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PHILIPPE BOURGOIS
Departments of Anthropology & Family and Community Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
3260 South Street
Philadelphia PA 19104-6398
For inter-office mail: Mail Code 6398; Campus office: 415 Anthropology Museum; Tel: 215-746-1937
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Updated 02/2013
CURRENT POSITION
Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology and Family and Community Medicine, Departments of Anthropology and Family Medicine and Community Practice, University of Pennsylvania (Since 08/01/2007)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Global political economy, medical anthropology, urban anthropology, substance abuse, HIV prevention, violence, ethnicity and immigration, inner city social suffering, ethnography
GEOGRAPHICAL FOCUS
Inner city United States, Latino/a immigrants, Puerto Rican diaspora, Central America and the Western Caribbean
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Fluent Spanish and French
Conversational Portuguese
EDUCATION
Post-Doc 1986 École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
PhD 1985Stanford University, Anthropology
M.A. 1980Stanford University, Food Research Institute
(Development Economics)
M.A. 1980Stanford University, Anthropology
B.A. 1978Harvard College, Social Studies
ACADEMIC PRIZES
For book Righteous Dopefiend
- 2010 Anthony Leeds Prize, Society for Urban Anthropology
- 2010 American Association of University Presses selected for annual Book, Jacket, Journal Show (scholarly typographic category)
- 2010Gregory Bateson Prize, Society for Cultural Anthropology (honorable mention)
- 2009Red Star selection, Publishers Weekly.
For article
- 2008Virchow Award from the Society for Critical Medical Anthropology for article “Intimate Apartheid: Ethnic dimensions of habitus among homeless heroin injectors”.
For book In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
- 2000 Translation Prize, Centre National des Lettres of the French Ministry of Culture.
- 1997Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology.
- 1996 C. Wright Mills Prize from the Society for the Study of Social Problems of the American Sociological Association.
- 1996Victor Turner Award for Ethnographic Writing (honorable mention) from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association.
- 1996Anthony Leeds Prize (honorable mention) from the Society for Urban Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association.
- 1996Robert Park Award for Community Studies (finalist) of the American Sociological Association.
- 1996Association of American Publishers Scholarly Publishing Division prize (honorable mention).
TEACHING AND RESEARCH POSITIONS
- 2007-present[Primary position]
Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology and Family and Community Medicine, Departments of Anthropology and Family Medicine and Community Practice, University of Pennsylvania.
- 2010-present
Faculty Fellow, Penn Institute for Urban Research,University of Pennsylvania.
- 2011-present
Member of Graduate Group, School of Education, University of Pennsylvania.
- 2010 (Feb.)
Visiting Professor, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
- 2009-present
Consulting Scholar, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
- 2008-present
Senior Fellow, the Center for Public Health Initiatives, University of Pennsylvania.
- 2008-present
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania.
- 2007-present
Latin American Studies Program Faculty Group Member, University of Pennsylvania
- 1998-2007
Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
- 2003-2004
Research Scholar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
- 1999-2004
Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Francisco.
- 1998-1999
Chief, Division of Medical Anthropology, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco.
- 1988-1998
Professor, Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University. (Elected Chair 1/97; Elected Acting Chair 6/96; Promoted to Professor 8/96; Promoted to Associate Professor 6/92; Tenured 6/93).
- 1993-1994
Fulbright Research Professor at the Maestría en Política Económica para Centro América y el Caribe [Masters Program in Political Economy for Central America and the Caribbean] of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Costa Rica, Heredia.
- 1990-1991
Visiting Scholar in Residence, Russell Sage Foundation.
- 1988Visiting Researcher. Ethnic Conflict Program, Peace Research Institute of Oslo, Norway. (Summer).
- 1985-1988
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri.
- 1985-1986
Resident Researcher. Groupe de Recherche sur les Migrations Internationales GRAMI), Laboratoire d'Economie Politique, École Normale Supérieure, Paris.
- 1985Visiting Researcher. Nicaragua, Centro de Información y Documentación de la Costa Atlántica (CIDCA). (Summer).
- 1984Visiting Scholar, Centro de Investigaciones de la Costa Atlántica, Nicaragua (summer).
- 1982Visiting Researcher. Consejo Superior Universitaria Centroamericana, San Jose, Costa Rica.
- 1980Feasibility Study for Literacy Campaign in Indigenous Languages, Managua, Literacy Campaign, Ministry of Education. (Fall).
- 1979-1980
Resident Researcher. Managua, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de la Reforma Agraria, Instituto de Reforma Agraria (CIERA_MIDINRA).
FIELDWORK
- 2007-present
Inner city poverty, substance abuse, carceralization, and violence in North Philadelphia’s Puerto Rican neighborhood.
- 1994-present
HIV risk among homeless heroin injectors and crack smokers in San Francisco.
- 1999-present
Follow up fieldwork among children of former crack dealers in East Harlem (periodic visits).
- 1999-present
Follow up fieldwork among Ngöbe banana workers in Bocas del Toro, Panama and Talamanca, Costa Rica (periodic visits).
- 1997-2010
Street-based substance abusers in Montreal and Vancouver, Canada (periodic visits).
- 1994-2007
Undocumented day laborers and former guerrilla fighters from El Salvador in San Francisco’s Mission District.
- 1996-2003
Oral history of a French forced laborer at the I.G. Farben plant in Auschwitz during the Holocaust (visits).
- 1995-1997
A corner street gang in San Francisco’s Mission District.
- 1992Street Children in Bolivia: La Paz, El Alto, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz. (Summer/Spring).
- 1985-1991
Puerto Rican crack dealers, East Harlem.
- 1985-1986
Second generation immigrants in Paris (la Goûte d'Or).
- 1982-1983
United Brands banana plantation in Costa Rica and Panama (for doctorate).
- 1979-1986
Miskitu communities of northern Nicaragua: 1979-1980 for the Center for Investigation and Studies of the Agrarian Reform and the National Literacy Campaign of Nicaragua; summers 1983-1985 and winter 1986 for the Centro de Investigaciones y Documentación de la Costa Atlántica.
- 1979 Mopan and Kekchi Maya communities of southern Belize (for Masters).
GRANT AWARDS CURRENT FROM NIH ($ amount = direct + indirect)
- 1996-2013NIH R01-DA10164 “The Logics for HIV Risk among Street-Based Heroin Injectors.” $5,414,320. Role: PI
- 2009-2014NIH R01-DA027204, (PI Draine) “Education and empowerment intervention for HIV prevention in and out of jail.” $400,000. Role: Co-I
- 2010-2012Canadian Social Science Research Council, “Sponsorship of In-Residence Post-Doc, Comparative Substance Abuse Treatment, Canada/US” $100,000. Role: PI
- 2009-2011 CHRP ID08-SF-049 (PI Riley) “Impact of the Criminal Justice System on the HIV Risk of Urban Poor Women” $120,000. Role: Co-I
- 2007-2011NIH R01 MH078743 (PI Comfort) “HIV Risk among Male Parolees and their Female Partners.” $208,275. $100,000. Role: Co-I
BOOKS
- 2009Righteous Dopefiend. Berkeley: University of California Press. (Series: Public Anthropology.) (First author with co-author Jeff Schonberg.) Simultaneous hardback/paperback, two printings.
a.Italian translation: Reietti e fuorilegge. Antropologia della violenza nella metropoli americana. Rome: Derive Approdi. 2011. Translator: Stefania De Pretis
- 1995In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Series “Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences”.) Paperback 1996. Two editions, thirteen printings (over 100,000 sales).
a.Updated Second U.S. Edition with new Preface and Epilogue. 2003.
b.Spanish translation: En Busca de Respeto: Vendiendo Crack en Harlem. Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI. 2010. Translator: Fernando Montero Castrillo
c.Second Spanish edition: En Busca de Respeto: La Venta de Crack en Harlem. San Juan, PR: Hurácan. Translator: Fernando Montero Castrillo
d.Chinese translation. Beijing: Peking University Press. 2008
e.French translation with new preface and epilogue: En Quête de Respect: Le Crack à Harlem. Paris: Editions du Seuil. (Série: Liber, directed by Pierre Bourdieu.) 2001.
f.Italian translation with new epilogue: Cercando Rispetto. Drug Economy e Cultura di Strada, Rome: Derive Approdi 2005 Translators: Alessandro DeGiorgi and Stefania De Pretis
g.Norwegian translation into Braille and recorded media for the Norwegian Library for Talking Books and Braille, Oslo, Norway. In Press.
- 1989Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Central American Banana Plantation. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. (Series, “Studies in Atlantic History and Culture”.)
a.Spanish translation (with update and revisions): Bananos, etnia, y luchas sociales en Centro América. San José, Costa Rica: Departamento Ecuménico de Investigaciones (DEI), and Maestría en Política Económica de la Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica. 1994.
EDITED VOLUMES
- 2004Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. (Second editor with co-editor Nancy Scheper-Hughes.)
- 1993Niños vulnerables. La Paz (Bolivia): Dirección Nacional de Prevención de Drogas, Ministerio de Salud. Secondary co-editor with co-editors Franklin Alcaraz del Castillo et al.
a.English translation: Forgotten Children. La Paz: Ministry of Human Development, National Secretariat of Health and Social Welfare. 1995.
- 1989Amérique centrale, special issue of Les temps modernes Vol. 44, nos. 517-518. Co-editor Marc Edelman. 375 pp.
- 1989Ethnic Relations in St. Louis, special issue of City and Society Vol. 3, no. 2. Co-editor Ann Rynearson. 178 pp.
- 1983Revolution in Central America. Colorado: Westview Press. Co-edited with SCAN [Stanford Central American Action Network].
SCHOLARLY ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (including social science journal interviews)
- 2013 "Interdisciplinary Mixed Methods Research with Structurally Vulnerable Populations: Case Studies of Injection Drug Users in San Francisco." International Journal of Drug Policy. Second Co-author with Andrea Lopez, Lisa Wenger, Jennifer Lorvick, Alex Martinez, Alex Kral.
- 2012"An anthropologist in unexpected places: Interview with Philippe Bourgois." KulaKula. 2:20-23. Interview moderated by Johan Henrik Knutsen.
- 2012 In press. "Sexual Pleasure and Sexual Risk among Women Who Use Methamphetamine: A Mixed Methods Study." International Journal of Drug Policy. Second author with co-authors Jennifer Lorvick, Philippe Bourgois, Lisa Wenger, Sonya Arreola, Alexandra Lutnick, Wendee Wechsberg, and Alex Kral.
- 2012 "Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg: Righteous Dopefiend." [Excerpt from book Righteous Dopefiend]. Drugs and the American Dream: An Anthology. Ed. Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler, and Patrick K. O'Brien. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Pp. 80-86.
- 2011 "Education, Empowerment and Community Based Structural Reinforcement: An HIV Prevention Response to Mass Incarceration and Removal." International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 34.4 (2011): 295-302. (Final author with Jeffery Draine and Lauren McTighe.)
- 2011 “La Lumpenización de los Sectores Vulnerables en la Guerra Contra la Droga en Los Estados Unidos.” Umbrales, Fugas de la Institución Total: Entre Captura y La Vida. Edited by Dario Malventi. Pp. 22-35. Sevilla: Universidad Internacional De Andalucía. Series Arte y Pensamiento.
- 2011"Structural Vulnerability and the Health of Latino Migrant Laborers." Medical Anthropology. 30:4:339-362. (Final author with co-authors James Quesada, Laurie Hart.)
- 2011"The Structural Vulnerability Imposed by Hypersegregated Us Inner City Neighborhoods–a Theoretical and Practical Challenge for Substance Abuse Research." Addiction. 106:11:1975-1977. (First author with co-author Laurie K Hart.)
- 2011"Lumpen Abuse: The Human Cost of Righteous Neoliberalism." City and Society 23:1:2-12
a.Expanded online Public Health version published as: “Bringing HIV, Substance Abuse and Homelessness into the University of Pennsylvania Anthropology Museum through Photo-Ethnography.” Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal May 2012, Issue 10: Online 10pp. NIHMS #400245.
b.Also featured in The Drum Beat: Art for Public Health CommunicationIssue 621:[UNAIDS-sponsored online publication]: Online at: <
- 2011"Drug Use Patterns in the Presence of Crack in Downtown Montréal." Drug and Alcohol Review. 30:2: [In Press]. (Final author with co-authors Elise Roy, Nelson Aruda, Eric Vaillancourt, Jean-Francois Boivin, Carole Morissette, Pascale Leclerc, Michel Alary.)
- 2011 “The growing popularity of prescription opioid injection in downtown Montréal: New challenges for harm reduction.” Substance Use and Misuse. 46:9:1142-1150. (Final (senior) author with co-authors Élise Roy and Nelson Arruda.)
- 2010“Qualitative social research in addictions publishing: Creating an enabling journal environment.” International Journal of Drug Policy, 21:6:441-444. (Final author with Tim Rhodes, Gerald Stimson, David Moore.)
- 2010“Violences étatiques et institutionnelles contre Ie Lumpen aux États-Unis.” In Patrick Bruneteaux and Daniel Terrolle, eds. L'arrière-cour de la mondialisation: ethnographie des paupérisés. Pp. 125-151. Paris: Editions du Croquant.
- 2010“Science, Religion and the Challenges of Substance Abuse Treatment.” Substance Use & Misuse 45:2395–2400. (Co-authored with Laurie Hart.)
- 2010“Prefacio.”In Fumando mañas. Construcción del sentido de la realidad social en un contexto de ilegalidad. ByCésar Augusto Tapias Hernández. Pp. 15-17. Bogota: Editorial de la Universidad del Rosario.
- 2010“Acceptability of a Safer Injection Facility Among Injection Drug Users in San Francisco.” Kral A, Wenger L, Carpenter L, Wood E, Kerr T, Bourgois P. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 110:160-163.
- 2010“The Challenge of Pregnancy among Homeless Youth: Reclaiming a Lost Opportunity.” Journal for Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 21:2:140-156. (Second author with co-authors Marcela Smid and Colette Auerswald.)
- 2010“Recognizing Invisible Violence: A Thirty-Year Ethnographic Retrospective.” Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Linda Whiteford, and Paul Farmer, eds. Global Health in Times of Violence. Pp. 17-40. Santa Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research Press.
a.Spanish translation (with revisions): “Treinta años de retrospectiva etnográfica sobre la violencia en las Américas” Julián López García, Santiago Bastos, and Manuela Camus, eds. Guatemala: Violencias Desbordadas. Pp. 27-62. Cordoba, Spain: Universidad de Cordoba, Servicio de Publicaciones. 2009.
b.French translation (with revisions): "Théoriser la violence en Amérique: Retour sur trente ans d’ethnographie.” L'Homme: Revue française d'anthropologie3-4:203-204:139-168. 2012.
- 2010“Useless Suffering: The War on Homeless Drug Addicts." In The Insecure American: How We Got Here and What We Should Do About It. Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman, eds. Pp 238-254. Berkeley: University of California Press.
a.Revised version published as: "Homelessness, Addiction, and Politically Structured Suffering in the US War on Drugs.” In Drugs and Culture: Knowledge, Consumption and Policy. Geoffrey Hunt, Maitena Milhet, and Henri Bergeron eds. Pp 241-260. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing. [2011].
- 2010"Narrating the Narco World: A Dialogue with Cristian Alarcón and Philippe Bourgois." Salud colectiva. 6:3:357-369. Interview moderated by Diego Galeano.
- 2009“À la Marge. Risquer l’Anthropologie: Entretien avec Philippe Bourgois.” Altérités, 6:2:136-150. (Interview moderated by Nelson Arruda.)
- 2009“Tão perto de casa, tão longe de nós: etnografia das novas margens no centro: Entrevista com Philippe Bourgois.” Interview moderated by Luis Fernandes. Etnográfica 13:1:197-211.
- 2008“The Mystery of Marijuana: Science and the U.S. War on Drugs.” Substance Use & Misuse 43: 581-583.
- 2008“Understanding Illicit Substance Use in the Real World.” Medical Education 42: 513–543. (Final (senior) author with co-authors Dan Ciccarone and Sharad Jain.)
- 2008“Sofferenza e vulnerabilità socialmente strutturate. Tossicodipendenti senzatetto negli Stati Uniti.” [Suffering and Socially Structured Vulnerability] In Antropologia: Violenza Vol 8, num. 9 & 10:113-136. Rome: Meltemi. NIHMS220332.
- 2006 “Reinterpreting Ethnic Patterns among White and African American Men who Inject Heroin: A SocialScience of Medicine Approach.” Public Library of Science(PLoS) Medicine. 3:10:1805-1815, 2006. < (First author with co-authors Alexis Martinez, Alex Kral, Brian Edlin, Jeff Schonberg, Dan Ciccarone.)
- 2006“The Price of Adherence: Qualitative Findings From HIV Positive Individuals Purchasing Fixed-Dose Combination Generic HIV Antiretroviral Therapy in Kampala, Uganda.” AIDS and Behavior 10:4:437-442. (Sixth author with co-authors J. T. Crane, A. Kawuma, J. H. Oyugi, J. T. Byakika, A. Moss, and D. R. Bangsberg.)
- 2006 “Viaje al centro de la ciudad opaca: diálogos con Philippe Bourgois.” Alteridades 16:32:83-100. (Interview moderated by Alvaro Garreaud and Dario Malventi.)
- 2005 “Epilogo 2005: L'esasperazione strutturale degli abusi sul sottoproletariato” Pp. 339-349. In Cercando Rispetto: Drug economy e cultura di strada. Rome: Derive Approdi. 2005.
a.Spanish translation in: En Busca de Rispetto: Vendiendo Crack en Harlem. Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI.
- 2005 “Intimate apartheid: Ethnic dimensions of habitus among homeless heroin injectors.” Ethnography 8:1:7-33. (Awarded the Virchow Prize from the Society for Critical Medical Anthropology). 2007.
a.French version: “Un ‘apartheid intime’: Dimensions ethniques de l’habitus chez les toxicomanes sans-abri de San Francisco.” Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 160:32-45. (First author with co-author Jeff Schonberg). 2005
b.Spanish version: “Apartheid íntimo: Dimensiones étnicas del habitus entre los heroinómanos sin techo. Pensar. 3/4:66-90. 2009.
- 2005 “Social Structural Production of HIV Among Injection Drug Users.” Social Science & Medicine 61:5:1026-1044. (Third author with co-authors Tim Rhodes, Merrill Singer, Samuel Friedman, and Steffanie Strathdee.)
- 2005 “‘You Can’t Do Nothing in This Damn Place’: Sex and Intimacy Among Couples With an Incarcerated Male Partner.” The Journal of Sex Research 42:1:3-12. (Fourth author with co-authors Megan Comfort, Olga Grinstead, Kathleen McCartney, and Kelly Knight.)
- 2005 “Missing the Holocaust: My Father’s Account of Auschwitz from August 1943 to June 1944.” Anthropological Quarterly 78:1:89-123.
- 2004 “U.S. Inner city apartheid and the war on drugs: Crack among homeless heroin addicts.” In Unhealthy Health Policy: A Critical Anthropological Examination. Arachu Castro, and Merill Singer eds. Pp. 303-313. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.
a.Revised French version: “Le crack et l’économie politique de la souffrance sociale.” In Villes et toxicomanies: De la connaissance à la prévention.Michel Joubert, Pilar Giraux-Arcella, and Chantal Mougin, eds. Pp. 85-92. Paris: Erès. 2005.
- 2004“Everyday Violence and the Gender of Hepatitis C Among Young Women Who Inject Drugs in San Francisco.” Human Organization. 63:3:253-264. (First author with co-authors Bridget Prince and Andrew Moss.)
- 2004 “Masculinity and Undocumented Labor Migration: Injured Latino Day Laborers in San Francisco.” Social Science and Medicine. 59:6:1159-1168. (Second author with co-authors Nick Walter and Margarita Loinaz.)
- 2004“The Everyday Violence of Gang Rape.” In Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology. Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Philippe Bourgois, eds. Pp. 339-343. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
- 2004 “Introduction: Making Sense of Violence.” In Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology. Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Philippe Bourgois, eds. Pp. 1-27. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. (Second author with co-author Nancy Scheper-Hughes.)
- 2003“One Hundred Years of United Fruit Company Letters.” In Banana Wars: Power, Production and History in the Americas. Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg, eds. Pp. 103-144. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.
- 2003“Philippe Bourgois in Amsterdam: An Interview.” Moderated by Bowen Paulle. Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift 30:4:544-574.
- 2003“Explaining the Geographic Variation of HIV among Injection Drug Users in the United States.” Substance Use and Misuse. 38:14:2049-2063 (Second author with co-author Dan Ciccarone.)
- 2003 “Forward.” In Laughter out of Place: Race, Class, Violence and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown, Donna Goldstein, author. Pp. xiii-xvii. Berkeley: The University of California Press. (Second author with co-author Nancy Scheper-Hughes.)
- 2003 “University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine.” Academic Medicine. 78:10:1060-61.
- 2003 “Crack and the Political Economy of Social Suffering.” Addiction Research and Theory. 11:1:31-37.
a.Spanish translation: “Crack-cocaína y economía política del sufrimiento social en Norteamérica.” Monografias Humanitas 5:95-103.