Robert Ulin

Professor of Anthropology and Chair
Ph.D. 1979 New School for Social Research

Contact
Moore 1005
(269) 387-2753
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Research interests: Anthropology of Europe, social and cultural theory, political economy, ethnohistory, globalization, nationalism, wine growing, commodities

Regional focus: France, Germany, North America

Selected publications: Ulin, R (2007) Writing about Wine: The Uses of Nature and History in the Wine Growing of Southwest France and America", in The Golden Grape-Wine, Society and Globalization: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Wine Industry, edited by Gwyn Campbell & Nathalie Guibert, Palgrave MacMillan.

Ulin, R (2005) Remembering Paul Ricoeur: 1913-2005. Anthropological Quarterly 78:885-896.

Ulin, R (2004) Globalization and Alternative Localities. Anthropologica: The Journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society 46:

Ulin, R (2001) Understanding Cultures: Perspectives in Anthropology and Social Theory. 2nd edition, Blackwell Publishers.

A closer look: Robert Ulin has recently completed a new edition of his book Understanding Cultures which includes new essays on Modernism and Post-Modernism in Anthropology and Post Colonial Theory and has been translated into Chinese by Guogiang He and published by Peking (Beijing) University Press. He is currently doing further research on the general theme of the culture of work and plans to continue his research in France with a return to the southwest of France to look at 19th century wine growing associations and to examine how wine cooperatives are faring with changes brought about through the EU. He has also recently begun research on wineries in Michigan and Germany.