Dr. Mark Schuller

Co-Producer/Co-Director


ark Schuller teaches in the Anthropology Department at Vassar College. He has a Ph.D. in Anthropology, Women's Studies, and Global Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His dissertation based on over two years of fieldwork in Haiti, Killing With Kindness: Impacts of International Assistance on Participation and Autonomy in Women's NGOs in Post-Coup Haiti, was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, Labor and Employment Research Fund, and the University of California Washington Center Program.

Schuller has published four peer-reviewed articles and two book chapters about Haiti. Schuller co-edited a volume, Homing Devices: the Poor as Targets of Public Housing Policy and Practice (2006, Lexington Press), culminating four years of experience working as a grassroots organizer in Minnesota, particularly the St. Paul Tenants Union. Schuller also co-edited Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction (2008, Alta Mira Press). As an applied/public anthropologist, Schuller has been involved in many grassroots campaigns and organizations, such as PUEBLO, Voices for Global Justice, and Jubilee (debt cancellation) among others.


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