DANIEL A. SEGAL
Jean M. Pitzer Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies &
Director of the Center for Social Inquiry at Pitzer College.
I am on leave for the fall of 2009. In the spring of 2010, I will be teaching two courses:
CAPITALISM IN QUESTION (because it is), a seminar for Student Fellows of the Center for Social Inquiry at Pitzer College.
The World Since 1492, a historical-anthropological survey of modern world history.
Other courses I teach include:
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 this entry in The Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology.
As part of a broader commitment to public history, I advocate the redesign of 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.
