University Of Maryland
CURRICULUM VITAE
Brooke Schwartz Bocast
Department of Anthropology 571.327.4338
University of Maryland bbocast@umd.edu
1111 Woods Hall
College Park, MD 20742
EDUCATION
2014 Ph.D. Anthropology, Temple University
2005 M.A. Anthropology, Brown University
2002 B.A. Anthropology, Oberlin College
Dissertation: ‘If books fail, try beauty’: Gender, consumption, and higher education in Uganda
Doctoral Committee: Jessica Winegar, Judith Goode, Paul Stoller, Naomi Schiller, Marilyn Silberfein
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Africa, gender and sexuality, global health, economic anthropology, youth, selfhood, visual and material culture, consumption
Professional Appointments
2014 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Women’s Studies
2014 Scholar in Residence, Centre for Population and Applied Statistics, Makerere University
2009 Predoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University
Fellowships and Grants
National Fellowships and Grants
2014 Engaged Anthropology Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation
2012 Spencer Dissertation Fellowship, National Academy of Education
2011 David L. Boren Fellowship, Institute for International Education
2010 Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation
2004 Travel Grant, Tinker Foundation for Latin American Research
Competitive University Fellowships and Grants
2014 Dissertation Completion Grant, Graduate School, Temple University
2013 Senior Doctoral Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, Temple University
2009 Oberlin Alumni Fellowship, Oberlin College
2007 Graduate Associateship, Center for the Humanities, Temple University
2006 - 2009 University Fellowship, Temple University
Departmental Fellowships and Grants
2004 Joukowsky Research Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, Brown University
2004 Field Collecting Grant, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University
2003 - 2005 Graduate Fellowship, Brown University
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
(revise and resubmit) “Towards a ‘Bright Future’: Pathologies of Potential in a Ugandan Village.” Anthropological Quarterly
2009 “’Forget the Forms’: Participant Observation at an Urban Free Clinic.” National Association of Student Anthropologists e-journal, Vol. 1(1): 11-13
2005 “Singing Gender: Contested Discourses of Womanhood in Tuscan-Italian Verbal Art.” Second author to Valentina Pagliai. Pragmatics, Vol. 15(4):437-458
2003 “Performing Hierarchies: Language and Gender in Italian Verbal Art.” Second author to Valentina Pagliai. Crossroads of Language, Interaction, and Culture,
Vol. 5:93-113
Book Chapters
2013 “Many ‘Likers’ do not Constitute a Crowd: Anti-corruption Crowdsourcing in Ugandan Universities.” Second author to Johan Hellstrom. In ICT for Anti-Corruption, Democracy, and Education in East Africa. Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions Series. No. 6. Stockholm: University of Stockholm
Essays
(forthcoming 2014) “The Potentialization of African Youth.” Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group Newsletter
2010 “Grief: Reflections on Ethnography.” Encyclopedia, Vol. II. Encyclomedia (National Endowment for the Humanities)
2008 “A Good Woman.” Anthropology and Humanism, Vol. 33(1&2) (Society for Humanistic Anthropology Poetry Contest Honorable Mention)
Public Writing
2014 “Uganda’s ‘Miniskirt Ban’” Council on Foreign Relations ‘Africa in Transition’ blog. Reprinted in The Christian Science Monitor. March 7, 2014
2013 “Uganda’s Oil Tanker Explosion: More Than Poverty?” Council on Foreign Relations “Africa in Transition” blog
2013 “Difficulties of Defining and Mapping Ethnicity. Council on Foreign Relations “Africa in Transition” blog
2013 “Rising HIV Rates and Sugar Daddies in Uganda” Council on Foreign Relations “Africa in Transition” blog
Reviews
2002 Review of Carole Browner (2000). Situating Women’s Reproductive Activities
American Anthropologist. Vol. 102(4):773-788. Center for a Public Anthropology.
2002 Review of Gracia Clarke (1999). Mothering, Work, and Gender in Urban Asante
Ideology and Practice. American Anthropologist. Vol. 1010(4):717-729. Center for a Public Anthropology.
2002 Review of Paula Ebron (1998). Enchanted Memories of Regional Difference in African American Culture. American Anthropologist. Vol. 100(1):94-105. Center for a Public Anthropology.
Invited Talks
2015 “Who’s a Terrorist? Who’s Trafficked? Gender, Discourse, and Belonging in the New East African Community. Salmmah Women’s Resource Centre. Khartoum, Sudan
2015 “Transactional Sex on Campus: Implications for Policy and Programming.” Centre for Population and Applied Statistics, Makerere University. Kampala, Uganda
2014 “Public Health and the Politics of Reputation in Kampala, Uganda.” Council on Foreign Relations. New York, USA
2014 “Declarations of Promiscuity: ‘Housing,’ Autonomy, and Urban Female Friendship in Uganda.” International Food Policy Research Institute. Kampala, Uganda
2008 “Glorious Commerce,” Center for Humanities, Temple University. Philadelphia, USA
2007 “A Good Woman.” Society for Humanistic Anthropology reading, American Anthropological Association. Philadelphia, USA
2005 “Bayudaya Jews of Uganda,” Hillel, Brown University. Providence, USA
Conference Activity
Panels Organized
2013 “The Anthropology of Potentiality in Africa,” Invited session. Association for Africanist Anthropology, Society for Economic Anthropology. American Anthropological Association. Discussant: Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Papers Presented
2013 “Towards a Bright Future: Pathologies of Potential in a Ugandan Village” American
Anthropological Association. Discussant: Kaushik Sunder Rajan
2012 “Sex and Sensitization: Mediations of Modern Womanhood in Kampala, Uganda.” International Institute for Social Studies Development Dialogue. The Hague, The
Netherlands
2009 “’I Love Him Because He Buys Me Things’: Affection, Exchange, and Value among Ugandan University Students,” presented on the panel “Adventures in Value.” American Anthropological Association. Discussants: Julia Elyachar, David Graeber
2009 “The Value of Love and the Love of Value: Dilemmas of Affection and Consumption at a Ugandan University,” presented on the panel “Sex, Generations and New Social Practices in Africa.” African Studies Association
2005 “Debating the Educated Body: Gender, Discourse, and Pedagogy in an Bayudaya Village.” UCLA Thinking Gender Conference
Papers Accepted
2014 “Declarations of Promiscuity: ‘Housing,’ Autonomy, and Urban Female Friendship in Uganda,” to be presented on the panel “Communities and Commodities, Part 1: Emergent, Collective, and Coalescent Fields.” American Anthropological Association
2013 “HIV Knowledge Production on a Ugandan University Campus” Association for the Social Sciences and Humanities in HIV International Conference. Paris, France
Honors and Awards
External
2013 Conference Scholarship, Association for the Social Sciences and Humanities in HIV
2012 Conference Travel Award, International Institute for Social Studies
2007 Honorable Mention, Ethnographic Poetry Competition, Society for Humanistic Anthropology
2005 Conference Travel Award, National Women’s Studies Association
Internal
2013, 2009, 2008, 2007 Graduate Fund for Excellence Travel Award, Temple University.
Teaching Experience
2014 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland.
“Self and Sexuality in sub-Saharan Africa”
“Global Sexual Economies”
2012 Lecturer, International Foundation Programme, Victoria University. Kampala, Uganda.
“Academic Writing”
2009 Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Temple University.
“Cultures of the World”
2008 Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Temple University.
“Representing Race and Racial Difference”
2007 Adjunct Instructor, Department of Culture and Communication, Drexel University.
“Introduction to Sociology”
2006 Adjunct Instructor, Critical Writing Program. Roger Williams University.
“Critical Writing for the Humanities and Social Sciences”
“Critical Writing for English Language Learners”
2005 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Bridgewater State College.
“The Anthropology of Women”
“Indigenous Peoples of the World”
2004 Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Brown University.
“Culture and Human Behavior”
curatorial projects
2010 “Africa Embraces Obama,” Curatorial aide. Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University.
2008 “Glorious Commerce: Exhibitionary Strategies of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum, 1893-1926,” Head Curator. Center for the Humanities, Temple University.
2005 “Warp Speeds: Contemporary Consumerism and its Global Entanglements,” Contributing student curator. Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University.
Consultancies and technical advising
2014 Analyst, Knowledge Management and Communications Capacity, DFID.
2013 Anthropologist, Public Health Promotion Register, Oxfam Great Britain.
2013 Research Advisor, Clinton Health Access Initiative.
2012 Research Assistant, Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions.
2011 Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, American Jewish World Service.
2011 Monitoring and Evaluation Expert, USAID-STAR.
2009 Ethnographer, Slover-Linnett Strategies.
2005 Ethnographer, SmartRevenue.
RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
2010 Library/Curatorial Aide, Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University.
2007 Media Lab Coordinator, Visual Anthropology Media Lab, Temple University.
2005 Library Intern, Giddings Anthropology Library, Brown University.
2004 Curatorial Intern, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University.
Professional Service
2014 Member, Working Group on Immigration. Population Research Center, University of Maryland.
2009 Member, Working Group on Social and Political Aspects of AIDS in Uganda. Child Health and Development Center, Mulago Hospital. Kampala, Uganda.
2005 Board Member, Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Bridgewater State College.
Languages
French (research knowledge)
Luganda (field research fluency)
Affiliations
American Anthropological Association
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Association for Africanist Anthropology
Society for Economic Anthropology
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