Daniel Reichman : Faculty & Staff : Department of Anthropology : University of Rochester

Professor Reichman received his MA and PhD in sociocultural anthropology from Cornell University. Before coming to Rochester, he taught at Brandeis University. His research focuses on cultural responses to economic change, especially the anthropology of globalization in Latin America.

He has conducted field research in Honduras since 2001, focusing on emigration to the United States, the coffee industry, and evangelical religion. His dissertation, Broken Idols: Migration, Globalization, and Cultural Change in Honduras was completed in 2006.

Professor Reichman's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Cornell International Institute for Food and Development. He recently contributed to the United Nations Human Development Report for Honduras, and is currently preparing a manuscript based on his dissertation work.

Curriculum Vitae

2002 M.A., Cornell University

2006 PhD, Cornell University

Fellowships and Awards

2008 - Kauffman Faculty Research Grant, Center for Entrepreneurship, University of Rochester

2002 - National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

2001 - US Department of Education FLAS Fellowship

1998 - Phi Beta Kappa, Charles H. Holzinger Anthropology Award, Franklin and Marsall College

List of Current Courses

ANT 224 Anthropology of Development
ANT 291 Research Methods: Doing Anthropology

List of Past Courses

ANT 104 Contemporary Issues and Anthropology
ANT 292 Senior Seminar

Publications

2008	“Justice at a Price: Regulation and Alienation in the Global Coffee Trade” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. Spring 2008.
2006	United Nations Human Development Report for Honduras Contributed to Chapter on Migration and Social Citizenship
Book Review	Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle: Reflections on the Disciplining of Anthropology (Daniel Segal and Sylvia Yanagisako, eds.) Journal of Latin American Anthropology 11:1 (January 2006)

Research

My research focuses on a few broad questions: How can we understand culture and society in global terms when human behavior is shaped by the immediate relationships and everyday circumstances in which people live? What are the theories, myths, or cultural frameworks that people use to think about their place in a totality called “the global market,” and how are these frameworks shaped by their own unique cultural situations?

My current book project, Broken Idols: Migration, Globalization, and Cultural Change in Honduras is an ethnography of a Honduran coffee-growing town in the midst of abrupt cultural change: The coffee economy is being replaced by emigration to the United States, and a new social order is emerging around the migrant economy. New religious movements, including Pentecostals and an anti-Pentecostal sect called Ministerio Internacional Creciendo en Gracia (Growing in Grace International Ministries) have challenged the dominance of the Catholic church. My work focuses on the ways that members of different social and political groups (in Honduras and the United States) articulate their changing relationship to the global economy. I explore how different forms of agency can inform the ways that social theorists think about globalization.