Hsain Illahiane

EDUCATION

1998 Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Arizona .

1989 M.A. International Development, George Washington University .

1987 B.A. International Relations, Catholic University of America .

1983 Baccalauréat, Lycée Sijilmassa, Errachidia, Morocco.

LANGUAGES

Berber (native), Arabic (fluent), French (fluent), English (fluent), and Spanish (intermediate).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Information and communication technologies; small-scale farming; community-based resource management; Islamic charitable institutions; Islamic education practices; informal sector; political ecology; ethnography; Middle East; Africa.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2005-Present Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Iowa State

University.

2006-2007 Visiting Senior Researcher at Intel Corporation, Oregon .

1999-2005 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Iowa State University.

1999 Research Associate, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona .

1998 Consultant, CARE/USA.

1998 Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona .

1996 World Bank Summer Intern, Agriculture and Natural Resources Division, Water Policy Sector, Washington , DC .

1991 Consultant, USAID/Morocco.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

2006 The Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen). Lanham , MD : Scarecrow Press, Inc.

2004 Ethnicities, Community Making, and Agrarian Change: The Political Ecology of a Moroccan Oasis. Lanham , MD : University Press of America .

Peer-reviewed Articles

Mary Nyasimi, Lorna Butler, Lee Burras, Hsain Ilahiane, Richard Schultz, and Jan Flora

2007 Differentiating Livelihood Strategies among the Luo and Kipsigis People in Western Kenya . Journal of Ecological Anthropology 11: 42-56.

Hsain Ilahiane and John Sherry

Forthcoming Joutia: Street Vendor Entrepreneurship and the Informal Economy of Information and Communication Technologies in Morocco . The Journal of North African Studies.

In Press Integrated Land and Water Management in Morocco : Perspectives from the Ziz Oasis. In Land Use and Water Resources Research Journal.

2005 Water Conflict and Time Perception in the Upper Ziz Valley , Morocco . Prologues 32 (Hiver): 66-74.

2003 Making Histories on Location: International Migration and Social Change in Southern Morocco . The Maghreb Review 28 (1): 27-40.

2002 Globalization Is a Good Thing: “French Colonial Opportunities” and the Rise of the Haratine in Morocco . Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 12(1): 109-125.

2001 The Social Mobility of the Haratine and the Re-working of Bourdieu’s Habitus on the Saharan Frontier , Morocco . American Anthropologist 103 (2): 380-394.

2001 The Break-up of the Ksar Community: Settlement Change Patterns and Environmental Management in Southern Morocco . Africa Today 48 (1): 21-50.

Hsain Ilahiane and Thomas Park

2001 Sources for the Socio-economic Study of Rural Morocco. International Journal of Middle East Studies 33: 271-290.

2001 Estevan de Dorantes, The Moor or the Slave? The Other Moroccan Explorer of New Spain . The Journal of North African Studies 5 (3): 1-14.

1999 Berber Agdal Institution: Indigenous Range Management in the Atlas Mountains . Ethnology 1: 21-45.

1996 Small-Scale Irrigation in a Multi-ethnic Environment: The Case of Zaouit Amelkis Village , Southeast Morocco . Journal of Political Ecology (3): 89-106.

Book Chapters

Tony Salvador, Hsain Ilahiane, and John Sherry

2007 ICT4D → ICT4X : Mitigating the Impact of Cognitive Heuristics and Biases in Ethnographic Business Practice. In Proceedings of the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference 2007, organized by M. Cefkin and K. Anderson. Pp. 122-131. http://www.epic2007.com/Draft-EPIC2007-Proceedings.pdf

2005 Les rituels de (véritable) rébellion des Haratines: élections et ethnicités dans l’oasis du Ziz. In Scènes et coulisses de l’élection au Maroc: Les législatives 2002, edited by M. Bennani-Chraïbi, M. Catusse, and J.C. Santucci. Paris: Les éditions Karthala.

2003 La mobilité sociale des Haratines du Sud du Maroc: de la pertinence du concept de l’Habitus de Bourdieu. In L’Anthropologie du Maghreb: Les Apports de Berque, Bourdieu, Geertz et Gellner, edited by L. Addi. Pp. 157-177. Paris , France : Awal/Ibis Press.

John Sherry, Tony Salvador, and Hsain Ilahiane

2003 Navigating Multiple Networks: ICTs, Multinationals and Development. In Connected for Development: Information Kiosks and Sustainability, edited by A. Badshah, S. Khan and M. Garrido. Pp. 25-34. ICT Task Force Series 4. New York : United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force.

Hsain Ilahiane and Jeff Altschul

2002 Islanders and Mainlanders: A Critical Review of the Anthropological Literature. In Islanders and Mainlanders: Prehistoric Context for the Southern California Bight, edited by J. H. Altschul and D. R. Grenda. Pp. 11-40. Tucson , AZ : SRI Press.

2001 The Ethno-politics of Irrigation Management in the Ziz Oasis , Morocco . In Natural Communities? Ethnicity, Gender, and the State in Community-Based Conservation, edited by Clark C. Gibson and Arun Agrawal. Pp. 89-110. New Brunswick , NJ : Rutgers University Press.

1999 Spanish Balconies in Morocco : A Window on Cultural Influence and Historical Persistence in the Mallah (Jewish) Community. In Charting Memory: Recalling Medieval Spain , edited by S. Beckwith . Pp. 171-193. New York : Garland Press.

Abdelghani Chehbouni, Hsain Ilahiane, Yves Kerr, and Pierre Bauer

1997 Les Processus de Désertification. In L’espace au service de l’environnement. Pp. 249-254. Toulouse , France : Editions Cépaduès.

John Welch, Jonathan Mabry, and Hsain Ilahiane

1996 Rapid Rural Appraisal of Arid Lands Irrigation: A Moroccan Example. In Canals and Communities: Small-Scale Irrigation Systems, edited by J.B. Mabry. Pp. 119-138. Tucson : University of Arizona Press.

Journal Articles in Progress

Hsain Ilahiane and John Sherry

Mobile Phones, Globalization, and Economic Productivity in Morocco . In preparation for submission to the Journal of Community Informatics.

Hsain Ilahiane

Impacts of Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture: Farmers and Mobile Phones in Morocco . In preparation for submission to Human Organization.

Popular Media

2007 Personal Digital Money

http://www.podtech.net/home/3502/intel-research-day-money

2007 Islamic Charitable Institutions and the Promotion of Community-based Technology: Towards E-madrasas in Morocco .

http://oregonstate.edu/education/podcasts/podcastees/ilahiane/

Environment and Development Monographs

Hsain Ilahiane, Thomas McGuire, and Richard Stoffle

1999 Assessment of the Economic, Social, and Political Landscapes of the U.S.-Mexico Sonoran Desert Ecoregion, The Sonoran Institute and The Nature Conservancy, Tucson, AZ.

Richard Stoffle, Rebecca Toupal, and Hsain Ilahiane

1999 Tohono O’odham Tribal Resource Management and Conservation Plan, Tohono O’odham Nation, Sells, AZ.

Richard Stoffle, Rebecca Toupal, and Hsain Ilahiane

1999 Environmental and Cultural Impact Statement of Intermodal Transportation of Hazardous Waste to the Nevada Test Site, Dept. of Energy, Las Vegas, NV.

Anna Guilliano, Hsain Ilahiane, and Barron Orr

1998 Review and Evaluation of CARE USAID’s Title II PL 480 Food Aid Program Proposals, Atlanta , GA , CARE/USA.

Hsain Ilahiane and Claude Bart

1997 Major Constraints on Food. In A Baseline Study of Livelihood Security in the Departments of the Artibonite, Center, North, Northeast, and West, Republic of Haiti , Pp. 325-357. Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona

1996 Les Coopératives Féminines d’Elevage Ovin au Sud Marocain: Une stratégie de Développement Economique Durable. Case study submitted to the FAO’s Program on Socio-Economic and Gender Analysis (SEGA).

1996 Le Développement Rural au Mali: La Problématique Institutionnelle des Femmes Rurales dans la Production Agricole. Case Study submitted to the FAO’s Program on Socio-Economic and Gender Analysis (SEGA).

1994 Cultural and Maritime Adaptation of Island Societies to Coastal Environments. Report submitted to Statistical Research, Inc., Tucson , AZ.

Jonathan Mabry, Hsain Ilahiane, and John Welch

1991 Rapid Rural Appraisal of Moroccan Irrigation Systems: Methodological Lessons from the Pre-Sahara. Report submitted to USAID/Rabat, Morocco .

AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

2007 Elected Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology.

2007-08 Intel Corporation Grant to investigate Islamic education practices.

2001-2004 Intel Corporation Grant to investigate the Impacts of Mobile Technology on Productivity Growth in Small-and Medium-Scale Business Establishments in Morocco.

2003 Iowa State University Vice Provost for Research Publication Subvention Grant.

Lorna M. Butler and Hsain Ilahiane

2001 Iowa State University Council on International Programs Grant for the “Internationalization of the Graduate Program in Sustainable Agriculture through Faculty-Student Engagement.”

Deborah Muenchrath, Lorna Butler, Richard Carter, Shu-min Huang, Hsain Ilahiane, and Grace Marquis

2001 Iowa State University Council on International Programs Grant for the Global Seminar Course (with Deborah Muenchrath et al.).

1999 Iowa State University Science, Technology, and Society Research Grant. Project: “Olives, Presses, and the Pursuit of Pure Olive Oil: Technology and Knowledge Transformations in Rural Morocco .”

1997-1998 Weatherhead Resident Scholar, School of American Research, Santa Fe , NM .

1994 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Grant, archival research in Chateau de Vincennes and Le Centre de Hautes Etudes d’Administration Musulmane, Paris , France .

1994 National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, "Ethnicity and Agricultural Intensification in the Ziz Valley , Southeast Morocco ."

1991-1994 Graduate Fellowships, University of Arizona .

John Welch, Hsain Ilahiane, and Jonathan Mabry

1991 United States Agency for International Development Grant, Study of Irrigation Systems in the Ziz Valley Region of Morocco .

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Invited Papers and Workshops

2008 Quelles représentations de l’argent “halal” dans l’imaginaire des marocains? Paper accepted for presentation at the colloque international sur L’Argent et L’Ethique. Centre d’Etudes sociales, Economiques et Manageriales. Rabat , Morocco . May 22.

2008 Waqf (Islamic trust) and Information Technology Schemes: Towards a Sustainable ICTs Business Model in the Islamic World. Paper presented at the 9^th Annual Crossing Borders Convocation on Transitions in Modern Muslim Societies, University of Iowa , Iowa City. April 4.

2007 Islamic Charitable Institutions and Community-based Technology: Towards E-Madrasas in Morocco . Poster presented at Intel Research Day. Santa Clara , CA . June 15.

2007 Personal Digital Money. Poster presented at Intel Research Day. Santa Clara , CA . June 15. (With Scott Mainwaring and Wendy March).

2007 Cash Waqf (endowments) and Sustainable ICTs Development: The Case of Sidi Zouine Quranic Madrasa in Morocco . Paper presented at Intel Corporation. Beaverton , OR . May 24.

2007 New Communication Technologies in the Middle East: Mobile Phones and Socio-economic Change in Morocco . Keynote speaker to the Middle East and North Africa Graduate Student Forum. Near Eastern Studies Department, Tucson , AZ. April 19.

2007 Madrasas (Quranic schools) and the Potential for Computing. Graduate Student seminar delivered to the Middle East and North Africa Graduate Student Forum. Near Eastern Studies Department, Tucson , AZ. April 20.

2005 Mobile phones, Globalization, and Economic Productivity in Urban Morocco . Paper presented at Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Middle East Series. Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor . September 23.

2004 Mobile phones, Globalization, and Productivity in Morocco . Paper Presented at the IT, Globalization & the Future Workshop. Intel Corporation, Hillsboro , OR . June 17-18.

John Sherry, Tony Salvador, and Hsain Ilahiane

2003 Beyond the Digital Divide: Thinking Through Networks. Paper presented at the Wireless World Research Forum Conference. New York , NY . October 27-28.

Hsain Ilahiane and Tony Salvador

2003 Building Communities. Workshop Leaders at the Meaning of Place Forum. Intel Corporation. Hillsboro , OR . September 9-10.

2003 Haratine Rituals of Real Rebellion: Elections and Ethnicities in the Ziz Oasis, Part II. Paper presented at Journée d’études: Les élections 2002 au Maroc, organized by L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques et Internationales (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland) and l’Institut de Recherches et d’Etudes sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman, Aix-en-Provence, France. July 4-6.

2003 Migration Remittances and Ethnic Changes in Morocco : The Case of the Haratine of the Ziz

Oasis. Paper presented at dynamiques migratoires marocaines: histoire, économie,

politique et culture. Colloque organized by Génériques et le Centre de documentation,

d’information et de formation en droits de l’Homme. Casablanca , Morocco . June 13-15.

2002 Social Structure Change and Environment Management: Lessons From and For

Community-Based Resource Management in the Ziz Oasis , Morocco . Berkeley Workshop

on Environmental Politics. Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley. December 12-

13.

2002 Communication Technologies and Value Chains in Morocco . Paper presented at

Seeds Conference: Participating in Radically New Business Ecologies. Intel Applications

Research and Strategy Lab, Hillsboro , OR . May 16-17.

2002 The Ethno-politics of 2002 Elections and the Meanings of the Haratine Vote in

Southern Morocco, Part I. Paper presented at Journée d’études: Les élections 2002 au

Maroc, organized by L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques et Internationales, Université de

Lausanne, Switzerland. March 15-18.

2001 Ce que la notion d’habitus chez Bourdieu veut dire parmi les Haratines du sud Marocain.

Paper presented at the Colloque International sur l’Anthropologie du Maghreb:

Gellner, Geertz, Berque et Bourdieu, organized by Université Lyon2 et Ecole des Hautes

Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). Lyon, France. September 20-21.

2001 La Mobilité Sociale des Haratines et la Réorganisation de l’Habitus de Bourdieu à la

Frontière Saharienne du Maroc. Paper presented at the Colloque de Cordoue, “Le

Maghreb Entre Passé et Avenir, Savoir et Action,” organized by the Institute for the

Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia ,

Princeton University . Cordoba , Spain.May 28-June 2.

2001 Land and Water Management Strategies in the Sahara Desert of Morocco : Lessons

and Perspectives from the Ziz Oasis. Case study presented at the United Nations

Environment Program STAP Technical Workshop on Integrated Land and Water

Management. Pietermarizburg , South Africa . April 21-26.

Professional Papers

2008 Islamic Charitable Institutions and the Sustainability of Information Technology Schemes in the Islamic World. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Memphis , TN. March 26.

2008 Digital Money: Engaging Potential for Personal Empowerment. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Memphis , TN. March 26. (With Scott Mainwaring, Intel Corporation).

2007 Impacts of Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture: Farmers and Mobile Phones in Morocco . Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washington , D.C. December 1.

2007 Joutia: Street Vendors and the Informal Economy of Information and Communication Technologies in Morocco . Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology. Tampa , Fl. March 31. (With John Sherry, Intel Corporation).

2006 Researching People and Practices for Technology Development: Examples from Intel’s Work in North Africa . Paper presented at the Centre de Recherche et des Sciences Sociales, Université Hassan II, Casablanca. December 7. (With Scott Mainwaring, Intel Corporation).

2006 Mobile Phones, Farmers, and Land Use Change in Morocco . Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings. Vancouver , Canada . March 31.

2005 Mobile phones, Globalization, and Economic Productivity in Urban Morocco . Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings. Santa Fe , NM . April 9. (With John Sherry, Intel Corporation).

2001 Globalization is a Good Thing: “French Colonial Opportunities” and the Rise of the

Haratine in Morocco . Paper presented at the Conference on Interrogating the

Globalization Project. University of Iowa , Iowa City, Iowa . November 1-4.

2000 Making Local Histories: International Migration (or facanse) and Social Mobility of the

Haratine in the Saharan Frontier , Morocco . Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of

the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco , CA. November 18.

2000 The Break-up of the Ksar: Settlement Change and Common Property Institutions on

the Saharan Frontier of Morocco . Paper presented at the 8th Biennial Conference of the

International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP). Bloomington , IN ,

June 4.

1999 “We Shall Irrigate Our Fields With Water From Their Eyes”: Water Conflict, Violence,

and the Perception of Time in Morocco . Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the

American Anthropological Association. Chicago , IL , November 18.

1998 Does Ethnicity Matter in the Agricultural Production Systems of the Ziz Farmers?

Paper presented at the School of American Research . Santa Fe , NM .

1998 Estevanico, The Moor or the Slave? The Other Moroccan Explorer of New Spain .

Paper Presented at the 1998 Joint New Mexico-Arizona Historical Convention. Santa Fe ,

NM.

1998 The Social Mobility of the Haratine and the Unpacking of Bourdieu’s Habitus in the

Ziz Valley , Morocco . Paper presented at the Department of Anthropology, University of

New Mexico . Albuquerque , NM .

1997 The Agro-ecology of Smallholders in the Ziz Valley , Morocco . Paper presented at

the School of American Research. Santa Fe , NM .

1997 Spanish Balconies in Morocco : A Window on Cultural Influence and Historical

Persistence in the Mallah (Jewish) Community. Paper presented at the Annual

Convention of the Middle East Studies Association. Providence , RI .

1996 Indigenous Range Management Strategies in the High Atlas Mountains , Southeast

Morocco : An Assessment of the Berber Agdal Institution. Paper presented at the Annual

Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washington , DC .

1996 The Decline of Rural Nobility and Migration Processes in the Saharan Frontier,

Morocco . Paper presented at the Joint Berkeley-Stanford Africa Conference. Stanford

University. Palo Alto , CA .

1996 Resilience of Irrigated Agriculture in the Saharan Oases of Morocco . Paper

presented at the meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Seattle , WA .

1994 Common Property Management and Social Exploitation in the Ziz Valley , Morocco .

Paper presented at the Fifth Annual Common Property Conference of the International

Association for the Study of Common Property. Bodo , Norway .

1992 The Impact of the World Bank's Structural Adjustments on Sub-Saharan Africa .

Paper presented at the Economic Anthropology Conference. Irvine , CA .

1992 Small-Scale Irrigation and Sustainable Agriculture in the Ziz Valley of Southeast

Morocco . Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Society for the

Advancement of Sciences. Tucson , AZ.

1992 Ethnicity and Irrigation Management in the Ziz Valley , Southeast Morocco . Paper

presented at the Annual Convention of the Middle East Studies Association. Portland ,

OR.

Panel Organization

2007 Co-organizer (with Kathi Kitner, Intel Corp.) and Chair, New Directions in Engaged

Anthropology: Technologies, Empowerment, and Sustainability, at the Annual Meetings of the

Society for Applied Anthropology. Memphis , TN.

2000 Organizer and Chair, Rethinking Migration Processes and Practices in the Middle

East and Beyond, at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association.

San Francisco , CA .

Hsain Ilahiane and Catherine Tucker

1996 Organizers, Contested Relations of Property: New Directions in the Analysis of

Common Property Regimes, at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological

Association. Washington , DC .

1996 Organizer, Situating Identities in a Changing African Landscape, at the Annual Joint

Berkeley-Stanford Conference on Africa . Stanford University , Palo Alto , CA .

Professional Development Workshops

2004 Participant, Grant Writers Workshop, Iowa State University .

1997 Participant, Rockefeller Foundation Workshop on African Development: Policies, Practices, and Challenges. University of California at Berkeley .

1997 Participant, Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems Applications to Social and Environmental Change in Africa and Latin America . Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change, Summer Institute. Indiana University , Bloomington .

1994 Participant, Social Science Research Council Workshop on the Political Economy Methods for the Study of the Middle East . University of California at Berkeley .

1992 Participant, Rockefeller Foundation Summer Institute for African Agricultural Research. University of Wisconsin at Madison .

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

· American Anthropological Association

· American Institute of Maghreb Studies

· Middle East Studies Association

· Society for Applied Anthropology

· Honorary member, Association Amelkis de Développement et de Culture (NGO), Errachidia, Morocco.

My CV