Sarah Keene Meltzoff
(305)421-4085 (Office) 421-4675 (FAX)
152 N. E. 93rd St., Miami Shores, FL 33138
Associate Professor, Division of Marine Affairs and Policy
Secondary Appointment Anthropology Department
US Citizen
EDUCATION
1982 Ph.D. Columbia University, Anthropology
1977 M.A. Columbia University, Anthropology
1972 B.A. Connecticut College, New London
FIELD LANGUAGES
Spanish, Neo-Melanesian, Sa'a (Austronesian)
EMPLOYMENT
6/04-ongoing Associate Professor, Marine Affairs and Policy
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science;
Secondary appointment Anthropology Department, University of Miami.
3/89-5/04 Chair and Associate Professor Marine Affairs and Policy Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science; Secondary appointment Anthropology Department, University of Miami
8/84-3/89 Acting Chair and Assistant Professor (2/86 - 9/86 and 11/88 - 3/89), Marine Affairs, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science; secondary appointment Anthropology Department, University of Miami.
11/81-11/84 President, Biped Institute, a not-for-profit, tax-exempt research institution for Third World issues.
MAJOR PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Meltzoff, S. K. and D. Quiroga. The Wild West of Galapagos: The
formation of Isabela Oceanographic Institute in the Context of Participatory
Management. In Preparation
Meltzoff, S. K. Transformation Along the Water’s Edge from Patagonia to Paracas: An Ethnographic Tale of Charismatic Characters and an Anthropology of Compassion. Book manuscript undergoing edits.
McManus, L.T. And S. K. Meltzoff. Adaptive Management: A
Participatory Framework for a Fisheries Management System.
In preparation.
2005 Meltzoff, S.K., M. Lemons, L. Asfour, G. Guardia-Montoya, and R. Gonzales. Sustaining El Niño-Induced Scallop Booms with Aquaculture: Livelihood Transitions of Artisanal Fishing People in the Paracas National Reserve, Peru. Journal of Culture and Agriculture 27(1):1-15.
2002 Meltzoff, S. K., W. Stotz, and Y. G. Lichtensztajn. Competing Visions for Marine Tenure and Co-Management: Genesis of a Marine Management Area System in Chile. Journal of Coastal Management 30:85-99.
2001 Meltzoff, S.K. and M. Lemons, Y. G. Lichtensztajn. Voices of a Natural Prison: Tourism Development and Fisheries Management Among the Political Ghosts of Pisagua, Chile. Journal of Political Ecology 8:45-80.
1999 Guest Editor with Pricilla Weeks for a Special Volume of Culture and Agriculture 21(3).
1999 Meltzoff, S.K. and J. Schull. Miskito Ethnic Struggle over Land and Lobster: Conserving Culture and Resources on Corn Island. Culture and Agriculture 21(3):10-18.
1997 Meltzoff, S. K. Beneath the Veneer of Paradise; The Struggle over Cuban Ethnic Identity and Place in Key West. Ecumene 4 (2):139-160.
1997 LiPuma, E., and S.K. Meltzoff. The Crosscurrents of Ethnicity and Class in the Construction of Public Policy. American Ethnologist 24(1):114-131.
1995 Meltzoff, S.K. Marisquadoras of the Shellfish Revolution: The Rise of Women in Co-Management on Illa de Arousa, Galicia. Journal of Political Ecology 2: 20-38.
1994 LiPuma, E. and S.K. Meltzoff. Economic Mediation and Power of Associations: Toward a Concept of Encompassment. With Edward LiPuma. American Anthropologist 96: 31-51.
1990 LiPuma, E. and S. K. Meltzoff. Ceremonies of Independence and Public Culture in the Solomon Islands. Public Culture 3:77-92.
1989 LiPuma, E. and S. K. Meltzoff. Towards a Theory of Culture and Class: An Iberian Example. American Ethnologist 16(2): 313-334.
1986 Meltzoff, S. K. and E. LiPuma. The social and political economy of CZM: shrimp mariculture in Ecuador. Journal of Coastal Zone Management 14 (4): 349-380.
1986 Meltzoff, S. K. and E. LiPuma. The Social Economy Coastal Resources: Shrimp Mariculture in Ecuador. Culture and Agriculture 28 (Winter 85/86): 1-10.
1986 Meltzoff, S. K. and E. LiPuma. The Troubled Seas of Spanish Fishermen: Marine Policy and the Economy of Change. American Ethnologist 13(4): 681-699.
1986 Meltzoff, S. K. and E. LiPuma. Hunting for tuna and cash in the Solomons: a rebirth of artisanal fishing in Malaita. Human Organization 45(1): 53-62.
1985 Meltzoff, S. K. and E. LiPuma. The Social Organization of a Solomons-Japanese Joint Venture: Japanese Multinational Management in a Melanesian Context. Oceania 56(2): 85-105.
1980 T. Stocker, S. K. Meltzoff and S. Amsey. Crocodilians
and Olmecs: Further Interpretations in Formative Period Iconography.
Anthropological Literature, Harvard University. American Antiquity
45 (4):740-758.
OTHER MAJOR WORKS AND PUBLICATIONS
2003 Meltzoff, S.K. Culebra Offshore Cage Aquaculture
Political Ecology Report on Potential Social Change. NOAA/UPR.
2000 Meltzoff, S. K., Nylon Nets and National Elites: Alata System of Marine Tenure Among the Lau of Fanalei Village, Port Adam Passage, Small Malaita, Solomon Islands". Invited Chapter in Durrenberger, E. Paul, and Thomas D. King, eds. 2000. State and Communityin Fisheries Management: Power, Policy, and Practice. Westport, CT:Greenwood Publishing. 69-82
1998 Meltzoff, S. K. Faces of Fishing: People, Food and the Sea at the Beginning of the Twenty First Century, by Bradford Matsen. Book Review. Bulletin of Marine Science. 62(1): 96.
1997 Meltzoff, S. K. Gulf Coast Soundings: People and Policy in the Mississippi Shrimp Industry, by E. Paul Durrenberger. Book Review. American Antrhopologist,. 99(4): 845-846.
1997 Meltzoff, S. K., K. Broad, C. Martinez. ENSO and Chilean Fisheries: A Case Study in Social Complexity. ENSO Signal, NOAA. Issue 6 (February).
1996 Meltzoff, S. K. The Fish Factory, by Barbara Garrity-Blake. Book Review. American Ethnologist.
1993 Meltzoff, S. K. It's All Politics: Alabama's Seafood Industry, by E. Paul Durrenberger. Book Review. Journal of Anthropological Research. 49(4): 845-846.
1992 Meltzoff, S. K. Chasing Galicia: An Anthropologist Decodes the Life and Customs of Coastal Spain. Sea Frontiers. December: 14-25.
1989 Meltzoff, S.K. Deep Water: Development and Change in Pacific Village Fisheries. by Margaret Rodman . Book Review. Bulletin of Marine Science. 45(3): 713.
1987 Meltzoff, S. K. Prehistory in the Pacific Islands: A study of variation in language, customs, and human biology, by J. Terrell. Book Review. Journal of Asian Studies. 46(4): 949-950.
1987 Meltzoff, S. K. and LiPuma, E. The New England Fishing Economy, by P. B. Doeringer. Book Review. Contemporary Sociology. 16(6): 804-805.
1987 Meltzoff, S. K. Lethal Dance. Dominance, Aggression and War. Diane McGuiness (ed). NY: Plenum. 201-215.
1985 LiPuma, E. and S. Meltzoff. Panorama comparativo de los sistemas pesqueros español y japones: una perspectiva antropologica. El Campo, No. 97: 106-111.
1985 Meltzoff, S. K. and E. LiPuma. The Spanish Fisheries and the Common Fisheries Policy of the EEC. Industrias Pesqueras, Vigo.
1983 Meltzoff, S. K. and E. LiPuma. A Japanese Fishing Joint
Venture: Worker Experience and National Development in the Solomon Islands.
ICLARM Technical Report 12.
FELLOW, BOARD MEMBER, AND NATIONAL JOURNALS AND PANELS
Isabella Oceanographic Institute, Galapagos (IOI), Director
Journal of Sustainability Science: Practice & Policy (ejournal.nbii.org),
Associate Editor
Political Ecology Society, Board Member
Society for Applied Anthropology, Fellow
American Anthropological Association, Fellow
Marine Affairs and Policy Association, former Board Member
Gulf of Mexico Management Council, former Member Scientific Socioeconomic
Assessment Panel
GRANTS
N.d. Participatory Management: A Framework for Coastal Management
in Galapagos and the Philippines. In preparation.
2003-4 Adaptive Management: A Framework for an Artisanal Fisheries
Management System Pilot and Gap Analysis.
Carnegie Mellon University Pilot
Co-PI
2002-3 NOAA - University of Puerto Rico, National Marine Aquaculture
Initiative: Environmental and Social Impact of Sustainable Offshore
Cage Culture Production in Puerto Rican Waters
1999-01 NOAA, Human Dimensions of Global Change, NA67RJ70149
PI
1996-00 National Science Foundation , NMIA PI
1995-01 NOAA, Human Dimensions of Global Change, NA37RJ0200 &
NA67RJ0149 Co-PI
1992 National Science Foundation DUE-9251825 PI
1992 Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant, National Marine Fisheries
Service
1989-91 National Science Foundation, BNS-8817995 PI
1988-90 Florida Sea Grant, NA89AA-D-SG053 PI
1987-88 Florida Sea Grant, NA86AA-D-SG068 PI
1987 University of Miami Research Council Faculty Grant PI
1986 World Wildlife Fund Grant Co-PI
1985-86 National Science Foundation, BNS-8506782 PI
1985 University of Miami Research Council Faculty Grant
PI
FELLOWSHIPS
1986-87 McKnight Foundation Fellowship
1978-80 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
1978-80 ICLARM Fellowship
1978 Fulbright-Hays Fellowship (awarded but unable to accept
funding)
1976-77 President's Fellowship, Columbia University
1972-73 Thomas J. Watson Traveling Fellowship
MAJOR FIELDWORK
12/04 and 12/05 Bhutan Exploratory Field Work
1/06 & 5-6/05 Isabela, Galapagos National Park, Ecuador. Understanding participatory management alternatives to fisheries. with Universidad de San Francisco de Quito.
7-8/04 Phang Nga, Thailand and Palawan, Philippines. Adaptive Management Gap Analysis Pilot. (Carnegie Mellon Grant)
5/04 Isabela, Galapagos National Park, Ecuador. Adaptive Management Gap Analysis Pilot and Creation of MOU with Universidad de San Francisco de Quito. (Carnegie Mellon Grant)
5/03 Galapagos National Park, Ecuador. Adaptive Management Pilot and Establishing linkages with Universidad de San Francisco de Quito
4/03 Culebra, Puerto Rico. Offshore cage culture’s potential for social change and community development. (NOAA Grant)
8-9/02 Phang Nga Bay, Thailand and Ulugan Bay, Palawan, Philippines. Adaptive Management Pilot Study. (NCORE)
10-11/01 Paracas, Peru. Social-political change in given El Nino Events and the push for aquaculture development in Peru. (NOAA Grant)
9-10/00 Paracas, Peru. Social-political change given El Nino Events and the push for aquaculture development in Peru. (NOAA Grant)
8/00 Chile. Socio-political change in Chilean Fisheries
in Relation to
ENSO Events. (NSF Grant)
9-12/98, Chile. Socio-political change in Chilean Fisheries
in Relation to
9-12/99 ENSO Events. (NSF Grant)
9-12/97 Chile. El Niño and social change in the fishing
industry
10-12/96 (NOAA Grant)
3/98, 3/97 Atlantic Coast, Nicaragua. Miskito and Creole
ethnic conflict in
3/96, 5/96 the lobster fisheries.
9/95 Sulawesi, Indonesia. Co-management of coral reefs in Bunaken National Marine Park. With Suraya Affif, US AID fellow.
7-8/95 North Chile. El Niño and social change in the fishing industry. (NOAA Grant)
5/93 Yucatan. Women in tournament sportfishing.
9/92 Ponphei. Socio-economics of sponge mariculture. (Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant)
12/91 Spain and Brussels. Socio-economics of Mariculture in Illa de Arousa, Galicia, Spain. (National Science Foundation)
6/89-5/91 Spain and Brussels. Development of an alternative theory of the relationship between culture and class, focusing on the transformation of Galician fishing communities. (National Science Foundation)
9/88-6/90 Florida Keys. Inquiry into the ethnic and class relations structuring land development and tourism. (Florida Sea Grant)
6/88-8/88 Solomon Islands. Collection of data on political and economic development, and the birth of a Solomon Island national identity in the decade since independence.
6/87-9/87 Brussels and Spain. Study of the transformation of Common Fisheries Policy given Spain's impact. (McKnight Foundation and University of Miami Research Council).
10/87-3/88 Florida Keys. Inquiry into the ethnic and class relations structuring land development and tourism. (Florida Sea Grant).
10/86-4/87 Florida Keys. Examination of the connection between class, ethnicity, occupation, and the underlying social dimensions of conservation and fisheries management. (McKnight Foundation).
6/85-9/86 Spain and Canary Islands. Study of the impact of industrialization, focusing on the social economy of Spain's fishing sector. (National Science Foundations).
4/86 Ecuador. Social and economic analysis of hatchery development and restructuring of the shrimp industry due to the seed crisis of 1985. (Artemia Ecuador - Contract to RSMAS) PI
2/85-3/85 Ecuador.Social and economic analysis of shrimp mariculture and deforestation. (University of Miami Research Council).
10/84 Sri Lanka. Review of the 1981 Coast Conservation Act and the political organization of coastal resource management (RSMAS).
12/83-7/84 Spain and Morocco. Investigation of Law of the Sea's import on Spanish fishing Communities utilizing Moroccan waters. (BIPED)
10/78-12/80 Indo-Pacific. Analysis of the impact of a Japanese fisheries multinational on Solomon Islands national and local level development multi-level two year study. (Rockefeller Foundation and ICLARM)
8/73-12/73 Bismark Mts., Highlands, Papua New Guinea. Analysis of exchange system and warfare. (Thomas .J. Watson Foundation)
1/73-7/73 Sa'a and Fanalei, Small Malaita, Solomons. Village analysis of socialization and social change. P.I. (Thomas .J.Watson Foundation)
9/70-1/71 Totonicapan, Western Highlands, Guatemala. Analysis of Mayan market behavior.(Instituto Nacional de Historia y Antropologia)
6/70-8/70 Tula Chica Mexico. Analysis of achiological data and comparative field trip to classic Mayan site. (Instituto Nacional de Historia y Antropologia)
6/69-2/70 Ribeand Drengsted, Denmark. Late Iron Age excavations.(University of Copenhagen)
COURSES
Committed to teaching, I provide these five courses on an annual basis. My student rapport, mentoring and teaching evaluations are consistently excellent.
MSC 419 Field Course in Galapagos 3 cr. Spring 2006-ongoing.
MAF 505 Field Course in Coastal Cultures (initially MSC 411) 3 cr. (Spring 1986-ongoing) Spring course annually scheduled as core for MA in MAF, and as a graduate level course recommended for undergraduate MAF and APY majors.
MAF 506 Advanced Field Course 3 cr. for graduate students, or advanced undergraduate with MAF 505 as the prerequisite.
MAF 501 Political Ecology of Marine Resources
3 cr.
Spring course annually scheduled as graduate core for MA in MAF;
core for undergraduate MAF; recommended for APY majors.
APY 202 Introduction to Anthropology 3 cr. Taught alternate spring semesters with APY 398. A number of students from this class go on to take APY 398.
APY 398 Coastal Cultures (initially APY 300) 3 cr. Spring course offered alternate years with APY 202. It is scheduled as undergraduate MAF core; recommended for APY majors and other MSC majors. MSC cross-listed.
ADDITIONAL COURSES
APY 502 Continuing Studies, Ethnographic Fieldwork in Southeast
Asia and Galapagos 3-6 cr. (Summer1998-ongoing)
MSC 412 Continuing Studies, Galapagos Fieldwork, 3-6 cr. (Summer
2003-ongoing)
MAF 575 Continuing Studies, Culture and Colonialism, 3 cr. (Spring
1991)
MAF 576 Community Development and Cultural Values in Modern Society:
The Outward Bound Experience, 3 cr. (Intersession 1992)
MAF 670 Social Economy of Aquaculture
3 cr. (Spring 1986)
Marine Science Summer Scholar Program (Summer 1991)
Current Teaching
Political Ecology Fieldwork in Coastal Cultures Coastal Cultures Fieldwork in Anthropology
Summer 2005, Fieldwork to Galapagos
Contact
Dr. Sarah K Meltzoff
RSMAS/MAF
University of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami FL 33149-1098 USA
Telephone: 305/361-4087
FAX: 305/361-4675
smeltzoff@rsmas.miami.edu