Telephone: 407-823-2227 (W) Fax: 407-823-3026 (W) E Mail: vance.geiger@ucf.edu EDUCATION: VANCE GEIGER 4552 East Lane Orlando, Florida 32817 Ph.D., University of Florida, April 1994 Dissertation Title: Patterns of Adaptation in a Refugee Camp: Vietnamese Refugees in the Philippine Refugee Processing Center M.A., University of Florida, 1988 Thesis Title: "Human Predictive Systems and Sociocultural Change" Major: Anthropology Minor: Farming Systems Research Certificate: Tropical Agriculture B.S., University of Florida, 1986 Double Major: Anthropology and Agricultural Economics B.A., University of Florida, 1978 Major: Psychology RESEARCH INTERESTS: American Culture Native Americans Refugees Southeast Asia TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Associate Lecturer, University of Central Florida, August 2013 Present. Instructor, University of Central Florida, Orlando Fl. August 1999 to December 2011. Prepare and teach classes on Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, Magic, Ritual and Belief, Sex, Gender and Culture, Southeast Indians, Ethnography of North American Indians, Native American Religions, Peoples of Southeast Asia, Peoples of the World.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Rollins College, Winter Park Fl., January 1995 to December 2010. Prepare and teach classes on Vietnamese culture, the Vietnam War, Human Evolution, Society, Biology and Culture and Applied Anthropology, Refugees, Environmental Studies Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida, August - 1994 to August 1999. Prepare and teach Human Species and Evolution (an Introduction to Biological Anthropology), Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, Peoples of the World (a class in comparative social organization), Indians of the Southeast United States, Indians of the North American High Plains, World Prehistory Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Florida, 1994. Prepared and taught an Introduction to Applied Anthropology course during Summer A term (May 9 - June 17). Instructor for Introduction to Anthropology course, Department of Social Science Sante Fe Community College, Gainesville, Florida, August-December 1993, January-April 1994. Teaching Assistant for Biological Anthropology Department of Anthropology University of Florida, January 1990-January 1991, August 1993-May 1994. Taught three laboratory sections, created and graded exams, read and graded student research papers, advised students. Teaching Assistant for Human Sexuality Department of Anthropology University of Florida, August-December 1990. Taught three discussion sections, created and graded exams, read and graded student research papers, advised students. Teaching Assistant for Cultural Anthropology, Department of Anthropology University of Florida 1987-88. Taught three discussion sections, created and graded exams, read and graded student research papers, advised students. TEACHING EXPERIENCE: MODES OF INSTRUCTION Face-to-face, Mixed-mode (online and face-to-face), Webclasses
PUBLICATIONS: "The Reintegration of the Border Khmer: The Critical Issues and Factors Affecting the Repatriation and Reintegration of the Khmer Refugees from the Thai- Cambodian Border." in Between Hope and Insecurity: The Social Consequences of the Cambodian Peace Process. Edited by Peter Utting. The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva. 1995 "Refugee Cognitive Expectations and Sociocultural Change Theory." in Selected Papers on Refugee Issues 1993, MaryCarol Hopkins and Nancy Donnelly Eds, Committee on Refugee Issues, American Anthropological Association, 1994. PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS: Current State of Refugees Guest lecture, Central Florida Anthropological Society, April 20, 2017 Panel participant at the Global Migrant Crisis: Challenges and Solutions at Central Florida State College, March 2, 2016 Teaching Religion from an Anthropological Perspective presentation at the annual conference of the International Society for the Social Studies, Orlando Florida, February 26, 2016 Native American Religion of the Southeast. Lecture for the Kissimmee Valley Archaeological and Historical Conservancy meeting, February 19, 2015. American Zombies: The Convergence of Cultural Narratives and Imagined Revitalization in American Culture Walking Dead The High Noon Episodes October 1, 2013, paper submitted to the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory special issue on the cultural and political life of zombies. American Culture Confronts the Global: Deconstructing American Culturally Constructed Enemies and the Consequences for Policy paper presented at the Globalization, Information, Policy and Knowledge Production 2013 International conference. University of Central
Florida, Orlando, Florida, February 21-24, 2013. What Anthropology Can Teach About Economic Crises Past, Present and Future. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Society for Economic Anthropology, Notre Dame, March 11-13 2011. Don t Make Me Have to Kill Ya : Human Terrain Systems and The New Indian Scouts. Southern Anthropological Society Annual Meetings, Wilmington North Carolina, March 12 14 2009. A Culture of Preparedness? Or the Culture of Me, Myself and I Against the Hurricane. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Tampa, March 2006. Red People, Blue People and Schizmogenesis. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of Southern Anthropological Society, Chattanooga, TN, March 2004. American Cultural Narratives and Crisis. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Ethnological Society, Charleston South Carolina, April 2004. Real Culture, Virtual People: A Method for Teaching the Importance of Culture to Undergraduates. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Atlanta Georgia March 7, 2002. Legible Spaces Make Legible Faces: The Construction of Legible People Through Place. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Merida Mexico, March 17, 2001. Stuck in Stage Two: Integrating the Scudder-Colson Model and Chamber s Integrated Rural Poverty in Refugee Resettlement. Paper Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Tuscon AZ, April 1998. "Getting Stuffed," or "A House is Not Always a Home," : The Over-Emphasis on the Material and the Under-Emphasis of the Interpersonal in the Repatriation and Reintegration of Khmer Refugees. Presented at the Annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 28-April 2, 1996, Albuqurque New Mexico.
The Philippine Refugee Processing Center: How It Worked and Why. Paper Presented at the National Symposium on Refugees, San Antonio Texas, September 27-29, 1995. Issues and Factors Affecting the Repatriation and Reintegration of the Khmer Refugees from the Thai- Cambodian Border." Presented at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) sponsored Workshop on the Social Consequences of the Peace Process in Cambodia in Geneva April 29-30, 1993. "Refugee Cognitive Expectations and Sociocultural Change Theory." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, December 2-6, 1992 "Stress, Coping and Learning: An Analysis of the Scudder-Colson Model." Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Memphis, March 25-29, 1992 "Culture, Learning and Human Motivation: A Theory." Presented at the 56th annual meeting of the Florida Academy of Sciences, Orlando, Florida, March 12-14, 1992 "Case Studies of Refugee Initiative in the PRPC." Presented to the Inter-Management Meeting of the International Catholic Migration Commission ESL/CO Program in the Philippine Refugee Processing Center, July, 1991. "Factors affecting Refugee Independence In A Refugee Camp" Presented at the 50th Annual Meeting the Society for Applied Anthropology, Charleston, South Carolina, March 13-17, 1991. "Dependence or Independence? Refugees in the Philippine Refugee Processing Center." Presented the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 28, 1990 "Patterns of Vietnamese Refugee Adaptation in the Philippine Refugee Processing Center." Paper presented at the first Bataan Conference on Language and Culture, Philippine Refugee
Processing Center, Bataan, Philippines, Feb. 14 1990 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE: Consultant to the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Cambodia, 1992. Conducted research on how the policies and programs implemented in the repatriation of Khmer refugees from Thailand affected the refugee's reintegration into Cambodia. Consultant to the International Catholic Migration Commission, Cambodia, 1992. Conducted a community study of Tapoung village and the Tamoeun refugee resettlement site. Dissertation research, August 1988-July 1990. Conducted research on the adaptation of Vietnamese refugees in the Philippine Refugee Processing Center. Research methods included participant observation, formal and informal interviews and statistical analysis of the population. DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE: AWARDS: Peace Corps Volunteer, Papua New Guinea 1982-3. Developed and managed a piggery, cattle project and gas station for Kagua High School in the Southern Highlands Province. Also maintained accounting records and purchased supplies for the school. Supervised four employees in maintaining the school's facilities and businesses Recipient of a University of Florida Graduate School Social Sciences and Humanities Fellowship, 1993. APPENDIX: CLASSES TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE LEVEL: 1. Cultural Anthropology (FTF, Web) 2. Applied Anthropology 3. Human Species/Evolution 4. A Cultural War: The Cultural Basis of the Vietnam War
5. General Anthropology (FTF, Web) 6. Peoples of the World (FTF, Web) 7. Society, Biology and Culture 8. Indians of the Southeast United States (FTF, Web) 9. Anthropological Perspectives on Love and Marriage 10. Old World Prehistory 11. Indians of the North American High Plains 12. Integrating Plants and People 13. INT 200: Us and Them, East Meets West 14. Ethnography of North American Indians (FTF, Web) 15. Sex Gender and Culture (FTF, Web) 16. Special Topics (with Sociologist) American Culture 17. Environmental Ethics 18. Medical Anthropology 19. Environmental Planning 20. Magic Ritual and Belief (FTF, Web) 21. Conservation of Natural Resources 22. Ideology of Music (Honors) 23. Peoples of Southeast Asia 24. Cultures of the World 25. Environmental Anthropology 26. Anthropology of Globalization 27. Applied Anthropology Seminar 30. History of Anthropological Thought 31. Native American Religion (FTF,Web) 32. Anthropology of American TV (Honors) 33. Seminar in Cultural Anthropology (Graduate) 34. Anthropological Perspectives on Refugees (FTF, Web)