Robert Rotenberg

Highlights

Name: Robert L. Rotenberg

Position
Professor of Anthropology
2343 N. Racine DePaul University, Chicago, IL. Research Consultant: Email: rrotenbe@depaul.edu

About Professor Rotenberg

Robert Rotenberg has taught at DePaul University since 1979. He has served as a professor in the Sociology department, the International Studies Program, and the Anthropology Department. He was director of the College of Liberal Arts and Science first-year Common Studies program from 1985 to 1988. He was director of the College of Liberal Arts and Science Study Abroad Program from 1989 to 2001. He was the director of the International Studies Program since its inception in 1989. In 1995, the Master of Arts program was introduced helping make the International Studies Program one of the fastest growing majors in the College of Arts and Sciences. He is currently chair of the Anthropology department and serves on a number of university committees, including the University Teaching, Learning and Assessment Committee. In 2004, he was named to the inaugural cohort of the St. Vincent DePaul Society, a university-level distinguished professorship for teaching.

His research interests have always been located in large cities. The question that guides his research projects is "What difference does it make in the way people think about their world and live their lives that they are located in a very large city instead of somewhere else?" He has written books, edited collections of articles, and published in scholarly journals. A list of his publications is available below. He frequently attends conferences and the text of some of his recent papers is now available through this web site. Because he writes about the cultural processes of very large groups of people, he is called in as a consultant on projects related to urban culture or large scale social movements.

He has recently published a book on university level teaching for new Ph.D.'s and beginning professors. It is called The Art and Craft of College Teaching; A Guide for New Professors.

Prof. Rotenberg is involved in three international scholarly networks. He is the past president and past secretary/newsletter editor for the Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology, a large section of scholars within the American Anthropological Association. This is a diverse group of over 750 scholars involved in understanding large complex social organizations and the inequalities of power, resources and information that they generate.He currently chairs the Leeds Book Prize committee of that organization. He remains an active member of the "space and place" network within this society. This is a network of anthropologists who are especially concerned with contributing the geographical issues in cultural processes. From 1993 to 2003, he was the co-convenor of the East European Anthropology Group and managing editor of the group's newsletter, the Anthropology of East Europe Review. This group is especially concerned with culture change issues in Eastern Europe. The newsletter publishes very current research reports from scholars who have just finished research in the region. Finally, he is a member of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, a large section of scholars within the American Anthropological Association. Until 1999, he serves as a councilor of this organization. These anthropologists are primarily concerned with European ethnology and contribution that the study of European cultural processes can make to our understanding of the human condition. He has twice contributed to the Society's luncheon round table discussions on the European urban landscape during the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, and has organized paper panels on European urban issues for the society.

Course Syllabi

The course syllabi from Prof. Rotenberg's classes are available on the University's Blackboard site during the term they are being offered. To access the site, sign on a guest and search for the course.

ANT 102 Cultural Anthropology	Summer, 2004
ANT 109 Food and Culture	Summer, 2006
ANT 204 Lineage of Culture Theory	Winter, 2006
ANT 317 Language, Power and Identity	Spring, 2006
ANT 356 Urban Ethnography	Winter 2005
ANT 396 Senior Seminar: The Anthropological Life	Autumn, 2005
INT 201 The Emergence of the Modern Nation-State	Autumn, 2006
INT 204/ANT 386 Cultural Analysis	Winter, 2004
INT 402 Complex Social Organization	Spring, 2001

Publications

Monographs.

The Art and Craft of College Teaching: A Guide for New Professors and Graduate Students Chicago: Active Learning Books. 2005

Landscape and Power in Vienna. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1995. Winner of the Barbara Jelevich Prize for Habsburg History, 1996, Winner of the Austrian Cultural Center (New York) Book Prize for the best book on an Austrian topic in English, 1997, and a Leeds Prize Honor Book, Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology.

Time and Order in Metropolitan Vienna: A Seizure of Schedules. Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry. Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution Press. 1992.

Edited Volumes.

The Cultural Meaning of Urban Space. Amherst: Bergin and Garvey. (Co-edited with Gary McDonogh) Authored the introduction to the volume and contributed the chapter "On the Salubrity of Sites." 1993.

Articles in Specialized Journals or Books. (Selections from last twelve years only)

On the Sublime of Nature in Cities. In Peggy Barlett, ed., Urban Place: Reconnections with the Natural World. MIT Press (forthcoming 2005)
Metropolitanism and the Transformation of Urban Space. American Anthropologist, 103 (1): 7-15. March, 2001
Le Pensée Bourgeois in the Biedermeier Garden: Reflection on Aristocratic-Bourgeois interactions in Garden Art between 1683 and 1848 in Vienna, In Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art. Michel Conan, ed., Dumbarton Oaks Studies in Landscape Architecture 1999 Symposium. Washington: Dumbarton Oaks/Harvard University Press. 2003
Extraordinary Vienna. City and Society: Annual of the Society for Urban, National and Transnational Anthropology. 1997.: The Metropolis and Everyday Life. In G. Gmelch and W. Zenner, eds., Urban Life. Third Edition. Waveland Press. 1995; Austria, The Development of a National Culture. In M. Ember and C. Ember, eds, Portraits of Culture. New York: Prentice Hall 1994.; Judging the Adequacy of Shelter: A Case from Lincoln Park. Journal of Architecture and Planning Research 1994 (With Charles S. Suchar); The Power to Time and the Time to Power. In Henry Rutz (ed.) The Politics of Time. American Ethnological Society Monograph #4. Washington: American Anthropological Association. 1992. Pp. 18-36.

Text Materials.

Society, Culture and Civilization: Definitions and Beginnings. (Chapter 5) In James Krokar (ed.), Rhetoric and Civilization: The DePaul University Common Studies Program. Boston: Ginn and Company. (principle author with Gregory Kozlowski and Russ Kempiners). 1987.

The Making of the Modern World, Phase One, 1300-1750. (Chapter 17). In James Krokar (ed.), Rhetoric and Civilization: The DePaul University Common Studies Program. Boston: Ginn and Company. (principle author with Robert Garfield). 1987.

The Making of the Modern World, Phase Two, 1750-1914. (Chapter 18) In James Krokar et al (eds.), Rhetoric and Civilization: The DePaul University Common Studies Program. Boston: Ginn and Company. (co-author with James Krokar). 1987

Civilization, Culture and Society: An introduction to basic concepts. In Robert Garfield(ed.), Readings in World Civilization. Boston: Ginn and Company. 1983.(with Gregory Kozlowski).

Unpublished Conference Papers

Text versions of these papers are available for downloading. Click on your choice. Save the file under a title of your choice. Print the file in any wordprocessor.
Prof. Rotenberg retains the copyright on these papers. They may be used under the "fair use" doctrine for educational purposes. For any other purpose or to photocopy more than twenty copies for class use, contact Prof. Rotenberg.

Price and Status in Vienna's Naschmarkt. Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C. November 20, 1994.