Bruce Whitehouse

HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS

• LVAIC Collaborative Program Grant, 2016-2017
• Fulbright U.S. Scholar, Bamako, Mali, 2011-2012
• Faculty Research Grant, Center for Global Islamic Studies, Lehigh University, 2011- 2012
• Course Development Grant, Center for Global Islamic Studies, Lehigh University, 2010- 2011
• Faculty Research Grant, Center for Global Islamic Studies, Lehigh University, 2010- 2011
• Postdoctoral research fellowship, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, 2007 – 2008
• Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School, Brown University, 2006 – 2007
• Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 2004
• Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation, 2004
• Supplemental research funds, Andrew Mellon Program in Anthropological Demography, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, 2002 and 2003
• Fellowship for graduate study, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health, 2002 – 2004
• Fellowship for graduate study, Graduate School, Brown University, 2001 – 2002

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books and book chapters
2015 “Mali.” In Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2014, edited by Sebastian Elischer, Rolf Hofmeier, Andreas Mehler, and Henning Melber, Brill, pp. 109-116.

2014 “Mali.” In Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2013, edited by Andreas Mehler, Henning Melber, and Klaas van Walraven, Brill, pp. 123-130.

2013 “Overcoming the economistic fallacy: Social determinants of voluntary migration from the Sahel to the Congo Basin.” In African Migration: Patterns and Perspectives, edited by Abdoulaye Kane and Todd Leedy, Indiana University Press.

2012 Migrants and Strangers in an African City: Exile, Dignity, Belonging, Indiana University Press.

2012 “Centripetal Forces: Reconciling cosmopolitan lives and local loyalty in a Malian transnational social field.” In West African Migrations: Transnational and Global Pathways in a New Century, edited by Olufemi Vaughan and Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome, Palgrave McMillan.

Journal articles
2016 “Sadio’s Choice: Love, Materialism and Consensual Marriage in Bamako, Mali.” Africa Today 62(3): 28-46.

2015 “Introduction: Rethinking Challenges to State Sovereignty in Mali and Northwest Africa.” African Security 8(4): 213-226 (with Francesco Strazzari).

2014 “The Malian Government’s Challenge to Restore Order in the North.” CTC Sentinel 7(2): 12-14, February 24.

2014 “Women in limbo: Life course consequences of infertility in a Nigerian community.”"Human Fertility 17(3): 188-191 (with Marida Hollos).

2014 “Definitions and the Experience of Fertility Problems: Infertile and Sub-fertile Women, Childless Mothers and Honorary Mothers in Two Southern Nigerian Communities.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 28(1): 122-139 (Bruce Whitehouse and Marida Hollos).

2013 “‘A Festival of Brigands’: In Search of Democracy and Political Legitimacy in Mali.” Strategic Review for Southern Africa 35(2): 35-52.

2013 “The Stranger's Code: Explaining the Persistence of Distinct Identity among West African Traders in Brazzaville, Congo.” TSEG/Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History 10(2): 82-101.

2013 “One hippopotamus and eight blind analysts: A multivocal analysis of the 2012 political crisis in the divided Republic of Mali.” Review of African Political Economy 40 (137): 343-357 (Baz Lecocq, Gregory Mann, Bruce Whitehouse, Dida Badi, Lotte Pelckmans, Nadia Belalimat, Bruce Hall & Wolfram Lacher).

2012 “The Force of Action: Legitimizing the Coup in Bamako, Mali.” Africa Spectrum 47(2- 3): 93-110.

2012 “What went wrong in Mali?” The London Review of Books 34(16): 17-18.

2011 « Approche comparative des familles dispersées (Mali/Congo) : Education et espaces nationaux », Autrepart 57/58.

2011 “Enterprising Strangers: Social Capital and Social Liability Among African Migrant Traders.” International Journal of Social Inquiry 4(1): 93-111.

2010  “Suffering infertility: the impact of infertility on women's life experiences in two Nigerian communities.” Journal of Biosocial Science 42(6): 787-814 (Ulla Larsen, Marida Hollos, Oka Obono and Bruce Whitehouse).

2009 “The problem of infertility in high fertility populations: Meanings, consequences and coping mechanisms in two Nigerian communities,” Social Science & Medicine 68: 2061- 2068 (Marida Hollos, Ulla Larsen, Oka Obono and Bruce Whitehouse).

2009 « Migrants et insécurité existentielle : le cas de Brazzaville », Hommes et Migrations 1279: 80-87.

2009 “Discrimination, despoliation and irreconcilable difference: host-immigrant tensions in Brazzaville, Congo,” Africa Spectrum 1/2009: 39-59.

2009 “Transnational childrearing and the preservation of transnational identity in Brazzaville, Congo,” Global Networks 9(1): 82-99.

2008  “(In)fertility and the modern female life course in two southern Nigerian communities,” Ethnology 47(1): 23-43 (Marida Hollos and Bruce Whitehouse).