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College of Natural and Behavioral Sciences
Department of Anthropology
Associate Professor and Chair
310-243-3568
Website: www.sarahruthtaylor.com
Education:
| Ph.D. | 2012 | Anthropology University at Albany, SUNY |
| M.A. | 2008 | Applied Anthropology California State University, Long Beach |
| B.A. | 2006 | Anthropology and Latin American Studies California State University, Chico |
Research Interests:
Yucatán, Maya ethnology, political ecology and land use, critical development studies, agrarian reform and socioeconomic adaptation, community-based conservation strategies and natural resource management, tourism, gender and household production, ethnographic film, applied anthropology, and participatory research design.
Representative Publications:
Books
2018 Taylor, Sarah R. On Being Maya and Getting By: Heritage Politics and Community Development in Yucatán. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
2020 Taylor, Sarah R. “Ethnographers and Collaborators in the Voluntourism Encounter” In Special Issue: Participatory Research and Ethics in Mesoamerican Fieldwork. Walter E. Little and Martha Rees, eds. Annals of Anthropological Practice. 44(2): 180-185.
2019 Lawrence, Ted J., Richard C. Stedman, Stephen J. Morreale, and Sarah R. Taylor. Rethinking landscape conservation: linking globalized agriculture to changes to indigenous community-managed landscapes. Tropical Conservation Science. 12: 1-19.
2017 Taylor, Sarah R. Issues in measuring success in Community Based Indigenous Tourism: elites, kin groups, social capital, gender dynamics and income flows. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2016.1217871
2014 Taylor, Sarah R. Maya Cosmopolitans: Engaging Tactics and Strategies in the Performance of Tourism. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. 21(2):219-232.
2008 Loewe, Ron and Sarah Taylor. Neoliberal Modernization at the Mexican Periphery: Gender, Generation and the Construction of a New, Flexible Work Force. Urban Anthropology Studies. 37(3-4):357-392.
Visual Anthropology Projects
2016 Dirty Paws—20 minutes; Director, ethnographer, and co-writer. Produced in association with the Sedgewick County Continuum of Care Homelessness Coalition and funded by the Kansas Humanities Council.
2013 Mayapán: Urban Life at the Last Maya Capital — 33 minutes; Director and writer. Produced in association with the University at Albany, SUNY, the Institute for Mesoamerica Studies, and the Economic Foundations of Mayapán Project (PEMY)
2008 Gracias a los Gringos —20 minutes; Director, ethnographer, and writer
Other
2012 Service Learning. Anthropology News. Washington D.C.: AAA. May, 2012.
2011 Arrivals, perceived and otherwise. Anthropologies, Issue 2: Anthropologies of
http://www.anthropologiesproject.org/2011/04/arrivals-perceived-and-actual.html.
Teaching:
ANT 100: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANT 334: Mesoamerica, Past and Present
ANT 390: Applied Anthropology
ANT 455/555: People. Culture, and Environment
ANT 490: Anthropology Proseminar