Dr Anthony Marcus
BFA (New York University) MA PhD (City University of New York)
T: 03 8344 9215
Anthony lectures in anthropology and development studies and directs new internet programs in International Development. He is an urban anthropologist with research interests in political economy, civil society, the anthropology of the state, poverty amelioration, public policy, gender, 'race' and ethnicity.
Anthony has done field research in Cuba, Mexico, and Guatemala, has worked on major longitudinal studies of homeless African-American and Latin American men in New York City, and heroin and illicit drug marketing and use in the United States. He has published on globalization and culture change (Anthropology For A Small Planet NY: Brandywine Press 1996) and American history (On Trial: American History Through Court Proceedings and Hearings 1998), and his current writing focuses on Mexican migrants in the northeastern United States, poverty and public policy, the politics of the culture concept in development, and comparative mestizajes.
Publications
Recent books and edited volumes
2006 America Firsthand: Volume One: Readings from Settlement to Reconstruction, (with David Burner) NY: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.
2006 America Firsthand: Volume Two: Readings from Reconstruction to the Present, (with David Burner) NY: Bedford/St Martin’s Press.
2005 Where Have All the Homeless Gone? The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis: NY: Oxford: Berghan Press http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=MarcusWhere
2005 Malcolm X and the Third American Revolution: The Life and Work of George Breitman, Amherst, NY: Prometheus/Humanity Books.
2005 Putting Words into Action: Praxis and Anthropology, a special issue Anthropologica 47(1) (with Charles Menzies, eds)
Recent articles
2005 'World Systems Theory' in Tim Forsyth (ed.) Encyclopedia of International Development, London: Routledge Press
2005 'Drinking Politics: Alcohol, Drugs and the Problem of Civil Society in the United States' in Thomas M Wilson (ed) Drinking Culture: Alcohol and the Expression of Identity, Class and Nation, Oxford: Berg Publishers.
2005 'Local Culture, Local Power: Microfinance in Nepal', Melbourne University Private Working Paper Series (with Yogendra Prasad Acharya).
2005 'The Culture of Poverty Revisited: Bringing Back the Working Class' Anthropologica 47(1).