ALETTA BIERSACK Curriculum Vitae

Department of Office phone: (541) 346-5110 University of Fax: (541) 346-0668 Eugene, Oregon 97403-1218 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 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 , Papua New Guinea, and , 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., , 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, , 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, 1994- Associate 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, 2

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, co- edited 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. , 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 : A Discussion Forum.” Oceania 84(1):64-68. 2013 “Beyond ‘Cargo ’: Interpreting Mata Kamo.” In Cargo , 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. 3

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 in Porgera and Paiela." In The Unseen Characters: Women in Male 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 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. 4

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 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. 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). 5

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, 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. : 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 . 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). 6

“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 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. 7

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 8

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) 9

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 10

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 , 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 11

by Sandra Bamford for the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 1996. "Reproducing : 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 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 : Paiela Perspectives on the White World," for the panel "History from the People 12

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 --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. " and Agency: On Anthropology's Uncommon Knowledge," annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, , 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, 13

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 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. 14

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 15

Oregon, fall 1997. 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, 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, 2009- Peer 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 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; 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, 16

scholarly organization; members are from Australia, Tonga and other countries in the South Pacific, USA, and Europe), 1993-94; Secretary- Treasurer 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 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, 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 17

(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 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- . 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 18

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 '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 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 19

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: 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. 20

Languages

Tok Pisin (reading, speaking, writing); Ipili (some speaking); French (some reading)

Revised October 2014