Melissa Beresford
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Arizona State University, 2018
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408-924-4778
melissa.beresford@sjsu.edu
Melissa Beresford's CV
Dr. Melissa Beresford is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at San José State
University. As an economic anthropologist, Dr. Beresford's research investigates how
people create alternative economies in response to economic inequality and resource
insecurity (with a focus on water insecurity). As an anthropological methodologist,
Dr. Beresford also conducts research on and innovates methods for ethnographic research
and qualitative data analysis. She conducts her field work in urban areas of high
inequality, including in the U.S. San Francisco Bay Area and Cape Town, South Africa.
She also collaborates on research in Latin America and in cross-cultural context.
As an enthusiastic and experienced teacher, Melissa's primary teaching foci include
supporting diverse students; research methods training; pedagogy and practice of diverse
teaching modalities (including online); and experiential learning (undergraduate research
experiences, study abroad). She also teaches Qualitative Data Analysis for the National
Science Foundation funded Research Methods in Anthropology training program and in
other national workshops for students and research professionals.