Invited Papers and Papers Presented at Professional Meetings:

  • McCabe, J. Terrence. Human and Livestock Demographies: Implications for Livelihood Diversification and Human Health Among East African Pastoral People. Invited lecture, Health in Africa Working Group, University of Florida African Studies Center. November 2013
  • McCabe, J. Terrence and Paul W. Leslie. Testing resilience: an examination of the applicability of resilience theory to a case study in northern Tanzania. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual meeting, Denver, CO. March 2013
  • McCabe, J. Terrence. Human Ecology in the African Rangelands: Long term research among the Turkana of Kenya and Maasai of Tanzania. Invited Lecture at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil December 2012
  • McCabe, J. Terrence and Paul W. Leslie. Testing resilience: an examination of the applicability of resilience theory to a case study of northern Tanzania. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco. November 2012
  • McCabe, J. Terrence. 2012. Human Ecology in the African Rangelands: Long term Research among the Turkana of Kenya and the Maasai of TanzaniaLong Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network, 2012 All Scientist Meeting Estes Park, Colorado
  • McCabe, J. Terrence and Paul W. Leslie. Resilience and Risk Among Maasai pastoralists in Northern Tanzania. Paper presented at the International Workshop on Resilience, Cologne, Germany. July 2011
  • McCabe, J. Terrence and Paul W. Leslie. Transformation of the Rangelands in Northern Tanzania and the Challenge to Conservation. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. March 2011
  • McCabe, J. Terrence. Resilience in the African Rangelands. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation invited presentation. University of Cologne, Germany. November 2010
  • McCabe, J. Terrence. Risk, Intensification, Conservation and Complexity in Northern Tanzania. Invited presentation to the Department of Anthropology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. May 2010
  • McCabe, J. Terrence. Climate Change and the rangelands of East Africa. Invited presentation to the Institute for Ethnography, University of Cologne, Germany. April 2010
  • McCabe, J. Terrence. Risk, Intensification, Resilience and Complexity in Northern Tanzania. Invited paper to the Chair Group - Technology and Agrarian Development. Wageningen University, Social Sciences Group. Wageningen, Netherlands. October, 2009
  • McCabe, J. Terrence. Risk, Intensification, Resilience and Complexity in Northern Tanzania. Invited paper the Institut fur Ethnologie, University of Cologne. November, 2009
  • McCabe, J. Terrence and Paul Leslie. Risk, Instensification, Conservation and Complexity in Northern Tanzania. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences: Kunming, China: July 2009
  • McCabe, J. Terrence. Drought, Risk and Resilience: Long-term research among the Turkana of Kenya and Maasai of Tanzania. Paper presented at the University of Cologne. Cologne Germany July, 2008
  • McCabe, J. Terrence. Rapid social and economic change in northern Tanzania: the influence of land tenure, wildlife conservation and the Tanzanite gem business. Talk presented at the Center for African Area Studies. University of Kyoto. Kyoto Japan. May 2008
  • McCabe, J. Terrence. The Ecosystem Concept in Anthropology Reconsidered: Disequilibrium and Complexity among the pastoral Turkana of Kenya. Talk presented as the Distinguished Cultural Anthropologist for 2007 at the Ohio State University. December 2007
  • McCabe, J. Terrence Risk, Intensification, Conservation, and Complexity: Competing flows of ideas and capital in northern Tanzania. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washington D.C.. December 2007
  • McCabe, J. Terrence. Rapid Social and Economic Change in Northern Tanzania: The Influence of Land Tenure, the Gem Business and Conservation. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. San Jose. December 2006
  • McCabe, J. Terrence. Parks, Protected Areas and Sustainable Livelihoods in East Africa. Paper presented at the international conference on Wild Rangelands. London Zoological Society, London, UK. January, 2006
  • McCabe, J. Terrence. Rapid Social and Economic Change in Simanjiro Tanzania. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings for the Society for Applied Anthropology. Vancouver, B.C. Canada. April, 2006
  • McCabe, J. Terrence and Paul Leslie. Rapid Social and Economic Change in Northern Tanzania: the influence of land tenure, the gem business, and conservation. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings for the Society for the New Institutional Economics. Boulder CO. Sept. 2006
  • Leslie, P.W.; Baird, T.; McCabe, J. T.; Madulu, N. F.; and Kiwasila. Parks, Livelihood Diversification, and the Perception of Risk and Uncertainty in Northern Tanzania. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings for the Society for the New Institutional Economics. Boulder CO. Sept. 2006
  • McCabe, J. Terrence. Risk, Intensification, Conservation, and the Gem Business: Complex Flows of Ideas and Capital in Northern Tanzania. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. San Jose CA. Nov. 2006
  • 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