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ALETTA BIERSACK
Curriculum Vitae
Department of Anthropology
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon 97403-1218
Office phone: (541) 346-5110
Fax: (541) 346-0668
e-mail: [email protected]
Research interests
New Guinea, historical anthropology, political ecology, globalization, anthropology of the state, mining,
gender violence, human rights practice
Research
Melanesia
Doctoral research among the Paiela of the Papua New Guinea highlands, investigating gender,
cosmology, social organization, and politics, 1974-78; three months of fieldwork in fall 1993, two
months of fieldwork in February and March 1995, seven months of fieldwork and archival research
overall from July 1995 to February 1996 among Ipili speakers, including the people of Porgera valley, 10
weeks of fieldwork in Porgera and Paiela in fall 1999, 8 weeks of fieldwork in fall 2000; continuing
fieldwork summers 2003 and 2004; consultancy, December 2010. Internet research on gender violence
in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and Vanuatu, 2012-2014; further Porgera-Paiela fieldwork in 2015.
Polynesia
Fourteen months overall (1986, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992) investigating Tongan history and culture in
Tonga and in several libraries and archives around the world (Nuku'alofa [Tonga], Sydney, London,
Canberra, Wellington, and Auckland).
Education
Ph.D., cultural anthropology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1980
Ph.D. dissertation: "The Hidden God: Communication, Cosmology, and Cybernetics among a
Melanesian People"
Ph.D. candidacy thesis: "Matrilaterality in Patrilineal Systems: The Tongan Case" (winner of
the Curl Bequest Prize awarded by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great
Britain and Ireland in 1974)
M.A., anthropology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1972.
M.A., history, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1969.
B.A., history, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1965.
Academic and administrative appointments
Acting Head, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, intermittently, 9/05-6/06
Associate Head and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology, 9/05-6/06
Acting Head, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, 7/1/00-9/15/00.
Head, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, 7/99-6/00.
Acting Head, Department of Religious Studies, University of Oregon, 1997-1998.
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, 1994Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, 1988-1994.
Affiliated Faculty, Department of Religious Studies, University of Oregon, 1987-1999.
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, 1982-1988.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, 1983-1984.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Central Michigan University,
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Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, 1981-1982.
Visiting Instructor, Department of Anthropology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, summer
1979.
Publications
Books, special issues, and anthologies
Nearing submission Gender Violence and Human Rights Practice in the Western Pacific (co-edited with
Martha Macintyre and Margaret Jolly). To be submitted to ANU E Press.
In preparation Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific, co-edited with Martha Macintyre; a collection
coming out of three successive sessions at the annual meetings of the Association of Social
Anthropologists of Oceania. To be submitted to Men and Masculinities.
Drafted “Introduction: Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific.” In Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific, coedited with Martha Macintyre. To be submitted to Men and Masculinities.
In preparation Skin and Bone: The Paiela Reproductive Regime (book)
In preparation “Gender Violence.” Invited entry in the Wiley-Blackwell International Encyclopedia of
Anthropology, edited by Hilary Callan. To be published by Wiley-Blackwell and in the Wiley
Online Library. Publication expected 2016.
2006 Reimagining Political Ecology (co-edited with James Greenberg). Durham: Duke University Press.
1999 "Ecologies for Tomorrow: Reading Rappaport Today," ed. A. Biersack. A "contemporary issues"
forum. American Anthropologist 101(1): 5-112.
1995 Papuan Borderlands: Huli, Duna, and Ipili Perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands, ed. A.
Biersack. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.
1991 Clio in Oceania: Toward a Historical Anthropology, ed. A. Biersack. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian
Institution Press.
Articles and book chapters
*Means NOT PEER REVIEWED
In preparation "Property and the Gift: Comparing Property Regimes”
Drafted and circulated among contributors. “Introduction: Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific.”
Introduction for the collection Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific, co-edited by Biersack and
Macintyre. To be submitted to Men and Masculinities.
Nearing submission. “Gender Violence and Human Rights Practice in Three Pacific Island Countries:
Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and Vanuatu.” In Gender Violence and Human Rights Practice in the
Western Pacific, co-edited with Martha Macintyre and Margaret Jolly. To be submitted to ANU
E Press.
Nearing submission. With Martha Macintyre. “Gender Violence and Human Rights Practice in the
Western Pacific: In Search of a Research Agenda.” Co-authored with Martha Macintyre. In
Gender Violence and Human Rights Practice in the Western Pacific, co-edited with Martha
Macintyre and Margaret Jolly. To be submitted to ANU E Press.
2014 soon to be under review. Gender Violence and Human Rights Practice in the Western Pacific, co-edited
with Martha Macintyre and Margaret Jolly. To be submitted to ANU E Press.
*2014 “Foucault among Ipili Speakers.” In “Foucault in Melanesia: A Discussion Forum.” Oceania
84(1):64-68.
2013 “Beyond ‘Cargo Cult’: Interpreting Mata Kamo.” In Cargo Cults, Kastom, and Kago Kalja: Old
Theories and New Realities in the Study of Melanesian Movements, edited by Marc Tabani and
Marcellin Abong, pp. 85-121. Marseilles: Pacific-Credo Publications Press, CNRS.
*2012 "Porgera--Whence and Whither?" In Dilemmas of Development: The Social and Economic Impact of
the Porgera Mine, 1989-1994, ed. C. Filer, pp. 260-270. Reissue of a 1999 collection; available at
Australian E Press (http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/dilemmas-of-development/pdf-download)
2011 "Epilogue." In Changing Contexts-Shifting Meanings: Transformations of Cultural Traditions in
Oceania, ed. Elfriede Hermann, pp. 323-350. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
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2011 “The Sun and the Shakers, Again: Enga, Ipili, and Somaip Perspectives on the Cult of Ain,” part
II. Oceania 81(3):225-243. Winner of the Australian Anthropological Society Essay Prize for
2012 for best anthropology article published in an Australian journal in 2011.
2011 “The Sun and the Shakers, Again: Enga, Ipili, and Somaip Perspectives on the Cult of Ain,” part I.
Oceania 81(2):113-136. Winner of the Australian Anthropological Society Essay Prize for 2012
for best anthropology article published in an Australian journal in 2011.
*2010 “Comment on Maclean's ‘Globalization and Bridewealth Rhetoric’." Dialectical Anthropology
34(3):379-382. (Available online at
http://www.springerlink.com/content/p3t7700213878637/ since June 2010.)
2010 Spanish translation of “Reimagining Political Ecology: Culture/Power/History/Nature”
(“Reimaginar la ecologia politica: cultura/poder/historia/naturaleza”). In Cultura y Naturaleza,
ed. Leonardo Montenegro. Bogota: Jardin Botanico.
2008 (with Janet Hoskins; translation from French to English) "Marriage, Rank and Politics in
Hawaii." Expanded version of "Le fonctionnement du système des rangs à Hawaii," by Valerio
Valeri (originally published in L'Homme, 1972). In Hierarchy: Persistence and Transformation in
Social Formations, ed. Knut Rio and Olaf H. Smedal, pp. 211-244, Berghahn Books.
*2006 “Rivals and Wives: Affinal Politics and the Tongan Ramage." In Origins, Ancestry, and Alliance,
eds. J. Fox and C. Sather, pp. 241-282. Reissue. Canberra: Australian National University E
Press. (Originally published in 1996.)
2006 "Reimagining Political Ecology: Culture/Power/History/Nature." Introduction to Reimagining
Political Ecology, ed. A. Biersack and J. Greenberg, pp. 3-42; Duke University Press. Translated
into Spanish as “Reimaginar la ecologia political cultura/poder/historia/naturaleza” (see above)
2006 "Red River, Green War: Porgera’s Politics of Place.” Reimagining Political Ecology, ed. A.
Biersack and J. Greenberg, pp. 233-280. Durham: Duke University Press.
2006 “From the New Ecology to the New Ecologies,” translated into Polish. Published in Ksiazka
Badanie Kultury: Elementy Teorii Antropologicznej-kontynuacje, t. 1, 2 (The Study of Culture, vols. 1,
2), edited by Marian Kempny and Ewa Nowicka, pp. Warsaw: Polish Scientific Publishers
PWN.
2005 "On the Life and Times of the Ipili Imagination." In The Making of Global and Local Modernities in
Melanesia: Humiliation, Transformation and the Nature of Cultural Change, ed. J. Robbins and H.
Wardlow, pp. 135-162. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
2004
"The Bachelors and Their Spirit Wife: Interpreting the Omatisia Ritual in Porgera and Paiela."
In The Unseen Characters: Women in Male Rituals of Papua New Guinea, ed. by P. Bonnemère, pp.
98-119. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
*2004 “Reflections on AES Invited Sessions: Political Ecology and the Politics of Place.” Anthropology
News, February 2004, p. 33.
*2004 Biographical summary, Roy A. Rappaport, in Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural
Anthropology, ed. V. Amit, pp. 421-422. London: Routledge.
*2001 "The Dynamics of Porgera Gold Mining: Culture, Capital, and the State." In Mining in Papua
New Guinea: Analysis & Policy Implications, eds. B. Imbun and P. McGavin, pp. 25-44. Port
Moresby: University of Papua New Guinea Press.
2001 "Reproducing Inequality: The Gender Politics of Male Cults in Melanesia and Amazonia." In
Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method, eds. T. Gregor and
D. Tuzin, pp. 69-90. Berkeley: University of California Press.
*2000 Obituary for Wallace M. Ruff, Anthropology News (newsletter of the American Anthropological
Association), September 2000.
*1999 "Porgera--Whence and Whither?" In Dilemmas of Development: The Social and Economic Impact of
the Porgera Mine, 1989-1994, ed. C. Filer, pp. 260-270. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea:
National Research Institute, and Canberra: National Centre for Development Studies,
Australian National University.
1999
"The Mount Kare Python and His Gold: Totemism and Ecology in the Papua New
Guinea Highlands." In "Ecologies for Tomorrow: Reading Rappaport Today," ed. A. Biersack;
a "contemporary issue forum," American Anthropologist 101:68-87.
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"From 'The New Ecology' to the New Ecologies." Introduction to "Ecologies for
Tomorrow: Reading Rappaport Today," ed. A. Biersack. American Anthropologist 101:5-18.
Published in Polish in 2006; see above.
"Sacrifice and Regeneration among Ipilis: The View from Tipinini." In Fluid Ontologies: Myth,
Ritual, and Philosophy in the Highlands of Papua New
Guinea, eds. L. Goldman and C. Ballard, pp. 43-66. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
"Horticulture and Hierarchy: The Youthful Beautification of the Body in the Paiela and
Porgera Valleys." In Adolescence in the Pacific Island Societies, eds. G. Herdt and S. Leavitt, pp.
71-91. ASAO monograph series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
"Word Made Flesh: Religion, the Economy, and the Body in the Papua New Guinea
Highlands." History of Religions 36:85-111.
"Rivals and Wives: Affinal Politics and the Tongan Ramage." In Origins, Ancestry, and
Alliance, eds. J. Fox and C. Sather, pp. 237-279. Canberra: Department of Anthropology,
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
"'Making Kinship': Warfare, Migration, and Marriage among Paielas." In Works in Progress: Essays
in Highlands Ethnography in Honour of Paula Brown Glick, eds. H. Levine and A. Ploeg, pp. 19-42.
Frankfurt Am Main: Peter Lang.
"The Huli, Duna, and Ipili Peoples Yesterday and Today." Introduction to Papuan
Borderlands, ed. A. Biersack, pp. 1-54. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.
"Heterosexual Meanings: Society, Economy, and Gender among Ipilis." In Papuan
Borderlands, ed. A. Biersack, pp. 229-261. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.
(Together with John Vail) "Glossary of Company Names and Acronyms." In Papuan
Borderlands, ed. A. Biersack, pp. 373-375. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.
"History and Theory in Anthropology," introduction to Clio in Oceania: Toward a
Historical Anthropology, ed. A. Biersack, pp. 1-36. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
"Prisoners of Time: Millenarian Praxis in a Melanesian Valley." In Clio in Oceania:
Toward a Historical Anthropology, ed. A. Biersack, pp. 231-296. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian
University Press.
"Thinking Difference: Marilyn Strathern's The Gender of the Gift." Oceania 61: 147-154
(a review article).
"Kava'onau and the Tongan Chiefs," Journal of Polynesian Society 100:231-268.
"Histories in the Making: Paiela and Historical Anthropology." History and
Anthropology 5:63-85.
*1990 "Under the Toa Tree: The Genealogy of the Tongan Chiefs." In Culture and History in the Pacific,
ed. J. Siikala, pp. 80-105. Helsinki: Transactions of the Finnish Anthropological Society.
1990
"Blood and Garland: Duality in Tongan History." In Tongan Culture and History: Papers
from the First Tongan History Conference Held at Canberra, eds. P. Herda, J. Terrell, and N.
Gunson, pp. 46-58. Canberra: Department of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of
Pacific Studies.
1989
"Local Knowledge, Local History: Geertz and Beyond." In The New Cultural History, ed.
L. Hunt, pp. 72-96. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 72-96. (This book has been
translated into Japanese and Portuguese.)
1987
"Moonlight: Negative Images of Transcendence in Paiela Pollution." Oceania 57: 178194.
1984
"Paiela 'Women-Men': The Reflexive Foundations of Gender Ideology." American
Ethnologist 11:118-138.
1983
"Bound Blood: Paiela 'Conception' Theory Interpreted." Mankind 14:85-100.
1982
"The Logic of Misplaced Concreteness." American Anthropologist 84:811-29.
1982
"Ginger Gardens for the Ginger Woman: Rites and Passages in a Melanesian
Society." Man 17:239-258.
1982
"Tongan Exchange Structures: Beyond Descent and Alliance." Journal of the Polynesian
Society 91:181-212 (revision of "Matrilaterality in Patrilineal Systems: The Tongan Case,"
winner of the Curl Bequest Prize, The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and
Ireland, 1974).
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1981 "'To Die Laughing': Paiela Games and the Organization of Behavior as Communication." In
Paradoxes of Play, ed. J. Loy. West Point, New York: Leisure Press, pp. 180-187.
Book reviews and book review articles
2013 “Coffee Producers in a World of Fair Trade.” Review article on From Modern Production to
Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea by Paige West.
Anthropology Now. Anthropology Now 5(3):125-133.
2011
Review of Ancestral Lines: The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest by John
Barker. The Contemporary Pacific 23(1):260-262.
2008
Review of Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis of Social and Environmental Relations in New
Guinea, Stanford University Press, by Stuart Kirsch. American Ethnologist 35(4).
2007
Review of The Meaning of Whitemen: Race & Modernity in the Orokaiva Cultural World, by Ira
Bashkow. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pacific Affairs 80(1):139-141.
2006 Review of Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society, by Holly
Wardlow. Berkeley: University of California Press. American Ethnologist 34(2).
2004 Review of Remaking the World, by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern. Washington, D.C.:
Smithsonian Institution Press. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 10(4):956-957.
1997 Review of Migration and Transformations: Regional Perspectives on the New Guinea Highlands, edited
by A. Strathern and G. Stürzenhofecker. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994.
American Ethnologist 24:265-68.
1996 Review of The Ngatik Massacre: History and Identity on a Micronesian Atoll, by Lin Poyer. American
Ethnologist.
1994 Review of Ku Waru, by Francesca Merlan and Alan Rumsey. American Ethnologist 21:1023-24.
1993 Review of Anahulu, vol. 1, by Marshall Sahlins. American Anthropologist.
1993 Review of Remittances and Their Impact, by D. Ahlburg. Pacific Affairs.
1992 Review of The Gift of Kinship, by Edward LiPuma. Canberra Anthropology 15(2):131-33.
1992 Review of Melanesian Religion, by Gary Trompf. The Contemporary Pacific, pp. 467-69.
1991 Review of Developments in Polynesian Ethnology, eds. Alan Howard and Robert Borofsky. Canberra
Anthropology 14:115-18.
1991 Review of Dealing with Inequality, by Marilyn Strathern. The Contemporary Pacific, pp. 451-54.
1991 Review of The Gender of the Gift, by Marilyn Strathern. Man (n.s.) 25:559-60.
1989 Review of Intimations of Infinity, by Jadran Mimica. Man (n.s.) 24:706.
1987 Review of Pacific Rituals: Living or Dying?, eds. G. and B. Deverell. Journal of Ritual Studies, 1/2
(1987):135-36;
1987 Review of Handbook of Tok Pisin (New Guinea Pidgin), ed. S. Wurm and P. Mühlhausler. American
Anthropologist 89: 511-12.
1986 Review of Daughters of the Dreaming, by Diane Bell. Center Review (CSWS, University of Oregon),
pp. 23-25.
1985 Review of Where the Waves Fall, by Kerry Howe. American Ethnologist 12:169-70.
1985 Review of Food, Sex, and Pollution, by Anna Meigs. American Anthropologist 87: 203-4.
1982 Review of The Voice of the Tambaran, by Donald Tuzin. American Anthropologist 84:224-25.
Grants, honors, consultancies, workshops
Co-PI, “Defying Land Alienation: Living Indigenous Lifeways,” The Christensen Fund, $30,000 for 8
months of work in 2015; project manager is Latham Wood, doctoral student.
Center for the Study of Women in Society, July 1, 2014-June 30, 2015, “Gendered Transformations in the
Ipili Mining Era” ($6,000.00)
Faculty Research Award, University of Oregon, July 1, 2014-June 30, 2015, “Mining among Ipili Speakers:
An Ethnography of Global Connection” ($5,236.00)
Travel award, CSWS, awarded November 2013, to chair and co-author the introduction to the symposium
“Emergent Masculinities in the Contemporary Pacific” at the annual meeting of the Association of
Social Anthropologists of Oceania, Kona, Hawai’i, February 2014 ($200.00).
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“The Sun and the Shakers, Again: Enga, Ipili, and Somaip Perspectives on the Cult of Ain” was awarded
the Australian Anthropological Society’s Annual Anthropology Essay Prize, for the best
anthropology essay published in an Australian journal in 2011 (A$1,000.00).
Travel award, CSWS, awarded May 2011, to give the paper “"In search of a research agenda in the study of
gender violence in Melanesia" on the panel “Gender Violence and Human Rights Discourse,” coorganized with M. Macintyre, American Anthropological Association, November 2011, Montreal,
Canada. Invited session, Association of Feminist Anthropologists, AAA ($200.00).
Consultant, PEAK (Porgera Environmental Advisory Committee), an evaluation of Dr. Penny Johnson’s
“Scoping Project: Social Impact of the Mining Project on Women in the Porgera Area,”
February 2011
Consultant, Porgera Joint Venture/Barrick Gold Corporation, “Sexual Violence in the Porgera Valley,”
December 2010 (114-page report finalized 10/3/11).
Attendee, “Project Management Series,” Cris Cullinan (offered by Organizational Development and
Training, UO), January-February 2011
Workshop in Proposal Development (WPD) for June 2010, conducted by Mary Fechner
Summer Research Award, “A Return to the Porgera and Mt. Kare Mines at a Critical time in Their
Respective Histories,” 2010, University of Oregon; named second alternate (not funded)
Summer Research Award, University of Oregon, for the writing project "Grassroots Globalization:
Joint-Venture Capitalism at Mt. Kare," summer 2006.
Small Professional Grant, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, UO, for preparing the artwork for
Imagining Political Ecology, 2004-2005
Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program, “Marriage, Leadership, and Conflict in an Era of
Gold Mining: Windows upon Papua New Guinea Modernities,” 2003-2004
CSWS, “Gender, Sexuality, and Marriage in a Changing Papua New Guinea Society,” for research 2003.
(With Judith Raiskin) Jeremiah lecture series “Postcolonial Inscriptions,” award made through the
Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, for 2003-2004
Small Professional Grant, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, UO, summer 2003 (declined)
Professional Distinctiveness Award, for the conference “Dialogues between the Disciplines: History and
Anthropology" (primary organizer: A. Dirlik), annual conference of the Center for Critical
Theory and Transnational Studies, spring 2003 (funding for the conference awarded in spring
2002).
American Philosophical Society, small grant, "Mining and Conflict at Mt. Kare: Toward a History of
Ipili Modernity," January 1999.
CSWS, Faculty Research Grant, "Gender and Ecology in the New Guinea Highlands," 1998/99.
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Small Grant, "Culture and Political Economy
in the Papua New Guinea Highlands: Stratification, Social Organization, and Ideology in an Era
of Gold Mining among Ipili Speakers," 1998. (Award period goes to 12/02.)
Department of Anthropology target of opportunity award, for "Men, Mines, and the Environment:
Gendering Mining at Mt. Kare and Porgera," 1998.
Summer Research Award (for "Two Book Chapters: 'Clanship and Fertility' and '"Roads": Space and
Society'"), University of Oregon, 1998.
Wenner-Gren funding for participation in the conference "From Myths to Minerals: Place, Narrative,
Land and Transformation in Australia and New Guinea," organized by J. Weiner and A.
Rumsey, July 17-20, Australian National University, 1997.
"Mileage Plus" award, for faculty support of graduate students, Association of Anthropology Graduate
Students, University of Oregon, 1996-1997.
Wenner-Gren funding for participation in the Wenner-Gren Symposium organized by Thomas Gregor
and Donald Tuzin, Mijas, Spain, on Amazonia and Melansia, 1996.
Fulbright Scholar Research Award, "Culture and Development in an Era of Goldmining," 1995.
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Grant-in-Aid, "A Further Consideration of the
Ipili-Speakers of Porgera and Paiela," fall 1993, winter 1995.
Visiting Fellow (with stipend), Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University,
Canberra, Australia, summers 1992 and 1991.
University of Oregon Faculty Research Award, "Two Book Projects Stemming from Pacific Research,"
summer 1992.
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Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh,
Edinburgh, Scotland; declined.
Visiting Fellowship (with stipend), Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University,
Canberra, Australia, September 15-October 15, 1991.
Travel to Collections award, National Endowment for the Humanities, summer 1991.
Research Fellowship, University of Oregon Humanities Center, winter 1991.
Visiting Fellowship (with stipend), Comparative Austronesian Project, Research School of Pacific
Studies, Australian National University, 1990.
American Philosophical Society, Grant in Aid, 1990.
American Council of Learned Societies, Travel Grant, for participation in the 12th International
Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, July 1988.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for University Teachers, 1988-89.
Visiting Scholar, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University, Stanford,
California, USA, fall 1988.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1987.
Visiting Fellow, Department of Pacific and Southeast Asian History, Research School of Pacific Studies,
Australian National University, 1987.
Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, Large Grant, fall 1986.
University of Oregon, Faculty Summer Award, "The Tupou Dynasty of Tonga: Toward a Historical
Anthropology"; summer 1986.
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Grant-in-Aid, "Structure and Event in Tonga:
The Historicity of a Modernizing Polynesian Kingdom," spring 1986.
Teacher of the Month, University of Oregon (1986)
American Council of Learned Societies, Grant-in-Aid, "Structure and Event in Tonga: The Historicity of
a Modernizing Polynesian Kingdom," spring 1986.
NEH, stipend for participating in the summer seminar "Semiotics: Foundation for the Human Sciences,"
Indiana University, 1983.
Visiting Scholar, International Summer Institute of Semiotic and Structural Studies, Indiana University,
summer 1983.
NSF Research Fellowship, "Contact as a Social Organizational and Millenarian Process," 1982 (declined
owing to visa difficulties).
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Grant-in-Aid, "Contact as a Social
Organizational and Millenarian Process," 1982 (declined owing to visa difficulties).
Charles Phelps Taft Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Cincinnati, 1980-1981.
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, dissertation award, 1979-1980.
Center for the Continuing Education of Women, The University of Michigan, grant-in-aid, 1977-78.
National Science Foundation Dissertation Grant, 1974-1976.
Curl Bequest Prize, 1974, The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, for
"Matrilaterality in Patrilineal Systems: The Tongan Case" (published in 1982 as "Tongan
Exchange Structures"; see publications section).
Four predoctoral awards over the period 1973 to 1980 from the Rackham School of Graduate Studies,
The University of Michigan.
Professional papers
Panel and conference organization
Co-organizer (with Margaret Jolly and Martha Macintyre) “Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific.”
Symposium, February 2014, annual meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists of
Oceania, Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i
Co-organizer (with Margaret Jolly and Martha Macintyre) “Men, Masculinity, and Violence in the
Pacific.” Working session II, February 2013, annual meeting of the Association of Social
Anthropologists of Oceania, San Antonio, Texas
Co-organizer (with Margaret Jolly and Martha Macintyre). “Men, Masculinity, and Violence in the
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Pacific.” Working session, February 2012 annual meeting, Association of Social
Anthropologists of Oceania, Portland, Oregon, and February 2013 annual meeting, ASAO, San
Antonio, Texas.
Co-organizer (with Martha Macintyre and Margaret Jolly). “Gender Violence in Melanesia and Human
Rights Discourse: Toward a Research Agenda.” Invited session for the 2011 annual meeting,
AAA, Montreal, Canada. Association for Feminist Anthropology and National Association of
Student Anthropologists.
Co-organizer (with David Lipset), "Theorizing the Postcolonial State and Its Instabilities," Melanesian
Interest Group panel, annual meeting, American Anthropological Association, November 2007.
Organizer, "'Power Topographies': Engagements, Assessments, Ethnographies." Panel for the annual
meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA, November 15-19, 2006.
Organizer, “Political Ecology and the Politics of Place,” annual meeting of the American Anthropological
Association, Chicago, November 19-23, 2003.
Organizer, "Local Resources, Transnational Capital, and the State," annual meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., Nov. 28-Dec. 2, 2001.
Organizer, "Property and the Gift," annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San
Francisco, November 16, 2000.
Co-organizer (with J. Greenberg) of the panel "Culture/Power/History/Nature: Papers in Honor of Roy
A. Rappaport" for the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association,
Washington, D.C., November 1997; invited session for the Anthropology and Environment
Section, AAA. (Submitted for review as Imagining Political Ecology.)
Organizer of the panel "Roy A. Rappaport Retrospective: Assessments and Appreciations," annual
meetings of Society for Applied Anthropology/Political Ecology Society, Seattle, March 1997.
Organizer, informal session on "The Anthropology and History of the Body in the Pacific," annual
meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists of Oceania, New Orleans, February 1992;
working session on the same topic, annual meeting of ASAO, Hawai'i, 1993.
Organizer, "New Perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands: An Interdisciplinary Conference on
the Duna, Huli, and Ipili Peoples," an international conference funded by the Research School of
Pacific Studies, Australian National University, August 1991. (Proceedings published as
Papuan Borderlands: Huli, Duna, and Ipili Perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands, ed. A.
Biersack (1995).
Organizer, Historical Narratives Discussion Group, Comparative Austronesian Project, Department of
Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University,
March-July 1989.
Co-organizer (with J. Linnekin), panel on historical anthropology, annual meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., 1982.
Professional papers and other conference participation
Participant, round table on “Women and Contemporary Theory in Environmental Anthropology,” AAA
annual meeting, Washington, DC, Dec. 3-7, 2014.
Discussant for the panel “Power Within: Witchcraft and Pentacostalism in Melanesia and Africa,”
Melanesian Interest Group (MIG) panel, AAA annual meeting, Washington, DC, Dec. 3-7,
2014.
“Introduction” for the symposium “Emergent Masculinities in the Contemporary Pacific.” ASAO annual
meeting, Kona, Hawai’i, February 2014.
Discussant for the panel “The Anthropology of Resource Frontiers,” AAA annual meeting, Chicago,
November 2013
Invited presenter, “What is Land?” Institute of the Social Sciences’ Land Project Symposium, Cornell
University, September 6, 2013. Video of presentation is or was here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyDOg5jQT28
“Introduction” for the working session “Emergent Masculinities in the Contemporary Pacific.” ASAO
annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas, February 6-9, 2013.
Discussant for Mark Auslander, “Re-enacting race, re-enacting gender: cross-dressing and embodied
memories of terror,” April 6, 2012 (UO)
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Respondent (representing the field of historical anthropology), “Critical Ethnohistorical Methods,” April
7, 2012 (UO)
“Men, Masculinity, and Violence in Contemporary Papua New Guinea.” For “Men, Masculinity, and
Violence in the Pacific.” Working session, 2012 annual meeting, Association of Social
Anthropologists of Oceania, Portland, Oregon.
“In Search of a Research Agenda in the Study of Gender Violence in Melanesia.” Introduction to: “Gender
Violence in Melanesia and Human Rights Discourse: Toward a Research Agenda,” organized by
A. Biersack and M. Macintyre. Proposed for the annual meeting of AAA in Montreal, Canada,
November 2011.
“Married to the Mine: Ipili Speakers Confront Capital.” In “Engagement with Capitalism,” informal
session, organized by F. McCormack and K. Barclay, ASAO annual meeting, February 2011,
Honolulu, Hawai’i.
Discussant, “The End/s of Ecological Anthropology: Exploring the Changing Dynamics of Its Relativism,
Identities, and Publics,” organized by Leslie Sponsel in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the
Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa, AAA annual meeting,
Philadelphia, 12/3/09.
“How Matter Matters in Paiela Millenarianism, and What Light This Could Cast upon Melanesian Cargo
Cults.” Paper given on the panel “Ethnographies of Consciousness,” organized by Josh Fisher,
AAA annual meeting, Philadelphia, 12/6/09.
“The Price of Gold in Papua New Guinea,” CoDaC brown bag series, April 29, 2009, Eugene, Oregon.
“The Mining Industry and Indigenous Activism in Papua New Guinea: Notes on Bougainville, Ok Tedi,
Porgera, and Mt. Kare.” For the panel “Capitalism, History, and Agency.” Annual meeting of the
American Ethnohistory Society, Eugene, OR, November 15, 2008.
“Stewardship, Transcendence, and Immanence: Cosmologizing the Environment among a New Guinea
People.” Paper given at the conference “Thinking Through Nature: Philosophy for an Endangered
World, “University of Oregon, June 20, 2008.
"Introduction." "Theorizing the Postcolonial State and Its Instabilities," panel co-organized with David
Lipset, annual meeting of the AAA, Washington, D.C., 12/2/07.
Discussant, “In Event of Extinction: Cultural Apprehensions of Species Death,” invited session,
Anthropology and Environment Section, AAA; annual meeting of the AAA, Washington, D.C.,
11/30/07.
"Anthropological Objects and Other Good Things to Think." Presentation, "The Not-So-Secret Lives
of Things: A Faculty Symposium," sponsored by the UO Department of English, April 18,
2007.
"Neotribalism in the Transnational Spaces of Papua New Guinea Gold Mining." Paper presented on the
panel "'Power Topographies': Engagements, Assessments, Ethnographies," organized by A.
Biersack, annual meeting of AAA, San Jose, CA, November 15, 2006.
"Grassroots Globalization Mt. Kare Style: Transnational Capital in Practice." Paper given at the annual
meeting of PESO, Vancouver, BC, March 28-April 2, 2006.
Invited conference discussant, "Changing Contexts--Shifting Meanings: Transformations of Cultural
Traditions in Oceania." Honolulu Academy of Arts, February 23-26, Honolulu, Hawaii.
"Mine Closure and Other Endtime Scenarios in Porgera and Mt. Kare." Paper for the session "Mine
Closure," organized by D. Jorgensen and G. Banks, to be held at the annual
meeting of the association of Social Anthropologists of Oceania, San Diego, February 9, 2006.
“Red River, Green War: The Politics of Place along the Porgera River,” paper given at the Institute of
Anthropology, Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, November 22, 2004.
“On the Life and Times of the Ipili Imagination,” paper given at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia
Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, November 20, 2004.
“Grassroots Globalization: Joint Venture Capitalism at Mt. Kare,” annual meeting of the Association of
Social Anthropologists of Oceania, February 27, 2004, Salem, Massachusetts
“Introduction” for the panel “Political Ecology and the Politics of Place,” annual meeting of the
American Anthropological Association, November 22, 2003
“Women in Mining,” Madang, Papua New Guinea, August 2-6, 2003, attendee and workshop
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participant
“On the Life and Times of the Ipili Imagination,” paper given at the Institute for Ethnology, University
of Göttingen, Germany, June 20, 2003
“Mining Frontiers, Migration and Rapid Social Change,” organized by T. Grätz and K. Werthmann,
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany, June 2003 (one of three
conference discussants)
“New Heaven, New Earth: Chapters in the History of the Body in the Porgera and Paiela Valleys,” for a
session in honor of Kenelm Burridge organized by J. Barker, ASAO annual meeting, Vancouver,
Canada, February 2003.
Panel chair, "Reconfiguring Environment: Place and Social Movements." "Women and the Politics of
Place," annual conference of the Center for Critical Theory and Transnational Studies,
University of Oregon, April 2002.
"Positioning the Lower Porgera: Toward an Ethnography of Place-Based Capitalism," paper given on
the panel "Local Resources, Transnational Capital, and the State," annual meeting, AAA,
Washington, DC, December 2, 2001
"Introduction" to and "Discussion" of the panel "Local Resources, Transnational Capital, and the State,"
annual meeting, AAA, Washington, DC, December 2, 2001.
Panel moderator, annual meeting of the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Centuries Studies group, Eugene,
Oregon, April 2001.
"Property and the Gift among the Ipili Speakers of Enga Province, Papua New Guinea," paper given on
the panel "Property and the Gift," organized by A. Biersack; annual meeting, AAA, San
Francisco, November 16, 2000
"Property and the Gift," introduction to the panel "Property and the Gift," annual meeting, AAA, San
Francisco, November 16, 2000
Discussion, "Problems and Perspectives on Customary Land Tenure and Registration in Australia and
Papua New Guinea," University of Queensland, September 11-13, 2000.
"The Lady of the Lake," for the symposium "Women in Male Rituals of New Guinea," organized by P.
Bonnemère and G. Herdt, annual meeting, Association of Social Anthropologists of Oceania,
Hilo, Hawai'i, February 1999.
"Toward a Unified New Guinea Studies," discussion for "Political Violence and the Symbolic Economy
of Terror in Irian Jaya," panel organized by Stuart Kirsch, annual meeting, American
Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, December 1998.
"Conversations with Lewambo: Ipili Develop-Men." Paper given on the panel "Humiliation and
Transformation: Emotion, Subjectivity and Modernity in Melanesia," organized by J. Robbins
and H. Wardlow. Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia,
November 1998.
Introduction to the panel "Culture/Power/History/Nature: Papers in Honor of Roy A. Rappaport,"
organized by A. Biersack and J. Greenberg, annual meeting of the American Anthropological
Association, November 1997.
"Men, Mines, and the Environment: Gendering Mining at Mt. Kare and Porgera, the New Guinea
Highlands." Paper for the panel "Culture/Power/History/Nature: Papers in Honor of Roy A.
Rappaport," organized by A. Biersack and J. Greenberg, annual meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, November 1997.
"Toward a Critique of the Gift Economy: Thinking the Paiela Pig." Paper presented at the conference
"From Myths to Minerals: Place, Narrative, Land and Transformation in Australia and New
Guinea," organized by J. Weiner and A. Rumsey. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies,
Australian National University, July 17-20, 1997.
Pigs for the Ancestors: Looking Backward, Looking Forward." Paper for the panel "Roy A. Rappaport
Retrospective: Assessments and Appreciations," organized by A. Biersack for the annual
meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology/Political Ecology Society, Seattle, March
1997.
"The Human Condition and Its Transformations: Nature and Society in the Paiela World." Paper for
the panel "Identity, Nature, and Culture: Sociality and Environment in Melanesia," organized
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by Sandra Bamford for the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San
Francisco, November 1996.
"Reproducing Patriarchy: The Gender Politics of Male Cults in the Papua New Guinea Highlands and
Amazonia." Paper for the conference “Amazonia and Melanesia: Gender and Anthropological
Comparison,” a Wenner-Gren Symposium organized by Thomas Gregor and Donald Tuzin,
September 7-15, 1996, Mijas, Spain; comment on Stephen Hugh-Jones's paper for the same
Wenner-Gren conference (3 pages).
"Green Politics, Green War: Who Are the 'Lower Porgerans'?" Paper presented on the panel
"Indigenous Peoples and Bioregional Planning: Issues and Processes in Australia and Papua
New Guinea," organized by John Cordell et al. at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied
Anthropology, Baltimore, Maryland, March 1996.
"Tipinini Perspectives on Highlands Regionalism and History." Paper presented at the international
conference "Importing Cultures: Regional Transformations in Myth and Ritual in the Western
Highlands of Papua New Guinea," University of Queensland, September 18-22, 1995.
"Affinal Politics and the Tongan Ramage," 6th Tongan History Association conference, Tongan
National Centre, Nuku'alofa, Tonga, June 1993.
"Indigenous Philosophy and Somatic Classes: Gender among a Papua New Guinea Highlands People,"
Twelfth Annual Lewis and Clark College Gender Studies Symposium, April 1993.
"The Feminization of the Soma in Paiela," for a working session called "The Anthropology and History
of the Body in the Pacific," annual meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists of
Oceania, Hawai'i, March 1993.
"Anthropology's 'Ethnographic Present': The Politics of Historical Knowledge and Custom in Tonga,"
for a working session called "Representations of the Past in the Pacific," annual meeting of the
Association of Social Anthropologists of Oceania, Hawai'i, March 1993.
"Short-Fuse Mining Politics in the Jet Age: From Stone to Gold at Mt. Kare and Porgera," panel on
"Mining and Local People in Papua New Guinea" convened by D. Jorgensen, annual meeting of
the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, December 1992.
"The Theme of Embodiment in Paiela Thought and Social Life": Department of Anthropology and the
Center for Women's Studies and Feminist Research, University of Western Ontario, London,
Ontario, Canada, March 1992; Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney, September
1992; Department of Anthropology, University of Melbourne, September 1992; Humanities
Center, University of Oregon, October 1992.
Discussant, "Theory in Asian Studies," a conference celebrating 50 years of Asian Studies, UO, May
1992.
Co-Facilitator, "The Power of Foucault," conference sponsored by the Humanities Center, UO, May
1992.
Member, Foucault discussion group, Humanities Center, UO, winter-spring 1992.
Organizer, Foucault discussion group, Humanities Center, UO, spring 1991.
"Oceanic History: System, Action, and Symbol in Historical Anthropology." Paper presented at the
conference "Histories," convened by Greg Dening, University of Melbourne, for the Humanities
Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, September 30-October 3,
1991.
"Gender, Organization, and Action: New Nexuses and New Questions from Paiela." Paper presented at
the conference "New Perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands: An Interdisciplinary
Conference on the Duna, Huli, and Ipili Peoples," Department of Anthropology, Research
School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, August 16-18, 1991; convened by A.
Biersack.
Convener, "New Perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands: An Interdisciplinary Conference on
the Duna, Huli, and Ipili Peoples," Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific
Studies, Australian National University, August 16-18, 1991.
"Gender Inequality in the Papua New Guinea Highlands?" Presentation given at the Center for the
Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, April 1991.
"Money Magic: Paiela Perspectives on the White World," for the panel "History from the People
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without History," session invited by the American Ethnological Society for the annual meeting
of the American Anthropological Association, November 1990.
"How Tonga Kept Its Independence--or, The Origin of an Unsteady State," in the colloquium on
"Colonialism and Culture," Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University,
August 1990.
"Under the Toa Tree," given in the Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland, and the
Department of Anthropology, Victoria University of Wellington, May 1990.
"Tau'ataina: History of an Idea," Fourth International Tongan History Workshop, Auckland, New
Zealand, May 1990.
"'Tongan Exchange Structures' Revisited," Workshop on Austronesian Exchange, Comparative
Austronesian Project, Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies,
Australian National University.
"Body Work: The Politics and Logic of Paiela Adolescent Growth Procedures," annual meeting of the
Association of Social Anthropologists of Oceania, Hawaii, March 1990.
"The Tongan Kava Ceremony, with Reflections on Anthropology in Tonga," C.A.P. Seminar,
Department of Anthropology, RSPacS, Australian National University, October 1989.
"Histories in the Making: Paiela and Historical Anthropology," given in the Department of
Anthropology, University of Sydney, August 1990, and the Department of Pacific and
Southeast Asian History, RSPacS, Australian National University, May 1989.
"The Ethnopoetics of Power: Tonga," Workshop on Ethnopoetics, Comparative Austronesian Project,
Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National
University, August 1989.
"Tongan Historical Narratives," Historical Narratives Discussion Group, Comparative Austronesian
Project, May 1989
"'Aho'eitu and Tongan Kingship," for the Third International Tongan History Workshop, Ha'apai,
Tonga, January 1989.
"Local Knowledge, Local History: Retrospect and Prospects," for "Intersections: History &
Anthropology," a conference/workshop organized by the Center for Cultural Studies,
University of California at Santa Cruz, December 1988.
"Explorations in Melanesian Gender," Colloquium, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University,
October 1988.
"Under the Toa Tree: Tonga through the 'Ages'," 12th International Congress of Anthropological and
Ethnological Sciences, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, July 24-31, 1988.
"Living the Myth of Matriarchy--or, Growing Up in New Guinea," 12th ICAES, Zagreb, Yugoslavia,
July 24-31, 1988.
"The Feminization of Chaos: Gender, Praxis, and Kinship in a Melanesian Society," annual meeting,
American Ethnological Society, St. Louis, Missouri, March 1988.
"The Paiela Subject: Notes toward a Critique," Melanesian Seminar, Department of Anthropology,
University of California at San Diego, February 1988.
"The Tongan Kava Ceremony: New and Old Perspectives," Department of Visual Arts, University of
California at San Diego, February 1988.
"Mana and Agency: On Anthropology's Uncommon Knowledge," annual meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 1987.
"Valley of the Giants: Melanesian Reflections on the Subject," Body-History Colloquium, The
Traditional Acupuncture Institute, Columbia, Maryland, September 1987.
"History, Text, and Culture in the Works of Geertz and Sahlins." Paper presented at the Chartier MiniConference, convened by Lynn Hunt, French Studies and the Department of History,
University of California at Berkeley, April 1987.
"Prolegomena to Tongan Cultural History." Paper presented at the Tongan History Workshop,
Department of Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies, RSPacS, Australian National University,
January 1987.
Taumafa Kava: An Account Developed through Conversation with the Honorable Ve'ehala, Nuku'alofa,
June-July 1986," filed with His Majesty's government, Nuku'alofa, Tonga.
"The Future of Gender Studies: Notes from a Melanesian Field," Department of Anthropology, RSPacS,
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Australian National University, January 1987.
"Structure and Event in Tonga," 1984 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association,
Denver, Colorado.
"The Communicational Determinants of Sexual Antagonism," 1983 annual meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
"Paiela Magic: A Structural and Semiotic Approach," International Summer Institute of Semiotic and
Structural Studies, Indiana University, summer 1983.
"Paiela Conception Theory: Exegesis of a Native Belief," 1983 annual meeting of the Association of
Social Anthropologists of Oceania, New Harmony, Indiana.
"Millenarism and Transformation in a Melanesian Society,” 1982 annual meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
Consultancies
Evaluation of Dr. Penny Johnson’s “Scoping Project: Social Impact of the Mining Project on Women in
the Porgera Area,” for the Porgera Environmental Advisory Komiti (PEAK) February 2011
“Sexual Violence in the Porgera Valley,” a report prepared for Porgera Joint Venture, October 2011
(114 pages)
Service and administrative history
At the University of Oregon
University level
Faculty participant in the Undergraduate Symposium, 5/15/14
Member, Faculty Review Committee for the Undergraduate Symposium, 3/14-4/14
Member, Faculty Personnel Committee, Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, UO, 2007-2009
Member, CAS Curriculum Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, UO, 2005-2006
Co-organizer, “Postcolonial Inscriptions,” a Jeremiah Lecture Series, sponsored by the Center for Asian
and Pacific Studies, UO, 2003-2004
Member, committee for review of Dr. D. Falk for promotion with tenure, Dept. of Religious Studies, UO,
fall 2002.
Member, Executive Committee, Asian Studies, University of Oregon, 2001-2002.
Member, Steering Committee, sixteenth annual conference of the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century
Studies, Eugene, Oregon, April 20-21, 2001.
Member, Asian Studies Search Committee (appointed by the Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, UO),
2000-2001.
Member, promotion review committee, I. Diamond, Political Science Department, UO, 1999-2000
Member, associate dean's planning group for Religious Studies, winter-spring 1999.
Chair, internal review committee for the History Department, University of Oregon, winter and spring
1998.
Acting head, Department of Religious Studies, University of Oregon, June 15, 1997-September 15, 1998.
Chair, search committee for a scholar of ancient Judaism and the Bible, Department of Religious Studies,
1998.
Chair, committee to develop a master's of religious studies, Department of Religious Studies, University
of Oregon, 1997-1998.
Member, Judaic Studies planning committee, University of Oregon, 1997-1998.
Member, group to evaluate and refashion the Asian Studies curriculum, UO, winter 1997.
Member, Executive Committee, Asian Studies Program, 1995-1996.
Member, Organizing Committee, 1995 Western Humanities Conference, UO Humanities Center,
winter-spring 1994.
Member, Lewis Lecturer Selection Committee, UO Humanities Center, winter 1994.
Member, Board, UO Humanities Center, fall 1992-1995.
Member, President's Multicultural Curriculum Committee, UO, fall 1992-spring 1993; winter 1994.
Member, Committee to advise the VP for Research on Budgetary Cuts, UO, 1992-1993.
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Unit reviewer, Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects, 1991-1992.
Member, search committee, Dept. of Religious Studies, UO, 1991.
Member, faculty panel to select provost, UO, 1988.
Member, Executive Committee, Center for the Study of Women in Society, UO, 1986-1987.
Chair, Travel Committee, Center for the Study of Women in Society, 1985-1987.
Chair, Dissertation Grants Committee, Center for the Study of Women in Society, 1986-1987.
Member, Executive Committee, Center for Gerontology, 1986-1988.
Member, faculty panel to select the provost, 1986.
Member, Executive Committee, Cognitive Science Program, 1982-83, 1984-1985.
Affiliate, Center for the Study of Women and Society, UO, 1984- .
Member, various area studies committees.
Department level
Chair, Awards Committee, 2013-2014
Member, promotion to full professor, Frances White, spring-fall 2013
Member, promotion with tenure committee, Terry Hunt, fall 2013
Member, Graduate Committee, 2012-2013
Member, promotion with tenure committee, Scott Fitzpatrick, spring-summer, fall 2012
Member, Undergraduate Committee, fall 2011-spring 2012
Member, post-tenure review committee, Philip Scher, winter 2011
Chair, Juda and Health Education Funds awards, fall 2010
Chair, post-tenure review committee, Madonna Moss, winter 2010
Member, post-tenure review committee, Lynn Stephen, winter 2010
Chair, promotion and tenure committee, Stephen Wooten, 2009-2010
Member, post-tenure review committee, William S. Ayres, spring 2009
Member, promotion and tenure committee, Sandra Morgen, fall 2008
Library representative, Department of Anthropology, 2007-2008
Acting Head, Department of Anthropology, 2005-2006, as needed
Member, Executive Committee, Department of Anthropology, 2005-2006
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology, 2005-2006
Chair, Student-Faculty Senate, Department of Anthropology, 2005-2006
Chair, Graduate Committee, Department of Anthropology, 2005-2006
Member, third-year review committee for Dr. Lamia Karim, 2005-2006
Member, Inter-College General Education Requirements Committee, UO, 2005-2006
Member, Academic Requirements Committee, Registrar's Office, UO, 2005-2006
Member, tenure review committee, Philip Scher, 2004-2005
Member, Graduate Committee, Department of Anthropology, UO, 2003-2005
Member, Faculty-Student Senate, Department of Anthropology, UO, 2003-2005
Member, Phil Scher third-year review committee, UO, 2003-2004
Convenor, cultural caucus to design the two core theory courses in the cultural master’s degree program,
2003-2004
Member, Student-Faculty Senate, Department of Anthropology, UO, 2003-2005
Member, Lynn Stephen sixth-year review committee, UO, 2003-2004
Member, Asianist search committee, Department of Anthropology, 2002-2003
Co-chair (with J. Erlandson), committee for review of Dr. L. Sugiyama for promotion with tenure,
Department of Anthropology, UO, 2002-2003.
UO, spring 2002 (proposal circulated April 2002).
Collaborator with L. Sugiyama on a proposal for a 4-course load in the Dept. of Anthropology,
Chair, committee for promotion with tenure for K. Kelsky, 2001-2002.
Member, search committee for one-year position, Dept. of Anthropology, UO, winter 1999.
Chair, third-year review committee for L. Sugiyama, Dept. of Anthropology, winter-spring 1999.
Unit reviewer, Human Subjects Compliance for the Protection of Human Subjects, Department of
Anthropology, multiple years.
Chair, search committee for a Native North Americanist, Department of Anthropology, University of
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Oregon, fall 1997.
Member, search committee for a Native North Americanist, Department of Anthropology, UO, winterspring 1998.
Member, Executive Committee, Department of Anthropology, 1984-1986, 1989-91, 1996-1997.
Member, planning group, applied graduate program, Department of Anthropology, UO, spring 1995.
Creator of an archive/library of publications written by alumnae/alumni, faculty, and students,
Department of Anthropology, UO, 1994-1995.
Chair, Dr. Samuel Coleman's Tenure Committee, and preparer of his tenure file, Department of
Anthropology, UO, spring-fall 1994.
Member, Third-Year Review Committee, M. Moss, winter-spring 1994.
Member, Student-Faculty Senate, Department of Anthropology, UO, winter 1994.
Creator, organizer, and participant, Milestone Colloquia for Doctoral Students, Dept. of Anthropology,
UO, fall 1994, fall 1996.
Undergraduate advisor, Dept. of Anthropology, UO, 1991-1993.
Unit reviewer, Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects, 1991-1992.
Member, search committee, Dept. of Religious Studies, UO, 1991.
Member, Executive Committee, Dept. of Anthropology, UO, 1984-1986.
Member, Faculty-Student Senate, Dept. of Anthropology, UO, 1983-1985.
Non-UO professional service
Peer review: Review panel, NEH Fellowships for University Teachers, NEH Collaborative Awards, NSF
Anthropology Program, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, NEH,
Woodrow Wilson Foundation (for Rosenhaupt book award), Australian Research Council;
Altamira Press, Cambridge University Press, Duke University Press, Yale University Press,
Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, University of Michigan Press, Blackwell;
Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (online reference work published by UNESCO); Environment
and Society: Advances in Research; Anthropological Theory, Cultural Anthropology, Current
Anthropology, The Contemporary Pacific, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Ethnohistory,
Man, Oceania, NSWA Journal, American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Archaeology in
Oceania, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Journal of the Polynesian Society, Pacific
Studies, Urban Anthropology, Anthropology and Education, Social Analysis, Canberra Anthropology,
American Ethnologist, Mountain Development and Research, Society & Natural Resource, Human
Ecology; Foundation for Social and Cultural Research (Netherlands), Environment and Society:
Advances in Research, Journal of Ritual Studies, Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in
Health and Illness.
Member, Distinguished Lecturer Committee, ASAO, 2011
Member, Pacific Island Scholars Fund, ASAO, 2010-2012
Board Member, Association of Social Anthropologists of Oceania, 2009-2012
Member, Inaugural Advisory Board, Environment and Society: Advances in Research (an annual), Berghahn
Books and the Earth Institute, Columbia University, 2009Peer review, finalists for the position of “W3 Professorship” in Indo-Pacific, Georg-August Universität
Göttingen, 2009
Member, Editorial Board, Ethnohistory, 1998-2001
Promotion cases: University of Queensland 1995, 1996, 1997; Rennselaer Polytechnic University 19981999; University of Sydney 1999; New York University 2001; University of Chicago 2002;
University of Minnesota 2002; Barnard College 2008; University of California at Santa Cruz
2010; University of Regina, Canada 2012; University of Hawai’i, 2010 and 2012; University of
Michigan, 2013; Australian National University, 2013; Ohio State University, 2014; University
of Vermont, 2014.
External examiner: Anthropology, Charles Sturt University, Australia, 1997; Anthropology, Australian
National University, 1994; Anthropology, University of Adelaide, 1992.
Visitor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia,
September 1995.
Overseas Secretary-Treasurer and Newsletter Editor, Tongan History Association (an international,
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scholarly organization; members are from Australia, Tonga and other countries in the South
Pacific, USA, and Europe), 1993-94; SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor, Tongan History Association, 1992-93; Secretary and Newsletter
Editor, Tongan History Association, 1989-92.
Teaching
Teaching innovations
Developer, ANTH 4/521, Anthropology of Gender, 1985
Creator of the Milestone Colloquium for Graduate Students, UO, 1994; also offered in 1996
Creator of a course in professional writing (ANTH 685) for master’s and doctoral students, UO, 1992.
Developer, certificate program in anthropology and history (aborted; co-developer, Arif Dirlik,
withdrew), 2002
Creator (together with cultural anthropology faculty), two core theory courses, required for cultural
anthropology master’s students, 2003/04
Teaching awards
Mileage Plus Award, Association of Anthropological Graduate Students, Department of Anthropology,
UO, 1996-1997
Professor of the Month, Mortar Board, 1986
Courses taught or prepared to teach
Anthropology and History (offered as a an undergraduate course in the College of Arts and Sciences,
UO, as well as in the Honors College, UO)
Historical Anthropology (offered as a combined undergraduate and graduate course)
Recent Cultural Theory (upper division undergraduate and graduate)
Pacific Island Societies (lower division undergraduate)
New Guinea (upper division undergraduate)
Professional Writing (graduate)
Social Theory (core course in cultural anthropology, master's program (1985, 1992, 1994, 1997, 2000,
organizer and principal instructor; 2001, 2004, sole instructor; 2005 and 2007-2008 coinstructor; 2011-2012 and 2013-2014, co-instructor) (core-course graduate seminar)
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Special Topics in Pacific Ethnology (upper division undergraduate and graduate) (Gender in Melanesia
taught in 1991-92; The Anthropology and History of the Body in the Pacific, 1993-94;
Contemporary New Guinea, 1996-97; Religion in Oceania, 1997-98, 1998-99)
Approaches to the Symbolic (upper division undergraduate and graduate)
Graduate and undergraduate mentoring
Anticipated: (Outside member, dissertation committee) Lucas Erickson, History Department, writing a
dissertation on corporeal trophy taking by American soldiers in the Pacific Theater, World
War II, 2015(Chair) Latham Wood, doctoral committee, 2014(Mentor, fall 2014) Samantha King, regarding publication of her master’s paper and her paper “Local
strength amidst global pressure.”
(Mentor, spring 2014) Nicolette Dent, for the revision of her Honors College thesis “Gender, Power, and
Depo-Provera: Constraints on Reproductive Choice in Rural Nicaragua”; winner, the
Department of Anthropology’s Undergraduate Paper of the Year competition, 2014
(Mentor, 2013-2014) Mu-Lung Hsu, on the writing of “Whose Permanent Home? Myanmar’s ‘Foreign’
Races, ‘Indigenous’ Races, and the Myth of Indigeneity,” among other tasks; the essay was the
winner of the Malcolm McFee Memorial Endowment Competition, winter 2014
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(Outside member) Bryce Peake, School of Journalism and Communication, dissertation committee, 2014.
His dissertation “Listening and/as Technology in British Gibraltar” will be defended November
24, 2014.
(Outside member) Bryce Peake, PhD candidate, School of Journalism and Communication, doctoral
committee 2012-2014
(Advisor) Alexis Yalon, master’s student, 2013(Outside member) Megan Benner Vasavada’s dissertation committee, 2008-2013. Her dissertation,
“Novel Gifts: The Form and Function of Gift Exchange in Nineteenth-century England,” was
successfully defended in the English Department, UO, on May 10, 2013.
(Advisor) Latham Wood, master’s student. Study of the kastom movement (kastom governance, kastom
economics) among the Aneityum people of the Republic of Vanuatu, fall 2012-2014. Awarded
$30,000 to prepare a book and a film on land tenure and land alienation in the Republic of
Vanuatu for 2015.
(Mentor) Jonathan Turbin on his CoDaC (Committee on Development and Diversity) award for the
project “’Blue State’ Slavery: New England’s Iron Triangle and the Future of Capitalism”;
assistance in the preparation of his winning CoDaC proposal , spring 2012.
(Outside member, dissertation committee) Ingrid Nelson, Geography Department, spring 2009-2012
(she successfully defended her dissertation in June 2012).
(Chair, exam/prospectus committee) Sarah Johnson (fall 2010- spring 2011)
(Advisor) Sarah Johnson, master’s student, fall 2008-spring 2010 (master’s paper: “Hungering for
Community: Difference and Coalition-Building in Alternative Food Networks”)
(Outside member, dissertation committee) Roger Adkins, Comparative Literature, spring 2008-spring
2010 (successfully defended in winter 2010)
(Member, dissertation committee) Joshua Fisher, fall 2007-winter 2010 (successfully defended in winter
2010). Publisher being sought for No Alternative: Conflict and Cooperation in Fair Trade Clothing
Production in Nicaragua.
(Member, exam/prospectus committee) Joshua Fisher, fall 2006-2007
(Member, exam/prospectus committee) Ian B. Edwards; research on Mali, West Africa; fall 2004-fall
2006
(Member, dissertation committee) Ian B. Edwards, 2006-2010
(Member, examination/proposal committee) Melissa Baird, archaeology, spring 2004-2006
(Member, dissertation committee) Melissa Baird, 2006-fall 2009 (successfully defended in fall 2009),
“The Politics of Place: Heritage, Identity and the Epistemologies of Cultural Landscape.” Dr.
Baird is an assistant professor at Michigan Technological University.
(Co-chair, doctoral committee) Deana Dartt-Newton, fall 2005-2006
(Member, interdisciplinary master's program committee) Mickey Stellavato, 2005-2006; PhD in the
School of Journalism and Communication; adjunct in the same school; staff of CoDaC, UO
(Outside member, dissertation committee) Layla Schubert, Dept. of English, University of Oregon (main
advisor: Martha Bayless), fall 2008-2010 (successfully defended winter 2010)
(Chair, interdisciplinary master's program committee) Jai Daemion, 2005-2006.
(Member, interdisciplinary master’s program committee) Jai Daemion, 2004-2005.
(Member, examination/proposal committee) Shayna Rohwer, evolutionary psychology, spring 20042006
(Chair, exam/prospectus and doctoral committee) Jerry Jacka; "History and Change in a Papua New
Guinean Borderlands," funded by a grant from Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological
Research; Homer Barnett Fellow, Dept. of Anthropology, U of Oregon, 2000-2001; assistant
professor, North Carolina State University, 2003-2009; associate professor, University of
Texas-San Antonio, 2009- . His book Alchemy in the Rain Forest: Politics, Ecology, and the
Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area will be published in 2015 by Duke University Press.
(Advisor, master's) Yoshiko Konishi; feminist/cultural studies approaches to gender politics,
contemporary Japan; master’s paper is "Japanese Face Work: The Cultural Politics of Tanning";
master's degree awarded June 2002; awarded a PhD in anthropology at the University of
California-Berkeley in 2009.
(Advisor, master's; chair, examination/prospectus and doctoral committees) Marina Chung; GTF
funding, Department of Anthropology [declined]; organizer of Chinese instruction at the
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University of Oregon, 1996-1998); lecturer, Stanford University, 1998- ; dissertation ("A Bunan
School and Village: Taiwanization and Aboriginal Identity") defended May 2002; Ph.D.
awarded June 2002.
(Member, examination/prospectus committee) Michael Gualtieri
(Member, examination/prospectus committee; doctoral committee) Joan Wozniak, "Landscapes of
Easter Island: Beyond the Nature-Culture Dichotomy," Ph.D. awarded fall 2003 (Fulbright
sponsorship for doctoral research; NSF Dissertation Improvement Award; International Trade
Fellowship, 1999-2000, 2000-2001)
(Member, examination/prospectus committee; doctoral committee) Carla Guerron-Montero, 1998-2002;
history, culture, politics in the Afro-American Antilles (Assistant Professor, Regis University,
2003-2005; Assistant Professor, University of Delaware, 2005-2009, Associate Professor,
University of Delaware, 2009- ; joint appointments in Latin American Studies Program,
Women’s Studies Program, and Black American Studies Program; Fulbright award 2014-2015
(among other awards); Careers in Applied Anthropology in the 21st Century (2008).
(Member, examination/prospectus committee; doctoral committee) Cari Vanderkar (now Moore);
postsocialism in the rural Czech Republic; Director, International Center at California
Polytechnic State University, 2013(Advisor, master's; chair, examination/prospectus and doctoral committees) Dr. Tia Hallberg, project on
Javanese midwives (FLAS Fellowship for Indonesian Language Study; Luce Travel Fellowship;
GTF funding, Department of Anthropology, UO; Fulbright sponsorship for doctoral research;
Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship, 1997-1998; Cressman Prize winner 1996-97; visiting
instructor, Washington State University, fall 1997; vstg. asst. prof., University of Oregon, fall
1999, winter 2001, summer 2001; vstg. Asst. prof., Antioch University Seattle, 2002- );
dissertation "Rural Javanese Midwives: Accommodating and Resisting Biomedicine"; defended
Nov. 1998.
(Committee member, Asian Studies master's committee) Kari Grotterud (now Kari Telle), project on
Lombok (Indonesia) mortuary rituals (GTF funding, Department of Anthropology, UO;
masters thesis titled "Death and Its Transformations: Sasak Mortuary Rituals"; research
sponsored by the Northwest Southeast Asian Studies Consortium; awarded a master's with
distinction in anthropology; awarded graduate fellowship at Cornell University beginning 1995;
offered full fellowship in the doctoral program at University of Bergen, Norway); master's in
anthropology and in Asian studies, awarded 1994 and 1995; presently senior researcher, Chr.
Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway. Contemporary Religiosities, ed. B. Kapferer, K. Telle, A.
Eriksen (2009); co-editor of the Norwegian Journal of Anthropology
(Advisor, master's in international studies and in anthropology; chair examination and doctoral
committees) Dr. Christina Kreps, Indonesian museums; thesis title "On Becoming 'MuseumMinded': A Study of Museum Development and the Politics of Culture in Indonesia" (doctoral
research sponsored by Fulbright; winner of a UO predoctoral fellowship; Homer Barnett
Fellow, Department of Anthropology, UO; Asian Cultural Council award; Smithsonian
Institution internship; author of several articles in museum studies); adjunct teaching at the
University of Oregon, 1994-1997; Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Director of
Museum Studies, University of Denver, 1998-XXXX; Associate Professor of Anthropology and
Director of Museum Studies, University of Denver, XXXX- ; editor of Museum Anthropology,
2000-2001; author of Liberating Culture: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Museums, Curation, and
Heritage Preservation (Routledge 2003); Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship 2005 (among other
grants); Phi Beta Kappa 2009; Director of Museum and Heritage Studies, University of Denver
Museum of Anthropology; Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, Denver Museum
of Nature and Science; finishing Museums and Anthropology in the Age of Engagement (Left Coast
Press); named Distinguished Scholar Award for 2014 at the University of Denver; Ph.D.
awarded 1994.
(Member, examination/prospectus and doctoral committees) Dr. Christophe Hubert Descantes,
historical and archaeological perspectives on interisland trade in Yap, Micronesia; dissertation
"Integrating Archaeology and Ethnohistory: The Development of Exchange between Yap and
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Ulithi, Western Caroline Islands," defended spring 1998) (GTF funding, Department of
Anthropology, UO; Stern Fellow, Department of Anthropology, UO; NSF Dissertation
Improvement Award; Graduate School Fellowship, UO; author of several articles on Pacific
history and archaeology)
(Advisor, master's; chair, examination/prospectus committee) Hideaki Saito, Japanese gender and
sexuality (GTF funding, Department of Anthropology, UO; winner of the 1995 Cressman Prize
for his master's paper on enduring and changing aspects of Japanese marriage)
(Member, doctoral committee) Dr. Felicia Rounds Beardsley, archaeology of Easter Island (author and
co-author of multiple articles on Pacific archaeology; various contract archaeology projects);
adjunct appointment at the University of California-Irvine, 1996; appointment at University of
Hawaii-Hilo. Author of Safonfok, Kosrae: Emergence of Complexity (2005).
(Member, doctoral committee) Dr. Rufino Mauricio, archaeology of Pohnpei (Homer Barnett Fellow,
Department of Anthropology, UO; doctoral research sponsored by National Endowment for the
Humanities); dissertation titled "Ideological Bases for Power and Leadership on Pohnpei,
Micronesia"; co-editor (with G. Fry] of a published bibliography of sources on the Pacific
islands; author and co-author of several articles on Pacific oral history and archaeology;
government archaeologist in the Federated States of Micronesia
(Member, doctoral committee, PPPM) Dr. Kris Poasa, culture-and-personality project comparing USA,
American Samoa, and Western Samoa; thesis title "A Cross-Cultural Study of Causal
Attribution Patterns for Problematic Events with Ingroup/Outgroup Differentiation" (Ph.D.
department is counseling psychology); Ph.D. awarded 1996. Dr. Poasa’s work is widely cited in
the literature on transgender in the Pacific.
(External member, master's committee, Political Science Department) Dr. Jonathan Aleck; thesis title
"Law Reform as Development Policy: Customary Law and the Modern Legal System in Papua
New Guinea"; received a Ph.D. from ANU in 1998; co-editor [with Dr. Peter Sack] of Law and
Anthropology [1992] and [with J. Rannells] Custom at the Cross-Roads [1995], as well as several
articles on the anthropology of law in Papua New Guinea); master's in political science awarded
1986. Presently Associate Director of Aviation Safety, Civil Aviation Safety Authority,
Australian Government. His early work on legal pluralism in Papua New Guinea is widely cited
today among academic advocates for legal pluralism in Pacific Island societies.
(Advisor) Dennis Pontius, project on the relevance of literary theory to anthropology (pursued a Ph.D.
at the University of Michigan)
(Member, master's committee in international studies) Kathy Poole, alternative, village-based tourism in
Fiji; currently Overseas Program Coordinator, International Study Programs, International
Affairs Office, UO
(Advisor, master's in anthropology) David Wakefield, social organization of the Miniafia (Papua New
Guinea); has taught at University of North Dakota and Southern California College; presently
Chair, International Anthropology Department, International Linguistic Center, Dallas, Texas.
(Member, doctoral committee) Dr. Suzanne Falgout, cultural anthropology of Pohnpei; author of
multiple articles on Pohnpei; author, Master Part of Heaven (1987); co-author (with L. Poyer and
L. Carucci) of The Typhoon of War: Micronesian Experiences of WW II, University of Hawai'i
Press, 2001; Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai’I at West Oahu
Grant writing students
I have taught my grant or professional writing class since 1992, and a high percentage of students
enrolled in the course have had success in obtaining funding. Awarding agencies include Wenner-Gren
Foundation for Anthropological Research, National Science Foundation, National Institute for Health,
Fulbright Full Grant, American Council of Learned Societies, Social Science Research Council, American
Philosophical Society, The Smithsonian Institution, Wildlife Conservation Society, OUS-SYLFF
Foundation, Sigma Xi, Smithsonian Institution, the Academy for Educational Development, the
Northwest Southeast Asian Studies Consortium, the Graduate School, University of Oregon
Dissertation Fellowship, UO Center for the Study of Women in Society, and UO Center on Diversity
and community.
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Languages
Tok Pisin (reading, speaking, writing); Ipili (some speaking); French (some reading)
Revised October 2014