Richard H. Robbins
Richard H. Robbins is a distinguished teaching professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. His teaching interests include courses on global problems, utopian societies, comparative religion, the anthropology of food, and activist anthropology. He has conducted research among indigenous peoples of Canada and fishing communities in northeastern New Brunswick. His recent books Include Debt as Power (with Tim DiMuzio); Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, Sixth Edition; Darwin and the Bible: The Cultural Confrontation (With Mark Cohen); and Globalization and the Environment (with Gary Kroll). Professor Robbins is the recipient of the 2005 American Anthropological Association/McGraw-Hill award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
Rachel Dowty
Rachel A. Dowty is visiting assistant professor in emergency management at the University of New Haven, Connecticut. Her research interests revolve around the social and anthropological study of crises and disasters, organizations, and science and technology. She co-authored CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 2nd Edition (with Richard H. Robbins). Dowty also co-edited a volume entitled DYNAMICS OF DISASTER: LESSONS ON RISK, RESPONSE AND RECOVERY (2011, with Barbara Allen) and authored numerous book chapters and articles. She has taught a diverse array of university courses for the past 17 years that focus on understanding culture through hands-on civic engagement and reflection. In her spare time she enjoys hiking, edible landscaping, and spending time with her family.
Maggie Cummings
Maggie Cummings has taught cultural anthropology to over 4000 students cumulatively at the University of Toronto, Scarborough, over the past five years.She received her Ph.D. in 2008 from York University, and she specializes in socio-cultural anthropology, gender and sexualities, embodiment, morality, consumption, popular culture, race and modernities, and also Melanesia. Maggie was nominated by the Department of Social Sciences for the UTSC Faculty Teaching Award, 2008–2009.
Karen McGarry
Karen McGarry completed her Ph.D. at York University in 2004; she is the course director of anthropology at Trent University, and she also teaches at York University. Her areas of research include cultural anthropology of expressive culture, performance, and sport, with an emphasis on gender, sexuality, mass media, visual and performance arts; spectacle and popular culture; globalization and nationalism; and material culture theory and interpretation. Karen has taught cultural anthropology to over 2000 students cumulatively at York and Trent. The author team know their audience—first year students in undergraduate and college programs—and they write for them.
