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Tom Boellstorff Tom Boellstorff curriculum vitæ blinded reviews of promotion files & manuscripts omitted Professor [email protected] Department of Anthropology faculty.sites.uci.edu/boellstorff University of California, Irvine August 2021 EDUCATION 2000 Stanford University, Ph.D., Anthropology 1996 Stanford University, M.A., Anthropology 1991 Stanford University, B.A., Linguistics and Music 1993 Advanced Indonesian Institute, Language study in Makassar, Indonesia 1992 University of California, Berkeley, Graduate work in Department of Linguistics 1989 Stanford Program in Berlin, undergraduate study abroad ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2009– Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine 2006–09 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine 2002–06 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine 2002 Visiting Assistant Prof., Dept. of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University (Spring) 2001 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University (July–November) 2000–01 Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine 2000 Instructor, Department of Anthropology and Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (Spring) 1999 Instructor, Dept. of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Stanford University (Fall) 1998 Instructor, Dept. of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Stanford University (Fall) 1989–90 Research Assistant, Professor Joseph Greenberg, Stanford University 1 EDITORIAL APPOINTMENTS Major editorial appointments 2012– Co-editor (with Bill Maurer), Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology, Princeton University Press. 2013– Member, Editorial Board, Sexualities. 2010– Member, Editorial Board, Games and Culture. 2007–12 Editor-in-Chief, American Anthropologist (flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association). 2013–18 Member, Editorial Board, Cultural Anthropology. Other editorial appointments 2017– Member, Advisory Board, Child | Data | Citizen Project. 2014–16 Member, Advisory Board, Human Computation. 2013– Member, Advisory Board, Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. 2010– Member, Board of Advisors, “Virtual Worlds” Briefs Series, Springer. 2010– Member, Editorial Board, The Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. 2009– Member, Editorial Board, Metaverse Creativity. 2007– Member, International Advisory Board, Hong Kong University Press “Queer Asia” series. 2007– Member, International Advisory Board, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific. PUBLICATIONS Books (full peer review) B4. 2012 Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method. With Bonnie Nardi, Celia goo.gl/2QPxZU Pearce, and T.L. Taylor. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691149516. B3. 2008 Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. goo.gl/iQNrzt Princeton: Princeton University Press. Second Edition with a new Preface, 2015. ISBN: 9780691168340. 2 B2. 2007 A Coincidence of Desires: Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia. Durham: Duke goo.gl/EBv0Gy University Press. ISBN: 9780822339915. B1. 2005 The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia. Princeton: Princeton goo.gl/RXxVKo University Press. ISBN: 9780691123349. Edited books (full peer review) EB3. 2015 Humanités Réticulaires: Nouvelles Technologies, Altérités et Pratiques Ethnographiques goo.gl/jiol2A en Contextes Globalisés. Jacinthe Mazzocchetti, Olivier Servais, Tom Boellstorff, and Bill Maurer, editors. Louvain-la-Neuve: Academia Bruylant. ISBN: 9782806102492. EB2. 2015 Data, Now Bigger and Better! Tom Boellstorff and Bill Maurer, editors. Chicago: goo.gl/5X1qCm Prickly Paradigm Press (marketed and distributed by University of Chicago Press). ISBN: 9780984201068. EB1. 2004 Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language. William L. Leap and goo.gl/vTdyKZ Tom Boellstorff, editors. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN: 9780252071423. Books, translated BT3. 2013 Un Anthropologue dans Second Life: Une Expérience de L’humanité Virtuelle (French goo.gl/XPj7dt translation of B3). Louvain-la-Neuve: Academia Bruylant. ISBN:9782872099863. BT2. 2012 Dojrzewanie w Second Life: Anthropologia Człowieka Wirtualnego (Polish translation goo.gl/ZD2W0E of B3). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. ISBN: 9788323333166. BT1. 2009 The Gay Archipelago: Seksualitas dan Bangsa di Indonesia (Indonesian translation of goo.gl/Bw7DJE B1). Jakarta: Q-Munity Press. ISBN: 9786029524802. Journal articles (full peer review) J36. 2021 Migration, Non-Use, and the “Tumblrpocalypse”: Towards a Unified Theory of is.gd/pfl6WT Digital Exodus. With Emory James Edwards. Media, Culture, and Society 43 (3): 582– 592. doi.org/10.1177/0163443720968461. J35. 2021 Paraethnographic Film: Virtual Enactment and Collaboration in Our Digital is.gd/MaJgxn Selves. Visual Anthropology Review 37 (1): 8–30. https://anthrosource. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/var.12225. J34. 2020 Om Toleran Om: Four Indonesian Reflections on Digital Heterosexism. Media, is.gd/77NDDP Culture, and Society 42 (1): 7–24. doi.org/10.1177/0163443719884066. J33. 2020 The Ability of Place: Digital Topographies of the Virtual Human on 3 is.gd/RrYY8z Ethnographia Island. Current Anthropology 61 (S21): S109–S122. doi.org/10.1086/ 704924. J32. 2019 The Opportunity to Contribute: Disability and the Digital Entrepreneur. is.gd/Rp9dMx Information, Communication, and Society 22 (4): 474–90. dx.doi.org/10.1080/ 1369118X.2018.1472796. J31. 2019 Transplatform: Culture, Context, and the Intellivision/Atari VCS Rivalry. is.gd/bY8zBU With Braxton Soderman. Games & Culture 14 (6): 680–703. doi:10.1177/ 1555412017721839. J30. 2018 The Impact of Mobile Devices on Indonesian Men’s Sexual Communication. is.gd/mXyNdy With Dédé Oetomo, Kandi Aryani Suwito, and Khanis Suvianita. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affairs, Vol 1: ICoCSPA, 167–172. Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. doi: 10.5220/0008818501670172. J29. 2017 Beyond the Spectrum: Rethinking Autism. With Heather Thomas. goo.gl/2jD5WG Disability Studies Quarterly 37 (1). dx.doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v37i1.5375. J28. 2016 Health Care Experiences and Perceptions among People with and without is.gd/HYoXSb Disabilities. With Heather F. de Vries McClintock, Frances K. Barg, Sam P. Katz, Margaret G. Stineman, Alice Krueger, Patrice M. Colletti, and Hillary R. Bogner. Disability & Health Journal 9 (1): 74–82. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2015.08.007. J27. 2016 For Whom the Ontology Turns: Theorizing the Digital Real. Current goo.gl/Ilqu6J Anthropology 57 (4): 387–407. doi:10.1086/687362. J26. 2016 Compulsive Creativity: Virtual Worlds, Disability, and Digital Capital. goo.gl/2n3rT9 With Donna Z. Davis. International Journal of Communication 10: 2096–2118. ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/5099/1639. J25. 2016 Against State Straightism: Five Principles for Including LGBT goo.gl/FKvwYc Indonesians. E-International Relations. www.e-ir.info/2016/03/21/against-state- straightism-five-principles-for-including-lgbt-indonesians/. J24. 2014 Botanical Decolonization: Rethinking Native Plants. With Tomaz Mastnak goo.gl/RjQVGt & Julia Elyachar. Environment & Planning D: Society & Space 32 (2): 363–80. doi:10.1068/d13006p. J23. 2013 Making Big Data, in Theory. First Monday 18 (10). doi.org/10.5210/fm.v18i10.4869. goo.gl/pKmDRM J22. 2013 Words with Friends: Writing Collaboratively Online. With Bonnie Nardi, 4 goo.gl/pgtn1D Celia Pearce, and T.L. Taylor. ACM Interactions 20 (5): 58–61. interactions.acm.org/archive/view/september-october-2013/words-with-friends. J21. 2012 The Politics of Similitude: Global Sexuality Activism, Ethnography, and the goo.gl/0baqoW Western Subject. Trans-Scripts 2: 22–39. sites.uci.edu/transscripts/files/2014/10/2012_02_03.pdf. J20. 2011 But Do Not Identify as Gay: A Proleptic Genealogy of the MSM Category. is.gd/CwvYlj Cultural Anthropology 26 (2): 287–312. doi: 10.1111/j.1548-1360.2011.01100.x. J19. 2010 Culture of the Cloud. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research 2 (5): 3–9. goo.gl/JkZNbt doi.org/10.4101/jvwr.v2i5.792. J18. 2009 Figures of Indonesian Modernity. With Joshua Barker, Johan Lindquist, Chris is.gd/noj69Z Brown, Aryo Danusiri, Dadi Darmadi, Sheri Gibbings, Jesse Grayman, James Hoesterey, Carla Jones, Doreen Lee, Daromir Rudnyckyj, Rachel Silvey, and Karen Strassler. Indonesia 87: 35–72. www.jstor.org/stable/40376475. J17. 2009 Nuri’s Testimony: HIV/AIDS in Indonesia and Bare Knowledge. American is.gd/wDolEE Ethnologist 36 (2): 351–63. doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2009.01139.x. J16. 2009 Method and the Virtual: Anecdote, Analogy, Culture. Journal of Virtual Worlds goo.gl/AtUCYV Research 1 (3): 4–7. journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index.php/jvwr/article/view/471/429. J15. 2007 When Marriage Falls: Queer Coincidences in Straight Time. GLQ: A Journal of is.gd/XvMtkK Gay and Lesbian Studies 13 (2/3): 227–48. doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2006-032. J14. 2006 From West Indies to East Indies: Archipelagic Interchanges. Anthropological is.gd/MMD9Kx Forum 16 (3): 229–40. doi.org/10.1080/00664670600986779. J13. 2006 East Indies/West Indies: Comparative Archipelagoes. With David Murray is.gd/I4P0Pv and Kathryn Robinson. Anthropological Forum 16 (3): 219–27. doi.org/10.1080/00664670600986753. J12. 2006 Gay and Lesbian Indonesians and the Idea of the Nation. Social Analysis 50 (1): is.gd/7r9Sd4 158–63. doi.org/10.3167/015597706780886102. J11. 2006 A Ludicrous Discipline?
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