Contact information
IMMRC
University of Leuven
Parkstraat 45, bus 3615
B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
Phone: +32 16 32.60.07
E-mail: noel.salazar(at)soc.kuleuven.be
Employment
| 2008-2011 | Postdoctoral Fellow IMMRC-Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, KULeuven |
| 2008 | Postdoctoral Researcher Foreign Policy, Tourism & Recreation Advice Centre, Flemish Government |
| 2003-2005 | Teaching Fellow School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania |
| 2003-2004 | Research Assistant (with Prof. Dr. Sandra Barnes) Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania |
Education
| 2008 | Ph.D. |
Anthropology | Penn |
| 2005 | Grad. Certificate | African Studies | Penn |
| 2002 | M.A. |
Cultures and Development Studies | Leuven |
Fellowships, grants, and honors
| 2008-2011 | Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant European Commission - Research (FP7) |
| 2008-2011 | Postdoctoral Fellowship Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) |
| 2006-2008 | Dissertation Fellowship University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences |
| 2006 | Student Achievement Award National Association for the Practice of Anthropology |
| 2005-2007 | Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology |
| 2005 | Dean’s Scholar University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences |
| 2004 | Pre-Dissertation Field Research Grant – Tanzania University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anthropology |
| 2003 | Pre-Dissertation Field Research Grant – Indonesia University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anthropology |
| 2002-2006 | William Penn Fellowship University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences |
| 2002-2003 | Francqui Fellow Belgian American Educational Foundation (Rescinded and accepted instead as a B.A.E.F. Honorary Fellow) |
Selected peer-reviewed publications
2007. Towards a global culture heritage interpretation? Evidence from Indonesia and Tanzania. Tourism Recreation Research 32(3):23-30.
2006. Touristifying Tanzania: Local guides, global discourse. Annals of Tourism Research 33(3):833–852.
2005. Tourism and glocalization: "Local" tour guiding. Annals of Tourism Research 32(3):628-646.
2005. Resolving conflicts in heritage tourism: A public interest anthropology approach. International Journal of Heritage Studies 11(5). [Co-editor with Benjamin W. Porter; Special Issue]
2004. Heritage and tourism, PIA and global interests. Anthropology in Action 11 (2/3):2-60. [Co-editor with Benjamin W. Porter; Double Issue Special Edition]
Full list of publications available here
Professional memberships
- International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)
- American Anthropological Association (Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology)
- European Association of Social Anthropologists (Media Anthropology Network)
- Society for Applied Anthropology (Tourism Interest Group)
- World Anthropologies Network
- Tourism Research Information Network (TRINET)
- IGU-UGI Commission on the Geography of Tourism, Leisure and Global Change
- Asia Tourism Research
Research expertise
- the anthropology of mobility (tourism and migration)
- globalization and localization, or 'glocalization'
- public interest anthropology
- transnationalism & cosmopolitanism
- identity & representation, heritage, critical theory
- linguistic anthropology: discourse-centered approaches, multi-modal semiotics
- Indonesia (Southeast Asia), Tanzania (East Africa), Belgium (Western Europe), Chile (Latin America)
- Participant and direct observation (with audio-visual recording)
- Exploratory and in-depth ethnographic interviews
- Semi-structured questionnaires
- Archival research in local libraries and archives, and collection of secondary sources
- Graphical mapping of global networks and connections
- Data analysis and interpretation with ATLAS.ti and UCINET
