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Department of Anthropology

State University of New York

Plattsburgh, NY  12901

Phone: (518) 564-3003

Email: richard.robbins@plattsburgh.edu

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
North Carolina.  Department of Anthropology.
Ph.D., 

New York University, Washington Square, New
York.  Department of Anthropology.
MA

Rutgers--The State University, New Brunswick
New Jersey.  Department of Psychology.
BA 

The Vice President for Academic Affairs is the chief academic officer of the college.  The Deans, Associate and Assistant Vice Presidents, Director of the Library and Academic Computing, the Registrar and Director of Continuing Education report directly to the Academic Vice President.

The duties of the Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs include directing the College's General Education Program,  coordinating graduate programs, directing the Freshman Seminar Program, developing program articulation with two-year colleges, and developing programs and services for transfer students, directing the Individualized Major Program, coordinating interdisciplinary institutes, and coordinating the National Faculty Exchange Program on the Plattsburgh campus.  

·         Promotion Review Board, 2001 to present

·         Member, College Committee on Distance Learning, 1996-present

·         Member, Curriculum Committee of the Faculty Senate, 1995-1997

·         Member, President's Committee on Academic Computing, 1992-1996

·         Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Student Access to Computers

·         Member, University Awards Committee of the Research Foundation of the State University of New York, 1991-1993

·         Member, Editorial Board,  ERIC monographs in Higher Education 1991-92

·         Chairman, Short-Range Planning Sub-Committee, and member of the Computer Services Committee, 1987/88

·         Vice-President, Faculty Senate, 1978-1979

·         Chairman, Presidents Summer Committee to Review General Education.  1978

·         Chairman,  Undergraduate Studies Committee of the Faculty Senate, 1977-1979

·         Member, Presidential Committee to Define the Mission of the College. Summer 1977

·         Sub-Committee Chairman, University Awards Committee of the Research Foundation of the State University of New York, 1978-80.

·         Member, University Awards Committee of the Research Foundation of the State University of New York, 1977-1980.

·         Member, Upward Bound Program, SUNY at Plattsburgh, 1974-1976

·         Director, Living-Learning Community, SUNY at Plattsburgh, 1974-1976.  As Director I initiated and developed a living-learning environment in which faculty offices of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology were relocated in an existing dormitory.  The goal of the Community was to create a learning environment that encouraged faculty-student interaction.

·         Chairman, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, SUNY at Plattsburgh, 1973-1975

·         Member, Canadian Studies Program, SUNY at Plattsburgh. 1973 to present.

Courses I have taught include Introduction to Anthropology, Native Peoples of North America, Culture and Belief, Anthropological Theory, Intentional Communities, Cross-Cultural Understanding, American Culture, Identity and Culture, Anthropology and History, Medical Anthropology, Culture and Alienation, the Anthropology of War, Medicine and Society, and Anthropology and Global Perspectives.  Other teaching duties include a workshop on alcoholism, Freshman Seminars, a special seminar on Acadian Studies, lectures in Canadian Studies, a course on Science, Technology and Values, a workshop for Primary and Secondary school teachers on using group-inquiry in the classroom, an Honors Course for Presidential Fellows, and participation in the Looking for America Freshman Course Cluster.

·         The Twelve Tribes: A Religious Commune (continuing)

·         Naskapi Patterns of Physical and Mental Health.  June through October, 1989

·         The Impact of Social Change on the Naskapi of Schefferville, Quebec.  Summer of 1988

·         The social and economic history of an Acadian fishing village in Northeastern New Brunswick.  Field research conducted in the summers of 1974, 1975, 1976,  and the Fall of 1975.

·         Fieldwork Director in Schefferville, Quebec, Summer 1968.  My responsibilities included directing three graduate students in their research on Naskapi Indians.

·         Dissertation research on economic change and adaptation of Naskapi Indians in Schefferville, Quebec.  January to August 1966

·         Political Change among the Cree Indians on Hudson's Bay, Summer 1965.

·         Religious communities

·         World-systems and the expansion of capitalism

·         Social history of science and the sociology of knowledge

·         Technology and Society.

·         Anthropological study of belief systems.

·         Teaching and the use of group-inquiry in the classroom

·         Technology in Teaching

• American Anthropological Association AAA/McGraw-Hill Teacher of the Year Award, 2005

• SUNY University Distinguished Teaching Professor, 2002

• Research Grant on New Religious Movements, Summer 2001,  SUNY Research Foundation

• Selection by Choice (the Journal of the Association of College and Research Libraries ) for An Outstanding Academic Title of the year for 1999 for Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism. 

• SUNY Technology and Instruction Grant, Summer 1998

• Recipient of the 1994 Textbook and Academic Authors Association Excellence Award for the outstanding text in the social sciences and humanities Cultural Anthropology: A Problem-Based Approach.

• SUNY Grant for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education to develop computer software and written guidelines to enhance collaborative writing (with Pat Hoffman and Penny Dugan), 1992

•  Institutional Research Grant from the Canadian Consulate for Research on the Relationship between Socio-Cultural Environment and Health among the Naskapi Indians of Schefferville Quebec, 1989

• Consortium for International Cooperation in Higher Education, Course Development Grant 1988

• Canadian Consulate Grant for Research on Economic Dislocation among Naskapi Indians in Scherfferville, Noveau Quebec, 1987/88

•  SUNY Research Foundation.  Grant for the Improvement of Undergraduate Instruction, 1982.

• National Endowment for the Humanities, Consultant Grant for the Development of General Education, 1978-1979

• National Institute of Mental Health.  Grant for research on population movement and economic change in Northeastern New Brunswick, Canada, 1977

•  Recipient SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1977

• Donner Foundation Grant for Research on social change in an Acadian fishing village, 1975

• SUNY Research Foundation Grant for the study of drinking behavior among the Naskapi Indians, 1971

• National Institute of Mental Health, research on economic change among Naskapi Indians and Director of Field Training Program, 1968

• National Institute of Mental Health, research on political change among Cree Indians, 1965

Polanyi Paradox: Technology and Economic Growth

2009

Darwin and the Bible: The Cultural Confrontation. Edited (with Mark Nathan Cohen). Allyn & Bacon Publishers

Globalization and the Environment: A Reader. (with Gary Kroll). Altimira Press.

2009

William Jennings Bryan and the Trial of John T. Scopes, in Darwin and the Bible: The Cultural Confrontation, Edited by Richard H. Robbins and Mark Nathan Cohen Allyn & Bacon Publishers

2009

Introduction: A Brief History and Rationale of the Debate, in Darwin and the Bible: The Cultural Confrontation, Edited by Richard H. Robbins and Mark Nathan Cohen. Allyn & Bacon Publishers

Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism.  (Arabic Translation)

Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism. 4^th edition.  Allyn & Bacon Publishing

Anthropology and the Culture of the Classroom: Five Simple Tips for Building a Participatory Classroom Climate, in The Joys of Teaching Anthropology, edited by Pat Rice and David McCurdy. McGraw-Hill Publishers

2008

Mickey, Nickie, and Barbie: Kinderculture in America.  In Reflections on America, edited by Clare L. Boulanger. Allyn & Bacon Publishers

2007

Polanyi’s Paradox Revisited: A Proposal for Reconceptualizing Capital Accumulation. Cahiers Lillois d'Économie et de Sociologie, June 2007

2002

Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism (2nd Edition) Allyn & Bacon, Publishers, Boston, Mass.  

2001

Cultural Anthropology: A Problem Based Approach (3^rd Edition)   Peacock Publishers, Itasca, Illinois  

1999

Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism.   (Selected by Choice: the Journal of the Association of College and Research Libraries, as an Outstanding Academic Title of the year for 1999.)  

1999

Ethnic Violence and the Question of Political Sovereignty.  In Perspectives Anthropology, edited by Richard Deutsch.  Coursewise Publishing Inc., St. Paul, MN  

1998

Quick Guide to the Internet for Cultural Anthropology (with Douglas Gotthoffer).  Allyn & Bacon Publishers, Boston, Mass.  

1997

Cultural Anthropology: A Problem-Based Approach, Second Edition.  Peacock Publishers, Itasca, Illinois  

1993

Cultural Anthropology: A Problem-Based Approach.  Peacock Publishers, Itasca, Illinois.  (Recipient of the Textbook and Academic Authors Association Excellence Award for the outstanding text in the social sciences and humanities for 1994.  

1992

Anthropology, Science, and the Culture of the Classroom.  with James Armstrong.  In Teaching Anthropology Creatively, edited by Paul Erikson.  

1985

Scientism and the New Liberal Arts.  Proceedings of the North Country Workshop on Science, Technology and the Undergraduate Curriculum.  State University of New York at Potsdam.  

1985

Anthropology and the Teaching of Human Values (with Phillip DeVita).   In Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Special Issue, Teaching Anthropology 16:251-256  

1983

The Freshman Reader.  Edited and Written with Phillip DeVita, Thomas Moran, and Douglas Skopp  SUNY at Plattsburgh  

1982

The Individual and Society: The Influences of John J. Honigmann. In Culture and Ethos  edited by Ann McElroy. Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly,      Volume 7, nos. 2-3

1981

The Rationale for General Education.  Proceedings of the 2nd Annual SUNY Inter-Campus Conference on General Education  

1975

Canadian Native Peoples: A Review Essay.  The American Review of Canadian Studies Volume 1, #5   

1974

Anthropological Fieldwork, with Phillip DeVita. In Our Way, Their Way, edited by Amin Islam.  Mss Corporation, New York.  

1974

Identity and the Interpersonal Theory of Disease. In Social and Cultural Identity edited by Thomas Fitzgerald.  University of Georgia Press  

1973

Identity, Culture and Behavior. In The Handbook of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Edited by John J. Honigmann.  Rand McNally

1973

Alcohol and the Identity Struggle: Some Effects of Economic Change on Interpersonal Relations.  American Anthropologist, Volume 75, 99-122. Reprinted in Beliefs, Behavior and Alcoholic Beverages: A Cross Cultural Survey.  Edited by Mac Marshall, University of Michigan Press. 1979 Also Reprinted in Alcohol and the North American Indian. Edited by John Hamer and Jack Steinbring.1980, University Press of America  

1969

Economic Change and Ecological Adaptation among the Schefferville Naskapi.  McGill Subarctic Research Laboratory Reports, Volume 4

1996-present

Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism (http://www.plattsburgh.edu/legacy) A multi-purpose site that includes, among other things, course material, an Internet course, support materials for the book, Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, a "global update" feature, and an extensive collection of links to Internet resources on global issues.  

1998-present

The Online Global Problems Reader (with Gloria Bobbie) (http://www.plattsburgh.edu/legacy/gpr.htm) An extensive collection of Online articles, information, and simulations on global issues designed to be used for undergraduate courses, for secondary school students, as well as a general audience.  

1998-99

Courselinks: Anthropology (http://www.coursewise.com)
Editor of the anthropology section for Coursewise Publishing (Houghton-Mifflin).  The editor is responsible for a monthly column addressing issues of anthropological concern, maintaining a list on annotated links to anthropological resources on the Internet, and designing worksheets and Online quizzes.

"William Jennings Bryan and the Secularization of Politics and Religion the United States: A Cautionary Tale." Paper Presented for the session “Anthropology at the Intersection of Religion and Politics” at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association,” November 28
 

2002

The Business of Diversity.  Keynote address delivered at a Conference on The Business of Diversity, City of Plattsburgh, August 22, 2002  

2001

Religious Intolerance and the Rights of Children.  Invited paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Center for the Study of New Religions, London School of Economics, April 21, 2001  

2001

Globalization and Human Rights: An Anthropological Perspective. Plenary address and panel participation at a conference on Globalization and Human Rights: Are They Compatible?, at Rochester Institute of Technology, April 19, 2001.  

2000

The Political Economy of Twinkies: An Inquiry into the Real Cost of Things. Keynote Address delivered at a Conference on Globalization and Community sponsored by the Society for Applied Anthropology of Manitoba, March 11, 2000.  Winnipeg, Canada  

1997

Nicki, Mickey, and Barbie: Kinderculture in America.  A paper prepared for the SUNY at Plattsburgh "Last Lecture Series," a series of lectures in which selected faculty are invited to give an address "as if" it were her or his "last lecture."  The paper is Online at http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/richard.robbins

1994

Science and Classroom Culture.  A paper prepared for a symposium on Teaching Science and Anthropology, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.  

1991

Situated Learning and the Teaching of Anthropology.  Paper presented at a special symposium on The Teaching of Anthropology at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association.  Chicago  

1990

Naskapi Suicide.  Report prepared for the Canadian Consulate in Washington, D.C. based on a joint research projected funded by the Canadian Consulate.  

1989

Utopian Analogs for Planning Space Settlements. With Geoffrey Hopkins.   Paper presented at a Symposium on Designing Multigenerational Space Communities.  CONTACT VI, Phoenix  

1989

The Use of Technology to Enhance Collaborative Learning: A HyperCard Environment in Anthropology.  With Scott Smith and Aaron Glascock.   Paper presented at a Symposium on Technology and Collaborative Learning.  American Association of Higher Education, Annual Meeting.  Chicago  

1989

The Epistemology of Collaboration.  Paper presented at a Symposium on The Epistemology of Collaboration.  American Association of Higher Education, Annual Meeting.  Chicago  

1988

Social and Economic Change among the Naskapi of Northern Quebec.  Report prepared for the Canadian Consulate based on a research projected funded by the Canadian Consulate.  

1988

Collaborative Learning Across the Disciplines. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American, Association of Higher Education, March 8-11, Washington, D.C.
 

1987

Faculty Development Through Collaboration.         Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American  Association of Higher Education, March 1-4, Chicago, Illinois  

1987

Removing the Barriers to Collaboration. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Higher Education, March 1-4, Chicago, Illinois  

1986

Group-Inquiry and the Freshman Year. Presentation at the International Conference on First-Year Students and the Sixth Annual Freshman Seminar Conference. Newcastle-on-Tyne, England  

1982

The Freshman and the Foundations of an Undergraduate Education.  Paper given at the First Annual Freshman Seminar Conference, University of South Carolina.  February 6, 1982  

1981

The Notion of "Plot" in the History of an Acadian Fishing Village.  Paper delivered at a Symposium on Maritime Adaptations.  Annual Meeting of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Halifax, Nova Scotia  

1980

General Education at Plattsburgh.  Proceedings of the SUNY Inter-campus Conference on General Education.  March 1980  

1978

Migration and Economic Change.  Paper presented at a symposium on Culture Change in honor of John J. Honigmann.  Southern Anthropological Society, Lexington,  Kentucky  

1976

The Teaching of the Introductory Course in Anthropology.  Paper presented at a symposium on The Teaching of Anthropology.  Southern Anthropological Society Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia  

1976

Migration and Modernization in an Acadian Fishing Village.  Paper delivered at a Symposium on French Canada.  Northeastern Anthropological Association, Wesleyan University  

1973

Identity and the Interpersonal Theory of Disease.  Paper delivered at a Symposium on Social and Cultural Identity.  Southeastern Anthropological Society, Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina  

1972

Education and Culture Change.  Paper delivered at a symposium on Bicultural Education of Canadian Eskimos and Indians.  A joint meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, the American Ethnological Society and the Council for Anthropology and Education, Montreal, Canada  

1971

Anthropological Research Orientations to Culture Change in the Arctic and Subarctic.  Paper presented at a symposium on the History and Research Aims of Canadian Anthropology.  Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Memorial University, St. John, Newfoundland

1969

Resource Allocation and Economic Change.  Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society, New Orleans  

1968

Role Reinforcement and Ritual Deprivation: Drinking Behavior in a Naskapi Village.  Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Anthropological Association, Hanover, New Hampshire  

1967

The Out: Social Survival in a Small-Scale Community.  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.  

1967

The Two Chiefs: Changing Leadership Patterns among the Great Whale River Cree.  Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Anthropological Society, Montreal, Canada

Editor's Choice Columns were a monthly feature of the Perspectives: Anthropology site at Coursewise.com.   Each article contained web links to relevant sources.  The following columns are available at
http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/richard.robbins/legacy/editors_choice/editors_choice.htm

January 15, 1999

The Debate Over Population Growth

February 15, 1999

The Disappearance of Indigenous Peoples

March 15, 1999

Violence and the Nation-State

April 15, 1999

Anthropology and Global Hunger

May 15, 1999

Culture and Disease

September 15, 1999

Anthropology on Consumerism

October 15, 1999

The Devastation of East Timor

November 15, 1999

Culture and the World Trade Organization (WTO)

January 15, 2000

Anthropology and the Environment

February 15, 2000

Anthropology and Race: The Rise and Persistence of Scientific Racism

March 15, 2000

The Hidden Cost of Things

April 15, 2000

The IMF/World Bank Protests