DOUGLAS R. HOLMES

Email: dholmes@binghamton.edu

Education

PhD. State University of New York at StonyBrook
AB Bennington College.

Current academic appointment

2002- Professor of Anthropology, State University of New York at Binghamton.
2001- Research Associate, The Frankfurt Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main.

Current research:
Communicative imperatives in central banks with particular attention to the European Central Bank, Deutsche Bundesbank, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Reserve Bank of India, & People’s Bank of China.

Research Funding

2007-08 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. New York, NY.
1992-95 National Science Foundation, Washington D.C.

Books

under reviewHolmes, Douglas R. Economy of Words: Communicative imperatives in central banks.  Princeton: Princeton University Press.

under review Westbook, David A. with Douglas R. Holmes & George E. Marcus Navigators of the Contemporary: Ethnography as enterprise and adventure in the crosscurrents in the present situation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2000 Holmes, Douglas R. Integral Europe: Fast-Capitalism, Multiculturalism, Neofascism.  Princeton: Princeton University Press.

1990 Holmes, Douglas R. Cultural Disenchantments: Worker Peasants in Northeast Italy.  Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Recent Journal Articles & Book Chapter

in preparation Holmes, Douglas R. “Experimental identities,”  In European identities. Peter Katzenstein & Jeff Checkel (eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2007 Holmes, Douglas R. & George E. Marcus Para-ethnography. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods. London: Sage.

2006 with George E. Marcus & David Westbrook “Intellectual vocations in the City of Gold” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 

2006 with George E. Marcus “Fast-Capitalism: Paraethnography and the rise of the symbolic analyst,” In Frontiers of Capital: Ethnographic Perspectives on the New Economy.”Chapter 1 pp. 34-57 Melissa Fisher and Greg Downey (eds).  Durham:  Duke University Press.

2006 “Nationalism-Integralism-Supra-nationalism: A Schemata for the 21st Century,” In Handbook of Nations and Nationalism. Delanty, Gerard and Krishan Kumar (eds.). London: Sage Publications.

2006 Comment on "When the 'logic of capital is the real which lurks in the background': Program and practice in European 'regional economies'" by Gavin Smith.  Current Anthropology.

2005 with George E. Marcus “Refunctioning Ethnography within Cultures of Expertise,” Handbook of Qualitative Research.  Yvonne Lincoln and Norm Denizen (eds.).  3rd Edition.  Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

2005 with George E. Marcus  “Cultures of Expertise and the Management of Globalization: Toward  the  Re-functioning of  Ethnography.” Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems. Aihwa Ong & Stephen J. Collier (eds.)  London: Blackwell.

Recent Presentations

2007 “Three Works in progress.” Problems, Scope and Limits of Ethnography in the Realm of Calculating Elites.  Center for Ethnography, University of California at Irvine. Organized by George E. Marcus & Bill Maurer, May 2007.

2007 “European identities in transition.” Centre for European Studies. Carleton University. Ottawa, Canada, January 2007.

2006 “Central bankers unto ourselves: Semiotic imperatives of monetary policy.” Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania.. Organized by Brian Spooner, November 2006.

2006 “Experimental identities.” Workshop on European Identities. Sponsored by the Department of Government, Cornell University. Organized by Peter Katzenstein & Jeff Checkel.  October 2006.

2006 “European integration as a discursive process,” Workshop on Europe, sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, April 2006.

2006 “Economy of Words: Ethnography of central banks,” Inaugural meeting of the Center for Ethnography organized by George Marcus & Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine, January 2006.
 
2005 “Notes on my career of illicit discourses,” Workshop on Intellectuals, organized by James Faubion, Rice University, October 2005.

2005 with George Marcus and David Westbrook “Intellectual Vocations in the City of Gold,” organized by Annelise Riles and sponsored by the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture, Cornell University Law School, March 2005

2003 "Advanced European Integration: An Analytical Tableau,”  "Invisible Effects and Unintended Consequences of European Union Enlargement," organized by Katherine Verdery. Center For Russian and East European Studies,University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. April 2003
      
2003 “Intimate Artifice: Three Cases of Para-Ethnography,”Presentation co-sponsored by the Anthropology Department and the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Society organized by Annelise Riles, Cornell University. April 2003

Editorial boards

2002- Member of the Editorial Board PoLAR Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
2001- Member of the Editorial Board Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.
1992, 1996, 1997 & 1998. Member of the Editorial Cooperative, Late Editions Project.

Professional Affiliations

Fellow Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Member American Anthropological Association
Member American Ethnological Association
Member Society for the Anthropology of Europe
Member Society for Political and Legal Anthropology

Member Council of European Studies

 

Courses for the Spring 2008 Semester: ANTH 364, ANTH 571C

 

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