Academic Profile
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Dr.Barry Rodrigue
Professor and Scholar-in-Residence
Anthropology
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barry.rodrigue@ssla.edu.in
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Research Profiles
Teaching Philosophy
- Faculty-in-Charge, SSLA Collaborative for Asian Anthropology
- Field training for students in Anthropology, including internships and dissertation work
- Manuscript preparation in Global Standard English, including editing and academic advising for students, staff, and faculty
- Establishment and management of community partnerships with NGOs across India for SSLA
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Bio
Barry Rodrigue is a Geographer, Archaeologist and Ethnographer. He serves as Professor of Anthropology and Scholar-in-Residence at Symbiosis International University in Pune, Maharashtra, India. He began his career as an Ethnographer and Field Biologist in Alaska, where he studied natural / cultural landscapes among indigenous communities. A Fulbright Scholar, he worked as a Research Geographer at Laval University and Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of Southern Maine. His strategy of integrating local, regional and global inquiry into a unified context made him an early advocate of Universal Studies. As a founder of the International Big History Association (2010) and the Asian Big History Association (2014), he served as their international coordinator. He is a strong proponent of engaged scholarship, where researchers collaborate with grassroot communities around the world to resolve problems through their shared ideas and networks.
Dr. Barry Rodrigue served as the Contributing Editor for “The General Law of Being, Article 3: The Ultimate Cause of Evolution” by Chen Ye, published in the Journal of Big History.
Engaged in anthropological field research in collaboration with SSLA post-graduate Sudev Madhav and indigenous communities:
- In the BR Hills of southern Karnataka, documenting megalithic and other heritage sites in partnership with the Soliga indigenous tribal community.
- In eastern India, collaborating with Koya tribal doctor Vaidya Venkatraj Nidigonda and his family to document ethnomedicine and cultural traditions, with a particular focus on health in the context of the climate crisis.
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Publications
- Rodrigue, B. (2023). Retrofitting the Future: Anthropology in a Time of Crisis, Man in India, 103(4), 163–181.
- Gustafson, L., Rodrigue, B., & Blanks, D. (2021). Science, Religion and Deep Time, Routledge.
- Rodrigue, B. (2021). Migration, Myth, and History: A Cross-Border Case Study, in A. K. Giri (Ed.), Roots and Routes: Identities, Social Creativity, Cultural Regeneration and Planetary Realizations (pp. 161–195), Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature.
- Rodrigue, B. (2019). Our Place in the Multiverse: Anthropology, Civilization and Big History, in C. Benjamin, E. Quaedackers, & D. Baker (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Big History (pp. 109–155), Routledge.
- Rodrigue, B. (Ed.-in-Chief). (2015–2017). From Big Bang to Galactic Civilizations: A Big History Anthology (Vol. I–III), Primus Books.
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Education
- Ph.D. (Anthropology)
- Ph.D. (Interdisciplinary Studies)
- M.A.
- B.A.
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Research Interests
- Global Human Adaptation
- Development (CRM) Archaeology
- Indigenous and Tribal Heritage Preservation
- Collaborative Research with Koya and Soliga Communities
- Megalithic Studies in the Nilgiri Mountains
- Community-Based Archaeology and Conservation
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Awards & Fellowships
- Man in India (Board of Editors), since 2020
- Dagestan Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences (Board of Experts), since 2018
- Indian National Confederation & Academy of Anthropologists, since 2019
- Network of Global & World History Organizations (Governing Bureau), since 2015
- Asian Big History Association (Executive), since 2014
- International Big History Association (Executive, Emeritus), since 2010
- Maine Historical Preservation Commission (Consulting Archaeologist), since 2002
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Courses Taught
- Research Methodology: Human adaptation, Cultural landscapes, Macro - micro networks , Global crisis foresight,Evolutionary process