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Full-time Faculty
Robert J. Shepherd
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Honors and International Affairs
Building X 203
2112 G Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052
Phone: (202) 994-6953
Fax: (202) 994-6097
E-mail: rshepher@gwu.edu
Education:
Ph.D., George Mason University
Expertise:
Tourism, cultural heritage issues, side effects of market changes in China
Background:
Bob Shepherd holds a B.A. in political science and history from the University of Delaware, an M.A. in history from Northeastern University, and a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from George Mason University. He began to teach courses at George Washington University in 2003, and was appointed an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Honors in 2006. Before this, Dr. Shepherd spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Nepal, three years teaching at a United Nations educational training institute in Beijing, China, and two years helping design and implement a national technical training program in Java, Indonesia. He has also led study-abroad programs to China and Tibet, and worked with the University of Virginia's "Semester at Sea" program.
Dr. Shepherd's work on tourism, cultural heritage issues, and the side effects of market changes in China has appeared in Southeast Asia Research, Consumption, Markets, and Culture,, the International Journal of Cultural Studies, and the Journal of Contemporary Asia, among other publications. His book, When Culture Goes to the Market: The Politics of Space, Place and Identity in an Urban Marketplace (Peter Lang) was published in 2008. His current research focuses on the privatization of public and communal space on Chinese university campuses, and the politics of cultural heritage programs. For the past two summers he has organized and led a GW study-abroad program in Beijing for the University Honors Program and the Department of Anthropology.
Courses Taught:
Anth 150 Human Rights and Ethics
Anth 151 Development Anthropology
Anth 175 East Asian Cultures
Anth 222 Anthropology of Tourism
Honr 15 Freshman Pro-Seminar
Honr 42 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Honr 175 Modernization and Development
Last update: 3/16/2009