Stevan Harrell (PhD 1974, Stanford)
Research Interests:
Enviornmental Anthropology, ecosystem resilience, family and demography, ethnicity and ethnic relations, material culture, translation; China and Taiwan.
"My primary professional interests at present lie in building collaborations between earth scientists and social scientists to understand better how people relate to their environments, and to using the knowledge from these collaborations to help local people solve local problems. Theoretically, this means a combination of ethno-ecology and resilience theory; substantively, it means looking at the historical relations between people and natural resources, particularly forests; and geographically, it happens mostly in Liangshan, China, but also in Taiwan and in Washington State. Implications of this interest have led me to co-found the Yangjuan Primary School in Liangshan and the Cool Mountain Education Fund.
My other interests are in building scholarly community across cultural barriers, particularly with scholars in China, and in promoting international student exchange. This in turn gives me reason to be interested in translation, particularly between the English and Chinese languages."
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Selected Publications:
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In Press (2009)
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Christina Y. Chan and Stevan Harrell, School consolidation in Rural Sichuan: Quality vs. Equality, in Ann Maxwell Hill and Zhou Minglang, eds, Affirmative Action in China and the U.S.: A Dialogue on Inequality and Minority Education. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2009
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G. William Skinner, 1925-2008 (Obituary) China Quarterly 198: 453-458. |
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2009
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"Reading Threads: Dress, Identity, and Ethnicity in Southwest China." In Thomas Klobe, et al., eds, Writing With Thread: Southwest Chinese Textiles from the Evergrand Collection. Honolulu:University of Hawai'i Press.
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2008
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(with Zhou Yingying and Han Hua) From Labor to Capital: Intravillage Inequality in Rural China, 1988-2006. China Quarterly 195, September, pages 515-534.
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2007
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(with Christine J. Trac, Thomas M. Hinckley, and Amanda C. Henck) Reforestation Programs in Southwest China: Reported Success, Observed Failure, and the Reasons Why. Journal of Mountain Science 4, 4: 275-92.
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2007
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"L'etat, C'est Nous: The Predicament of Minority Cadres in the PRC" in Diana Lary, ed., The Chinese State at the Borders: Essays in Honor of Alexander Woodside. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
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2007
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Fieldwork Connections: A Story of International Research. With Bamo Ayi and Ma Erzi. University of Washington Press.
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