Northern Illinois University
Department of Anthropology
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Mark Schuller is director of the Center for Nonprofit and NGO Studies and professor of Anthropology at Northern Illinois University. Supported by the National Science Foundation Senior and CAREER Grant, Bellagio Center and others, Schuller's research on NGOs, disasters, globalization and gender in Haiti has been published in over fifty peer-reviewed articles or book chapters. In addition to publishing scores of public media articles, Schuller has been interviewed for dozens of traditional media stories, podcasts and documentaries. He authored or coedited eight books including Humanity's Last Stand. He is co-director/co-producer of documentary Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy (2009). Schuller is co-editor of Berghahn Books' Catastrophes in Context and University of Alabama Press' NGOGraphies. He is co-chair of the Risk and Disaster Topical Interest Group at the Society for Applied Anthropology and secretary of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology. Recipient of the Margaret Mead Award, the Anthropology in Media Award and the Haitian Studies Association's Award for Excellence, Schuller is active in several solidarity efforts. View a more detailed list of publications and projects.

Books

Mark Schuller. 2021. Humanity's Last Stand: Confronting Global Catastrophe. Foreword by Cynthia McKinney. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Recent Journal Articles

Mark Schuller and David Lewis. "NGO Afterlives." Political and Legal Anthropology Review. (Forthcoming)

"Dilemmas of Anthropological Activism, Solidarity and Human Rights: Lessons from Haiti." American Anthropologist, Volume 125, Issue 3: 597-610. (2023)

David Lewis and Mark Schuller. "Engagements with a Productively Unstable Category: Anthropologists and Nongovernmental Organizations," Current Anthropology, Volume 54, Number 5: 634-651. (2017)

"Being an Insider Without: Activist Anthropological Engagement in Haiti after the Earthquake." American Anthropologist, Volume 116, Number 2 (June): 409-412. (2014)

"Gluing Globalization: NGOs as Intermediaries in Haiti." Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 32, Issue 1 (May): 84-104. Republished on online issue, new postscript. (2009)

"Haiti's 200-Year Ménage-à-Trois: Globalization, the State and Civil Society." Caribbean Studies, Volume 35, Issue 1 (January – June 2007): 141-179. (2007)