CURRICULUM VITAE



MAISA C. TAHA

Department of Anthropology

Montclair State University

1 Normal Ave. Montclair, NJ 07043

(973) 655-7933

taham@mail.montclair.edu

EDUCATION

|Ph.D. |Anthropology, University of Arizona, 2014 |

| |Dissertation: Cultivating Convivencia: Youth and Democratic Education in |

| |Southeast Spain |

|M.A. |Spanish, University of Iowa, 2002 |

|B.A. |Spanish and History, Illinois Wesleyan University, 1997 |

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

|2015- |Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Montclair State University |

|2014-15 |Post-doctoral Research Associate, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona |

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Journal Articles

|2013 |“The Pitfalls of Democracy and Debate: Authority and Inequality in Classrooms in Southeast Spain.” Crossroads of Language, |

| |Interaction, and Culture 9(1), 29-54. |

|2012 |“Indignad@s El Ejido: Lessons of Locality in the Struggle for Global Solidarity.” Connections: European Studies Annual Review 8,|

| |50-57. |

|2010 |“The hijab north of Gibraltar: Moroccan women as objects of civic and social transformation.” The Journal of North African |

| |Studies, 15(4), 465-80. |

|2008 |“Castro’s shifters: Locating variation in political discourse.” With Brendan O’Connor and Megan Sheehan. Penn Working Papers in |

| |Linguistics 14(2), 119-29. |

Book Reviews

|Forth-coming |Language and Muslim Immigrant Childhoods: The Politics of Belonging, by Inmaculada Ma García-Sánchez (2014), American |

| |Anthropologist. |

|2013 |Arab Women in Arab News: Old Stereotypes and New Media, by Amal Al-Malki, David Kaufer, Suguru Ishizaki & Kira Dreher (2012), |

| |Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 9(3), 145-148. |

In Preparation

| |“Constraining Empathy: Shadow Subjects as Stance Partners” |

Other Publications

|2015 |Process over Product: Findings from a Partnership Assessment with Owl & Panther, Expressive Arts for Refugee Families, |

| |2014-2015. With Kellan Smith, Zach Mills, and Leylah Hadrovic. Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, School of |

| |Anthropology, University of Arizona. |

|2009 |“Audio Postcard from Spain.” Arizona Spotlight (radio), Arizona Public Media, September. |

|2003 |“Mba’éichapa Paraguay: Defining a Nation in Two Languages.” International Accents, vol. 4, no. 1. University of Iowa |

| |International Programs. |

HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS

|2013-14 |National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship ($25,000) |

|2011 |Florence Hemley Schneider Award in Women’s Studies, University of Arizona |

|2010 |Mark Tessler Graduate Student Paper Prize, The American Institute for Maghrib Studies |

|2007-08, |Foreign Language and Areas Studies fellowships: Arabic, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Arizona (Tuition |

|2005-06 |waiver, $15,000) |

|2000-02 |Presidential Fellowship, University of Iowa ($37,630) |

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Research Grants

|2011 |Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (BCS-1061649), National Science Foundation ($18,119) |

|2009 |Social & Behavioral Sciences Research Institute Dissertation Research Grant, University of Arizona ($800) |

|2009 |American Institute for Maghrib Studies Research Grant for pre-dissertation field research, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, |

| |University of Arizona ($3,000) |

|2009, |Tinker Foundation Research Travel Grants, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Arizona ($1,513; $1,168) |

|2007 | |

|2006 |Riecker Research Grant, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona |

Conference Travel, Teaching and Service Grants

|2012 |Traditions, Transitions, and Treasures Meeting Award, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, to present at the American |

| |Anthropological Association Meetings, San Francisco, California |

|2011 |Graduate and Professional Student Council Travel Grant to present at the Rocky Mountain European Scholars Consortium, Salt Lake |

| |City, Utah |

|2010a |Traditions, Transitions, and Treasures Fund Award, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, for tuition assistance |

|2010b |William and Nancy Sullivan Fund Award, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, to attend Sandrizona in La Jolla, |

| |California |

|2009 |Student-Faculty Interaction Grant, Office of the Dean of Student Affairs; Graduate and Professional Student Council Professional|

| |Opportunities Development Grant, University of Arizona, for organization of Sandrizona (with Ashley Stinnett) |

|2008a |Student-Faculty Interaction Grant, Office of the Dean of Student Affairs, The University of Arizona, for organization of |

| |Ethnographic Movie Nights |

|2008b |Women’s Studies Advisory Council travel grant, Graduate and Professional Student Council travel grant, and William and Nancy |

| |Sullivan Fund Award to present at the American Anthropological Association Meetings, San Francisco, California |

|2007 |Comins Fellowship Award travel grant to attend “New Ways of Analyzing Variation” (NWAV), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (with Megan |

| |Sheehan) |

CONFERENCES AND CONFERENCE SESSIONS ORGANIZED

|2016 |“Art as Healing: Collaborative Work to Assess a Refugee Community Program in Arizona,” Society for Applied Anthropology 76th |

| |Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 27-April 1 |

|2012 |Organizer (with Sara Goico), “Physical and Ideological Borders Reconsidered: Language, Identity and Continuity,” American |

| |Anthropological Association Meetings |

|2008-10 |Co-Founder and Organizer (with Ashley Stinnett and Elizabeth Peacock), Sandrizona: Annual University of Arizona - UC San Diego |

| |graduate student linguistic anthropology symposium and exchange |

SELECTED ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

|2016 |“Enhancing Partner Needs in Collaborative Work: Turning Participatory Assessment into Partnership Assessment,” Society for |

| |Applied Anthropology 76th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 27-April 1 |

|2016 |“Creating and Contesting Exclusion: Countervailing Uses of Reflexivity and Critique in Civic Education Classes,” DiscourseNet |

| |17, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, March 16-18 |

|2016 |“Crafting Tolerant Citizens: Schools, Immigration, and the Struggle for Shared Values in Southeast Spain,” Department of |

| |Anthropology, Montclair State University, February 24 |

|2015 |“Defining Citizenship from the Ground Up: Competing Discourses of Equality, Diversity, and Fairness in Southeast Spanish |

| |Schools,” 114th American Anthropological Association Meeting, Denver, CO, November 18-22 |

|2015 |“Process over Product: Looking, Listening, and Learning with Owl & Panther,” Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology Intern |

| |Research and Outreach Symposium, University of Arizona (with Kellan Smith, Zach Mills, and Leylah Hadrovic) |

|2013a |“Ritualized Civility, Ritualized Racialization: Democratic Citizenship Education in Southeast Spain,” |

|2013b |“Es la edad del pavo: Gender and Alternative Voicings of Morality among Youth in Southeast Spain,” American Association for |

| |Applied Linguistics |

|2012a |“Narrating Vindication: Moroccan Girls’ Voicings of Conflict, Victory, and Blame,” American Anthropological Association Meetings|

|2012b |“Debate as Genre: Pitfalls of Democracy, Participant Roles and Authority in the Classroom,” Conference on Language, Interaction,|

| |and Culture, University of California Los Angeles |

|2011 |“Outrage at the Margins: European Identity and the Spanish Protests as Seen from the Greenhouses of Almería,” Rocky Mountain |

| |European Studies Consortium Meeting |

|2010a |“The Intercultural Chronotope: Projections of Diverse Madrid in Amateur Fiction,” The American Anthropological Association |

| |Meetings |

|2010b |“Life in the Intercultural Chronotope: Projections of Diverse Madrid in Amateur Fiction,” Sandrizona Annual Meeting |

|2009 |“The Social Life of Values (with Apologies to Asif Agha),” Sandrizona Annual Meeting |

|2008 |“In the Voice of the Father: Mock Accent & the Mediation of Charged Identities,” The American Anthropological Association |

| |Meetings |

|2007a |“Why Hasn’t Spain Banned the Veil, Too? Articulating Modes of Womanhood in Spanish Public Discourse,” The American |

| |Anthropological Association Meetings |

|2007b |“The Revolutionary We: Discursive Variation in Castro’s Use of Nosotros” (Conference poster with Brendan O’Connor and Megan |

| |Sheehan), New Ways of Analyzing Variation 36, University of Pennsylvania |

CAMPUS TALKS

|2016 |“Crafting Tolerant Citizens: Schools, Immigration, and the Struggle for Shared Values in Southeast Spain,” Department of |

| |Anthropology, Montclair State University |

|2013 |“‘Send the moros back to the pyramids’: Lessons in anti-racism in southeast Spain,” A Moveable East Symposium: North African and|

| |Middle Eastern Community, Education and Media in Modern Europe, University of Arizona |

|2009 |“Sensitization and the Intercultural Chronotope: Projections of Diverse Madrid in Amateur Fiction,” School of Anthropology |

| |Lecture Series, University of Arizona |

TEACHING

Department of Anthropology, Montclair State University

Language, Power, & Expressions of Identity (Fall 2016)

Linguistic Anthropology (Fall 2015, Spring 2016)

Cultural Anthropology (Fall 2015; Spring 2016)

School of Anthropology, University of Arizona

Undergraduate Internship Supervisor, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (Fall 2014, Spring 2015)

Gender and Language (Spring 2015)

The Nature of Language (Instructor of Record, Fall 2014; Teaching Assistant, Fall 2009)

Race, Ethnicity, and the American Dream (Instructor of Record, Fall 2014, Spring 2015; Teaching Assistant, Fall 2006, Fall 2008, Spring 2009)

Many Ways of Being Human, Center for English as a Second Language Bridge Program (Spring 2014)

Study of the United States Institute on U.S. History and Government, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (Summer 2012)

The Ecology of Language in Global Perspective (Fall 2008)

Race and Language in the U.S. (Spring 2007)

Academic Programs Abroad, Louisiana State University

Spanish for Professionals and Advanced Readings on Spanish Civilization (Visiting Instructor, Summer 2010 in Granada, Spain)

Department of Spanish, University of Arizona

Elementary Spanish (Fall 2011)

Intermediate Spanish (Fall 2009)

Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Iowa

Readings in Latin American Literature (Spring 2002)

Intermediate Spanish (Fall 2001)

Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Purdue University

Intermediate and Elementary Spanish, (Visiting Instruction and Course Coordinator, Fall 1997; Spring 1998; Fall 1998; Spring 1999)

OTHER EMPLOYMENT

|2010-14 |Translator/Editor, Smallholder Production Cooperatives and Socio-economic Change in Latin America, Marcela Vásquez-León, Brian |

| |Burke, and Timothy J. Finan (Editors), The University of Arizona Press. |

|2012-13 |Translator/Editor, O’odham Pee-Posh Documentary History Project, Office of Ethno-historical Research, Arizona State Museum |

SERVICE

Departmental & University Service

Department of Anthropology, Montclair State University

|2015- |Communications Committee |

|2015 |Safe Space Training, Montclair State University LGBTQ Center |

School of Anthropology, University of Arizona

|2007-08 |Graduate Student Representative to Linguistic Anthropology Faculty Search Committee |

Professional Service

|2010-14 |Peer Reviewer, Student Anthropologist: The Journal of the National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA) |

|2012-13 |Editor, Linguistic Anthropology, Arizona Anthropologist: A Journal of the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona |

|2011-12 |Peer Evaluator, Graduate and Professional Student Union Travel Grant competition, University of Arizona |

OUTREACH

|2011-14 |Founder and Fund Raiser, Beca Aldeílla: essay contest for graduating high school students at my field site in Spain. Winners |

| |receive funds to cover the cost of purchasing college prep or vocational training textbooks for the coming academic year. |

|2012a |Volunteer, Owl & Panther: Expressive Arts for Refugee Families, Tucson, Arizona |

|2012b |Guest Presenter, “Crossing Borders: Refugees and Asylum Seekers from Latin America and the Middle East,” K-12 Teachers’ |

| |Workshop, Centers for Latin American and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Arizona |

|2008a |Guest Essayist, “The Migrant Trail,” Arizona Spotlight (radio), Arizona Public Media |

|2008b |Participant, The Migrant Trail Walk (Sásabe, Sonora – Tucson, Arizona) |

|2006 |Volunteer Translator and Documentary Photographer, Fundación de Apoyo Infantil (Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico) |

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