Chronology of Education
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Ph.D. Anthropology and History 1983
M.A. Agricultural Economics 1982
M.A. Anthropology 1977
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
B.A. 1st Class Honors in Anthropology and Philosophy 1974
University of Bergen, Norway
Studied Anthropology 1971-2
Thesis: Administration and the Economy: Morocco 1880 to 1980. The case of Essaouira. 592pp. Ph.D. thesis in Anthropology and History, (Directed by Aidan W. Southall and Jan Vansina) University of Wisconsin- Madison.
Employment
1992-> Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Associate Research Social Scientist, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology; University of Arizona.
1986-1992 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Assistant Research Social Scientist, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology; University of Arizona.
Summer 1990 Faculty Associate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.
1990-> Member Core Consulting Faculty, Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Spring 1986 Visiting Assistant Professor, Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1984 - 1985 Project Coordinator for research on land tenure in Mauritania. Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Honors, Awards, Scholarships, and Fellowships
1997 June, Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change. Bloomington, IN
1993 Summer, Fulbright Exchange Scholar Cairo, Egypt.
1981-82 National Resource (HEA) Arabic U of W - Madison
1979-80 Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Morocco
1979-81 Social Science Research Council Dissertation Morocco
1978-79 National Defense Foreign Language Arabic U of W - Madison
1977-78 National Defense Foreign Language Arabic U of W - Madison
1976-77 National Defense Foreign Language Arabic U of W - Madison
1975-76National Defense Foreign Language Arabic U of W - Madison
1974 Graduated First Class Joint Honors Anthropology & Philosophy McGill U.
1973-74 James D. McCall Fellowship Philosophy McGill U.
1972-73 University Fellowship Anthropology McGill U.
Languages
Arabic, English, French, Norwegian (have also studied Hebrew, Latin, Greek, German, Russian and Tachelhyt).
Publications
Books
2017/8 Greenberg, James B. and Thomas K. Park. Hidden interests in credit and finance: power, ethics, and social capital across the last millennium. New York: Rowman and Littlefield.
2017 Park, Thomas and James B. Greenberg. The Roots of Western Finance. Power, Ethics, and social capital in the ancient world. New York: Rowman and Littlefield.
2017 Aomar Boum and Thomas K. Park. Historical Dictionary of Morocco. Third Edition. Scarecrow Press / University Presses of America, Lanham, Md. Expanded to approx. 1000 pages.
2006 with Aomar Boum. Historical Dictionary of Morocco. Second Edition. Revised and roughly doubled in size expansion of Park 1996. Scarecrow Press / University Presses of America, Lanham, Md.
1996 Historical Dictionary of Morocco. Scarecrow Press / University Presses of America, Lanham, Md.
1993 Risk and Tenure in Arid Lands: the political ecology of development in the Senegal River Basin. Edited. University of Arizona Press, Arid Lands Development Series.
Chapters and Encyclopedia Articles
2013 Urban Sociology in Poor Cities of Africa and the Middle East: a New Methodology Inspired by Robert E. Park’s Urban Ecological Approach. Chapter in The Chicago School Diaspora: Epistemology and Substance, under review at McGill Queens University Press).
2009 with Luis Cisneros Edward Nell and Mourad Mjahed. Urban Sociology in Poor Cities of Africa and the Middle East : a New Methodology Inspired by Robert E. Park’s Urban Ecological Approach. In a book under peer review at McGill Queens University Press.
2009 Entry for “Long Distance Trade” in the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, (Brill, 2010: pp.280-286).
2009 Entry for “Peddlars” in the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, (Brill, 2010:43-45).
2009 Entry for “Safi” in the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, (Brill, 2010:208-210).
2008 Entry for “Samir Amin.” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Ed. William A. Darity, Jr. Vol. 1. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008. pp.110-111.
2007 Fatima Mernissi. Entry in Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa. Ed. Michael R. Fischbach. Gale Cengage.
2006 Condorcet, Marquis de. In, H. James Birx, Editor. Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
2006 Demography. In, H. James Birx, Editor. Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
2006 Humboldt, Alexander Von. In, H. James Birx, Editor. Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
2006 Irrigation. In, H. James Birx, Editor. Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
2006 Herskovits, Melville. In, H. James Birx, Editor. Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
2006 Firth, Raymond. In, H. James Birx, Editor. Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
2004 Reflections on criminality and demographic structure: a multi-national examination of the links between youth and national crime statistics. Arizona Law Review.
1997 Indirass and the Political Ecology of Flood Recession Agriculture. Chapter 3 in The Ecology of Practice: Studies of Food Crop Production in Sub-Saharan West Africa. Edited by A. Endre Nyerges. Newark: Gordon And Breach Publishers, Pp.77-96.
1993 Arid lands and the political economy of flood recesssion in Fuuta Tooro. Chapter in Risk and Tenure in Arid Lands.
1993 Privatization and development: the case of the Dirol Plain. Chapter in Risk and Tenure in Arid Lands.
1993 Crisis of Nationalism in Mauritania. With Mamadou Baro and Tidiane Ngaido. Chapter in Risk
and Tenure in Arid Lands.
1993 Ecology and Risk Management: The case for common property . Chapter in Risk and Tenure in Arid Lands.
1992 The Sakalava. A Case for Religious Continuity in Madagascar. Chapter in a Festschrift for Aidan Southall titled Culture and Contradiction: the Dialectics of Wealth, Symbol and Power, edited by Minka De Sota Mellen Research University Press, San Francisco. Pp. 258-272.
1986 Mauritania: Senegal River Valley. Chapter in Land Tenure Issues in River Basin Development in Sub- Saharan Africa. pp.52-73. Edited by Peter C. Bloch, Madison: Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1986 Mauritania. Chapter in Country Profiles of Land Tenure: Africa 1985. pp.120-127. Edited by James C. Riddell, Madison: Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1981 Politics of the periodic market in small towns in Africa. Chapter in Politics of the Small Community. pp.343- 358. Edited by Richard W. Crockett, Macomb: Western Illinois University Press.
1980 Temporary migration as an index of urban underdevelopment in Northern Morocco. Chapter in Small Urban Centers in Urban Development in Africa. Pp.158-74. Edited by Aidan W. Southall, Madison: The University of Wisconsin African Studies Center.
1978 The Influence of regional economic networks on the development of small towns in Morocco. Chapter in The Small City and Regional Community. Pp.319-326. Edited by R.P. Wolensky and E.J. Miller, Stevens Point:The University of Wisconsin Press.
Journal Articles
2010 Review of, The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery: Social learning in a post-disaster environment. By Emily Chamlee-Wright. New York: Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics, 2010. Conversations on Philanthropy. Volume VII, 2010. Reviews, pp. 92-96.
2010 Social Transformations and West African Forms of Slavery. Review of Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories. edited by Benedetta Rossi. Liverpool University Press 2009. Current Anthropology Volume 51, Number 5, 2010 pp. 715-716.
2003 [80%] with Mamadou Baro, The Six Cities Project: developing a methodology of surveying densely populated areas using social science assisted and diachronic remote sensing based classification of habitation. Journal of Political Ecology Vol. 10: 1-23.
2003 Reflections on criminality and demographic structure: a multi-national examination of the links between youth and national crime statistics. Arizona Law Review: vol. 45 Number 3: 595-619.
2001 [70%] with Hsaïn Ilahiane. Sources for the socio-economic study of rural Morocco. International Journal of Middle East Studies 33 2001), 271-290..
1994 [50%] Political Ecology. Journal of Political Ecology 1:1-8. Inaugural article for the journal, co-authored with James B. Greenberg, the other co-editor.
1992 Moroccan Migration and Mercantile Money. Human Organization. Vol.51, No.3 1992:205-213.
1992 Early trends toward class stratification. Chaos, Common Property and Flood Recession Agriculture. American Anthropologist, March, Pp.90-117.
1989 Essaouira: The formation of a New Elite 1940-1980. African Studies Review. Vol.31 No.2. Pp.111-132.
1988 Rural North East Algeria 1919-1938. Peasant Studies vol 15 (2):117-128.
1988 Indigenous Responses to Economic Development in Mauritania. Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development Vol.17(1):53-74. Special Issue with an Afterword by Eric Wolf.
1985 Pyrrhonism in anthropological and historical research. History in Africa, 12 pp.225-252.
1985 Inflation and Economic Policy in 19th Century Morocco: the compromise solution. The Maghreb Review March-June vol.10, No.2 pp.51-56
1983 A report on the state of Moroccan archives. History in Africa, 10(1983), 395-409.
Scholarly Presentations
2016 Bridging the chasm between Big Urban Data and contextual variables: using transformational Growth Matrices in an ABM. Presented at Argonne National Laboratory, 2 May 2016.
2015 Technologies of Power and the Metrology of grain storage in the ancient Near East. Society for Economic Anthropology annual meeting, Lexington, KY.
2015 Poster. Modeling Transformational Growth in Large African Cities. co-authored with John Murphy, Mark Altaweel, Luis Cisneros. Computational Social Science society - ASU.
2014 Capability Theory and Refugees in the Sahel and North Africa. SfAA Albuquerque.
2013 Aristotle’s critique of the Sumerian financial paradigm. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the SfAA in Denver, CO.
2012 Trust, power, and evasion in systems of credit. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the SfAA in Baltimore, MD.
2011 Resilient Social Ecological Systems: bridging the rural urban dichotomy. CSSSA (Computational Social Science Society) Conference. Santa Fe, NM Oct 9-12, 2011. Peer reviewed paper.
2011 UrbanSociology in Poor Cities of Africa and the Middle East: A new methodology inspired by Robert E Park’s Urban ecological approach suggesting insights into resilience within urban and rural contexts. Paper presented as part of Panel 1: Types of Social Ecological Systems and the Tole of Place Based Resilience. 14 March 2011. Resilience 2011 conference ASU.
2009 Credit and Hidden Interest in the Ancient Near East and Classic Mediterranean. Invited Talk, Department of Near Eastern Studies and Center for Middle Eastern Studies. University of Arizona. Colloquium Series. October 9, 2009.
2009 Panning Panarchy: an urban political ecology take on panarchy’s Ptolemaic planet. Keynote address. NSF’s EPSCoR All-Hands Meeting, Anchorage Alaska, 14 May.
2008 with intellectual inputs from Luis Cisneros Edward Nell and Mourad Mjahed. Urban Sociology in Poor Cities of Africa and the Middle East : a New Methodology Inspired by Robert E. Park’s Urban Ecological Approach. Presented at the Qualitatives 2008 conference (May 21-24) University of New Brunswick in Frederickton, New Brunswick Canada.
2007 29 January. Talk at Intel, Hillsboro, Oregon: Modeling the urban household: perspectives on development in Islamic Cities. (with some inputs from Mourad Mjahed and Luis Cisneros).
2005 with Mourad Mjahed and Luis Cisneros. Modeling complexity in urban spaces of the developing world: an ecological approach to socio-economic strategies. Presented at the conference, Next Generation Simulations of Human-Environmental Interactions Working Group. Santa Fe Institute, University of Arizona & Arizona State University, December 12-14, 2005, Tucson, AZ.
2005 Reflections on the threats and benefits of remote sensing of urban landscapes. SfAA annual meetings in Santa Fe, New Mexico. in Panel, Landscapes of Modern Techonology, Moderated by Thomas K. Park.
2003 [40%] with Mourad Mjahed and Luis Cisneros. Modeling household dynamics in Marrakech, Bamako and Niamey: perspectives on robustness in urban environments. Presented at the conference on Robustness of Coupled Natural and Human Systems at the Santa Fe Institute April.
2003 [70%] with Mourad Mjahed. Mapping household demographics in Marrakech, Bamako, and Niamey. SfAA annual meetings in Portland, Oregon.
2003 Reflections on Resilience, Risk Management, and Flood Recession Agriculture. Social Dimensions of Hohokam Irrigation: Perspectives Across Cultures and Time. Workshop. Feb. 27-Mar.1, Tempe.
2003 [80%] with Mamadou Baro, The Six Cities Project: developing a methodology of surveying densely populated areas using social science assisted and diachronic remote sensing based classification of habitation. NSF funded conference on the Six Cities Project held in Dakar, Senegal, January 6-10.
2002 Mapping Urban Space and Place: The Six Cities Project. AAA annual meeting. New Orleans.
2002 Reflections on criminality and demographic structure: a multi-national examination of the links between youth and national crime statistics. Rogers College of Law, Conference on Youth, Doubletree Inn, Tucson.
Reviews
2011 Review of The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery. Social learning in a post-disater environment by Emily Chamlee-Wright. In Conversations on Philanthropy,Volume VII 2010 forthcoming around 1 January 2011.
2010 Social Transformations and West African Forms of Slavery. Review of Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories. Edited by Benedetta Rossi. Current Anthropology Volume 51, Number 5, 2010.
2001 [50%] With Aomar Boum. Review of Remco Ensel. Saints and Servants in Southern Morocco. Leiden, Boston, Koln: Brill, 1999 in the Journal of North African History.
1999 Review of Mohammed Ennaji. Serving the Master. Slavery and Society in Nineteenth Century Morocco. Translated by Seth Graebner. New York: st Martin’s Press, 1998. for Middle East Studies Association Bulletin.
1993 Review of Mohammed Ennaji. Development in Rural Tunisia: the Bourguiba Years. New York: st Martin’s Press, 1998. for Middle East Journal. v.47 no.4:723-4.
1992 Review of Donald L. Donham, History, Power, Ideology: Central Issues in Marxism and Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990 for American Political Science Review. Mar. Pp. 209-210.
1991 Review of B.R.Pridhom, editor. Economy, Society & Culture in Contemporary Yemen. London: Croom Helm and Centre for Arab Gulf Studies, University of Exeter, 1985 in Canberra Anthropology.
1991 Review of Muneera Salem-Murdock and Michael M.Horowitz, Anthropology and Development in North Africa and the Middle East. The Middle East Journal. v45 n3:524-5.
1990 Review of Shlomo Deshen, The Mellah Society Life in Sherifian Morocco. Chicago Aldine 1989. The Jewish Quarterly Review.
1990 Review of Norman Stillman, The Language and Culture of the Jews of Sefrou. Jewish Quarterly Review January.
1990 Review of John P.Entelis, Culture and Counterculture in Moroccan Politics. Westview Press, 1989. The Middle East Journal Vol.44, No.2 Spring: 318-319.
1990 Review of D.Johnson and D.Anderson, The Ecology of Survival. Case Studies from Northeast African History. London: Lester Cook Academic Publishers, 1988. American Anthropologist. Vo. 92 No.1:220-221..
1989 Review of Donald Brown, Hierarchy, History, & Human Nature. University of Arizona Press. American Anthropologist, September. vol. 91:778.
1987 Review of Ann Elizabeth Mayer (ed.) Property, Social Structure and Law in the Modern Middle East. State University of New York Press 1985. Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Vol.21, No.1 pp.31-2.
1987 Review of Lawrence Rosen Bargaining for Reality; The Construction of Social Relations in a Muslim Community. The University of Chicago Press 1984. Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Vol.21, No.1 pp.33-34.
Works in Progress
Research
Agent Based model of large urban areas in poor countries with John Murphy and Luis cisneros and Mark Altaweel.
Books
The Maghrib and the West. Orientalism and Bureaucratic reform in Morocco 1822-1912. deals with Moroccan administration and economy in the precolonial period and the way colonial policy and academic discourse misrepresented the precolonial period.
Article
With Luis Cisneros, Edward Nell and Mourad Mjahed. Urban Sociology in Poor Cities of Africa and the Middle East: a New Methodology Inspired by Robert E. Park’s Urban Ecological Approach. Under review as a chapter of by McGill-Queens University Press, Jaqueline Low editor, title under negotiation.
Recent Major Grants
2007- co-PI with Stefanie Herrmann, Mamadou Baro and Randy Gimblett. “Desertification” or “Greening”? Human-Environment Relationships in the Face of Climate Variability: Case Studies in Mauritania and Senegal. Submitted to NSF: Geography in July, 2007. Awarded $400,000 in December 2007, starting date April 2008.
1999-2003 (NSF 9817743, #0138217) PI (with Mamadou Baro, Gary Christopherson and Stuart Marsh co-PIs) on a grant funded by NSF ($499,735) for a grant to build a broad picture of urbanization in Africa and its impact on the natural resources of urban hinterlands through the use of remote sensing imagery and, at a later stage, urban research focussing on the poorer segments of six cities (Marrakech, Dakar, Bamako, Niamey, dodoma and Gaborone). We are developing a diachronic picture of change in urban features such as garbage dumps, shanty towns, built up urban areas, market gardens etc that will allow one to hypothesice about the differential impact on the environment of demographic trends among the rich and poor or business and government urban sectors. the grant is titled, “Creation of a GIS for six Cities in Arid Environments: in Morocco, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Tanzania, and Botswana.”
Editorial work and Reviewing
2001-> Reviewer for NSF proposals
1994-> Editor of Journal of Political Ecology
1987-> Reviewer for numerous journals domestic and foreign.