Bill Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635283 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bill Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bill |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Mary's College of Maryland |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-8376-5806 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Autoethnographic Assessment of the Trajectory and Legacy of a Field School in The Gambia, West Africa: Peace, Praxis, and People
This article examines the trajectory and legacy of an undergraduate field school in the smallest Anglophone country in West Africa, The Gambia. Over a period of twenty-three years, an international summer anthropology course evolved from a study tour, to a field school, to a year-round international exchange program that involved hundreds of students, faculty and staff from institutions in the United States, The Gambia, and for several years, eve…
Mentoring Undergraduate Research and Centering Collaboration
In this article, faculty members from three United States colleges and universities reflect upon mentoring undergraduate research in cultural anthropology and consider the educational and practice-based outcomes of student mentorship. Following a multi-year experience jointly mentoring students, we discuss our trajectories, lessons, and challenges in learning to support and advise undergraduate researchers. We reflect upon the impact of the “lone…
The Proliferation of Dan Graham's Pavilions
This essay revisits American artist Dan Graham's original motivations for the development of his long‐running series of pavilion sculptures. It explores their relationship to minimalist art of the 1960s and to the postmodern architecture of the 1970s and 1980s, before considering the implications of their large number and global spread for their current critical purchase. It is argued that the proliferation of Graham's pavilions across innumerabl…
The politics of contemporary art biennials: Spectacles of critique, theory and art
The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials is, in many respects, a valuable addition to the scholarly literature on biennials and other large-scale exhibitions. Panos Kompatsiaris’s book draws on a...
Gay-Straight Alliances and Associations among Youth in Schools
Although, it is clear from the title “Gay-Straight Alliances and Associations among Youth in Schools” that there is a focus on the role of Gay-Straight Alliances the book deals with much more than
The role of fantasy in understanding reality: A review of The Queer Art of Failure
Art as the Possibility of Politics
If the truism holds that all art is political, what might it mean to talk of the ‘increasingly political dimension of contemporary art’, as per the opening words of Anthony Downey’s 2014 book, Art and Politics Now (p. 10)? Could this dimension admit of degrees? If so, what would be the metric, and what would a minimally or maximally political art look like? Illustrating and discussing no fewer than two hundred and twenty-two artworks, Downey’s ab…
The Journey Toward a World Free From Homophobic Bullying: A Review of Homophobic Bullying : Research and Theoretical Perspectives
Burnout: Liam Gillick's Post‐Fordist Aesthetics
Free’ as in
Biopolitical Follies: On and Around Ina Blom's ‘Style Site’
Ina Blom's 2007 book On the Style Site: Art, Sociality, and Media Culture is the most sustained attempt so far to analyse, from the perspective of post-autonomist debates concerning biopolitics and immaterial labour, the work of some of the most prolific international artists to emerge during the 1990s. This article specifies Blom's claims before examining in greater detail the key theoretical assumptions underlying her argument that the ‘style s…
Biosecurity as an integral part of the new bioeconomy: A path to a more sustainable future
PA Retrospective: Bill and Jeanne’s Excellent Adventure
It's been a very short six years since we received the PA mantel from then-editor Sandy Ervin. In that time we've seen changes in technology, from 3 1/2 inch floppy submissions to almost exclusively email attachments. Like Human Organization, PA will soon be available on the web, with even those early newsprint issues scanned into PDF files. We are pleased that during our editorship submissions to PA increased each year, especially as we began to…
Invisible Difference in Space: The Role of Different Spaces in Homophobic Bullying in Schools
This small-scale piece of research was undertaken to examine, retrospectively, the experiences of 10 men, ages 27 through 53, in terms of what constitutes and influences homophobic bullying in the private and state school contexts in the United Kingdom. Using standpoint epistemology and a life histories method, the author investigates what is meant by homophobia and homophobic bullying; tries to identify why respondents think the bullying they su…
Teaching’ Practicing
The introduction to this issue states that this is a different style PA issue, and so this iteration of Teaching Practicing follows in the same spirit. Learning to practice anthropology is based on experience. If experience is the best teacher, then our over-riding question should be, "how can we best help our students learn lessons about the world of practice, and the conditions under which many of our colleagues practice, as illustrated so well…
Teaching ‘Practicing’
Teaching continues to be one of the most interesting, challenging and important tasks confronting any professional social scientist. Although most professional reputations are built primarily upon the results of research and writing; teaching is an essential element for the continuity and growth of the very disciplines and systems of knowledge to which generations of professionals have contributed. Students, undergraduates and graduates alike, ch…
Tourism and Conservation: Kachikally Sacred Crocodile Pool in the Gambia, West Africa
Africa. The word invokes powerful images about a continent that is the ancestral home for us all. Storytelling is an ancient tradition among Africans. Stories entertain, educate and encapsulate part of the African spirit. In that same spirit, three distinct voices and perspectives (two American and one African) collaborate here to tell a story about a sacred place that has slowly transformed into a tourist attraction
Practicing Anthropology: Forging New Roles and Relationships with Communities
The articles in this issue of Practicing Anthropology are all positive examples of people working to make a difference by using anthropology to construct meaningful relationships and roles through their work with a community of
Teaching’ Practicing
This issue, dedicated to the memory of Delmos Jones, demonstrates several things. First, students learn anthropological skills best in the same way that people more generally learn about culture: through experience. The issue demonstrates one very effective way for students to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to practice anthropology: through the internship experience. The internship has long been a central part of practitioner training at…
Teaching’ Practicing
Jeanne Simonelli and I want the articles in Practicing Anthropology to add to the range of teaching materials available to faculty for their anthropology classes. We have long considered applied or engaged teaching as an excellent manifestation of practice and service for anthropology and anthropologists. We suspect that anthropologists probably comprise among the largest number of "favorite" teachers on campuses across the country because they h…
Teaching’ Practicing
Editing this issue of Practicing about anthropologists working in Brazil has been an enlightening experience for us. We learned the particular ways in which Brazilian anthropologists from all subdisciplines deal with ethical and practical dilemmas in the practice of anthropology, as reflected in the questions below. We note that there is no consensus among Brazilian anthropologists about whether applied anthropology, as defined here in the U.S., …
Learning to Put Ethnography to Good Use: The Gambia, West Africa Field Study Program
The St. Mary's College of Maryland Gambia Field Study Program began in 1996 when ten students with a variety of majors, led by Professor Bill Roberts, learned to apply ethnographic research techniques to their service-learning or research projects. A total of four programs have been completed to date, the most recent being the subject of the documentary film, Tubabs in Africa (2002). The course is designed to assist students from any major learn …
Commentary Building a Public Practice in the Gambia
It's good to be walking when I work again. The last time I was able to walk this much was when I did my dissertation research in the Futa Jallon highlands of Guinea, 16 years ago. Fieldwork is a central part of my love for anthropology. I expect these next months will regenerate and sharpen my research skills, increase my local languages competency, and, I hope, lay the foundation for long-term collaborative applied research and practice through …
Editor’s Choice Cultures Within Cultures: Practicing Anthropology in the US
The Editor's are pleased to bring you a full and varied Fall issue of Practicing Anthropology, including articles, interviews, commentaries, and bibliographic highlights
Teaching’ Practicing
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jeanne Simonelli, Bill Roberts; ‘Teaching’ Practicing. Practicing Anthropology 1 September 2003; 25 (4): 50–51. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/praa.25.4.r038671266n26566 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Pap…
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David Harvey, Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution. (New York: Verso, 2012)
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Introduction to Practicing Anthropology in Senegal
The numerous problems Africans face are familiar to all of us, in part because an ever-present media depicts graphic scenes of civil wars and refugees, recurrent droughts, and the heart-wrenching human suffering associated with widespread poverty. The appeal of fieldwork in Africa has attracted a large number of anthropologists over the past century whose accomplishments and insights have contributed greatly to the advancement of the discipline a…
Collaborative Efforts to Improve Regenerative Agricultural Practices in Senegal
Anthropologists are skilled at developing rapport quickly with people from various backgrounds, and learning the essentials to participate appropriately in their activities. In Senegal, where many nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have assumed an intermediary role between local populations and the government or other external organizations, it is imperative for them to be able to demonstrate the results of their efforts with local populations.…
Connecting Classroom with Community: Service and Professional Socialization in Applied Programs for Undergraduates
One of the original propositions surrounding higher education in the United States was that its purpose was to allow people to give service to society, and that the curriculum should provide values-oriented intellectual training (Wieckowski, Thomas Student-Community Service Programs: The Academic Connection. NASPA Journal 29(3), 1992). This agenda has all but disappeared, as even liberal arts education focuses on a goal of earning rather than lea…
War, Technology, and Experience Aboard the USS Monitor
The USS Monitor battled CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads in April, 1862. This text explores how mariners - fighting blindly beneath waterline - lived and coped with metal monster they called the iron coffin. Combining technical, personal, administrative and literay analysis, David Mindell examines experience of men aboard Monitor and their reactions to thrills and dangers that accompanied new machine. The invention surrounded men with iron and threa…
Incremental Implementation of Practice on a Liberal Arts Campus: The St. Mary’s Story
Making a sincere commitment to providing quality education at the undergraduate level and linking the discipline to other fields that benefit from anthropological insights (e.g., education, health care, government service, the natural sciences) better ensures the success and the vitality of our discipline than concentrating our efforts on producing more postmodernist Ph.D.s who are not easily employable in the modern job market
Commentary Building a Public Practice in the Gambia
It's good to be walking when I work again. The last time I was able to walk this much was when I did my dissertation research in the Futa Jallon highlands of Guinea, 16 years ago. Fieldwork is a central part of my love for anthropology. I expect these next months will regenerate and sharpen my research skills, increase my local languages competency, and, I hope, lay the foundation for long-term collaborative applied research and practice through …
Editor’s Choice Cultures Within Cultures: Practicing Anthropology in the US
The Editor's are pleased to bring you a full and varied Fall issue of Practicing Anthropology, including articles, interviews, commentaries, and bibliographic highlights
Teaching’ Practicing
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jeanne Simonelli, Bill Roberts; ‘Teaching’ Practicing. Practicing Anthropology 1 September 2003; 25 (4): 50–51. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/praa.25.4.r038671266n26566 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Pap…
Teaching’ Practicing
Editing this issue of Practicing about anthropologists working in Brazil has been an enlightening experience for us. We learned the particular ways in which Brazilian anthropologists from all subdisciplines deal with ethical and practical dilemmas in the practice of anthropology, as reflected in the questions below. We note that there is no consensus among Brazilian anthropologists about whether applied anthropology, as defined here in the U.S., …
Learning to Put Ethnography to Good Use: The Gambia, West Africa Field Study Program
The St. Mary's College of Maryland Gambia Field Study Program began in 1996 when ten students with a variety of majors, led by Professor Bill Roberts, learned to apply ethnographic research techniques to their service-learning or research projects. A total of four programs have been completed to date, the most recent being the subject of the documentary film, Tubabs in Africa (2002). The course is designed to assist students from any major learn …
Tourism and Conservation: Kachikally Sacred Crocodile Pool in the Gambia, West Africa
Africa. The word invokes powerful images about a continent that is the ancestral home for us all. Storytelling is an ancient tradition among Africans. Stories entertain, educate and encapsulate part of the African spirit. In that same spirit, three distinct voices and perspectives (two American and one African) collaborate here to tell a story about a sacred place that has slowly transformed into a tourist attraction
Practicing Anthropology: Forging New Roles and Relationships with Communities
The articles in this issue of Practicing Anthropology are all positive examples of people working to make a difference by using anthropology to construct meaningful relationships and roles through their work with a community of
Teaching’ Practicing
This issue, dedicated to the memory of Delmos Jones, demonstrates several things. First, students learn anthropological skills best in the same way that people more generally learn about culture: through experience. The issue demonstrates one very effective way for students to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to practice anthropology: through the internship experience. The internship has long been a central part of practitioner training at…
Teaching’ Practicing
Jeanne Simonelli and I want the articles in Practicing Anthropology to add to the range of teaching materials available to faculty for their anthropology classes. We have long considered applied or engaged teaching as an excellent manifestation of practice and service for anthropology and anthropologists. We suspect that anthropologists probably comprise among the largest number of "favorite" teachers on campuses across the country because they h…
Teaching’ Practicing
The introduction to this issue states that this is a different style PA issue, and so this iteration of Teaching Practicing follows in the same spirit. Learning to practice anthropology is based on experience. If experience is the best teacher, then our over-riding question should be, "how can we best help our students learn lessons about the world of practice, and the conditions under which many of our colleagues practice, as illustrated so well…
Teaching ‘Practicing’
Teaching continues to be one of the most interesting, challenging and important tasks confronting any professional social scientist. Although most professional reputations are built primarily upon the results of research and writing; teaching is an essential element for the continuity and growth of the very disciplines and systems of knowledge to which generations of professionals have contributed. Students, undergraduates and graduates alike, ch…
Invisible Difference in Space: The Role of Different Spaces in Homophobic Bullying in Schools
This small-scale piece of research was undertaken to examine, retrospectively, the experiences of 10 men, ages 27 through 53, in terms of what constitutes and influences homophobic bullying in the private and state school contexts in the United Kingdom. Using standpoint epistemology and a life histories method, the author investigates what is meant by homophobia and homophobic bullying; tries to identify why respondents think the bullying they su…
PA Retrospective: Bill and Jeanne’s Excellent Adventure
It's been a very short six years since we received the PA mantel from then-editor Sandy Ervin. In that time we've seen changes in technology, from 3 1/2 inch floppy submissions to almost exclusively email attachments. Like Human Organization, PA will soon be available on the web, with even those early newsprint issues scanned into PDF files. We are pleased that during our editorship submissions to PA increased each year, especially as we began to…
Biosecurity as an integral part of the new bioeconomy: A path to a more sustainable future
Free’ as in
Biopolitical Follies: On and Around Ina Blom's ‘Style Site’
Ina Blom's 2007 book On the Style Site: Art, Sociality, and Media Culture is the most sustained attempt so far to analyse, from the perspective of post-autonomist debates concerning biopolitics and immaterial labour, the work of some of the most prolific international artists to emerge during the 1990s. This article specifies Blom's claims before examining in greater detail the key theoretical assumptions underlying her argument that the ‘style s…
Burnout: Liam Gillick's Post‐Fordist Aesthetics
The Journey Toward a World Free From Homophobic Bullying: A Review of Homophobic Bullying : Research and Theoretical Perspectives
Art as the Possibility of Politics
If the truism holds that all art is political, what might it mean to talk of the ‘increasingly political dimension of contemporary art’, as per the opening words of Anthony Downey’s 2014 book, Art and Politics Now (p. 10)? Could this dimension admit of degrees? If so, what would be the metric, and what would a minimally or maximally political art look like? Illustrating and discussing no fewer than two hundred and twenty-two artworks, Downey’s ab…
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