A MELIA R OSENBERG W EINREB
University of Texas at Austin
Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies
Phone (o): 512-232-2204; (h) 512-524-1848 amy.weinreb@austin.utexas.edu
May 2016
E
DUCATION
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Cultural Anthropology, with Graduate Certificate in Urban Studies
2007
BA Earlham College
Sociology & Anthropology, with minor in Spanish
A CADEMIC E MPLOYMENT
1995
P
Visiting Lecturer and Internship Coordinator, Glocal Community
Development Studies Program, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Lecturer, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, University of Texas,
Austin
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin
Postdoctoral Fellow, Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben-
Gurion University, Israel
2015-
2013-
2009-2012
2007-2009
PP UBLICATIONS
Book
2009 Weinreb A.R. Cuba in the Shadow of Change: Daily Life in the Twilight of the
Revolution. University Press of Florida. Reprint editions, 2010, 2012.
Reviewed in American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, and Latin
American Research Review
Articles and Reviews
Forthcoming: Jewish Cuba’s Contact Zone: Transnational Encounters in Havana’s Adath
Israel Synagogue” (Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology)
Forthcoming: Weinreb A.R. “The Jewish Community of Cuba: Memory and History”
Review in Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe
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2013 Weinreb A.R. and Y. Rofè “Mapping Feeling: An Approach to the Study of
Emotional Response to Built Environment and Landscape in the Negev,” Journal of
Architectural Planning and Research, volume 30(2): 127-146.
2010 Weinreb A.R. “Cuba: Religion, Social Capital and Development.” Review in
American Anthropologist. 112 (4): 668-669.
2008 Weinreb A.R “Race, FE (Faith) and Cuba’s Future" Transforming Anthropology
16(2): 168-172.
2008 Weinreb A.R. “Cuba: The Accidental Revolution" Expedition 50(1): 34.
2002 Weinreb A.R. and Francis E. Johnston “Linking Intellectual Resources and
Community Needs at the University of Pennsylvania: An Evaluation of the Kellogg
Program 1996-1999" Universities and Community Schools, 7(1-2): 29-47
In Preparation
Book Manuscript
Inscribing the Desert: An Ethnography of Landscape in a Negev Town (under advance contract with University of Texas Press).
Journal Articles (drafts available)
“Image, Narrative and Landscape in Israel’s Development Towns”
“Israel’s National Mythology of Desert Desolation and Redemption”
P RESENTATIONS
“Image, Narrative and Landscape in Israel’s Development Towns” Association for Israel
Studies, 31 st Annual Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, June 3, 2015.
“Mitzpe Ramon and Israel’s National Mythology of Desert Desolation and Redemption,”
Association for Israel Studies, 29 th Annual Conference, UCLA, June 25, 2013.
“Friday nights in Jewish Cuba,” Latin American Jewish Studies Association XVI
International Research Conference, Austin, TX, June 10, 2013
“Reassessing the Role of Development Towns in Mizrahi and Ashkenazi Relations in
Israel,” invited speaker, Conference on Israeli Social History, Temple University,
Philadelphia, April 30, 2013
Latino-Jewish Student Coalition Panelist, Center for Multicultural Engagement, UT
Austin, April 16, 2013
“Israel vs. Israel: Do Social, Economic and Religious Conflicts Threaten Israeli
Democracy?” panelist, Jewish Community Relations Council, Jewish Community
Center of Austin March 6, 2013
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“Tales from the Crossroads of Anthropology and Jewish Studies,” University Fellows
Speaker Series of the Texas Interdisciplinary Plan (TIP), March 5, 2012
“Absorbing Israel: Understanding Contemporary Multiculturalism and Nation-building in Ordinary Life,” Tapestry of Jewish Learning, Jewish Community Center of Austin,
January 27, 3013
“Development Towns: Reconsidering Life and Space in the ‘Other’ Israel,” Association for Israel Studies, 28 th Annual Conference, Haifa, Israel, June 25, 2012
“Postsocialist Ethnographies and the Legacy of Urban Space," Annual Meeting of the
American Anthropological Association Meetings, Montreal, November 17, 2011
“Mapping Feeling: An Approach to the Study of Emotional Response and Aesthetic
Preference,” Workshop, (Department of Sociology, February 25, 2011)
“Absorbing Israel: Understanding Contemporary Multiculturalism and Nation-building in Ordinary Life,” Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies Faculty-Student Seminar,
November 23, 2010
“Consuming Cuba: Urban Life, Digital Revolution, and Commodity Desire under Raúl”
108 th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia,
December 4, 2009
“Inscribing the Desert: Space, Place and Landscape in a Small Desert Town,” Seminar
#68, Department of Man in the Desert, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Jacob
Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Sde Boker, May 13, 2008)
“Shadow Public: Citizens and Consumers in Late Socialist Cuba,” Seminar #61,
Department of Man in the Desert, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Jacob
Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Sde Boqer, December 25, 2007
Co-Chair: “Socialist Pasts and Futures in Contemporary Asia, Africa and Latin America,”
106 th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC
November 29, 2007
“Trapped: Perspectives on Constraint in Late Socialist Cuba,” 106 th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC November 29, 2007
“Unsatisfied Citizen-Consumers in Late Socialist Cuba,” Colloquium, Department of
Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, January 22, 2007
“The Shadow Public: Citizen-Consumers in Cuba and Costa Rica,” Annual Meeting of the
Israeli Anthropological Association, Ashdod, June 8, 2006
“Perspectives on ‘Third World’ Consumption: Views from Latin America,” Guest Lecture,
Course on Consumption, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Haifa
University, May 8, 2006
“Unsatisfied Citizen-Consumers: Insights from Cuba and Costa Rica,” Invited Session:
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Public Interest Ethnography: Research, Practice and Action. 104 th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, December, 2005
Discussant: “Bridging Boundaries: Practicing Anthropologists as Cultural Brokers,”
104 th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC
December, 2005
“Citizenship, Consumption and the Welfare State: Ethnographic Insights from Cuba and
Costa Rica,” Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies Graduate
Student Conference, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, April 2005
Invited Panelist “Public Interest Ethnography,” Sociology Colloquium Series, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, April 2005
“Cuba and the Teenage Pregnancy ‘Epidemic’,” Cuban Research Institute 4 th Conference on Cuban and Cuban American Studies, Florida International University, Miami,
Florida, March 2002
Organizer, Special Event: “Survival Skills for Graduate Students and Young
Professionals: A Panel Exploring Job Opportunities Outside of Academia,” 100 th
Meeting of the American Anthropological Society, Washington, DC, November 2001
“Reviving Ethnography: Feminist Critiques of Science and Team Ethnographic
Research,” Invited Session: Feminist Critiques of Anthropological Practice: Reflections on Recent Trends, 99 th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association,
San Francisco, November 2000
“Public Interest Anthropology in the Global Context,” Guest Lecture, Franklin and
Marshall College, Department of Anthropology, October 1999
Discussant, “Defining a Public Interest Anthropology,” 97 th Annual Meeting of the
American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, December 1998
F ELLOWSHIP AND A WARDS
 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion
University, Israel, 2007-2009
 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Award for Field Research through Population Studies
Center, University of Pennsylvania, 2002
 Departmental Award for pilot research in Cuba, University of Pennsylvania, Summer,
2000
 W.K. Kellogg Foundation Fellowship, 1997-1998 & 1999-2000
 Ethnohistory Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2000
 Writing Across the University Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 1999 &
Spring 1999
 Department of Anthropology Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 1998
 W.K. Kellogg Grant for Independent Research, Summer 1998
P ROFESSIONAL E XPERIENCE
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Teaching
Hebrew University, Glocal Community Development Studies Program
● “Qualitative Research Methods” Fall, 2015
● “Gender and Development” Spring, 2016
University of Texas, Austin, Department of Anthropology
 “Latin American Anthropology and Ethnography” Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010,
Spring 2012, Fall 2012
 “Introduction to Cultural Anthropology-Honors” Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011,
Spring 2013
 “Urban Anthropology and Ethnography” Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Fall
2012
 “Multicultural Israel,” (new course) Spring 2011, Spring 2012
University of Texas, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies
 “Multicultural Israel,” Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Fall 2014
 “Introduction to Jewish Latin America” (new course) Fall 2013, Fall 2014
 “Jewish Cuba” (new course) Spring 2014, Spring 2015
 “Israel: Space, Place, Landscape” (new course) Spring 2014, Spring 2015
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anthropology
 Part-time Instructor: “Sex, Gender and Power,” Fall, 1999
 Part-time Instructor: “World Ethnography,” Fall, 1999
 Co-Instructor: “Nutrition, Health and Urban Schools,” Spring, 1999
Anthropological Fieldwork
Israel
Independent ethnographic research project on space, place and landscape in a small Negev desert town
Cuba
Independent ethnographic research project on lived experiences of socialist transition in Havana
2007-2009
Field visits
2010, 2011
2012,
1994, 2000,
2003, 2008
Costa Rica
Independent ethnographic research study of citizenship and consumption in Costa Rica's mixed economy
Malawi
Member of a University of Pennsylvania/University of Malawi qualitative research team that explored the impact of globalization on health practices
2003
1999
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USA
Conducted independent ethnographic fieldwork on pregnant and parenting teen mothers in North and Northeast Philadelphia in their homes, neighborhoods, clinics, schools and social service agencies.
1997- 1999
Research Projects
Assisted in design of final evaluation report of a five-year Universitywide grant; conducted interviews with faculty, students and staff of participating projects; wrote qualitative analysis section of final report for submission to the Kellogg Foundation
1999 - 2000
P ROFESSIONAL M EMBERSHIPS & S ERVICE
American Anthropological Association; Society for Latin American & Caribbean
Anthropology; Association for Jewish Studies; Latin American Jewish Studies Association,
Association for Israel Studies
Peer reviewer for: Oxford University Press; SUNY Press; Cengage Learning, Vanderbilt
University Press, Hebrew University Magnes Press, Journal of Urban Technology
L ANGUAGES
Native English, fluent Spanish, proficient Hebrew
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