Stephen J. Fjellman, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, The Honors College
Professor, Sociology & Anthropology Department
Florida International University

Dr. Fjellman is a post postmodernist, seeking some understanding in the world without throwing up his hands in random dismay. When pressed, he claims to be an anthropologist. His most important field site is World Disney World. He is a member of the Church of Baseball, the Mickey Mouse Club, and the Fellowship of the Ecology of Mind. He has published in 11 fields and subfields, among them linguistic, mathematical, psychological, and social anthropology, social theory, African Studies, culture studies, science fiction studies, technology studies, American studies, and Disney Studies. Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America is worth reading. Among his works is A Little Baseball Music: Journey to the Heartland, available at this website. He has won all the teaching awards available at the University and his main life interest is in undergraduate education. He is Associate Dean of the Honors College and Director of the Honors College Study Abroad Program in Italy.

EDUCATION:
     Ph.D., Anthropology, 1971 : Stanford University
     B.A., Anthropology, 1965 : Yale University

TEACHING:
    1990-Present : Professor, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, FIU
    1978-1990 : Associate Professor, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, FIU
    1971-1978 : Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard

BOOKS:
    1992 Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America. Westview Press

UNPUBLISHED BOOKS:
    1991 A Little Baseball Music: Journey to the Heartland.
    1978 Some in the Family: An Essay on American Families and Culture.

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

1992 Taming the Robot: The Bird and the Robot at Walt Disney World, Science as Culture, Vol. 3, Part I (No. 14), pp. 6-24.

1986 Prescience and Power: God Emperor of Dune and the Intellectuals, Science Fiction Studies, 13:1, pp. 50-63.

1985 Haitian Family Patterns of Migration to South Florida, with Hugh Gladwin, Human Organization, 44:4, pp. 301-312.

1984 A Prince by Any Other Name? Identity and Politics in Highland Cameroon, American Ethnologist 11:3. pp. 473-486. (with Miriam Goheen).

1984 What Ramanujan Didn't Say: Sociology and the Discourse of Order, Current Perspective in Social Theory, Vol. 5. pp. 101-119.

1977 The Akamba Domestic Cycle As Markovian Process, American Ethnologist 4:4, pp. 699-713.

1976 Natural and Unnatural Decision-Making: A Critique of Decision Theory, Ethos 4:1. pp. 73-94.

1976 Talking About Talking about Residence: An Akamba Case, American Ethnologist 4:4, pp. 699-713.