| Born: 1952, USA |
Academic Qualifications:Ph.D. 1987, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
MA 1982, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Academic Positions:
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Research Interests:
Longstanding curiosity about the interactions between the individual, society and culture and the tension of social constraints as they manifest in ethnic, racial and diasporic identities. |
Research Projects:
Currently I am working on an ethnographic analysis of heterogeneity and hybridity in Sarajevo and the impact of census, sensibilities and everyday practices on people`s subjectivities. I continue to work on issues of diaspora and homecoming; race and ethnicity, gender and adolescence. |
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Abstracts of Current Research:- Fran Markowitz and Anders Stefansson, eds. 2005. HOMECOMINGS: Unsettling Paths of Return. Lexington Books.: Destabilizing the key oppositions and terminologies that have vexed migration studies for decades, the ethnographic analyses comprising the volume demonstrate that the desire for home and homeland remains a salient cultural imperative that can inspire political action.
Chapters by Fran Markowitz:
Ch. 2. The Home(s) of Homecomings
Ch. 11 Leaving Babylon to Come Home to Israel: Closing the Circle of the Black Diaspora - Fran Markowitz. 2004. Talking About Culture: Globalization, Human Rights and Anthropology. Anthropological Theory 4(3):329-352.: Culture talk, when analyzed from and within the powerful combination of globalization and human rights discourses, is not exclusively or necessarily a gloss for racism or xenophobia. Rather, as the universally accepted criterion for human beloninging and the rights that it confers, culture emerges as the primary means for gaining positive recognition and a valuable place in the emerging global community. Following a contextualized analysis of Russians` talk about their culture, and the Black Hebrews` assertions of their once-lost, now-found heritage, the article ends by suggesting that anthropologists reinsert culture into the center of anthropology. But now, instead of an impossibly metaphysical concept or reified trait inventory, culture and its genealogy should be interrogated and studied both as it is described and practed from the natives` point of view and as embedded within wider social processes of discourse, power and history.
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Publications:- Markowitz, Fran. Census and Sensibilities in Sarajevo Comparative Studies in Society and History 49: 40-73 (2007)
- Fran Markowitz. Blood, Soul, Race and Suffering: Full-Bodied Ethnography and Expressions of Jewish Identity Anthropology and Humanism 31: 41-56 (2006)
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| Keywords:Community, Identity, Adolescence, Immigration, Diaspora, Gender, Former Soviet Union, Russia, Black Hebrews. |
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Phones:
- Phone: 972-8-6472060
- Fax: 972-8-6472932
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