Adjunct & Visiting Faculty

Marie Norman
Rank: Adjunct Professor
Ph.D.: University of Pittsburgh, 1999
Department Member Since: 1998

Office: Cyert Hall 122
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412.268.2880
Email: mnorman@andrew.cmu.edu

Dr. Marie Norman serves as Adjunct Professor of Anthropology in the Department of History as well as Teaching Consultant and Research Associate at the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Anthropology, where she received a Fulbright fellowship to conduct doctoral research on tourism and caste relations in Nepal. Dr. Norman has taught courses on South Asian history and culture, anthropological theory and practice, medical anthropology, and tourism at Carnegie Mellon and on the University of Pittsburgh’s Semester at Sea program. In her teaching, she encourages students to apply anthropological perspectives and approaches to issues and controversies in their own culture(s). Dr. Norman’s current research interests involve using anthropological theories and methods to explore practical problems. She has conducted research for St. Margaret’s Hospital, Allegheny College, and the Eberly Center, and has served as an ethnographic consultant for Fathom Design. She is currently involved in research on issues affecting adjunct faculty, as well as a longitudinal study of student experience at Carnegie Mellon.

Publications

"Assessing and Addressing Faculty Morale: Cultivating Consciousness, Empathy and Empowerment" (with S.A. Ambrose and T. Huston). The Review of Higher Education, 29(3) 2006.

"A Qualitative Method for Assessing Faculty Satisfaction" (with S.A. Ambrose and T. Huston). Research in Higher Education. 46 (7) 2005.

"Expanding the Discussion of Faculty Vitality to Include Productive Yet Disengaged Senior Faculty" (with T. Huston and S. A. Ambrose). Accepted for publication. The Journal of Higher Education.

"Where Resistance Falls Short: Rethinking Agency Through Biography." (With Richard Scaglion.) In Identity Work: Constructing Pacific Lives. P.J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern, eds. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2000.

"Nepal." In Countries and Their Cultures. Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, eds. New York: MacMillan. 2001.

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