Education

Rutgers University Ph.D. Anthropology; Committee: Louisa Schein, Chair; Peter Guarnaccia, Fran Mascia-Lees, Bruce Robbins Doctoral Dissertation Project: Commodity Erotics: The Impact of Globalization on Adolescent Sexuality in the West Indies

Keene State College B.A. 1985 Political Science

San Jose State University M.P.H. 1987 Anthropology

Interests

Caribbean studies, gender and sexuality, human rights, globalization, and consumer culture

Memberships

American Anthropological Association

Society for Cultural Anthropology

Publications/Papers

Consultantships in Media Programming; NBC Dateline, 2004 Consulting

March 2004, Press Interview: "Female Sexuality" by Alyson Walls, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Press Interview

March 2004, Press Interview: "Female Sexuality" by Fabrice Rousselot, Liberation (French publication) Press Interview

February 2004, Press Interview: "Women in the Sex Industry" by Mireya Navarro, The New York Times

March 2004, Press Interview: "Female Sexuality" by Fabrice Rousselot, Liberation (French publication)

March 2004, Press Interview: "Female Sexuality" by Alyson Walls, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Consultantships in Media Programming

NBC Dateline, 2004 Press Interview

"Field Sex: An Analysis of the Silent Taboo." 1996. American Anthropological Association. 95th Annual Meeting. November 20-24. Conference Papers

"Universality of Human Rights: Writing Against Difference." 1999. American Anthropological Association. 98th Annual Meeting. November 17-21. Conference Papers

"Capitalism and Its Desires: The Intersection of Sexual Subjectivity and Commodities." 2000. American Anthropological Association. 99th Annual Meeting. November 15-19. Conference Papers

"Ride for a Ride: Understanding Sexual-Economic Exchange in the West Indies." 2003. Rutgers University, Department of Anthropology. November 11. Conference Papers

"Sex, Pleasure, and Girls: Coming of Age in the West Indies." 2005 American Anthropological Association. 105th Annual Meeting. December 1-5. Conference Papers

"Commodity Erotics: Sex, Nevisian Teenage Girls, and Pleasure" 2006 American Anthropological Association. 106th Annual Meeting. November 15-19. Conference Papers

King, Roy. Debra Curtis and Guenther Knoblich. 1991. "Complexity Preference in Substance Abusers and Controls." Perceptual and Individual Differences 2:287-291. Article

King, Roy. Debra Curtis and Guenther Knoblich. 1992. "Biological Factors in Sociopathy: Relationships to Drug Abuse Behaviors." In Vulnerability to Drug Abuse. Myer Glantz and Roy Pickens, eds. Pp.115-136. Washington DC: American Psychological Association. Article

Curtis, Debra. 1996. "Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club." [Book review] Gender and Society 10 (2): 215-216. Article

Curtis, Debra. 2004. "Commodities and Sexual Subjectivities: A Look at Capitalism and Its Desires." Cultural Anthropology 19(1):95-121. Article

Forthcoming---Pleasures and Perils: Coming of Age in the Caribbean, (under contract Rutgers Press) Book

Research and Scholarly Achievements

National Science Foundation, Dissertation Improvement Grant. Spring 2002

Bigel Fellowship, Anthropology Department, Rutgers University. Spring 2001

Special Study Award, Graduate School, Rutgers University. Spring 2001

Teaching Assistantship. Anthropology Department, Rutgers University. Spring-Fall 1996

Awards

Class Schedule

Fall 2009 Schedule