Richard Maddox Bio

An anthropologist, Maddox also holds advanced degrees in religious studies and humanities. He has done fieldwork in Mexico, Ecuador, and primarily in Spain. His general interests are in the relation between cultural meanings and practices and the exercise of political and economic power. He is the author of the ethnographic and historical study, El Castillo, which won the President's Book Award of the Social Science History Association and the Robert E. Park Award of the Urban and Community Studies Section of the American Sociological Association. He published a study of state and public culture, The Best of All Possible Islands: Seville's Universal Exposition, the New Spain, and the New Europe (2004). His current research interests include microhistory, processes of Europeanization, the cultural politics of education, and the transformation of the countryside in Spain and Europe.

	Richard Maddox, Professor of Anthropology and History, and Director, Undergraduate Programs
	An anthropologist, Maddox also holds advanced degrees in religious studies and humanities. He has done fieldwork in Mexico, Ecuador, and primarily in Spain. His general interests are in the relation between cultural meanings and practices and the exercise of political and economic power. He is the author of the ethnographic and historical study, El Castillo, which won the President's Book Award of the Social Science History Association and the Robert E. Park Award of the Urban and Community Studies Section of the American Sociological Association. He published a study of state and public culture, The Best of All Possible Islands: Seville's Universal Exposition, the New Spain, and the New Europe (2004). His current research interests include microhistory, processes of Europeanization, the cultural politics of education, and the transformation of the countryside in Spain and Europe.