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

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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: 3½ 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.) London & New York: Routledge. xxvi, 662pp. 2000. ISBN: 978-0415024563 (cloth). [Reviews: Journal of the Polynesian Society 110:97-9 (Robin Hooper), Oceanic Linguistics 40: 342–65 (Yuko Otsuko), Rongorongo Studies 11: 75–8 (H.G.A. Hughes), Studies in Language 26: 712–6 (Frantisek Lichtenberk)] Literacy, Emotion, and Authority: Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll. (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, 17) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xx, 234pp. 1995. ISBN: 978-0521480871 (cloth), 978-0521485395 (paper). [Reviews: American Anthropologist 99: 626–7 (Richard Parmentier), Anthropological Forum 7: 717–8 (Ingjerd Hoëm), Anthropological Quarterly 70: 202–4 (Sarah Lund Skar), Anthropology and Education Quarterly 27: 455–7 (James Gee), The Contemporary Pacific 10: 274–8 (Larry M. Lake), Cultural Survival Quarterly 22 (1) : 10 (Kenneth M. George), Journal of Anthropological Research 52: 504–6 (Jane Hill), Journal of Sociolinguistics 1: 149–52 (Viv Edwards), Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 2: 567–8 (Don Kulick), Language 74: 183–5 (James Collins), Linguistics 35: 432–5 (Peter Stromberg), Notes on Literacy 24 (4): 10–23 (Kim Seung), Oceanic Linguistics 35: 148–50 (Joel Bradshaw), Pacific Affairs 69: 457–9 (Lamont Lindstrom)] [Edward Finegan and Niko Besnier] Language: Its Structure and Use. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. xiv, 546pp. 1989. ISBN: 978-0155491755 (paper). Australian edition, authored by Edward Finegan, Niko Besnier, David Blair, and Peter Collins, xii, 474pp. 1992. Tuvaluan Lexicon. Funafuti: United States Peace Corps. xliv, 780pp. 1981. Ttou Tauloto te Ggana Tuuvalu: A Textbook of the Tuvaluan Language. Funafuti: United States Peace Corps. xxxviii, 295pp. 1981.

3 3 Academic Publications: Guest-Edited Journal Issues

[Susana Narotzky and Niko Besnier] Crisis, Value, and Hope: Rethinking the Economy. Supplement to Current Anthropology 55(S9). 154pp. 2014. (Open access) Sport: Pleasure and Violence, Competition and Sociality. Open Anthropology 3(1). http:// www.aaaopenanthro.org/. 2014. (Open access) [Kuniyoshi Kataoka, Keiko Ikeda, and Niko Besnier, eds.] Decentering and Recentering Communicative Competence. Special issue of Language & Communication 33(3). 2013.

Academic Publications: Journal Papers

[Tanti Noorsaid & Niko Besnier] Transnational Desire, Gendered Bodies, and Kinship: Gay and Transgender Indonesian Migrants in the Netherlands and Belgium. Under review. From Romance to Reality: An Epilogue. In From Romance to Reality: Pacific Islands in the Imaginary. Nancy Lutkehaus and Judith Schachter, eds. Special issue of Pacific Studies. In press.

Sports Mobilities Across Borders: Postcolonial Perspectives. The International Journal of the History of Sport 32: 849–861. 2015. On Communicative Worlds: A Comment on Carrithers’ “Anthropology as Irony and Philosophy.” In Anthropological Knots: Conditions of Possibilities and Interventions. Sarah Green, ed. Special issue of HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 4: 245–249. 2014. Pacific Island Rugby: Histories, Mobilities, Comparisons. In Playing on the Global Periphery: Social Scientific Explorations of Rugby in the Pacific Islands. Yoko Kanematsu and Gyozo Molnar, eds. Special issue of Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science 3: 268–276. 2014. [Susana Narotzky and Niko Besnier] Crisis, Value, and Hope: Rethinking the Economy. Current Anthropology 55(S9): S4–S16. 2014. Sports, Bodies, and Futures: An Epilogue. In Contemporary Sporting Formations in Oceania. Lisa Uperesa and Thomas Mountjoy, eds. Special issue of The Contemporary Pacific 26: 435–444. 2014. The Editor’s Note: Sport: Pleasure and Violence, Competition and Sociality. Open Anthropology 3(1). http:// www.aaaopenanthro.org/. 2014. [Kuniyoshi Kataoka, Keiko Ikeda, and Niko Besnier] Decentering and Recentering Communicative Competence. In Decentering and Recentering Communicative Competence. Kuniyoshi Kataoka, Keiko Ikeda, and Niko Besnier, eds. Special issue of Language & Communication 33: 345–350. 2013. Language on the Edge of the Global: Communicative Competence, Agency, and the Complexity of the Local. Language & Communication 33: 463–471. 2013. Modernité, corps et transformation de soi: Les salons de coiffure aux îles Tonga (Polynésie occidentale). Terrain 61: 150–165. 2013. Professionalizing Hair Care in Tonga. Anthropology Now 5(1): 18–26. 2013. [Niko Besnier and Susan Brownell] Sport, Modernity, and the Body. Annual Review of Anthropology 41: 443– 459. 2012. The Athlete’s Body and the Global Condition: Tongan Rugby Players in Japan. American Ethnologist 39: 491– 510. 2012. Modernity, Cosmopolitanism, and the Emergence of Middle Classes in Tonga. The Contemporary Pacific 21: 215–262. 2009. (Revised version published as トンガにおけるモダニティ・コスモポリタニズム・ 中流階級の出現. 社会⼈類学会年報 [Annual Review of Social Anthropology] 37: 51–85, 2011.) [Niko Besnier and Kitahara Takuya] 在⽇トンガ⼈ラグビー選⼿：グローバルな移動とスポーツ (Tongan Rugby Players in Japan: Global Movements and Sports). 季刊民族学 (Journal of Ethnographic Studies) 130: 46–54. 2009. [Ping-Ann Addo and Niko Besnier] When Gifts Become Commodities: Pawn Shops, Valuables, and Shame in Tonga and the Tongan Diaspora. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute [n.s.] 14: 39–59. 2008. (Re-issued in inaugural JRAI Virtual Issue, “Anthropology of the Gift,” 2012, http:// onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291467-9655/homepage/virtual_issue- _anthropology_of_the_gift.htm) Language and Gender Research at the Intersection of the Global and the Local. Gender and Language 1: 67– 78. 2007.

4 4 The Social Production of Abjection: Desire and Silencing Among Transgender Tongans. Social Anthropology/ Anthropologie Sociale 12: 301–323. 2004. Consumption and Cosmopolitanism: Practicing Modernity at the Second-Hand Marketplace in Nuku‘alofa, Tonga. Anthropological Quarterly 77: 7–45. 2004. Transgenderism, Locality, and the Miss Galaxy Beauty Pageant in Tonga. American Ethnologist 29: 534–566. 2002. Sluts and Superwomen: The Politics of Gender Liminality in Urban Tonga. Ethnos 62: 5–31. 1997. The Truth and Other Irrelevant Aspects of Nukulaelae Gossip. Pacific Studies 17(3): 1–39. 1994. Christianity, Authority, and Personhood: Sermonic Discourse on Nukulaelae Atoll. Journal of the Polynesian Society 103: 339–378. 1994. Involvement in Linguistic Practice: An Ethnographic Appraisal. Journal of Pragmatics 22: 279–299. 1994. The Demise of the Man Who Would Be King: Sorcery and Ambition on Nukulaelae Atoll. Journal of Anthropological Research 49: 185–215. 1993. Literacy and the Notion of Person on Nukulaelae Atoll. American Anthropologist 93:570-87. 1991. Language and Affect. Annual Review of Anthropology 19: 419–451. 1990. Information Withholding as a Manipulative and Collusive Strategy in Nukulaelae Gossip. Language in Society 18: 315–341. 1989. Literacy and Feelings: The Encoding of Affect in Nukulaelae Letters. Text 9: 69–92. 1989. (Reprinted 1993 in Cross-cultural Approaches to Literacy. Brian V. Street, ed. Pp. 62–86. Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture, 23. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.) The Linguistic Relationships of Spoken and Written Nukulaelae Registers. Language 64: 707–736. 1988. Semantic and Pragmatic Constraints on Tuvaluan Raising. Linguistics 26: 747–778. 1988. An Autosegmental Approach to Metathesis in Rotuman. Lingua 73: 201–223. 1987. The Local Organization of Zero-Anaphora in Tuvaluan Conversation. Te Reo, Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand 28: 119–147. 1985.

Academic Publications: Book Chapters

[Niko Besnier and Susan U. Philips] Ethnographic Methods for Language and Gender Research. In The Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality, 2nd edition. Janet Holmes, Miriam Meyerhoff, and Susan Ehrlich, eds. Pp. 123–140. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. 2014. [Kalissa Alexeyeff and Niko Besnier] Gender on the Edge: Identities, Politics, Transformations. In Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders. Niko Besnier and Kalissa Alexeyeff, eds. Pp. 1–30. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. 2014. [Susan Brownell and Niko Besnier] Gender and Sexuality. In Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology. James G. Carrier and Deborah B. Gewertz, eds. Pp. 239–258. London: Bloomsbury. 2013. Communities and Identities: Fraught Categories and Anchoring Resources. In Beyond Yellow English: Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America. Angela Reyes and Adrienne Lo, eds. Pp. 167–171. New York: Oxford University Press. 2008. Gender and Interaction in a Globalizing World: Negotiating the Gendered Self in Tonga. In Words, Worlds, Material Girls: Language, Gender, Global Economies. Bonnie McElhinny, ed. Pp. 423–446. Language, Power and Social Process Series, 19. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2007. Diversity, Hierarchy, and Modernity in Pacific Island Communities. In A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology. Alessandro Duranti, ed. Pp. 95–120. Oxford: Blackwell. 2004. Crossing Genders, Mixing Languages: The Linguistic Construction of Transgenderism in Tonga. In Handbook of Language and Gender. Janet Holmes and Miriam Meyerhoff, eds. Pp. 279–301. Oxford: Blackwell. 2003. (Reprinted 2007 in Discourse Studies. Teun van Dijk, ed. Vol. 1, pp. 115–135. London: Sage; extract reprinted 2006 in The Art of English: Everyday Creativity. Janet Maybin and Joan Swann, eds. Pp. 140–149. Basingstoke, Hants: Palgrave Macmillan in association with the Open University.) The Politics of Representation on a Polynesian Atoll. In Ethnographic Artifacts: Challenges to a Reflexive Anthropology. Sjoerd R. Jaarsma and Marta A. Rohatynskyj, eds. Pp. 21–42. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. 2000. 島嶼⼩宇宙と地球規模の影響⼒：ヌクラエラエ島(ツバル)民と変わりゆく伝達技術 (Island Microcosms and Global Forces: Nukulaelae Islanders and Changing Communicative Technologies). In多島域と情 報社会 (Islands and Information Society). Kazutaka Nakano, ed. Pp. 3–20. Kagoshima University Research Center for the Pacific Islands Occasional Papers, 33. Kagoshima: Research Center for the

5 5 Pacific Islands, Kagoshima University. 2000. Heteroglossic Discourses on Nukulaelae Spirits. In Spirits in Culture, History, and Mind. Jeannette M. Mageo and Alan Howard, eds. Pp. 75–97. London: Routledge. 1996. Authority and Egalitarianism: Discourses of Leadership on Nukulaelae Atoll. In Leadership and Change in the Western Pacific: Essays Presented to Sir Raymond Firth on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday. Richard Feinberg and Karen A. Watson-Gegeo, eds. London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology, 66. Pp. 93–128. London: Athlone Press. 1996. (Revised and translated 2003 in Les rivages du temps: Histoire et anthropologie du Pacifique. Isabelle Merle and Michel Naepels, eds. Cahiers du Pacifique Sud contemporain, 3. Pp. 165–197. Paris: L’Harmattan.) The Politics of Emotion in Nukulaelae Gossip; and The Appeal and Pitfalls of Cross-Disciplinary Research. In Everyday Conceptions of Emotion: An Introduction to the Psychology, Anthropology, and Linguistics of Emotion. James A. Russell et al., eds. Pp. 221–240, 559–570. NATO Advanced Study Institutes, D-81. Dordrecht: Kluwer. 1995. Polynesian Gender Liminality Through Time and Space. In Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History. Gilbert Herdt, ed. Pp. 285–328. New York: Zone. 1994. [Brian Street and Niko Besnier] Aspects of Literacy. In Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture, and Social Life. Tim Ingold, ed. Pp. 527–562. London: Routledge. 1994. (Reprinted 2008 in Making Sense of Language: Readings in Culture and Communication. Susan D. Blum, ed. Pp. 52– 69. Oxford: Oxford University Press.) The Evidence from Discourse. In Handbook of Psychological Anthropology. Philip K. Bock, ed. Pp. 197–210. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 1994. Reported Speech and Affect on Nukulaelae Atoll. In Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse. Jane H. Hill and Judith Irvine, eds. Pp. 161–181. Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, 15. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1993. Conflict Management, Gossip, and Affective Meaning on Nukulaelae. In Disentangling: Conflict Discourse in Pacific Societies. Karen A. Watson-Gegeo and Geoff White, eds. Pp. 290–334. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1990. Word Order in Tuvaluan. In FOCAL I: Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Paul Geraghty, Lois Carrington, and S.A. Wurm, eds. Pp. 245–268. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics C93. 1986. [Doug Munro and Niko Besnier] The German Plantation at Nukulaelae Atoll. Oral History Association of Australia Journal 7:84–91. 1986. (Revised version in Labour in the South Pacific. Clive Moore et al., eds. Pp. 178–180. Studies in Melanesian History series. Townsville: James Cook University. 1991.) Register as a Sociolinguistic Unit: Defining Formality. In Social and Cognitive Perspectives on Language. Jeff Connor-Linton et al., eds. Pp. 25–63. Southern California Occasional Papers in Linguistics, 11. Los Angeles: Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California. 1986.

Academic Publications: Pamphlets

Negotiating Local Subjectivities on the Edge of the Global: Inaugural Lecture Delivered on the Appointment to the Chair of Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Amsterdam on Friday 4 May 2007. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 28pp. 2007. ISBN 978-9056294885 [Doug Munro, Suamalie N.T. Iosefa, and Niko Besnier] Te Tala o Niuoku: The German Plantation on Nukulaelae Atoll, 1865-1990. Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies of the University of the South Pacific. 50pp. 1990.

Academic Publications: Encyclopedia Entries and Other Shorter Items

Intersex; Sex Reassignment; Transgender; Gender and Sexuality: Contested Relations. In International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Hilary Callan, ed. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell. In press/preparation.

Transgender in Polynesia; Pornography and Gender. In The Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality. Patricia Whelehan and Anne Bolin, eds. Pp. 931–935, 1389–1390. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. 2015. Secondhand Marketplaces in Nuku‘alofa, Tonga. In Informal Market Worlds: The Architecture of Economic Pressure. Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer, eds. Pp. 406–411. Rotterdam: nai010. 2015. Responsibility to Research Participants in Representation. In Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and

6 6 Applications. Christine Mallinson, Becky Childs, and Gerard Van Herk, eds. Pp. 46–49. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. 2013. Tuvalu. In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife. William M. Clements, ed. Vol. 1, pp. 404–411. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 2006. Wellington. In Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures. Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, eds. Pp. 393–398. Danbury, CT: Grolier. 2002. Polynesia and Micronesia: Sociocultural Aspects. In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, eds. Vol. 17, pp. 11723–11727. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 2001. (2nd edition, extensively revised, James D. Wright, ed., vol. 17, pp. 158–164. 2015.) [Michael Goldsmith & Niko Besnier] Tuvalu. In Countries and Their Cultures. Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, eds. Vol. 3, pp. 2288–2296. New York: Macmillan Reference. 2001. Transvestism (Transgenderism); Ritualised Homosexuality. In The Pacific Islands: An Encyclopedia. Brij V. Lal and Kate Fortune, eds. Pp. 416-418. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. 2000. Literacy. In Linguistic Anthropology Lexicon for the New Millennium. Alessandro Duranti, ed. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 9:137–139. 2000. Orality and Literacy. In Literacy: An International Handbook. Daniel A. Wagner, Brian Street, and Richard Venezky, eds. Pp. 127–131. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 1999. Polynesian Outliers; Language in Musical Settings: Transcription. In The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 9: Australia and the Pacific Islands. Adrienne L. Kaeppler and Jacob W. Love, eds. Pp. 322–324, 833–836. New York: Garland. 1998. Gossip. In Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. David Levinson and Melvin Ember, eds. Vol. 2, pp. 544– 547. New York: Henry Holt, for HRAF. 1996. Conversation: Quantity, and Involvement. In Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. R.E. Asher et al., eds. Vol. 2, pp. 747–749, and vol. 4, pp. 1770–1772. Oxford: Pergamon Press. 1994. (Second article reprinted in Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics, Jacob Mey, ed. Oxford: Elsevier. 1998.) Polynesian Languages. In International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. William Bright, ed. Vol. 3, pp. 245–251. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1992. (2nd edition, 2003, vol. 3, pp. 361–368.) Oceania, Languages of, and MalayoPolynesian Languages. In Academic American Encyclopedia. Vol. 13, pp. 82–84 and vol. 14, p. 339. Danbury, CT: Grolier. 1988. Tonga. In The Linguistic Composition of the Nations of the World. Heinz Kloss and Grant D. McConnell, eds. Vol. 4, pp. 73–74, 469–472. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval. 1981. [Doug Munro, Tito Isala, and Niko Besnier] Tuvalu. In Historical Dictionary of Oceania. Robert D. Craig and Frank P. King, eds. Pp. 299–305. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 1981.

Other Academic Publications and Oral Presentations

Reviews have appeared in the following journals: American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropological Linguistics, Anthropos, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Illusions, Journal of Anthropological Research, Journal of Pacific History, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Language, Language in Society, Linguistics, Museum Anthropology, Oceania, Pacific Studies, Revue française de science politique, Pacifica, Society of Gay and Lesbian Anthropologists Newsletter, Sociolinguistics, Wagadu: Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies.

Presentations and organized panels at meetings of: American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society, Associação Brasileira de Antropologia, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Boston University Conference on Language Development, European Society for Oceanists, European Association of Social Anthropologists, European College of Sport Sciences, International Conference of Europeanists, International Conferences on Austronesian Linguistics, International Conferences on Oceanic Linguistics, International Pragmatics Association, International Sociological Association, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, Linguistic Society of America, New Zealand Association of Social Anthropologists, Society for Psychological Anthropology, Sociolinguistics Symposiums, International Small Islands Studies Association.

Papers presented at one-time meetings: Pitzer College Conference on Talk and Conflict Resolution in the Pacific (1983); London School of Economics conference on Leadership in Oceania in Honour of Sir Raymond Firth (1991); NATO Advanced Workshop on Everyday Conceptions of Emotion, Almagro, Spain (1994); Workshop on Persons and Objects in Western

7 7 Polynesia & Fiji, Sainsbury Research Centre, University of East Anglia (1998); Conference on Enregisterment and Honorification in Honor of Susan Philips, University of Chicago (2006); Conference on Pacific Transnationalism: Ties to the Homeland, La Trobe University (2006); Cargo Cults and Contemporary Conflicts in Pacific Societies: Seeking a Path of Coexistence in the Age of Globalization, National Museum of Ethnology Ōsaka (2013); Towards a Comparative Analysis of the Good, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2013); Rethinking Mana, Australian National University (2013); The Person and Categories of Gender in Polynesia, ISEPP Papeete, Tahiti (2013); Pensamiento ambiental emergente: Educación para la transformación, Centro de investigaciones sobre la alimentación y el desarrollo, Hermosillo, Sonora (2013); Corps postcoloniaux, Université de Lausanne (2014); Deslocamentos: Raça e racismo em perspectiva comparativa, Natal (2014); ICSM Symposium on Men and Masculinities, İzmir (2014); The Quest for the Good Life in Precarious Times: Grassroots Perspectives on the Value Question in the 21st Century, University of Manchester (2015)

Keynote or plenary speaker: Symposium on Language and Society Austin (1993), Third University of Michigan Conference on Language and Affect in the Making of the Cultural Person, Ann Arbor (1995), Fourth Berkeley Women and Language Conference, Berkeley (1996), Thirteenth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf (1997), International Linguistics Association, New York (1997), Japanese Association for Small Islands Studies, Kagoshima (1999), Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture, Los Angeles (2002), Third Biennial Conference of the International Gender & Language Association, Ithaca (2004), Annual Meeting of the Dutch Association for Oceanic Studies (2007), Daitō Bunka University Pacific Islands Symposium, Tokyo (2009), Keiō University Symposium on Tuvalu at the Frontline of Coral Reef–Human Symbiosis Studies, Tokyo (2009), Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, Maynooth (2010), Conference on Societies in Changing Times: Anthropological and Archaeological Perspectives on Asia–Pacific, Taipei (2010), 13th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences, Kansai University Ōsaka (2011), Fiji Rugby Union Centennial Conference: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future (2013), Gossip and the Management of Reputation, Lorentz Research Center, Leiden (2013)

Conference & symposium organizer: “Writing the Ethnography of the Global through the Anthropology of the Body in Asia,” Panel at the American Anthropological Association Meetings, Philadelphia (2009, co-organized with Susan Brownell); “Crisis, Value, and Hope: Rethinking the Economy,” Wenner-Gren International Symposium (2012, co-organized with Susana Narotzky)

Colloquia, seminars, and invited lectures: Austria: University of Vienna Australia: Australian Museum, Australian National University, Bond University, La Trobe University, University of Melbourne, Monash University, University of New England, University of Queensland, University of Sydney, University of Western Australia, University of Wollongong Belgium: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Universiteit Gent Finland: University of Helsinki France: École des hautes études en sciences sociales, École normale supérieure, Université de Provence Aix– Marseille, Université Paris III Nouvelle Sorbonne, Université populaire du Musée du Quai Branly, Université de Toulouse III Paul Sabatier French Polynesia: Université de la Polynésie Française Germany: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Ruprecht-Karls- Universität Heidelberg India: Dhirubai Ambani Institute of Information & Communication Technology Japan: Chiba University, Daitō Bunka University, JETRO Institute for Developing Economies, Kagoshima University, Kantō Gakuin University, National Museum of Ethnology Ōsaka, Ochanomizu University, Sophia University, Waseda University Mexico: Centro de investigaciones sobre la alimentación y el desarrollo, Universidad de Sonora Hermosillo Netherlands: University of Amsterdam New Zealand: University of Auckland, University of Waikato, Victoria University of Wellington Norway: University of Bergen Singapore: Practice Performing Arts School South Africa: University of Pretoria, University of the Witwatersrand Spain: Universidad de Extremadura en Cáceres Switzerland: Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

8 8 United Arab Emirates: New York University Abu Dhabi United Kingdom: Goldsmiths College, University of Aberdeen, University of Edinburgh, University of Hull, University of Kent, University of St Andrews, University of Sussex, University of Wales Cardiff United States: Amherst College, Arizona State University, Bowdoin College, Brown University, California State University Long Beach, East-West Center, Hamilton College, Harvard University, New York University, Sarah Lawrence College, Santa Monica College, Towson University, University of Arizona, University of California Irvine, UCLA, University of California Santa Barbara, University of Chicago, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of New Mexico, University of Southern California, University of Tulsa, Wellesley College, Yale University

Languages

Fluent: French, Spanish, Tuvaluan, Tongan Good working knowledge: Fijian, East Uvean (Wallisian), Tok Pisin, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese Limited working knowledge: Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Italian, Portuguese

Teaching

Courses taught include: Introduction to Social & Cultural Anthropology; Theory in Social & Cultural Anthropology (BA, MA, PhD levels); Current Debates in Anthropology; Field Methods in Cultural Anthropology; Ethnographic Methods; Interpretive Methods; Anthropology of Sexuality; Culture and Communication; Language, Culture, and Society; Language and Ethnography; Field Methods in Linguistic Anthropology; Introduction to Linguistics; The Politics of Language; The Ethnography of Literacy; The Ethnography of Language and Emotion; Language and Gender in Anthropological Perspective; The Sociolinguistics of Conflict and Conflict Resolution; Language and Interaction in a Globalizing World; Topics in Polynesian Ethnography; Peoples and Problems of the Pacific; Language and Culture in Polynesia; Culture and Experience in Globalized Asia.

Additional teaching interests: Theories of modernity; globalization and localization; theories of power, discourse & society; political and economic anthropology; psychological anthropology; anthropology of food; anthropology of the body; anthropology of sports; anthropology of masculinity; anthropology of Japan.

Professional Service: Editorial

Editor-in-Chief, American Ethnologist, 2015–. Member of the Editorial Board, Social Anthropology, 2015–. Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Studies in Language Sciences, 2012−. Member of the Editorial Board, American Ethnologist, 2011−15. Member of the Editorial Board, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2011−. Member of the Advisory Board, Éditions Aux Vents des Îles, Papeete, 2010–. Editor for Cultural Anthropology, International Journal of Sport and Health Science, 2009−. Member of the Advisory Board, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, 2007−. Member of the Editorial Board, Gender and Language, 2006−. Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2004−07. Member of the Advisory Board, Paideusis: Journal for Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Studies, 1999−2004. Member of the International Advisory Committee, Ethnos, 1998−2001. Book Review Editor for the Social Sciences, GLQ: Gay & Lesbian Quarterly, 1998−2003. Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1996−2007. Advisory editor, Written Language and Literacy, 1996−2003. Book review editor, Society of Lesbian & Gay Anthropologists Newsletter, 1996−99. Member of the Editorial Board, Oceania, 1995−. Associate editor, Journal of Anthropological Research, 1993−94. Section editor for the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, Anthropology Newsletter, American Anthropological

9 9 Association, 1993−96. Associate Editor, Oceanic Linguistics, 1992−2008. Associate editor, Language, 1989−92.

Professional Service: Appointments to Professional Organizations & Foundations

Member, Conseil scientifique, Département de Sciences sociales, École normale supérieure, Paris, 2015–. Member, Executive Committee, European Association of Social Anthropologists, 2015–17. Member, Task Force on AAA Engagement on Israel/Palestine, American Anthropological Association, 2014– 15. Chair, Search Committee for an Editor of Open Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2014. Member, Pre-proposal Evaluation Committee, Appel à projets générique, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), 2014. Member, Scientific Steering Committee, Laboratoire d’excellence TransferS, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, 2011–. Member, Executive Board, American Anthropological Association, 2011–14 (Member, Committee on World Anthropology; Member, Anthropological Communication Standing Committee; Liaison, American Anthropological Association & Linguistic Society of America). Member of the Advisory Council, Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York, 2008–12. Member, EuroCORES Review Panel, EuroBABEL Project: Better Analyses Based on Endangered Languages, European Science Foundation, Strasbourg, 2008–12). Member-at-Large, Executive Committee, Society for Linguistic Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2002−06. Chair, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, 1995−96 (Executive Board member, 1994−97). Member, Committee for the Status of Women in Linguistics, Linguistic Society of America, 1993−94.

Professional Service: Miscellaneous Academic

External advisor or search committee member for appointments, tenure, and major promotions: Bowdoin College (Anthropology), CUNY Baruch College (Anthropology ), CUNY Hunter College (Anthropology ), CUNY Queens College (Anthropology), École normale supérieure (Anthropology), LaTrobe University (Anthropology), MIT (Foreign Languages & Literatures), Monash University (Anthropology), Scripps College (Anthropology), SUNY Oswego (Anthropology), Teachers’ College Columbia University (Applied Linguistics), Université de Lausanne (Anthropology), UCLA (Anthropology, Applied Linguistics), Union College (Anthropology), University of Arizona (Anthropology), University of Hawai‘i (Anthropology, Asian Languages & Literatures, Pacific Islands Studies), University of Helsinki (Anthropology), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Anthropology), University of Missouri St. Louis (Anthropology), University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (Anthropology), University of Pittsburgh (Linguistics), University of Queensland (Anthropology), University of South Florida (Anthropology), University of Waikato (Anthropology), University of Wyoming (Anthropology), Washington State University (Anthropology) External PhD and habilitation examiner: Australian National University (Anthropology), École des haute études en sciences sociales (Anthropology), Institut national des langues et des cultures orientales (Linguistics), LaTrobe University (Anthropology, Linguistics), Université de Provence Aix–Marseille (Anthropology), Université de la Polynésie Française (Pacific Studies, English Language & Literatures), Université Lumière Lyon 2 (Linguistics), University of Aberdeen (Anthropology), University of Arizona (Anthropology), University of Auckland (Anthropology, Linguistics), University of Bergen (Anthropology), University of Melbourne (Linguistics), University of Tasmania (Geography) External reviewer: University of Vienna (Social and Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, and Methods in the Social Sciences) Reviewer for paper manuscripts: American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropological Linguistics, Anthropological Quarterly, Anthropological Theory, Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Anthropology & Medicine, Australian Journal of Anthropology, Autrepart, Comparative Studies in Society & History, Cultural Anthropology, Culture Health & Sexuality, Culture Society & Masculinities, Current Anthropology, Ethnic & Racial Studies, Ethnography, Ethnos, Etnográfica, Ethos, Feminist Studies, GLQ, Hau, Human Relations, International Journal of the History of Sport, Intersections, Journal of Anthropological Research, Journal of Homosexuality, Journal of Linguistic

10 10 Anthropology, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Language, Language in Society, Men & Masculinities, Oceania, Oceanic Linguistics, Pacific Studies, Law & Society Review, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Sociology Compass, Text, Text & Talk, The Contemporary Pacific, Tydskrif vir Nederlands en Afrikaans, Written Language & Literacy Occasional reviewer of grant proposals: Agence nationale de la recherche (France), Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (Catalunya), Australian Research Council, Austrian Science Fund, Canadian Research Council, CNRT Nickel (New Caledonia), Danish Council for Independent Research, European Science Foundation, Humanities in the European Research Area, Icelandic Research Fund, Marsden Fund of the Royal Society of New Zealand, National Science Foundation (USA), National Endowment for the Humanities (USA), Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Research Foundation Flanders, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Occasional reviewer of book manuscripts: Berghahn, Cambridge University Press, Duke University Press, Éditions de la rue d’Ulm École normale supérieure, Indiana University Press, Routledge, SUNY Press, University of California Press, University of Illinois Press, University of Hawai‘i Press, Wiley Blackwell, Yale University Press Back-cover book endorsements: Handle with Care: Ownership and Control of Ethnographic Materials (Jaarsma, ed., University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002); Super Girls, Gangstas, Freeters, and Xenomaniacs: Gender and Modernity in Global Youth Culture (Dewey & Brison, eds., Syracuse University Press, 2012); The Noodle Narratives: The Global Rise of an Industrial Food into the Twenty-First Century (Errington, Gewertz & Fujikura, University of California Press, 2013); Speaking Beauties: Language and Globalization in the Making of a Tanzanian Beauty Queen (Billings, Multilingual Matters, 2013); Children, Social Class, and Education: Shifting Identities in Fiji (Brison, Wiley Blackwell, 2014); New Ethnographies of Football in Europe: People, Passions, Politics (Schwell, Szogs, Kowalska & Buchowski, eds., Palgrave Macmillan, in press)

Professional Service: Non-Academic

Radio interview, « Troisième genre : voyage à travers des identités à géométrie variable. Hommes-femmes, garçons manqués, berdaches », 29 minutes, « Tout un monde » programme, France Culture, 23 September 2014, 3:00–3:30PM (http://www.franceculture.fr/emission-tout-un-monde-troisieme-genre- voyage-a-travers-des-identites-a-geometrie-variable-hommes-fe). Radio interview, “Out in the World: A Global Gay History” (Episode 3), Sunday Feature, BBC Radio 3, 2 October 2011 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0159f8j). Member of the Sustainability Think Tank, l’Oréal Corporation, Clichy, France, 2011. Member of the Board of Judges, Miss Galaxy 2008 transgender pageant, Nuku‘alofa, 2008. Member of the Board of Judges, “Quest for the Cover” transgender pageant, Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team, Los Angeles, 2002. Member of the Board of Judges, Miss Tonga New Zealand pageant, Auckland, 2001. Member of the Board of Judges, Miss Galaxy 2000 transgender pageant, Nuku‘alofa, 2000. Expert witness on conflict and violence in Tuvalu, The Crown vs. Vani Fate criminal case, Wellington, 1998 (expert deposition on deportation order for the same case, 1999). Member, Advisory Committee, Canada Fund for the South Pacific, High Commission of Canada to New Zealand, Wellington, 1997-98. Member, Board of Directors, Lesbian and Gay Archives of New Zealand, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, 1997-98. Consultant on policy for the revitalization of the Māori language, The Treasury, Wellington, 1997.

Professional Organization Memberships

American Anthropological Association (1983−), including American Ethnological Society (1990−) and Society for Linguistic Anthropology (1983−) Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (1979−) Linguistic Society of America (1982−) International Gender and Language Association (2004−) European Association of Social Anthropologists (2009−) Council for European Studies (2013–) Société de sociologie du sport de langue française (2013–)

11 11 European Association for Japanese Studies (2013–)

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