Maggie Cummings | Department of Anthropology

Affiliations

American Ethnological Society
Society for Cultural Anthropology
Melanesian Interest Group
Canadian Anthropology Society
CASCA Taskforce on Precarity
Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Teaching Interests

Gender and Sexuality
Race and Racism
Culture, Film, and Media
Introduction to Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Anthropology of the Body
Fieldwork and Qualitative Analysis

Research Interests

Critical Pedagogy
Landscapes of Knowledge: Teaching and Learning in Canadian Universities
Urban Melanesia
Gender, Livelihood, and Social Change in Vanuatu
Moral Economies of Fitness and Health
Social Media

Publications

2016 Uncertain Belongings: Relationships, Money, and Returned Migrant Workers in Port Vila, Vanuatu. Journal of Pacific Studies. 36 (1): 21-33.
2016 Sociocultural Anthropology: A Problem-based Approach (3rd Canadian edition), eds. Robbins, Cummings, and McGarry. Toronto: Nelson Education.
2015 Teaching About and with Selfies in the Classroom. Teaching Culture: The Blog, June 29. http://www.utpteachingculture.com/thinking-about-and-with-selfies- in-the-classroom/
2015 Notes from the Teaching Stream. Culture: The Canadian Anthropology Society Newsletter. 15 (1): 14-15
2013 Afterword: Expertise in our Time. Anthropologica. 55 (2): 329-334.
2013 Imagining Transnational Futures in Vanuatu. In A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism, eds. Ato Quayso and Girish Daswani. New York: Blackwell. 381-396.
2013 Looking Good: The Cultural Politics of the Island Dress for Young Women in Vanuatu. The Contemporary Pacific. 25 (1): 33-65.
2013 Cultural Anthropology: A Problem-based Approach (2nd Canadian edition), eds. Robbins, Cummings, McGarry and Larkin. Toronto: Nelson Education.
2011 Citizenship and Urban Space: Intersections of Housing, Services, Identity, and Belonging for Newcomers to Kingston-Galloway/Orton Park, Scarborough, with co-authors Susannah Bunce and Girish Daswani. CERIS Working Paper Series. CERIS-- The Ontario Metropolis Centre, December, No. 86. Available online: http://www.ceris.metropolis.net/wpcontent/uploads/pdf/research_publicat…
2008 Gender, Blame, and Kastom: Understanding HIV in Vanuatu. In Making Sense of AIDS: Culture, Sexuality, and Power in Melanesia, eds. Leslie Butt and Richard Eves. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 133-149.
2005 Who Wears the Trousers in Vanuatu? In Auto-Ethnographies: The Anthropology of Academic Practices, eds. Anne Meneley and Donna J. Young. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press. 51-64