Curriculum Vitae

DR J . H . J . ( H E N R I K E ) F L O R U S B O S C H
CURRICULUM VITAE , JUNE 2014
Instituut Culturele Antropologie/Ontwikkelingssociologie
Pieter de la Court gebouw
Wassenaarseweg 52
2333 AK Leiden
+31-(0)71-527-3756
[email protected]
EDUCATION
PhD in Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, August 2011
dissertation: The Powers of Observation: Ideologies and Practices of Paying Attention Among
Rural Malian Muslims in Mande
under the direction of Judith Irvine and Kelly Askew (co-chairs)
Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, December 2007
thesis: Into the Heart of an African Museum: An Anthropologist at Work at the Musée National
du Mali in Bamako, Mali
Intermediate Bamana, Summer Cooperative African Language Institute (SCALI): Michigan
State University, Summer 2002
MA in Anthropology (magna cum laude), University of Leiden, The Netherlands, June 2001;
thesis: Pottenkijken, Status en Work van de Numumusow in Narena, Mali
Certificate in Classical Studies, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, June 2000
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Aug. 2014-
“Universitair Docent” (Assistant Professor), Leiden University, Netherlands
2012-2014
“Docent” (Adjunct Professor), Leiden University, the Netherlands
2011-12
Outreach coordinator, African Studies Center, University of Michigan
GRANTS
African Studies Center Research Award, U-M, 2011
International Institute Pre-dissertation Research Grant, U-M, 2003
CAAS African Initiative Grant, U-M, 2003
SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, ACADEMIC RECOGNITION
Rackham Dissertation Writing Fellowship, University of Michigan (U-M), 2011
Dissertation Writing Institute Summer Fellowship, U-M, 2010
Sweetland Writing Center Junior Fellowship, U-M, 2008
Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, U-M, 2006
Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Grant, 2005
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Helmut Stern Internship Grant for Museum Studies, 2005
Foreign Language Enhancement Program (FLEP) fellowship, 2002
CAAS African Initiative Grant for language study at MSU, 2002
Social Sciences MA Thesis Award, University of Leiden, the Netherlands, 2001
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
COURSES TAUGHT
Leiden University, Leiden, & Leiden University College, The Hague, the Netherlands
Heritage Preservation in a Global Context
Religion and Modernity
Basismodule Religie (Anthropology of Religion)
Gender and Development
Oriëntatiemodule Globalizering (Introduction to Globalization)
Veldwerk Nl (Doing Fieldwork in the Netherlands)
Academische Vaardigheden, I, II, III (Academic Skills)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Sacred Spaces, Times, and Things
Museums and Heritage in a Globalized World
THESES DIRECTED
Master of Arts in Cultural Anthropology, Leiden University
Heritage Preservation in Dubrownik, Croatia (in progress)
Female Sellers of Sweets in Tamale, Ghana (in progress)
Gender Mainstreaming at Oxfam Novib, The Hague (2013-14)
Role of Prayer in a New Religious Movement in Amsterdam (2012-13)
Female Bartenders in Dubai, India (2012-13)
Bachelor of Arts
Leiden University, Cultural Anthropology & Development Sociology:
4 theses in progress, 3 theses completed in 2012-13
LUC, Development: 2 Capstone theses completed
SERVED AS GRADUATE STUDENT INSTRUCTOR
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Introduction to Four-Field Anthropology
The Anthropology of Art
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Culture, Thought, and Meaning
Museum Studies
GRADUATE TRAINING IN TEACHING AND LEARNING
Basiskwalificatie onderwijs (teaching credential for all Dutch universities), 2014
Seminar on writing pedagogy, Sweetland Writing Center, U-M, 2008
Seminar on College Teaching, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, U-M, 2006
Workshops on Teaching Writing across the Disciplines; Using technology in the classroom;
Multicultural teaching; Teaching students with disabilities; Teaching in and about museums,
Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, U-M, 2002-2005
OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Docent training, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Guest lectures and gallery tours for university courses in Anthropology, African History, African
Studies and Museum Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Guest lectures at local high school and elementary schools, Ann Arbor, MI
Guided tours for K-12 students, National Museum of Mali, Bamako, Mali
High school teacher Latin and Greek, Chr. Lyceum Visser ‘t Hooft, Leiden
Teaching assistant for Cultural Anthropology, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
FIELDWORK
Fieldwork in Mali (dissertation), studying ideologies and practices of perception and attention
as expressed in ritual and quotidian actions, everyday social interaction and speech acts, moral evaluation, and expert knowledge, in two rural communities in the Koulikoro region in
Southwest Mali; June-August 2003, June 2005-August 2006, January-March 2007, July 2009,
May–June 2011
Public Scholarship project to create awareness about and start the work of a proposed community cultural center in the city of in Techiman, Ghana; collaboration with students and faculty
of U-M, Ann Arbor, the University of Legon, Accra, Ghana, and the Kwame Nkruma University
of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana; May-June 2009 and May 2006
Fieldwork in Mali (MA, Leiden University, the Netherlands) on embodied knowledge and
cosmology in practices of Mande potters, Mande mountains region of Mali; September 1998February 1999
Undergraduate Research Assistant at Leiden University, the Netherlands, August-December
1997 (Professor Mineke Schipper, Comparative Literature); March-August 1999 (Professor
Hendrik Versnel, Classics and Ancient History)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN MUSEUMS AND ARCHIVES
Archival research in Mali on the Modibo Keita period (1960-68), analysis of newspaper articles (l’Essor) from 1960 through 1968; June 2011
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Researcher at the U-M Museum of Art, research and label writing for objects in the African
Art Gallery and other African pieces exhibited in Public Areas; August 2008–April 2010
Internship at the National Museum of Mali, educational and outreach department; Bamako;
January–April 2005
Internship at the U-M Museum of Art, cataloguing the Museum’s Malian objects in electronic
database; September–December 2004
Development and analysis of visitor response study for the exhibit Views and Voices: UM’s case for Diversity; study design with interdisciplinary team of PhD students; study involving
surveys and focus group discussions; March–April 2004
OTHER PROFESSIONAL AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Expert Witness for asylum cases of Malian women seeking asylum in US; 2011-present
Reviewer for Anthropological Quarterly
Label writer/editor for exhibits From Trace to Text: Highlights from the University of Michigan
Papyrus Collection (September-December 2010) and Diversity in the Desert: Daily Life in
Greek and Roman Egypt (Summer 2007)
Facilitator of Sweetland Dissertation Writing Group, Sweetland Writing Center, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor; September–December 2011; and participation in Sweetland Dissertation Summer Institute, May–June 2010
Co-organizer of the interdisciplinary Study and Action Group on Repatriation, as part of the
Ethnography as Activism initiative; Ann Arbor, MI, September 2010–April 2011
Co-organizer of student-led West Africa Reading Group (WARG), Ann Arbor, MI; September
2006 - May 2007
Co-organizer of student-initiated colloquium series Work In Progress (WIP), Ann Arbor, MI;
September 2001-May 2003
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Rebuilding the Nation in Mali after the 2012 Crisis: A Critical Analysis of Cultural Heritage as a
Social Resource CHS Conference “Heritage and Healthy Societies” at University of Massachusetts, Amherst; forthcoming, May 14-16, 2014
“We decided that this land could not be sold”: Protecting Community Access to Land in PeriUrban Mali Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), panel
on “Terrestrial Publics: Politics of Land, Values, and Affect in the Era of Economic
Globalization” Chicago, November 2013
Sacrifices for the Dead: Islam and Problems of Materiality and Hidden Ancestors Annual
Meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA) Philadelphia, PA; November 29December 1 2012
Land Claims as Moral Claims in the Mande Mountain region of Mali Biennial Conference of
the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) on “Uncertainty and Disquiet” Nanterre, France; July 2012
The Morality of Little Things: Convergences in Everyday Ethical Practices of Rural Malian Muslims [panel organizer] Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
(AAA), panel on “Rethinking Ethical Difference” Montréal, Canada; November 2011
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Faites attention! Aspects sémiotiques, épistémologiques et éthiques de la notion de « kolosi »
en zone mandingue International Conference on Mande Studies, Bamako, Mali; June
2011
Making Heritage the Mande Way: Objectifying Culture through “Paying Attention” Interdisciplinary Museum Studies Workshop presentation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI;
March 2011
The Panopticon of Others: Endogamy, Women’s Bodies, and Mundane Practices of Secrecy
African History and Anthropology Workshop presentation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; January 2011
(Not) Paying Attention to Modes of Prayer in River County, Mali Interdisciplinary Studies of
Islamic Societies presentation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; October 2010
Turning Matter into Words, Words into Matter: Exchanges of Food and Blessings in Mali
‘Thinking about Things’ Graduate Student Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
MI; May 2010
Following the Prophet’s Example: “How to pray” in Mali Africanist Graduate Student Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; October 2009
Culture and Civic Engagement: Reflections on Heritage Work in Techiman, Ghana group
presentation with Raymond Silverman, Jennifer Beyer, Anne Compton, and Ricardo Punzalan
Arts of Citizenship Breakfast Talk, University of Michigan; October 2009
Techiman, Where Culture is Chief: Reflections on Culture and Community in a Ghanaian
Town, group presentation with Raymond Silverman, Jennifer Beyer, Anne Compton, and Ricardo Punzalan Museum Studies Program Brown Bag Presentation, University of Michigan;
September 2009
Into the Heart of an African Museum: ‘Western’ Theory and ‘African’ Practice at the National
Museum of Mali Michigan Museum Association, Flint, MI; October 2006
What We Can Learn from Each Other: Reflections on an Internship at the National Museum of
Mali International Council Of Museums (ICOM)/ International Council on the Training Of
Personnel Conference, Cape Town, South Africa; October 2006
An Anthropologist at Work in the Heart of an African Museum Museum Studies Program
Brown Bag Presentation, University of Michigan; September 2006
Language Ideology and Fractal Recursivity: Griot and Noble Speech in the Context of Bambarization in Mali Michicagoan Graduate Conference in Linguistic Anthropology, University
of Chicago, Chicago, IL; May 2004
The Way of the Clay: Cosmological Aspects of Mande Pottery International Conference on
Mande Studies, University of Leiden, The Netherlands; June 2002
PUBLICATIONS
BLOG ENTRIES AND OTHER NON-PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
“Chiefs, Griots, and (would-be) Politicians: The Politics of Local Heritage Initiatives and “Culture” in Mali and Ghana,” Anthropology News (on-line), March 2014
[forthcoming] “Funerals as Breathing Museums: Film review of Funeral Season (ou la saison
des funérailles) directed by Matthew Lancit,” Anthropology News, forthcoming 2014
[forthcoming] “Book review: Gender and Violence in Islamic Societies: Patriarchy, Islamism,
and Politics in the Middle East, edited by Zahia Smail Salhi,” Journal of the Anthropology of the
Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME), forthcoming 2014
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June 2014. “Mali’s Heritage: Beyond Timbuktu” Contribution to Leiden Anthropology Blog
April 2014. “What’s on Your Anthropological Blog Roll?” Contribution to Leiden Anthropology
Blog
February 2014. “January: Fieldwork Month” Contribution to Leiden Anthropology Blog
November 2013. “14.8%” Contribution to Leiden Anthropology Blog
2005. “Letter from the Field: The National Museum of Mali,” MSP Newsletter 2.
2001. “Pottenkijken. Pottenbaksters in Mali” [Potters in Mali] Indigo. Tijdschrift over Inheemse
Volken 9(4): 8-9.
1998. “Sunjata & Co: personages and relaties in het Sunjata epos” [Sunjata and Company:
Characters and Relations in the Sunjata Epic] Frame. Tijdschrift voor Literatuur-wetenschap
13(1/2): 65-87.
IN PROGRESS
(MONOGRAPH)
Paying Attention: Social Life and Theories of Observation in Mali
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Dutch: Native
English: Fluent in speaking, reading, and writing
French: Highly proficient in speaking and reading, adequate writing ability
Bamana/Maninka: Highly proficient in speaking, adequate reading and writing ability
German: Highly proficient in reading, rudimentary speaking ability
Ancient Greek, Latin: Adequate reading ability
MEMBERSHIP IN ACADEMIC ORGANIZATIONS
AAA—American Anthropological Association
EASA—European Association of Social Anthropologists
ASA—African Studies Association
SAR—Society for the Anthropology of Religion
Africom—International Council of African Museums
Mansa—Mande Studies Association
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