Susan D. Russell
Ph.D. University of Illinois 1983
Professor
Professor Russell is a cultural anthropologist with specific interests
in economic anthropology and the Philippines. Her research has focused
on the relationship between ritual and economy and on the role of
peasant economic institutions in upland and maritime societies.
She has conducted research with upland Ibaloi and Kankana-ey peoples
in Luzon, street vendors in Manila, and fishermen in both Thailand
and the Philippines. She has also been a visiting professor at the
School of Economics, University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon
City. Professor Russell is a core member of the Center for Southeast
Asian Studies. She teaches courses in Southeast Asian cultures,
corporate cultures, economic anthropology, and introductory anthropology.
Selected Publications
Labor Discipline, Debt and Effort in a Philippine Fishing Community.
In The Anthropology of Labor, ed. E. Paul Durrenberger and
Judith Marti. (in press, Altamira Press).
Of Beggars and Thieves: Customary Sharing of the Catch and Informal
Sanctions in an Open Access Fishery in the Philippines (with Rani
Alexander). In State and Community in Fisheries Management: Power,
Policy, and Practice, ed. EP Durrenberger and Thomad D. King,
CT: Greenwood Press, pp. 19-40, 2000.
Structuralism's Transformations: Order and Revision in Indonesian
and Malaysian Societies. Program for Southeast Asian Studies,
Arizona State University, Tempe. Co-editor with Lorraine Aragon,
1999.
Measuring Seining Strategies and Fishing Success in the Philippines
(with Rani Alexander). Human Organization: Journal of Applied
Anthropology 57(2): 145-58, 1998.
The Skipper Effect Debate: Views from a Philippine Fishery (with
Rani Alexander). Journal of Anthropological Research 52(4):
433-460, 1996.
Changing Lives, Changing Rites: Ritual and Social Dynamics in
the Philippine and Indonesian Uplands. Ann Arbor: Center for
South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan. Co-editor
with Clark E. Cunningham, 1989.
Ritual, Power and Economy: Upland-Lowland Contrasts in Mainland
Southeast Asia. DeKalb Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern
Illinois University. Editor, 1989.
Contact Information:
Dr. Susan Russell
Department of Anthropology
Stevens Building 102
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
Voice: 815-753-8577
Fax: 815-753-7027
Email: srussell@niu.edu
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