Mark Dailey Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Anthropology; Chair, Department of Social Sciences

Dunton Hall 339
One College Circle
Poultney, VT 05764-1199
Email Address: daileym@greenmtn.edu
802-287-8267; Fax: 802-287-8080

Education
1999 Ph.D., Ecological/ Environmental Anthropology, University of Georgia; Certificate of Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development, Univ. of Georgia's Institute of Ecology
1993 M.A., Cultural Anthropology, University of Georgia
1987 B.A., Asian Studies, Dartmouth College

Areas of Expertise
Ecological/environmental anthropology
Globalization
Cultural memory of place
China

Teaching Experience
2002- Green Mountain College (Poultney, Vt.)
2001-2002 Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Oxford College of Emory University (Oxford, Ga.)
2001 Temporary Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Georgia State University (Atlanta, Ga.)
2000 Visiting Professor of English at Yancheng Teachers' College (Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, China)
1997-1999 Taught four semesters of Introduction to Anthropology at the University of Georgia as graduate student. (Athens, Ga.)

Courses Taught at Green Mountain College
General Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Globalization
Human Ecology
Anthropology of China
Culture Change in Contemporary China (three-week May course in China)
Ethnographic Field Methods
Native American Perspectives
World History and the Environment
Social History of the Adirondacks

International Experience
2006 Conducting five weeks of ethnographic field research with five Green Mountain College students in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province.
2005 Taught a three-week May Term course in China entitled Culture Change in Contemporary China, taking 14 Green Mountain College students.
2004 Conducted three weeks of preliminary ethnographic research on ancestors and ancestral places in China.
2000 Lived and taught English for one year in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, China.
1985 Studied written and spoken Chinese for three months at Beijing Normal University (Beijing Shifan Daxue).

Awards
2006 Awarded $21,460 grant by ASIANetwork/Freeman Foundation Student- Faculty Fellows Program. The award will be used collaboratively to conduct five weeks of ethnographic research in China with five GMC students in the summer of 2006. (The students are Ashley Converse, Felipe Estudillo-Colon, HariNarayan Khalsa, Keith Solmo, and Tala Wunderler-Selby.)

2003 Robert W. Leonard Teacher of the Year Award, Green Mountain College

1998 Franklin College Distinguished Doctoral Assistantship (competitive assistantship awarded to ten graduate students within the University of Georgia system in their terminal year of study to support completion of dissertations that "show originality and scholarly distinction.")

1995 Awarded Bell Travel Grant for amount of $350 to utilize Forest History Society Library, Durham, North Carolina.

Selected Presentations
2005 “Changing China.” A public presentation co-delivered with Dr. Nance Kittner, sponsored by GRASP (Greater Rutland Asian Studies Program), at the Rutland Free Library, Rutland, VT.

2005 “Forgetting the Ancestors: Modernization and Cultural Memory Loss in Contemporary China.” Paper presented at the Northeast Anthropological Association (NEAA) Meeting, April 4, 2005, in Lake Placid, NY.

2003 “Remembering Ancestral Landscapes: Cultural Memory of Place in Contemporary China.” Paper presented (in absentia) at the New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), October, 2003, in Buffalo, New York.

2002 “‘Constructing ourselves for foreigner, constructing foreigners for ourselves’: Chinese images of and for the foreign guest.” Paper presented at 2002 New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York.

2001 “‘The forest is dirty, but plastic is clean’: Culture and Environment in Contemporary China.” Presentation to Green Mountain College community, Poultney, Vermont.

2001 Four presentations on Chinese culture and language to various elementary and middle school classrooms in Athens, Georgia.

2000 “Reflections on Living in China.” Invited talk presented to faculty of Yancheng No.1 Elementary/Middle School (Yancheng Diyi Xiaoxue).

2000 "Cognition and Human Ecology." Talk given at College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine.

1996 "Cultural Models and Forest Ecological Change on the Appalachian Frontier, 1750-1840." Paper given at 1996 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Assoc., San Francisco.

1996 [co-presenter] "Working with People as Landscape Shapers, Biodiversity Managers, and Collective Decision-Makers: Approaches to Regional Conservation and Development Issues in the South." Presentation at Seventh Annual Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB) Conference.

1995 "Cultural Models and the Environment: Applying Cognitive Anthropology to Environmental Historical Analysis." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society, Raleigh, North Carolina. 1994 "Decline of Subsistence Farming in West Virginia, 1920-1960." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society, Atlanta, Georgia.