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Associate Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D.,
Tulane University, 1992)
Lafayette Hall Annex, room 201
Tel.: (804) 827-7869
E-mail: cturner@.vcu.edu
Personal Web page: http://www.people.vcu.edu/~cturner/
Specialty areas
Ethnohistory, language and 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.
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.
Dr. Turner is the editor of "Latin American Essays, MACLAS " 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. She has served on the national
executive council of AAUP since 2003. On campus, Dr. Turner has served
as the chair of the Faculty Caucus and vice-president of the Faculty
Senate. She is currently the Director of Undergraduate Programs for
the School of World Studies and the Program Coordinator for Anthropology.
Dr. Turner teaches a rotation of courses at Virginia Commonwealth University
that includes Human Evolution; Rethinking a Continent: 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 Maya of Yucatan: Past and Present in Merida, Mexico.
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