Timothy McCajor Hall

Curriculum Vitæ

UCLA - David Geffen School of Medicine

Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior
760 Westwood Plaza, Room C8-222
Los Angeles, CA 90024

Email: mccajor AT earthlink.net

http://homepage.mac.com/mccajor/

Education

1994 Harvard College AB, magna cum laude, History and Literature (medieval Europe)

1998 University of California, San Diego MA, Anthropology

1999-2001 Charles University, Prague Program in Czech Studies, Ústav bohemistických studií

2003 University of California, San Diego PhD, Anthropology

Advisors: Tanya Luhrmann and Roy D’Andrade

2005 University of California, San Diego MD

2005-2006 Center on Aging, University of Chicago Post-Doctoral Fellow

Advisor: Linda Waite

2006-2007 Human Development, University of Chicago Post-Doctoral Fellow

Advisors: Bertram Cohler, Tanya Luhrmann, and Richard Shweder

2007-present    Residency training, psychiatry research track, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior,

David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

Academic Appointments

2006-2007 NIMH Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Comparative Human Development,

University of Chicago

2005-2006 NIA Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center on Demography and Economics of Aging,

University of Chicago and NORC

Win 2003 Visiting Lecturer, Center on Gender Studies, University of Chicago

1996-1997 Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology,

University of California, San Diego.

Academic Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

1990 National Merit Scholarship

1994 Sally and Cresap Moore Prize for interdisciplinary studies,

Dunster House, Harvard College.

1997-2000 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education.

1997-2005 Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)

UCSD School of Medicine.

1999 Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship

for language study in the Czech Republic.

2000 F. G. Bailey Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, UCSD.

2005 John and Lola Ross Award in the Science and Culture of Medicine,

UCSD School of Medicine.

Keywords/Areas of Interest

Behavioral medicine, eating disorders, obesity, alcoholism & substance abuse, sexuality, sexual identity,

personality, comparative religion, qualitative research (ethnography), cultural models.

Professional Associations

American Medical Association

American Anthropological Association

American Psychiatric Association

Society for Anthropological Sciences

Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists

Society for Psychological Anthropology

Society for the Anthropology of Europe

Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

2007 “Rent-boys, barflies, and kept men: men involved in sex with men

                            for compensation in Prague.” Sexualities, 10(4): 457-472.

(special issue on cultural studies of commercial sex).

2007 “Formy transakčního sexu mezi muži v Praze (1999–2004).” [Czech: Forms of

Transactional Sex in Prague among men who have sex with men (1999–2004)]

Sociologický časopis/Czech Sociological Review 2007: 89-109.

(special issue on recent Czech and Slovak ethnography).

Peer-reviewed Book Chapters

2005 “Pivo at the heart of Europe: beer-drinking and Czech identities.”

Thomas M. Wilson, ed. Drinking Cultures: alcohol and identity. Pp:

65-86. Oxford/New York: Berg Publishers.

in press “Stories from the Second World: narratives of sexual identity in the

Czech Republic across three generations of MSMs.” Phillip L. Hammack &

Bertram J. Cohler, eds. Oxford/New York: Berg Publishers.

Edited Books and Special Journal Issues

2005 Timothy M. Hall and Rosie Read, guest eds. Recent ethnographies of

Czechs, Slovaks, and Sorbs. Special issue of the Anthropology of East

Europe Review, 23(1) Spring 2005.

2006 Changes in the Heart of Europe: Recent ethnographies of Czechs,

Slovaks, Roma, and Sorbs. Soviet and Post-Soviet Society and Culture,

No. 23. Timothy M. Hall and Rosie Read, eds. Ibidem-Verlag:

Stuttgart, Germany.

Other publications

1998 Culture-Bound Syndromes in China. Internet resource on culture-bound

syndromes with emphasis on those occurring in Chinese culture.

Accessed more than 51,000 times since 2001 and cited in three

textbooks.

2003 “Czechs.” Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, eds. Encyclopedia of

Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World's Cultures. Pp: 380-

388. New York: Kluwer/Plenum.

2003 “Pivo and Pohoda: the social conditions and symbolism of Czech beer-

drinking.” Anthropology of East Europe Review, 21(1) Spring 2003:

109-138.

Invited Presentations – National:

“We Can’t Both Be the Pretty One: reflections on some paradoxes in male homosexual mating strategies.” Paper presented at the panel “Gender and Sexuality,” Jeannette Mageo, chair. Biennial meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, San Diego, CA. 11 April 2003.

“Communism is Over — So Why aren't People Happy? complicating the relationship between economic and subjective well-being.” Paper presented at the panel “Westernizing the Westernmost: Challenges from the Czech Republic,” Timothy M. Hall and Rebecca Nash, co-organizers. Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL. 19 November 2003.

“When the Male Gaze Turns Reflexive: contradictions and boundary transgressions in the experience of Czech male prostitutes.” Paper presented at the panel “‘Immaterial Labor’ Revisited: ethnographies of transnational labor, sex and desire,” Leyla Keough, Hulya Demirdirek, and Banu Uygun, co-organizers. Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC. 4 December 2005.

Discussant. Invited session: “Second Class Membership: challenges to EU values from the Czech and Slovak Republics.” Daniela Pěničková and Timothy M. Hall, co-organizers. Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC. 30 November 2005.

“Four Moral Discourses on HIV/AIDS: implications for primary and secondary prevention.” Paper presented at the panel “Critical Intersections in the Practice of Medicine,” Bambi Chapin, Jack Freedman, and Timothy M. Hall, co-organizers. Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA. 15 November 2006.

“Rethinking Queer Identities: a psychological anthropology of gay identities in multiple modernities.” Presented at the panel “Conversations around Self and Identity: testing theory in ethnography,” Timothy M. Hall, organizer. Biennial meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Manhattan Beach, CA. 10 March 2007.

Invited Presentations – Regional and Other:

“Beyond the Rose-Colored Ribbon: towards a bio-psycho-social understanding of disordered eating in cultural and historical and perspective.” Department of Anthropology, UCSD. May 1998.

“Culture and Personality and issues in cross-cultural diagnosis of mental illness: a Czech case of borderline personality disorder vs. bipolar spectrum.” Workshop in Clinical Ethnography, Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago. 9 January 2003.

“Social density, economics, and the evolution of gay male identities: suggestions from the case of the Czech Republic.“ Workshop on Culture, Life Course, and Mental Health, Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago. January 2003.

“The Cultural Patterning of Czech Emotions: liking, loving, marriage, fidelity, and jealousy.” Psychodynamic Seminar, Department of Anthropology, UCSD. June 2003.

“Basics of Medical Anthropology, with some observations on MSMs in the Czech Republic.” Presentation to the Owen Clinic, UCSD Medical Center. 2 February 2005.

“Social scale, political economy, and the evolution of gay identities: towards an ethnographically grounded theory of sexual identity in parallel modernities.” Gellner Seminar, New York University in Prague. 22 June 2006.

“LGBT Health Issues.” Invited panelist at University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, orientation. 14 August 2006.

“Stories from the Second World: narratives of sexual identity in the Czech Republic across three generations of MSMs.” Workshop on Culture, Life Course, and Mental Health, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago. 13 February 2007.

“Czech Sexual Tolerance: evaluating tropes of liberality and neo-Orientalism.” 8th Annual Workshop on Czech Cultural Studies: “Czechs in the New and Old Europe: New Approaches,” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 31 March 2007.

Teaching Experience

1996 Teaching Assistant, CI 22: “Contemporary Issues in Sexuality,”

undergraduate lecture course. Contemporary Issues, UCSD.

1996 Teaching Assistant, ANGN 124: “Sex, Love, and Culture,”

undergraduate lecture course. Anthropology, UCSD.

1996 Teaching Assistant, ANGN 117: “Gender Across Cultures,”

undergraduate lecture course. Anthropology, UCSD.

1997 Teaching Assistant, ANPR 107: “Psychological Anthropology,” core

undergraduate lecture course. Anthropology, UCSD.

1997 Teaching Assistant, ANPR 105: “Social Anthropology,” core

undergraduate lecture course. Anthropology, UCSD.

2003 Lecturer, GNDR 24500: “Gender and Depression”, undergraduate

seminar, University of Chicago.

2005-2007 Co-facilitator, “Culture & Psychiatry”, monthly seminar on

sociocultural issues for residents in psychiatry, Pritzker School of

Medicine, University of Chicago.

2006                    Co-facilitator, HUDV 39900: “America”, biweekly reading group on studies in

American culture and society, Department of Comparative Human Development,

University of Chicago.

2007 Lecturer, HUDV 23906: “Psychological Anthropology,” upper-division/graduate

seminar, University of Chicago.

Counseling Experience

Jun-Aug 1992 Wediko Children's Services: a summer camp and residential treatment

program for seriously disturbed children. For 45 days I co-taught

special education classes in math and reading six hours per day, six

days a week, to boys and girls aged 6-17. I also worked as part of a

clinical team to design, track, and implement a behavior modification

program for a cabin of 9- and 10-year-old boys.

1991-1994 Eating Concerns Hotline & Outreach (ECHO), Harvard College. I

helped staff a hotline for eating disorders and related concerns, and

developed and presented outreaches to the first-year dormitories. As

Co-Director for 1992, I organized a week-long staff orientation,

coordinated monthly schedules, and met with the Peer Counselor

Advisory Board, a trouble-shooting committee for peer counseling Co-

Directors.

Jun-Aug 1997 Harvard University Summer School, proctor. Organized and facilitated

Jun-Aug 1993 series of discussions on issues of race, sex, and gender. Worked with

the Harvard Writing Center to advise summer school student on writing

college papers.

Professional Service

2007-                  Member, international advisory board, Český lid, Czech ethnological journal.

Non-Academic Editorial Experience

1992-1994 HQ, literary, cultural, and political magazine for discussion of gender,

sexuality, and sexual orientation. Founding member and production

editor. Harvard College.

1995-1997 The Human Condition, literary and cultural magazine of the UCSD

School of Medicine. Founding member and production editor.

Languages

Fluent reading, writing, and speaking ability in Czech.

Reading knowledge of French, Latin, & Slovak. Some knowledge of medical Spanish.

Last updated 3 August 2008