| Christina B. Turner
Associate Professor (Ph.D.,
Tulane University, 1992)
Lafayette Hall,
room 305
Tel.: (804) 828-7289
E-mail: cbturner@.vcu.edu
Personal web: http://www.people.vcu.edu/
~cturner/
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Specialty
Areas:
Ethnohistory,
economic anthropology, ethnic identity, development, human
rights
Biographical
Sketch
Christina
Turner received an undergraduate degree in anthropology
(1982) and a master's degree in history (1984) from the
University of Denver before joining Peace
Corps, Paraguay. After spending 30 months in Latin America,
Dr. Turner returned to graduate school earning her advanced
degrees in anthropology from Tulane University (M.A., 1988;
Ph.D., 1992). Prior to coming to Virginia Commonwealth University
in 1994, Dr. Turner taught at New College of the University
of South Florida in Sarasota. She received tenure and promotion
to associate professor in 2000.
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During
her academic career, Dr. Turner has received a number of
academic grants and awards to further her education and
research including two Fulbright grants, one for her dissertation
research (14 months in rural Paraguay) and a more recent
research scholar award (six months). The Fulbright awards
have helped continue Dr. Turner's primary research in the
interior of Paraguay where
she studies subsistence farm communities and the sociocultural
effects of continuing national and international development
projects on the local level. Recently, Dr. Turner has conducted
research in the infamous "Archive of Terror" in Asuncion
(funded by a VCU Grant-in-Aid). She has also received a
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park Grant and the Louisiana
Endowment for the Humanities for her work with the Mardi
Gras Indians and the New Orlean's Social Aide and Pleasure
Clubs as well as a Geddings Gray Fellowship for research
in Guatemala.
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Dr. Turner
is the new Editor of "MACLAS Essays" and serves on the Executive
Council of the Mid-Atlantic Council for Latin American Studies.
She is also an active member of the Latin American Studies Association.
She is the current Past President of the Virginia Conference of the American Association
of University Professors and the webmaster of the VCU Chapter of AAUP.
On campus, Dr. Turner has served as the Chair of the Faculty
Caucus and Vice-President of the Faculty Senate.
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Dr. Turner teaches a rotation
of courses at Virginia Commonwealth University that includes
Human Evolution,
Contemporary Cultures
of Latin America, South American Ethnography,
Religion, Witchcraft,
and Magic, Field Methods and
Research Design as well as an introductory course
on a regular basis. She also teaches specialized Honor's Modules
on occasion such as Maroon Socities
and Primatology.
She has also been instrumental in obtaining outstanding visiting
professors to teach such courses as the Psychology and Cosmology
of the Andean Peoples and Pre-Conquest Maya. On occasion,
she offers study abroad courses, the most recent being the
Anthropology of Yœcatan
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