Mark Schuller
Mark Schuller is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology at York College, the City University of New York. In addition to understanding contemporary Haiti, Schuller’s research contributes to theories of globalization, NGOs, civil society, and development. His dissertation research analyzing impacts of development aid on two women’s nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) was funded by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and support from other sources including the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California Washington Center, and Labor and Employment Research Fund. Schuller has published four peer-reviewed articles and two book chapters about Haiti. He co-edited Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction (2008, Alta Mira Press) and is co-producer and co-director of forthcoming documentary Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy. Schuller also co-edited Homing Devices: the Poor as Targets of Public Housing Policy and Practice (2006, Lexington Press), culminating four years of experience working as a grassroots organizer in Minnesota, particularly the St. Paul Tenants Union. As an applied/public anthropologist, Schuller has been involved in many grassroots campaigns and organizations, such as PUEBLO, Voices for Global Justice, and Jubilee (debt cancellation) among others, including an ad-hoc coalition in response to the recent food crisis in Haiti and elsewhere..
