MGSA Survey of University Faculty and Administrators

Dr. David Sutton

Associate Professor

Southern Illinois University

Anthropology

I. Degrees

Ph.D. 1995 University of Chicago (Anthropology)

M.A.. 1987 University of Chicago (Anthropology)

II. Areas of Specialization

Memory and History

Gender

Food & Cooking

III. Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies

Greece and Yugoslavia: Anthropological Approaches to War and Violence

            Greek Islanders and the Greek Diaspora

IV. Principal Publications (Greek words are given in transliteration)

      2006    “Cooking Skill, the Senses and Memory: The Fate of Practical Knowledge.”  In Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture. Edited by C. Gosden, E. Edwards & R. Phillips. Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series. Oxford: Berg.

 

            2004    “Ritual, Continuity and Change: Greek Reflections.” History and Anthropology 15:91-105.

 

            2004    “Greeks of Kalymnos.” In The Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. Edited by Carol Ember and Melvin Ember. New York: Kluwer, 417-424.       

           

2003    “The Foreign Finger: Conspiracy Theory as Holistic Thinking in Greece.” In The Usable Past: Greek Metahistories. Edited by Keith Brown and Yiannis Hamilakis. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming.

 

2001       Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory. Oxford: Berg.

 

"Whole Foods: Revitalization through Everyday Synaesthetic Experiences in the Greek Diaspora". Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly (Dec. 2000).

 

Memories Cast in Stone: The Relevance of the Past in Everyday Life. Oxford: Berg, 1998.

 

"Rescripting Women's Collective Action: Nationalist Writing and the Politics of Gendered Memory". Identities 5.4 (1999).

 

"Resistance, Misrecognition or Identity? Images of Rural and Urban in Three Recent Greek Ethnographies". Anthropological Quarterly 71.4 (1998).

 

"The Vegetarian Anthropologist". Anthropology Today 13.1 (1997).

V. Office Address

Dept. of Anthropology

SIU

Mail Code 4502

Carbondale, IL 62958

Office Telephone (F)=Fax

(618) 453-5017

(618) 453-5037 (F)

Electronic Address

[email protected]

VI. Home Address

296 Cashen Drive

Makanda, IL 62958

Home Telephone (F)=Fax

no information submitted

VII. Comments and Additional Information

Currently conducting research on the island of Kalymnos.

Southern Illinois University has a graduate program in anthropology with a strong 4-field approach.

 

Last revised September 2005

 

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