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Drexel Woodson, Associate Professor
(Ph.D. Chicago 1990)
dwoodson@u.arizona.edu t:520-626-8811;
f: 520-621-9608
Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology
P. O. Box 210030, Tucson, AZ 85721-0030
curriculum vitae
Research Interests
Drexel G. Woodson, Associate Research
Anthropologist, joined the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology
(BARA) at the University of Arizona in 1990. Woodson, a native
of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, attended the city's public schools,
including Central High School (B.A., 1969). After studying cultural
anthropology at Yale University (B.A., 1973), he took graduate
degrees at The University of Chicago (M.A., 1978; Ph.D, 1990).
A Caribbeanist specializing in ethnography, historiography,
and bibliography, Woodson's main scholarly interests are intellectual
problems surrounding the description and analysis of Haitian
culture, history, society, and political economy. Yet his scholarship
usually focuses on the practical problems, processual and structural,
of democratic national development, especially consolidating
information systems that will assist the Haitian people improve
how they live and work.
Woodson edited and wrote or co-authored
chapters of A Baseline Study of Livelihood Security in Northwest
Haiti (1996), A Baseline Study of Livelihood Security in the
Southern Peninsula of Haiti (1996), and A Baseline Study of
Livelihood Security in the Departments of the Artibonite,
Center, North, Northeast, and West, Republic of Haiti (1997).
He wrote "Lamanjay, Food Security, Sécurité
Alimentaire: A Lesson in Communication from BARA's Mixed-Methods
Approach to Baseline Research in Haiti, 1994-1996" (Culture
& Agriculture, Fall 1997), and the chapter, "Food-for-Work,"
in Evaluation Report of the Enhanced Food Security II Program,
USAID Mission (G. R. Smucker and N. P. Schlossman, eds., 2001).
His article on Jean-Bertrand Aristide will appear in Encyclopedia
of African-American Culture and History: the Black Experience
in the Americas (Editor in Chief, Colin Palmer, 2005), and
"What Do Indicators Indicate?: Reflections on the Trials
and Tribulations of Using Food-Aid to Promote Development
in Haiti" will appear in Anthropology at Work/Anthropology
That Works (L. A. Field and R. G. Fox, eds., Berg Publishers,
2006), a volume of papers discussed at a Wenner-Gren International
Symposium, No. 136 (New York City, 19-22 May 2005).
Three research projects currently
preoccupy him. Mozayik: Yon Konbit Literè Ann Ayisyen (co-edited with R. E. Savain) assembles Haitian Creole essays
about history, the social and natural sciences, along with
literary texts for young adults, demonstrating that Haiti's
main spoken language may serve as an all-purpose means of
communication. Aspects of History and Psychology: The Ethic
of "Strong Government" in Haiti, 1843-1888 is Woodson's
annotated translation of an unpublished French manuscript
written during 1934-1936, just after the US American Occupation,
where Haitian bibliophile and public servant Edmond Mangonès
(1884-1967) meditates on the political consciousness and conduct
of Haiti's "politicking bourgeoisie." Catalogue
de la Collection Mangonès (1974, revised, corrected,
and expanded), re-inventories one of Haiti's finest private
libraries.
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