DANIEL A. SEGAL, Jean M. Pitzer Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies & Director of the Center for Social Inquiry at Pitzer College.
Please email me at: dsegal@pitzer.edu. Or see me in my office hours: Th. 8:15-10:15, Fr. 1:30-2:30 & by appointment.
In 2008-09, I am teaching:
In The News (first year seminar, fall)
The World Since 1492 (fall)
Center for Social Inquiry, Seminar on "Global Issues in Public Health and Foods," for Student Fellows of the Center (spring)
Some of my recent and forthcoming publications include:
Review of The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus, in Journal of Global History (2008).
"Cultural Approaches to Nationalism" (co-authored with Richard Handler), in The Sage Handbook of Nations and Nationalism (2006).
Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle: Essays on the Disciplining of Anthropology Now, ed. & with an introduction by Daniel Segal and Sylvia Yanagisako (Duke University Press, 2005). For more information, click here.
"Anthropology" and "Civilization, Barbarism, Savagery" in The Encyclopedia of World History, edited by William McNeill et al. (2005).
For more information about my scholarship, see my cv and the entry about my scholarship in The Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology.
As Secretary of the American Anthropological Association, I am pleased that the AAA has passed a statement disapproving of the U.S. military's HTS project, which embeds anthropologists in U.S. military units in Iraq and Afghanistan. I encourage AAA members and others interested in these issues to read and comment on the AAA statement on HTS.
As part of a broader commitment to improving public understanding of the past and its relation to the present, I support the movement to redesign the U.S. twenty-dollar bill, so that the words "ANDREW JACKSON WAS AN INDIAN KILLER" are printed next to Jackson's portrait. By adding these words to the bill, rather than replacing Jackson with a more admirable figure, this proposal seeks to increase public awareness of Jackson's horrendous actions, rather than taking the route of removing what is disturbing and controversial from the public sphere. To learn more about this social movement, click here.
