Education

B.A. Ohio University, Sociology, 1971

M.A. Boston University, Anthropology, 1976

Ph.D. Boston University, Anthropology, 1981

Research Interests

Dr. Maxwell's research interests have focused on class (especially poverty) housing, political economy, applied anthropology, African-Americans, U.S. popular culture, anthropological theory, general systems theory, and conceptions of community in urban societies.

Selected Publications

"Motorcyclists and Community In Post-Industrial Urban America." Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 27(3-4):263-299. Fall-Winter, 1998.

"A Home By Any Means Necessary: Government Policy on Squatting in the Public Housing of a Large Mid-Atlantic City. IN THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME: Anthropological Perspectives on Housing and Homelessness in the United States, Anna Lou Dehavenon (ed.). Amherst, MA: Bergin & Garvey Publishers. 1996.

"Introduction" (with Pem Davidson Buck), Teaching as Praxis: Decolonizing Media Representations of Race, Ethnicity and Gender in The New World Order, Special Issue of Transforming Anthropology 3(1):1-3. October, 1993.

"The Underclass, 'Social Isolation,' and 'Concentration Effects': 'The Culture of Poverty' Revisited." Critique of Anthropology 13(3):231-245. September, 1993.

"The Anthropology of Poverty in Black Communities: A Critique and Systems Alternative." Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 17(2-3):171-191. Summer-Fall, 1988.