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Michael Paolisso
(Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles, 1985)
Executive Board
Center for Heritage Resource Studies
University of Maryland, College Park
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Maryland, College Park
Phone: (301) 405-1433
Email: Mpaolisso@anth.umd.edu
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Eastern Shore, Maryland
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Paolisso has performed research in environmental change, household
economics, gender and development, and research methods. He has
worked on research projects in Latin America, Kenya, Nepal. In
Honduras, for example, his research focused on the gendered use
of natural resources. In recent years, Paolisso undertaken a number
of projects in the Chesapeake Bay watershed that focus on the
cultural construction of such concepts as nature, environment,
pollution, conservation, native and non-native, uncertainty, and
management. The goal of this research is to introduce cultural
analysis into research and management efforts that seek to restore
and protect the natural and cultural resources of the Chesapeake
Bay watershed.
In terms of cultural resources, his research has focused on differing
cultural understandings of heritage, applied to different Chesapeake
stakeholder groups. For example, he has investigated the differing
views about watermen and the role that their work and communities
play in constructing Chesapeake heritage. He has also focused
on the application of the construct of heritage to farmers, and
the ways that farmlands are being redefined as part of the region’s
heritage that is worthy of conservation and economic support.
Paolisso also organizes an exhibit booth at the annual Labor Day
Skipjack Festival on Deal Island that illustrates the culture
and heritage of the skipjacks and the watermen communities.
Follow these links for information on his current and recent
work. A list of selected publications follows.
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Selected
Publications
Books and Monographs
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| 2006 |
Chesapeake Environmentalism:
Rethinking Culture to Strengthen Restoration and
Resource Management. Chesapeake Perspectives Monographs,
Maryland Sea Grant College. |
| 2004 |
Non-native Oysters in the
Chesapeake Bay. National Academy Press, Washington,
D.C. |
| 1992 |
Gender and the
Commercialization of Subsistence Agriculture in Nepal,
with Shibesh Regmi. Washington, D.C.and Kathmandu, Nepal:
International Center for Research on Women and New ERA.
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| 1989 |
Women's Work
and Child Welfare in the Third World, edited with Joanne
Leslie. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. |
| 1988 |
Time Allocation
among the Irapa-Yukpa, with Ross Sackett. Human
Relations Area Files Comparative Time Allocation Series.
Volume 2. New Haven: HRAF Press. |
Recent Articles and Chapters in Books |
| 2004 |
Does Cash Crop Adoption Detract
From Childcare Provision? Evidence from Rural Nepal. (with
Kelly Hallman, Lawrence Haddad, and Shibesh Regmi). In Agnes
R.Quisumbing (ed.) Household Decisions, Gender, and
Development: A Synthesis of Recent Research, Pgs. 95-100.
Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute.
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| 2003 |
Chesapeake Bay Watermen, Weather,
and Blue Crabs: Cultural Models and Fishery
Policies. In Sarah Strauss and Ben Orlove (eds.) Weather,
Climate and Culture.
Pgs. 61-82. New York: Berg |
| 2002 |
The Significance of Gender Roles
in Assessing Disaster Impacts: A Case Study of Hurricane
Mitch and Hillside Farmers in Honduras (with Amanda Ritchie
and Aleyda Ramirez). International Journal of Mass Emergencies
and Disasters Vol 20 (2): 171-195 |
| 2002 |
Blue Crabs and Controversy on
the Chesapeake Bay: A Cultural Model for Understanding Watermen’s
Reasoning about Blue Crab Management. Human Organization
61(3): 226-239 |
| 2001 |
Mujeres, Agua y
Lena en Honduras: Algunas Observaciones Empiricas sobre
Genero y Recursos Naturales (with Aleyda Ramirez). In Esperanza
Tunon Pablos (ed). Genero y Medio Ambiente en Mexico,
Centroamerica y Caribe. Tabasco, Mexico: ECOSUR. |
| 2001 |
Gendered Responses
to Agricultural Commercialization in Nepal. (with Kelly
Hallman, Lawrence Haddad, and Shibesh Regmi). Economic
Development and Culture Change. |
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2001 |
Building a Constituency
for Applied Anthropology. Practicing Anthropology.
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| 2001 |
Culture, Politics,
and Toxic Dinoflaggellate Blooms: the Anthropology of Pfiesteria.
(with Erve Chambers). Human Organization 60(1): 1-12.
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2001 |
What
Can Digital Audio Data Do for You? (with R. Shawn Maloney).
Field Methods 13(1):88-96. |
| 2000 |
Farmer Morality
and Maryland's Nutrient Management Regulations. (with R.
Shawn Maloney) Culture and Agriculture 22(3): 32-39. |
| 2000 |
Recognizing Farmer
Environmentalism: Nutrient Runoff and Toxic Dinoflagellate
Blooms in the Chesapeake Bay Region (with R. Shawn Maloney).
Human Organization 59(2): 209-221. |
| 2000 |
Cultural Models
of Environment and Pollution (with R. Shawn Maloney and
Erve Chambers). Anthropology News 41(2):48-9.
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| 1999 |
Toxic Algal Blooms,
Nutrient Runoff, and Farming on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
Culture and Agriculture 21(3): 53-58. |
| 1999 |
Gender and Household
Level Responses to Soil Degradation in Honduras (with Sarah
Gammage and Linda Casey). Human Organization
58(3): 261-273. |
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