Allen's Choice. 32 minute film. Fifteen year old Allen C. is faced with a choice: stay at his working class school in rural Mississippi, or take a football scholarship to the elite private school with his rich friends? October 2003.
Race:Mississippi. 23 minute film. Five Mississippians discuss the meaning and effect of race. December 2000.
Out of Africa - Into the Mississippi Delta: African Missionaries in the Mississippi Delta. 22 minute film.
Book Chapters
In press. Watershed Planning in Watersheds Dominated by Multiple, Largely-Private Owners: The Cache River of Southern Illinois. by Steven E. Kraft, Jane Adams, Tim Loftus, Chris Lant, Leslie Duram, and J.B. Ruhl. in Integrated Resource and Environmental Management (IREM): the Human Dimensions. By Alan Ewert, Doug Baker and Glyn Bissix. London: CABI Press International.
2003. Introduction. Fighting for the Farm: Rural America Transformed, ed. by Jane Adams. University of Pennsylvania Press.
1994 Government Policies and the Changing Structure of Farm Women's Livelihood: A Case from Southern Illinois. in The Economic Anthropology of the State, edited by Elizabeth M. Brumfiel. Lanham, MD: University Press of America
Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals
2004 “Southern Trauma:” Revisiting the Indianola, Mississippi, of John Dollard and Hortense Powdermaker. American Anthropologist. June
2004 “The Farm Journal’s Discourse of Farm Women’s Femininity in the Post WWII Decade” Anthropology and Humanism June 2004
2003 Proposal for a Model State Watershed Management Act, J.B. Ruhl, Christopher Lant, Steven Kraft, Jane Adams, Leslie Duram, and Tim Loftus. Evironmental Law, 34(4, December):ending page 929.
2000 "Farm Women, Class, and the Limits of Nostalgia," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 92(4):325.
1997 Aproximacion historico al desarrollo de la antropologia norteamericana en Centroamerica: 1930-1990. With Margarita Bolanos.I n: Carmen Murillo (Editor). Antropología e identidades en Centroamérica. Colección de Libros del Laboratorio de Etnología. Departamento de Antropología. Universidad de Costa Rica.
1997 Quiesence Despite Privation: Explaining the Absence of a Farm Laborers' Movement in Southern Illinois. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 39(3):550-571.
1995 Individualism, Efficiency, and Domesticity: Ideological Aspects of the Exploitation of Farm Families and Farm Women. Agriculture and Human Values 12(4):2-17.
1993 Resistance to "Modernity": Southern Illinois Farm Women and the Cult of Domesticity. American Ethnologist 20(1):89-113.
1992 1870s Agrarian Activism in Southern Illinois: Mediator Between Two Eras. Social Science History 16(3):365-400.
1992 "How Can a Poor Man Live?" Resistance to Capitalist Development in Southern Illinois, 1870-1890. Rural History: Economy, Society, Culture. 3(1):87-110.
1991-2 "A Woman's Place Is In the Home": The Ideological Devaluation of Farm Women's Work. Anthropology of Work Review xii(4) and xii(1):2-11.
1990 The Cobden Peach Festival. Illinois Historical Journal 83:97-108.
1988 The Decoupling of Farm and Household: Differential Consequences of Capitalist Development on Southern Illinois and Third World Family Farms. Comparative Studies in Society and History 30(3):453-482.
1987 Business Farming and Farm Policy in the 1980s: Further Reflections on the Farm Crisis. Culture and Agriculture 32:1-6.
1986 Farmer Organization and Class Formation. Canadian Journal of Anthropology/RCA 5(1):35-42.
Conference Proceedings
2002 (with Jeffrey Beaulieu, David Bennett, Leslie Duram, Steven Kraft, Christopher Lant, Tim Loftus, John Nicklow, and J.B. Ruhl) "Ecological Restoration in Multiple-Ownership Watersheds: The Case of the Cache River in Illinois -- Social and Economic Issues". Proceedings. 2001 Governor's Conference on the Management of the Illinois River System: The Illinois River: Partnerships for Progress, Restoration, and Preservation. Eighth Biennial Conference, October 2-4, 2001, Peoria, Illinois. ed. Alesia Strawn. Illinois Water Resources Center Special Report No. 27. Pp. 161-75.
2001 (with Kraft, S., C. Lant, J. Beaulieu, L. Duram, J. Ruhl, D. Bennett, J. Nicklow, and T. Loftus). "Understanding the social context for ecological restoration in multiple-ownership watersheds: The case of the Cache River in Illinois." Proceedings, 2001 Water and Watersheds Progress Review. April 17-19, 2001, San Francisco, California. Washington, DC: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development's National Center for Environmental Research. EPA/600/R-01/014
2000. "Understanding the Social Context for Ecological Restoration in Multiple-ownership Watersheds." Steven E. Kraft, Christopher L. Lant, Jane Adams, Jeffrey Beaulieu, David Bennett, Leslie Duram, J.B. Ruhl. Proceedings, World Water Congress in Melbourne, Australia.
Other research-based publications
1999 "Changing Farm Women's Roles" Feature article for Illinois History Teacher 7(1):2-6.
1999 "Many Sides to Relevance," Anthropology Newsletter 40(4):14.
