Participating Faculty Member in Skidmore's Interdisciplinary Programs

• Environmental Studies
• International Affairs
• Latin American Studies

Since 1993, I have been carrying out research on the political and cultural aspects of installing and managing drinking water systems in Mexican communities. I have also carried out shorter research projects on water issues along the U.S.-Mexico border and on cultural aspects of health and healing in the U.S. My publications, conference papers, and current research interests focus on the cultural and political aspects of international health and environmental issues, particularly regarding grass-roots development in Latin America. I am also a core faculty member of Skidmore's interdisciplinary programs in Environmental Studies, International Affairs, and Latin American Studies.

Note: some courses count toward Environmental Studies (ES), International Affairs (IA), and/or Latin American Studies (LAS).

Thinking About Culture:
In many of my courses, I ask students to examine how they think and write about culture. Students may find it useful to consult a brief guide about culture.

	Ennis-McMillan, Michael C. 2006. A Precious Liquid: Drinking Water and Culture in the Valley of Mexico. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Thompson Learning. (ISBN 0534612857)
	Ennis-McMillan, Michael C. 2001. La Purificación Tepetitla: agua potable y cambio social en el somontano (Drinking Water and Social Change in the Foothills). Translated by Carmen Viqueira Landa and Andrea Ruiz. Colección Tepetlaostoc, no. 7. Mexico, DF: Universidad Iberoamericana and Archivo Histórico del Agua. (ISBN 968-859-449-0)

Other Publications:

• Ennis-McMillan, Michael C. 2005. La Vida del Pueblo: Women, Equity, and Household Water Management in the Valley of Mexico. Chapter in Opposing Currents: The Politics of Water and Gender in Latin America. Vivienne Bennett, Sonia Dávila-Poblete, and María Nieves Rico, eds. Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh University Press.
• Ennis-McMillan, Michael C. 2002. "A Paradoxical Privatization: Challenges to Community-Managed Drinking Water Systems in the Valley of Mexico." In Protecting a Sacred Gift: Water and Social Change in Mexico. Scott Whiteford and Roberto Melville, eds. Pp. 27-48. La Jolla: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego.
• Ennis-McMillan, Michael C. 2002. Anthropologists and Campus Greening. Anthropology News 43(3):39-40.
• Ennis-McMillan, Michael C. 2001. "Suffering from Water: Social Origins of Bodily Distress in a Mexican Community." Medical Anthropology Quarterly 15(3):368-390. Winner of the 2001 Rudolf Virchow prize awarded annually by the Critical Anthropology of Health Caucus of the Society for Medical Anthropology for the paper that best advances the perspective of critical medical anthropology.
• Michigan State University. 2002. MSU TA: A Handbook For Teaching Assistants. Third Edition, Revised. Editorial Committee: Ann Austin, Michael Ennis-McMillan, Stephen L. Esquith, Michael W. George, Christine Jarzomski, Karen Klomparens, Thomas Page, Barbara Steidle, Donald Straney, and Marilyn Wilson. East Lansing, MI: Teaching Assistant Program, Michigan State University. Available Online: <http://www.msu.edu/%7Etaprog/resources/handbook2002>
• Ennis-McMillan, Michael C. 1998. Drinking Water Politics in Rural Mexico: Negotiating Power, Justice, and Social Suffering, Ph.D. Dissertation, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.

Membership in Professional Organizations:

• American Anthropological Association (AAA) and various sections:
• Anthropology and the Environment (A&E)
• Environmental Justice, Interest Group of A&E
• Society for Latin American Anthropology (SLAA)
• Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA)
• Critical Anthropology of Health, Special Interest Group of SMA
• Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
• New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS)
• Northeast Environmental Studies Group (NEES)
• Northeastern Anthropological Association (NEAA)
• Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)