Garry L. Thomas Department of Anthropology Associate Professor of Anthropology Field: Cultural Anthropology Tel: 607-274-3574 (office) Tel: 607-273-7567 (home) Fax: 607-274-3474 E-mail: thomasg@ithaca.edu Address: 114 Delaware Avenue Ithaca, NY 14850

Degrees: B.A., 1961 - Political Science and History, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana.
M.A., 1968 - Social Science, Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University;
Certificate, 1968 - Eastern African Studies, Program of Eastern African Studies,
Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.

Garry Thomas is a cultural anthropologist at Ithaca College, specializing in African studies, development/applied anthropology, globalization, environmental anthropology, and community forestry. He has lived and worked in Tanzania, East Africa, for more than six years in a variety of quasi-civil servant and research/consulting capacities, almost all in the area of rural development. He regularly teaches such courses as Modern Africa, Applied Anthropology, Environmental Anthropology, and Anthropological Field Methods, as well as two introductory-level courses, Global Studies and a First Year Seminar, Crossing Cultures: The Anthropology of International Travel.

During the summers, sabbaticals and leaves of absence, Garry has frequently worked as a researcher, consultant and trainer for a variety of employers, most notably with the Community Forestry Unit in the Forestry Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Rome, Italy). For that organization, he has served as Publications Manager (1991-92), Principal Technical Advisor to the Community Forestry Conflict Management Programme (1993-94), Moderator of an Electronic/E-Mail Conference on ìAddressing Natural Resource Conflicts through Community Forestryî(January-May 1996), and Visiting Expert in community-based forest resources management (January-June 1999). He has also had contracts as a trainer/consultant, in Malawi, Costa Rica, United States, and most recently in Tanzania, where he served as Cross-Cultural Training Coordinator for US Peace Corps (September-December 1998). In addition to his research in Tanzania, he ran ethnographic field schools in the Bahamas for four different years in the 1970s.

Partial List of Publications:

"A South African White on Apartheid: A Rationalization for Self-Preservation," Maxwell Review, Vol. III, no. 1, February 1967.

"Let Economic Strata Stay: Agricultural Capitalism and Rural Development in Tanzania," East African Journal, Vol. IV, no. 7, November 1967.

Tanzania Village Development Project: Project Paper, (co-author), prepared for USAID/Washington by USAID/Tanzania and Development Alternatives, Inc. (Contract No. AID-otr-C-1383), September 1977.

Understanding Tree Use in Farming Systems (co-author). Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization of The United Nations, 1985.

Alternative Conflict Management and Community Forestry (co-author). Working Paper No. 1, Forests, Trees and People Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, October 1994.

"Addressing Natural Resource Conflicts through Community Forestry: Setting the Stage" (co-author) and " Leveling the Playing Field: Promoting Authentic and Equitable Dialogue Under Inequitable Conditions" (co-author), in Compilation of Discussion Papers made to the Electronic Conference on Addressing Natural Resource Conflicts through Community Forestry, January-May 1996,Vol. I, Forests, Trees, and People Programme, Forestry Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1997; Moderator\'s contributions also included in Compilation of Contributions made to Electronic Conference on Addressing Natural Resource Conflicts through Community Forestry, January-May 1996, Vol. II, Forests, Trees, and People Programme, Forestry Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1996.

"Crossing Cultures in Tanzania: Cross Cultural Component Pre-Service Training Final Report," US Peace Corps/Tanzania, January 1999

Chakula kwa Siku za Baadaye (co-translator; Swahili translation of EarthBird Magazine No. 1, Food for the Future), Forests, Trees, and People Programme, Forestry Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2000.

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