Dr. Steven Edward Mizrach

PhD, University of Florida (Anthropology)

9375 Fontainebleau Blvd. Apt. L-218

Miami, Fl. 33172

Phone (305) 554-5697/ FAX (SAME)

Email: cyberanthro@earthlink.net

• The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. B.A., Spring, 1992.
• The University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. PhD, Anthropology, August, 1999.

Intern, Fall ’92 - Spring ’93

• Computer Consultant

Department of Anthropology, UF, Fall ’94 - Spring ’96

• MIS/Network Administrator

College of Business, BEBR Division, Fall ’96 - Spring ’97

• Teaching Assistant

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, UF, Fall ’98 - Spring ’99

• Adjunct Faculty/Lecturer

Florida International University Department of Sociology/Anthropology,

Nova Southeastern University Department of Social Science, Spring ‘00

Anthropology, cultural: specializations in sociology of knowledge; cognitive and psychological anthropology; anthropology of science, technology, and computing; visual anthropology.

Geographic areas of interest: Near East, Native North Americans (Plains, SW), Yucatan, Haiti

• Member, AAA Sections - Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness (SAC), Section for the study of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC)
• Member, SfAA, Advanced Technology as a Cultural Process Working Group

B’nai Brith Scholars Fellowship, awarded Fall ’93

• William "Troy" Simmons Leadership Award, MSL, Spring ’92
• Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, inducted Fall ’95

• Senior Thesis Project, Fall ’91, "The Social Structure of the JHU Physics Community," Supervisor: Dr. Emily Martin.
• Master’s research, Spring ’95, "The Electronic Discourse of the Computer Underground," publishable paper in lieu of thesis
• Dissertation, August ’99, "Natives on the Electronic Frontier: technology and cultural change on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation," published as ORTGE Electronic Thesis-Dissertation (ETD).

• TA for Intro to Cultural Anthropology, ANT 2410, UF, Fall ’98 - Spring ’99
• Teaching ANT 4451/ SYD 4700, U.S. Racial and Ethnic Minorities, FIU, Spring ’00

• "The Hacker’s Jargon: the Discourse of the Computer Underground," presented at the AAA, December ’94
• "Advancing the Purposes of Anthropology through Electronic Media," SfAA meetings, March ’95
• "Is There Music in (the) House?", Graduate Student Forum, UF, April ’95
• "What’s Virtual about Virtual Culture?", AAA meetings, December ’95
• "The Basis of the New Hacker Ethic," Florida Academy of Sciences (FAS) meeting, April ’96
• "Natives on the Electronic Frontier," AAA meetings, December ’98

• "Utopian Communities in the Symbolic Invention of America," Florida Journal of Anthropology, Summer ’95
• "Genius or Madness? The biosocial theory of creativity," Public Sector, Fall ’95.
• "TechGnosis," Computer-Mediated Communications Magazine, Spring ’97
• "Iterative Discourse and the Formation of New Subcultures," SfAoC Journal, Fall ’97.
• "Natives on the Electronic Frontier," in press

Maintain CyberAnthropology homepage, part of Cyberculture Studies webring, recognized as #1 in "Culture" category by I-Way Magazine

• "Alie(n)ation," short video (10 min.), shown at Margaret Mead Film Festival UF Student Video Exposition, February ’96.
• "Dances with Technology," short video (15 min.), shown at Harm Film Festival, October ’98.
• "Orange, Blue, and Out of Control: the UF Machine Intelligence Lab," short video (9 min.), shown at FUF Film Festival, April ’99.

• Merida UF Field School/Exchange Program in the Yucatan, Summer ’95
• Dissertation Fieldwork, Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, Fall ’97 - Spring ’98

• Read/Write/Speak Spanish, Hebrew; Speak Lakota, Kreyol
• Good computer skills, esp. multimedia, web design, and networking
• Videography and video editing (linear and nonlinear)
• Text analysis/media content analysis

• Past President, Florida Anthropology Student Association
• Member, Re:WIRED (Workshop for the Invention and Research of Electronic Discourse), STATIC (electronic art collective)
• Representative, Graduate Student Council
• Past Volunteer, Civic Media Center, Free Radio Gainesville
• Past Editor-in-Chief, Florida Journal of Anthropology (FJA)
• Past President, Florida Audiovisual Organization (FLAVOR)

• Dr. Allan Burns, Committee Chair, also Dept. Chair of Anthropology, UF
• Dr. H. Russell Bernard, Dr. Norman Markel, Dr. John Moore, Dr. Gregory Ulmer, diss. Committee members, professors, UF
• Dr. J. Bryan Page (Chair, Anthropology, University of Miami); Dr. Stephen Fjellman (Chair, Sociology/Anthropology, FIU)