Department of Anthropology
Bio
Tim teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in anthropology, business, development studies, economics, government, and public policy at various liberal arts colleges and universities in the US. Additionally, he teaches "Business Humanities" courses and now leads such initiatives at various correctional institutions in Connecticut. At Penn, he is working towards an MA in Anthropology, an MPhil in Interdisciplinary Humanities, and a Graduate Certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. His primary advisor for the graduate anthropology degree is cultural and linguistic anthropologist Greg Urban, and his advisor for the MPhil degree is cultural and medical anthropologist Emily Ng.
In addition to earning his doctoral degree (Business Administration) from Case Western Reserve University, he currently holds seven other graduate degrees: Brown University (Development Studies where his thesis advisors include: anthropologist Kay Warren, sociologist Paget Henry, and economist Louis Putterman), Columbia University (Public Policy/Public Administration), Dartmouth College (Cultural Studies where his thesis advisors include: Native American legal scholar Bruce Duthu, Native American historian Colin Calloway, and distinguished Americanist Donald Pease), Middlebury College (English), Northwestern University (Management & Organizations), University of Pennsylvania (Law), and Yale University (Religion). He has completed extensive graduate coursework at both The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice of Dartmouth College (Public Health) and at Case Western Reserve University (History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine). His undergraduate degree in Political Science and Psychology (as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Psi Chi, and the National Golden Key Society) is from the University of Houston, magna cum laude.
Research Interests
At Penn, his research interests and specialization include:
Economic Anthropology, Business Anthropology, Corporate Anthropology, Design Anthropology, Anthropology of Global Capitalism, Anthropology of Entrepreneurship, Anthropology of Technology, Medical Anthropology, Environmental Anthropology, Ethnography of Organizations, Legal Anthropology, Settler Colonialism, Anthropological Demography, Anthropology of Development, Anthropology of Religion, Circumpolar Anthropology, Anthropology of Art, Native American & Indigenous Anthropology, and Personhood