CURRICULUM VITAE

 

J. TERRENCE McCABE

Current Address

 

Department of Anthropology

University of Colorado, 233 UCB

                     &

Environment and Behavior Program,

Institute of Behavioral Science

University of Colorado, 468 UCB

Boulder, Colorado 80309

Tel: 303 – 492 0583 (Anthropology); 303 – 492 0443 (IBS)

e- mail: tmccabe@Colorado.Edu

 

Education

 

1976 – 1985                State University of New York at Binghamton, Ph.D. Anthropology Dissertation Title: Social and Ecological Analysis of Herd Management among the Turkana of Kenya

 

1973 – 1976                State University of New York at Binghamton, M.A., Anthropology

 

1966 – 1970                University of Notre Dame B.A.

 

 

Academic Employment

 

Professor                                  University of Colorado at Boulder (2005 – present)

 

Associate Professor                  University of Colorado at Boulder (1994 – 2005)

 

Professional Staff                      Environment and Behavior Program, Institute of Behavioral

                                                Science, University of Colorado, Boulder

 

Acting Director             Environment and Behavior Program, Institute of Behavioral

                                                Science, University of Colorado, Boulder (1999 – 2002)

 

Associate Director                    Environment and Behavior Program, Institute of Behavioral

                                                Science, University of Colorado, Boulder (1995 – 1997)

 

Faculty Research Associate      Environment and Behavior Program, Institute of Behavioral

                                                Science, University of Colorado, Boulder (1989 – 1994)

 

Assistant Professor                   University of Colorado at Boulder (1989 - 1993)

 

Assistant Professor                   University of Georgia (1984 – 1989)

 

Research Interests:

 

Ecological Anthropology, Pastoral Nomadism, Demography and Land Use Change Economic Development, Arid Lands, Conservation, Sub-Saharan Africa, East Africa

 

Editorial Responsibilities:

 

            2003 – present             Editorial Board: Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal

 

            1994- 2003                  Associate Editor: Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

 

1995-present                Editorial Board. Nomadic Peoples

 

Publications:

 

Books:

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            2004    .           Cattle Bring Us to Our Enemies: Turkana Ecology, History, and Raiding in a Disequilibrium System University of Michigan Press.

           

            Dyson-Hudson, R. and J.T. McCabe

            1985                South Turkana Nomadism:  Coping with an Unpredictably Varying Environment.  Human Relation Area Files Books, 378 pages.

 

Monographs:

 

Brandt Steven, Spring Anita, Hiebsch Clifton, McCabe, J. Terrence, Tabogie Endale, Diro Mulugeta, Wolde-Michael Gizachew, Ynitso Gebre, Shigeta Masayoshi, and Tesfaye Shiferaw.

1998                The Tree Against Hunger: Enset Cultivation in Ethiopia.  Washington D.C. American Academy for the Advancement of Science.

 

Edited Volumes:

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence (guest editor)

            2003                Anthropology and Sustainability. Human Organization Vol. 62, no.31

 

            Fratkin, Elliot and McCabe, J. Terrence (guest editors)

            1999                East African Pastoralists at the Crossroads. Special Edition of the Journal  Nomadic Peoples Vol. 3, No. 2

 

 

 

 

 

Refereed Academic Articles and Book Chapters:

 

De Vries, D. H., P.W. Leslie, and J.T. McCabe

in press:            Livestock acquisition dynamics in nomadic pastoralist herd demography: a
case study among Ngisonyoka herders of South Turkana,
Kenya. Human Ecology

 

May, Ann and J. Terrence McCabe.

2004:               City Work in a Time of AIDS: Maasai Labor Migration in Tanzania. Africa Today Vol 51, No. 2: 3-32

 

McCabe, J. Terrence

            2003                Towards an Anthropological Understanding of Sustainability: A Preface. Human Organization. Vol. 62, no. 3: 91-92

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            2003                Sustainability and Livelihood Diversification among the Maasai of Northern Tanzania. Human Organization. Vol. 62, no 3: 100-111

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            2003                Disequilibrial Ecosystems and Livelihood Diversification among

                                    the Maasai of Northern Tanzania:  Implications for Conservation Policy in Eastern Africa. Nomadic Peoples  Vol. 7, No. 1, pp.74-91

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            2002                Conservation with a Human Face? Lessons from 40 years of Combining

                                    Conservation and Development in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area,

                                    Tanzania. In: Displacement, Forced Settlement and Conservation. Dawn

                                    Chatty ed. Oxford: Berghahn Books pp.61-76

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            2002                “The Role of Drought among the Turkana of Kenya”. In: Culture and

Catastrophe. Oliver-Smith, Anthony and Hoffman, Susanna, eds. School of American Research Press. pp. 213-236

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            2000.               “Patterns and Processes of Group Movement in Human Nomadic

                                    Populations: A Case Study of the Turkana of Northwestern Kenya”.

                                    In: On the Move: How and Why Animals Travel in Groups. Boinsky, Sue                                              and Garber, Paul eds. Chicago: Univ. Of  Chicago Press. pp. 649-677

 

            Fratkin, Elliot and McCabe, J. Terrence

            1999                “Introduction” to a special issue of Nomadic Peoples: East African                  Pastoralism at the Crossroads. Nomadic Peoples  Vol.3, No.2, pp.5-15

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence, Dyson-Hudson, Rada and Wienpahl, Jan

1999                "Nomadic Movements” In: Turkana Herders of the Dry Savanna: Ecology and biobehavioral response of nomads to an uncertain environment. Little, M.A. and Leslie, P.W. eds. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. pp. 109-121        

                       

 

            Little, M.A., Dyson-Hudson, R., and McCabe J. Terrence

            1999.               The Ecology of South Turkana. In: Turkana Herders of the Dry

Savanna: Ecology and biobehavioral response of nomads to an

uncertain environment. Little, M.A. and Leslie, P.W. eds. Oxford: Oxford

                                    Univ. Press. pp. 43-65

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1997                "Risk and Uncertainty among the Maasai of the Ngorongoro Conservation

                                    Area in Tanzania: A Case Study in Economic Change. Nomadic Peoples,

                                    Vol. 1, No. 1, pp.54-65

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1996.               "Markets, Regional Economies and Tribal Pastoralism: The Ngisonyoka

                                    Turkana of Kenya". In: Tribal and Peasant Pastoralism. Ugo Fabietti and

                                    Philip Salzman eds. Ibis Press, Italy. pp. 251-276

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1994.              "Pastoral Mobility: New Interpretations to Old Conceptual Problems."

                                    In African Pastoralist     Systems. Fratkin, Elliot, Eric Roth and

                                    Kathleen Galvin. eds. Boulder: Lynne Reiner Publishers. pp. 69-89

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

1994.               "The Failure to Encapsulate: Resistance to the Penetration of Capitalism by the Turkana of Kenya." In Pastoralists at the Periphery: Herders in a

Capitalist World. Claudia Chang and Harold Koster eds. Tucson: Univ. of

                                    Arizona Press. pp 309-327

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1993.               "From Swamps to Deserts: Anthropology and the Peace Corps in Africa."

                                    In: Anthropologists and the Peace Corps Experience. M.Warren and B.

                                    Schwimmer eds. Iowa State Univ. Press. pp. 186 - 195

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence, Perkin, S. and C. Schofield

            1992.               "Can Conservation and Development be Coupled among Pastoral People:

The Maasai of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania." Human Organization - Vol. 51, #4, pp. 353 - 366

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1991                "Livestock Development, Policy Issues, and      Anthropology in East Africa"

                                    In:  Anthropology and Food Policy: Human Aspects of Food Policy

in Africa and Latin America. McMillan, Della ed. University of Georgia

                                    Press. pp. 66-85

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1990.              "Turkana Pastoralism: A Case Against the Tragedy of the Commons."

                                     Human Ecology. Vol. 18, #1, pp. 81-103

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1990                "Success and Failure: The Breakdown of Traditional Drought Coping

                                    Institutions Among the Turkana of Kenya." Journal of Asian and           

African Studies. Vol. XXV, 3-4, pp. 146-160

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1987                “Drought and Recovery: Livestock Dynamics among the Ngisonyoka

                                    Turkana of Kenya."  Human Ecology. Vol. 15, #4, pp. 371-389

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1987                "Inter-Household Variation in Ngisonyoka Turkana Livestock Production."  Journal of Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 8, pp. 277-293

 

            Coughenour, M.B., J.E. Ellis, D.M. Swift, D.L. Coppock, K. Galvin, J.T.McCabe and             T.C. Hart

            1985                "Energy Extraction and Use in a Nomadic Pastoral Ecosystem."  Science, Vol. 230, No. 4726, pp.619-625

 

            Ellis, J.E., D.L. Coppock, J.T. McCabe, K. Galvin and J. Wienpahl

            1984                "Aspects of Energy Consumption in a pastoral ecosystem: Wood use by the South Turkana."  In C. Barnes and P. O'Keefe (eds.), Fuel wood Use in Kenya.  Uppsala, Sweden: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies. pp. 164-187

 

            Dyson-Hudson, R. and J.Terrence McCabe

            1983                "Water Uses and Livestock Movements in South Turkana, Kenya."  Nomadic Peoples.  Vol. 14, pp.41-46

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1983                "Land Use among the Pastoral Turkana."  Rural Africana:  15-16, 109-126.

 

 

Articles, Chapters in Other Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings

 

McCabe, J. Terrence, Mollel Naftali, and Tumainai Anna

             1997               "Food Security and the Role of Cultivation”       In: Multiple Land-Use: The

Experience of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania.

                                    Thompson, M. ed. IUCN, Gland Switzerland. pp. 397-416

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence, Schofield, E.C. and Pederson, G. Nygaard

             1997               "Food Security and Nutritional Status”. In: Multiple Land-Use: The

Experience of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania.

                                    Thompson, M. ed. IUCN, Gland Switzerland. pp. 285-302

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1996                “The ecological and cultural significance of livestock in the Enset-based

                                    cultivation system. In: Enset-Based Sustainable Agriculture in Ethiopia.

                                    Abate Tsedeke, Clifton Hiebsch, Steven Brandt, and Seifu Gebremariam

                                    eds. Institute of Agricultural Research. Addis Abbaba. pp.228-234

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1995                "Turkana". In Encyclopedia of World Cultures.             

                                    David Levinson, editor. G.K. Hall-Macmillan Press and the Human

                                    Relation Area Files. New Haven, Connecticut. Volume 9, pp.370-373

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence

            1991                "The Turkana of Kenya." in Nomads Peter Carmichael editor.

                                     London: Collins and Brown Publishers, pp. 66-95

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence, R. Dyson-Hudson, P.W. Leslie, P.H. Fry, N. Dyson-     Hudson

            and J. Wienpahl

            1988                "Movement and Migration as Pastoral Responses to Limited and

                                    Unpredictable Resources."  In Arid Lands Today and Tomorrow:

Proceedings of an International Research and Development Conference.

Whitehead, Hutchinson, Timmerman and Varady eds.Boulder: Westview Press, pp. 727-734

 

            Leslie, P.W., P.H. Fry, K. Galvin, and J.T. McCabe

            1988                "Biological, Behavioral and Ecological Influences on Fertility in Pastoralists."  In Arid Lands Today and Tomorrow:  Proceedings of an International Research and Development Conference.  Whitehead, Hutchinson, Timmerman and Varady eds. Boulder: Westview Press, pp. 705-711.

 

McCabe, J. Terrence and J.E. Ellis

            1987                "Beating the Odds in Arid Africa" Natural History, Vol. 96, #1, pp. 33-41. Reprinted in Conformity and Conflict. Spradley and McCurdy eds. Scott, Foresman/Little Brown Publications in Higher Education: pp 150-157

 

            Fry, P. and J. Terrence McCabe

            1986                "A Comparison of Two Survey Methods on Pastoral Turkana Migration Patterns and the Implication for Development Planning."  Journal of the Overseas Development Institute.  Pastoral Development Network Paper 22b, pp.1-17.

 

 

 

 

 

 

            Coppock, D.L., J.T. McCabe, J.E. Ellis, K.A. Galvin, and D.M. Swift

            1985                "Traditional Tactics of resource exploitation and allocation among nomads in an arid African environment," in Proceedings of the First International Rangeland Resources Development Symposium.eds. L.D. White and J.A. Tiedeman, Society for Range Management, Salt Lake City, pp. 87-96

 

            McCabe, J. Terrence               

            1984                "Food and the Turkana of Kenya."  Cultural Survival Quarterly. Vol. 8, No. 1, pp.48-50

 

            Coppock, D.L., J.E. Ellis, J. Wienpahl., J.T. McCabe, D.M. Swift, and K.H. Galvin

            1982                A review of livestock studies of the South Turkana Ecosystem Project. In: Proceedings, Small Ruminant CRSP Workshop Kenya, CRSP Support Program, Nairobi. pp. 168-172.

 

Reviews

 

            2002                The Poor are Not Us: Poverty and Pastoralism in Eastern Africa. Ohio University Press and James Currey. Anthropos  Vol. 97, No. 2 pp.561-563

 

            2000                The Pastoral Continuum: The Marginalization of Tradition in East Africa.

Paul Spencer. Oxford Univ. Press. Current Anthropology Vol. 41, No.3 pp.468-469

 

            1998                Settlement Ecology: the social and spatial organization of Koyfar

                                    agriculture. Glenn Davis Stone. Univ. of Arizona Press. American

Anthropologist  Vol. 100, No. 1, pp.222-223

 

            1996                Who Pays the Price, Barbara Rose Johnson,     editor. Island Press.

Environment  Vol. 38, No. 3, pp.25

 

            1995                The Art of Tracking: The Origin of Science, by Louis Liebensberg. David

                                    Philip Roth Publishers, LTD, South Africa. The Africa Book Publishing

Record.  Vol. XXI, No. 1, pp.13-14

 

            1993                Maasailand Ecology: development and conservation in Ngorongoro,

                                     Tanzania by  Kathrine Homewood, and W.A. Rodgers.

                                    Cambridge University Press. Human Ecology  Vol.21, No.3

 

            1993                Siaya: The Historical Anthropology of an African Landscape  by David

                                    William Cohen and E.S. Atieno Odhaimbo. Published by Heinemann,

                                    Nairobi; John Currey London; and OhioUniversity Press. African Book

Publishing Record  Vol. XVIII, No.1, p.7

 

 

 

            1993                Mobility and Territoriality: Social Boundaries among Foragers, Fishers,

                                    Pastoralists and Peripatetics , by M. Casimir, and A. Rao. Berg Publishers.

                                    American Anthropologist. Vol. 95, #2: 466

 

            1992                Surviving Drought and Development: Ariaal Pastoralists of Northern

                                    Kenya, by Elliot Fratkin, . Westview Press. Human Ecology. Vol. 20, #4:                                              479

 

            1991                Changing Generations: Dynamics of Generation Sets in Southeastern

                                    Sudan (Toposa) and Northwestern Kenya (Turkana), by Harald

                                                            Muller. Verlag breitenbach Publishers, Saarbrucken and Fort Lauderdale.

                                    Anthropos  Vol. 86, No. 1-3, pp. 286-287

 

Abstracts and Other Publications:

 

Leslie, PW, BR Johnson, MTN Magoma, T Bennett, and JT McCabe.

2003.               Land use, migration, and reproductive health in Ngorongoro District, Tanzania. American Journal of Human Biology 15(2):271. (abstract)

 

            McCabe, J.T.

            1992.               "A new paradigm for conservation and development in Tanzania" pp.189.

                                    A Written Symposium in the Journal of Forest and Conservation History.

 

            McCabe, J.T.

            1984                Social and Ecological Analysis of Herd Management Among Turkana Pastoralists.  Ph.D. Dissertation, S.U.N.Y.-Binghamton.

 

            McCabe, J.T.

            1976                The Concept of Niche: An evaluation of and suggestions for its use in anthropology.  Masters Thesis, Department of Anthropology, S.U.N.Y. -Binghamton.

           

External Grants, Awards, and Fellowships

 

2005  - 2007    Principal Investigator (Paul Leslie Co-Principal Investigator). Alternative Consequences of Migration for Land Use and Conservation in Northern Tanzania. MacArthur Foundation. $ 100,000

 

2004-2006       Co-Principal Investigator (Abe Goldman - PI, Paul Leslie – co PI). Collaborative Research: Consequences of Parks for Land Use, Livelihood Diversification and Biodiversity in East Africa. National Science Foundation. $ 300,000

 

2003                Co- Principal Investigator with Rachel Silvey (PI) and Monica Ogra. Human

                        Wildlife Conflict in India: Gendered Livelihoods and Vulnerability. National

                        Science Foundation. Dissertation Research Award. $ 11,800

 

2002 – 2003    Fellow at the Land Use and Environmental Change Institute. University of Florida, Gainesville

 

2001                Visiting Research Fellowship: Center for African Area Studies,

                        University of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan. May – August

 

                 2001-2003  Principal Investigator for University of Colorado sub-contract: Integrated Assessment of Pastoral/Wildlife Interactions: Implications for People, Policy, Conservation and Development in East Africa. $ 13,764. Sub-contract from Colorado State University and USAID.

 

2001                Principal Investigator (Laura DeLuca, Co-Principal Investigator)

                                                An examination of the role of tourism work among pastoral peoples in

                                                Tanzania. $ 5,400. National Science Foundation. Dissertation Research

                                                Award

 

                        1999- 2001      Principal Investigator (Paul Leslie: Co PI) “Intensification of

                                                Pastoral Systems in the African Savanna: Integrating Demographic

                                                and Cultural Approaches. National Science Foundation. $ 195,597

 

                        1999                Principal Investigator (Ann May Co-Principal Investigator)

                                                “Leaving Home: Children’s Rural-Urban Migration and Work in East

                                                Africa” National Science Foundation. $ 5,900 - Dissertation Research

                                                Award

 

                        1998                Principal Investigator (Mark Calamia Co-Principal Investigator)

                                                “Cultural Ecology of Customary Marine Tenure in Fiji.”

                                                National Science Foundation. $ 5,900 - Dissertation Research

                                                Award

 

                        1997-2001       Principal Investigator: University of Colorado sub-contract for

proposal entitled: Integrated Modeling and Assessment for Balancing Food Security, Conservation and Ecosystem Integrity. USAID. sub-contract $ 34,322; Sub-contract from Colorado State University and USAID

 

                        1995                Principal Investigator: Incorporating Individuals into Ecosystem Analysis:

                                                 The Turkana of Northwestern Kenya. Social Science Research

                                                Council. $ 14,963.

 

                        1994                Principal Investigator: Ethnographic Research in Badlands National Park:

                                                Hunting and Oglala Natural Resource Management.

                                                National Park Service. $ 77,000.

 

 

 

 

                        1993                Principal Investigator with Ann May: Research Experiences for

                                                Undergraduates - Supplement to Human Ecology and Biological

                                                Conservation in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania

National Science Foundation. $ 5,000.

 

 

                        1993                Principal Investigator: Maasai/Wildebeest interactions in the Ngorongoro

                                                Conservation Area of Tanzania. National Geographic Society. $12,850.

 

1991-1993 Principal Investigator for University of Colorado sub-contract: Human

                                                Ecology and Biological Conservation in the Ngorongoro Conservation

                                                Area, Tanzania. $ 50,000. Principal Investigators: Jim Ellis and Kathleen

                                                Galvin: National Science Foundation. $ 300,000.

 

1990-1992             Principal Investigator for University of Colorado sub-contract. $ 39,000.

                                                Issues and Concepts In Pastoral Ecology. Jim Ellis, David Swift, and

                                                Michael Cougenhour, Principal Investigators. National Science

                                                Foundation. $ 400,000.

 

                  1984-1985 Co-Principal Investigator: with:  J. Ellis, K. Galvin and D. Swift. 

Coping with drought in northern Kenya:  Traditional Tactics of Survival and the Role of Development. Norwegian Agency for International Development. $100,000

 

                  1983                      Co-Principal Investigator: with: J. Ellis and T. Hart. 

An Assessment of Road Impacts in North West Kenya. Norwegian Agency for International Development. $ 50,000

 

                        1981                Co-Principal Investigator: with:  Rada Dyson-Hudson. 

An Evaluation of South Turkana Water Resources and Livestock Movements. Norwegian Agency for International Development $ 30,000

 

 

Research Funded as a Collaborator but not Principal Investigator

 

2004                Collaborator with Paul Leslie. Risk Perception, Land use, and Labor Migration in Northern Tanzania. Funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Carolina Population Center  $19,855

 

1997                Collaborator with Paul Leslie. Population and Changing Land Use in Northern Tanzania. Funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Carolina Population

                        Center $ 79,754

           

1985-1989       Collaborator with Jim Ellis, David Swift and Michael Cougenhour:

                        "Persistence of a Pastoral Ecosystem" National Science Foundation.

                        Principal investigators: Ellis, Swift and Cougenhour. $ 1,600,000

 

 

Internal Grants and Awards

 

2002-2003       Faculty Fellowship: Migration and Livelihood Diversification among the Maasai

                        northern Tanzania. Fellowship covers salary for one half of the academic year.

 

2002-2003       Principal Investigator: Migration and Livelihood Diversification among the

                        Maasai in northern Tanzania. Council on Research and Creative Work, University

                        of Colorado. $ 5,000

 

2001-2002       Principal Investigator: Aging Migration and Health: A Case Study from Northern Tanzania. Population Aging Center, University of Colorado. Funding through the National Institute of Health. $ 40, 930

 

1995                Principal Investigator: Incorporating Individuals into Ecosystem Analysis:

                        Council for Research and Creative Work. University of Colorado, Boulder.

$ 5,000 (returned)

 

1992                Fellowship from the Council for International Education and Research.

                        University of Colorado, Boulder. $ 3,000

 

1986-1987       Lilly Foundation Grant for the Improvement of Audio/Visual Aid for Teaching

                        African Studies Courses.

 

1986-1987       Selected as a Lilly Fellow in the Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellowship Program.

                        University of Georgia, Athens

 

1982-1983       Dissertation Fellowship.  Department of  Anthropology.  S.U.N.Y. -

                        Binghamton.

 

 

Other Fellowships and Awards

 

1995                Elected as "Fellow” in the Society for Applied Anthropology

 

1993                Article entitled: "Can Conservation and Development be Coupled among a

                        Pastoral People: The Maasai of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in

                        Tanzania", which appeared in Human Organization (1992), was

                        selected for an award by the Dean's Committee for Social Science Writing

                        Awards, University of Colorado.

 

1992                Selected as a Fellow for the 1992-1993 academic year by the Center for

                        International Research and Education Projects at the University of

                        Colorado, Boulder.

 

1988                Selected as a Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow at the University of

                        Georgia.

 

 

 

 

Consulting and Development Related Research:

 

 

1996-98           Team Member - Enset Project: Research funded by GTZ  (Germany).

                        Conduct research on the relationship between the livestock production

                        system and the enset cultivation system in southern Ethiopia.

 

 

1995                Consultant and Team Leader. International Union for the Conservation of

                        Nature. Responsibilities: design and direct research concerning the impact

of the adoption of agriculture on wildlife and conservation by the Maasai of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania.

 

1990                Consultant - Malone Gill Productions Limited.

            Responsibilities: Anthropological consultant on an ethnographic film on

                        Turkana. Job entailed introducing the film crew to Turkana        and working

                         with them during filming, and working with the director and editor on

                        narration and final cut.

 

1989                Consultant - Team Leader: International Union for the Conservation of

                        Nature. Responsibilities: Direct anthropological/ nutritional survey

                        concerning food security among the Maasai living in the Ngorongoro

                        Conservation Area in Tanzania

 

1984                Consultant-U.S.A.I.D., Sudan/REDSO, Kenya.

                        Responsibilities:  Evaluate the social impact of road construction between

                        Lodwar, Kenya and Juba, Sudan.  In addition to the collection of base line data

                        my responsibilities included an evaluation of past social impact studies.

                        January – April

 

1982                Consultant and Team Leader, Norwegian Agency for International

Development. Responsibilities:  Designing a methodology for assessing the socio

economic impact of the Kenya-Sudan road in northwestern Kenya, conducting the

sociological component of the field research, and co- authoring the final report.

September 1982 – January 1983

 

1981                Co-investigator:  Norwegian Agency for International

                        Development. Responsibilities:  The collection of data relating pastoral

herd management, livestock management, herd dynamics and movement in Turkana District, Kenya. August 1981 – August 1982

 

Other Creative Work:

 

1990-1991       Worked with Malone-Gill Productions in the production of an

                        ethnographic film on the Turkana. The film was shown on the Arts and

            Entertainment Network in Aug. of 1992 and shown in the U.K in Sept.                          1993. It was also shown at the Annual Meetings of the American

                        Anthropological Association, 1993

 

Technical Reports:

 

 

McCabe, J. Terrence

1996.               "The Role of Livestock in the enset cultivation system: A review of the

                        literature.” submitted to GTZ, Addis Ababa and the Regional Agricultural

                        Bureau, Awassa, Ethiopia.

 

McCabe, J. Terrence

1995.               "Natural Resource Use among the Lokota of the Pine Ridge Reservation,

                        South Dakota. Final Report submitted to the National Park Service.

                        Denver.

 

McCabe, J.T., Naftali Mollel, and Anna Tumaini.

1995                "Food Security and the Role of Cultivation in the Ngorongoro

                        Conservation Area, Tanzania. Report submitted to the Regional Office for

                        East Africa. International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Nairobi,

                        Kenya.

 

McCabe, J. T., E.B. Schofield, and G. Pederson

1989                "Food Security among the Maasai of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania." Report submitted to the International Union for the

                        Conservation of Nature, Nairobi, Kenya

 

Ellis, J.E., K. Galvin, J.T. McCabe, and D. Swift

1987                "Pastoralism and Drought in Turkana District, Kenya.  Final Report for the

                        Norwegian Agency for International Development, 205 pages.

            Galvin, K. and J.T. McCabe

           

1986                "Coping with Drought in Northern Kenya."  Submitted to the Norwegian

                        Agency for International Development, 35 pages.

 

McCabe, J.Terrence

1983                "Social Impact of Road Construction from Lodwar, Kenya to Juba,

                        Sudan."  Submitted to U.S.A.I.D. Khartoum and REDSO/Nairobi.

 

 

McCabe, J. T., J.E. Ellis and T. Hart

1983                "Road Impact Evaluation in northern Kenya, A Case Study in South

Turkana."  Final Report Norwegian Agency for International Development.

 

 

 

Dyson-Hudson, R. and J.T. McCabe

1982                Final Report:  "South Turkana Water Resources and Livestock

                        Movements."  Submitted to the Norwegian Agency for International

                        Development.

 

 

Invited Papers and Papers Presented at Professional Meetings:

 

McCabe, J. Terrence

|Livelihood Diversification among the Maasai of Northern Tanzania:
|Cultivation, Migration, and the 'New Ecological Thinking. Paper presented in the African Landscapes Series:
Emory University. April 21, 2005

 

McCabe, J. Terrence

|Cattle Bring US to Our Enemies: a study in ecological disequilibrium,
politics, and raiding among the Turkana of Kenya. Paper presented to a joint Environmental Studies/African Studies seminar.
Emory University. April 22, 2005

 

McCabe, J. Terrence and Laura DeLuca

Selling Out or Cashing In: Cultural Heritage and Tourism in Northern Tanzania. Paper presented at the 65 Annual Meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Santa Fe: April 5-10, 2005

 

McCabe, J. Terrence

Livelihood Diversification among Maasai pastoralists in Northern Tanzania: Implications and Challenges for Conservation Policy. Paper presented at the conference “Beyond the Arch: Community and Conservation in Greater Yellowstone and East Africa. The 7th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Mammoth Hot Springs. Oct. 6-8, 2003

 

McCabe, J. Terrence

Livelihood Diversification among the Maasai of Northern Tanzania: Cultivation, Migration, and the “New Thinking” in Ecology and Ecological Anthropology. Paper presented to the Curriculum in Ecology, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Nov. 13, 2003

       

 Leslie PW, BR Johnson, MTN Magoma, T Bennett, and JT McCabe

            Land use, migration,

           and reproductive health in Ngorongoro District, Tanzania

            Human Biology Association, Tempe, AZ, April 2003.

 

McCabe, J. Terrence.

Conservation and Indigenous Peoples: Challenges for New Leadership in Protected Areas. Paper presented at the 100th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. New Orleans. Nov. 20‑24, 2002

 

McCabe, J. Terrence   

Causes and Consequences of Livelihood Diversification among the Maasai of Northern Tanzania: Implications for Conservation Policy in Eastern Africa. Parer presented at the conference “Mobile Peoples and Conservation: Crossing the Disciplinary Divide”. Wadi Dana, Jordan, April 3-7, 2002

 

 

 

 

McCabe, J. Terrence

            Ecosystems at Dis-Equilibrium and Turkana Mobility. Paper presented at

            the 100th Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association

            Nov. 28-Dec 2, 2001: Washington, D.C.

 

McCabe, J. Terrence

Land Use Change and Rural Livelihood Diversification in an African Savanna: Integrating Ecological Anthropology, Demography, and Cultural Models. Paper presented at the Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto, Japan: June, 2001

McCabe, J. Terrence

Changes in Rural Livelihoods and Wildlife Conservation: A Case Study

            from Northern Tanzania. Paper presented at the 2nd  annual meeting of the

            Study of Nomadic Peoples, Kinosaki, Japan: July 2001

 

McCabe J. Terrence

Pastoral livelihoods and wildlife conservation: the wildebeest migration and land-use patterns in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania. Paper presented at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan: July, 2001

 

McCabe J. Terrence

Diversification of Rural Livelihoods among the Maasai of Northern Tanzania: land use, identity, and demography. Paper presented at the Center for Africana Studies, University of Florida. May 2001

 

McCabe, J. Terrence and Sung A, Lee

            “Sustainability” : A useful concept in anthropology?

            Paper presented a the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied                                                          Anthropology. San Francisco March 21 - 26, 2000

 

McCabe, J. Terrence

            Conservation with a Human Face? Lessons from Forty Years of

            Conservation and Development in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area

            Tanzania. Paper presented at the conference: Displacement, Forced

            Settlement and Conservation. Sept. 9-11, 1999: Oxford

 

McCabe, J. Terrence

            Anthropology, Conservation, and Protected Areas: An Overview.

            Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Society for Applied                                                        Anthropology. Tucson: April 20-25, 1999

           

McCabe J. Terrence and McCabe, Judith A.

            “Sustainable Livelihoods and Population Processes: An East Africa Case

            Study”. Paper presented a the 97th Annual Meetings of the American

            Anthropological Association. Philadelphia: Dec.2-6, 1998

 

 

 

Lee, Sung A. and McCabe J. Terrence

            “Livestock, Enset and the Anthropologist: Questions of Sustainability in                                      the Southern Highlands of Ethiopia” .Paper presented a the 97th Annual

            Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Philadelphia:

            Dec.2-6, 1998

 

McCabe, J. Terrence   

“Rangeland Ecosystems at Disequilibrium: Implications for Understanding Pastoral Mobility. Paper presented at 14th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Williamsburg VA, July 23-Aug.1 1998

McCabe, J. Terrence

            "Adoption of Agriculture among the Maasai of the Ngorongoro

            Conservation Area: The challenge for conservation. Paper presented at

            14th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.

            Williamsburg VA,  July 23-Aug.1 1998

 

McCabe, J.T. and Lee, Sung A.

            "The Role of Livestock in the Enset Cultivation System”. Paper presented

            at the XIII International Ethiopian Studies Conference. Kyoto, Japan. Dec.

            12 - 17, 1997

 

McCabe, J.Terrence

            "The Role of Livestock in the Enset Cultivation System: Implications for

            Sustainability.” Paper presented at the American Association for the

            Advancement of Science. Washington, D.C. April 17, 1997

 

McCabe, J.Terrence

            "The Adoption of Cultivation among the Maasai of the Ngorongoro

            Conservation Area of Tanzania and the Challenge for Conservation.”

            Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Society for Applied

            Anthropology, Seattle, Washington. March 4-9, 1997  

 

McCabe, J. T and Sung A. Lee

            "The Role of Livestock in the Enset Cultivation System in Southern

            Ethiopia.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American

            Anthropological Association. San Francisco, Nov.20-24, 1996

 

McCabe, J. Terrence

             "Rangeland Ecosystems and Disequilibrium: Implications for

            Understanding Turkana Mobility.” Paper presented at the Annual

            Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists,

            Durham,  North Carolina, April 11-14, 1996.

 

 

 

McCabe, J.Terrence

            "The Adoption of Agriculture by the Maasai of the Ngorongoro

            Conservation Area: Implications for Wildlife Conservation and

            Development Planning ". Paper Presented at the Inter-congress of the

            International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.

            April 19-22, 1995. Lucca, Italy

 

McCabe, J.Terrence

            "Changing Patterns of Maasai Land Use in Ngorongoro: Implications for

            Conservation and Development. Paper presented at the annual meetings of

            the Society for Applied Anthropology. March 29 - April 2, 1995.

            Albuquerque, New Mexico

 

McCabe, J. Terrence

“Maasai Food Security and Wildlife Conservation: Searching for a Balance in Ngorongoro, Tanzania. Paper presented at the annual meeting for the American Anthropological Association. November, 1994:  Atlanta

 

McCabe, J. Terrence

            "Maintaining the Balance: Conservation and Development in the

            Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania." Paper presented at the

            annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. April 13-16,

            1994. Cancun, Mexico.

 

McCabe. J. Terrence

            "The Cultural and Ecological Significance of Livestock in the Enset

            Agricultural Complex of Southern Ethiopia." Paper presented at the

            International Workshop on the Enset Agricultural Complex. Dec. 13-20,

            1993. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

 

McCabe, J. Terrence

            "Land Use Among African Pastoral Peoples: A Case Study of the

            Turkana of Kenya." Paper presented at the conference: The Anthropology

of tribal and peasant pastoral societies: the dialectics of social cohesion and f      fragmentation. June 16-19, 1992: Pavia, Italy.

 

McCabe, J. Terrence

            "Pastoral Mobility: New Interpretations to an Old Conceptual Problem."

            Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological

            Association, November 1991: Chicago

 

McCabe, J. Terrence

“Mobility and Migration: Pastoral Response to Resource Variability in East Africa". Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American

            Anthropological Association, Nov. 28- Dec.1, 1990. New Orleans.

 

McCabe, J.T. and Schofield, C.

            "Conservation and Development at the Crossroads: The Maasai of the

             Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania. Paper presented at the 49th

            Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. March 1990:

            York,   England

 

McCabe, J. Terrence

            "Anthropology and International Livestock Aid Programs." Paper

            presented at the Key Symposium: Anthropology and Food Policy in

            Latin America and Africa. Southern Anthropology Society. Memphis,

            April, 1989      

 

McCabe, J.Terrence

            "Turkana Pastoralism:  A Case Against the Tragedy of the Commons,"

            Paper presented at the XII International Congress of Anthropological and

            Ethnological Sciences, Zagreb, Yugoslavia.  July, 1988.

 

McCabe, J.Terrence

            "Pastoral Labor: A Qualitative Analysis," Paper presented at the XII

            International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences,

            Zagreb, Yugoslavia.  July, 1988.

 

McCabe, J.Terrence

            "The effects of the World Economy on Pastoral Response to Drought:

            East Africa During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries."

            Paper presented at the conference "Pastoralists and Markets:  The

            Articulation of Pastoralism with the Nineteenth Century World Economy,"

            Sweet Briar, Virginia: April 3-5, 1987.

 

McCabe, J.Terrence

“Coping with Drought Among East African Pastoralists:  Effects of Famine Relief on Traditional Patterns of Subsistence."  Paper presented at the 85th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association Dec. 3-7, 1986, Philadelphia.

 

McCabe, J. Terrence, R. Dyson-Hudson, P.W. Leslie, P.H. Fry, N. Dyson-     Hudson,

            and J. Wienpahl

            "Movement and Migration as Pastoral Responses to Limited and          

Unpredictable Resources."  Paper presented at the International Arid Lands Research and Development Conference, October, 1985, Tucson.

 

Schimel, D., T.C. Hart, J.T. McCabe, J.E. Ellis, D. L. Coppock, and R. Dyson-Hudson

            "Ecosystem Heterogeneity and Pastoral Land Use Patterns."  Paper

            presented at the International Arid Lands Research and Development

            Conference, October, 1985, Tucson.

 

 

Dyson-Hudson, N., R. Dyson-Hudson, J.T. McCabe and S.     Williams

            "Persistence and Failure of Nomadic Pastoralists."  Paper presented at the

            International Arid Lands Research and Development Conference, October,

            1985, Tucson.

 

Leslie, P.W., P.H. Fry, K. Galvin and J.T. McCabe

            "Biological, Behavioral and Ecological Influences on Fertility in  

            Pastoralists."  Paper presented at the Inter-Arid Lands Research and

            Development Conference, October, 1985, Tucson.

 

McCabe, J.Terrence

            "Social Organization and Traditional Response to Drought Among Pastoral Turkana"

            Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the African Studies Association, December

             1983, Boston.

 

McCabe, J.Terrence

            "Variation in Livestock Production and It's Impact on Social Organization."  Paper

             presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association,

            Chicago, 1983.

 

Dyson-Hudson, R. and J.T. McCabe

            "Patterns of Turkana Resource Exploitation."  Paper presented at the

            annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of

            Science, Detroit, 1983.

 

McCabe, J.Terrence

“Variations in the Patterns of Pastoral Movements."  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., 1982.

 

Wienpahl, J. and J.T. McCabe

"The Role of Goats Among the Turkana of Kenya."  Paper presented at the

            International Conference on Goat Production and Disease, Tucson, 1982.

 

 

Teaching Experience

 

1989-2004                   Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, University of Colorado. Courses Taught: Graduate Seminars - Human Ecology, Anthropological Methods, East African Pastoral Peoples; Upper Division/Graduate Courses - Human Ecology,  East African Nomads, Applied Anthropology, Cross Cultural Aspects of Development; Lower Division Undergraduate Courses - Regional Cultures of Africa, Africa: People and Social Change

 

 

 

1984 – 1989                Assistant Professor, University of Georgia. Courses Taught: Graduate Seminars - Seminar on Anthropological Theory, Seminar on Development Anthropology;  Upper Division Undergraduate Courses - Africa: Peoples and Institutions, Cultural Ecology; Lower Division Undergraduate Courses - Africa: Peoples and Institutions, Introduction to Anthropology.

 

Dissertations Supervised:

 

Schechter, Jim. 2004. Governing “Lost Boys”: Sudanese Refugees in a UNHCR Camp.

Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado

 

Calamia, Mark. 2003. Expressions of customary marine tenure and environmental entitlements : a case study involving common property regimes in a Fijian outer island group. Dept. of Anthropology, University of Colorado

 

DeLuca, Laura. 2002. Tourism, conservation, and development among the Maasai of Ngorongoro District, Tanzania : implications for political ecology and sustainable livelihoods. Dept. of Anthropology, University of Colorado

 

May, Ann. 2002. Unexpected Migrations: urban labor migration of rural youth and Maasai pastoralists in Tanzania. Dept. of Anthropology, University of Colorado

 

Lee, Sunga Agnes. 2000. The Sidamo, their cattle, and Ensete: a study towards an understanding of agropastoralism and sustainability. Dept. of Anthropology, University of Colorado

 

O’Malley, Elizabeth. 2000. Cattle and cultivation : changing land use and labor patterns in pastoral Maasai livelihoods, Loliondo Division, Ngorongoro District, Tanzania. Dept. of Anthropology, University of Colorado

 

Teaching Award:

 

1988                Selected as a Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow at the University of Georgia.

 

 

Writing Award:

 

1993                Dean’s Writing Award for the Social Sciences for: "Can Conservation and Development be Coupled among a Pastoral People: The Maasai of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania", in Human Organization (1992).

 

 

 

 

University Service

 

            1999 – 2004    Human Research Committee

 

            2000 – 2002    Faculty Facilitator for Fulbright- Hays Fellowships

 

            1998,               Interview Committee for Fulbright Fellowships

 

 

College Service

 

            1998                Reviewer for Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program

 

            1996                Member of the Arts and Sciences Council (Sept. – Jan)

 

            1996                Member of the Dean’s Personnel Committee (Sept. – Jan)

 

            1992                Member of the Dean’s Committee for Social Science Writing Awards

Department Service

 

                                    Associate Chair (2003/2004)

                                    Chair of Curriculum Committee (2003/2004)

                                    Head of Search Committee (2003/2004)

                                    Search Committees (2002, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997

                                    Salary Committee (2004, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999)

Member of the Committee for Promotion of Paul Shankman to Full Professor (2001)

Promotion and Tenure Committee for Donna Goldstein (2001)

Reappointment Committee for Donna Goldstein (1997)

                        Member of the Graduate Committee (1994)

 

Institute Service – Institute of Behavioral Science

 

                                    Acting Director, Environment and Behavior Program (1999-2002)

                                    Associate Director, Environment and Behavior Program (1996-1998)

                                    Chair, Search Committee (2001, 2002)

                                    Member of Search Committees (1999, 1995, 1994)

 

Professional Service:

 

1995 – 2003                Associate Editor: Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal

 

2003- present               Editorial Board: Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal

 

1995 - present             Editorial Board: Nomadic Peoples

 

1999 – present             Awards Committee, Commission on Nomadic Peoples

 

1998                            Outside Reviewer for Promotion and Tenure for Elliot Fratkin, Smith College

 

2004                            Outside Assessor for Promotion for Dawn Chatty, Oxford University, UK