H ERVE V ARENNE Brief Academic Biography Receives his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago (June 1972) Is invited to join the faculty of the Department of Home and Family Life at Teachers College as assistant professor (Fall 1972) Serves as acting chair of the Department of Home and Family Life (1974-1975) Is promoted to the rank of Associate Professor (Spring 1977) Publishes Americans Together (1977) Is granted tenure in the renamed Department of Family and Community Education ( Fall 1978) Starts an ongoing collaboration with Professor Ray McDermott (on the faculty at Teachers College from 1979 to 1990). Is promoted to the rank of Professor (1983) Publishes American School Language (1983) Edits Symbolizing America (1986) Serves as chair of the Department of Family and Community Education (1984 to 1991) Joins the Department of Philosophy and the Social Sciences and the Programs in Anthropology at Teachers College after the closing of the Department of Family and Community Education (1991) Publishes Ambiguous Harmony (1992) Publishes, with Ray McDermott of the Stanford University School of Education, Successful Failure (1998) Joins the Department of Scientific Foundation (1997), then the Department of International and Transcultural Studies (2000) as Teachers College reorganizes. Serves as chair of the Department of International and Transcultural Studies (2001 to 2006) Guest edits a special issue of the Teachers College Record Explorations in the theory of education (2007) Co-directs (with Prof. Ed Gordon ) a project on comprehensive education and (with Dr. Linda Lin) an ethnographic investigation of educational settings in Harlem (ongoing)
		Last revision: July 2007