Education
Ph.D., Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2002 Dissertation titled, "At Home in the World: Philippine Protestants and the Creation of Context."
M.A., Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1997
M.A., Cross Cultural Studies, Fuller Seminary, CA 1995
B.A., Social Studies, Wesleyan University, CT 1991
Courses Taught
- Introduction to Anthropology
- Anthropology through Film
- Globalization
- Culture Theory
- Culture, Travel, and Tourism
- Power and Gender in Southeast Asia
Membership in Professional Societies
- American Anthropological Association (AAA)
- American Ethnological Society
- Society for the Anthropology of Religion
- Society of Urban and Transnational Anthropology
Research
Individual: Dr. Howell is currently revising his doctoral dissertation for publication. The dissertation, entitled "At Home in the World: Philippine Baptists and the Creation of Context" explores the understanding of place and context as it is experienced and created in several congregations of Baptists in the Northern Philippine city of Baguio. In addition to continuing his work on global Christianity, Dr. Howell is working on the process of "racial reconciliation" and the development of racial ideology in U.S. congregations and hopes to soon begin work on a project involving the role of short-term missions in the constructions of our discourse and understanding of non-Western Others.
For a full listing of Dr. Howell's publications, please reference his Curriculum Vitae (PDF format).