Chelsie Yount-André. Northwestern University

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1 Chelsie Yount-André Northwestern University EHESS Department of Anthropology 190 Avenue de France 1810 Hinman Ave., Evanston, IL Paris, France Tel: +33 (0) EDUCATION 2016 Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois & (Expected) École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France Dual Ph.D. (Cotutelle) in Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology Advisors: Caroline Bledsoe (Northwestern) & Claude Fischler (EHESS) 2010 École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France Masters in Comparative Development Studies (Mention Très Bien) 2006 Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon Bachelors in Anthropology/Sociology and French Studies Research & Teaching Interests Cultural & Linguistic Anthropology; Migration; Economic Anthropology; Development; Transnational Families (Senegal & France); Childhood; Food Studies; Political Economy; Stratification; Semiotic Construction of Social Difference and Inequality GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS Externally funded 2015 French Interdisciplinary Institute of Contemporary Anthropology (iiac) Dissertation Research Award 2014 Centre Edgar Morin (Paris) Dissertation Research Award 2013 Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant & Osmundsen Award Internally funded 2014 LeCron Foster & Friends of Anthropology Research Grant Morris Goodman Award for language training (Wolof) Hans E. Panofsky Pre-dissertation Research Award 2011 & 2012 Buffett Center Graduate Student Summer Research Award 2011 & 2012 TGS Summer Language Grant (Wolof) 2010-present Northwestern University Fellowship PUBLICATIONS Manuscript in Review Snack Sharing and the Moral Metalanguage of Exchange: Children s Reproduction of Rank-Based Redistribution in Senegal. Submitted to the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

2 Manuscript in Preparation Integrating into a Disintegrating French Middle Class: Affective Circuits and Economic Morality in Senegalese Households in Paris. Intended journal: American Ethnologist Encyclopedia Entries Forthcoming Ceebu Jenn in Dakar in The Global Dinner Table Albala, K ed. Santa Barbara: Greenwood Publishing Group 2011 Senegal in Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia Albala, K ed. p Santa Barbara: Greenwood Publishing Group Book Review 2012 «Nourrir de Plaisir: Régression, Transgression, Transmission, Régulation?» Jean-Pierre Corbeau (ed) (OCHA, 2008). Menu: Journal of Food and Hospitality research. International Conference Papers 2015 Empire s Leftovers: Eating Integrated in Secular Paris. Presenter, Panel: Eating French: At Home and in the United States. The American Anthropological Association s 114 th Annual Meeting. Denver, To be presented 22 November Integrating into a Disintegrating French Middle Class: Reproducing Affective Circuits and Economic Morality in Senegalese Households in Paris. Presenter, Panel: Governance and Affective Circuits of Care in African and Asian Migrations to Europe. Council for European Studies 22nd International Conference of Europeanists, Paris, 9 July Sharing Snacks in Senegal: Transnational Childhoods & Everyday Economic Moralities. Presenter, Panel: Migration. 5 th International Conference of the University of Sheffield s Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth Researching children s everyday lives: sociocultural contexts. Sheffield, 1 July Planning for a Future of Change: Socializing Stratification among Senegalese in Paris. Presenter, Panel: Children s Futures: Learning From the Past and the Present. The American Anthropological Association s 112 th Annual Meeting. Chicago, 22 November Feeding Transnational Communities: Socializing Senegalese Children into Networks of Material Cooperation, Presenter, Panel: Food and Cultural Identity. Foodways: Diasporic Diners, Transnational Tables and Culinary Yount-André CV 2

3 Connections. University of Toronto, Center for Diaspora and Transnational Studies. Toronto, 5 October Imagining a Francophone Senegal, Presenter, Panel: Continuity and Change in Francophone Africa. African Studies Association Annual Conference. Washington, D.C. 19 November The Shame in Eating Out: Taste, respectability, and solidarity in Dakar, Presenter, panel: Culture and Consumption. British Sociological Association Annual Conference: Glasgow, Scotland. 8 April The Diongoma and the Disquette: The hybridization of body size ideals in urban Senegal, Presenter, Panel: Alimentación, cuerpo y género. Red de Antropologia Médica Symposium, Terragona, Spain. 4 June 2009 Panels Organized 2013 A Communion of More Than Bodies: Food, Commensality and Sociality. The American Anthropological Association s 112 th Annual Meeting. Chicago, 23 November 2013 COURSES TAUGHT American University of Paris (AUP), Department of Global Communications (Paris, France) Introduction to Socio-Cultural Anthropology (Fall 2015) University of California, Education Abroad Program (Paris, France) Tastes of Paris: The Anthropology of Food (Summer 2015) Food in a Global City: An Anthropological Approach (Spring 2015) School of the Art Institute Chicago, Liberal Arts Department (Chicago, Illinois) Feeding Society: An Anthropology of Food (Fall & Winter 2013) Northwestern University, Teaching Assistant: Department of Anthropology (Evanston, Illinois) Contemporary African Worlds (Fall 2011 & Spring 2013) The Study of Culture Through Language (Winter 2013) Qualitative Methods (Spring 2012) Senior Thesis/Capstone Seminar (Winter & Fall 2012) Invited Lectures 2015 Les goûts de classe transnationaux? Les pratiques alimentaires des familles entre Paris et Dakar» [Transnational Taste? Families food and eating practices between Paris and Dakar] Lecture given at the Alimentary Sociology group s (SOLAL) seminar at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) Paris, France, March 26. Yount-André CV 3

4 2014 Socialization Through Commensality Lecture given at Christy Shields course Urban Anthropology at the American University of Paris. Paris, France, March Food and Eating in West Africa: The political economy of consumption Lecture given at Stephen Hill s Course Contemporary African Worlds at Northwestern University. Evanston, Illinois, May Language Socialization, Commensality, and Economic Moralities Lecture given at Matilda Stubbs course in Linguistic Anthropology at the School of the Art Institute Chicago. 8 October. Seminar and Workshop Presentations 2015 La force de l appellatif : Tisser des rapports de parenté asymétrique chez les Sénégalais à Paris [The Power of Kinship: Constructing Transnational Asymmetry Among Senegalese in Paris] Presentation given at Fréderique Fogel and Natacha Collomb s seminar Appellatifs : Référence et Adresse dans les Relations de Parenté at the EHESS Paris, France, April «Qu est ce que tu m as amené?» : Naviguer et esquiver les morales économiques entre Paris et Dakar [ What did you bring me? : Navigating and evading economic moralities between Paris and Dakar] Presentation given at Jean Schmitz, Ismael Moya, and Riccardo Ciavolella s seminar Anthropologie Comparative du Sahel Occidental Musulman at the EHESS Paris, France, January Sauter une classe d âge : Grandir en mouvement entre Paris et Dakar" [Skipping an age grade: Growing up in movement between Paris and Dakar] Presentation given at Caroline Bertron, Amélie Grysole, and Florence Weber s seminar Familles, Migrations, et Classes Sociales at the EHESS Paris, France, January Grignoter l inégalité: Enjeux et éthiques du partage chez les enfants transnationaux sénégalais" [Nibbling on inequality: Stakes and ethics of sharing among transnational Senegalese children] Presenter. Journées Doctorales de l IIAC. Paris. 17 December 2013 French of Senegalese Origins or Modou Modou? : The Semiotic Stratification of Senegalese in Paris. Presenter, Panel: Constituting Difference and Differentiation. University of Chicago University of Michigan Annual Graduate Student Conference in Linguistic Anthropology. Ann Arbor, 10 May Wielding a Double-Edged Sword: Reproducing Reciprocity and Distinction Among Transnational Senegalese. Indiana University Yount-André CV 4

5 Graduate Students in African Studies Annual Symposium. Bloomington, 23 March Selective Solidarity: Reproducing Stratification Among Transnational Senegalese. Presenter, Panel: Exchange, Trade, and Commerce. Second City Anthropology Conference, University of Illinois Chicago. 9 March Naturalizing Senegalese French: Semiotic Strategies of the Francophone Elite, Presenter, Panel: Default Languages. University of Chicago University of Michigan Annual Graduate Student Conference in Linguistic Anthropology. Chicago, 11 May Manger à l extérieur vu de l intérieur des foyers dakarois [Eating Out Viewed from Inside Households in Dakar] Presenter, François Rabelais University et Institut Européen d Histoire et des Cultures de l Alimentation, Tours, France. 3 September RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Dissertation Fieldwork: Paris, France (January 2014 June 2015) 2014 Dissertation Fieldwork: Dakar, Senegal (July and August 2014) 2012 Preliminary Dissertation Fieldwork: Dakar (July) & Paris (August) 2011 Preliminary Dissertation Fieldwork: Paris (June) & Dakar (July & August) 2008 Masters Fieldwork: Dakar, Senegal (July October) ACADEMIC SERVICE Co-founder and Chair of the Northwestern Anthropology Graduate Student Association Member of the planning committee for the Northwestern University Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series Presenter and participant: The Buffett Center s Graduate Student Colloquium The Program of African Studies Graduate Seminar, Afrisem University of Chicago Semiotics Workshop LANGUAGES English: native French: fluent Wolof: conversational Yount-André CV 5