Curriculum Vitae
Carol Trosset
Director of Institutional Research
Grinnell College
Grinnell, IA 50112
641-269-4931
trosset@grinnell.edu
Education
Ph.D. University of Texas-Austin, anthropology 1989
M.A. University of Texas-Austin, anthropology 1984
B.A. Carleton College (cum laude), sociology/anthropology 1981
Positions Held
Director of Institutional Research, Grinnell College 1995-present
Consultant-Evaluator for Higher Learning Commission, North Central Association appointed 2001
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology 1988-1994
Beloit College (Logan Teaching Fellow), 1993-94
Tulane University, Spring 1992-Spring 1993
University of Virginia (Scholar in Residence), Fall 1990-Fall 1991
Grinnell College, 1989-90
University of Arizona, 1988-89
Research Experience
USA, studies of academic culture. 1994-present
Australia, comparing Welsh ideologies with those of Welsh immigrants and Summer 1995 Welsh-Australians, funded by the University of Adelaide.
Wales, studying ideological diversity between and within ethnic subcultures, Summer 1993 funded by the National Science Foundation, with Douglas Caulkins.
Wales, studying ideological and emotional processes related to concepts of Welsh 1986-87 ethnicity, funded by the University of Texas.
Wales, studying identity and tradition in Welsh-speaking communities, 1981-82 funded by the Watson Foundation.
Awards and Grants
Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award 1995
Visiting Fellowship, Centre for British Studies, University of Adelaide, South Australia 1995
National Science Foundation Research Grant #DBS-9213430, with Douglas Caulkins 1993
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship 1983-86
University of Texas University Fellowships 1983-84, 86-87
Thomas J. Watson Fellowship 1981-82
National Merit Scholar 1977
Publications
Cultural Values and Social Organization in Wales: Is Ethnicity the Locus of Culture? With Douglas Caulkins.
In press. In Best of British! The Anthropology of Britain, Nigel Rapport, ed., Oxford: Berg Publishers.
Triangulation and Confirmation in the Study of Welsh Concepts of Personhood. With Douglas Caulkins. 2001. Journal of Anthropological Research 57:61-81.
Using Scenarios to Construct Models of Identity in Multiethnic Settings. With Douglas Caulkins et al. 2000. Field Methods 12(4):267-281.
Student Discussion Styles. 1999. General Anthropology 6(1-Fall).
Obstacles to Open Discussion and Critical Thinking. 1998. Change 30(5):44-49.
The Science of Reflexive Anthropology. 1997. In Anthropology Matters: Essays in Honor of Ralph A. Luebben, J. Andelson, ed., Grinnell, IA: Grinnell College, pp. 91-100.
Welshness Performed: Welsh Concepts of Person and Society. 1993. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Distinctive Field Marks: A Folk Semiotics of Bird Identification. 1992. Human Mosaic 26(2):80-86.
Co-editor for Paul Riesman, First Find Your Child a Good Mother: The Construction of Self in Two African Communities, and author of concluding essay, ATheoretical Implications.@ 1992. New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Welsh Communitas as Ideological Practice. 1988. Ethos 16(2):66-79.
The Social Identity of Welsh Learners. 1986. Language in Society 15(2):165-192.
Presentations
The Utility of Learning Style Data for Learning Outcomes Assessment. With David Lopatto.
Higher Learning Commission (NCA) 2001, Consortium for Assessment and Planning Support, 2001.
Using Qualitative Analytical Methods for Institutional Research. North Eastern Association for Institutional Research, 2000.
Developing a Methodology to Identify Quality Measures in Higher Education. With James Trainer and Mary Sapp. Association for Institutional Research Forum, 2000.
Using the HERI Faculty Survey for Cultural Analysis. With Christine Zimmerman. Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium, 2000.
What We Really Learn from Student End-of-Course Evaluations. With Scott Baumler. Association for Institutional Research in the Upper Midwest, 1999, and Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium, 2000.
Qualitative Research Methods: Content Analysis. Pre-Conference Workshop with Linda LeFauve, Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium, 1999, and Association for Institutional Research Forum, 2000.
Diversity and Comfort at Knox College. Knox College, 1999.
Conflicting Models of Discourse: Advocacy, Tolerance, and Other Obstacles to Discussion. St. Lawrence University, 1999.
Models of Diversity, Tolerance, and Discussion. Colorado College, 1998.
Writing Assessment at Grinnell College. Association for Institutional Research in the Upper Midwest, 1998.
Beyond the Classroom: Student Perspectives on Diversity. Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium, 1997.
Models of Diversity and their Impact on Discussion. Carleton College, 1997.
Dialogues or Monologues?: Examining Student Talk about Difficult Differences. American Association of Colleges and Universities Conference on Diversity, Learning, and Institutional Change, and AACU/ACE Joint Conference on Educating One Third of a Nation, 1997.
Measuring Cultural Continuity in the Welsh Diaspora. With Douglas Caulkins. American Anthropological Association, 1996.
Power, Knowledge, and Diverse People, Carleton College, 1996.
"I don't want to talk about things I'm unsure of": Silence and Advocacy at Grinnell. Associated Colleges of the Midwest Conference on Personal Identity and the College Curriculum, 1996.
In loco parentis= Revisited: Models of Faculty/Student Relations at Two Liberal Arts Colleges. American Anthropological Association, 1995.
The Hindmarsh Island Bridge Affair: Development, Aboriginal Rights, and the Role of the Anthropologist. Grinnell College, 1995.
Welshness and the Measurement of Intracultural Diversity. University of Adelaide, 1995.
Approaches to Welsh Ethnicity. University of Adelaide, 1995.
How Much Diversity?: Race and Heterogeneous Grouping in an American Junior School. American Ethnological Society, 1994.
Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes of the Welsh, by the Welsh, and for the Welsh. With Douglas Caulkins. American Ethnological Society, 1994.
Too Much or Not Enough?: Convergent Values in Wales and the US. With Douglas Caulkins. Society for Cross-Cultural Research, 1994.
Is Ethnicity the Locus of Culture?: The Image and Reality of Ethnic Subcultures in Wales. With Douglas Caulkins. American Anthropological Association, 1993.
A Colony and Its Colony: Welsh Civil War in the Falklands. American Ethnological Society, 1992.
The Role of Concepts of Personhood in the Construction of Welsh Ethnicity. American Anthropological Association, 1991.
Concepts of Personhood as Contested Ideologies. Society for Psychological Anthropology, 1991.
Welsh Nationalist Personhood as Defined by Strength and Self-Sacrifice. American Ethnological Society, 1991.
Being an Emotional Person as a Dimension of Welshness. University of Connecticut, 1990.
The Reflexive Fieldworker: Paul Riesman=s Views and Teaching of Ethnographic Method. American Anthropological Association, 1989.
Effusiveness and Repression: The Dual Self in Wales. American Anthropological Association, 1988.
Styles of Performing Welshness. University of Arizona, 1988.
Enjoyment and Self-Image among the Welsh. American Anthropological Association, 1987.
The Welsh eisteddfod as Institutionalized Tradition. American Folklore Society, 1987.
The Social Significance of Welsh Ethnicity. Grinnell-in-London Program, 1986.
Singing Ability as an Aspect of Welsh Identity. Western Conference on British Studies, 1985.
Words and Welshness. Carleton College, 1983.
Reviews
Review of Mari C. Jones, Language Obsolescence and Revitalization: Linguistic Change in Two Sociolinguistically Contrasting Welsh Communities, 1998, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Language in Society, 2000, 29(2):299-301.
Review of Gerald Erchak, The Anthropology of Self and Behavior, 1992, New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press. Journal of Anthropological Research, 1993, 49(2):180-182.
Review of Gananath Obeyesekere, The Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology, 1990, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Human Mosaic, 1992, 26(2):97-98.
Review of Glyn Williams, The Welsh in Patagonia: The State and the Ethnic Community, 1991, Cardiff: University of Wales Press. Contemporary Sociology, 1992, 21(3):355-356.
Notice of James Fife, The Semantics of the Welsh Verb: A Cognitive Approach, 1990, Cardiff: University of Wales Press. Language, 1992, 68(2):425-426.
Review of R. D. Grillo, Dominant Languages: Language Hierarchy in Britain and France, 1989, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Language in Society, 1992, 21(1):152-154.
Review of Anthony P. Cohen, Whalsay: Symbol, Segment and Boundary in a Shetland Island Community, 1987, Manchester: Manchester University Press. Journal of Anthropological Research, 1990, 49(3):353-355.
Review of Kathryn A. Woolard, Double Talk: Bilingualism and the Politics of Ethnicity in Catalonia, 1989, Stanford: Stanford University Press. American Anthropologist, 1990, 92(3):754-755.
Professional Development
Consultant-Evaluator Training, Higher Learning Commission, North Central Assocation, 2001.
SPSS Advanced Techniques: Regression, 2001.
SPSS Market Segmentation (Factor, Cluster, Discriminant Analysis), 2001.
SPSS Advanced Statistical Analysis, 2001.
SPSS Advanced Techniques: ANOVA, 2000.
SPSS Basic Statistical Analysis, 2000.
CIRP Workshop, Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA, 1998.
Project Evaluation Workshop, National Science Foundation/Westat, 1997.
Information Technology Institute, Association for Institutional Research, 1997.
Institute on the Foundations of Institutional Research, Association for Institutional Research, 1996.
Working Group on Minority Language Communities in Europe, Council for European Studies, 1992.
Midwest Faculty Seminar AThe Power of Landscape,@ Associated Colleges of the Midwest, 1990.
International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, 1983 and 1985.
Computer Skills
Word processing (PC and Macintosh)
Databases and spreadsheets (Excel and Access)
Statistical packages (SPSS, Anthropac)
Professional Organizations
American Anthropological Association
Association for Institutional Research
Consortium for Assessment and Planning Support
Sigma Xi
Society for College and University Planning
Courses Taught
Ethnographic Research Methods
Introduction to Anthropology (cultural and four-fields)
Psychological Anthropology
Language and Culture
Anthropology of Gender
Anthropology of Europe
Anthropology of Work
Conversational Welsh Language