Education: A.B. in Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley; M.S. in Rural Sociology at University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D. in Rural Sociology at Cornell University.

Research interests: Applied behavioral sciences; Semiotics, structuralism and socio-cultural change; Theories in community change; Sociology and critical theory; Sociology of tourism; Urban planning; Environmental design and landscape architecture.

Present positions: Head of the Project Evaluation team, Experimental residential treatment facility for chronically homeless women and children in Yolo County, University of California at Davis ● Memberships: Research Group on the Sociology of Tourism (Founding Member); Collegium of the International Semiotics Studies Association; International Tourism Research; International Sociological Association

Web resources on Professor MacCannell: An Interview with MacCannell, 2005 (http://sites.cca.edu/curatingarchive/archives/000124.html) ● Cultural tourism, by MacCannell, 2000 ( http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications/newsletters/15_1/feature1_7.html)

SOME PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE ON WEB

(2001) Dean MacCannell, Tourist agency, in Tourist study, vol. 1(1), pp.23-37 ( http://www.wellhead.ru/files/active/1/tourist%20agency%20-%20macCannel.pdf)

Updated: January 31, 2007