THEODORE POWERS, PH.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa Research Associate, Human Economy Program, University of Pretoria 217 MacBride Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242 theodore-powers@uiowa.edu AREAS OF RESEARCH EXPERTISE Political Economy of Health, Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Globalization, Anthropology of Policy BOOKS Enabling Life: HIV/AIDS Activism, Policy and the State in Post-Apartheid South Africa. PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS 2016 HIV/AIDS Policy, Transnational Donor Capital and Localized Political Formations in South Africa. Human Organization 75(3) (Forthcoming) 2016 Actor-Networks, Waves and Verticality: Tracing HIV/AIDS Activism from Late Apartheid to the Present in South Africa. Critique of Anthropology (Forthcoming) 2015 Negotiating State and Market: the South African HIV/AIDS Movement and Social Change. Economy for and Against Democracy. The Human Economy Book Series, Volume II. Edited by Keith Hart, pp. 103-119. New York: Berghahn Press. 2013 Institutions, Power and Para-State Political Alliances: A critical reassessment of HIV/AIDS politics in South Africa, 1999-2008. Journal of Modern African Studies 51(4): 605-626. 2013 Institutions and the Social Change: A case study of the South African National AIDS Council. Anthropology Southern Africa 36(3&4): 116-123. 2012 Institutionalizing Dissent: HIV/AIDS, the post-apartheid state, and the limits of transnational governance in South Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies 38(3): 531-549 2012 Phylogenetic Analysis of Socio-Cultural Data: Identifying Transformation Vectors for Kinship Systems. In Crow-Omaha: New Light on a Classic Problem of Kinship Analysis. Edited by Thomas R. Trautmann and Peter M. Whiteley. Pp. 109-134. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. (Co-authored with Ward Wheeler, and Peter Whiteley) PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS UNDER REVIEW Hospital User Fees and the Principles of Privatization: Insights from the South African Public Health Sector. (Under Review) Limits to Lawfare: Law, Rights and the South African HIV/AIDS Movement (Under Review) PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION Catching the Local: the ANC, Non-State Organizations and Alliance Formation in South Africa
Rights Talk, Race Talk and Representation: Deconstructing Academic Analyses of the South African HIV/AIDS Epidemic Pathways, Intersections and Hotpots: HIV/AIDS, Actor-Networks and Policy in South Africa. Public Health and Privatization Effects in Post-Apartheid South Africa NON-REFEREED ARTICLES, BOOK REVIEWS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS 2015 Occupying the State: HIV/AIDS Activism and the South African National AIDS Council. Anthropology News 58(7-8): 25-26. 2015 ASAP at the AAA Meetings and the Anthropology of Policy, Waste and Health. Anthropology News 56(3-4): 28-29. (Co-authored with Judi Pajo) 2013 The Human Economy Project: first steps. Anthropology Southern Africa 36(3&4): 99-101. (Co-authored with John Sharp and Vito Laterza) 2012 Dark Shadow of Urban Renewal. Pretoria News. Opinion Section. 29 August 2012. 2012 Situating HIV/AIDS at the Convergence of Intimacy and Exchange: A review of Mark Hunter s Love in the Time of AIDS. Journal of African History 53: 257-8. 2010 HIV/AIDS and Transnational Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Anthropology News 51(4): 49-50. 2009 AIDS dissidence: The institutional dimension of Mbeki s legacy. Pambazuka News, Issue 419 (February 12). 2008 Consultation: Examining the consultation process for the Western Cape Provincial Strategic Plan. AIDS Legal Quarterly May 2008. Cape Town: Aids Legal Network. 2007 Quantifying the Public Health Crisis in Khayelitsha: A Survey of Human Resources in the South African Public Health Sector. Working Paper 20071025.1. Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town. (co-authored with Loredana Monte) 2005 Projected Dividend Outflow due to Absa/Barclays Merger. Jubilee South Africa Research Report. Johannesburg: Jubilee South Africa. EDUCATION The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, 2012 M.Phil, Department of Anthropology, awarded distinction, 2007 Dissertation Title: HIV/AIDS, Local Politics and the Limits of Transnational Governance in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Bates College, Lewiston, ME B.A. Political Science, Cum Laude, 2001 ACADEMIC AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS 2012/14 Postdoctoral Fellow, Human Economy Programme, University of Pretoria 2009/11 Writing Fellow, City University of New York 2009 Honorable Mention, Society for Urban, National and Transnational Anthropology, Graduate Student Paper Contest 2008/09 Fellow, Center for Place, Culture and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center 2
2008 Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. 2007 Graduate Student Research Grant, CUNY Graduate Center 2007 Awarded Distinction, Comprehensive Exam, Department of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center 2005 Field Reconnaissance Travel Grant, Department of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center 2003/05 University Fellow, Department of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center 2001 Cum Laude, Bates College, Political Science (French minor) TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2014 - Assistant Professor, University of Iowa 2013/14 Senior Lecturer, University of Pretoria 2011 Instructor, Pace College, New York, NY 2010 Instructor, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 2006/07, 09 Graduate Teaching Fellow, Hunter College, New York, NY COURSES TAUGHT Economic Anthropology Introduction to Global Health Studies Pathogens, Politics and People Socio-Cultural Research Methods Politics and Identity Development Theory Medical Anthropology Global Cultures, Local Identities Anthropology and Development in Africa Urban Anthropology African Peoples and Cultures Introduction to Cultural Anthropology RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2014 - Research Associate, Human Economy Program, University of Pretoria 2009/11 Research Assistant, American Museum of Natural History 2008/10 Project Coordinator, CUNY Research Foundation 2007/08 Research Associate, CUNY Research Foundation 2007/08 Visiting Researcher, AIDS and Society Research Unit, University of Cape Town SEMINARS, PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS 2016 The South African HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Key Milestones and Challenges Ahead. Presentation to the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council, April 19, 2016. 2015 Policy Process, Multi-Sited Fieldwork and the State: Insights from the South African HIV/AIDS Epidemic. Paper presented at: AAA Annual Meeting, November 18-22, 2015. (Session Organizer) 3
2014 Actor-Networks, Policy and Political Alliances: Analyzing Policy Process in Post- Apartheid South Africa. Paper presented at: AAA Annual Meeting, December 3-7, 2014. 2014 Inside/Out: Law, Rights and the South African HIV/AIDS movement. Paper presented at: Twenty Years of South African Constitutionalism. New York Law School, November 13-16, 2014. 2014 Catching the Local: Non-State Organizations and Political Power in South Africa. Paper presented at: South Africa: Twenty Years after Apartheid. Roosevelt Public Policy Institute, Hunter College, September 18-19, 2014. 2014 Situating the Transnational: On Multi-Sited Research and Social Formations. Invited lecture for the Department of Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Pretoria, April 22, 2014. 2014 Global Pathogens, Transnational Forces and Social Mobilization: Insights from the South African HIV/AIDS Epidemic. Invited lecture for the Department of Anthropology and the Global Health Studies Program, University of Iowa. February 10, 2014. 2013 Health Activism and Social Change in the Global Era: Insights from South Africa. Invited lecture for the Department of Public Health, SUNY at Old Westbury, December 22, 2013. 2013 Institutions and the Human Economy: the South African National AIDS Council. Paper presented at the Anthropology Southern Africa Meeting, September 6-8, 2013. (Session Organizer) 2013 Policy consultation, transnational capital and scaled political fields: a case study of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Paper presented at: The Human Economy: on Economy and Democracy. International Workshop, University of Pretoria, August 22-24, 2013. 2013 Public Health and the Principles of Privatization in South Africa. Invited lecture for the Department of Anthropology, University of Witwatersrand, August 15, 2013. 2012 Coalitions, Contradictions and Reconsiderations: the Western Cape Coalition against Public Health Cuts and Neoliberal Health Policy. Paper presented at the Anthropology Southern Africa Annual Meeting, August 31 - September 3, 2012 2012 Scaling Back: Analyzing the Effects of International Donor Funding on the Implementation of AIDS Policy in South Africa. Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Meeting, March 27-31, 2012. (Presented in absentia) 2011 Negotiating Life: Policy Consultation, Transnational Donor Funding and the Political Dynamics of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Meetings, November 16-20, 2011. 2009/10 Co-Chair, Axes of Inequality: Race, Gender, Sexuality AIDS and Civil Society in Southern Africa. Academic seminar co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Center for Place, Culture and Politics. CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY. 2010 AIDS Denialism and Post-Apartheid Governance in South Africa: Examining a decade of discontent, 1998-2008. Poster presented at the XVII International AIDS Conference, Vienna, Austria, 19 July 2010. 2010 Institutionalizing Dissent: The Post-Apartheid State and the Limits of 4
Transnational Governance in South Africa. North Eastern Workshop on Southern Africa, April 9 11. 2009 Debating the Politics of Race and Place in the South African AIDS Epidemic. Paper presented at the 2009 meeting of the American Anthropological Association. December 2-6, Philadelphia, PA. (Session organizer) 2009 The Consequences of a Community Contested: HIV/AIDS and Local Politics in post-apartheid South Africa. Paper presented at the American Ethnological Society Meeting. May 13-16, Vancouver, Canada. (Session co-organizer) 2008 Producing Informality in a Post-Apartheid Township: an investigation into the relationship between HIV/AIDS, social development and informal urban settlements in South Africa. Paper presented at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. on August 14. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ACADEMIC SERVICE 2014 - Member, Association for the Anthropology of Policy 2010 - Member, Society for Urban, National and Transnational Anthropology 2005 - Member, American Anthropological Association 5