CURRICULUM VITAE

Academic – Professional 

Faculty Chair of Teaching and Learning

Lake Tahoe Community College, June 2019-present

Responsible for faculty training and pedagogical development

Chair, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Tenured

Lake Tahoe Community College, August 1998-present

Notable duties: creation of AA degree in Anthropology, AA and AAT degrees in Sociology, Certificate in Applied Anthropology; program reviews in Anthropology and Sociology; development of new curriculum in Anthropology & Sociology; part-time faculty evaluation; scheduling; budget development; creation of four ISP (Incarcerated Student Program) courses and development of Sociology degree pathway.

Faculty on Special Assignment (Responsibilities for Interim Dean of Instruction)

Lake Tahoe Community College, 2018

Notable duties: part-time faculty evaluation; scheduling; project management (community events); Annual Unit Plans; course deactivations; Comprehensive Program Review (Art and Humanities)

Faculty on Special Assignment (University Center and Enrollment Management)

Lake Tahoe Community College, 2018

Participant, Strategic Enrollment Management Project

Lake Tahoe Community College, 2018-2019

Academic Senate President

Lake Tahoe Community College, 2001-2002, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2008-2009, 2018-2019

Academic Senate Vice-President

Lake Tahoe Community College, 2000-2001

Academic Senate Secretary

Lake Tahoe Community College, 1999-2000

Faculty Union President

Lake Tahoe Community College, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2014-2015

Negotiator (CTA/CCA)

Lake Tahoe Community College, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-

2016

Committee Member

Lake Tahoe Community College, 1998-2018

Academic Calendar, Academic Integrity & Plagiarism, Academic Standards, Accreditation, Administrative Review, Campus Issues, College Council, College Name Change/Recruitment, Distance Education, Faculty Ethics, Faculty Issues, Division Reorganization, Emerging Programs, Grievance Revision, Hiring Committees, Instructional Technology, Institutional Research, Leadership Committee, Library Planning, Multicultural Awareness, Partnership for Excellence, Plus/Minus Grading, Retention, Semester/Quarter, Senate Bylaws Revision, Sexual Harassment Policy, SkunkWorks, Space Utilization, Strategic Planning Team, Title III Internal Monitoring, Website Advisory, Marketing and Branding, Diversity, Latino Affairs NEH Grant Advisory, Equity, University Center, College Learning & Enrollment Management, Guided Pathways, SST, Goal 2: Academic Progression, Equivalency, President’s Advisory Council, Convocation Planning

Full-Time Instructor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Valparaiso University, 1996-1998

Invited Visiting Professorship

Department of American Studies at the University of Mainz (Germany), July 2013

Academic – Professional (Statewide)

Participant – OEI Project

Chancellor’s Office for the California Community Colleges, 2018

Representative At-Large

Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2001-2002

Nominee

Forwarded for nomination (not appointed), Governor Schwarzenegger’s Office – California Community College Board of Governors, 2006

Lead Coordinator, California Statewide IMPAC Project—Anthropology

IMPAC, 2003-2005

Testimony

Hearings on Draft Standards B (SLOs), Accreditation Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, 2001, 2002

Chair

Statewide Disciplines List Hearings, Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2002

Community College Representative, Anthropology

California State University Lower Division Transfer Initiative, 2005

Statewide Committee Member

Chancellor’s Office, Academic Senate for California Community Colleges

Global Education, Student Study Abroad, Facilities Planning, Elections Committee, Local Senates Committee, Resolutions Committee, Standards and Practices

Professional Seminars

Project Member

Critical Theme Park Studies, 2018-2019

Project funded by the German government

Institute Participant

U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. 2007

Visiting Research Scholar

CUNY Graduate Center, 2006

National Endowment for the Humanities seminar “Human Rights in Conflict: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”

Visiting Research Scholar

Stanford University, 2005

National Endowment for the Humanities seminar “Terror and Culture: Revisiting Hannah Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism”

Visiting Research Scholar

Library of Congress, 2005-2006

National Endowment for the Humanities seminar “American Cities and Public Spaces”

@ONE Carnegie Scholar

Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2005-2006

Monograph title, “An Analysis of Student Success in Reflexive Online Classroom Assignments”

Professional Meeting Organizer

American Anthropological Association

Served as chair and organizer for:

•  “Teaching Tips from Winners of the AAA/Oxford Press Undergraduate Teaching Award,” 2010

•  “Teaching Tips from Winners of the AAA/Oxford Press Undergraduate Teaching Award,” 2008

•  “Experiential, Branded, and Lifestyle Spaces: Dialogues between Architecture and Anthropology,” 2008

•  “The Themed Space: Reflections on Culture and Materiality,” 2007

•  “Anthropology and the Continuing Salience of Experimental Ethnography,” 1996

•  “Rhetorical Interventions in Anthropology and the Human Sciences,” 1995

Outside Anthropology Department, Tenure, and Accreditation Review

Moreno Valley College (Accreditation)

Kalamazoo Community College Department of Anthropology

Willamette University Department of Anthropology

Board Member

Dads and Daughters, 2003-2004

PBS Frontline World, 2004

General Anthropology Division, American Anthropological Association, 2009-2011

Editor

Editor

POMO Magazine, San Francisco, CA, 1995-1997

Accreditation Editor

Lake Tahoe Community College, 2005

Peer Reviewer of Research and Publication

Southern Anthropology

POMO Magazine

European Journal of Tourism Research

Supernatural as Natural: A Biocultural Approach to Religion(Winkelman & Baker, Prentice Hall, 2010)

Multicultural Seminars

Program Co-Chair, Martin Luther King Jr. Observance

Valparaiso University, 1998

Keynote Speaker and Performance Workshop Facilitator

Culver Military Academy Multicultural Awareness Retreat, Culver, IN, 1997

Thesis and Project Advising

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Dissertation committee member for thesis dealing with theme parks and themed spaces (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Master’s degree chair for theses considering multicultural education, contemporary healthcare, and collegial sports coaching (Valparaiso University)

Numerous undergraduate honors thesis and independent projects (Valparaiso University, Lake Tahoe Community College)

Research Assistant

The University of Iowa, Department of Anthropology, 1991-1992

Teaching Assistant

The University of Iowa, Department of Anthropology, 1992-1993

Workshops (As Lead Organizer) – Student 

Lake Tahoe Community College, Valparaiso University

Don Imus, Racism and the Media; Gender, Advertising and Multiculturalism; Feminism, Advertising and Gender Equity; Gay and Lesbian Marriage in the United States; Understanding Gender and Advertising: The Gender Ads Project; Community Career Open House; Reflections on 9/11/01; Beyond Hate; Skin Deep; Cultural Criticism and Transformation; Leadership Seminar; Challenging Norms in Your Residence Hall; Sexual Assault Awareness Training; Understanding Oppression: A Boalian Workshop; Multimedia Recruitment Project; Green Party Club; Sociological Honor Society

Workshops (As Lead Organizer) – Educational

Student Retention; Faculty Publishing; Developing Online Education; Advanced FrontPage Seminar; Facilitating SLOs in the Humanities and Social Sciences; Critical Thinking and the Classroom; Developing Course Writing Assignments; Building a Course Website: Using Technology to Make Your Teaching Public; Generation X and the Classroom; Writing Across the Curriculum; Multiculturalism and the Classroom; Schools that Learn; Bias and Diversity; Malcolm X; Democratic Debate; The Future of Education

Workshops (As Lead Organizer) – Statewide

Statewide Anthropology IMPAC Project; Developing an A. A. in Anthropology; Statewide Anthropology Issues; Anthropology IMPAC Project; Running an Effective Senate; Parliamentary Procedure; The Brown Act; Standards and Practices Processes; Planning and Budgeting; The Disciplines List Review; Resolutions and Parliamentary Procedure; Small and Large Academic Senates; Standards and Practices and Disciplines

Workshops (As Lead Organizer) – Community

Civics, Civil Liberties, and You; The People Speak I, II, III (United Nations small grant, LTCC); The Patriot Act; Understanding Iraq; Careers in Anthropology

Theme Park. Objekt series, Reaktion Books, 2008. 

Books - Translations

Theme Park (Arabic), Kalima, 2013.

A Reader in Themed and Immersive Spaces. ETC (Carnegie Mellon University), 2016.

The Themed Space: Locating Culture, Nation, and Self. Lexington Books, 2007.

Fear, Cultural Anxiety, and Transformation: Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Films Remade, co-edited collection with John Marmysz. Lexington Books, 2009.

Recent Developments in Criminological Theory, co-editor with Stuart Henry, 2009, Ashgate.

Strategies in Teaching Anthropology(co-editor), Prentice-Hall, 2010.

Supplemental Development

Supplemental multi-media and content development for Anthropology (Conrad Kottak, McGraw-Hill

2013- present)

Chapters in Books

• The Value of Research in Themed and Immersive Spaces, CLADBook, 2018.
• Between Simulation and Authenticity: The Question of Urban Remaking. In Urban DesignCompanion:A Sequel, edited by Tridib Banerjee and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Routledge, 2018.
• Postmodern Spaces of Berlin: Beyond the Confines of History, Self, and the Real. In Thinking ThroughThings: Identity, Temporality, and Longing through Artifacts, edited by Ellen Avitts, Kristin Noone, and Juneko J. Robinson, 2018.
• Heritage as Remaking: Locating Heritage in the Contemporary World. In The Oxford Handbook of Public Heritage Theory and Practice, edited by Neil Asher Silberman and Angela Labrador, Oxford University Press. 
• Why Immersion Matters. CLADBook, 2017. 
• Time and Temporality in the Worlds of Theme Parks. In “Here You Leave Today”: Time andTemporality in Theme Parks, edited by Filippo Carlà, Florian Freitag, Sabrina Mittermeier, and Ariane Schwarz. Hanover: Wehrhahn, 2016.
• Research Dialogue 1 and 2, with Filippo Carlà, Florian Freitag, Gordon Grice. In A Reader in Themed and Immersive Spaces. ETC (Carnegie Mellon University), 2016.
• The Cultures of Tiki. In A Reader in Themed and Immersive Spaces. ETC (Carnegie Mellon University), 2016.
• Introduction. In A Reader in Themed and Immersive Spaces. ETC (Carnegie Mellon University), 2016.
• Dark Theming Reconsidered. In A Reader in Themed and Immersive Spaces. ETC (Carnegie Mellon University), 2016.
• Theming and Immersion in the Space of the Future. In A Reader in Themed and Immersive Spaces. ETC (Carnegie Mellon University), 2016.
• Judgments Passed: The Place of the Themed Space in the Contemporary World of Remaking. InA Reader in Themed and Immersive Spaces. ETC (Carnegie Mellon University), 2016.
• Research in Themed and Immersive Spaces: At the Threshold of Identity. In A Reader in Themed and Immersive Spaces. ETC (Carnegie Mellon University), 2016.
• Questioning “Immersion” in Contemporary Themed and Immersive Spaces. In A Reader in Themed and Immersive Spaces. ETC (Carnegie Mellon University), 2016.
• How the Theme Park Got Its Power: The World’s Fair as Cultural Form. In Meet Me at the Fair: A World’s Fair Reader. Celia Pearce et. al. eds. Etc Press, 2013. 
• Lake View. In Tahoe Blues: Short Lit on Life at the Lake. Bona Fide Books, 2012. 
• From Themed Space to Lifespace. In Staging the Past: Themed Environments in Transcultural Perspectives. Judith Schlehe, Carolyn Oesterle, Michiko Uike-Bormann, Wolfgang Hochbruck, eds. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2010.
• Teaching ‘Authenticity’: Critical Thinking and the Cultural Form. In Strategies in Teaching Anthropology, Prentice-Hall, 2010.
• Behind the Barrel: Reading the Cultural History of the Gun in Video Games. In Joystick Soldiers: The Military/War Video Games Reader. Nina Huntemann and Matt Payne, eds. Routledge, 2008.
• Online Anthropology: Classroom Approaches and Resources for Teaching. In Strategies in Teaching Anthropology, 5thEdition. Patricia Rice and David McCurdy, ed. Prentice-Hall, 2008.
• Teaching as a Form of Anthropology, Anthropology as a Form of Teaching. In The Joys of Teaching Anthropology. Patricia Rice, Conrad Kottak, and David McCurdy, ed. Prentice-Hall, 2007.
• Horror Video Game Remakes and the Question of Medium: Remaking Doom, Silent Hill, and Resident Evil. In Fear, Cultural Anxiety and Transformation: Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films Remade. Scott A. Lukas and John Marmysz, eds. Lexington Books, 2008.
• Introduction: Fear, Cultural Anxiety, Transformation and the Film Remake. In Fear, Cultural Anxiety and Transformation: Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films Remade. Scott A. Lukas and John Marmysz, eds. Lexington Books, 2008.
• The Themed Space: Locating Culture, Nation, and Self. In The Themed Space: Locating Culture, Nation, and Self. Scott A. Lukas, ed. Lexington Books, 2007. 
• How the Theme Park Gets Its Power: Lived Theming, Social Control, and the Themed Worker Self. In The Themed Space: Locating Culture, Nation, and Self. Scott A. Lukas, ed. Lexington Books, 2007.
• Theming as a Sensory Phenomenon: Discovering the Senses on the Las Vegas Strip. In The Themed Space: Locating Culture, Nation, and Self. Scott A. Lukas, ed. Lexington Books, 2007.
• A Politics of Reverence and Irreverence: Social Discourse on Theming Controversies. In The Themed Space: Locating Culture, Nation, and Self. Scott A. Lukas, ed. Lexington Books, 2007.
• The Hummer as Cultural and Political Myth: A Multi-Sited Ethnographic Analysis. In The Hummer: Myths and Consumer Culture. Elaine Cardenas and Ellen Gorman, eds. Lexington Books, 2007.
• Teaching Taxonomy in Physical/Biological Anthropology Classes. In Strategies in Teaching Anthropology, 4thEdition. Patricia Rice and David McCurdy, eds. Prentice-Hall, 2006.
• The Role of Women’s and Gender Studies in Advancing Gender Equity. In Handbook for Achieving Gender Equity through Education. Sue Klein, ed. Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, 2007.
• Improving Gender Equity in Postsecondary Education. In Handbook for Achieving Gender Equity through Education. Sue Klein, ed. Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, 2007.
• Applications of Augusto Boal’s Methods in the Anthropology Classroom: Power, Reflexivity, Critical Thinking. In Strategies in Teaching Anthropology, 3rdEdition. Patricia Rice and David McCurdy, eds. Prentice-Hall, 2004.
• Teaching Cultural Anthropology through Popular Culture. In Strategies in Teaching Anthropology, 2ndEdition. Patricia Rice and David McCurdy, eds. Prentice-Hall, 2002.
• An American Theme Park: Working and Riding Out Fear in the Late Twentieth Century. In Late Editions 6, Paranoia within Reason: A Casebook on Conspiracy as Explanation. George E. Marcus, ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Encyclopedia Entries

• George E. Marcus; Stephen A. Tyler; Postmodernism. In Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology. R. Jon McGee and Richard L. Warms, eds. Sage, 2013.
• Crime and Garbage; Culture, Values, and Garbage; Garbage Dreams; Garbage in Modern Thought; Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home; Junk Mail; Malls; No Impact Man; Over-consumption; Shopping Bags; Styrofoam; Trashed. In Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste. Bill Rathje and J. Geoffrey Golson, eds. Sage, 2011.
• Criminology; Criminal Justice; Gender Relations. In Routledge International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities. Michael Flood et al.eds. Routledge, 2007. 

Review Articles

• For Love and Religion: Review of Two Works in Sensory Branding. The Senses & Society, Vol. 3 (3).
• Review article, Baudrillard: A Critical Reader, edited by Douglas Kellner. POMO Magazine1(2): 73-78, 1995.

Journal Articles

• Effective Designing for the Senses, Attractions Management(2017), with Joel Beckerman and Gordon Grice.
• Keeping It Real (on Authenticity), Attractions Management1 (2017).
• A Tour of Ark Encounter and the Creation Museum, Attractions Management4 (2016). 
• Should Architecture Be Entertaining? OAA Perspectives: The Journal of the Ontario Association of Architects Fall 2016.
• Cultural Thresholds at World Expo 2015 (Milan). OAA Perspectives: The Journal of the Ontario Association of Architects 23, no. 4 (Winter 2015/2016).
• Thresholds and Themed and Immersive Spaces. OAA Perspectives: The Journal of the Ontario Association of Architects23, no. 4 (Winter 2015/2016).
• Controversial Topics: Pushing the Limits in Themed and Immersive Spaces (Masterclass), Attractions Management20 (Quarter 4, 2015).
• “FOAM” (excerpts). The Kokanee, 2010. 
• “SLOing” Anthropology? Reflections on Outcome-Based Education. Anthropology News, September 2010.
• Anthropology in Simulation World. Anthropology News, January 2009.
• The Theming of Everyday Life: Mapping the Self, Life Politics, and Cultural Hegemony on the Las Vegas Strip. CCHA Journal, Vol. 27 (2006-2007).
• The Actors behind the Curtain: Representation of Women Faculty in Community College Institutional Decision-making. In Gendered Perspectives on Community Colleges. ed. Jaime Lester, Jossey-Bass, 2008.
• Fragments of Memories of the World Thinking Me. International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 3(2). 
• The Theme Park and the Figure of Death, “Death Narratives,” Special Issue of InterCulture, Volume 2, May 2005. 
• Big-London-Consumer-Death-Love-Machine: A Geographic Photo-Essay in Two Parts. Sigla Magazine (Ireland).
• NEVERMOREPRINT. In “Print,” Special Issue of M/C Journal, 8(2), January 2005
• A Space of Possession: Evocative Anthropology. POMO Magazine 1(1): 79-92.
• Beyond Alphabets: An Interview with Stephen A. Tyler. POMO Magazine 2(1): 11-30.
• NEVERMOREPRINT. In “Print,” Special Issue of M/C Journal, 8(2), January 2005
• Beyond Alphabets: An Interview with Stephen A. Tyler. POMO Magazine2(1): 11-30.

Professional Publications

• “Is College Tragedy a Result of Our Culture?” Tahoe Daily TribuneApril 18, 2007.
• An Analysis of Student Success in Reflexive Online Classroom Assignments. Statewide monograph, @ONE Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 
• Anthropology, 2003-2004 Report. In IMPAC Annual Report. Published by the Intersegmental Major Preparation Articulated Curriculum Project. Sacramento, CA.
• Anthropology, 2002-2003 Report. In IMPAC Annual Report. Published by the Intersegmental Major Preparation Articulated Curriculum Project. Sacramento, CA.
• Standards and Practices. In Senate Rostrum. October 2001, p. 5.  Sacramento, CA: The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges.
• The Disciplines List Hearings.  In Senate Rostrum.  February 2002, p. 5.  Sacramento, CA: The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges.

• Disney’s New Star Wars Hotel Sounds Like Next-Level Immersion, Skift, August 2017
• Discussion of Rides and History, CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company), The Homestretch, two live interviews, July 2017
• Legoland Questions Loom Large, Times Herald-Record, 18 June 2017. 
• Not Sold on Sexist Ads, interview for YCTeen Magazine, January/February 2016.
• Interview on Freedomland Theme Park, Atlas Obscura, 8 July 2015.
• If Kate Upton Told You to Shave Your Chest, Would You Do It? Slate, August 14, 2013
• Interview on Bansky and Dismaland, The Independent, 2 September 2015. 
• Discussion of Kidzania, Financial Times(London), 22 October 2014.
• Discussion of Gender Ads Project in The Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2014. 
• Interview on gender, masculinity, and advertising, the Court Lewis Show, American Variety Radio (NPR), January 2014.
• Interview on India’s Adlabs (Caravan, India), 1 July 2013.
• Interview on Gillette ads and gender, The Washington Post, 13 August 2013. 
• Interview on men and masculinity, The Daily Beast, 13 September 2013. 
• Discussion of Gender Ads Project in Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2014.
• Gender Ads Project feature interview, Lake Tahoe News.
• FEMA, Czech Feminist Magazine (in Czech), on gender and popular culture
• Theme Parks, To the Best of Our Knowledge, Wisconsin Public Radio
• Interviewed for Coaster 101 (Web site)
• LTCC Students Learning the Impact of Gender Bias in Ads, Lake Tahoe News
• Themed Spaces, KUNR (Reno).
• Theme Parks (Dutch print media interview).
• Gender, Violence and Advertising. Extended radio interview, Angie Coiro Show, Green 910 AM, San Francisco.
• Architecture, Theming, and Social Controversy. Television interview, KOLO-TV, Reno, August 10, 2007.
• Interview on “Media and the Sex Slave Industry.” Journal Inquirer(Manchester, CT), September 26, 2008. 
• Overview of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, Radio interview, 590 KHTO, July 22, 2004.
• U.S. and British Politics, Radio interview, 590 KHTO, January, 2005.
• Lead Story, “Casinos, Other Businesses Make Use of Themes,” Tahoe Daily Tribune, April 27, 2006.
• Hannah Arendt and the War on Terror, Radio interview, Stanford University, July, 2005.
• Interviewed for the documentary The Nature of Existence(Directed, Roger Nygard).
• Consultant on over twenty society and culture stories for the Tahoe Daily Tribune.

Available upon request