Education
PhD The City University of New York
BFA New York University
Bio
Anthony Marcus did a PhD in Anthropology at the City University of New York, focusing on urban poverty, gender, American color-caste oppression and homelessness. In 2002 he moved to Australia and served as Senior Lecturer in International Development at the University of Melbourne in Australia, where his research focused on international aid, development, and poverty amelioration in the Maldives, urban Indonesia, and rural Nepal. He was a founding Academic Head of the School of International Development of Melbourne University Private which provided Australia’s first entirely online MA/Ph.D program and did consulting for the United Nations and the Red Cross, in post-tsunami reconstruction projects in the Republic of Maldives. Since arriving at John Jay in 2008 Professor Marcus has focused on human trafficking, teenage prostitution, prisoner reentry, community justice, and intergenerational family conflict over marriage, gender, migration, and youth issues in New York City. Since 2008, Anthony Marcus has been an Editor-in-chief of the international peer review journal Dialectical Anthropology which is headquartered at John Jay College and Trent University in Peterborough, Canada.
https://www.springer.com/journal/10624
https://againstthecurrent.org/anthony-marcus/
Scholarly Work
Selected Current Publications
Marcus, A. 2021. The road to Atil: Shlomo Sand, post-Zionism, and the dialectic of Khazaria. Dialectical Anthropology https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-021-09627-4
Lem, Winnie & Anthony Marcus, eds. 2020. Notes on Covid-19 and the contradictions of capital: a Dialectical Anthropology special symposium. A Special Issue of Dialectical Anthropology 44(3) Dialectical Anthropology | Volume 44, issue 3 (springer.com)
Horning, Amber, Chris Thomas, and Anthony Marcus. 2020. Risky Business: Harlem Pimps’ Work Decisions and Economic Returns: Deviant Behavior: Vol 41, No 2 (tandfonline.com) 41(2):160-185.
Marcus, Anthony. 2020. Some notes on prisoner education and the anthropology of reentry: a report from the field | SpringerLink Dialectical Anthropology (Online First)
Marcus, Anthony, Aliyah Middleton, and Amber Horning. 2019. “Pimps and Madams” in Encyclopedia of Women and Crime, Frances P. Bernat and Kelly Frailing, eds. Wiley. Pimps and Madams - Marcus - - Major Reference Works - Wiley Online Library
Marcus, Anthony, P. Begum, L. Alsabahi, and R. Curtis 2019. Between Choice and Obligation: An Exploratory Assessment of Forced Marriage Problems and Policies among Migrants in the United States | Social Policy and Society | Cambridge Core 18(1):19-36.
Selected Older Publications
Marcus, Anthony, Jo Sanson, Amber Horning, Efram Thompson & Ric Curtis. 2016. " Pimping and Profitability: Testing the Economics of Trafficking in Street Sex Markets in Atlantic City, New Jersey ", Sociological Perspectives, Pimping and Profitability: Testing the Economics of Trafficking in Street Sex Markets in Atlantic City, New Jersey - Anthony Marcus, Jo Sanson, Amber Horning, Efram Thompson, Ric Curtis, 2016 (sagepub.com) 59(1):46-65.
Marcus, Anthony, Amber Horning, Ric Curtis, Jo Sanson & Efram Thompson. 2014. Conflict and Agency among Sex Workers and Pimps: A Closer Look at Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking - Anthony Marcus, Amber Horning, Ric Curtis, Jo Sanson, Efram Thompson, 2014 (sagepub.com) 653(1):225 - 246
Honors and Awards
2017-18 John Jay College Scholarly Excellence Award