Short Form Curriculum Vitae
Richard W. Franke: November 2006

PRIVATERichard W. Franke
Professor of Anthropology
Montclair State University
Montclair, New Jersey 07043-1640

Web page: http://chss.montclair.edu/anthro/franke.html

Office Phone:973-655-4133
Dept. Phone:973-655-4119
Home Phone:973-744-4021
FAX: 973-655-7755
franker@mail.montclair.edu

 

1. Education: Ph. D. Harvard University, 1972

2. Research Interests: third world development, economic and ecological anthropology, inequality, anthropology and public policy, conflict and violence, democracy and development, ecovillages

3. Field Research: Surinam, Bougainville, Central Java, West Africa, Kerala

4. Courses taught (* courses also developed)

PRIVATECultural Anthropology
Cultures of Southeast Asia*
Graduate Reading Seminar
Anthropology of Food and Nutrition*
Development Anthropology*
20th Century Civilization (Honors Program 1989–91)

Ethnology
*Conflict and Violence
*Models of Society
*Peoples of Oceania
*Research Methods
*Non Western Contributions to the Western World

 

6. Grants: 1999–2001 MacArthur Foundation; 1997 Dodge Foundation; 1993 National Science Foundation Summer Institute on Research Methods; 1987 National Science Foundation…others earlier.

7. Books: 2006 Striving for Sustainability: Environmental Stress and Democratic Initiatives in Kerala (with Srikumar Chattopadhyay); 2000 Local Democracy and Development: The Kerala People's Campaign for Decentralized Planning (with T. M. Thomas Isaac); 1998 Democracy at Work in an Indian Industrial Cooperative: The Story of Kerala Dinesh Beedi (with T. M. Thomas Isaac and Pyaralal Raghavan); 1994 [orig. 1989] Kerala: Radical Reform as Development in an Indian State (with Barbara H. Chasin); 1993 Life is a Little Better: Redistribution as a Development Strategy in Nadur Village, Kerala; 1980 Seeds of famine: Ecological Destruction and the Development Dilemma in the West African Sahel (with Barbara H. Chasin).

8. Other Publications: 26 articles in refereed journals and 6 chapters in edited books; numerous book reviews and short articles; a number of manuals and information booklets for anthropology students.

9. Presentations: 19 papers, 18 seminars/symposia, 48 invited lectures at universities throughout the US.

10. Awards: 1999 Invited Presidential Lecture: Lessons in democracy from Kerala State, India; 1996 Montclair State University Distinguished Teacher Award; 1989 Montclair State College Distinguished Scholar Award; several Global Education, Separately Budgeted Research, and Career Development Grants

11. University Service: several personnel advisory committees, curriculum committees, search committees; AFT Local 1904 executive board, webmaster, strike coordinator, state and local negotiating teams and other union positions