HENRY D. DELCORE Department of Anthropology California State University, Fresno 5245 North Backer Ave. Fresno, CA

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1 HENRY D. DELCORE Department of Anthropology California State University, Fresno 5245 North Backer Ave. Fresno, CA EDUCATION 2000 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D., Anthropology. Localizing Development: Environment, Agriculture, and Memory in Northern Thailand University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.A., Anthropology Georgetown University, Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service, Asian Studies. POSITIONS HELD 2000-present Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, California State University-Fresno Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Lecturer, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Wisconsin College-Fond du Lac. PUBLICATIONS under review Symbolic Politics or Generification?: The Ambivalent Implications of Tree Ordinations in the Thai Environmental Movement. Under review by the Journal of Political Ecology Development and the Life Story of a Thai Farmer Leader. Ethnology, 43:1 (Winter, 2004) Book review of Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos, Shigeharu Tanabe and Charles F. Keyes, editors. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 34:3 (October, 2003) 2003 Non-Governmental Organizations and the Work of Memory in Northern Thailand. American Ethnologist 30:1 (February, 2003) FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE 2003 Research in Thailand on political and cultural conditions affecting cooperation between rural communities and national park officials Dissertation research in Thailand on the relationship of social memory with development and environmental activism by local activists, monks, and farmers Preliminary dissertation research in Thailand Undergraduate fieldwork in Thailand on conversion of Karen minority people to Buddhism.

2 OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2002 Led three-week undergraduate student study tour to Chiang Mai, Thailand Participant, TALENT (Teaching and Leading for Educational Needs with Technology) Institute, CSU-Fresno, Jan Research Affiliate, Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University, Thailand Interpreter, Regional Community Forestry Training Center, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand Project Advisor, Nan Province Alternative Agriculture Project, Thailand Program Assistant, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Responsible for teaching cultural orientation sessions for students preparing to study abroad Research Assistant to author Stanley Karnow. RESEARCH INTERESTS Environmental Anthropology Development Social memory Life history Global-local interactions Popular Thai Buddhism and animism COURSES PREPARED TO TEACH General: Introduction to Anthropology, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, History of Anthropological Theory, Philosophy of Social Science, Ethnographic Field Methods. Topical: Anthropology of Religion, Ethnography: Indigenous Peoples and the State, Peoples and Cultures of Southeast Asia. Specialty: Anthropology of Development, Environmental Anthropology, Globalization: Theory and Ethnography. AWARDS AND GRANTS 2003 Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities Grant, CSU-Fresno, for research project entitled The Basis for Cooperation Between Community and State in Protected Areas: The Case of a Community Forest and a National Park in Northern Thailand. ($5,000) Provost s Award, CSU-Fresno, grant for research project entitled The Cultural Shape of Thai Environmentalism: Tree Ordinations and Biodiversity in Northern Thailand ($5,000) College of Social Sciences, CSU-Fresno, grant for project entitled Developing an Interdisciplinary Initiative in Oral History at California State University, Fresno ($8,235). [Co-written with Kathryn Forbes (Women s Studies, CSU-Fresno) and Michelle DenBeste (History, CSU-Fresno).]

3 2001 Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, CSU-Fresno, grant for course revision using online instructional software ($2,500) Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, CSU-Fresno, grant for instructional innovation in teaching ethnographic field methods (course release) Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (HEA Title VI), University of Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Small Grant Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, United States Department of Education Fulbright Award (IIE) for Thailand (declined) Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (HEA Title VI), University of John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Scholars Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Global Studies Research Program (alternate) Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (HEA Title VI), University of ORGANIZED SESSIONS 1999 Panel organizer, Inequality, the State and the Meanings of Tradition : Cases From Southeast Asia and Melanesia. American Anthropological Association 98th Annual Meeting, November 17-21, 1999, Chicago, Illinois Panel organizer, Mobile Lives, Mobile Research: Locating the State Through Space. American Anthropological Association 97th Annual Meeting, December 2-6, 1998, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. PRESENTATIONS 2003 A Community Forest and a National Park in Northern Thailand. American Anthropological Association 102 nd Annual Meeting, Chicago, Nov When the Finns Come Calling: Uneasy Representations of NGOs. American Anthropological Association 101 st Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Nov Time Crunch: The Pull of Multiple Field Sites in the Study of Asian NGOs. Assoc. for Asian Studies 54 th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April The Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Guest Lecture to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno, Fresno, CA Corn, Mangos, Teak: Biodiversity and the Shifting Meanings of Plants in a Northern Thai Province. American Anthropological Association 100 th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Nov. 28-Dec Tree Ordinations as Forest Conservation and Political Strategy: The Ambivalent Implications of Symbolic Politics in the Thai Environmental Movement. American Anthropological Association 99 th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Nov Development as Lifestyle and Life Story. American Ethnological Society Annual Meeting, Tampa, March

4 1999 Remembering Rural Traditions: Interests, Identity, and Sustainable Development. American Anthropological Association 98 th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Nov Remembering the Rural Past Through Sustainable Development and Conservation Activism in Northern Thailand. Center for Southeast Asian Studies Friday Forum, University of Wisconsin-Madison (March 26) Thai Non-Governmental Organizations and Development: Embeddedness in Local Power Structures. Association for Asian Studies 51 st Annual Meeting, Boston, March Labor Migration and Anti-Mobility: Development Debates as Struggles for Local Power. American Anthropological Association 97 th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Dec Non-Governmental Organizations and Villagers in Rural Development Work: The Case of Klum Hak Muang Nan ( We Love Nan Group ). In Thai. Special Lecture, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University, Bangkok (Dec. 18) Competing Accounts of History and the Rural Experience in Nan Province, Thailand. Council on Thai Studies Annual Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin (Nov. 5) Non-Governmental Organizations and the Construction of the Past in Northern Thailand. 4 th Annual Graduate Student Conference, Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison (July 22) Beyond Romanticism: The Historical Vision of Thai Agriculture NGOs. Center for Southeast Asian Studies Friday Forum, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Feb. 24). PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2003-present Library Subcommittee of the University Academic Plans and Policies Committee 2002-present College of Social Sciences Research Committee, CSU-Fresno present Assessment Coordinator, Department of Anthropology, CSU-Fresno Graduate Student Representative at Faculty Meetings, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Organizing Committee, Council on Thai Studies Annual Meeting, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 23-25, 1998, and October 8-10, Organizer, Cultural Anthropology Brown Bag Series, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chair, Fulbright Midyear Conference, Thailand-US Educational Foundation, Bangkok (November 15). REVIEWER 2002-present Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, book reviewer 2003-present Canadian Journal of Development Studies, manuscript reviewer

5 LANGUAGES Central Thai: Advanced proficiency Northern Thai: Intermediate proficiency AFFILIATIONS American Anthropological Association American Ethnological Society Association for Asian Studies Society for Ethnobiology