Background
Roberts, William Cecil was born on November 24, 1953 in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States. Son of Cecil Parham and Patricia Ann (Weems) Roberts.
Roberts, William Cecil was born on November 24, 1953 in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States. Son of Cecil Parham and Patricia Ann (Weems) Roberts.
Bachelor in Anthropology, College William and Mary, 1977; Master of Arts in Anthropology, American U., 1987; Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, American U., 1991.
Research assistant policy paper Navajo language and educational system, 1983;
research assistant evaluations, Ute-Shoshone Bannock Summer Linguistics Institute, 1985;
associate researcher School Public Health, Columbia University, 1986-1991;
advisor socioeconomic study, Gambia River Basin laboratory, Labe, Republic of Guinea, 1987-1988;
anthropologist, field coordinator, Guinea Social and Institutional Profile, 1991;
research associate, Maize Research Impact in Africa, 1991, 92;
analyst social soundness and institutional assessment, United States Agency for International Development-Guinea's Agricultural Marketing and Investment Project Ident., 1992;
consultant monitoring and evaluation design, United States Agency for International Development, 1993;
assistant professor anthropology department anthropology and sociology, St. Mary's College Maryland, since 1992. Rapid rural assessment specialist Guinea Rural Enterprise Development, 1990. Teaching assistant department anthropology, U. Maryland., 1983, American U., 1983-1986.
Adjunct lecturer department urban affairs and planning Hunter College, 1989, Adjunct.lectr. department anthropology, 1989-1990. Visiting assistant professor anthropology, St. Mary's College Maryland., 1991-1992. Technical advisor to water and sanitation health project, 1982.
Associate socioeconomic researcher U. Mihc.'s Gambia River Basin Studies, Gambia, Senegal and Guinea, 1984. Presenter conferences in field.
Volunteer leader Peace Corps rural water supply program, Kongolo, Zaire, 1981, water supply and sanitation education, maternal and child health Badjakunda, The Gambia, 1979-1981. Trainer Gambia Peace Corps public health program, Jenoi, 1981. Trainer Zaire Peace Corps, 1983, 84.
Training director spring development and sanitation programs Kongolo and Bukavu, Zaire, 1982. Member National Association for Practicing Anthropologists, American Anthropol. Association, Society for Applied Anthropology, Washington Association Professional Anthropologists.
Married Julie Elizabeth Silcott, October 29, 1988. Children: Adam Silcott, Andrew Weems.
