|
The Tourism Studies Working Group is a network of more than 50 scholars throughout northern California. It includes faculty and graduate students from a wide variety of disciplines, among them anthropology, history, education, landscape architecture, sociology, political science, Spanish & Portuguese, ethnic studies, city planning, gender studies, and many others. Visiting Scholars Alexis with Hone Mihaka of Taimai Tours, Bay of Islands, New Zealand.
 Charlie and daughter "conducting field research" at the boat races in Sisakhet Village, Lao PDR. Charles Carroll is a PhD Candidate in Cultural Transformation, Political Economy, and Social Practice at UC Berkeley, and co-founder of the Tourism Studies Working Group. He holds a BA in Rhetoric and Communications from UC Davis, and an MA in Education from CSU Sacramento. Charles served as Co-Chair of the Working Group in 2003-04 and 2004-05. His research focuses on social transformations through changing practices of "development" in mainland Southeast Asia. He recently returned from long-term ethnographic fieldwork on transforming practices of capitalism and cultural tourism within the Lao People's Democratic Republic. Additional recent research and writing projects have focused on tourism, Christian missionaries, and the production of ethnicity in Northern Thailand; changing mathematical practices in textile production workplaces; and schools, learning and the promotion of 'traditional crafts' in Northern Thailand. Representative publication: “My mother's best friend's sister-in-law is coming with us”: Domestic and International Travels With a Group of Lao Tourists,’ in Tim Winter et al., eds., Asia on Tour: The Rise of the Asian Tourist. New York: Routledge, 2008. ccarroll (at) berkeley.edu Jenny Chio completed her PhD in Anthropology at UC Berkeley. She earned a BA with Honors in Anthropology from Brown University and a MA with Distinction in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths College, University of London. In late 2009, she will begin a postdoctoral research fellowship at the China Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney, where she will initiate a new research project on ethnicity and media in rural China. She served as Co-Chair of the Working Group in 2007-08 and 2008-09. Her dissertation, entitled "Landscape of Travel: Tourism, Media and Identity in Southwest China," is based on twenty-three months of ethnographic field research in two rural, ethnic tourism villages in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Guizhou province. This work utilizes two intertwined concepts -- mobility and visuality -- to examine how tourism is experienced as an everyday practice and as a force of socioeconomic change in rural communities. She has made one film in conjunction with her M.A. thesis, on China's ethnic minorities in ethnographic films, and is working on a new film, tentatively titled Nongjiale: Peasant Family Happiness. Personal website: http://sites.google.com/site/jennytchio Representative publication: “The Internal Expansion of China: Tourism and the Production of Distance.” In Tim Winter et al., eds., Asia on Tour: The Rise of the Asian Tourist. New York: Routledge, 2008. ATHINODOROS CHRONIS  Athinodoros Chronis is Associate Professor of Marketing at California State University, Stanislaus. He received his PhD in Marketing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Prof. Chronis’ research interests embrace the experiential aspects of tourism consumption at the junction of history, geography, and material culture. His work examines tourism narrativity, embodied performances, and consumption agency. He has studied extensively the active role of consumers in the construction of cultural imaginaries at multiple heritage sites both in the United States and Europe. He has conducted fieldwork at Gettysburg, the most heavily-visited Civil War battlefield in the United States, and he has theorized the co-constructed nature of tourism (Annals of Tourism Research, 2005). His most recent work on collective memory appears in Tourist Studies (2006). Representative publication: "Heritage of the Senses: Collective Remembering as an Embodied Praxis." Tourist Studies 6(2006): 267-296. achronis (at) csustan.edu MAHLON W.L. CHUTE  Mahlon Chute is a PhD Candidate in the History of Art and Architecture at UC Santa Barbara. He holds a BA in Art History from UC Santa Cruz and a MA from UC Santa Barbara in the History of Art and Architecture. Mahlon has also taught two tourism-related courses at UC Santa Cruz: "Tourism and the Built Environment in the United States" and "The Built and Social Environments of Las Vegas." Personal website: www.allstrangeaway.com
Catherine Elisabeth Covey (co-chair 2009-10) is a PhD student in the Department of Architecture at UC Berkeley. She received a BA with honors in Anthropology from the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. She also received a MS in Architecture at UC Berkeley with emphases on the History of Architecture and Urbanism and Environmental Design and Urbanism in Developing Countries. Cathy's research interests focus on relationships of the built environment, notions of history, tradition and heritage discourses, and the ways that urban centers are reproduced, experienced, and lived by inhabitants, users, and visitors. Her research examines the Andean city of Cuzco, Peru, an urban center transformed from an Inka imperial capital to a Spanish colonial city, and now as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a "global property," with a distinctive architectural aesthetic. catherine_covey (at) berkeley.edu Jennifer Devine is a doctoral student in Geography at UC Berkeley. She holds a MSc in Human Geography Research and a MSc in Gender, Development and Globalisation from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Geography and International Studies from the University of Washington. Broadly speaking, her research focuses on contemporary dynamics and trajectories of social, political and economic development in Guatemala and Central America. These interests include: tourism, neo-liberalism, multiculturalism, the social production of difference, labor market experiences and discrimination, the Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) and the politics of research and knowledge production. jendevine (at) berkeley.edu
 Mark F. DeWitt holds MA and PhD degrees in Ethnomusicology from UC Berkeley. He received BS and MCP degrees in City Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a MM in music theory from New England Conservatory. He lectured in ethnomusicology at Ohio State University for two years. Dr. DeWitt's research focuses on music's evocation of faraway places, for people who have lived in those places, for those who have never been to them, and for tourists. The activities of folk revivalists, both musicians and dancers who spend significant amounts of time learning and doing cultural activities that were not part of their family background or upbringing, are also phenomena that command his attention. These interests stem from his dissertation field research, which took place among Creole and Cajun immigrants from Louisiana and Texas, along with many folk revivalists, who play and dance to Louisiana French music here in northern California. His book published in October 2008, Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California: Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World (University Press of Mississippi), explains how ethnicity, tourism and revivalism--i.e., both insider and outsider perspectives--can work together to sustain social dance and music-making far away from a culture's place of origin. Representative publication: "Heritage, Tradition and Travel: Louisiana French Culture Placed on a California Dance Floor." the world of music 41.3(1999):57-83. mark (at) markdewitt.net CLARE BENEDICKS FISCHER  Clare Fischer is Aurelia Henry Reinhardt Emerita Professor of Religion and Culture, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley and currently serves as Visiting Professor in the Theology and Religion Department of the University of San Francisco where she instructs courses in religious pluralism. She is currently studying domestic tourism associated with the iconic "Rosie the Riveter" sites in city of Richmond, California. Her research focuses on the annual Homefront Festival and the collaboration of civic, municipal and federal agencies in advancing a permanent waterfront attraction based on shipyard labor during that historic time. Formerly, she conducted field studies in Indonesia focusing on pilgrimage and tourism in Java and Bali. Her interest in the negative images produced as a consequence of the terrorist bombings in Bali continues with a published essay on memory and tourism and a current study of regeneration of tourism in Bali and the role of international festival. Representative publication: "Remembering Bali as Paradise: The Bombing of Kuta and the Recovery of the Balinese Tourist Identity," Journeys, 2006.
Rachel Faye Giraudo is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at UC Berkeley. She received her BA and MA in Anthropology from UC Berkeley and her MPhil in World Archaeology from the University of Cambridge. Personal website: http://rayfaye.googlepages.com Representative text: "Cultural Heritage Tourism Research at the Tsodilo Hills, Botswana," Kalahari Peoples Network, 2008. Available here. giraudo (at) berkeley.edu BERTRAM M. GORDON  Bertram M. Gordon is Professor of European History and Chair of the Social Sciences Division at Mills College. He is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Tourism History and the Bureau of the International Commission for the History of Travel and Tourism, and serves as co-editor of the H-Travel internet discussion network. He holds a doctorate from Rutgers University and regularly teaches a course entitled "Men, Women, and Travel: Tourism in Europe Since the Renaissance." A specialist on World War II France, he has written on war-related tourism in that country and, more recently, the emergence of "mass tourism" and Mediterranean tourism. His current research focuses on gender and its depiction in cinema imagery in relation to tourism; and tourism in relation to the May-June 1968 Paris student revolt. In 2001-02 he was Chercheur associé étranger at the Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent, C.N.R.S., Cachan, France. His books include Collaborationism in France during the Second World War (1980) and The Historical Dictionary of World War II France: The Occupation, Vichy and the Resistance, 1938-1946 (1998). From 1999 to 2001 he was Provost (chief academic officer) at Mills College. Representative publication: "Destinations and the Woman as a Motif in Film and Tourism," in Laurent Tissot, ed., Construction d'une Industrie Touristique aux 19e et 20e Siècles, Perspectives Internationales/Development of a Tourist Industry in the 19th and 20th Centuries, International Perspectives (Neuchâtel, Switzerland: Alphil, 2003), 359-370. bmgordon (at) mills.edu NELSON GRABURN
Prof. Graburn has taught at Berkeley since 1964, with visiting appointments at the National Museum of Civilization, Ottawa; Le Centre Des Hautes Etudes Touristiques, Aix-en-Provence; the National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) in Osaka; and the Research Center in Korean Studies, National University of Kyushu, in Fukuoka, Japan. He is a founding member of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism, the Research Committee on Tourism (RC-50) of the International Sociological Association, and the Tourism Studies Working Group, and serves on the editorial board (for anthropology) of Annals of Tourism Research. Prof. Graburn's recent research has focused on the study of art, tourism, museums, and the expression and representation of identity. He has carried out ethnographic research with the Inuit (and Naskapi) of Canada (and Alaska and Greenland) since 1959. He is now working with the Inuit cultural organizations in Nouveau Quebec and Nunavut, Canada, on aspects of cultural preservation and autonomy, and on contemporary Inuit arts. He has done research on tourism and social change in Japan since 1974, and with students in China since 1991. In addition to articles and book chapters on ethnic and tourist arts, museums, modernity, identity, and theory and methods in the study of tourism, Prof. Graburn's publications include Ethnic and Tourist Arts (ed., 1976), To Pay, Pray, and Play: The Cultural Structure of Japanese Tourism (1983), and Relocating the Tourist (2001). His most recent edited volume, Multiculturalism in the New Japan, was published in 2008. graburn (at) berkeley.edu NAOMI LEITE
Naomi Leite, co-founder of the Tourism Studies Working Group, is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at UC Berkeley and Visiting Research Associate at the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK. She holds a BA with highest honors in Art History and Religious Studies and an MA in Cultural Anthropology, both from UC Berkeley. She served as Co-Chair of the Working Group in 2003-04, 2006-07, and 2007-08. Personal website: http://sites.google.com/site/naomimleite/ 2005 "Travels to an Ancestral Past: On Diasporic Tourism, Embodied Memory, and Identity." Antropologicas 9: 273-302. leite (at) berkeley.edu
Benjamin Porter is an assistant professor of Near Eastern archaeology in UC Berkeley's Near Eastern Studies Department. He received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007. He currently co-directs the Dhiban Excavation and Development Project in Jordan, where he is helping plan a sustainable archaeological site for local and international tourism. bwporter (at) berkeley.edu ALEX SARAGOZA  Alex Saragoza is Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. He received his PhD in Latin American history from the University of California, San Diego. A specialist on modern Mexico, Prof. Saragoza's research has examined the structural origins of Mexican migration, focusing on the role of the state in the process of the concentration of wealth and power in Mexico. In addition, he has done research on the transnational aspects of cultural formations in Mexico, including work on Mexican cinema, radio and television. His recent work has encompassed research on cultural linkages among Spain, Mexico, and Cuba. He is currently at work on a comparative study of the history of Mexican and Cuban tourism. Representative publication: "The Selling of Mexico: Tourism and the State, 1929–1952." In Gilbert Joseph, Anne Rubenstein, and Eric Zolov, eds., Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001), pp. 91-115. alexsara (at) uclink.berkeley.edu MAKI TANAKA .jpg) .jpg) Maki Tanaka (co-chair 2009-10) is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. She received her BA from Waseda University, Japan, and MA in Social Anthropology of Development from School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She served as Co-Chair of the Working Group in 2006-07. She is interested in the ways in which socialist planning in tourism navigates the current moment of post-Cold War global political economy, especially in UNESCO World Heritage sites in Cuba, where she is currently undertaking long-term ethnographic fieldwork. She looks at tourism/urban planning in heritage sites as a means to imagine the future for the Cubans, as well as to demonstrate Cuban socialism to the global audience. Representative text: “Tourism Development in Socialist Cuba: Old Havana and Its Residents.” Research Report, Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley, 2005. makitnk (at) berkeley.edu ROBIN L. TURNER  Robin L. Turner is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley. She received her BA from Duke University and MA in Political Studies from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She served as Co-Chair of the Working Group in 2007-08. Robin’s research interests focus on the relationship between people, the state, and natural resources. This encompasses three themes: the political economy of resource-based sectors (nature tourism, mineral extraction), the politics of conservation, and urban environmental justice politics. Robin recently completed fieldwork for her dissertation, tentatively titled, Politics Where the Wild Things Are: Nature Tourism and Local Politics in Botswana and South Africa. This project seeks to answer the question, how does engagement in tourism affect local political relations? Robin conducted fieldwork in four nature tourism destinations -- the eastern Okavango Delta and Northern Tuli Game Reserve in Botswana, and Madikwe Game Reserve and Mapungubwe National Park in South Africa -- and ten nearby localities -- two freehold farming areas and eight villages. Representative publication: "Communities, Wildlife Conservation, and Tourism-Based Development: Can Community-Based Nature Tourism Live up to Its Promise?" Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy 7(2004): 161-182. rlturner (at) berkeley.edu
|
