Resume

• 2016

  Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

  Denver Metropolitan Area

  Social Scientist

  Bureau of Land Management

  Greater New Orleans Area

  Social Scientist

  Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

  French

  Arabic

  English

• 2014

  The University of Arizona

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania

  Indiana

  Pennsylvania

  Temporary Assistant Professor

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania

  Tucson

  Arizona

  Designated Campus Colleague

  The University of Arizona

• 2013

  The University of Arizona

  Shippensburg University

  Bureau of Land Management

  Post Doctoral Research Associate

  Greater New Orleans Area

  The University of Arizona

  Shippensburg

  PA

  Temporary Assistant Professor

  Shippensburg University

• 2004

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  Cultural Anthropology

  University of Arizona

• 2000

  Bachelor's degree

  Anthropology

  French

  Middle East Studies

  University Professors Program

  Phi Beta Kappa

  Boston University

• Data Analysis

  Grant Writing

  Microsoft Office

  Teaching

  Program Evaluation

  Qualitative Research

  Research

  Anthropology

  Community Outreach

  Higher Education

  Program Development

  Editing

  Public Speaking

  Research Design

  National and Minority Cultures in 21st Century France: North African and Pied-Noir Cultural Associations

  National and Minority Cultures in 21st Century France: North African and Pied-Noir Cultural Associations

  The integration of minorities in France

  particularly those with roots in North Africa

  has been of national concern since the 1980s and remains so today. Official and public discussions about minorities

  and social relations with them

  are saturated with mutual distrust and misunderstandings. Despite structural and social impediments

  these minorities are encouraged to integrate into the national mainstream and to avoid communitarian and community-building practices that might be interpreted as a rejection of the nation. Minority cultural associations are among the focal points of these negotiations

  being places where communities can both strengthen internal bonds and create zones of intercultural contact

  mutual education

  and debate. In the following I analyse the activities undertaken by North African and Pied-Noir cultural associations in France as examples of boundary maintenance (Barth

  F.

  1969. Introduction. In: F. Barth

  ed. Ethnic groups and boundaries: the social organization of culture difference. Prospect Heights: Waveland Press

  9–38). I argue that community building activities within associations are a necessary component in their ability to organise outreach activities designed to create dialogue and improve inter-communal relations.

  Negotiating Culture

  Performing Identities: North African and Pied-Noir Associations in France

  Review of Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe: Maltese Settlers in Algeria and France. Andrea L. Smith.

  “Southeast Jackson County.” In: Gulf Coast Communities and the Fabrication and Shipbuilding Industry: A Comparative Community Study

  Charisma

  Authenticity

  Emotion and the Future

  Review of Time

  Consumption and Everyday Life: Practice

  Materiality and Culture. Elizabeth Shove

  Frank Trentmann

  and Richard Wilk

  eds.

  Preetam Prakash

  “Bayou La Batre and Mobile County

  Alabama.” In: Offshore Oil and the Deepwater Horizon: Social Effects on Gulf Coast Communities. Volume I: Methodology

  Timeline

  Context

  and Communities.

  This article investigates the diverse relations of local residents with the Vermont–Québec border. The research is situated in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom

  a predominantly rural area with myriad ties to Québec. Certain local residents are set apart from other residents and individuals not residing in the border region by the centrality of the border to their personal identities and modes of action. They also understand the border and border-related activities using a different set of logics. This can lead to misunderstandings and tensions

  particularly surrounding policy changes concerning border regulations. This article concludes that

  while not recognized as an identity group

  these individuals do indeed form a separate category with particular

  shared characteristics that will be unequally impacted by future social and policy changes on the border. Though much has been written on borders in general

  and US borders in particular

  this area has been understudied and offers a specific set of characteristics of interest to border theory as a whole.

  The Vermont-Québec Border Region: Negotiations of Identity and Logic in the Northeast Kingdom

  North African Cultural Associations in France: New Considerations

  In this chapter

  we argue that studies of post-resettlement trauma

  coping

  and recovery would benefit from longitudinal perspectives and an examination of the importance of community identity and culture.

  “Culture as a long-term coping mechanism for resettlement trauma: examples of the French Pied-Noir and the Algerian War” in Disasters' Impact on Livelihood and Cultural Survival: Losses

  Opportunities

  and Mitigation.

  “South Mobile County.” In: Gulf Coast Communities and the Fabrication and Shipbuilding Industry: A Comparative Community Study

  As a cultural anthropologist

  my career has focused on applying anthropology to better understanding the interaction between local communities and global industries

  forces

  and trends. Within this theme

  I have conducted diverse research projects concentrating on the offshore oil and gas industry

  disaster

  migration

  food insecurity

  civil society

  and organizations. This work has taken me across the United States and abroad: from Vermont to Arizona and from there to France

  Louisiana

  Mississippi

  Alabama

  and Texas. I am currently working as a Social Scientist with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in New Orleans

  Louisiana

  where I study the impacts of the oil and gas industry on people in the Gulf of Mexico region

  with a focus on tribal

  minority

  and low income communities.

  Victoria