Current position: Professor of Anthropology

Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL 36688
Phone: (334) 460-6347
E-mail: mmoberg@jaguar1.usouthal.edu

Education:

• 1988 Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology University of California, Los Angeles
• 1983 M.A. Cultural Anthropology University of California, Los Angeles
• 1980 B.A. Honors Anthropology University of Iowa

Foreign languages:

• Spanish (excellent speaking and reading)
• German (good reading and fair speaking)

Selected honors and awards:

• 2000 Chosen to present annual Dean's Lecture, College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Alabama.
• 1999 Book Myths of Ethnicity and Nation nominated for Gordon K. Lewis Prize of the Caribbean Studies Association for outstanding scholarship.
• 1998 Book Myths of Ethnicity and Nation nominated for Elsa Goveia Prize of the University of the West Indies for outstanding scholarship in Caribbean Studies.
• 1996 Named Fellow in the Society for Applied Anthropology.
• 1985 Comprehensive examinations passed "with highest distinction." (University of California, Los Angeles).
• 1981-3 N.D.E.A. Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship in Spanish awarded twice. (University of California, Los Angeles).
• 1980 Graduation Summa Cum Laude, University of lowa.
• 1980 Admitted to Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Iowa Chapter.

Selected grants and fellowships:

• 2004 National Science Foundation (Cultural Anthropology Program): Supplement to "Free Trade and the Peasant Economy" for the study of Fair Trade marketing on the Windward Islands ($12,228)
• 2002-04 National Science Foundation (Cultural Anthropology Program): "Free Trade and the Peasant Economy: Differentiation and Resistance Among St. Lucian Banana Growers" ($70,820)
• 1999-2000 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research: "Environmental Justice and Social Movements in Southern Alabama." ($4,300)
• 1997-9 National Science Foundation (Cultural Anthropology Program). Three Research Experience for Undergraduates supplements totaling $7,862
• 1997-9 National Science Foundation (Cultural Anthropology and Ethics and Values in Science Programs): "Activists and the Grassroots: Environmental Justice and Social Movements in Southern Alabama" ($30,023).
• 1995 National Endowment for the Humanities (Summer Stipend): "The Formation of a Creole Identity: Empire, Race, and Culture in Colonial Belize" ($4,750).
• 1995 University of South Alabama Research Council: "The Construction of National Identity: Empire, Race, and Culture in Colonial Belize" ($1,494)
• 1992-4 National Science Foundation (Cultural Anthropology Program): "Segmentation on the Ethnic Frontier: Recruitment and Control in the Banana Industry of Belize" ($51,009).
• 1990 National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant: "Cultural-historical Determinants of Agricultural Crisis in Belize" ($750).
• 1989-90 Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium: "The Mandate of Technological Change: Socioeconomic Effects of Turtle Excluder Devices on Gulf Coast Fishing Communities ($16,128 -- Christopher Dyer, Principal Investigator).
• 1985-6 Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Fellowship: "Cooperation and Conflict: The Transition to Commercial Citrus Farming in Stann Creek District, Beiize." ($17,789).
• 1985-6 Inter-American Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship. "Cooperation and Conflict: The Transition to Commercial Citrus Farming in Stann Creek District, Belize." ($5,233).

Research initiatives:

• 2000 Field research in St. Lucia to assess peasant responses to impending World Trade Organization rulings removing European Union market preferences.
• 1997-2000 Historical and ethnographic research on social movements and environmental hazards in Mobile, Alabama.
• 1995 Ethnographic research on the Banderas Unidas movement, a union of immigrant banana workers in Belize.
• 1994 Archival research at the Public Records Office of Great Britain (Kew) on relations between the United Fruit Company and the colonial state in Belize.
• 1993 (January-September). Ethnographic and survey research on the recruitment and control of Central American immigrant labor in the banana industry of southern Belize.
• 1990 (June-August). Archival and ethnographic research in Belize on indigenous antecedents of the alcalde system, a form of colonial indirect rule in Garifuna communities.
• 1990-92 Research in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, to assess the responses of shrimp fishermen to federally mandated technological change.
• 1985-6 (December-December). Dissertation research on the effects of world market involvement in communities of rural Stann Creek district, Beiize.
• 1982 (June-August). Comparative study of collectivized and credit/service cooperatives established under Nicaragua's agrarian retorm.

Selected publications:

• Books:
  
  
  • Striffler, Steve and Mark Moberg, eds.
    2003 Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas. Durham: Duke University Press.
  • Moberg, Mark.
    1997 Myths of Ethnicity and Nation: Immigration, Work, and Identity in the Belize Banana Industry. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
  • Moberg, Mark.
    1992 Citrus, Strategy, and Class: The Politics of Development in Southern Belize. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
  
  
• Selected chapters in books:
  
  
  • Moberg, Mark and Steve Striffler.
    2003 "Introduction" in Striffler and Moberg, eds. Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas. Durham: Duke University Press.
  • Moberg, Mark.
    2003 "Responsible Men and Sharp Yankees: The United Fruit Company, Resident Elites and Colonial State in British Honduras" in Striffler and Moberg, eds. Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas. Durham: Duke University Press.
  • Moberg, Mark.
    2000 "Local Stratagems, Global Spoils: Monopoly Power and Contract Farming in the Belizean Banana Industry," in Thomas Collins and John Wingard, eds. Communities and Capital: Local Struggles Against Corporate Power and Privatization. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
  • Moberg, Mark and J. Stephen Thomas.
    1998 "Class Segmentation and Divided Labor: Asian Workers in the Gulf of Mexico Seafood Industry" in Franklin Ng, ed., Asians in America: The Peoples of Southeast and South Asia in American Life and Culture. Hamden, CT: Garland Press.
  • Moberg, Mark and J. Stephen Thomas.
    1998 "Indochinese Resettlement and the Transformation of Identities along the Alabama Gulf Coast," in Carole E. Hill and Patricia Beaver, eds., Cultural Diversity in the South: Anthropological Contributions to a Region in Transition, pp. 115-128. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
  • Moberg, Mark.
    1996 "Labor Recruitment, Ethnicity, and Development: Alternatives to Work Force Conflict in Southern Belize." in Alvin W. Wolfe and Honggang Yang, eds., Anthropological Contributions to Conflict Resolution, pp. 81-96. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
  • Moberg, Mark.
    1994 "An Agency Model of the State: Contributions and Limitations of Institutional Economics." in James Acheson, ed. Anthropology and Institutional Economics. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
  
  
• Selected articles in peer-reviewed journals:
  
  
  • Moberg, Mark.
    2002. "Erin Brokovich Doesn't Live Here: Environmental Politics and Responsible Care in Mobile County, Alabama." Human Organization. 61(4):377-89.
  • Moberg, Mark.
    2001 "Co-opting Justice: Growth and Transformation of a Multiracial Environmental Coalition in Southern Alabama." Human Organization.
  • Moberg, Mark.
    1996 "Transnational Labor and Refugee Enclaves in a Central American Banana Industry." Human Organization. 55 (4): 425-435.
  • Moberg, Mark.
    1996 "Crown Colony as Banana Republic: The United Fruit Company in British Honduras, 1900-1920." Journal of Latin American Studies. 28 (2): 357-381.
  • Moberg, Mark.
    1996 "Myths That Divide: Immigrant Labor and Class Segmentation in the Belizean Banana Industry." American Ethnologist. 23: (2): 311-330.
  • Bolland, O. Nigel and Mark Moberg.
    1995 "Development and National Identity: Creolisation and Ethnic Conflict in Belize." International Journal of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies. 2 (2): 1-18.
  • Moberg, Mark and Christopher L. Dyer.
    1994 "Conservation and Forced Innovation: Responses to Turtle Excluder Devices among Gulf of Mexico Shrimpers." Human Organization. 53 (2): 160 166
  • Moberg, Mark and J. Stephen Thomas.
    1993 "Class Segmentation and Divided Labor: Asian Workers in the Gulf of Mexico Seafood Industry." Ethnology. 32 (1): 1-13.
  • Moberg, Mark.
    1992 "Structural Adjustment and Rural Development: Inferences from a Belizean Village." Journal of Developing Areas. 27 (1): 1-20.
  • Dyer, Christopher L. and Mark Moberg.
    1992 "The 'Moral Economy' of Resistance: Turtle Excluder Devices and Gulf of Mexico Fishermen." Maritime Studies in Anthropology. 5 (1): 18-35.
  • Moberg, Mark.
    1992 "Continuity Under Colonial Rule: The Alcalde System and the Garifuna in Belize, 1858-1969." Ethnohistory. 39: 1-19.
  • Moberg, Mark.
    1991 "Citrus and the State: Factions and Rural Class Formation in Belize." American Ethnologist. 18 (2): 21-39.
  • Moberg, Mark A.
    1991 "Marketing Policy and the Loss of Food Self-Sufficiency in Rural Belize." Human Organization. 50 (1): 16-25.
  • Moberg, Mark A.
    1990 "CIass Resistance and Class Hegemony: From Conflict to Co-optation in the Citrus Industry of Belize." Ethnology. 29 (3): 189-207.
  • Moberg, Mark A.
    1985 "Household Production and the Value of Children: A Micro-economic Approach to Third World Population Trends." Anthropology UCLA. 7: 41-52.
  • Chibnik, Michael, and Mark Moberg.
    1983 "The Changing Research Interests of North American Socio-cultural Anthropologists." The Journal of Anthropology. 3: 25-35.
  • Moberg, Mark A.
    1983 "From Individuals to Class: The Dynamics of Peasant Cooperatives in Revolutionary Nicaragua." Dialectical Anthropology. 8: 217-236
  
  
• Selected reviews and other publications:


• Moberg, Mark.
  2003 "Caribbean" in Encyclopedia of World Environmental History. Berkshire Publishers.
• Moberg, Mark.
  1999 Review of The Political Ecology of Bananas: Contract Farming and Agrarian Change in the Eastern Caribbean, by Lawrence Grossman. Journal of Political Ecology (online).
• Moberg, Mark.
  1999 "Strategies of a Multiracial Environmental Coalition in Southern Alabama." Enviro-Tech. 1 (2): 4-8.
• Moberg, Mark.
  1999 Review of The Garifuna Journey, a film by Andrea E. Leland and Kathy L. Berger. American Anthropologist. 100 (4).
• Moberg, Mark.
  1998 Review of Workers' Control in Latin America, 1930-1979, edited by Jonathan C. Brown. Labor History. 39 (3): 350-351.
• Moberg, Mark.
  1998 "Culture and Resistance at Work." Review essay for American Anthropologist. 100 (2): 520-522.
• Moberg, Mark.
  1997 "Nicaragua." Collier's Encyclopedia. New Yore: P. F. Collier.
• Moberg, Mark.
  1997 Review of Environmental Justice: Issues, Policies, and Solutions, edited by Bunyan Bryant. Society and Natural Resources. 10 (1): 109 111.
• Moberg, Mark.
  1996 Review of Thirteen Chapters of a History of Belize, by Assad Shoman. Journal of Latin American Studies. 28 (2): 512-513.
• Moberg, Mark.
  1996 "Belize." Collier's Encyclopedia. New York: P. F. Collier.
• Moberg, Mark.
  1996 "Focus on Anthropologists: Development and Stratification in a Garifuna Village in Belize." in Contemporary Cultural Anthropology, by Michael Howard (5th ed.), pp. 248-250. New York: Harper Collins Publishers.
• Moberg, Mark.
  1995 Review of Cultural Economies: Past and Present, by Rhoda H. Halperin. American Ethnologist. 22 (4): 1014-1015.
• Moberg, Mark.
  1994 Review of The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change, by David Harvey. American Ethnologist. 21 (4): 915-916.
• Moberg, Mark.
  1993 Review of Household Ecology: Economic Change and Domestic Life Among the Kekchi Maya in Belize, by Richard Wilk. Ethnohistory. 40 (4): 648-650.


• Selected recent conference papers and presentations:
  
  
  • 2002 "From NIMBY to Environmental Justice: Claims-Making at the Grassroots in Mobile County, Alabama." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. New Orleans.
  • 2002 "Erin Brokovich Doesn't Live Here: Cancer and 'Responsible Care' in Southern Alabama." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Atlanta.
  • 2001 "Recruiting Workers, Recasting Identities: The Cultural Politics and Constituencies of Export-Led Growth in Belize." Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C.
  • 2001 "Free Trade, Fair Trade, or Fight?: St. Lucian Discourses on the World Trade Organization." Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society, Nashville.
  • 2001 "Attrition, Resistance and the WTO: St. Lucian Banana Growers in a Deregulated Global Market." Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.
  • 2000 "Chayanov in the Caribbean: St. Lucian Banana Growers in the Wake of the WTO Banana Wars." Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco.
  • 2000 "Public Consumption and Comparative Advantage: The Uses of Immigration Policy in Belize." Presented at the 25th annual Caribbean Studies Association meeting, St. Lucia.
  • 2000 "State Theory and the Politics of Acknowledgement: The United Houma Nation in the U.S. Congress." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, San Francisco (with Tawnya Sesi).
  • 1999 "No Longer NIMBY: Broadening a Grassroots Environmental Movement in Mobile, Alabama." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Tucson, AZ
  • 1999 "Nature and Justice: Discourse Strategies of an Environmental Coalition in Mobile County, Alabama." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Ethnological Society, Portland, OR.
  • 1999 "Co-opting Justice: Growth and Demise of a Multiracial Coalition in Southern Alabama." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society, Decatur, GA.
  • 1998 "Controlling Contracts: The Persistence of Monopoly in the Belize Banana Industry." Paper presented at the 23rd annual conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, St. John's, Antigua, W.I.
  • 1998 "Paradoxes of Pollution: Cancer and Accommodation to Environmental Hazards in Mobile, Alabama." Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • 1998 "Local Stratagems, Global Spoils: Hegemonic Aspects of Contract Farming for the World Banana Trade." Invited paper presented in the Key Symposium of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society, Wilmington, NC.
  • 1997 "Low Wage Export Production and Transnational Resistance among Immigrant Workers in Belize." Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting, Seattle.
  • 1996 "Immigrant Labor and Transnational Trajectories in a Central American Banana Industry." Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting, San Francisco.
  • 1996 "The Limits of Administrative Autonomy: The United Fruit Company and the Colonial State in the British Caribbean." Paper presented at the Caribbean Studies Association annual meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • 1996 "The 'Peasant Question' on the Gulf Coast: Crisis and Attrition in the Alabama Shrimp Fleet." Paper presented at the Southern Anthropological Society annual meeting. Baton Rouge, LA.
  • 1995 "Transnational Origins and Trajectories of Immigrant Workers in the Belizean Banana Industry." Paper presented at the Ninth Annual Studies on Belize Conference, Belize City, Central America.
  • 1995 "Creolization, Class Formation, and Ethnic Conflict in Belize." Paper presented at the Caribbean Studies Association annual conference. Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. (with O. Nigel Bolland).

Professional positions:

• 1998- Professor of Anthropology. Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work. University of South Alabama (promoted June, 1998).
• 1995-98 Associate Professor of Anthropology. University of South Alabama (promoted and tenured June, 1995).
• 1989-95 Assistant Professor of Anthropology. University of South Alabama.
• 1988-89 Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia.

Selected professional service:

• 2000 Grant proposal reviewer for National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program.
• 2000 President of the Southern Anthropological Society
• 2000 Local arrangements chair for annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society.
• 1998 Article manuscript reviewer for Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.
• 1998 Grant proposal reviewer for Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
• 1998 Book manuscript reviewer for Routledge Press.
• 1997 Book manuscript reviewer for University of Georgia Press.
• 1997 Grant proposal reviewer for National Science Foundation.
• 1997 Article manuscript reviewer for American Ethnologist.
• 1997 Chair and co-organizer of the session, "Resistance and Accommodation to the Global Economy: Ethnographic Perspectives on Regions in Transition" at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting.
• 1996 Chair of the session, "Issues of Land Tenure, Agriculture and Urbanization in the Caribbean" at the Caribbean Studies Association annual meeting.
• 1996 Elected councilor to the executive board of the Southern Anthropological Society.
• 1995 Grant proposal reviewer for Cultural Anthropology, National Science Foundation.
• 1995 Article manuscript reviewer for the Latin American Research Review.
• 1995 Grant proposal reviewer for the North Carolina Sea Grant consortium.

Selected community service:

• 2001 Presentation to third grade class, O'Rourke school, on Peru and the Inca Empire.
• 2001 Participated in faculty round table on Latin American Development and Tradition, organized by the Latin American Students Association.
• 2001 Organized and taught in eight week Odyssey class for senior citizens.
• 2000 Presentation to second grade class, O'Rourke school, on Mexican Christmas traditions.
• 2000 Talk to Sierra Club of Mobile on "Culture and Land Use in Belize."
• 1999 Slide show and talk on Belize to first graders of Corpus Christi School.
• 1999 Interviewed on WABB radio on cancer mortality in Mobile county.
• 1999 Presented results of Mobile-area cancer mortality research in the Harbinger.
• 1999 Presentation on the international debt crisis to Social Justice and Peace Committee of Our Savior Catholic Church, January.
• 1998 Presentation on history and culture of Mexico to Social Justice and Peace Committee of Our Savior Catholic Church, June.
• 1998 Presentation to Sigma Xi scientific professional society, "Immigration and Ethnic Conflict in a Central American Banana Industry."
• 1997 Interviewed on WNTM radio about the book Myths of Ethnicity and Nation.
• 1995 Presentation to Girl Scout Troop 263 on "Fossil Ancestors and Human Evolution," Mobile.
• 1995 Taught two week course in cultural and physical anthropology for senior citizens in the Odyssey continuing education group, Mobile.
• 1994 Preparation of report, "Origins of Immigrant Banana Workers in Belize" for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Belmopan, Belize.
• 1993 Presentation to PACE class on "Peoples and Cultures of Central America," Pauline O'Rourke School. Mobile.
• 1992 "Cultural Extinction and the Threat of Diminished Diversity in the Modern World." Annual keynote address to University of South Alabama chapter of Alpha Chi, national undergraduate honors society.