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Riall Nolan

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#1812

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#2353

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#764

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PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
Masters Anthropology University of Chicago
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Riall W. Nolan is an American anthropologist, an emeritus professor of anthropology at Purdue University, USA and a faculty member in the MPhil program in International Development at the University of Cambridge, UK. A scholar of international development, cross-cultural adaptation, and applied anthropology, he has conducted research on issues of change and development in Eastern Senegal, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Somalia, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Indonesia, Thailand, and Western Siberia. His work as a researcher and project specialist has included community led development initiatives with the Peace Corps, USAID, the World Bank, and numerous university and local NGO partners.

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Riall Nolan's Published Works

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Published Works

Development Anthropology: Encounters in the Real World (2001) (59)
Training, Developing, and Assessing Cross-Cultural Competence in Military Personnel (2011) (33)
Communicating and Adapting Across Cultures: Living and Working in the Global Village (1999) (17)
The handbook of practicing anthropology (2013) (17)
Measuring Peasant Attitudes to Modernization: A Projective Method [and Comments and Reply] (1976) (15)
Anthropology in practice : building a career outside the academy (2003) (14)
The Future of Practice: Anthropology and the Grand Challenges (2014) (13)
ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: Job Hunting (2003) (13)
Institutional Strategies and International Programs: Learning From Experiences of Change (2012) (13)
Culture Shock and Cross-Cultural Adaptation Or, I Was OK Until I Got Here (1990) (8)
Framework for Rapid Situational Awareness in the Field (2014) (8)
Teaching Anthropology as if it Mattered: A Curriculum for 21st Century Practitioners (1998) (5)
Anthropology in Practice (2002) (4)
USING ANTHROPOLOGY OVERSEAS (2008) (4)
Labour Migration and the Bassari: A Case of Retrograde Development? (1975) (4)
What is anthropological practice (2017) (4)
Bassari Migrations: The Quiet Revolution (1986) (4)
Internationalizing the Academy: Lessons of Leadership in Higher Education. (2015) (3)
High‐Performing Applied Programs (2014) (2)
Teaching Anthropology as if Jobs Mattered (2001) (2)
The Village Economy (2019) (2)
Migrants to the City in Africa: The Search for a Conceptual Framework (1979) (2)
Succeeding in the workplace (2017) (2)
Development and Anthropology (2004) (2)
Development Anthropology and Housing: A Personal View (1984) (2)
Raising the curtain: experiences with training managers in eastern europe and the nis (1997) (1)
ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: The Practice Option (2003) (1)
Long-Term Migration (2019) (1)
Managing graduate school (2017) (1)
Tunisia's Time of Transition (1981) (1)
Core competencies – methods and theory (2017) (0)
The Nature of Development Projects (2018) (0)
The Discipline of Anthropology (2017) (0)
A New Development Paradigm (2018) (0)
Putting Anthropology to Work (2018) (0)
Information in Project Development (2018) (0)
Konopinski, Natalie (ed.). Doing anthropological research: a practical guide. vii, 152 pp., figs, bibliogrs. London, New York: Routledge, 2013. £21.99 (paper) (2015) (0)
Why be a practitioner (2017) (0)
Townspeople and Change (2019) (0)
Bassari Migrations (2019) (0)
The Problem and the Setting (2019) (0)
Stress and Failure in Practice Work (2014) (0)
The history of practice in anthropology (2017) (0)
Recent History (2019) (0)
Applied Anthropology (2018) (0)
Do we really need more anthropologists? (2020) (0)
The Rise of the Development Industry (2018) (0)
The Quiet Revolution (2019) (0)
Anthropology in Practice: Making It Count (2004) (0)
Investigating employment opportunities (2017) (0)
Anthropology Overseas: A Brief Guide to Joining the Development Crowd (1981) (0)
Tradition and Change Among the Tenda Peoples (1979) (0)
Anthropology as a Science of Discovery (2018) (0)
The Village Society (2019) (0)
ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: Planning for a Career in Practice (2003) (0)
Today's Seasonal Migrants (2019) (0)
Teaching About Application and Practice (2001) (0)
ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: Preparing Yourself for Practice (2003) (0)
Core Competencies – Networking and Practice Experience (2017) (0)
Globalizing Engineers through International Co-op. (2000) (0)
Career planning for practitioners (2017) (0)
The future of anthropological practice (2017) (0)
Bassari Townspeople in Tambacounda (2019) (0)
Getting prepared for practice (2017) (0)
Identifying predominant capabilities (2017) (0)
Bushwalking in Papua New Guinea (1983) (0)
Reforming the Development Industry (2018) (0)
If You're not Sure who You are, Try Being Someone Else for a While: Senegal and the Making of a Practicing Anthropologist (1997) (0)
Anthropological practice today (2017) (0)
Villagers and Change (2019) (0)

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