Dr. Wesley Shumar

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			Wesley Shumar, Ph.D.
			Professor of Anthropology
			Department Chair
			Office:	PSA 215
			Phone:	(215) 895-2060
			Email:	shumarw @ drexel.edu
			Webpage:	http://shumarw.com/
	Higher education, virtual community, ethnographic evaluation in education, the semiotics of mass culture, and the self in relation to contemporary personal and political issues of identity and globalization. He is also an ethnographic evaluator for the Math Forum, a virtual math education resource center. Dr. Shumar is author of College for Sale: A Critique of the Commodification of Higher Education, Falmer Press, 1997 and co-editor of Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace, published by Cambridge University Press.
	CURRENT AREAS OF RESEARCH Virtual Communities The Internet and Technology, and their potential for new forms of learning and interaction Higher education, globalization and the transformation of the culture of education. Anthropology and psychoanalysis, new movements in psychoanalysis and their implications for notions of the self and identity. Self talk and Self Reflection and their implications for identity Service Learning and democratic decision-making in schools and communities
	RESEARCH PROJECTS 2005-Present Co-principal Investigator - Leadership Development for Technology Integration: Developing an Effective NSDL Teacher Workshop Model 2003-Present Co-principal Investigator - Virtual Math Teams. 2002-2005 Principal Investigator - Online Mentoring Project. 2004-2006 Ethnographer - The Concord Model Project.
	SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Forthcoming Co-Editor Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University. New York: Routledge/Falmer. Forthcoming First Author Communities of Practice at the Math Forum: Supporting Teachers as Professionals. In Hildreth, P. & Kimble, C. (Eds.) Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing. Forthcoming First Author Communities, Texts, Consciousness: The Practice of Participation at Math Forum. In Joni Falk and Brian Drayton (Eds.) Behind the Scenes of Electronic Communities that Nurture Professional Development. New York: Teacher College Press. 2002 Co Editor Building Virtual Communities. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1997 Author College for Sale: A Critique of the Commodification of Higher Education. London: Falmer Press.
	COURSES USUALLY TAUGHT: Anth 101 - Cultural Diversity Anth 210 - Worldview: Science, Religion, Magic Anth 310 - Societies in Transition Anth 410 - Cultural Theory Anth 330 - Media Anthropology Soc 270 - Theory of Applied and Community Sociology Soc 335 - Sociology of Education and Literacy