Kathe Managan Department of Geography and Anthropology
• Louisiana State University
• 227 HoweRussell Geoscience Complex
• Baton Rouge, LA 70803 • (225) 578-3451• Email:
[email protected] _____________________________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION 2004
Ph.D., Anthropology, New York University Dissertation: “Language Choice, Linguistic Ideologies and Social Identities in Guadeloupe”
1998
M.A., Anthropology, New York University M.A. Thesis: “The Mangrove Swamp of Creoleness: Articulations of Gender and Race in the Language Ideology of Créolité”
1992
B.A., French, University of California, Berkeley
TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2008-present
Assistant Professor Geography and Anthropology Department, LSU
2007-2008
Assistant Professor Anthropology Department, Univ of Alaska Fairbanks
2005-2007
Mellon Teaching Fellow Anthropology Dept, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Spring 2002
Instructor NYU Continuing and Professional Studies, New York, NY
1992-1994
French Teacher Church Point Elementary, Church Point, LA
RESEARCH INTERESTS Francophone cultures, Louisiana, the Caribbean, language and identities, ideologies of language, multilingualism, language and media, voluntary associations, performance, heritage, leisure and popular culture. PUBLICATIONS Kathe Managan
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Refereed Journal Articles In Press
One Hand Washes the Other: Social Capital and the Politics of Leisure in Guadeloupean Associations. To appear in French Politics, Culture and Society. [accepted for publication on 10/26/14]
In Press
The Sociolinguistic Situation in Guadeloupe: Diglossia Reconsidered. Submitted to Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, asked to revise and resubmit. [accepted for publication on 5/27/14]
2012a
Words to Make you Laugh: Performing the Public in Guadeloupean Comedy Sketches. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 2(2):E83-E84.
2012b
Péyi an nou: Conceptualizing Language, Place, Race and Identity in Guadeloupe. Theme issue “Placing the Archipelago: Interconnections and Extensions” Sargasso 2010-2011 I&2: 147-161.
2011
Koud Zyé: A Glimpse into Kréyòl-Language Programming on Guadeloupean State-Financed TV. Journal of Sociolinguistics 15(3): 299-322.
2004
Diglossia Reconsidered: Language Choice and Code-Switching in Guadeloupean Voluntary Organizations. Proceedings from the Symposium about Language and Society – SALSA XI. Texas Linguistics Forum (47):251-261.
2000
Ambiguous Processes: Language Choice, Return Migration and the Construction of Social Identity in the French Overseas Department of Guadeloupe. Pouvoirs dans la Caraïbe, série Université de Juillet, session 1998, 83-102.
Refereed Book Chapters 2012c
Guadeloupean Women Performing Gwo Ka: Island Presences and Transnational Connections. In Transnational Caribbeanities: Women and Music. Ifeona Fulani, ed. Pp. 93-118. Mona, Jamaica: University of West Indies Press.
2008
Anthropological Linguistic Perspectives on Writing Guadeloupean Kréyòl: Struggles for Recognition of the Language and Struggles over Authority. In Studies in French Applied Linguistics. Dalila Ayoun, ed. Pp. 223-253. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
1999
Gendered Language Ideology in the Martinican Créolité Movement. Engendering Communication: Proceedings of the Fifth Berkeley Women and Language Conference. S. Wertheim et al. eds. Pp. 321-330. Berkeley: Berkeley Women and Language Group.
Refereed Review Articles and Annotated Bibliographies
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2014
Francophonie. In Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. John Jackson, ed. New York: Oxford University Press. Francophonie. http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com.
2006
Tensions of French Empire: the reciprocal making and remaking of identities in France and its colonies. Identities: Global studies in culture and power 13:1-12.
Manuscripts Under Revision and In Preparation Under Revision
Putting Heritage into Practice in Guadeloupean Voluntary Associations. Submitted to Journal of Folklore Research, asked to revise and resubmit.
Under Revision
Waking the Dead: Guadeloupean Commemorations of the 1802 Revolts Against the Reinstatement of Slavery. Submitted to Language and Politics, asked to revise and resubmit.
In Preparation
In the Round of Gwo Ka: Performing Chronotopes and Circulating Island History in Guadeloupean Song. In preparation for submission to Cultural Anthropology. [planned submission date: 1/30/15]
Book Reviews 2014
Review of William, Reno and Alvarez’s “Mobilisations socials aux Antilles.” New West Indian Guide 88(3-4):423-425.
2011
Review of Wei and Moyer’s “The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 23(1):96-97.
2008
Review of Creolization (Stewart 2007) Geographical Review 98(4):566-568.
2006
Review of Defining Creole (McWhorter 2005) Anthropological Quarterly 79 (3): 565-569.
Digitial Humanities 2012d Les créoles de la Nouvelle-Orléans. (‘Creoles of New Orleans’) Multimedia online dossier for LAMECA, Multimedia Caribbean Library in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe. Published online 11/12. http://www.lameca.org/dossiers/new_orleans_creole/eng/ FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS Submitted
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ATLAS grant, Louisiana Board of Regents (requested $48,242), LSU: “Performing the Public Through Laughter: Guadeloupean Kréyòl Sketch Comedy and National Imaginings.” Curriculum Vitae
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2014
Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award ($1,000), LSU.
2013
ASPIRE summer research funding: Funded to work with an undergraduate student on NVivo analysis of Guadeloupean Creole language comedy, LSU.
2013
Teaching Enhancement Fund grant, $455, to attend workshops on promoting the practice of anthropology among undergraduate students and on writing narrative ethnography at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 20-24, 2013.
2011-2012
Landes Memorial Research Fund, Reed Foundation ($28,000): “Not Just a Laughing Matter: Performing Guadeloupean Identities in Kréyòl Comedy,” funding for ethnographic research and analysis from Nov 2011 – Aug 2012.
2011
Fourth Year Research Leave, College of Humanities and Social Science, LSU: fall 2011.
2011
Manship Summer Research Fellowship, LSU ($5,000): “Not Just a Laughing Matter: Performing Guadeloupean Identities in Kréyòl Comedy,” funding for ethnographic research in Guadeloupe, summer 2011.
2011
Dean’s Travel Grant, College of Humanities and Social Science, LSU ($750): to attend Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics conference in Accra, Ghana, August 2011.
2011
Office of Research and Economic Development Faculty Travel Grant, LSU ($1000): to attend Association of Caribbean Studies, Curaçao, June 2011.
2010
Teaching Enhancement Fund grant, $500, to attend workshop on organizing a field school at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, Nov 17-21, 2010.
2008
NSF summer SCRM workshop on video research methods (applied for acceptance and received a scholarship to attend).
2005-2007
Andrew W. Mellon Teaching Fellowship, Anthropology Department, University of Michigan.
2004-2005
Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, Tulane University.
2003-2004
Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, New York University.
2000-2001
National Science Foundation Grant for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research.
1999-2000
Wenner-Gren Predoctoral Grant.
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1998
Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University.
1998
Scholarship to attend the July Program of the Centre de Recherche sur les Pouvoirs Locaux dans la Caraïbe, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Martinique.
1995-2002
Henry Mitchell MacCracken Fellowship, New York University.
PRESENTATIONS Invited Presentations 7/09
“Témoignage d'une américaine de passage en Guadeloupe.” Invited Speaker at conference on Obama Sé Tan Nou? (Obama: American and Guadeloupean perspectives) organized by CO.RE.CA in Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, July 3, 2009. 4/09 Invited Speaker in panel discussion panel discussion on “Boundaries of Race and Citizenship in the South and Atlantic World.” Organized by the Atlantic Studies Program at LSU, April 16, 2009. 3/09 “La préservation linguistique dans les contextes louisianais et créoles.” Invited Speaker at conference on Le français n’est pas une langue étrangère en Louisiane, Nicholls State University, March 27, 2009. 10/07 “Ideological Dimensions of Language Revitalization in Guadeloupe (and Beyond).” Invited Speaker, Linguistics Department Colloquium, University of Alaska Fairbanks. 4/05 “Comparing benevolent societies and social clubs in Guadeloupe and New Orleans: Some observations and initial findings.” Invited Speaker, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. 10/03 “Language Choice and Code-Switching in Guadeloupe: Confronting the Linguistic Models.” Invited speaker, Urban Sociolinguistics Working Group, New York University. Conference Papers Presented 11/13 “Mrs. So-and-So: Temporal Heteroglossia in Characterizations of the Elderly in Guadeloupean Comedy.” Presented at the 111th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 20-24, 2013. 11/11 “Mobilizing Diglossia In the Fight for Liberté, Egalité et Fraternité (Linguistique) in Guadeloupe.” Presented at the 109th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Montréal, November 16 - 20, 2011. 8/11 “Performing Authority in Guadeloupean Kréyòl Comedy.“ Presented at the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics Conference , Accra, Ghana, August 2-6, 2011. 6/11 “An Lawonn la: Evoking Guadeloupean Pasts in Gwo Ka Performance” Presented at the Caribbean Studies Association conference, Curaçao, May 30 – June 3, 2011. 11/10 “An Lawonn-la: The Round of Gwo Ka and the Circulation of Island History in Guadeloupean Song.” Presented at the 108th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 17-21, 2010.
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“Performing Guadeloupean Identity: Linguistic Styles and Social Types in Guadeloupean Creole Comedy.“ Presented at the Society for Caribbean Linguistics Conference, Barbados, Aug 9-13, 2010. 12/09 “Code-switching and Bivalency in Written Guadeloupean Kréyòl Texts.” Presented at the 107th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA, December 2-6, 2009. 10/09 “Linguistic Styles and Social Types in Guadeloupean Comedy: Initial Results of Research from Summer 2009.” Presented at the Center for French and Francophone Studies Scholarship Gumbo, LSU, October 30, 2009. 6/09 “Historical Narratives of Abolition in Guadeloupe: A Look at Events from 2002.” Presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians, Saint François, Guadeloupe, May 11-17, 2009. 11/08 “French Racial Discourses and the Erasure of Antilleans.” Presented at the 107th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, November 18-23, 2008. 7/08 “Performing Guadeloupean Identity Through Language Choice in Public Speech: An Analysis of Two Different Speeches Commemorating the Abolition of Slavery.” Presented at the Society for Caribbean Linguistics /Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics Conference, Cayenne, French Guyana, July 28 -31, 2008. 3/08 “Performing Caribbean Identity in Creole Comedy Sketches in Guadeloupe.” Presented at the Virtual Caribbeans conference, Tulane University, February 28-March 1, 2008. 11/07 “Linguistic Styles and Social Stereotypes in Creole Comedy in Guadeloupe.” Presented at the 106th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 23-December 2, 2007. 4/07 “The Comparative Evolution of Benevolent Societies in the African Diaspora: A Focus on Guadeloupe and New Orleans.” Presented at Creativity and Performance in the Circum-Caribbean World: Comparative Perspectives. The Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship Conference. Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, New Orleans, April 24 - 26 2007. 11/06 “Remembering a Dangerous Past: Guadeloupean Commemorations of the 1802 Revolts Against the Reinstatement of Slavery.” Presented at the 105th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San José, CA, November 15 - 19, 2006. 11/05 “The Emergence of Kréyòl Voices on Francophone Airwaves in Guadeloupe.” Presented at the 104th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 30-December 4, 2005. 11/04 “RFO Guadeloupe: Kréyòl Regional Language Programming in La Francophonie.” Presented at the SLA mini-conference of the 103rd Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Berkeley, CA, November 19-20, 2004. 11/03 “French/Antillean: Language, Place and Race in Conceptualizations of Guadeloupean Identity.” Presented at the 102nd Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, November 19-23, 2003. 4/03 “Diglossia Reconsidered: Language Choice and Code-Switching in Guadeloupean Voluntary Organizations.” Presented at the Symposium about Language and Society, Austin, TX, April 11-13, 2003. 11/02 “Ideological Dimensions of Discussions over Kréyòl Orthography in Guadeloupe, French West Indies.” Presented at the 101th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA, November 20-24, 2002. Kathe Managan
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11/01 "Koud Zyé: A Glimpse into the Emergence of Kréyòl on French-language TV in Guadeloupe, French West Indies.” Presented at the 100th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 28-December 2, 2001. 12/98 "The Créolité Movement: Creolization and Language Ideology in Martinique.” Presented at the 97th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA, December 2-6, 1998. 7/98 “French or Guadeloupean: Identity and Language Among Guadeloupean Returned Migrants.” Presented at July Program of the Centre de Recherche sur les Pouvoirs Locaux dans la Caraïbe, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Martinique. 4/98 “Gendered Language Ideology in the Martinican Créolité Movement.” Presented at the Fifth Biennial Conference of the Berkeley Women and Language Group, Berkeley, CA, April 24-26, 1999. 4/98 “Constructing Creoleness: Gendered Images in the Language Ideology of Créolité.” Presented at the Anthropology Graduate Student Association Symposium, New York University. Invited Guest Lectures 10/13 Invited guest lecture, Conducting Research in Guadeloupe, Research Methods in Geography, Geography and Anthropology Department, LSU. 09/08 Invited guest lecture, Creole language in Guadeloupe, Creolization Seminar, Geography and Anthropology Department, LSU. 04/08 Invited guest lecture, Fieldwork Methods and Reciprocity in Guadeloupe, Senior Seminar, Anthropology Department, University of Alaska Fairbanks. 02/05 Invited guest lecture, Guadeloupe’s linguistic situation and the Caribbean Context, Caribbean Peoples and Cultures, UNO. 10/04 Invited guest lecture, Guadeloupe’s history, language and culture, Creolization in the Caribbean, African Diaspora Studies Program, Tulane University.
TEACHING
Courses Offered LSU: Readings in Louisiana and the Caribbean, Ethnographic Methodology, Anthropology of Media, Culture and Place, Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology, Latin American and Caribbean Cultures UAF: Language and Gender, Language and Culture: Applications to Alaska UMich: Language and Culture, Language, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Creolization: Linguistic and Anthropological Perspectives NYU: Language and Communication Kathe Managan
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PhD Committees Sylvianne Greensword, PhD, member Christopher Thompson, PhD, member Marguerite Perkins, PhD (French), member Chinwe Onwujuba, PhD, (Human Ecology), member John McEwan, PhD, member (successfully defended June 2014, Sense of Place, Place Attachment, and Rootedness in Four West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana Bars) Dusty Waltner, PhD, member (2012-2013) Lin Lei, MA, chair (2010-2011) Katie Berchak, Ph.D., member (2010-2011) Nicole Dufour, Ph.D., chair, University of Alaska Fairbanks (2007-2008) Gayle Miller, Ph.D., member, University of Alaska Fairbanks (2007-2008) MA Committees Charlotte Bauer, MA, chair Heather Moats, MA, chair (successfully defended April 2014, Can You Hear the People Sing: Community Theater, Play, and the Middle Class) Emley Kerry, MA, chair (successfully defended November 2013, Backpacker Selves in a Hostel: Discourse, Identity, and Existential Authenticity) Jamie Digilormo, MA, chair (successfully defended April 2013, Three from the bottom: examining racial and ethnic identity among Italian Americans in Bossier City) Ashley Franklin, MA, member Christopher McCurley, MA, member Audrianna Hubbard, MA, member (successfully defended April 2013, The Blessing of the Fleet: Heritage and Identity in Three Gulf Coast Communities) Matthew Newsom, MA, member (successfully defended April 2013, All-women's flat track roller derby: gender, psychoanalysis, and meaning) Caitlin E Lennon (Art History), MA, member (successfully defended April 2012, The Ghetto Biennale: art and agency in a Haitian context) Marguerite Perkins, MA (French), member (successfully defended April 2011, presented portfolio in lieu of thesis) Ashley Meredith, MA, member, University of Alaska Fairbanks (successfully defended 2/2/10, Imaging and imaginings of Hawaiianness in the contemporary Hawaiian Islands) Carolyn Farmer-Covington, MA, member (2008-2009) Undergraduate Honors Thesis Committees Meghan O’Connor, chair (thesis topic: The Culture of Homelessness in the US) Chelsea Lewis, chair (completed thesis May 2010: Embodying the Current Middle Ages: Gender and Performance in the Society for Creative Anachronism) Joseph Falcon Freeman, chair (completed thesis May 2010: Rainbow Gatherings: Anarchy, Individuality and Communitas in a Contemporary Alternative Culture)
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FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE 2014
Summer Research, Guadeloupe. Conducted 1 month of linguistic and ethnographic research on creole comedy in Guadeloupe.
2012
Summer Research, Guadeloupe. Conducted 1.5 months of linguistic and ethnographic research on creole comedy in Guadeloupe, with funding from Reed Foundation.
2011
Summer and Fall Research, Guadeloupe. Conducted 6 months of linguistic and ethnographic research on creole comedy in Guadeloupe, with funding from Reed Foundation.
2010
Summer Research, Guadeloupe. Conducted two months of linguistic and ethnographic research on creole comedy in Guadeloupe.
2009
Summer Research, Guadeloupe. Conducted two and a half months of linguistic and ethnographic research on creole comedy in Guadeloupe, with funding from CFFS, also conducted interviews with female gwo ka singers, dancers and musicians for a book chapter manuscript.
2008
Post-doctoral Research, Guadeloupe. Conducted two months of linguistic, ethnographic and archival research in Guadeloupe.
2007
Post-doctoral Research, Guadeloupe. Conducted one month of linguistic, ethnographic and archival research in Guadeloupe.
2006
Post-doctoral Research, Guadeloupe. Conducted two months of linguistic, ethnographic and archival research in Guadeloupe.
2005
Post-doctoral Research, Guadeloupe. Conducted one month of archival research on voluntary organizations in Guadeloupe.
2004-2005
Post-doctoral Research, New Orleans, LA. Conducted a ten-month archival and ethnographic research project on voluntary organizations in New Orleans.
2002
Follow-up Dissertation Research, Guadeloupe. Conducted one month of linguistic and ethnographic research in Guadeloupe.
1999-2001
Dissertation Fieldwork, Guadeloupe. Conducted eighteen months of linguistic and ethnographic research in Guadeloupe.
1998
Preliminary Fieldwork, Guadeloupe. Visited prospective field sites, discussed project with local scholars in Guadeloupe and Martinique and surveyed language attitudes, patterns of language choice and return migration practices.
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1997
Research on Haitian students and Creole. Organized and conducted a small ethnographic research project among Haitian students at a high school in Brooklyn as part of Ethnographic Methods course.
1997
Research on Haitian Creole. Elicited linguistic data from a Haitian Creole speaker; analyzed data to determine linguistic structure of Haitian Creole as well as language attitudes of speaker as part of Linguistic Methods course.
CONSULTING 2006-2007 Academic consultant for research project on the Kréyòl of Guadeloupean Youth, LAMECA, Médiathèque Caraïbe, Basse-Tere, Guadeloupe. SERVICE Service to Profession Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars organizing committee to host conference at LSU (April 20 – 24, 2010): selected papers and panels, helped to organize art exhibit. Manuscripts Refereed, Books and Book Proposals Reviewed Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, reviewed 1 article (2014) Identities, reviewed 1 article (2011) Oxford University Press: reviewed 2 book manuscripts (2008-2009) Feminist Formations: reviewed 1 article manuscript (2010) Canadian Linguistics Review: reviewed 1 article manuscript (2010) Southern Anthropologist: reviewed 1 article manuscript (2009) Caribbean Studies: reviewed 1 article manuscript (2004) Wadabagei: reviewed 1 article manuscript (2003) Service to University Dean’s Representative for Lazara Bolton’s doctoral examination, Comparative Literature, December 9, 2013 Dean’s Representative for Helena Brigman’s doctoral examination, English Dept, April 17, 2012 Elected to Faculty Senate, University of Alaska Fairbanks (elected to serve 2008-2009, but resigned to take job at Louisiana State University). Service to Department Speakers Committee, Geography and Anthropology Department, LSU (2010-2011, 20112012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014). Kathe Managan
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Organizer of student trip to Southern Anthropological Society conference (March 30 – April 1, 2013), where my MA student, Emley Kerry, won the SAS Annual Student Paper Award. Undergraduate Advising, Geography and Anthropology Department, LSU (2009-2010). General education assessment committee (2009-2010): created general education matrix for ANTH 1003. Co-organizer of student trip to Southern Anthropological Society conference (2009), with Helen Regis. Research and Scholarship Committee (2008-2009). Acting undergraduate advisor, Anthropology Department, University of Alaska Fairbanks (March 2008). Outcomes Assessment Coordinator, Anthropology Department, University of Alaska Fairbanks (2007-2008). Graduate Student Representative, Faculty Search Committee, Anthropology Dept, New York University (2001-2002). Co-Chair, Anthropology Graduate Student Association, New York University, (19981999). PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society, Society for Linguistic Anthropology, Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Caribbean Studies Association, Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, American Association of Teachers of French (1992-1994) PEDAGOGICAL AND METHODS TRAINING 2013 Communication Across the Curriculum Workshop, LSU 2013 Writing Narrative Ethnography Workshop, AAA annual meeting 2010 Workshop on Organizing an Ethnographic Field School, AAA annual meeting 2008 NSF summer SCRM workshop on video research methods, Beaufort, NC 2002 Teaching Effectiveness Seminar, New York University, New York, NY FOREIGN LANGUAGE SKILLS Fluent in French and Guadeloupean Creole. Conversant in Haitian Creole. Some knowledge of Irish, Arabic and German.
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