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Howard Campbell, Ph.D.

Professor of Anthropology

E-MAIL: hcampbel@utep.edu

Web Page: http://faculty.utep.edu/hcampbel

Qualifications:

  • Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1990


Courses Taught:

  • Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
  • Contemporary Mexican Culture
  • Indigenous People of Latin America
  • Cultural Diversity
  • Ethnographic Methods
  • Seminar in Qualitative Methods
  • Drug Use, Drug Abuse and Drug Trafficking
  • Sports, Society & Culture

Academic Specializations:

  • Ethnicity
  • Political Economy
  • Mexico
  • Indigenous cultures of Mexico
  • Political Movements
  • Drug Trafficking
  • Border Cultures

Recent Journal Publications
(see book publications on the vita page)

“Narco-Propaganda in the Mexican Drug War: An Anthropological Perspective,” Latin American Perspectives, published through OnlineFirst on 30 April 2012, 10.1177/0094582X12443519

“No End in Sight: Violence in Ciudad Juárez,” NACLA, Report on the Americas, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 19-22. May/June 2011.

The anthropology of global flows: A critical reading of Appadurai's `Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy' by Josiah Heyman and Howard Campbell, Anthropological Theory 2009 9: 131-148  http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/camdru.html

"Female Drug Smugglers on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Gender, Crime, and Empowerment," 2008, Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 81, no. 1.

"Corruption in the U.S. Borderlands with Mexico: The 'Purity' of Society and the 'Perversity' of Borders." In Corruption and the Secret of the Law: A Legal Anthropological Perspective, eds., Monique Nuijten and Gerhard Anders. Ashgate Press. (2nd author, with Joe Heyman).

"Cultural Seduction: American Men, Mexican Women, Cross-border Attraction," Critique of Anthropology, 2007, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 261-283.

“Tribal Synthesis: Piros, Mansos and Tiwas through History.”2006. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 293-311.

“The Role of Religion on the Health Practices of Mexican Americans,” (2nd author with Josie Luján), Journal of Religion and Health, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 183-195, June 2006.

“Drug Trafficking Stories: Everyday Forms of Narco-Folklore on the U.S.-Mexico Border.” 2005. International Journal of Drug Policy vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 326-333.

“At the Anthropology Meetings,” Qualitative Inquiry, vol.12: 1, February 2006.

“The Socorro Mission: Culture, Economic Development and the Politics of Historical Preservation along the Río Grande/Río Bravo,” Latin American Perspectives, vol. 32, issue 6, pp. 8-27, 2005.

“Chicano Lite: Mexican-American Consumer Culture on the Border, Journal of Consumer Culture, vol. 5, no. 2, July 2005, pp. 207-233.

“A Tale of Two Families: The Mutual Construction of Anglo and Mexican Ethnicities Along the U.S.-Mexico Border,” Bulletin of Latin American Research, vol. 24, no. 1, (January 2005).

“Recent Research on the U.S.-Mexico Border,” (2nd author with Josiah Heyman), Latin American Research Review, 2003, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 205-220 (October 2004).

“Beat Mexico: Bohemia, Anthropology, and ‘the Other,’” Critique of Anthropology, vol. 23, no. (2), pp. 209-230, June 2003.

 Faculty
Josiah Heyman
Howard Daudistel
Howard Campbell
David Carmichael
Ernesto Castaneda
Timothy Collins
Theodore Curry
Sara Grineski
Teresa Hibbert
Cheryl Howard
Gang Lee
Ophra Leyser-Whalen
Aurolyn Luykx
Maria Cristina Morales
Aurelia Lorena Murga
Guillermina Gina Núñez-Mchiri
Ellwyn Stoddard