Sarah Cervone

Information

Dr. Sarah Cervone has experience in teaching, curriculum development, instructional design, social research and project management. She currently works as faculty at Santa Fe College and the University of North Florida teaching African Studies, Humanities, and Cultural Anthropology. 

Education

PhD Cultural Anthropology University of Florida 2010

Dissertation: Beneath the Peak: Tourism Development and the Global Economy in a Moroccan Mountain Community

MA Religion University of Florida 2002

Thesis: Redefining the American NeoPagan Population

BA Anthropology University of Florida 1997

Grants & Contracts

Foreign Language Area Studies (Arabic) 2005-2007

American Institute for Maghrib Studies Research Award 2006

Polly & Paul Doughty Award in Applied  Anthropology 2007

U.S. Fulbright (Morocco) 2007-2009

Ruth O. McQuown Gender Studies Anthropology Award 2009

Elizabeth Eddy Award for Applied Anthropology 2009

Internationalizing the Curriculum Grant: African Studies at Santa Fe College 2012 

Internationalizing the Curriculum Grant: Asian Studies at Santa Fe College 2013

U.S.D.A FMPP Grant: 'Local Food Security through Rural Market Expansion in East Alachua - Hawthorne Community Marketplace" 2015 - 2017

U.S.D.A FMPP Grant:'Florida Food Safety & Entrepreneurship Incubator for Florida Farmers Markets' 2017-2020

Publications & Presentations

Cervone, Sarah 2013. ‘Recipe for Disaster: Hurricane Vulnerability and Resilience in Florida’ in Disaster Vulnerability and Resilience in Florida. Anthony Oliver-Smith and Amanda Holmes, eds. Lexington Press.

Cervone, Sarah and Anthony Oliver-Smith. 2006. ‘Eye on the Storm: Resilience and Vulnerability to Hurricane Opal, a case study. Proyecto Gestion de riesgo de desastre ENSO en America Latina (Dic/21/2006) http://www.cambioglobal.org/enso/informes/anho4/Florida/index.html

Stepp, J.R., Hector Castanada and Sarah Cervone. 2005. “Mountains and Biocultural Diversity,” Mountain Research and Development. 25(3): 223-227.

Stepp, J.R., S. Cervone, H. Castaneda, A. Lasseter, G. Stocks, Y. Gichon. 2004. “Development of a GIS for Global Biocultural Diversity” Policy Matters. 13 (November).

‘Pro-Poor Tourism?: Tourism, Conservation and Development in Toubkal National Park, Morocco.’ Presentation for Global Conservation lecture series University of South Florida Department of Geography Tampa, Florida March 2011.

‘A woman without children is like a cow without milk’: Why Gender and Kinship Matter in Tourism Development in the High Atlas’ Interdisciplinary Research Symposium. University of Florida, Gainesville. February 2011

‘Keeping Moroccan Time: Tourism and Temporal Hegemony in the High Atlas Mountains’, American Anthropological Association. New Orleans, Louisiana. November 2010.

‘Tourists and the Tafeza: Television as an Apostle for the Global Economy in the High Atlas Mountains’, Society for Applied Anthropology. Merida, Mexico. March 2010.

‘Socio-economic Effects of Tourism Development for Berber Women in Toubkal National Park’, Genre en Mediterranee: Les femmes face aux transformations socio-economiques: Conflits, negociations et emergence de nouveaux rapportssociaux. Rabat, Morocco. April 2008

‘Women, Work and Tourism in Toubkal National Park’, U.S. Fulbright Symposium. Rabat, Morocco. April 2008

‘Differential Opportunities for Women in the Moroccan Tourism Economy: Preliminary Findings from Toubkal National Park’, Center for African Studies. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. March 2007