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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, 20122014; return to PNG 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.
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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, 19831984.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Central Michigan
University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, 1981-1982.
Visiting Instructor, Department of Anthropology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan,
summer 1979.
Publications
Books, special issues, and anthologies
In preparation Skin and Bone: The Paiela Reproductive Regime (book)
In preparation “Gender Violence.” Invited entry in the Wiley-Blackwell International
Encyclopedia of Anthropology, forthcoming 2016 or 2017.
In preparation Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific, co-edited with Martha Macintyre and
Margaret Jolly; a collection coming out of three successive sessions at the annual
meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists of Oceania. Expected
submission: by December 2014.
Close to submission Gender Violence and Human Rights Practice in the Western Pacific (coedited with Martha Macintyre and Margaret Jolly). After a preliminary review by the
editorial board of the Australian National University in November 2013, the editors
were invited to submit the manuscript for peer review and possible publication.
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
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* Means NOT PEER REVIEWED
In preparation "Property and the Gift: Comparing Property Regimes”
2014 soon to be under review. “Gender Violence and Human Rights Practice in Three Pacific
Island Countries.” 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
in June 2014. Over 80 pages.
2014 soon to be under review. “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 in June 2014.
70 pages.
*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.
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
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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.
1999
"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.
1998 "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.
1998
"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
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Pittsburgh Press.
1996
"Word Made Flesh: Religion, the Economy, and the Body in the Papua New
Guinea Highlands." History of Religions 36:85-111.
1996
"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.
1996 "'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.
1995
"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.
1995
"Heterosexual Meanings: Society, Economy, and Gender among Ipilis." In
Papuan Borderlands, ed. A. Biersack, pp. 229-261. Ann Arbor: The University of
Michigan Press.
1995
(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.
1991
"History and Theory in Anthropology," introduction to Clio in Oceania: Toward
a Historical Anthropology, ed. A. Biersack, pp. 1-36. Washington: Smithsonian
Institution Press.
1991
"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.
1991
"Thinking Difference: Marilyn Strathern's The Gender of the Gift." Oceania 61:
147-154 (a review article).
1991
"Kava'onau and the Tongan Chiefs," Journal of Polynesian Society 100:231-268.
1990
"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: 178-194.
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.
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1982
1982
"The Logic of Misplaced Concreteness." American Anthropologist 84:811-29.
"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).
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):139141.
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.
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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
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).
“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,” co-organized 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
Consultant, Barrick-PJV, a consultancy on “Sexual Violence against Women in Porgera,”
December 2010
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
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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.
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.
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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
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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 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," Research School of Pacific Studies,
Australian National University, August 1991. (Participants from England, Australia,
Papua New Guinea, and the United States.) 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.
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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 panel “The Anthropology of Resource Frontiers,” annual meeting,
American Anthropological Association, 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)
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.
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"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-SoSecret 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
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, annual
meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists of Oceania, 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
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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 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
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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
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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 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.
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"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 Mini-Conference, 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, 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,
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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, 19992000
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.
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.
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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 for 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 Oregon, fall 1997.
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Member, search committee for a Native North Americanist, Department of Anthropology,
UO, winter-spring 1998.
Member, Executive Committee, Department of Anthropology, 1984-1986, 1989-91, 19961997.
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
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Member, Editorial Board, Ethnohistory, 1998-2001
Promotion cases: University of Queensland 1995, 1996, 1997; Rennselaer Polytechnic
University 1998-1999; 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, 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
Masculinities
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)
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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 20072008 co-instructor; 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, 2014Nicolette Dent, revision of her Honors College thesis for submission to the Dept of
Anthropology’s Undergraduate Paper of the Year competition, spring 2014
(Member) Bryce Peake, School of Journalism and Communication, dissertation committee,
2014(Advisor) Alexis Yalon, master’s student, 2013(Outside member, dissertation committee) 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 social organization of Aneityum people
of the Republic of Vanuatu, fall 2012(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 the proposal only; spring 2012.
(Outside member, dissertation committee) Bryce Peake, PhD candidate, School of Journalism
and Communication, 2013(Member, comprehensive examination committee) Bryce Peake, doctoral student, School of
Journalism and Communication, 2012-2013
(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
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in winter 2010)
(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
2004-2006
(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- .
(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 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
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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 research director, Chr. Michelsen Institute,
Bergen, Norway. Contemporary Religiosities, ed. B. Kapferer, K. Telle, A. Eriksen
(2009).
(Advisor, master's in international studies and in anthropology; chair examination and
doctoral committees) Dr. Christina Kreps, Indonesian museums; thesis title "On
Becoming 'Museum-Minded': 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 awards); 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 Archaaeology and Ethnohistory: The
Development of Exchange between Yap and 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
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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.
(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; presently government archaeologist in the
Federated States of Micronesia
(Member, doctoral committee) 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.
(Member, master's committee) Dr. Jonathan Aleck; thesis title "The Origins and Development
of Law in Papua New Guinea: A Study of the Historical Sources and Processes of Intercultural Legal Syncretism"; 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 CrossRoads [1995], as well as several articles of the anthropology of law in Papua New
Guinea); master's in political science awarded 1986. Presently Associate Director of
Aviation Safety and head of Legal Services Group, Civil Aviation Safety Authority,
Australian Government.
(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
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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.
Languages
Tok Pisin (reading, speaking, writing); Ipili (speaking)
Revised May 2014