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Crispin Shore (BA Oxf.Brookes, PhD Sus.)
Professor of Anthropology
Cris Shore has published extensively on the subjects of EU information, communications
and cultural policies, European identity and citizenship, and nation and state formation in
the EU. His book Building Europe: The Cultural Politics of European Integration (2000) was a
pioneering study of EU politics from an anthropological perspective and the first
ethnographic monograph of the European Commission. He has authored and co-authored 9
books, including Italian Communism (1990), The Anthropology of Europe (1994) Anthropology of
Policy (1997), Elite Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives (2002) and most recently Corruption:
Anthropological Perspectives (2005). He has taught both undergraduate and post-graduate
courses on the EU and the Anthropology of the Europe. In 2004 was an independent
assessor for the European Commission’s 6th Framework Programme (FP6). He is currently
engaged in several long-term research projects, including a comparative study of tertiary
education and an international project to develop the ‘anthropology of policy’ as a sub-field
of the discipline.
Recent publications on the EU include:
‘The State of the State in Europe’, in:) Explorations of the State, edited by Christian KrohnHansen and Knut G. Nustad, London/New York, Pluto Press, 2005.
‘Crossing Categorical Boundaries Through Education: The European School and the
Supersession of Nationalism’, in: Crossing Categorical Boundaries: Ethnography in Europe, edited
by C. Moutsou and J. Stacul, Oxford, Berghahn 2005 (with D. Finaldi).
‘Whither European Citizenship? Eros and Civilisation Revisited’, European Journal of Social
Theory, 7 (1), 2004.
Culture and Corruption in the EU: Reflections on Fraud, Nepotism and Cronyism in the
European Commission’, in: Corruption: Anthropological Perspective, edited by D. Haller and C.
Shore, London: Pluto, 2005.
‘Debating the European Union: an interview with Cris Shore and Marc Abélès’, Anthropology
Today, 20 (2):10-15, 2004.
Recent supervision at the University of Auckland:
MA Theses:
Dominic Andrea: Wearing the Patch: Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
Ina Haggard: Community Prisons in New Zealand
PhD Theses:
Marama Muru-Lanning: ‘Stakeholder Society’ and Rivers: comparative study of Waikato and
Ontario
Garth Wilson: Minority Language Policy in the EU (Co-supervisor)
Emma Sinclair: Oral Traditions and Contemporary Writings in New Caledonia: Pathways,
Traces and Interfaces (Co-supervisor)
Relinde Tap: Parenting and Childhood in New Zealand (Co-supervisor)