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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