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 6047 Silsby Hall
Hanover, NH 03755
Phone: 603-646-3336
Fax: 603-646-1140
hoyt.s.alverson@
dartmouth.edu
My Baccalaureate is in Anthropology and Linguistics, George Washington
University, 1964, and doctorate in Anthropology (Yale University, 1968). My
teaching covers introductory courses in all sub-fields of anthropology and
linguistics and advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in cognitive,
economic and linguistic anthropology.
My two books are Mind in the Heart of Darkness, Yale, 1978, and
Semantics and Experience, Johns Hopkins, 1994. Other writing includes
articles, monographs, and book chapters in several areas of cultural
anthropology and in cognitive linguistics. Mind in the Heart of
Darkness won both the Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association
and First Prize in the University of Chicago Folklore Competition, 1979.
My ethnographic field research has been conducted in both urban and rural
settings in southern Africa and in North America, supported at different times
by grants and fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Institutes of
Health, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the
Humanities, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration.
I have undertaken considerable consultation employment applying cultural
anthropology in both the public and private sector under contract for the
United States Peace Corps, U.S. AID, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Government
of the Republic of Botswana, the United States Department of the Treasury, the
Panama Canal Commission, Control Data, IBM, General Reinsurance Corp., Southern
New England Telephone Co., Texaco, Inc., and L.L. Bean, Inc.
My most recent research and writing is based in the New Hampsire-Dartmouth
Psychiatric Research Center and has focused on delivery of mental health and
employment services among Euro-American, African-American, and Hispanic/Latino
American populations of urban areas, especially inner cities of the
Northeastern United States. I am currently analyzing and writing up data from a
two year ethnographic study conducted in inner city Hartford, Connecticut of
programs designed to secure employment for people diagnosed with severe mental
illness.
Recent major publications include:
- 1991 (with S. Rosenberg) "Discourse Analysis of Schizophrenic Speech: A
Critique and Counterproposal" in Applied Psycholinguistcs,
11(2):167-184.
- 1991 "Metaphor and Experience: Looking Over the Notion of Image Schema" in
Beyond Metaphor: Trope Theory in Anthropology, J.W. Fernandez, (ed.).
Palo Alto: Stanford Univ. Press, pp. 94-120.
- 1994 Semantics and Experience: Universal Metaphors of Time in English,
Mandarin, Hindi, and Sesotho. Johns Hopkins University Press
- 1996 "Cross-Language Universals in the Experience of Time: Collocational
Evidence in English, Mandarin, Hindi, and Sesotho" in Dimensions of Time
and Life, Vol VIII. J.T. Fraser and Margaret Soulsby, (eds.) Madison, CT:
International Universities Press, pp.105 - 120.
- 1997 Review Essay: Geoffrey J. Huck and John A. Goldsmith. Ideology and
Linguistic Theory: Noam Chomsky and the Deep Structure Debates. Modern
Language Notes, Vol. 112, pp. 698-702.
- 1998 (with Eduardo Vicente) "An Ethnographic Study of Vocational
Rehabilitation for Puerto Rican Americans with Severe Mental Illness".
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 69-72.
- 1998 (with Marianne Alverson, Robert E. Drake and Deborah R. Becker).
"Social Correlates of Competitive Employment among People with Severe Mental
Illness". Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1,
pp.31-39
- 2000 (with Marianne Alverson, Robert E. Drake). "An Ethnographic Study of
the Longitudinal Course of Substance Abuse among People with Severe Illness"
Community Mental Health Journal 36(6): 557-569.
- 2001 "From Storied Time to Clock Time in the Economic Globalization of the
New Millennium" In Time at the Millenium: Changes and Continuities, (The
Study of Time, Vol X.) M. Soulsby and J.T. Frazer, eds. Westport: Bergin
and Garvey, pp. 177 - 188.
- 2001 (with Marianne Alverson, Robert E. Drake). "Social Patterns of
Substance-Use Among People with Dual Diagnoses". Mental Health Services
Research 3(1): 3 -14.
- 2002 Robert E. Drake, Michael Wallach, Hoyt Alverson, Kim Mueser.
"Psychosocial Aspects of Substance Abuse by Clients with Severe Mental
Illness". Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 190(2): 100-106.
- 2005 (with Marianne Alverson, Robert E. Drake) "Social Patterns of
Substance-Use Among People with Dual-Diagnoses" (Reprint of the 2002 article
with extensive methodological commentary) in The Research Process in the
Human Services. Leslie B. Alexander and Phyllis Solomon
(editors). Belmont, CA: Thomson, Brooks/Cole.
- 2006 (with Elizabeth Carpenter and Robert E. Drake) "An Ethnographic Study
of Job Seeking among People with Severe Mental Illness", Psychiatric
Rehabilitation Journal, pp 15 - 26.
- 2007 (with five co-authors) "Ethnocultural Variations in Mental Illness
Discourse: Some Implications for Building Therapeutic Alliances",
Psychiatric Services, Vol. 58, No. 12, pp.1 - 6
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