Alice V. James
Resumé
of Recent Activities
ACADEMIC
EXPERIENCE
1999—
Professor of Anthropology, Shippensburg University
2005-2006
Visiting
Research Associate, Asia Minor Study Centre, Athens, Greece
1997-1998
Visiting Research Fellow, Greek National Social Science Research Centre
1993-1995
Senior Research Associate, Population Research Institute, Penn State
1988-1999
Associate Professor, Shippensburg University
EDUCATION
1983
Ph.D - Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University
1974
MA - Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University
1971
BA - Anthropology and Sociology, Bucknell University
FIELD
RESEARCH
Athens,
Greece
Research on Refugee Populations
from Asia Minor, September
2005—May 2006, September
1997—June 1998
Chios, Greece
Research on House Form in Pirgi,
Chios: September 2005
—July 2006, July—August
2001; July 2002
Research on Fertility Decline,
Households, Childbearing
Decision-Making: July—August 1996; July
1994; July—August 1992; July—August 1991; July
1990
RECENT
PUBLICATIONS
2004 James,
Alice, David James, and Loukas
Kalisperis. "A Unique Art Form: The Friezes of Pirgi." Leonardo Vol
37(2):
234-242.
2004 James, David,
Loukas Kalisperis, and Alice
James. "The Mathematics of Color-reversing Decorative Friezes: Facades
of Pirgi,
Greece." Meeting Alhambra: ISAMA-Bridges Conference Proceedings.
Granada:
Spain.
2001 James,
Alice. "Memories of Anatolia:
Generating Greek Refugee Identity." Balkanologie. Vol V, 229-238.
2000 James,
Alice and Barbara Smith "The
Mirror of Their Past: Greek Refugee Photographs and Memories
of Anatolia." Visual
Anthropology Review.
Vol
16, 25-42.
1999 James, Alice and
Loukas Kalisperis. "Use
of House and Space: Public and Private Family Interaction on Chios,
Greece." In House
Life: Space, Place and Family in Europe, D. Birdwell-Pheasant and D.
Lawrence-Zúñiga (eds.)
pp. 205-220. Oxford: Berg Publishers, Inc.
1996 James,
Alice. "Family in Cross Cultural
Perspective." In
Teaching
About Families,
K. S.
Lowney and T. Meyers (eds.) Washington, DC: ASA.
RECENT
PRESENTATIONS
2006
"The
Unique Friezes of Pirgi: Recent Research," Universidade
Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
2002 "House
Decorations on Chios, Greece:
Analysis of Frieze Forms." With David James and Loukas Kalisperis at
the 101st
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association, New Orleans,
Louisiana
1999
"Visualizing Refugee Identity." With
Barbara Tsilis. Paper presented at the 98th Annual Meeting of the
American
Anthropology Association, Chicago, Illinois
1998 "Survivors
of the Greek Catastrophe:
Constructing Refugee Identity for 75 Years." Paper presented at 14th
International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences,
Williamsburg,
Virginia
1998 "Fertility
Decline on Chios." Paper
presented at the National Centre for Social Science Research,
Athens,
Greece
1997 "Trends in
Rural De- and Repopulation on
an Eastern Aegean Island." Paper presented at the 17th Annual Congress
of the
Society of European Rural Sociologists, Chania, Crete
1996
"Determinants of Fertility and the Role
of Women in Families in Greece." Paper presented at the Center for the
Study of
Women, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
SESSIONS
ORGANIZED AND CHAIRED
1996
Anthropological Approaches to Fertility Research,
Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New Orleans
1996
Invited
Session:
Anthropological Demography,
Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New Orleans
1995
Anthropological Approaches to Fertility Research,
Annual Meeting of
the
Population Association of America, San Francisco
FUNDED
RESEARCH
1999
Faculty Professional Development Grant - Shippensburg University
United Nations Photographic Exhibition, Athens, Greece
1996
Faculty Professional Development Grant - Shippensburg University
Follow-up Study of Fertility Preferences in Chios, Greece
1991-1994
National Science
Foundation Planning Grant - Ethnic Differences and Fertility:
Family
Traditions and Household Economy in Greece and Turkey