Andrew GardnerAndrew Gardner

Andrew Gardner

Andrew GardnerOn leave 2008-09, 2009-10
(at the University of Qatar)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Department of Comparative Sociology
McIntyre 213L
253.879.3490
E-mail

Research Interests
I am a sociocultural anthropologist whose scholarship focuses on the Gulf States of the Arabian Peninsula. My work in the region explores transnationalism, broadly, and transnational labor more specifically. I also maintain an interest in environmental anthropology and the political ecology of both rural and urban peoples of the Arabian Peninsula.

Education
University of Arizona, Ph.D., Anthropology, with a minor in Geography, 2005
University of Arizona, M.A., Anthropology, 2000
George Washington University, B.A., Philosophy, 1991

Courses Taught
CSOC 107: The Anthropology of Societal Collapse
CSOC 117: The Anthropology of Food and Eating
CSOC 200: Cultural Anthropology
CSOC 230: Indigenous Peoples and Alternative Political Economies
CSOC 302: Social Research II (Ethnographic and Qualitative Methods)
CSOC 350: Border Crossings: Transnational Migration and Diaspora Studies
CSOC 407: Political Ecology

Publications
Gardner, Andrew (no date) Engulfed: Citizens, Guestworkers, and the Structural Violence of the Kafala System. Forthcoming.

Gardner, Andrew (2008) Strategic Transnationalism: The Indian Diasporic Elite in Contemporary Bahrain. City and Society 20 (1): 54-78.

Gardner, Andrew and David Hoffman, eds. (2006) Dispatches from the Field: Neophyte Ethnographers in a Changing World. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.

Gardner, Andrew and Timothy Finan (2004) Navigating Modernization: Bedouin Pastoralism and Climate Information in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies 4 (Spring): 59-72.

Gardner, Andrew (2004) The Political Ecology of Bedouin Pastoralism in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In Political Ecology Across Spaces, Scales and Social Groups, Lisa Gezon and Susan Paulson, eds. Rutgers: Rutgers University Press.

Gardner, Andrew (2003) The New Calculus of Bedouin Pastoralism in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Human Organization 62(3): 267 – 276.

McGuire, Thomas and Andrew Gardner (2003) Contract Drillers: Causal Histories and Social Impact Assessment along the Gulf of Mexico. Human Organization 62(3): 218 – 228.

Gardner, Andrew (2002) The Long Haul from Deregulation: Truck Drivers and Social Capital in the Louisiana Oilpatch. Human Organization 61(4).