Professor of Anthropology, the Ralph Hale Ruppert Distinguished Professor of American History, Principles and Traditions, and Chair
of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8324

E-mail: AxelrodP@ripon.edu

Education

• Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• M.A., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• B.A., George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Awards and Honors

• Ralph Hale Ruppert Distinguished Professor of American History, Principles and Traditions, 2002
• Wenner-Grenn Foundation Grant (with Jim Laine) to support the IXth International Conference on Maharashtra, Macalester College, 2000
• American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Research Fellow, 1996
• Fulbright Fellowship for teaching and research in India, 1989
• Severy award for excellence in teaching, Ripon College, 1985 and 1994
• NEH Summer Seminar: "Anthropological Models in South Asian History," University of Chicago, 1978

Areas of Interest

• India
• Native Americans
• Ethnohistory
• Globalization

Recent Publications

• "Common Ground: Risk, Scarcity and Shared Resources in Goan Agriculture," "Human Ecology," February 2006.
• "Imagined Communities: Portuguese Colonialism and Goa's Villages," "Portuguese Studies Review" (co-authored with Michelle Fuerch) IX:466-293, 2001
• "Listening to the Text: The Many Voices of the Goa Archives in Fourth Centenary Volume of the Goa Archives," Ed. S. K. Mhamai. Panaji: Directorate of Archives and Archaeology, 2001. (co-authored with Michelle Fuerch). 476.
• "Portuguese Orientalism and the Making of the Village Communities of Goa," "Ethnohistory" (co-authored with Michelle Fuerch) 43:439-476. 1998
• "Structuring Diversity: The Revitalization of Morisco Identity," in "Mediterranean Perspectives," pp. 151-163 (with Michelle Fuerch). 1997
• "Flight of the Deities: Hindu Resistance in Portuguese Goa," "Modern Asian Studies" (co-authored with Michelle Fuerch) 30:387-420. 1995
• "Cultural and Historical Factors in the Population Decline of the Parsis of India," "Population Studies" 44:401-419. 1990

Current Courses Taught

• Anthropology 110 Introduction to Anthropology
• Anthropology 175 Asian Cultural Studies: Asia Through Texts
• Anthropology 213 Human Origins
• Anthropology 217 Society in India
• Anthropology 226 Indians of North America
• Anthropology 316 Nature of Culture
• Anthropology 402 Senior Seminar