Andre Simic, Professor

Department of Anthropology
Grace Ford Salvatori Hall, Room 129
3601 Watt Way
Los Angeles, CA 90089
Phone: (213) 740-1901
E-mail: asimic@usc.edu
Personal Web Site: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~asimic/

Research

Ethnography of Europe (with a focus on the Balkans and East Europe; Ethnography of Latin America; Ethnicity and Nationalism; American Ethnic Groups; Social Gerontology; Applied Anthropology; and Visual Anthropology

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Bio

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Education

Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley; 1970

M.A. in Social Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley; 1969

B.A. in Slavic Languages and Literature, Minor in Romance Languages, University of California, Berkeley; 1954

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Recent Publications

2001 "Bulgaria: The Quest for Security" (with Yulian Konstantinov) The Anthropology of Eastern Europe Review 19(2): 21-34.

2000 Nationalism as a Folk Ideology: The Case of the Former Yugoslavia" In J.M. Halpern and D.A. Kideckel (eds.), Neighbors at War: Anthropological Perspectives on Yugoslav Ethnicity, Culture and History. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. Pp. 103-115.

1995 Human Sexuality (co-edited with Patricia Omidian and Alan Almquist). Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt

1994 Readings in Anthropology (co-edited with Eugene Cooper). Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt

Life's Career--Aging: Cultural Variations on Growing Old (co-edited with Barbara Myerhoff). Beverly Hills: Sage Publications

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Courses Taught

Introduction to Social Anthropology
Exploring Culture Through Film
Eastern European Culture through Feature Films
Ethnographic Film Theory from a Historical Perspective
Special Area Studies: Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Mexico, N. America
History of Anthropological Theory
Urban Anthropology
Urban Images: Studen Fieldwork in Los Angeles
The American Ethnic Experience
The Cultural and Ethnic Dimensions of Medicine
Peasant Societies
Visual Anthropology: Stills
Graduate Seminar: Ethnographic Film Production and Analysis
Graduate Seminar: Ethnographic Film
Graduate Seminar: Urban Anthropology
Graduate Seminar: Anthropological Media
Graduate Seminar: Nationalism and Ethnicity

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Awards and Honors

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Professional Memberships

The North American Society for Serbian Studies
The Association for Balkan Anthropology
The Union of Serbian Writers, Belgrade
The East European Anthropology Group

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