Zoë H. Wool, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research

Rutgers University

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EDUCATION

Ph.D.   University of Toronto

Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology, May 12, 2011

Dissertation: Emergent Ordinaries at Walter Reed Army Medical Center: An ethnography of extra/ordinary encounter

Research interests: Violence, Trauma, The Ordinary, War, Epistemology and Ontology, Forms of Life

Dr. Todd Sanders (co-chair), Dr. Ivan Kalmar (co-chair), Dr. Michael Lambek (committee member), Dr. Naisargi Dave (examiner), Dr. Joshua Barker (examiner), Dr. Veena Das (external examiner)

M.A.  University of Toronto

Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology, November 2005

Major Research Paper: Firing the Canon: In search of other alternative ethnography

Dr. Gavin A. Smith (advisor)

B.A. with Honours, Summa Cum Laude, York University

Individualized Studies Program (focused on Critical Discourse Analysis) June 2004

Thesis: Writing Worlds: Critical Discourse Analysis in Theory and Practice

The Case of the Discursive Construction of the Intifada in The Globe and Mail from 1988-2003

Dr. Susan Ehrlich (supervisor)

Fellowships and Affiliations

2011-2013

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Health, Healthcare Policy and Ageing Research, Rutgers University

2011

Postdoctoral Associate, Centre for Ethnography, University of Toronto, Scarborough

2010

Ethnographic Writing Fellow, Centre for Ethnography, University of Toronto, Scarborough

Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Summer Scholar, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe

Selected Awards

2010

University of Toronto, Department of Anthropology, Travel Grant

2009

Society for the Study of North America, St. Clair Drake Travel Grant

2007-2008

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Dissertation Fieldwork Grant

Vonda McCrae Clark Memorial Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Anthropology

2006

University of Toronto Fellowship for Preliminary Field Research

2002-2003

York University Continuing Education Scholarship

Selected Peer Reviewed Publications

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Labors of Love: The Commodification of Care in the Non-Medical Attendant Program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Co-authored with Seth Messinger for a special issue of Medical Anthropology Quarterly on military medicine and veterans’ health 

On Movement: The Matter of Space and Soldiers’ Bodies after Combat, revised manuscript under review with Ethnos

2009

The US Military and the Social Life of War, with Erin Finley and Kenneth MacLeish, Anthropology News. In Focus: Veteran Identity 50(5)

Who’s Afraid of the Persian Gulf: Locating Fear in the War on Terror, Vis a Vis, University of Toronto Anthropology Graduate Student Journal. Special Issue on Fear 9 (1): 28-35

2008

Grammars of Violence: Intifada, Modernity and Terrorism, Vis a Vis, University of Toronto Anthropology Graduate Student Journal 8(1): 29-38

2007

Operationalizing Iraqi Freedom: Govermentality, Neoliberalism and New Public Management in the War in Iraq, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. 27(11/12):460-468

Invited Presentations

2011

Picturing Soldiers: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Soldier Photography featuring Tim Hetherington, Lori Ginker, Jennifer Karady, and Suzanne Opton, Organizer and Moderator, Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Photography, March 15th

Fieldnotes from America and It’s Military, Brown University, Department of Anthropology, March 14th

"For What You Do": Injured U.S. Soldiers and the Im-possibilities of Regret, Centre for Ethnography, University of Toronto, Scarborough, February 17th

The War Comes Home, The Costs of War Workshop, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, January 5th  

2010

Militarization Beyond Projects, Public Beyond Policy, Co-organizer and moderator, 109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 20th

Vital Signs and Möbius Time: Frayed Ordinaries at Walter Reed, School of Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM, August 4th

2009

Producing Patriots: An Economy of Patriotism at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Centre for Study of the United States, Munk Center for International Studies, Toronto, April 23rd

Selected Conference Papers

2010

Earth Shattering: Movement as Worlding for U.S. Soldiers Marked by Combat, Circulation: 107th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 17th

2009

Subjects of Sacrifice: The Im/possibilities of Everyday Life at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, The End/s of Anthropology: 108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, December 3rd

Deck the Walls: Beyond Institutionality at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Transnational Anthropologies: Convergences and Divergences in Globalized Disciplinary Networks CASCA-AES joint conference, Vancouver, May 13th-16th

2008

Combative Engagements: An Ethnographic Approach to Anti-Anthropology and the U.S. Military, Inclusion, Collaboration, and Engagement: 107th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 19th

2007

“Home Grown”: Globalization and Its Radical Others in The Discourse of the War on Terror, Georgetown Linguistics Society, Language and Globalization: Education, Policy, Media, Washington D.C., April 1st 

“On the Economy”: Discursive Positionings and Neoliberal Subjects on a U.S. Army Base, Language and Neoliberalism Symposium Toronto, February 18th-19th

2006

War-Scapes? Preliminary notes on si(gh)ting the War on Terror, Medusa Lecture Series, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, October 13th 

Operationalizing Iraqi Freedom, 7th International Organizational Discourse Conference: Identity, Ideology and Idiosyncrasy, International Centre for Research in Organizational Discourse, Strategy and Change, Amsterdam July 26th -July 28th

2005

Grammars of Violence, Grammars of Modernity: The Discourse of the Intifada in the Globe and Mail and September 11th Terrorist Talk, Racial Violence and the Colour Line in the New World Order, Dalhousie University, April 1st-2nd

Awards and Distinctions

2011

Ethnographic Writing Fellowship, Centre for Ethnography, University of Toronto, Scarborough

2010

Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Fellowship, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM

University of Toronto, Department of Anthropology Travel Grant

2009

Society for the Study of North America, St. Clair Drake Student Travel Grant Award

2007-2008

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Dissertation Fieldwork Grant

Vonda McCrae Clarke Memorial/ Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Anthropology

2007

University of Toronto, Department of Anthropology Travel Grant

2006

University of Toronto Fellowship for Preliminary Field Research

2004-2008

University of Toronto Graduate Student Fellowship

2003

Nomination for York University Faculty of Arts Essay Award

York University Continuing Education Scholarship 

2002

York University Continuing Education Scholarship

2001-2003

York University Faculty of Arts Sessional Academic Achievement List

Course Instructor

2009

Special Problems in Anthropology: Violence and the Everyday, University of Toronto

Guest Lecturer

2011

Contemporary Canadian Theatre, Ethics, and the Problem of Evil, University of Toronto

2007

Language and Power Structure, University of Toronto

Anthropological Theory, University of Toronto

Anthropology of Religion, University of Toronto

2006

Language and Power Structure, University of Toronto

Teaching Assistant

2011

Language and Society, University of Toronto

2009

Introduction to Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology, University of Toronto

2008

Introduction to Anthropology: Language, Society, Culture, University of Toronto

Introduction to Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology, University of Toronto

2007

Language and Power Structure, University of Toronto

Anthropology of Religion, University of Toronto

2006

Language and Society, University of Toronto

Language and Power Structure, University of Toronto

2005

Introduction to Linguistic and Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Toronto

Culture, Politics and Globalization, University of Toronto

2004

Introduction to Linguistic and Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Toronto

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2011

Organizer The Aesthetics and Ethics of Seeing Soldiers, Panel discussion on visual representations of soldiers in documentary media at Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Photography, March 15th

2009

Co-organizer Between Sovereign and Sacer: Ethnography Soldiers On, 108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, December 3rd  

2008

Discussant for Cause, Commodity and Critique, Invited Session of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, 107th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 23rd

2007

Guest Editor, Vis a Vis, University of Toronto Anthropology Graduate Student Journal special edition on the topic of fear, funded by Connaught Grant

2006-2007

Local Organizing Committee, CASCA/AES Annual Meeting, graduate student member, University of Toronto

2005-2006

President of the Anthropology Graduate Student Union, University of Toronto

FIELDWORK

2007-2008Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Fort Dix Army Base

2006 (Summer)Army Fisher House at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Anthropological Association

Society for Medical Anthropology 

Society for Cultural Anthropology

American Ethnological Society

Society for the Anthropology of North America

Canadian Anthropological Society/ La Société Canadienne d'Anthropologie

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Spanish: proficient reading and aural skills

French: beginner-level reading and aural skills