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Curriculum Vitae Niko Besnier Afdeling Antropologie Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research Universiteit van Amsterdam Universiteit van Amsterdam Postbus 15509 Roeterseiland, Building N 1001 NA Amsterdam Plantage Muidergracht 14–16 The Netherlands 1018 TV Amsterdam The Netherlands Private address in the Netherlands Private address in the United States Silodam 346 221-D East La Verne Way 1013 AW Amsterdam Palm Springs, CA 92264 The Netherlands United States Phone: +31 6 5254 8735 (office), +31 6 1482 1322 (mobile), +1 760 208 1976 (Skype-In) e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Web sites: http://pacific.socsci.uva.nl/besnier/ http://global-sport.eu/ Personal Algeria, 6 July 1958 ,(الرايس حميدو) Born in 1958 in Rais Hamidu Citizen of the United States, European Union, and New Zealand Married (2006) under Dutch law to Mahmoud abd-el-Wahed, retired soccer football international Professional Employment Professor of Cultural Anthropology (2005–), Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam (Co- Director, “Globalizing Culture and the Quest for Belonging” Research Group, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, 2009–11). Visiting Professor (2002–2005), Department of Anthropology, University of California Los Angeles. Professor of Anthropology (1996–2003), Programme in Anthropology, School of Social & Cultural Studies, Victoria University of Wellington (Head of the Department of Anthropology, 1996−98, Director of the Programme in Anthropology, 2001). Associate Professor (1992–95) and Assistant Professor (1989–92), Department of Anthropology, Yale University (courtesy appointments in the Departments of Women’s Studies and Linguistics). Assistant Professor (1986–88), Division of English as a Second Language, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (courtesy appointments in the Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics). Other Academic Appointments Exchange Researcher, Institute of Asia–Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo (2013). Faculty Visiting Scholar, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne (2012). Co-director, Amsterdam Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society (2009–12). Visiting Scholar, Graduate School of Letters, Arts & Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo (2009). Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (2005–07). Chief Examiner for Social and Cultural Anthropology, International Baccalaureate Organisation, Geneva, (1998−2003), Assistant Examiner and Component Principal Examiner (1993–98, 2003–13), ad-hoc member of various committees (1998–). !1 !1 Visiting Professor, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, Kagoshima University (1999–2000). Directeur d’études associé, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris & Marseille (1997). University of Auckland Foundation Visitor, Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland (1994). Rockefeller Fellow, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (1991–92). Education PhD, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California (1986). MA, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University (1981). BA, College of Creative Studies (Mathematics), University of California at Santa Barbara (1977). Awards and Grants (all as Principal Investigator unless otherwise indicated) European Research Council Advanced Grants Programme, 2012–17. “Globalization, Sports and the Precarity of Masculinity.” Honorable Mention 2010, Biennial Edward Sapir Book Prize, American Anthropological Association, awarded to Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics (2009). Annual Book Prize 2010, British Association for Applied Linguistics, awarded to Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics (2009). European Science Foundation EuroCORES Theme Proposal, 2010. “Gender and Sexual Diversity in its Social, Cultural and Political Context.” [Theme accepted by the European Science Foundation but not funded because of key national funding agencies’ decision to pull funding out of the Foundation.] Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Scientist Exchange Programme, 2009. “Globalization without the West: Pacific Islander Rugby Players in Japan.” Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek) Open Competition in the Social Sciences, 2008–12. “The Making of the Transgender Body” (PhD project, Marieke van Eijk). Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek) Replacement Grant, 2008. “Sites of Modernity on the Periphery of Globalization.” Marsden Fund Grant, Royal Society of New Zealand, 1999−2002. “Transgenderism and Identity Amongst Tongans in Nuku’alofa and Auckland.” Wenner Gren Foundation Grant (No. 6432), 1999−2000. “Transgendered Identities and Transnationalism in Two Tongan Cities.” Harry F. Guggenheim Foundation Grant, 1990−92. “Conflict and Affect in Nukulaelae Gossip.” National Science Foundation (U.S.) Grant (No. 8920023), 1990−91. “The Language of Affect in Nukulaelae Discourse.” Wenner Gren Foundation Grant (No. 5234), 1990. “Affect in Nukulaelae Gossip.” National Science Foundation (U.S.) Grant (No. 8503061), 1985−86. “Restricted Literacy and the Development of a Literate-Oral Contrast.” Prix de la Vocation, Paris, 1979. Research Specializations Dynamics of globalization and localization: social and cultural identity, marginality, and diasporic dispersal; globalization, cosmopolitanism, and transnational mobility; politics of ethnicity and representation. Sports as a political and cultural field in a globalized context: cultural framing of masculinity and sports; state- level and supra-state dynamics of sports; migratory circulation of athletes. Gender and sexual identity: symbolic and material aspects of transgenderism, conformity, and resistance; globalization and localization of gender and sexual identities; human rights issues and sexual/gender identities; gender, sex, performance, verbal interaction, and popular culture. Precarity, crisis, and provisioning: material and symbolic survival resources in precarious times; crisis as a permanent condition; intersubjective negotiations over dignity and belonging; hope as a symbolic resource. Political formations: political ideology and political practice; structures of inequality in their historical context; transnationalism and local politics; disputes, conflict, and conflict resolution; resistance, gossip, and political discourse. !2 !2 Language and interaction: linguistic resources in identity formation at the juncture of the global and the local; communicative competence in multi-scalar contexts; language and inequality; language in social theory. Ethics and politics of ethnographic research and anthropological representation. Regional specializations: Pacific Islands, East Asia, United States. Field Research Tuvalu (1980−82, 1985, 1990, 1991, 1994, total field residence: 3" years); Tonga (1977−78, 1979, 1981, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000−01, 2008, total field residence: 5 years); Japan (1999−2000, 2009, 2013, and shorter visits, total field residence: 2 years); California (2011). Shorter fieldwork on various Pacific Islands. Academic Publications: Books [Niko Besnier, Susan Brownell, and Thomas Carter] The Anthropology of Sport: Ethnographic, Cultural, and Personal Perspectives. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Under contract. [Niko Besnier and Kalissa Alexeyeff, eds.] Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press; Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. vi, 378pp. 2014. ISBN: 978-0824838829 (cloth), 978-0824838836 (UHP paper), 978-9888139279 (HKUP paper). [Reviews: Asian Review of Books, http://www.asianreviewofbooks.com/new/?ID=2095 (Vaughan Rapahatana), Gender & Society (Chong-suk Han)] On the Edge of the Global: Modern Anxieties in a Pacific Island Nation. (East–West Center Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific Series.) Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. xxiv, 297pp. 2011. ISBN: 978-0804774055 (cloth), 978-0804774062 (paper). [Reviews: Anthropological Quarterly 85: 1257–67 (Ryan Schram), Australian Journal of Anthropology 23: 260–1(Benedicta Rousseau), Comparative Studies in Society and History 57: 600 –601 (Lisa Uperesa), Journal of Anthropological Research 67: 597–8 (Giovanni Bennardo), Journal of the Polynesian Society 120: 404–6 (Helen Lee), Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 18: 915–6 (Andrea Bender), Journal of World History 24: 495–8 (Alexander Mawyer), Oceania 81: 332–3 (George Marcus), Pacific Affairs 86: 454–6 (Sina Emde), The Contemporary Pacific 24: 226–8 (Cluny MacPherson)] Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. xiv, 243pp. 2009. ISBN: 978-0824833381 (cloth), 978-0824833572 (paper). [Reviews: American Ethnologist 38: 210–1 (Robey Callahan), 社会⼈類学会年報 (Annual Review of Social Anthropology) 36: 179–183 (⼩林誠 [Makoto Kobayashi]), Anthropological Forum 20: 180–1 (Ilana Gershon), Australian Journal of Anthropology 22: 135–6 (Francesca Merlan), Ethos 39(1): 1–3 (Andrew Arno), Journal of Anthropological Research 66: 573– 4 (Jeannette Mageo), eLanguage online 2010 (Chad Nilep), L’homme 201: 210–1(Josiane Massard-Vincent) Oceania 82: 126– 7 (Eric Hoenes del Pinal), Pacific Affairs 84: 817 (Alan Jones), Political and Legal Anthropology Review 33: 161–3 (Karen Brison), The Contemporary Pacific 23: 253–6 (Susan U. Philips), Western Folklore 70: 378–9 (Aaron Mulvany)] Tuvaluan: A Polynesian Language of the Central Pacific. (Descriptive Grammars Series.)