Sociology and Anthropology
Faculty Directory
JENNIE MARCELLE SMITH-PARIOLA
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Berry College, Box 5010
Mt. Berry, Georgia 30149-5010
tel: (706) 802-6730
fax: (706) 236-2205
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EDUCATION
1991 - 1998 University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Ph.D., Anthropology, 1998
Thesis: “Answering the Lanbi: Sociopolitical Discourses
and Collective Initiatives of the Haitian Peasantry,” 1998.
M.A., Anthropology, 1993
Thesis: “Discourses, Practices and Contradictions of Control:
The Interdiction, Detention and Repatriation of Haitian Refugees-
September 1991-May 1992,” 1993.
1984-1988 Furman University
B.A., Philosophy, Premedicine, 1988
summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & CURRENT POSITION
2004-Present Associate Professor of Anthropology
Berry College
2003-Present Director, Latin American and Caribbean
Studies Program
Berry College, Rome, Georgia
2001-2003 Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Berry College
2000-2001 Coordinator, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Berry College
1998-2004 Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Berry College
COURSES TAUGHT at Berry College
Cultural Anthropology
Globalization and Local Communities
Women in Global Perspective
Applying Anthropology
Caribbean Cultures
Developing Nations (interdisciplinary, team-taught)
Anthropology of the Body
Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean
Culture and Education in Costa Rica (taught in Costa Rica)
Jamaican Culture and Society (taught in Jamaica)
Freshman Seminar (interdisciplinary)
RESEARCH AREAS
Latin American/Caribbean social movements; critical development theory; postcolonial studies; peasant studies; feminist ethnography; globalization and transnationalism; resistance theory; ethnomusicology; Africana studies; Latino/a studies; public anthropology
Geographic foci: Haiti, Cuba, the Caribbean and Latin America, Latino immigrant communities in the U.S. South
PUBLICATIONS
Books
2001 Smith, Jennie M. When the Hands are Many: Community Organization and Social Change in Rural Haiti. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
2003 Smith, Jennie M. When the Hands are Many: Community
Organization and Social Change in Rural Haiti (Reprint Edition).
Kingston, Jamaica: Arawak Publications.
Articles
fc Smith, Jennie M. and Abíódún Gòkè-Paríolá. “Expanding the Parameters of Service-Learning: A Case Study.” Under consideration by the Journal of Studies in International Education.
2004 Smith, Jennie M. “Singing Back: The Chante Pwen of Haiti.” Ethnomusicology 48(1):105-126.
2002 Mary C. Clement and Jennie M. Smith, with Tabatha Tant, Amy Herendeen, and Logan Winkles. “In Their Own Words: Student Learning Experiences from a Pilot Diversity Course in Costa Rica.” Campbell Monograph Series on Education and Human Sciences 3:11-21.
2002 Smith, Jennie M. “Anthropology and Anorexia: A Proposal for Further Research.” Southern Anthropologist 28(2):19-25.
2000 Smith, Jennie M. “If Only We’d Had Picket Fences: The Detainment of Haitian Refugees at the Guantánamo Naval Base,”
1991-1993 Selected Papers on Refugee and Immigrant Issues,
Volume 8. Washington, DC: American Anthropological
Association.
1998 Smith, Jennie. “Family Planning in Kalfounò, Haiti: What’s Going Wrong?,” Occasional Paper No. 13. Institute of Haitian Studies Occasional Papers, Kansas City: University of Kansas.
1997 Smith, Jennie. “NGOs, Development and Democratization in Haiti since the Return of Aristide.” Gouverner Haïti: La consolidation de l’Etat et le Développement Démocratique. Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL).
Book Chapters
2005 Smith, Jennie M. “The ‘Latinization’ of Rome, Georgia: Undergraduate Research
and Community Activism.” In The American South in a Global World,
James L. Peacock, Harry Watson, and Carrie Matthews, eds. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press. In press (expected publication date: Winter 03/04).
2003 Smith, Jennie M. “Mother Teresa.” In How to Get a Life, Lawrence Baines
and Daniel McBrayer, eds. Pp. 3-14. Atlanta: Humanics Publishing Group.
Published Reports
1992 Carole Crumley, Joel Dunn, Lin Dunbar, Julie Flowerday, Rachel Parsons, Eric
Poncelet, Jennie Smith, Martha Temkin, and Alicia Wise. Historical Approaches
to the Assessment of Global Climate Change Impacts, Washington, DC:
Committee for the National Institutes for the Environment.
Works in Progress
Smith, Jennie M. “Washing Hands, Wiping the Ground: A Critical Analysis of U.S.
Development and Democratization Aid to Haiti. Let Haiti Live, Jennifer Costanza
and Jennifer Miles, eds.
Other Publications
2001 Smith, Jennie. “Keeping the Faith: The Story of a Peasantry and a President.” The Haitian Times (April 18-24).
1994 Smith, Jennie. “Haiti Beyond the News Clips,” Prism Magazine, November.
1993 Smith, Jennie. “Dear President Clinton,” Haïti En Marche, VII(2).
1992 Smith, Jennie. “Sisters, Brothers,” The Other Side Magazine (May-June).
1992 Smith, Jennie. “Tales George Bush Doesn’t Want You to Hear,” La Palabra (Spring).
1992 Smith, Jennie. “Haitian Refugees Tell Their Stories,” WITH Magazine (October-November).
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
- “Religion and Social Justice.” Invited presentation at Furman
University, Greenville, SC, April 30, 2004.
2004 “Developing Integrated Short-Term Study Abroad Programs:
The Challenges of Combining Learning and Service.” Paper presented at the 15th Annual International Conference of the
Association of Academic Programs of Latin America and the
Caribbean, Antigua, Guatemala, February 19-21 (with Abíódún
Gòkè-Paríolá).
2003 “The ‘Latinization’ of Rome, Georgia.” Paper presented,
102th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association, Chicago, IL, November 19-23.
2003 “Maintaining Minority Languages in the Age of Globalization:
Theoretical and Pragmatic Issues.” Paper presented, International
Conference of the American Society of Geolinguistics, Baruch
College (CUNY), New York, October 2-4 (with Abíódún Gòkè-
Paríolá).
2002 “The Sociopolitical Power of Song in Rural Haiti.” Paper presented at the 101th
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans,
November 20-24.
2002 "What Really Matters.” Invited lecture presented for the L.D. Johnson Memorial
Lecture Series at Furman University, Greenville, SC. October 12.
2002 “Investigating with Students the Transnational South.” Paper
presented, Global South Workshop, University Center for
International Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
March 27.
2002 “Changing Students’ Worldviews about Diversity: The Effects of
an Immersion Experience on Preservice Teachers.” Paper
presented, Annual Meeting of Association of Teacher Educators,
Denver, February 4 (with Stephen Bell, Mary Clement, and Mae
Wlazlinski).
2001 “Education 222 in Costa Rica: A New Twist on the Required
Teacher Education Diversity Course.” Paper presented, Fall 2001
Conference of the Georgia Association of Teacher Educators,
Atlanta, October 19 (with Mary C. Clement).
2001 “Journeying into Vocation.” Two invited lectures, Center for Theological Exploration
of Vocation, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, July 18-19.
2001 “Anthropology and Anorexia: A Proposal for Further Research.”
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society,
Nashville, April 6.
2001 “Lavalas Constituents: The Rural Poor.” Invited paper presented
at the U.S. State Department and the National Intelligence Council
symposium, “Haiti’s Political Challenges: Actors, Issues, Prospects,”
Arlington, March 16.
2001 “Multiculturalism in the 2000 Election.” Invited paper presented
at the 5th Annual Conference on Politics, Religion, Culture
and Community, Berry College, March 15.
2000 “Applying Anthropology in a Multinational-izing Community.”
Poster presented in collaboration with three Berry College
undergraduates at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 15-19.
2000 “Grassroots Movements and Democracy.” Invited paper presented
at the conference, “Haiti: Exploding the Myths,” Bates College,
Lewiston, Maine, September 28-30.
1999 “U.S. Immigration Policy at the Close of the Twentieth Century:
A Case Study from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, 1991-1994.”
Paper presented in invited session, 98th Annual Meeting of the
American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 17-21.
1999 “Re-membering the Homeland: Haitians in Guantánamo, Cuba
at the End of the Century.” Paper presented at the 11th Annual
Meeting of the Haitian Studies Association and the Sixth Annual
Meeting of the Association for Haitian American Development,
Atlanta, Georgia, November 3-7.
1999 “Civil Society in Rural Haiti and Rural Cuba: Possibilities for
Comparative Research.” Invited paper presented at the Facultad
Latinoamericana de Ciences Sociales (FLACSO) international
symposium, “Latin America and Society: Challenges of the Third
Millennium” University of Havana, Havana Cuba, June 1-4.
1999 “Is Globalism the End of History?: A Response to Thomas Darby.”
Discussant paper presented at the conference, “Politics, Religion, and
Community,” Berry College, March 9.
1998 “Preparing Students to Practice Public Interest Anthropology.”
Paper presented in invited session at the 97th Annual Meeting
of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, December 2-6.
1998 “Traditional Peasant Groups, Contemporary Development Agendas
and Postmodernist Strategies for Sustainable Change.” Paper presented
at the 10th Annual Haitian Studies Association Conference,
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, October/November.
1998 “Because We are Human: Community Organization in the Haitian Countryside.”
Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Caribbean Studies Association
Conference, St. John’s, Antigua, May 29.
1997 “‘Development,’ ‘Underdevelopment,’ and the Problematics of Family
Planning in Rural Haiti.” Invited lecture, University of Kansas, April 28.
1997 “Examining ‘Exotics at Home’: A Response to di Leonardo.” Discussant paper
presented at the conference, “Toward a Public Anthropology: Strategies and
Prospects,” University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 5.
1997 “History, Political Economy and Culture in Haiti.” Invited lecture,
Anthropology Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 7.
1997 “The Effects of Economic Globalization and International Aid on Haitian
Workers.” Invited lecture, Anthropology Department, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 10.
1997 “Festive Resistance and Politicized Performance in Rural Haiti.”
Invited lecture, Communication Studies Department and African American
Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, February 27.
1996 “NGOs, Development and Democratization in Haiti since the Return of
Aristide: Peasants Speak Out.” Invited paper presented at the Canadian
Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL) conference, “Gouverner Haïti:
La consolidation de l’Etat et le Développement Démocratique,”
Ottawa, Ontario, November 7-8.
1996 “Enveloping Haiti.” Paper presented in the invited session, “Free Markets, Free
Trade, Free Labor: Structural Violence and the Immiseration of the World’s Poor,”
94th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA),
San Francisco, November.
1996 “Family Planning and Health Care in Rural Haiti.” Invited lecture,
Duke University Medical School, Durham, North Carolina, November.
1996 “The Impact of Recent Developments and Democratization Initiatives
on Grassroots Organizations in Rural Haiti.” Invited lecture, Georgetown-Johns
Hopkins Haiti Program, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, August.
1995 “Women Organizing in Rural Haiti.” Invited lecture, Mellon Seminar Series
“Women’s Leadership and Grassroots Activism,” Duke University, Durham,
NC, January.
1994 “‘Wòch nan dlo pa konn mizè wòch nan solèy’ (‘Stones in the water cannot know
the troubles of stones in the sun’): The International Community’s Efforts to
Promote Human Rights and ‘Restore Democracy’ to Haiti.” Paper presented in
the invited session, “Human Rights and Peace: The Role of Anthropology
and Anthropologists,” at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association (AAA), Atlanta, December.
1994 “Haiti in the Global Context.” Invited lecture, Annual Meeting of the University
of North Carolina Board of Visitors, Chapel Hill, November.
1994 “Charcoal, Drums and Conch Shells: A Discussion of Despair and Hope
in Haiti.” Invited lecture, North Carolina State University Peace Forum,
Raleigh, September.
1994 “The Crisis in Haiti.” Invited lecture, Furman University lecture series,
“Empowering the Present: Visions of Hope,” Greenville, South Carolina, September.
1993 “HIV+ Refugees in Guantánamo.” Invited lecture, Carolina Interfaith Task Force
on Central America forum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, June.
1992 “Policies of Protection: The Interdiction, Repatriation and Treatment of Haitian
Refugees following the Coup d’Etat of September 1991.” Paper presented at the
4th Annual Haitian Studies Association Conference, Tufts University,
Boston, Massachusetts, October.
1992 “‘Kouri pou Lapli, Tonbe Larivye’ (‘Run from the Rain to Fall into the River’):
The Flight of Haitian ‘Boat People’ Since the Coup of September 1991.” Invited
lecture, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, April.
1992 “Operation Safe Harbor?: Observations from Guantánamo Bay.” Invited
lecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April and at North Carolina State
University, May.
1989 “The History, Politics and Possibilities of ‘Making a Difference’ in Haiti.” Invited
lecture, Furman University lecture series “Attempting to Make a Difference,”
Greenville, South Carolina, October.
RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Berry College Summer Grant for Course Development, to develop the course, “Latinos in the U.S. South,” Summer 2004
Berry College Faculty Development Grant for Spanish language study in Oaxaca, Mexico, December 16, 2001 – January 4, 2002.
Berry College Faculty Development Grant for Summer Research Overseas, for ethnographic research in Fondwa, Haiti, June 2001.
Berry College Faculty Development Grant for the research project, “A Cross-Cultural Study of the Effects of Media on Perceived Body Image,” conducted in Sevilla, Spain, January 1-10, 2001.
Berry College Faculty Development Grant for Summer Research Overseas, for Spanish language study and ethnographic research in Cuba and Haiti, May-June, 2000.
Berry College Faculty Development Grant for Summer Research Overseas, for study at the University of Havana and ethnographic research in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, May-June, 1999.
Carolina Society of Fellows Dissertation Writing Fellowship (Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster, Jr. Fellowship), UNC-CH, 1997-1998.
J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board Grant for Research Abroad, for research in Haiti, 1995-1996.
Inter-American Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, for research in Haiti, 1996.
UNC-Duke Institute for Latin American Studies Off-Campus Fellowship, for research in Haiti, 1995-1996.
AWARDS
Gloria Shatto Service and Leadership Award, for exemplary leadership in living out Berry’s motto, April 2004
Heart of Berry Award, for exceptional volunteer service, Berry College, April 2004
Voice of Berry Award, for improving communication among different sectors within the college and for establishing links between Berry and the surrounding community. April, 2003.
CORI Award for the Outstanding Paper on Refugees and Immigrants, for the article, “If Only We’d Had Picket Fences: The Detainment of Haitian Refugees at the Guantánamo Naval Base, 1991-1993,” Selected Papers on Refugee and Immigrant Issues, Volume 8, American Anthropological Association, November 2000.
Honigmann Award, for the outstanding graduate student in sociocultural anthropology, UNC-CH, 1998.
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (Tanner Award), UNC-CH, 1995.
Frank Porter Graham Graduate and Professional Student Honor Society, UNC-CH, inducted 1995.
Polgar Award, UNC-CH Department of Anthropology, for outstanding work in applied anthropology, 1993-1994.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Society for Cultural Anthropology
Society for Latin America Anthropology
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Caribbean Studies Association (CSA)
Haitian Studies Association (HSA)
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)
SERVICE
Berry College
Director, Latin American and Caribbean 2003-present
Studies Program
Chair, Latin American and Caribbean 2003-present
Studies Advisory Council
Coordinator, Latin American and Caribbean 2001-2003
Studies Planning Group
International Programs Committee 2003-present
Interfaith Council 2002-present
Centennial Campaign Executive Steering 2002-present
Committee
Bonner Scholars Advisory Committee 2002-present
Founding Member, Phi Kappa Phi 2002-present
Member, Omicron Delta Kappa 2000-present
Founder and Coordinator, Interfaith 2002-2003
Gathering
Bonner Scholars Advisory Committee 2002-2003
Gender Equity Committee 2001-2003
Council on Student Scholarship 2001-2003
Institutional Review Board 2001-2003
Maymester Planning Committee 2001-2002
Cultural Events Committee 2000-2002
Writing Across the Curriculum Planning 2000-2001
Committee
Berry Council for Undergraduate Research 2001-2001
Health and Wellness Concerns Committee 2000-2001
Multicultural Student Affairs Committee 2000-2001
Evans School Foreign Languages Across the 2000-2001
Curriculum Committee (chair)
Information Technology Committee 1999-2001
Provost Search Committee 1999-2000
Evans School Faculty Development Committee 1999-2000
Interdisciplinary Studies Committee 1998-2000
Evans Speakers Committee 1998-1999
Foreign Languages Search Committee Summer 1999
Family Studies Task Force Spring 1999
Faculty Resource Person, Berry College Spring 2000-present
Foreign Study Program in Cuba
Faculty member, SAVE (Students Against the Spring 1999-present
Violation of the Earth)
Faculty member, Hunger and Homelessness Spring 1999
Awareness Task Force
Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Member, SOC and ANT Search Committee 2003-2004
Department Chair 2001-2003
Chair, SOC and ANT Search Committee 2001-2002
Chair, SOC and ANT Search Committee Spring-Summer 2001
Department Coordinator 2000-2001
Events Coordinator 1998-2000
Presentations
“Service-Learning at Berry College.” Presenta- April 2, 2004
tion to the Berry College Board of Visitors
“When the Hands are Many,” guest lecture at October 16, 2003
Emory University Dept. of Anthropology.
“Grappling with Hunger,” keynote addresses at March 2000, 2001,
Berry’s annual Oxfam Hunger Banquet 2002, 2003
“Feminisms, for the panel, “The Truths March 14, 2001
About Feminism.” Berry College.
“One and the Same We: Survival and Social February 27, 2001
Change in Rural Haiti” (slideshow and
talk), for Food for Thought series
“AIDS and Empathy,” for the AIDS February 22, 2001
Reflection Service
“Doing Anthropological Research,” Research February 20, 2001
Methods in Education course
“Conducting Ethnographic Research,” training November 2000
seminars for Berry Education Faculty
“Beyond Tolerance,” 2000 Day of Dialogue November 7, 2000
Panel on Diversity, sponsored by the
Multicultural Student Affairs Office.
“Body Image and Eating Disorders” series of Fall 2000
training seminars for the 2000-2001 Berry
Residence Assistants and Peer Educators
“Applying Anthropology at Berry,” invited October 16, 1999
presentation to the Berry Board of Trustees
University of North Carolina
Graduate student member of the UNC-CH 1997-1998
Graduate Advising and Mentoring Task Force
Secretary, Frank Porter Graham Graduate and 1997-1998
Professional Student Honor Society
Graduate Student Department Self-Survey 1997
Committee, Department of Anthropology
Community Service and Public Presentations
Moderator, panel on the Hispanic Population of Northwest Georgia. Meeting of the Rome Branch of the American Association of University Women, Rome Georgia, April 15, 2004.
“The Potentialities and Pitfalls of Aiding Haiti: Some Lessons from the
Field.” Presented at the Annual Conference of Medical Missionaries, Inc. Manassas, VA, September 20-21, 2003.
Co-organizer of the Conference, “The Changing Face of North Georgia: Our Growing Latino Population,” Berry College, March 11, 2003.
Founding member, Comite Latino de Rome y Floyd County (Latino Committee of Rome and Floyd County), Rome, Georgia, Fall 2002-present.
Co-organizer, Latino Town Hall Meeting and Cultural Fiesta, Rome, Georgia, September 22, 2002.
“La Educacion y Los Latinos: Desafios y Oportunidades” (“Education and Latinos: Challenges and Opportunities”). Presented at the Latino Town Hall Meeting and Cultural Fiesta, Rome, Georgia, September 22, 2002.
Expert Witness and Consultant, Federal Defender Program, U.S. District
Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Spring 2002.
Member, AIDS Resource Council of Northwest Georgia Board of
Directors, Rome, Georgia, January 2002-present.
Vice-President for Membership of the Rome Branch of the American
Association of University Women, Rome, Georgia, 2001-2003.
Member, Northwest Georgia Title II Consortia Board (Assists
local AIDS prevention and care programs), Rome, Georgia, Spring 2001-present.
Member, Coosa River Basin Initiative (CRBI), Rome, Georgia, 2000-
present.
Habitat for Humanity construction projects, Rome, Georgia, Fall 2001.
“Women in the International Context.” Presented to the Rome
Branch of the American Association of University Women, Rome,
Georgia, February 17, 2001.
Mentor to a Rome City Schools student, Rome, Georgia, Fall 2000
A Multicultural Perspective on the Concept of ‘Home,’” presented to the Rome/Floyd County Board of Realtors, Rome, Georgia, July 19, 2000.
Volunteer, Rome Urban Ministries Soup Kitchen Program, Rome, Georgia, 1998-present.
Christmas Charity Fundraising for the Rome/Floyd County office of the Department of Family and Child Services, Rome, Georgia, December 1999.
“Face to Face with Cuba,” presented at North Rome United Methodist Church, Rome, Georgia, August 15, 1999.
Caregiver, Hustead House (hospice for people living with AIDS), AIDS Service Agency of Wake County, North Carolina, June-July 1993, and January 1994-August 1994.
Haitian Creole Interpreter/Translator and Advisor for Church World Service initiative to assist Haitian asylum seekers in preparing immigration cases, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Spring 1992-Spring 1996.
International Service and Employment
Volunteer Consultant for Beyond Borders/Limyè Lavi (an international organization focused on assistance to Haiti), June-July 2002
Board Member, Beyond Borders/Limyè Lavi January 2002-2003
Board Member, Partners in Progress (an international organization focused on assistance to Fondwa, Haiti), January 2002-present
Interpreter/Translator and Guide for the Educational Travel Program of Beyond Borders/Limyè Lavi, Haiti, Summer 1998
Civilian Human Rights Observer, United Nations/Organization of American States International Civilian Mission to Haiti (MICIVIH), July 1993-November 1993
Haitian Creole Interpreter/Translator and Advisor, Yale Law School Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic and American Civil Liberties Union (Haitian Centers Council plaintiffs for refugees held in Guantánamo Bay on basis of HIV+ status), U.S. Naval Base, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, October 1992 and February 1993
Haitian Creole Interpreter/Translator, United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), U.S. Naval Base, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, December 1991-January 1992
Health Education and Women's Concerns Coordinator, Bwadlorens Development Project, Mennonite Central Committee, Bwadlorens, Haiti, July 1988-July 1991.
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