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I received my PhD (2005) and M.Sc. (1996) in Anthropology and my BA in Art History (1991) from the Université de Montréal. I have a post-graduate diploma in Social Anthropology from the University of Sydney (1992). I also received a post-graduate diploma in management from the École des Hautes Études Commerciales in 1998. Prior to my doctoral studies, I worked as a consultant in international development project and program evaluation. I grew up in Montreal and speak French, English, Spanish, and a little bit of Italian.
My research has focused on the moral economies of humanitarian action and the dynamics of post-disaster reconstruction, namely in Central America. I have been interested in topics relating to the politics of community participation, social inequality, anthropological theories of gift and exchange, and questions about hope, value, and utopianism as they manifest in development and humanitarian practices. I am currently developping new research in Cuba on rural farmers' changing economic lives.
I am a Graduate Faculty in the CAST M.A. program (Cultural Analysis and Social Theory) and I can supervise students whose research interests align with my areas o
- Sliwinski, Alicia. 2020. "Resilience". In Humanitarianism: Keywords. Edited by Antonio de Lauri. Brill.
- Sliwinski, Alicia. 2020. "Post-disaster recovery". In Humanitarianism: Keywords. Edited by Antonio de Lauri. Brill.
- Sliwinski, Alicia. 2020. "Utopia". In Humanitarianism: Keywords. Edited by Antonio de Lauri. Brill.
- Pulsifer, Kenzie, Robert, Feagan and Alicia Sliwinski. 2020. “Race and Participation in International Experiential Learning: Case Based Exemplar of a Habitat-University Partnership in El Salvador.” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad
- Sliwinski, Alicia. 2018. "Valuing an Age-Old Trope for an Old Age Home: Ethnographic Encounters with Utopian Configurations." In Ruy Llera Blanes and Maïté Maskens (eds.), Utopian Encounters: Anthropologies of Empirical Utopias. Ralahine Utopian Studies, Peter Lang.
- Sliwinski, Alicia. 2018. A House of One's Own: The Moral Economy of Post-Disaster Aid in El Salvador. Montreal: McGill Queen's University Press.
- Sliwinski, Alicia. 2018. "Globalisation". In Anthropen.org, Paris, Éditions des archives contemporaines.
- Sliwinski, Alicia. 2017. "The Resilience of "Physicalist" Paradigms: Revisiting Post-Disaster Reconstruction in El Salvador." Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development (UAS) 46 (3-4): 223-
- Sliwinski, Alicia. 2016. "The Value of Promising Spaces: Hope and Everyday Utopia in a Salvadoran Town." History and Anthropology 27 (4): 430-446
- Sliwinski, Alicia. 2012. "Working Hope: On labour and value in a humanitarian context." Anthropologica 54 (2): 227-238
- Sliwinski, Alicia. 2009. "The Politics of Participation: Involving Communities in Post-Disaster Reconstruction." In G. Lizzaralde, G., C. Johnson and C. Davidson (eds.), Rebuilding after Disasters: From Emergency to Sustainability. Taylor and Francis
- Sliwinski, Alicia. “Enseigner l’humanitaire: contour d’un espoir politique.” Grotius International. (2013)
CQ 602 Approaches to Cultural Analysis
GS211 Introduction to International Development
GS361 Disasters, Vulnerability, Resilience
GS461 Global Humanitarianism
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Languages spoken: English, French, Spanish, Italian