Department of Sociology , 429A Berkey Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1111
Telephone: 517/355-5048 E-mail: craig.harris@ssc.msu.edu

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BIRTHDAY:  1 November 1945

BIRTHPLACE AND ADOLESCENCE:  Madison, Wisconsin

EDUCATION:
       

OCCUPATIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Associate Professor, Sociology and Rural Sociology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, July 1982 to present

Visiting Research Socioeconomist, Uganda Freshwater Fisheries Research Organization, Jinja, Uganda, 1991

Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal, 1990

Visiting Associate Professor, Rural Sociology and Agricultural Extension, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 1987-1988

Acting Coordinator, Population and Resources Center, College of Social Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1979-1982

OCCUPATIONAL EXPERIENCE (continued):

Assistant Professor, Sociology and Rural Sociology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1977-1982

Research Associate, Evaluation Studies Section, Institute of Public Policy Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1976-1977


PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS:

Agriculture and the Environment: American Citizens Speak Out (with R. J. Molnar, T. Tomazic and R. Wimberley), forthcoming, Boulder: Westview Press.

"Tensions In the Management of the Lake Victoria Fisheries" (with D. S. Wiley and D. C. Wilson), forthcoming in Journal of African Urban and Rural Studies.

"Socio-Economic Impacts of Introducing Foreign Species Into Lake Victoria Fisheries" (with D. S. Wiley and D. C. Wilson), pp. 215-242 in T. J. Pitcher and P. J. B. Hart (eds.) The Impact of Species changes In African Lakes, London: Chapman and Hall, 1995.

"The Implications for Participatory Fisheries Management of Intensified Commercialization
     on Lake Victoria" Wilson, D.C., M. Medard, C.K. Harris, and D.S. Wiley 1999 Rural
     Sociology 64(4):554- 572

"Mapping the Middle Road for Michigan Pest Management Policy" (with M. E. Whalon), pp.
     103-138 in Frani Bickart (ed.), Policy Choices: Creating Michigan's Future, East Lansing:
     Michigan State University Press, 1995.

"On Gobal Pond: International Development and Commodity Chains In the Shrimp Industry"
     (with Michael Skladany), pp. 169-191 in P. McMichael (ed.) Food and Agricultural
     Systems In the World Economy, Westport: Greenwood Press, 1995.
 
"Social Dimensions of Fisheries", a Special Issue of Society and Natural Resources (edited with
     C. K. Vanderpool), 5(2), April-June 1992.

"Society and Fishery Resources" (with C. K. Vanderpool), Society and Natural Resources,
     5(2):111-114, April-June 1992.

"Marine Resource Development and Developing Countries:  Rough Seas to Neptune's Treasures"
     (with C.K. Vanderpool and N.S. Merson), pp. The Right to Food:  Technology, Policy
     and Third World Agriculture,  Montreal: Canadian Associates of Ben-Gurion University
     of the Negev, 1988

Proceedings of the Exploratory Workshop on Fisheries Sociology (edited with C. Bailey, C.
     Heaton and R. Ladner), Woods Hole:  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1986.

PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS (continued):

"Toward a Sociology of Fisheries" in Proceedings of the Exploratory Workshop on Fisheries
     Sociology (edited with C. Bailey, C. Heaton and R. Ladner), Woods Hole:  Woods Hole
     Oceanographic Institution, 1986.

"Future Directions for Research On Fisheries Sociology" (with C. Bailey and C.K. Vanderpool)
     in Proceedings of the Exploratory Workshop on Fisheries Sociology (edited with C.
     Bailey, C. Heaton and R. Ladner), Woods Hole:  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1986.     

A Profile of the Michigan Commercial Fisherman in 1975, Michigan Sea Grant Program
     Technical Publication, Ann Arbor, MICHU-SG-82-205, June 1982.

"Food Systems".  Pp. 53-55 in Energy and the Adaptation of Human Settlements, Herman E.
     Koenig and Lawrence M. Sommers (eds.), East Lansing:  Michigan State University, 1980.

The Uses of Diversity--Modernization in the Michigan Fishing Industry, Ph.D. Dissertation,
     1978, available from University Microfilms.

Evaluation Bibliography, Working Paper, Institute for Public Policy Studies, University of
     Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1977.


BOOK REVIEWS:

Gender, Class and Rural Transition by Maureen Mackintosh, WID Bulletin, 1990.

Texas Shrimpers by Robert L. Maril, Contemporary Sociology  14(1), 1985:108.

Environmental Decision Making in Rural Locales by Joan Goldstein, Contemporary Sociology, November 1983: 12(6), 679.

Communities of Opposition by Brian C. Aldrich and Edward Mack, Contemporary Sociology, 11(4), July 1982: 410-411.


PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES:

"Socioeconomic Changes In the Ugandan Lake Victoria Fishery".  Uganda Fisheries Research Institute, Jinja, 16 June 1995.

"Global Pesticide Use", presented at the Agrarian Futures Conference, University of Wageningen, May 1995.

"Water Issues In Africa".  Panel discussion for Hunger Awareness Week, Center for Advanced
     Study of International Development, Michigan State University, 13 October 1994.

"The Relationship Between Fisheries and the World Water Situation".  Hunger Awareness Week,
     Center for Advanced Study of International Development, Michigan State University, 10 October 1994.

"The Transnational State and the International Fish".  International Sociology Association meetings, Bielefeld, July 1994.

"Integrated Pest Management: A Harbinger of (Non-Silent) Spring" (with M. E. Whalon).  Rural
     Sociological Society meetings, Columbus, 1991.

"Social Dimensions of Fisheries Management", Social Assessment of Fisheries Resources
     Symposium, Kettunen Center, 4 September 1985.

"Toward a Sociology of Fisheries", Workshop On Fisheries Sociology, Woods Hole, 26 April 1985.

"The Uses of Diversity in Great Lakes Fishery Policies", 1984 Rural Sociological Society meetings, College Station.

"The World System and Marine Resource Development" (with C.K. Vanderpool and Nancy S.
     Merson), 1984 Rural Sociological Society meetings, College Station.

"Marine Resource Development and Developing Countries: Rough Seas to Neptune's Treasures"
     (with C.K. Vanderpool and N.S. Merson), The Right to Food: An International
     Conference on Freedom from Hunger, 25-31 May 1984, Montreal.

"The Uses of Diversity in Great Lakes Fishery Policies", Twenty-seventh Conference of the
     International Association for Great Lakes Research, St. Catharine's Ontario, 3 May 1984.

"International and National Development of Fisheries Resources", Second Symposium On the
     Political Economy of Food and Agriculture, August 1983, Ann Arbor.

PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES (continued):

"The  Political Ecology of the Great Lakes Commercial Fishing Industry", Conference on the
     Political Economy of Food and Agriculture in Advanced Industrial Societies, 19 August 1981, Guelph.

"Diversification and Innovation", Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, 28 April 1978.

"Anti-Schistosomiasis Campaigns in China", Rural Sociological Society, New York, 29 August 1976.


PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

American Sociological Association
     Environmental Sociology Section
     Newsletter Editor, 1983-1985

Rural Sociological Society
     Natural Resources Research Group

American Fisheries Society
     Socioeconomics Section
     International Section
     Chair-elect, 1995-1997

Society and Natural Resources
     Associate Editor, 1987 - 1993.

National Science Foundation, research proposal reviewer.

American Sociological Association Problems of the Discipline Grant on Sociology of Fisheries, 1984-1986

Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress, external research reviewer, 1984-1985

AID Title XII Competitive Grant for the Strengthening of Social Survey Materials on
     Francophone West Africa, Michigan State University, 1982 

Center for Advanced Study of International Development Grant for the Impacts of Biotechnology
     on International Development, Michigan State University, 1983


GRANTS RECEIVED:

"Adoption of Biological Pest Management Techniques By United States Farmers" (with M. E.
     Whalon), United States Office of Technology Assessment, 1994, $16,000.

"The Adoption of LISA Techniques of Pest Management By North Central Fruit Growers" (with
     T. C. Edens and M. E. Whalon), North Central Low Input Sustainable Agriculture
     Program, 1992-1995, $42,000.

"Fragile Lakes, Fragile Lands:  A Collaborative Research Project on the Transnational Lakes of
     East Africa and Latin America" (with D. Wiley and others), MacArthur Foundation, 1990-1992, $350,000.


CONSULTANCIES

United States Information Agency Linkage Grant Between Michigan State University and the
     University of Senegal at St. Louis.  Developing a curriculum for a department of
     sociology at the new university. April-May 1990.

U. S. Agency for International Development Food Security Project.  Developing the design
     (including instruments and analysis) for a large scale survey of agroforestry in Rwanda. June-July 1990.

Uganda Freshwater Fisheries Research Organization.  Developing the outline of a program of
     socioeconomic research (including funding and staffing).  January-July 1991.

World Bank.  Evaluating the plans for community participation in the proposed Lake Victoria
     Environmental Management Program.  December 1995.


LANGUAGE COMPETENCE:

     English, native speaker
     French, fluent lecturing and reading
     Swahili, conversational
     Mandarin, conversational