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CATHERINE LUTZ Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studies Research Professor, Watson Institute for International Studies Brown University Providence, RI 02912 (401) 863-2779 [email protected] ▬▬▬▬▬▬ EDUCATION Ph.D. Harvard University (Social Anthropology), 1980 B.A. Swarthmore College (Sociology and Anthropology, with distinction), 1974 TEACHING AND RESEARCH POSITIONS Research Professor, Watson Institute for International Studies, and Professor, Anthropology, Brown University, 2003-present Chair, Department of Anthropology, Brown University, 2009-12 Professor/Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1992-2003 Associate Chair, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1992-95 Associate/Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1981-1992 Assistant Professor, Harvard University, 1980-1981 RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Military, war, and society; Race and gender; Democracy; Automobility and inequality; Subjectivity and power; Photography and cultural history; Critical theory; Anthropological methods; Sociocultural contexts of science and technology; U.S. twentieth century history and ethnography; Asia-Pacific HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2013 National Humanities Center Fellowship, 2013 (declined) Distinguished Career Award, Society for the Anthropology of North America, 2010 Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2007-08 Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Prize for the Critical Study of North America (for the book Local Democracy under Siege), 2008 Anthony Leeds Prize (for the book Homefront), 2002 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Honorable Mention (for Homefront), 2002 President-Elect and President, American Ethnological Society, 2001-2005 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Professors, 1999-2000 American Association of University Publishers, Honorable Mention for Best Book in Sociology and Anthropology (for Reading National Geographic), 1993 Stirling Award in Culture and Personality Studies, American Anthropological Association, 1980 C. S. Ford Cross-Cultural Research Award, Society for Cross Cultural Research, 1980 EXTERNAL GRANTS Arsenault Foundation, 2012 Palm Center Grant, 2009-11 Compton Foundation Research Grants (with Matthew Gutmann and Keith Brown), 2006, 2007 NSF Research Grant, Anthropology Program (with D. Nonini and D. Holland), 1996-99 NSF Research Grant, Anthropology Program (with J. Collins), 1988-91 NIMH Research Grant, 1987-88 DISTINGUISHED LECTURES Burack Lecture, University of Vermont, 2012 Inaugural Annual Lecture, The Center for Humanities, Wesleyan University, 2009 Keynote Address, Canadian Anthropological Society Annual Meeting, 2008 John Christie Memorial Lecture, Vassar College, 2008 Annual Distinguished Lecture in Cultural Anthropology, University of Colorado, Denver, 2006 Annual Distinguished Lecture, Society for the Anthropology of North America, 2005 Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, Annual Distinguished Lecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995 Elizabeth Kreeger-Wolf Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, Northwestern University, 1994 Ford Foundation Lecturer, University of Chicago, 1991 BOOKS Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and its Effect on Our Lives (with Anne Fernandez-Carol). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. (Section translated to German in Luxemburg, 2010, 3: 16-23.) Breaking Ranks: Iraq Veterans Speak Out Against the War (with Matthew Gutmann). Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle against US Military Posts (ed). London: Pluto Press (and the Transnational Institute) and New York: New York University Press, 2009. Local Democracy under Siege: Activism, Public Interests, and Private Politics (with Dorothy Holland, Donald Nonini, Marla Frederick, Thaddeus Guldbrandsen, Enrique Murillo, and Lesley Bartlett). New York: New York University Press, 2007. La dépression est-elle universelle? Préface de Vinciane Despret, "Quest-ce que l'ethnopsychologie?" Les empêcheurs de penser en rond. Paris: Le Seuil, 2004. (Translation and analysis of 1985 essay “Depression and the Translation of Emotional Worlds”) Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century. Boston: Beacon Press (with photographs by elin o’Hara slavick), 2001. (Portions reprinted in Clare Boulanger, ed. Reflecting on America: Anthropological Views of U.S. Culture. Allyn and Bacon, 2007; Janice Harper and David Price, eds. Coming of Age in Times of War, in press; and as The Company in the Company Town: Fayetteville’s Military Economy. Southern Exposure, 2002, 30: 19-24.) 2 Reading National Geographic (with Jane Collins). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993; Turkish translation, 2005, Polish translation, 2011). (Portions reprinted in R. Lancaster and M. di Leonardo, eds. The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy. NY: Routledge, 1997; D. Newman, ed. Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life: Readings. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1997; Mary Sue MacNealy and Mary Ellen Pitts, eds. Genres in Writing: Research and Synthesis Across the Disciplines. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2001; Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan, eds. Gender in a Transnational World. NY: McGraw-Hill, 2001; Polly Clark, ed. The Anthropology of Media. NY: Routledge, 2002; Richard Wilk and Kelly Askew, eds. The Anthropology of Media: A Reader. NY: Blackwell, 2002; Liz Wells, ed. The Photography Reader. NY: Routledge, 2003; Rosemary Osmond, ed., Looking for America: A Reader’s Guide to the Visual Making and Remaking of People and Nation. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. Sri Kartini Leet, ed. Reading Photography: A Sourcebook of Critical Texts 1921-2000. London: Lund Humphries, 2011; Maciej Frąckowiak and Krzysztof Olechnicki, Visual Research in Social Science: The Reader, in press.) New Directions in Psychological Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (ed. with Theodore Schwartz and Geoffrey White), 1993. Language and the Politics of Emotion (ed. with Lila Abu-Lughod). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. (Lutz chapter reprinted in R. Harre and W. G. Parrott, eds. The Emotions: Social, Cultural and Biological Dimensions. London: Sage, 1996. Revised version reprinted in C. F. Graumann and K. J. Gergen, eds. Historical Dimensions of Psychological Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996; Introduction reprinted in Julene Knox, ed. Emotions: A Cultural Studies Reader, 2009.) Unnatural Emotions: Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll and their Challenge to Western Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. (Portions revised and reprinted in K. Gergen and G. Semin, eds., Everyday Understanding: Social and Scientific Implications. London: Sage, 1990; Joel Marks and Roger T. Ames, eds. Emotions in Asian Thought: A Dialogue in Comparative Philosophy. Albany: SUNY Press, 1995; Robert C. Solomon, ed. What Is an Emotion? Classic and Contemporary Readings. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.) Micronesia as Strategic Colony: The Impact of U. S. Policy on Micronesian Health and Culture (ed.). Cambridge: Cultural Survival Occasional Papers, 1984. COLLECTIVE BOOK Network of Concerned Anthropologists, The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual or, Notes on Demilitarizing American Society. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2009. POLICY REPORTS The Costs of War since 2001: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Eisenhower Study Group, Watson Institute for International Studies, June 2011, new and updated papers March 2013. With website at costsofwar.org. 3 Conduct and Discipline in UN Peacekeeping Operations: Culture, Political Economy and Gender (with Matthew Gutmann and Keith Brown). Report submitted to the Conduct and Discipline Unit, Department of Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations, October 19, 2009. Assessment of Methodology and Results of “Judiciary of Guam Facilities Master Plan.” Prepared for the Chief Justice of the Guam Supreme Court, June 8, 2009. Notes on Criminal and Civil Rates and the Military Buildup-related Population Growth on Guam. Prepared for Guam Attorney General Alicia Limtiaco, June 22, 2009. ARTICLES/BOOK CHAPTERS The Car and the City. In Donald Nonini, ed. A Companion to Urban Anthropology. New York: Blackwell, in press. The Empire of Choice and the Emergence of Military Dissent. In John Collins and Carol Granahan, eds. Ethnographies of US Empire. Durham: Duke University Press, in press (with Matthew Gutmann). Marketing Car Love in an Age of Fear: An Anthropological Approach to the Emotional Life of a World of Automobiles. Etnografica, in press. War. In The Anthropology of Morality. Didier Fassin, ed. New York: Blackwell, 2012 (with Kathleen Millar). Anthropologia com emocao. Entrevista. Mana, 2012, 8 (1): 213-24. Forward. La afectividad en antropología: una estructura ausente. Edith Caldero Rivera. Mexico City: CIESAS y Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2012. A Military History of the American Suburbs, the Discipline of Economics, and All Things Ordinary. Antipode, 2011, 43 (2): 900-906. US Military Bases in Guam in Global Perspective. Japan Focus, July 2010. Anthropology in an Era of Permanent War. Anthropologica, 2009, 51: 367-79. Warmaking as the American Way of Life. In Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman, eds. The Insecure American. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. U.S. Foreign Military Bases: The Edge and Essence of Empire. In Ida Susser and Jeffrey Maskovsky,