Dean of Menno Simons College
Dean of Social Sciences (CMU)
r.mccutcheon@uwinnipeg.ca

Education
Ph.D. Anthropology (McMaster)
M.A. Religious Studies (McMaster)
B.A. Honours (Brandon)

Biographical Note
For thirty years Rick McCutcheon has been committed to blending his academic life with work for activist social movements and non-governmental organizations. As an activist Rick is committed to nonviolent social movements, and has been arrested on numerous occasions in solidarity actions. In 1991 he traveled to Iraq twice, subsequently engaged in public speaking and media events across the country, and in 2000-2001 lived in Iraq for a year as the Mennonite Central Committee and American Friends Service Committee field representative with his wife Tamara Fleming. Rick coordinated Canadian Friends Service Committee for three years, and was Research Associate on the Health of Children in War Project at McMaster University, where he also was actively part of the Centre for Peace Studies from its inception. He currently is Co-Editor of Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies.

Research Interests
Rick’s research interests include the anthropology of conflict, violence and war, post-colonial theory and subaltern studies, representation and symbols, peace theory and practice, conflict analysis and transformation, humanitarian aid and conflict, globalization, genocide, critical and alternative pedagogy, inter-religious dialogue, Gandhian philosophy, pacifism and nonviolence; regional interests include the Middle East, India, and North America.

Courses Taught (2008-2011)
CRS-1200 Introduction to Conflict Resolution Studies
CRS-2210 Conflict Theory and Analysis
CRS-2231 Violence and Nonviolence
CRS-2241 Conflict and Culture
CRS-2281 ST: Gandhi: His Life and Ideas
CRS-3331 Genocide, War, and Violent Conflict
CRS-4910 Conflict and the Construction of the Other

Selected Publications
Richard McCutcheon, and John Derksen, "Canada's Role in Afghanistan: Submissions to the Manley Panel," Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies 39, no. 1/2 (2007): 94-149.

Richard McCutcheon, "Rethinking the War Against Iraq," Anthropologica: Journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society 48, no. 1 (2006): 11-28.

Richard McCutcheon, "A Well Placed Whisper," in Friends' Peace Witness in a Time of Crisis, ed. Nancy Irving, et al. (Philadelphia: Friends World Committee for Consultation, 2005).

Richard McCutcheon, "Global Processes and Violence: Reflections on War With Iraq," in Globalization and Community: Canadian Perspectives, ed. Jean-Luc Chodkiewicz, and Raymond Wiest (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Anthropology Papers 34, 2004).

Richard McCutcheon, “Richard F. Salisbury: A Chronological Bibliography.” In Ethnography and Development: The Work of Richard F. Salisbury, ed. Marilyn Silverman (Montréal: McGill University Libraries, 2004).

As a member of the International Quaker Working Party, When the Rain Returns: Toward Justice and Reconciliation in Palestine and Israel (Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, 2004).

Richard McCutcheon, The Iraq War as Globalized War, Ploughshares Working Paper Series (Waterloo, Ontario: Project Ploughshares, 2002).

Graeme MacQueen, Richard McCutcheon, and Joanna Santa-Barbara, “The Use of Health Initiatives as Peace Initiatives,” Peace & Change 22, no. 2 (April 1997): 175-97.