quantitative and qualitative data collection methods using surveys and interviewing

Ø Research Interests:

I began youth work in a California group-home in 1997 and immediately was struck by the complexity of social relationships and conditions that shaped the way in which we, my co-workers and I, conducted ourselves on the job. As I have continued my work and research as a youth worker in North Carolina I have observed how the demands of the workplace derived from multiple sources: the economic conditions and structures of the organization, the protocols for on-the-job practice, the state’s interest in the welfare or discipline of the client, cultural conflicts about the moral interpretation and treatment of “troubled” youth, and not least of all, the expressed interests of the client – a real and particular human being. All these contingencies affected the conditions of the work and the relationships that workers developed with the young people they encountered in manifold ways. When youth workers I have met and observed talk about their work, they do not limit their view to the young people before them. When they consider the troubled kids they engage from the poorest neighborhoods in the city, and the challenges both of them face as they struggle against the low expectations the police, the schools, and the city have for them, they refer to and consciously act within a history of inequality experienced through racialized, classed, gendered, and age-graded relations. My research begins with how youth workers understand and navigate these conditions with the cultural materials and social experience they bring to the workplace. I have directed my focus toward workers and the workplace because while there are libraries full of texts describing youth and “what should be done about them,” there is scant knowledge about what people actually think they are doing when they engage youth as a form of work oriented toward social change. By examining how the convergence of economic and political conditions, historical circumstances, and youth workers’ identity shapes actual practices of prevention, treatment, alternative education, and community development, I argue that youth work can be improved as much by understanding how it is produced, as much as by research focused on young people themselves.

Ø Research Experience:

I have experience in a range of socio-cultural research and analysis methods including; designing and conducting participant-observation and interview methods (formal, informal and focus group), archival and public documents collection, bibliographic annotation, and symbolic-discourse analysis. I have coordinated and conducted these methods in public and alternative school settings, youth-treatment programs, non-profit organizations, as well as a range of informal and formal community settings in California and North Carolina. I have experience with data analysis software programs such as Nvivo, Atlas.ti, quantitative database construction in Excel, and bibliographic indexing in Endnote. I have three years of professional experience as a Research-Assistant utilizing information and literature databases and providing bibliographic and interpretive consultation. I also have experience working with electronic, on-site consumer surveys in market research and private sector applications.

Professional Memberships:

American Anthropological Association, Council on Anthropology and Education, Society for the Anthropology of Work, Society for the Anthropology of North America, Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges, Student Anthropology Society, National Association of Student Anthropologists

Other Skills/ Experience:

Ø Outreach work linking civic, community organizations with university service-learning programs and resources.

Ø Conference organization and consulting (SANA/AES 2004).

Ø Experience with online teaching platforms such as Blackboard as well as website construction using Macromedia Dreamweaver. A sample of my abilities in web design can be found on: http://www.unc.edu/~reavely.

Ø Five years business management experience including: marketing and advertising, sales and consumer relations, project estimating and contracting, human resources management and financial accounting.

Employment:

Intrahealth International: Qualitative Data Analysis Consultant (June-September 2008) Contact Linda Fogarty (919)313-9100. Qualitative and quantitative data analysis using Nvivo8 and excel software. Reporting to research team and generating data reports according to project goals and policy implications of involving men as HIV/AIDS care givers in Lesotho.

Department of Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill: Teaching Assistant (1999 – 2006, 2008)

Contact: Suphronia Cheek, (919) 962-1243. Conducting recitation discussions with sections of students outside of class-time, designing exam and essay materials, lecture presentations, and grading.

Durham Technical Community College: Adjunct Faculty (Spring 2008) Contact: David R. Long, Ph.D. Chair, Social Sciences and Humanities, 919-686-3678 longd@durhamtech[DOT]edu. Instructor of Introduction to Cultural Anthropology course.

Department of Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill: Research Assistant (2004 -2007)

Contact: Donald Nonini PhD, donald_nonini@unc.edu . Conducting literature research and review as well as database searching, analyses and reports.

Smart-Revenue: Market research ethnographer (2006 – by contract): onsite customer surveys in retial environment. Contact: Anne Dougherty Anne.Dougherty@SmartRevenue[DOT]com (773)470-6854

University Program in Cultural Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill: Graduate Teaching Fellowship (Fall 2006) Sue Soltis (919) 962.4955. Instructor of Anthropological Perspectives on Diversity

Department of Anthropology UNC-Chapel Hill: Graduate Teaching Fellowships (2002-2006) Contacts: Norris B. Johnson PhD (919)962-2389 norris_johnson@unc[DOT]edu; Charles Price PhD (919) 843-7809. Instructor of Anthropology of War & Peace, Anthropology of Human Habitats, General Introduction to Anthropology (four field), and of a year long seminar in service learning and the anthropology of diversity and inequality.

Society for the Anthropology of North America: Consultant (2003-2004): Atlanta 2004 conference of the Society for the Anthropology of North America and the American Ethnological Society; conference planning, logistics, program and web site author. Contact: Donald Nonini PhD, donald_nonini@unc[DOT]edu

Recent youth-work employment: Duties: Facilitation of Adventure Base Counseling activities and field trips for youth groups identified as Behavioral-Emotional Handicapped (B.E.H.), ages 8 to 17. (Summer program: 2000 & 2001) *Please contact me if it is necessary to reach this employer. Due to the fact that they are also the anonymous participants in ongoing research, I would have to consult them about establishing contact.

Palomares Group Homes, Santa Cruz, CA.: Duties: Providing a wide range of counseling, including substance abuse and crisis prevention, in a structured residential setting for boys ages 14-18. (1/98 – 10/98). Supervisor; Ron Stocker (408) 457-1404

County of Santa Cruz, Parks Open Spaces & Cultural Services: Duties: Planning and implementation of recreational education activities and field trips for large youth groups, ages 6 to 12, including special needs children. (1/98 – 10/98)

Contact: Supervisor, Adria Aslanian (408) 454-7928

Bayside Children’s College Santa Cruz, CA.: Duties: Construction and implementation of Anthropology curriculum for integrated classes, grades 8-12. (1/98 – 10/98)

Contact: Director, Karen Funk (408) 454-0370

Volunteer Experiences

[Anonymous] Alternative School: (2004- continuing). Community Leadership instructor: Duties include; producing and implementing classroom curriculum for urban at-risk youth who are suspended or expelled from the Durham Public Schools, North Carolina. Curriculum incorporates NC Standards for history and civics with a focus on social justice and participation in history and current events. Currently I am conducting an aquarium science lab with the students that will integrate with Biology, Chemistry and Earth Science curriculums.

Contact: *Please contact me if it is necessary to reach this organization. Due to the fact that they are also the anonymous participants in ongoing research, I would have to consult them about establishing contact.

Youth Creating Change: (2004-2005). General volunteer/assistant in programming that facilitates African-American teen leadership and community participation both politically and economically. Contact: Maxecine Mitchell. max_02@msn[DOT]com (919)9292266

Pa’Lante: (2004/2005) General volunteer/assistant in programming that facilitates Latino youth leadership and community participation with a focus on education, political participation and immigrant issues. Contact: Laura Wenzel director@palanteprogram[DOT]org (919)619-1023

Boys & Girls Club, Santa Cruz, CA. Duties: Assistance with planning and coordination of arts, crafts & wood-shop program with ages 8 - 12. (1/95 – 12/97)

Supervisor; Chris Wiltsee (408) 423-3138

Wildwood Homeowners Association (2003 – ongoing): President: duties – organize board meetings, plan annual duties, implement annual duties and projects, mediation and dispute settlement. Reference; Hendrik and Marylynn VanDeventer (919) 732-7549

Other References:

(Dissertation Chair) Holland, Dorothy (PhD): Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of

Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (919) 962-3040 dholland@unc[DOT]edu

Nonini, Donald (PhD): Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

(919) 962-8092 donald.nonini@unc[DOT]edu

Noblit, George (PhD): Joseph R. Niekirk Distinguished Professor of Sociology of Education,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (919)962-2513 gwn@email.unc[DOT]edu

William S. Lachicotte Jr. (PhD): Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at

Chapel Hill (919) 843-7393 wsl@med.unc[DOT]edu

Johnson, Norris (PhD): Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

(919) 962-2389 norris_johnson@unc[DOT]edu