Selected Professional Papers

2008
Invited presentation and discussion of Still Waiting, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs for student and community forum associated with special Katrina class. April 29, 2008.

"The process of making Still Waiting." Invited talk, Channel 22, a documentary film organization in Northern Colorado. May 6, 2008.

2007
"Self Reliance and the American Betrayal." Invited presentation and film screening of Still Waiting at University of Denver. Headline Anthropology Series (special campus event with community). October 2007.

"Self Reliance and the American Betrayal." Invited presentation and film screening of Still Waiting. Social Justice Outreach, Calvary Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, CA. September 2007.

Invited presentation and film screening of Still Waiting. Lory Student Theatre on CSU campus. September 2007.

Invited presentation and film screening of Still Waiting. Lyric Cinema Café, a documentary film house. Fort Collins, CO.

Invited screening and discussion of Still Waiting: Life After Katrina, Dallas Video Festival, Dallas Theatre Center. August 2007.

Premier screening and discussion afterwards of Still Waiting: Life After Katrina, Zeitgeist Theatre (documentary film house), New Orleans, LA. July 2007.

Screening and commentary of rough cut of Katrina film project for Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA), Greensboro, North Carolina. 13-15 April, 2007.

Screening and commentary of rough cut of Katrina film project for Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA), New Orleans, LA. 19-21 April, 2007.

2006
"Life After Katrina: Struggles to Regain Control and Culture" for Great Conversations, CSU College of Liberal Arts Invited Community Event, September 13, 2006.

"Life After Katrina: Struggles to Regain Control and Culture" for Women’s Studies Colloquium Series. October 19, 2006.

"A Comparative Look at Life After Katrina: Implications of Collected and Fractured Families." Katrina Research Symposium. November 2-4, 2006, New Orleans.

"Not Just Any Red Beans: The Exquisite Pain of Being Back Home", for a Katrina session at the 2006 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, California, November 15-19, 2006.

Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting. March 2006 in Vancouver, Canada. Paper titled, “I’ll Suffer to Stay: Katrina Evacuees and the Longing for Home” was presented in a special session devoted to research on Katrina.
 
2005
Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) International Annual Meeting. June 2005 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Invited paper was titled, “Gendered Entrepreneurship across the British, French, and Spanish Caribbean” for a session on multisited and cross-disciplinary work, “UnDisciplining Research: Transcending Colonial and Academic Boundaries in Caribbean Studies.”

Canadian Council of Area Studies Learned Societies (CCASLS) Annual Meeting (This meeting brought together the 3 Area Studies Societies: Caribbean/Latin American Studies, Asian Studies, and African Studies). Held May 2005 in Montreal, Canada. Invited paper was titled, “The Role of Women Entrepreneurs in Globalizing Martinique’s Economy” for the session “Petty Capitalists in the Global System.”

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (official AAA meeting rescheduled due to hotel labor strikes but given short notice, numerous AAA sections held sessions as planned, including mine), The Anthropology of Work.  San Francisco, November 17-21 2004). “A Comparative Look at Family Demands of Women versus Men Entrepreneurs in Puerto Rico and Martinique.”

2004
Invited talk at Women’s Studies Certificate Ceremony, May 2004. Talk was developed from my fieldwork, feminist research, and anti-feminist websites and was titled “Why is Feminism so Scary and What We Can Do About it.” In attendance: graduating undergraduate and graduate certificate students, their parents, CSU Women’s Studies faculty and Advisory Board, interested others.
                                                         
2003
Invited talk for “Bridges to the Future” Globalization Panel, April 2003. Joint partnership program between Colorado State University and the University of Denver. Panel was co-sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Business, entitled, “Globalization: Historical, Economics and Cultural Perspectives”. My paper was titled, “Anthropological Perspectives of Globalization.”

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Paper invited for session on Postcolonial Theory, organized by David Beriss with Richard Price, discussant. Paper titled “Hybrid Identities, Structural Contradictions, and the Informal Economy.”

2001
Caribbean Studies Association International Annual Meeting. Paper presented in in St. Marteen, Dutch West Indies, May 2001. Paper was entitled “Female Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Study of British, French and Spanish Patterns.”

International Symposium for Caribbean Employers. Guest speaker during three-day invited meetings of 300 employers from 15 countries. Martinique, FWI, June 2001. Gave power point talk about role of culture in shaping entrepreneurship.

American Anthropological Association Invited Paper (Executive AAA Invited Session). Paper titled “Social Outliers as Entrepreneurs? Preliminary Findings.” Washington DC, November 2001.

Emory University Invited Guest Speaker for “The Vernacular Modernities Speaker Series,” a Ford Foundation initiative to Emory to encourage a scholarly return to area studies. Four-day visit November 1-4 2000 to Emory included a formal presentation to social science and humanities faculty and graduate students entitled  “French Caribbean Frames of Identity: Evolving Assertions of Difference.” The visitalso entailed numerous meetings with graduate students and individual faculty members.

2000
International Society for Economic Anthropology Plenary Session. Paper titled “Female Entrepreneurship across the Caribbean: Early Results from Pilot Research.” Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, April 2000.

American Anthropological Association Invited Paper for NSF session (Executive AAA Invited Session). Paper entitled “The Methodological Challenges of Multi-Sited Work: Entrepreneurship in the French, British and Spanish Caribbean.” San Francisco, November 2000.

1998
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Paper titled “The Creole Debrouillard” Presented at the Francophone Network Roundtable on “Plural Cultures and Plural Languages” Philadelphia, Dec 2-6, 1998.

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Paper titled “In the Bosom of the Family: Economic Benefits for Sons in Matrifocal Households” Presented at an organized session on “Women, Work, and Female-Headed Households”. Philadelphia, Dec 2-6, 1998.