TITLE: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology

ADDRESS: Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Box 8107

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC 27695-8107

TEACHING POSITIONS:  

• Associate Professor, NCSU, 1980 - present
• Assistant Professor, NCSU, 1974 - 1980
• Visiting Fulbright Professor, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Jan. - July 2002
• Visiting Professor, Hiroshima Shudo U. Fall 1982
• Visiting Professor, Catholic University of Lima, Peru, 1978-79; 1972-73

TELEPHONE AND EMAIL: 919-515-9025; 919-515-2610 (fax); tim_wallace@ncsu.edu

• Ph.D., Indiana University, 1975, Anthropology

  • M.A., Indiana University, 1971, Anthropology

  • M.A., Indiana University, 1969, Latin American Studies

  • B.S., St. Joseph's University, 1967, Latin American Studies

TEACHING ACTIVITIES:

• Annual Ethnographic Field Schools (Guatemala, 2002; Costa Rica, 1996-2001 and Hungary, 1994-95)

• Undergraduate Courses: ANT 325, Andean South America, ANT 252, Cultural Anthropology, ANT 392, International Cross-cultural Communication, ANT 431, Tourism, Culture and Anthropology ANT 412 Applied Anthropology, Ant 254 Language and Culture, Video course

• Graduate Courses: ANT 505, Comparative Social Organization; ANT 512, Applied Anthropology; ANT 591, Independent Study

• Teach several distance learning courses in anthropology through correspondence, cable and video media

• Doctoral Dissertation and Master's Committees

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Tourism Impacts

• Community and Agricultural Development, Pesticide Management, Language Planning

• Guatemala, Costa Rica, Peru, Ecuador, Hungary, Southern Africa, Latin America

RECENT PROJECTS, GRANTS, CONTRACTS:

• 2002 Proyecto los Volcanes de Atitlán, Guatemala, U. del Valle and The Nature Conservancy
• 1996-2001 Socio-economic and Environmental Impacts of Tourism in Costa Rica
• 1995 N.C. State College of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fund, Ecotourism and Change in Hungary's Postsocialist Farm Communities.
• 1995 Provost's Fund (NCSU), Ecotourism and the Establishment of an Ethnographic Field School in Costa Rica, 
• 1995 (with Steve Lilley, N.C. State) Attitudes Related to Acceptance and Adoption of I.P.M. Practices Among N.C. Farm Operators. IPM Extension Committee,NCSU. 
• 1994 N.C. State College of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fund, Hungarian Villages in Transition
• 1994 Socioeconomic Transformation of Rural Villages in Postsocialist Hungary, N.C. State College of Humanities and Social Sciences Summer Stipend Award
• 1994 IPM among Christmas Tree Growers, N.C. State IPM Extension Committee, $5000 (with Simon K. Garber, Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology, N.C. State.
• 1993 "Pest Management Practices Among Urban Municipal Governments" by S.K.Garber, J.M.Wallace, R.L.Moxley and K.M.Troost. IPM Extension Subcommittee, Cooperative Extension Service, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. 
• 1992 Agricultural Marketing and Development among Peasant Communities Living on the Periphery of the Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar." Duke U. - NCSU - USAID- Madagascar 

RECENT EXTENSION AND OUTREACH EFFORTS:

• 2002 Ecotourism development project design for communities near Lake Atitlán, Guatemala

• 1999 The Upper Roanoke Valley Development Project (Warren, Vance and Halifax, NC counties)

• 1997 NC Can DO. Outreach to help rural communities undertake sustainable development projects

• 1996 The Role of Culture in Farmworkers Health Outreach, Workshop at the second 1996 meeting of Farmworkers Health Outreach Workers, Atlantic Beach, North Carolina

• 1996 Consultant on human culture to the North Carolina Center for Languages and World Culture, Raleigh, North Carolina
• 1996 Consultant for NC A&T State University and the NC Cooperative Extension Service for the Partner's in Agriculture Project, a project designed to encourage grassroots programs in sustainable agriculture.
• 1995 Unpaid consultant to the Children's Museum, Raleigh, North Carolina.
• 1994 Consultant on tourism to the cities of Keszthely, Hévíz, Zalakaros and Gyenesdias, Zala County, Hungary

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Wallace, James M. Tim.2002 Participating in Ethnographic Field Schools. In Doing Cultural Anthropology: Projects for Ethnographic Data Collection. Michael Angrosino, ed. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press.

• ------ 2001 Putting Culture into Sustainable Tourism: Negotiating Tourism at lake Balaton, Hungary. In Hosts and Guests Revisited: Tourism Issues of the 21^st Century. Valene L. Smith & Maryann Brent, eds.Elmsford, NY: Cognizant Communication Corp.

• ------ Hunger, Hope and the Rise of Sendero Luminoso - 1967-78: An Observer's Retrospective. Social Justice: Anthropology, Peace and Human Rights. 2(3/4):161-186.
• ------ 1999. Mentoring Apprentice Ethnographers Through Field Schools: Introduction Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 30(2): 210-219.
• ------ , ed. 1999. Guest Editor, Mentoring Apprentice Ethnographers Through Field Schools. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 30(2): 210-250.
• ------ , ed. 1997. Practicing Anthropology in the South. Athens, GA: U. of Georgia Press.
• ------- 1997. Putting Anthropology into Practice in the 1990's. In Practicing Anthropology in the South, edited by James M. (Tim) Wallace, Athens, GA: U. of Georgia Press, pp. 1-12.
• -------- 1996. Tourism, Water Quality and Development in the West Balaton Area Including Kis-Balaton. In P. Piroska, ed., Kis-Balaton Anket, pp. 352-359.
• ------ 1996. Conflicts Between Development and Sustainable Tourism in Eastern Europe: the Case of Lake Balaton, Hungary, High Plains Applied Anthropologist, Vol. 16, No.1:29-34.

• ------- , ed.. Language, Culture and Society: Readings in Linguistic Anthropology. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1990.

• ------- 1990. Ethnography and Studying Schools in a Peruvian Peasant Community, pp. 15-26 in James M. Wallace III (ed.), Language, Culture and Society: Readings in Linguistic Anthropology. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company,
• ------- 1990. Is War a Cultural Universal? Anthropological Perspectives on the Causes of Warfare in Human Societies. In Jongsuk Chay (Ed.), Culture and International Relations. New York: Praeger, pp. 21-32.

RECENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES:

• Member, Executive Board, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2002-2005

• Member, Program Committee, 1999, 1997 Meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology
• Secretary/Treasurer, Assn. of North Carolina Anthropologists, 1994-2000
• Editor, NAPA Bulletin Series, National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, 2002-2005
• President, Southern Anthropology cal Society, 1994-95
• President, Association of North Carolina Anthropologists, 1992-1994
 

HONORS, AWARDS, OTHER IMPORTANT ACTIVITIES:

• 2002 Senior Fulbright Collaborative Teaching/Research Award to Guatemala (Jan.-July, 2002)
• 2000-01 Outstanding Teacher Award, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, NCSU
• 1998-99 CHASS Outstanding Advisor Award
• 1996 Awarded the Key to the City of Quepos, Costa Rica for Research