Curriculum Vitae

VIRGINIA ROSA DOMINGUEZ

Edward William & Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor Past President Department of Anthropology American Anthropological Association University of Illinois 193 Davenport Hall Co-Founder and Consulting Director 607 S. Mathews Avenue International Forum for U.S. Studies Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: (217) 244-9495 (or cell: 319-321-5926) Fax: (217) 244-3490 (or home fax: 217-366-3216) Email: [email protected] [email protected]

Born: January 5, 1952, Havana, Cuba Citizenship: U.S.A.

Education:

Ph.D. 1979 (Dec.) Yale University, New Haven, CT, in social anthropology

M.Phil. 1975 Yale University, New Haven, CT, in social anthropology

B.A. 1973 Yale University, New Haven, CT

(Scholar of the House; Phi Beta Kappa; Summa cum laude; Honors with exceptional distinction as Scholar of the House; J. E. Meeker prize (1970) for freshman essay in literary criticism; Hart Lyman prize (1972) "for character and achievement"; William Clyde DeVane prize (1973) for Scholar of the House thesis)

Other:

Berlitz School of Languages, Budapest, Hungary, Nov. 2000-June 2001, beginning to intermediate Hungarian

Jerusalem Municipality, Language Ulpan, summers 1980 and 1981, intensive Modern Hebrew.

The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1974-75, graduate student at-large in the anthropology department

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, summer 1971, mathematics

American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, summer 1970, mathematics course

Berlitz School of Languages, Guadalajara, Mexico, summer 1969, advanced course in conversational French

Alianza Cultural Uruguay-U.S.A., Montevideo, Uruguay, April-Dec. 1967, Course of North American Civilization (literature, fine arts, and history) designed as the first half of a Master's Degree program

Academic/Professorial/Institutional Positions:

2007-present: Edward William & Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2007-present: Co-Founder and Consulting Director, International Forum for U.S. Studies at 2

the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2007-present Faculty, UIUC Program in Jewish Culture and Society (and on its Executive Committee)

2007-present Faculty, UIUC Center for South Asia and Middle Eastern Studies

2009-present Faculty Member Affiliate at the UIUC Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; also Faculty Member Affiliate at the UIUC Center for Global Studies

1993-2006 (Dec.): Professor, University of Iowa, Department of Anthropology

1995-2006 (Dec.): Co-Founder and Co-Director, International Forum for U.S. Studies (a Rockefeller Humanities Site at the University of Iowa)

2002-2006 (Dec.): Collegiate Fellow in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (U. of Iowa)

2004-2006 (Dec): Professor of International Studies (secondary University of Iowa appointment)

2001 (spring): Salgo Professor of American Studies, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary

1998 (fall): Acting Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa

1994-97: Director, Iowa Center for International & Comparative Studies (overseeing 16 academic programs at the University of Iowa)

1991-93: Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, Board of Studies in Anthropology (also Director of Graduate Studies 1991-92)

1987-91: Associate Professor, Duke University, Department of (Cultural) Anthropology

1984-85: Visiting Professor. The Hebrew University, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology

1983-84; 1987-91: Director of Undergraduate Studies, (Cultural) Anthropology, Duke University

1979-87: Assistant Professor, Duke University, Department of Anthropology

1976-79: Junior Fellow, Harvard University Society of Fellows; three year corporation appointment and "prize fellowship."

1973-76: Graduate Fellow. National Science Foundation; supplemented by a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant

1973 (June-Sept.): Research Assistant, The Ford Foundation, Office for Latin America and the Caribbean; wrote report, later published as book, on Caribbean migration to the United States

Editorial Positions

Editor, American Ethnologist, 2002-2005 and 2005-2007 (selected in fall 2001 to a 3-4 year term that began officially on July 1, 2002; term was extended, at the request of the AES Board, to June 30, 2007)

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Associate Editor, American Anthropologist, World Anthropology Section, June 2014-present

Member, Editorial Board, American Anthropologist (with Editor-in-Chief), July 2012-present

Co-Editor, Global Studies of the United States Book Series (in connection with the International Forum for U.S. Studies), University of Illinois Press, 2009-present

Member, International Advisory Board, Hagar: Studies in Culture, Polity, and Identity, 2008-present

Member, Editorial Board, Jewish Cultures of the World Book Series, Rutgers University Press, 2007-present

Member, Editorial Board, Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, 2005-present

Member, Editorial Board, Comparative American Studies: An International Journal (U.K.-based journal founded in 2002), 2002-present

Member, Editorial Board, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (international interdisciplinary U.S.-based journal published by Gordon & Breach), 1998-present

Member, Editorial Board, The American Quarterly (the premier U.S. American Studies journal), 1999-2002

Member, International Editorial Advisory Board, Communal/Plural: Journal of Transnational and Cross-Cultural Studies (an Australian-based interdisciplinary journal), 1998-2001

Member, Editorial Collective, Public Culture (interdisciplinary international award-winning U.S.-based journal published by the University of Chicago Press until 1997 and Duke University Press since 1997), 1994-1999

Associate Editor, American Ethnologist, 1994-98

Founding member of Editorial Board, Public Worlds Books (interdisciplinary series published by the University of Minnesota Press), 1990s

Member of International Editorial Board for new book series on Transnational Cultural Studies of the University of Illinois Press, 1998-2000

Service on International and National Boards

President, American Anthropological Association (Dec. 2009-Nov. 2011)

Vice President, Antropologos sem fronteiras (ASF) – Anthropologists without Borders – headquartered in Brazil; a pilot project of the World Council of Anthropological Associations (the WCAA) (2013-present)

Member, World Council of Anthropological Associations (Dec. 2009-2011)

Initiator and Task Force Leader, On Creating “Anthropologists without Borders,” World Council of Anthropological Associations (2010-present)

Review/selection Panel, American Council of Learned Societies (2010 and 2011)

President-Elect, American Anthropological Association (Dec. 2007-Nov. 2009)

Elected Member, American Anthropological Association Nominations Committee (2003-06)

Member, Board of Advisors (Comitato scientifico), Acoma: Rivista Internazionale di Studi Nordamericani [The Italian Journal of North American Studies] (2011-present) 4

Invited Member, Advisory Board, "SSRC Task Force on Hurricane Katrina and Rebuilding the Gulf Coast" (chaired by Yale sociologist Kai Erikson) (fall 2005-present)

Founder and member of the Selection Committee, Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, Society for Medical Anthropology (1987-present)

Appointed Member, American Anthropological Association's ANTHROSOURCE (Implementation) Working Group (2003-05, extended to 2006)

Member, Executive Committee, International Association for American Studies (2000-03)

Appointed Member, National Advisory Council for Hispanic Affairs, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution (1995-2002)

President, Society for Cultural Anthropology (Nov. 1999-Nov. 2001)

Chair, President's Advisory Academic Council, The Wenner-Gren Foundation (one of 6 members, including non-U.S. based anthropologists) (appointed in 1999, chairing in 2001-02)

Elected Member, Board of Directors, Society for Cultural Anthropology (1995-99)

National Program Editor/Chair, Society for Cultural Anthropology (1997-98)

Appointed Member, National Academy of Sciences' Study Group on "The Human Genome Diversity Project" (1996- 98)

Appointed Member, Selection Panel, National Endowment for the Humanities' special Presidential Initiative (1995)

Grants, Fellowships, Honors, and Awards (post-doctoral)

2014 Invited Keynote Speaker for the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA) – Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology (TSAE) joint meeting; Taiwan (early October).

2013 Awarded Mellon Fellowship--in anthropology, at the University of Cape Town, South Africa [nominated by the UCT anthropologists] (early September-early October)

2013 Selected to give the 2013 Monica Wilson Lecture--at the University of Cape Town, South Africa

2013 Keynote Speaker of the Anthropology Southern Africa Association Annual Conference at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (September 6)

2012 Invited Participant in Invited Session of the AAAS Conference in Vancouver, Canada (Session Organized by Agustin Fuentes)

2012 Short-term (3-week) residency and short course in American Studies at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”

2012 Invited author and co-organizer of conference, Small Countries: Being, feeling, Acting in the Contemporary World, in Landskrona, Sweden (June)

2012 Invited Discussant at a Workshop on Writing and Anthropology at the Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists in Nanterre, France

2009 The 2009 Sidney W. Mintz Distinguished Lecturer (the 16th Mintz Lecturer) at Johns Hopkins University (Nov.); lecture titled, “On Noticing” 5

2011 Named to Incomplete List of Excellent Teachers (at University of Illinois at U-C for Spring 2011 undergraduate course

2009 Distinguished Lecturer, Central States Anthropology Society Annual Conference (April); address titled, “The Work it Takes”

2009 Keynote Speaker, Southern Anthropological Society Annual Conference, Wilmington, NC (March)

2009 Named to Incomplete List of Excellent Teachers (at University of Illinois at U-C) for Spring 2009 undergraduate course

2008 Named to Incomplete List of Excellent Teachers (at University of Illinois at U-C) for Fall 2008 graduate course

2008 Invited Speaker and Participant, 2008 Stockholm Roundtable (Oct.)

2007 Simon Visiting Professorship, University of Manchester (England) (Nov.)

2006 University of Iowa Graduate College Outstanding Mentor Award (Social Sciences)

2006 Directeur d’Études (Invitee) and Keynote Speaker (“Rééquilibrer l’attention portée à la race comme construction sociale: Dans quelle mesure est-ce possible? Dans quelle mesure est-ce souhaitable?) at Centre d’Études Nordamericaines (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris) (Dec.)

2006 Keynote Speaker, Israel Anthropological Association Annual Meetings (June); address titled, “Looking for Virtue”

2006 Selected by the AAA Nominations Committee to run for President of AAA

2005 Invited Featured Speaker, Northwestern University's Globalizing American Studies II, May 2005; paper titled, "Grounds for Engagement: Searching for an Ethical Practice of American Studies in a Post-Saidian World"

2005 Invited Featured Speaker, Grinnell Humanities Symposium (Nov. 9-11); paper titled, "Unclear Enemies, Unclear Friends"

2004 Invited Featured Speaker, Biennial Conference of the Hungarian American Studies Association (Nov. 2004) (grant to cover housing in Budapest); paper titled, "SUSPICION, CRITIQUE, AND PURSUIT: How Do U.S. Cultural Anthropology, U.S. Cultural Studies, and U.S. American Studies View One Another?"

2004 Invited Keynote Speaker, Tanner Humanities Center Symposium on Law, History, and Anthropology: [Revisiting] the Social Construction of Race, University of Utah (Sept.). Address titled, "Statutes, Dockets, and Supreme Court Rulings: Reflections on Their Appeal as Evidence"

2002 Named Collegiate Fellow in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa (an award carrying this designation for a five-year renewable term)

2002 Keynote Speaker, Beyond Durban: Caste and Race Dialogues international conference (Oct.), University of Iowa/Iowa State collaboration

2001 Selected to give the Annual Monica Wilson Lecture, University of Cape Town, South Africa (Aug.)

2001 (with Jane C. Desmond) Rockefeller Foundation grant (2001-2004) to extend the work of our International Forum for U.S. Studies (IFUSS) to add specific collaborations with Latin American specialists on the U.S. ($165,000)

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2000 Selected to hold the Salgo Chair in American Studies (spring 2001) at Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary – funded by the Salgo-Noren Foundation

1999 (with Jane C. Desmond) University of Iowa Arts and Humanities Initiative Competition grant for project titled, "Comparative U.S. Studies: Cuba, Russia, and the United States" ($20,000)

1999 Co-recipient of the "Reciprocal American Studies" section of the 3-year Ford Foundation's "Crossing Borders" grant to the University of Iowa ($75,000)

1998-99 USIA--negotiated financial support of the IFUSS capstone conference, April 1999 (Co-Director; estimated $9000)

1998 Keynote Speaker, Symposium on "Health and Global Human Genetic Diversity," Field Museum, Sept. 25-26

1998 Keynote (and MillerCom) Speaker, University of Illinois (Oct. 1) (conference titled, Having Our Say (a como de lugar): Women and the Legacy of The People of Puerto Rico into the 21st Century

1998 USIA--grant in support of the 1998 Obermann Seminar's extension at the Nov. 1998 American Studies Assn. Meeting (Co-Director; estimated $2200)

1998 Christopher Reynolds Foundation—grant for involvement of head of Research Section, (Cuban) Centro de Estudios sobre los Estados Unidos, University of Havana, Cuba, in the Obermann Seminar and 1998 American Studies Association Meetings (Co-Director; $2700 and $1560)

1997 Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, 1998 Obermann Faculty Research Seminar (June 15-July 2, 1998), titled Legacies of 1898: Sovereignty and Colonialism in Puerto Rico, Guam, Cuba, Hawai'i, and the Philippines, and their Impact on the U.S. (Co-Director; $39,000)

1997 U.S. Department of Education, Title VI institutional grant in interdisciplinary "International Studies" (Principal Investigator; $871,463 for 1997-2000)

1996 University of Iowa Regents Award for Faculty Excellence in teaching, research, service

1995 Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Residency Institutional Grant (1995-1999) to set up and run the newly founded International Forum for U.S. Studies, co-directed with Professor Jane C. Desmond (Co-Director; $250,000)

1995 Ford Foundation grant to the University of Iowa and Grinnell College for inter-institutional collaboration, faculty & student development in international studies (1995-1998) (Co-Director; $209,000)

1994 Selected to be the 1995 Morgan Lecturer (University of Rochester)

1994 Selected to be a C.I.C. Academic Leadership Fellow for 1994-95 (1 of 3 from the University of Iowa)

1994 Nominated for membership in The Authors Guild

1993 Center-wide Research grant, East-West Center, Honolulu ($14,100)

1992 University of California-Santa Cruz--Social Sciences Division Exploratory grant ($3600)

1991 Fellowship, Institute of Culture & Communication, East-West Center, Honolulu (June 30-Aug. 2) ($4000)

1990 My book, People as Subject, People as Object, nominated for the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing

1990 Nominated for Duke's Distinguished Alumni Teaching Award 7

1990-91 Duke University Research Council--research assistance through the Small Grants Program

1988 Selected for inclusion in the 16th edition of Who's Who of American Women, and various editions of Who's Who of Women in the World, The International Book of Honor, and Who's Who of Emerging Leaders of America

1987 My book, White By Definition, selected as one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles of 1986

1986 Nominated for Duke's Distinguished Alumni Teaching Award

1984-85 Fulbright Visiting Professorship, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

1981-82 The Caribbean and Its Implications for the United States, co-authored with Jorge Domínguez, nominated for the Bolton Prize in Latin American History

1981-82 Mellon Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities (full salary)

1981-82 Social Science Research Council grant--for fieldwork in Israel

1981-82 Duke University Research Council--Major Research Grant (salary for part-time research assistants)

1980 Trent Foundation travel grant for summer research

Publications

Books and Monographs (in print)

1975 From Neighbor to Stranger: The Dilemma of Caribbean Peoples in the United States. New Haven: Antilles Research Program at Yale.

1981 The Caribbean and Its Implications for the United States. Co-authored with Jorge I. Domínguez. New York: Foreign Policy Association, Headline Series.

1986 White by Definition: Social Classification in Creole Louisiana. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. (1994-- new paperback edition)

1987 Special Annual Issue of Cuban Studies on "Sex, Gender, and Revolution in Cuba." Guest co-editor, with Yolanda Prieto.

1989 People as Subject, People as Object: Selfhood and Peoplehood in Contemporary Israel. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press.

1995 Special Issue of Identities on (Multi)Culturalisms and the Baggage of 'Race' Volume I, No. 4. Guest editor.

1995 Questioning Otherness: An Interdisciplinary Exchange. Iowa International Papers, Occasional Papers 30- 37 (153 pages). Co-edited with Catherine M. Lewis.

1997 Evaluating Human Genetic Diversity. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. 91 pages. Co-author as member of 17 person Committee on Human Genome Diversity (of the National Research Council, U.S. National Academy of Sciences). Significant co-author, especially of Chapter 5 ("Human Rights and Human-Genetic Variation Research,” pp. 55-68)

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1998 From Beijing to Port Moresby: The Politics of National Identity in Cultural Policies. Edited with David Wu. New York: Gordon and Breach.

2003-2007 Twenty issues of individually crafted issues of American Ethnologist (where, as Editor, I created sections and groupings of competing or like-minded articles in every issue, a novelty in the history of the AE; and where I created Special AE Forums, inviting commentators and authors and, hence, as special editor of 7 such Special Sections)

2012 Special Section of FOCAAL: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology No. 63 Summer issue, titled Changing Flows in Anthropological Knowledge (on national/world anthropologies and inequalities, with essays by Chris Hann, Blai Guarne, Johannes Fabian, Michal Buchowski, and Virginia R. Dominguez). Co-edited with Michal Buchowski

2013 Virtual Issue on Violence--Anthropologists Engaging Violence, AA 1980-2012; Editor and author of lengthy introduction. Available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1548- 1433/homepage/virtual_issue_-_violence__anthropologists_engaging_violence_1980-2012__articles.htm

2014 Comparative American Studies Special Set of Issues (volume 12, numbers 1 and 2) titled The Presence of 'America' in India. Co-edited with Jane C. Desmond and Rajeshwari Pandharipande

Books (under review)

• ‘America’ in the World: Pro-Americanism, Anti-Americanism, and Their Gray Zones. Co-edited with Jane C. Desmond, for inclusion in the new book series, Global Studies of the United States. Submitted to University of Illinois Press: August 2013

• 'America' Observed: On the International Anthropology of the U.S. Co-edited with Jasmin Habib (with articles by Ulf Hannerz, Moshe Shokeid, Jasmin Habib, Limor Darash, Helena Wulff, Geoffrey White, Keiko Ikeda, and Jane Desmond). Submitted to Indiana University Press: early May 2014

Academic Articles (in print/in press)

1973 "Spanish-Speaking Caribbeans in New York: the Middle Race," Revista Interamericana Review III(2): 131-42. [published in Puerto Rico]

1977 "Social Classification in Creole Louisiana," American Ethnologist 4(4): 589-602.

1978 "Show Your Colors: Ethnic Divisiveness among Hispanic Caribbean Migrants," Migration Today (February) 6: 5-9.

1978 "The Floating Symbol," American Ethnologist 5(4): 811-814.

1984 "The Language of Left and Right in Israeli Politics,” Political Anthropology 4: 89-109.

1984 "The Limits of Cultural Awareness: The Immigrant as Therapist,” Human Relations 37: 693-719. Co- authored with Eileen Basker. [published in Great Britain]

1986 "The Marketing of Heritage," American Ethnologist 13(3): 546-555. Invited Review Article.

1986 "Intended and Unintended Messages: The Scholarly Defense of One's People," Nieuwe West-Indische Gids pp. 209-222 [long-standing Caribbean Studies journal published out of Holland]. Invited Review Article.

1987 "Sex, Gender, and Revolution? The Problem of Construction and the Construction of a Problem," Cuban Studies 17: 7-23. [main U.S. journal dedicated to the study of Cuba]

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1987 Comments on, and editing of, Lourdes Casal's "Images of Women in Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Cuban Novels: The Discursive 'Baggage' of the Cuban Revolution," Cuban Studies 17: 25-50.

1987 "Of Other Peoples: Beyond the 'Salvage' Paradigm?" In Discussions in Contemporary Culture 1. Hal Foster, ed. Pp. 131-137. New York: Bay Press.

1988 "The Management of Otherness: 'Ethnicity' in the U. S. and Israel," Treatises and Documents – The Journal of Ethnic Studies/Revija za Narodnostna vPrasanja 21 (Dec.): 161-167. [the leading Eastern European journal on ethnic/national studies, published in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia]

1989 "Different and Difference," Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 4(1): 10-16. Thematic issue on "The Issue of Jewishness in Ethnographic Fieldwork."

1990 "The Politics of Heritage in Contemporary Israel." In Nationalist Ideologies and the Production of National Cultures. Richard Fox, ed. Pp. 130-147. American Ethnological Society Monograph Series.

1990 "Representing Value and the Value of Representation: A Different Look at Money," Cultural Anthropology 5(1): 16-44.

1990 "The Role of the Intelligentsia in Shaping Ethnic Tradition(s) -- An Analytic Contribution based on the United States and Israel." Special volume on Ethno-National Processes and Ideologies, published through the Moscow Ethnography Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

1991 "How the Self Stacks the Deck," Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 16(1): 12-15 (Special issue titled, Notes and Queries of the Broader Implications of the Current Interest in the Study of 'the Self' for the Conduct of Cross-Cultural Research, G. Marcus, ed.).

1992 "Invoking Culture: The Messy Side of 'Cultural Politics'," SAQ (The South Atlantic Quarterly) 91(1): 19- 42.

Reprinted in Eloquent Obsessions (1994), edited by M. Torgovnick, Duke University Press

Reprinted in Coming into Focus: Essays in Culture and Policy (1999), edited by Glenn Wallach, The Free Press

1993 "Visual Nationalism: On Looking at ‘National Symbols,’” Public Culture 5(3): 451-455.

1993 "Voicing Alternatives," Bridges/Gesher (summer). Invited Review Essay.

1993 "Questioning Jews," American Ethnologist 20(3): 618-624. Invited Review Essay.

1993 "A Taste for 'the Other': Intellectual Complicity in Racializing Practices," Current Anthropology 35(4): 333-348 [receiving full *CA treatment, accompanied by author's Response]

1994 "Differentiating Women/Bodies of Knowledge," American Anthropologist 96(1): 127-130. Invited Review Essay.

1995 "Invoking Racism in the Public Sphere," Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 1(4): 325-346.

1995 "Introduction," Special Issue of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 1(4): 297-300.

1996 "Theorizing Culturalism: From Cultural Policies to Identity Politics and Back." In Theory Rules: Art as Theory – Theory as Art. David Tomas, Jody Berland, and Will Straw, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Also reputedly in translation, in Chinese, in book edited by Stephen Chan on the state of the art 10

in Cultural Studies, Oxford University Press

1996 "Crafting Exhibitions," American Anthropologist 97(4): 779-82. Invited Review Essay, coauthored with Jane C. Desmond, of touring exhibition "Contemporary Navajo Weaving."

1996 "Engendering the Sexualized State of the Nation?" Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 2(3): 301-305.

1996 Commentary on Aihwa Ong's “Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in the United States,” Current Anthropology 37(5): 751-2.

1996 "Disciplining Anthropology." In Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies. Cary Nelson and Dilip Gaonkar, eds. Pp. 37-61. New York: Routledge.

1996 "Resituating American Studies in a Critical Internationalism," American Quarterly 48(3): 475-490. Co- authored with Jane C. Desmond.

1996 "Foreword," In Feminist Study and Judaism. Laura Levitt and Miriam Peskowitz, eds. New York: Routledge.

1996 "Erotic(izing) Cubans," Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 70(3/4): 283-290. Invited Review Essay. Richard and Sally Price, eds.

1997 "Implications: A Commentary on Stoler," Political Power and Social Theory 11: 207-215.

1997 "The Racialist Politics of Concepts, or Is It the Racialist Concepts of Politics?" Ethos 25(1): 93-100.

1997 Commentary on Moshe Shokeid's “Negotiating Multiple Viewpoints: The Cook, the Native, the Publisher, and the Ethnographic Text,” Current Anthropology 38(4).

1997 “Rethinking Equality in the Global Society,” a Conversation about Global Equality and Affirmative Action. With M.S. Srinivas and Karen Porter. Washington University Law Review 75(4): 1657-65. Print copy received in 1998.

1998 "(Mis)Communications regarding the HGDP." In "The Cutting Edge" section, Anthropology Newsletter (1 Jan.).

1998 "Introduction: Cultural(ist) Articulations of National(ist) Stakes." With Sasha Welland. In From Beijing to Port Moresby: The Politics of National Identity in Cultural Policies. Virginia R. Dominguez and David Wu, eds. Pp. 1-31. New York: Gordon and Breach.

1998 "Exporting U.S. Concepts of Race: Are There Limits to the U.S. Model?” Social Research 65(2): 369-399.

1998 “Asserting (Trans)Nationalism and the Social Conditions of Its Possibility,” Communal/Plural: Journal of Transnational and Crosscultural Studies (Australia) 6(2): 139-156.

1998 "Towards a Political Economy of 'American Studies': Reports from an Experiment-in-Progress." Co- authored with Jane C. Desmond. In Through the Looking Glass: American Studies in Transcultural Perspective: European Contributions to American Studies 40. Sponsored by the Netherlands American Studies Association (Amsterdam). Johannes Leendert Krabbendam, Jaap Verheul, Hands Krabbendam, Hans Bak, eds. VU University Amsterdam Press.

2000 "For a Politics of Love and Rescue," Cultural Anthropology 15(3): 361-393 (Aug.)

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2001 "UnAmerican Americans? Stretching the Boundaries of American Studies." In Rediscovering America: American Studies in the New Century. Kousar Azam, ed. Pp. 120-134. New Delhi: South Asian Publishers.

2001 “‘America’ and ‘the Changing Object of Study’” (with Jane C. Desmond). In Rediscovering America: American Studies in the New Century. Kousar Azam, ed. Pp. 14-22. New Delhi: South Asian Publishers.

2001 Commentary on Stuart Kirsch's "Lost Worlds: Environmental Disaster, 'Culture Loss,’ and the Law," Current Anthropology (Special Issue of on Science, Culture, and Politics) 42(2): 182-3.

2001 “When a Representation Offends Us: Toward an Analytics of Feeling in the Practice of Theory,” Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 7(1): 57-67. Print copy received in 2003.

2003 "Flagging the Closet." In Visual Art and the Contemporary Jewish Experience. Dvorah Neumark, ed. Montreal: McGill University Press/Saidye Bronfman Centre.

2003 Foreword, American Ethnologist 30(1).

2003 Foreword, American Ethnologist 30(2).

2003 Foreword, American Ethnologist 30(3).

2003 Foreword, American Ethnologist 30(4).

2004 Commentary on Pamela Ballinger's "'Authentic Hybrids' in the Balkan Borderlands," Current Anthropology (Special Issue on “Identity, Temporality, and Moral Geographies”) 45(1): 50-1.

2004 Foreword, American Ethnologist 31(1).

2004 Foreword, American Ethnologist 31(2).

2004 Foreword, American Ethnologist 31(3).

2004 Foreword, American Ethnologist 31(4).

2005 Foreword, American Ethnologist 32(1).

2005 Foreword. American Ethnologist 32(2).

2005 Foreword. American Ethnologist 32(3).

2005 Foreword. American Ethnologist 32(4).

2006 "Seeing and Not Seeing: Complicity in Surprise," SSRC Social Science Research Council Web Forum: "Understanding Katrina: Perspectives from the Social Sciences,” http://understandingkatrina.ssrc.org/

2006 Foreword, American Ethnologist 33(1).

2006 Foreword, American Ethnologist 33(2).

2006 Foreword, American Ethnologist 33(3).

2006 Foreword, American Ethnologist 33(4).

2006 Commentary on Don Kulick’s “Theory in Furs: Masochist Anthropology,” Current Anthropology 47(6): 945-6. 12

2007 Foreword, American Ethnologist 34(1).

2007 “SUSPICION, CRITIQUE, AND PURSUIT: How Do U.S. Cultural Anthropology, U.S. Cultural Studies, and U.S. American Studies View One Another?” Americana Journal 3(1) (Aug.) (subtitled “Selected Papers from the 2004 Hungarian American Studies Association” and published electronically at http://americanaejournal.hu/vol3no1)

2007 Commentary on Rebecca Scott’s “Public Rights and Private Commerce: A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Creole Itinerary,” Current Anthropology 48(2): 250.

2007 Foreword, American Ethnologist 34(2).

2007 “When the Enemy is Unclear: US Censuses and Photographs of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines from the Beginning of the 20th Century,” Comparative American Studies (a U.K.-based international journal published by Sage Publications) 5(2): 173-203.

2007 Commentary on Maria Gropas’ “The Re-Patriotization of Revolutionary Ideology and Mnemonic Landscape in Present-Day Havana,” Current Anthropology 48(4): 542-3.

2007 Foreword, American Ethnologist 34(3).

2007 Foreword, American Ethnologist 34(4).

2007 “Nemi poco chiari, amici poco chiari” (“Unclear Enemies, Unclear Friends”), Acoma: Rivista Internazionale di Studi Nordamericani (The International Journal of American Studies) 33: 53-65 (original written in English and translated into Italian for publication).

2008 “When Belonging Inspires – Death, Hope Distance,” (Review Essay) Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 15(3): 369-389.

Reissued in stand-alone book Middle Eastern Belongings, Diane E. King, ed., Routledge, Fall 2009

2009 “Eschewing Racism, Disavowing Racism, and Invoking Racism: Visions of Virtue in Worlds of Inequality.” In Against Stigma. Paul Greenough and Balmurli Natrajan, eds. Pp. 76-91. Hyderabad, India: Orient Longman Press.

2009 Commentary I (in “Debate Section: What is Happening to the Anthropological Monograph? Live Debate at the EASA Conference in Ljubljana 2008”) in Social Anthropology (the Journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists).

2009 “Evidence and Power, Sweet and Sour.” In Empirical Futures: Critical Engagements with the Work of Sidney W. Mintz, Stephan Palmié, Aisha Khan, and George Baca, eds. Pp. 145-72. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. November 2009 release.

2009/10 “Wiggle Room and Writing,” Iowa Journal for Cultural Studies, published to the journal’s electronic Forum in early March 2009 and published in the print edition in spring 2010.

2010 “Afterword: The Noticed, the Unnoticed, and Their Pursuit.” In a Special Issue of Transit Circle (the journal of the Brazilian American Studies Association) titled Looking North: Latin American Perspectives on the U.S. in International Perspective. Nova Serie 2008-2009: 174-185.

2011 Commentary on “An Anthropology of Critical Engagement: Honoring Antonio Lauria-Perricelli,” Transforming Anthropology 19(1): 33-34.

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2012 “Mutuality, Responsibility, and Reciprocity in Situations of Marked Inequality: Dilemmas of, and concerning, U.S. Anthropology in the World,” FOCAAL: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 63: 51-61. Michal Buchowski and Virginia R. Dominguez, Co-editors.

2012 “Are There Umpires and Quasi-Umpires outside the Baseball Field? Claiming and Asserting Social Identities in U.S. Society.” In Tanulmanyok Bollobas Eniko 60. Szuletesnapjara [Festschrift in honor of Eniko Bollobas]. Vera Benczik, Tibor Frank, and Ildiko Geiger, eds. Pp. 281-292. Budapest: Eotvos Lorand Todomanyegyetem.

2012 “Unexpected Ties: Insight, Love, Exhaustion.” In The Restless Anthropologist: New Fieldsites, New Visions. Alma Gottlieb, ed. Pp. 18-34. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2012 “Comfort Zones and their Dangers: Who are We? Qui Sommes-Nous?” The 2011 AAA Presidential Address. American Anthropologist 114(3): 394-405.

2013 “Saying and Not Saying R Words. Review and Discussion of John Hartigan, Jr’s 2010 books, Race in the 21st Century: Ethnographic Approaches and What Can you Say? and America’s National Conversation on Race. Transforming Anthropology 21(1): 87-91.

2013 “On the Paradoxes of Evidence in Contemporary Anthropology." In Vital Topics Forum: On Evidence and the Public Interest. American Anthropologist 114(4): 642-55.

2013 "American Anthropological Association" (with Michele Hanks). 3000 word entry in Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia. Jon McGee and Richard Warms, eds. Sage Publications.

2013 “The Very Real Issue of Heritage Framing,” a comment on Jaume Franquesa's essay, "On keeping and selling: the political economy of heritage-making in contemporary Spain," Current Anthropology 54(3): 363-4.

2013 Comment on Stephen Palmié’s essay, “Mixed Blessings and Sorrowful Mysteries: Second Thoughts about ‘Hybridity,’” Current Anthropology 54(4): 475-6.

2013 “Introduction.” Special Virtual Issue, Anthropologists Engaging Violence, 1980-2012, in American Anthropologist.

2013 "The Problem of Gender and Citations Re-raised in New Research Study," co-authored with Matthew Gutmann and Catherine Lutz. Anthropology News (e-News) (December 18).

2013 “Falling in Love with a Criminal? On Immersion and Self-Restraint.” Ethnographic Encounters in Israel: Poetics and Ethics of Fieldwork in Israel. Fran Markowitz, ed. Pp. 201-20. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

2014 "The Rich Possibilities of Greed and Excess.” Journal of Economic Anthropology 1.1: 193-91.

2014 "Afterword--The Tacit and the Explicit: Who Influences Whom, Who Takes from Whom, and Who Creates What and When and from Whom?" Comparative American Studies 12(1/2): 147-54, Special Set of Issues titled The Presence of 'America' in India. Co-edited by Jane C. Desmond, Rajeshwari Pandharipande, and Virginia R. Dominguez.

Articles Under Review

• “The ‘American’ Conundrum: Criticism, Attraction, Antagonisms.” Essay to appear as opener or closer in ‘America’ in the World: Discourses of Americanization and Anti-Americanism. Coedited with Jane C. Desmond. For our new book series, Global Studies of the United States. University of Illinois Press. Ca. 6000 words. Submitted August 2013.

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Other: New Media, Interviews, and Presidential Columns

(a) New Media project: INSIDE THE PRESIDENT’S STUDIO: a 2-year project (2010-2011) involving interviews of 16 anthropologists in various segments of the profession both in and outside the U.S., and posting both the written interviews and the oral 60-75 minute interviews online (www.aaanet.org). Interviews focus on the person as an everyday human being, a citizen, a visionary, and an intellectual. Included so far are interviews with Monica Heller, Carolyn Sargent, Joao Biehl, TJ Ferguson, Nandini Sundar, Jeremy Sabloff, Agustin Fuentes, Alaka Wali, Lee Baker, Shannon Dawdy, Edward Liebow, Marilyn Strathern, Amy Goldenberg, Tom Boellstorff, Sarah Green, and Leslie Aiello

(b) Presidential Columns (social/anthropological analyses , calls for intellectual work and professional interventions), in Anthropology News (850-1250 words):

January 2010 “Provoked and Inspired” February 2010 “On Violence in Our Midst” March 2010 “Introducing ‘Inside the President’s Studio’” April 2010 “Furloughs, Futures, and Fears” May 2010 “Introducing the AAA Writers Circle” September 2010 “Education Task Force to Bring Renewed Energy, Creativity and Commitment” October 2010 “International Collegiality and the AAA” December 2010 “Presidential Incentive Program for Undergraduates Unveiled: Striving to Be Who We Are and Who We Want to Be” January 2011 “From the President: 2010 President’s Report” April 2011 “Anthropology’s Value: Legacies, Tidemarks, Surprises, and Measures” May 2011 “Tragedy, Peace, and Hope” September 2011 “An Interview with Sarah Green” November 2011 “Noticing our Canadian Context, Challenging Our Habits of Engagement” December 2011 “From the President: 2011 President’s Report”

(c) Interviews (given) in print:

2007 (Nov.) “Re-imagining the AAA with Incoming President-Elect Virginia Dominguez,” Anthropology News, pp. 13-14.

2010 (late fall) Interview/story in the University of Illinois Alumni Magazine. Writer: Deb Aronson.

Conference Working Papers/Proceedings

1983 "The Legal Side of Blackness." Proceedings of University of Michigan conference on Immigration and the Changing Black Population in the U.S.. Niara Sudarkasa, organizer and editor. Paper abstracted in the International Migration Review 1983/84.

1988 "Science, Self, Knowledge, and Politics- A Commentary on Schneider, D'Andrade, and Yanagisako." Proceedings of the First Annual Meetings of the Society for Cultural Anthropology.

1990 "Towards a Comparative Framework on National Identities and Cultural Policies." International Workshop on Cultural Policies and National Identities, East-West Center, Honolulu, June 18-22

1992 "Is Multiculturalism Post-Racism? Cautionary Words for Writing the Post-Colonial." For Writing the Post-colonial, invited conference organized by Elazar Barkan and Michael Roth, Claremont Graduate School.

1994 "Sameness-es." Essay originally prepared for the 1994 International Wenner-Gren Conference on Transnationalism, Mijas, Spain 15

Congressional Testimonies, Reports. and Commissioned Papers

1978 Statement prepared for Hearings on "Undocumented Workers: Implications for U. S. Policy in the Western Hemisphere" of the Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives. Tuesday, May 23, 1978. Printed in full by the U. S. Government Printing Office on behalf of the Committee on International Relations. Pp. 55-61 and 215-225.

1979 "The Concept of Refugee: A Second American Dilemma." Prepared for Hearings before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives. First session on H. R 2816, Refugee Act of 1979. May 1979. Printed in full by the U. S. Government Printing Office on behalf of the Committee on the Judiciary. pp. 322-333.

1980 "The Politics of Classification." Prepared for Oversight Hearings before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives. Second session on Caribbean Migration. June 4, 1980. Printed in full by the U. S. Government Printing Office on behalf of the Committee on the Judiciary. Pp. 122-133.

1980 "Perspectives on the Haitian Movement to the United States." Prepared for Oversight Hearings before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives. Second session on Caribbean Migration. June 17, 1980. Printed in full by the U. S. Government Printing Office on behalf of the Committee on the Judiciary. Pp. 181-195.

1982 "Dimensions of Ethnicity." Commissioned by the National Academy of Science and co-authored with Richard G. Fox.

Book Reviews

1975 Review of Louis Philpott, West Indian Migration: the Montserrat Case LSE monograph Series #47 (1973). In L'Homme 15(1): 134-135.

1980 Review of M. Labelle, Ideologie de couleur et classes sociales en Haiti, University of Montreal Press (1978). In American Anthropologist 82(3): 655-656.

1983 Review of Bernardo Vega, ed., Ensayos sobre la cultura dominicana. Museo del Hombre Dominicano. In Nieuwe West-Indische Gids.

1984 Review of Bonham Richardson, Caribbean Migrants: Environment and Human Survial on St. Kitts and Nevis. In Journal of American Ethnic History 4(2): 110-111.

1984 Review of Michel S. Laguerre, American Odyssey: Haitians in New York City. In Urban Anthropology 13(4): 408-410.

1986 Review of Elizabeth Mertz and Richard Parmentier, eds., Semiotic Mediation. In Man 22(1): 208-209.

1989 Review of Anthony Wilden, Man and Woman, War and Peace: The Strategist's Companion. In Contemporary Sociology 18(1): 19-20.

1990 Review of Myron Aronoff, Israeli Visions and Divisions: Cultural Change and Political Conflict. In American Ethnologist 17(4):805-806.

1990 Review of Riv-Ellen Prell, Prayer and Community: The Havurah Movement in American Judaism. In Anthropological Quarterly 63(4): 191-193.

1992 Review of Smadar Lavie, The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzenia Allegories of Bedouin Identity under Israeli and Egyptian Rule. In American Ethnologist 19(3): 619-620. 16

1993 Review of Geoffrey White, Identity through History: Living Stories in a Solomons Island Society. In American Anthropologist 95(1): 243-244.

1993 Review of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century. In Journal of Agricultural History 67(2): 270-272.

1993 Book Note on Jonathan Boyarin, Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory. In Religious Studies Review.

1993 Review of Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization. In Ethnohistory 41(1): 202-204.

1994 Review of Tamar Katriel, Communal Webs: Communication and Culture in Contemporary Israel. In American Ethnologist 21(4): 1129-1130.

1994 Review of Jacob Landau, The Arab Minority in Israel, 1967-1991: Political Aspects. In Middle East Journal 48(3): 539-541.

1994 Review of Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins, Reading National Geographic. In Museum Anthropology 18(3): 68-70.

1995 Review of Haunani-Kay Trask, From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i. In American Ethnologist 22(3): 663-664.

1995 Review of Gunter Bohm, Los sefardies en los dominios holandeses de America del Sur y del Caribe, 1630 - 1750, and Robert M. Levine, Tropical Diaspora: The Jewish Experience in Cuba. In the Nieuwe West Indische Gids.

1996 Review of Linda L. Layne, Home and Homeland: The Dialogics of Tribal and National Identities in Jordan. In Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 6(1): 112-114.

1997 Review of Annelies Moors, Women, Property and Islam: Palestinian Experiences, 1920-1990. In American Anthropologist 99(1): 189-190.

1998 Review of Nachman Ben-Yehuda, The Masada Myth. In the American Historical Review 103(1): 240.

1998 Review of Jon Michael Spencer, The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America. In American Anthropologist 100(1): 216-217.

1999 Review of Patricia Pessar, A Visa for a Dream: Dominicans in the United States. In the Nieuwe West Indische Gids.

2000 Review of Louis Perez, On Becoming Cuban. In the Nieuwe West Indische Gids.

2003 Review of Mary Catherine Bateson, Full Circles, Overlapping Lives: Culture and Generation in Transition. In American Anthropologist 105(2): 388-340.

2003 Review of Gail Holst-Warhaft, The Cue for Passion: Grief and Its Political Uses. In Current Anthropology 44(4): 616-618.

2005 Review of Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh, Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel. In Transforming Anthropology 13(1): 65-66.

2008 Review of Citizenship and Those Who Leave: The Politics of Emigration and Expatriation, Nancy L. Green and Francios Weil, eds. In Journal of Anthropological Research 64(4): 562-563.

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2008 Review of Marc Priewe, Writing Transit: Refiguring National Imaginaries in Chicana/o Narratives. American Studies: A Monograph Series, vol. 140. Heidelberg, Germany. In Aztlan: The Journal of Chicano Studies 33(2): 235-239.

Other Employment (part-time)

1989 Consultant, The National Faculty of the Arts and Sciences (national consulting organization for the improvement of secondary education), co-planned and co-taught a summer institute for Tucson high school teachers on “the construction, evaluation, and management of ‘difference’”

1976-80 Consultant, The Ford Foundation, Office for Latin America and the Caribbean; particularly involved in Caribbean and Mexican migration delegated-authority project.

1977-78 Consultant, The Kettering Foundation; to help plan and organize a series of seminars at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. on the contemporary Caribbean.

1971 (Jan.-July) Library Assistant, Yale Geology Library

1972 (summer) Translator: Spanish to English translations for edited volume eventually published as Maroon Societies (Doubleday 1973)

1968 (July-Dec.) English High School Teacher, Colegio del Sagrado Corazon, Montevideo, Uruguay; Freshman and Sophomore literature

Other Professional Activities

(A) Research/Fieldwork:

New York City (Aug. 1972-Feb. 1, 1973) on sense of identity among Cubans, Puerto Ricans, and Dominicans in Washington Heights;

Surinam (summer 1974) on economic history and social interaction in the Bush Negro community of Klaaskreek;

New Orleans, LA (Sept. 1975-Sept. 1976; May-Aug. 1977) on social classification in Creole Louisiana in historical and anthropological perspective;

Jerusalem, Israel (summer 1980; May 1981-Aug. 1982; summer 1983; June1984-Aug. 1985; summers 1987, 1989, 1990) on the objectification of "ethnicity" and "Israeli society" in academic, journalistic, and political discourses;

Santa Cruz, CA (spring/summer 1993)--with Didier Torny (EHESS, France) and Krista Harper (Santa Cruz) on the naturalization and consumption of insurance in the 19th and 20th centuries (primarily in the U.K., France, and the U.S.), and the development of "risk-groups"

Honolulu, Hawaii (July-Oct. 1993; summer 1994; part-summer 1995) on racializing practices in the Americanization of Hawaii, 19th and 20th centuries

Havana, Cuba (March 1998) on photography and historiography just before, during, and immediately after the U.S. military occupations of Cuba 1898-1902 and 1906-1090; at the Cuban National Archives, the Provincial Archives of Cienfuegos, and the National Library in Havana.

Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, South Africa (March 2003; May 2005 and, through Research Assistants, summer 2003-winter 2004) on visual, economic, and discursive presence of the 18

U.S. in South Africa and its complicated relationship with visual and discursive anti-Americanism (both before and during the Iraqi-U.S. war); involving two UIowa graduate students and three graduate students in South Africa--at the University of the Western Cape and at the University of Cape Town

Germany-South Africa-U.S. collaborative research project with colleagues from Berlin, Bremen, Munich, Cape Town, Pretoria, and Johannesburg (and possibly Utrecht, the Netherlands) involving pilot research (with four UIowa graduate students in May-June 2003 in Germany and Professor Jane Desmond), and an April planning and proposal design meeting at the UIowa with two collaborators from South Africa and two from Germany, plus Professor Jane Desmond; objective was to submit a multi-year, and 3 or 4 country research proposal)

A 13-country research project on instrumental, bureaucratic, engineering and science photography undertaken in the course of U.S. military occupations since 1898 – in the Caribbean, the Pacific, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East – with special emphasis on the U.S. Corps of Engineers (2008-2011).

(B) Professional Memberships and Positions:

American Anthropological Association (current, member since 1976)

American Ethnological Society (current; member of the Society's Nominating Committee, 1991; Board member, 2002-2007)

International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) (2012 – present)

International American Studies Association (current; Executive Committee Member, 2001 – 2003)

Society for Cultural Anthropology (current; elected member of the Board of Directors, 1995-1999; elected President for 1999-2001)

Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (current)

Council for Museum Anthropology (current)

Association for Feminist Anthropology (current)

Society for the Anthropology of Europe (current)

Society for Visual Anthropology (current)

Middle East Section (AAA) (current)

Central States Anthropological Society (current)

Society for Anthropology in North America (current)

European Association of Social Anthropologists (current)

Society for Economic Anthropology (of the AAA) (current)

American Studies Association (current)

The Authors Guild (current, since 1995, after nomination)

Eileen Basker Memorial Prize Selection Committee (founder and member 1987-present)

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Phi Beta Kappa (long-time member)

American Council of Jewish Studies (ACJS) (2012 – 2013)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (2011 – 2013)

ISCOMET (International Scientific Conference-Minorities for Europe of Tomorrow) (early 1990s)

N. Y. Council on Foreign Relations (Term Member, 1980-85)

Institute of Cuban Studies (member of the Board of Directors in the mid-1980s)

Israel Anthropological Association (1980s)

Latin American Studies Association (member of Program Committee, 1980-82)

Lourdes Casal Award Selection Committee (1983-84)

American Association of University Women Fellowships Selection Committee (1986-88)

U.S. Fulbright (CIES) Selection Committee for Israel (1989-91 member; 1991-92 Chair)

(C) Invited Lectures/Speaking Engagements

American Studies Research Center (Hyderabad, India) Bar-Ilan University (Israel) Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel) Brown University (Providence) Case Western Reserve University Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) DIA Art Foundation (Art and Culture Critical Studies Series) Doshisha University (Japan) Duke University Law School (Durham, North Carolina) East Carolina University East-West Center (Honolulu) Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) Eotvos Lorand University (Budapest) Field Museum (in Chicago) Grinnell College (Grinnell, Iowa) Haifa University (Israel) Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.) Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) Hunter College (New York City) Indiana University (Bloomington) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Miami University of Ohio New York University Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) Princeton University Rice University (Houston) Tel Aviv University (Israel) The Center for International Affairs at Harvard The Center for Psychosocial Studies in Chicago The Inter-American University of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico) 20

The Johns Hopkins University The University of California at San Diego The University of California at Santa Barbara The University of California at Santa Cruz The University of California at Los Angeles The University of Chicago The University of Florida (at Gainesville) The University of Hawai’i at Manoa The University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa) The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Manchester (England) The University of Miami (Florida) The University of Michigan (at Ann Arbor) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of Ottawa (Canada) The University of Rochester (Rochester, NY) Moscow State University (Russia) The University of Cape Town (South Africa) Eotvos Lorand University (Budapest, Hungary) The University of Utah The New York Academy of Sciences University of Stockholm (Sweden) University of the Western Cape (South Africa)

(D) Review Manuscripts and Proposals

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research The National Science Foundation The National Endowment for the Humanities Israel-U.S. Binational Science Foundation American Association of University Women American Ethnologist American Anthropologist American Quarterly Anthropological Quarterly Cultural Anthropology Signs Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Public Culture The Contemporary Pacific Ethos: The Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology Journal of American Ethnic History Duke University Press The Johns Hopkins University Press Temple University Press The University of Wisconsin Press Princeton University Press The University of Michigan Press Westview Press The University of Minnesota Press Indiana University Press McGraw-Hill Routledge University of California Press Hill and Wang Publishers 21

S.U.N.Y. Press LSU Press The University of Pennsylvania Press The University of Chicago Press Columbia University Press Stanford University Press Berg Publishers Current Anthropology Rutgers University Press Wayne State University Press The Annals of Tourism Research HSRC Press (South Africa) Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Critique of Anthropology Social Studies of Science

(E) Review Promotion and Tenure Dossiers

Harvard University Yale University Princeton University Cornell University The University of Pennsylvania Duke University Rutgers University The University of Rochester The University of Manchester (England) Cambridge University (England) The University of Witswatersrand (South Africa) The University of Perth (Australia) The University of Chicago The University of Texas at Austin The University of California at Santa Cruz (after leaving the UCSC faculty) The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (prior to joining UIUC) The University of Oklahoma The University of South Carolina Hamilton College Arizona State University Purdue University The University of Virginia New York University The New School for Social Research/The New School University The University of California at Davis The University of New Hampshire The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ben Gurion University of the Negev Haifa University The University of Oregon Washington and Lee University Southern Illinois University Rice University The University of Louisville The University of Kentucky The University of Maryland The University of Hawai’i at Manoa 22

Indiana University (South Bend) The City University of New York MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Emory University Colgate University Bar Ilan University

Also, invitations I had to decline for various reasons: Pitzer College, the University of South Carolina, Williams College, UCLA, USC, the University of New Mexico, Virginia Tech University, University of Colorado at Boulder

(F) Departmental Reviews

Member, Departmental Review of the Department of Anthropology, The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (2013-14) Member, Departmental Review of the Department of Anthropology, Indiana University (2013-14) Member, Departmental Review of the Department of Anthropology, American University (2011) Chair, Departmental Review of the Department of Anthropology, Brown University (2010-11) Member/Co-Chair, Departmental Review of the Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas (2010) Member, Departmental Review of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2008) Chair, Departmental Review of the Department of Anthropology, Temple University (2005) Member, Departmental Review of the Department of Geography, University of Iowa (1995)

(G) Organized/Co-organized/Directed or Co-Directed:

1983 Language and Power Lecture Series, Duke University

1984-85 Semiotics/Discourse Reading Group, Jerusalem

1989 Interdisciplinary Conference at Duke University, "The Construction of Sexualities"

1991 Panel, American Ethnological Society, "Is Culturalism an Improvement over Racism?"

1991 Panel, American Anthropological Assn., "New Voices on Israel/Palestine"

1994 Panel, American Ethnological Society, "Complicity"

1995 Distinguished International Lecture Series at Iowa, "Questioning Otherness" (Feb.-April)

1997 Panel, Indigenous States/States of the Indigenous. Co-organized with Christine Taylor and Brigittine French. American Ethnological Society, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1998 Obermann Faculty Research Seminar (2.5 week international working institute) on Legacies of 1898, University of Iowa Obermann Center for Advanced Studies. Co-organized with Jane C. Desmond.

1999 Outside/In: U. S. Studies in Global Perspective—international capstone conference of the initial 1995-1999 Rockefeller Foundation grant that created the International Forum for U.S. Studies. Co-organized with Jane C. Desmond

1999 Crossing Borders (faculty/student) session at March 2001 Convocation, University of Iowa (based on 2 week joint faculty/graduate student trip/project in March 2000). Co-organized with Jane C. Desmond. 23

2001 Roundtables on the meanings and practices of "American Studies" in South Africa and the U.S.-- at UNISA (the University of South Africa in Pretoria) and the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa (August). With Greg Cuthbertson, Christopher Saunders, and Jane Desmond

2002 Wenner-Gren Foundation International Workshop on "Suffering and Recovery," Amenia, New York (with Foundation President Richard G. Fox) (September 17-20)

2003 Town Meeting entitled "Has the American Ethnologist Stopped Leading?" American Ethnological Society Annual Conference, Providence, RI (April 2003)

2004 International Conference entitled "Looking North: Latin American Scholarship and Comparative Perspectives" held in Niteroi/Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the Universidade Federal Fiuminense (sponsored by the International Forum for U.S. Studies and co-organized with Professor Jane Desmond, American Studies, UIowa, and Professor Sonia Torres, Universidade Fiumenense in Rio) (May 31-June 4)

2004 Workshop (invited by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology), “How to Write Articles for Submission to Anthropology Journals,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta. (Dec. 18)

2005 Workshop (invited by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology), “How to Write Articles for Submission to Anthropology Journals,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. (Dec. 3)

2005 American Ethnologist Editor's Special Session: "Experimenting, American Ethnological Society's Spring Conference, San Diego, California (April)

2005 International conference, "'America' in the World: Discourses of Americanization and Anti-Americanism I," co-organized with Jane Desmond, Co-Director, International Forum for U.S. Studies, University of Iowa (with participants from 4 continents) (March 3-5)

2005 Crossing Borders Second Area Travel Seminar to Durban, South Africa, and Mumbai, India—co-directed with historian Paul Greenough and social anthropologist Balmurli Natrajan

2006 International conference, "'America' in the World: Discourses of Americanization and Anti- Americanism II," co-organized with Jane Desmond, Co-Director, International Forum for U.S. Studies, University of Iowa (with participants from 4 continents) (April)

2006 Workshop (invited by the Israel Anthropological Association jointly with Bar Ilan University), “How to Write Articles for Submission to Anthropology Journals” (June)

2006 Workshop (invited by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology), “How to Write Articles for Submission to Anthropology Journals, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting,” San Jose, California (Nov. 13)

2007 Workshop on Writing and Publishing as part of the joint meetings of the Canadian Association of Social Anthropology and the American Ethnological Society, Toronto, Canada (May)

2007 Co-organized, chaired, and spoke at special session on “Anthropology and the Contemporary Academy” at the joint meetings of the Canadian Association of Social Anthropology and the American Ethnological Society, Toronto, Canada (May)

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2008 Presented workshop on Leadership and Governance at the 2008 AAA Meetings in San Francisco (including participation from outside the U.S.) (May)

2008-09 Organized/recruited 7 special events/sessions for the 2009 Annual Conference of the Central States Anthropological Society (held at UIUC). These included a session on and with journal editors, a session on writing, a session on the AAA’s experience with the highly successful RACE Project, a session/brunch with current and past presidents of scholarly/anthropological associations in the U.S. and elsewhere, an all-graduate student session on evidence, a session on the international anthropology of the U.S.

2009 Launched (jointly with and as part of the International Forum for U.S. Studies) a new international team initiative entitled “International Anthropology of the U.S.” (IAUS) with a Working Meeting/Conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (March 29-April 1, 2009), and a session at the Central States Anthropological Society Conference held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (April 2009)

2009 Organized, chaired, and spoke at session/panel on “U.S. Spaces Abroad: Short-Term and Long-Term Claims to Land, Property, and Sovereignty outside the Official United States” at the International American Studies Association Fourth World Congress, Sept. 2009, Beijing, China. Participants came from 5 official disciplines (American Studies, communication studies, history, English, and cultural anthropology) and several other scholarly communities (including photography, economic and legal history, Latina/o Studies, Asia/Pacific Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and Latin American Studies). They also came from 5 countries (and 3 continents).

2010 Organized/co-organized 2 of 12 Executive Sessions for the 2010 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana: One on the International Anthropology of the U.S., with Jasmin Habib (Waterloo, Canada) and the other the Global Circulation of Public Culture, with Veena Das (Johns Hopkins U.) and Arjun Appadurai (The New School University/New School for Social Research)

2009-2011 Selected and work with the colleagues named by me to be Executive Program Chairs for the 2010 and 2011 AAA Annual Meetings (in New Orleans and Montreal)

2010 Co-organized a collaborative 2-3 year project on the Anthropology of Small States/Small Societies—with Ulf Hannerz (Stockholm), Andre Gingrich (Vienna), Regina Bendix (Germany), and Thomas Eriksen (Oslo)

2010 Organized/launched the AAA Writers Circle to foster writing for more public audiences, especially with regard to policy and advocacy

2010 Organized a new Anthropological Education Task Force (at the request of the AAA Executive Board)--on anthropological education outside the 4-year liberal arts colleges and research universities

2010 Spoke at/ran 32 events/session at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (New Orleans)

2011 Co-chaired 2 sessions at the 5th World Congress of the International American Studies Association (held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in July)

2011 Co-Chair, Roundtable session on Science and Anthropology (organized by Peter Peregrine), AAA Annual Meeting (Montreal, Canada)

2011 Chair/Co-Chair, Executive Session on “Fifty Years of the Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series, AAA Annual Meeting (Montreal, Canada) 25

2013 IASA 6th World Congress-- special session; Szczecin, Poland; on ethnography and the U.S. (August)

2013 AAA 2013 Annual Meeting session (coorganized with Michele Hanks) on expertise, experts, and knowledge

2014 Submitted and selected as AAA 2014 Annual Meeting Executive Session: What's Your Evidence? (coorganized with Richard Wilson)

2014 Sponsored 2 back-to-back sessions on Evidence at the 2014 Central States Anthropological Society conference (Normal/Bloomington location); also encouraged and supported 2 other sessions at the 2014 CSAS (in addition to chairing a different panel altogether)

2014 IUAES/JASCA joint/50th anniversary conference (May 2014 on the outskirts of Tokyo): conceptualized and created a 2-part session titled, "Does the Future of Anthropology Not Include the Study of the U.S. by Colleagues outside the U.S.?"

(F) Committees/Governance at Duke:

Departmental: Personnel Screening Committee (1979-81; 1989-91) Library Committee (1979-81) Undergraduate Studies (chair, 1983-84) Graduate Studies (1982-83; 1989-91)

University: Council on Latin American Studies (1979-91) University Committee on Race Relations (1979-81) Executive Board, Comparative Program on Immigration and Ethnicity (1979-81) UFCAS Committee on Study Abroad (chair, 1982-84) MacAnderson Fellowship Committee (chair, 1982-84) University Distinguished Teaching Awards Committee (1985-86) Duke University Academic Council (i.e. Duke's Faculty Senate; elected in the spring of 1985 by the faculty of the Division of Social Sciences to a two-year term; reelected spring 1987 and spring 1990) Comparative Area Studies Major Advisory Board (1985-86; 1990-91) University Judiciary Committee (1987-91) Women's Studies Advisory Board (1987-89) University Taskforce on Governance (1988-89) Rhodes Scholarship Screening Committee (1989-91) Advisory Board on Judaic Studies (1989-91) Advisory Committee on the Senior Year (1989-91) Phi Beta Kappa (Beta Chapter of North Carolina, member of the Board, 1990-91) Faculty Compensation Committee (1990-91) Board of Trustees (Academic Affairs Committee, Faculty Representative, 1990-91) Executive Committee of the Academic Council (elected in April 1990 to a two-year term) Ad hoc Committee on Arts and Sciences Governance (chair, 1990-91)

(G) Committees/Governance at University of California--Santa Cruz

Departmental: Curriculum and Policies/Planning (l991-92) Graduate Affairs (l991-92; chair) Graduate Admissions (l991-93; chair 1991-92) 26

Extra-departmental: Social Sciences Division Research Council (1991-92) University Committee on Personnel (the UCSC merit, promotion, and tenure committee) (1993)

(H) Committees/Governance at the University of Iowa

Departmental: Ad Hoc Committee on Peer Review of Faculty Teaching (chair, 1994) Resource Committee on Teaching (1994-97) Ad Hoc Dissertation Prize Selection Committee (chair, 1994) Curriculum Committee (1994-95 and 2001-2002; chair, spring 1995 and 2001-2002) Graduate Admissions Committee (1998-99; 1999-2000) Colloquium Committee (Chair, 1999-2000; member, 2004-2006) Crossing Borders grant departmental liaison (1999-2001) Medical Anthropology Search Committee (2002-2003 and 2003-2004) Feminist Anthropology Track Faculty Group Steering Committee (2002-2006, Dec.) Museums/Museum Studies Committee (2004-2006, Dec.; Chair)

Extra-departmental: Steering Committee, Gender, Politics, & Culture Program (1993-94) International Executive Committee (1994-97) International Strategic Planning Committee (1994-97) International Travel Committee (1994-97) Study Abroad Committee (1994-96) Internal Review Committee, UI Dept. of Geography (1994-95) College of Liberal Arts Faculty Assembly (elected to a 2-year term, 1994-96 and a three-year term 2001-2004) UI/Grinnell College Bridging Project Steering Committee (1994-97) Strategic Planning Committee for Interdisciplinarity (1995) Board of Advisors, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies (1995-98) Search Committee for Dean of the College of Liberal Arts (Chair; 1996-97) Regents Awards Selection Committee (1998) International Programs Academic/Executive Committee (1998-2006, Dec.) Promotion & Tenure Committee (of the College of Liberal Arts) (1998-99) UI Arts and Humanities Advisory Committee (1999-2006, Dec.) International Writing Program Advisory Committee (committee chaired by the Vice-President for Research) (1999-2002) "Crossing Borders" Grant UI Steering Committee (1999-2001) Executive Committee, College of Liberal Arts (elected by the Liberal Arts faculty; 1999-2002) Korea Chair Search Committee (2001-2002) Graduate College Faculty Mentor Award Selection Committee (2002) Faculty Senate (elected in spring 2003; term beginning in 2003-2004) Faculty Council of the Faculty Senate (its "administrative" group)(elected spring 2005, serving 2005-2006, Dec.) Presidential Search Committee for Provost (May-Dec. 2003) International Crossroads Community Review Committee (2003-04)

(I) Committees/Governance at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Departmental: Ad Hoc Personnel Review Committees (2) Tenured faculty committee Full Professor committee Ad Hoc Committee on Potential Hires (2007-2008) 27

De facto chair of the new Sociocultural Anthropology Speakers Series working group (2008) Chaired and/or served on 2 departmental faculty reviews (2007-2008) Summer Research Funding Committee (2010-11) Departmental Diversity Committee (2010-11) Chair, Departmental Course and Curriculum Committee (2012-13) Awards Committee (2013-14)

Extra-departmental: Provost’s Committee on Named Chairs and Professorships (2007-2008) Provost’s Committee on Faculty Excellence (2008-present) Member, Executive Council of the UIUC Program in Jewish Culture and Society (2008 – present) Admissions Committee and Affiliate Member, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (CSAMES) at UIUC (2008-present) Council member/affiliate: UIUC Center for Middle Eastern Studies of CSAMES Dean’s level (LAS) Ad Hoc Tenure Appeal Case Committee (2010-2011) Committee on Faculty Excellence (2010-2011) Chair, Ad Hoc Committee to Review the Director of the UIUC American Indian Studies program (2012-13) Member, Undergraduate FLAS Selection Committee, UIUC Center for Global Studies Member, Ad Hoc Promotion Committee (outside anthropology) (2014-15) Appointed member, Provost's MSAC Committee (MOOC Strategic Advisory Committee) Reviewer, UIUC MFRP (Mid-Career Faculty Research Program)

(J) Courses Taught (in the order in which they were developed since 1979)

Intro. to Social/Cultural Anthropology

Slavery and Society (a graduate-level comparative seminar on systems of slavery and sociopolitical systems after abolition)

From Incest to Adultery: Kinship and Marriage in Human Societies (a middle level undergraduate course; includes social organization among primates, the question of the incest taboo, the concept of 'blood," epistemological and political aspects of debates concerning the definition of marriage, bridewealth, and dowry, the political economy of sexuality, kinship terminology, and residence patterns)

Self and Others: Racial, Ethnic, and Social Classification (a middle-level undergraduate course largely about the construction and experience of social identities)

Graduate Core Theory Course in Cultural Anthropology (co-taught at Duke with Carol Smith; a double credit course, taking a dialectical approach to "political economy" and "meaning")

Caribbean Cultures and Societies (middle to upper level undergraduate course, with a special section for graduate students; stresses the historical, economic, structural similarities of countries in and around the Caribbean basin; international labor migration; Caribbean/U.S. interrelationship and mutual effects)

The History of Anthropology (an experimental course for senior citizens through the Duke Institute for Learning in Retirement)

Interpretations of Kinship (a graduate seminar on theories of kinship in relation to society, culture, semantics, gender, politics, modes of production, and epistemology)

Middle East: Wars, Revolutions and Social Change (a middle level undergraduate course with somewhat varying content; focus on Orientalism, the sociopolitical history of the 28 objectification of Islam, the histories of collective identities in the region and their awkward relationship with European nationalism, theories and enactments of gender relations, traditional and experimental forms of family and household organization, the many meanings of religion and community, and their manifestation in revolutionary, fundamentalist, socialist, and military activities)

Meaning/Theories of Meaning (a graduate course; theories of meaning and interpretation; a careful textual analysis of approaches to the philosophy of language as background to interpretive approaches in sociocultural anthropology) (so far taught at Duke and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Ethniut veAdatiut (undergraduate/graduate course taught at the Hebrew University; two quarters on theoretical, analytical, and comparative approaches to ethnicity; one quarter on "ethnicity" in Israel/West Bank)

Symbols in Society/Theories of Symbolism (graduate-level course on theories of symbolism and semiotics, including Freud, Jung, Turner, Levi-Strauss, Douglas, Foucault, Bourdieu, and Schneider)

Ethics. the Other. and the Practice of Anthropology (also taught earlier as Issues of the 1980s; intended for anthropology juniors and seniors, and graduate students by special arrangement; an in-depth look at the ethical and epistemological issues surrounding discursive and non-discursive practices that characterize anthropology as a profession)

Evidence and Other Realities (advanced undergraduate/graduate seminar on the use and abuse of evidence; epistemological, political, and methodological issues surrounding the very idea of evidence; materials drawn from "the law of evidence," history of science, and feminist scholarship)

Strategies of Comparative Analysis (co-taught with Bruce Lawrence from Duke’s history of religions; an interdisciplinary, large, high level undergraduate course required of Comparative Area Studies Majors at Duke; the traps and benefits of comparative methodologies; the relationship of data to evidence, theory to methodology, and research design to research question; the propositions of positivism and the nature of the critique within "interpretive social science" and critical theory)

Valuing Tradition and the Politics of Value (developed in the spring as a Freshman Seminar) a look at conceptualizations of "tradition," struggles to define them, and the significance communities give to them (in light of S. Rushdie, The Last Temptation of Christ, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Joan Scott, Hobsbawm and Ranger, and M. Torgovnick's Gone Primitive)

Ethnicity and Nationalism: Ideologies and Processes (graduate-level seminar taught at UC- Santa Cruz; team research on countries other than the US examining intellectual and public theories as well as socioeconomic patterns)

Survey of Cultural Anthropology Theory (upper-level undergraduate course developed and taught twice at UC-Santa Cruz; history and sociology of knowledge employing professional anthropology as a case study)

Reading French Theorists (graduate-level, developed at the University of Iowa and now also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; focus on heterology, semiology, and social theory— including Durkheim, Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Bourdieu, de Certeau, Memmi, Todorov, de Beauvoir, Wittig, Godelier, Althusser, Derrida, Sperber, and Lyotard)

Inside/Outside "the Middle East" (undergraduate/graduate course developed out of my 29 original Duke course on the Middle East; Internet use required)

Honors Seminar in International Studies: The Professions in the International Arena (co- taught with colleagues in history, the medical school, the law school, the School of Journalism, and the performing arts at the University of Iowa)

Anthropology and Contemporary World Problems (introductory level course developed at and for the University of Iowa); taught four times with three major segments entitled "A Framework for Looking at the Social," "Forms of Violence," and "Social (Dis)Order and “Family Values”; fundamentally rethought and redesigned in the fall 2003 with violence as the overarching theme through which I taught introductions to the history of anthropology, kinship and marriage, gender, race, racism, economic and political anthropology, visual anthropology, structural inequality, contemporary urban anthropology, feminist medical anthropology, the anthropology of the state, and field methods.

Seminar on Sociocultural Anthropology (graduate level introductory course required of all graduate students in anthropology; developed at/for the University of Iowa)

Foreign Scholarship on the United States (graduate-undergraduate level; developed at the University of Iowa, drawing on the experience and research drawn from running the International Forum for U.S. Studies; inverts the usual scholarly gaze by treating the U.S. as the foreign object of study)

Contemporary Anthropology (targeting upper-level undergraduates, with special provisions for graduate students) developed at the University of Iowa with the goal of showing students the behind-the-scenes work that characterizes very current anthropology (especially social, cultural, visual, museum studies, linguistic, medical); emphasis on late 1990s journal articles, books in press, working papers, conference papers and session proposals; presentations by conference organizers, journal editors, dissertation-writing graduate students

Contemporary American Lives: Experimenting with Social Science Methods (targeting upper-level undergraduates in American Studies at the School of English and American Studies, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest; readings, observations, film analysis, media analysis, interviewing, Internet use)

Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism in the U.S. (first developed and taught in the Department of American Studies at the School of English and American Studies, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, spring 2001; then revised, lengthened, and taught at the University of Iowa in the spring of 2003)

Visions of America: Representations and Their Critiques (targeting doctoral students in the new Ph.D. program in American Studies at Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest)

Cultural Politics (targeting advanced undergraduates and graduate students; newly developed and taught in fall 2002 and offered again in Fall 2006)

Neighbors and Strangers: The U.S. and Cuba in the Twentieth Century (de facto co-taught this special fall 2003 interdisciplinary graduate seminar sponsored by our International Forum for U.S. Studies; course designed by our Cuban colleague, Dr. Soraya Castro Marino of the Center for the Study of the United States at the University of Havana; non- granting of U.S. visa to her required me and Jane Desmond to run the actual classes at the University of Iowa, while Dr. Castro Marino worked with students through email and Power Point presentations sent electronically beginning Week 3 of the seminar)

'America' in the World: Contextualizing the Lure and Rejection of America (first taught in 30

Spring 2005; targeting upper-level undergraduates and graduate students across several disciplines; developed in connection with a U.S. Department of Education/Title VI grant, requested by the International Forum for U.S. Studies; and partly developed in collaboration with Jane Desmond; later taught in Spring 2009 and 2011 to upper-level undergraduates at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Difference and Degradation--Is It All Just a Matter of Racism? (intense 3-week graduate seminar, meeting daily for 3.5 hours, 4 times a week, co-taught with Visiting Professor Balmurli Natrajan; explored legacies of extreme hierarchy and systemic discrimination, and the difficulties they pose for the seeker of social justice and the social or cultural analyst; pasts and presents couched in terms of "race," and the consequences of those legacies even for critics of those systems; scrutinized the impulse to view all such systems as racist, by exploring legacies of extreme hierarchy and systemic discrimination in India as well as the U.S. and South Africa. Course materials included multiple films, documents, and provocative books and articles)

Anthropology in a Changing World (version of introductory course taught at Illinois Spring 2008)

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Evidence (version taught at Illinois Fall 2008, targeting graduate students)

“`America’ in the World: Contextualizing the Lure and Rejection of the U.S.” (version taught at Illinois Spring 2009 and Spring 2011, targeting upper-level undergraduates)

Social Theory/Ethnography (required year-long course developed and co-taught at Illinois, with Prof. Ellen Moodie, in 2009-2010)

Illinois Anthropology (2009-2010)—a 2 credit-hour, year-long course on the profession of anthropology, the behind-the-scenes, the process of becoming professional anthropologists, the skills and genres of writing required (totally redesigned from its earlier “meet the faculty” mode, and officially co-taught with Prof. Ellen Moodie)

Cultural Politics: Inside and Outside the U.S. (Fall 2011; version taught at Illinois targeting mid- upper level undergraduates, and including multiple guests and one longer-term guest instructor, Helena Wulff)

Social/Cultural Anthropology (Spring 2013 and Spring 2014; advanced introduction to sociocultural anthropology; required of anthropology majors in the sociocultural track but also a targeted elective/near-requirement of Global Studies majors and several other internationally-oriented interdisciplinary majors)

Students Supervised

At Duke University: Completing the Ph.D.: Elizabeth Mertz and Nancy Press (early-mid 1980s), Evelyn Legare and Nadia Abu El-Haj (both mid-1990s) At M.A. level: Ruth Boscov, Cheri Sistek

In addition, I served on the following dissertation committees: Susan Hirsch, Les Field In addition, I served on the following graduate committees: Mary (Molly) Mullin, Reid Smith, Madeleine Adelman, Michael Scher

At the University of California at Santa Cruz: At the Ph.D. level (although not as advisor once I left UCSC): Galen Joseph At the Ph.D. level (as committee member, not advisor): Isar Godreau

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At the University of Iowa: Completing the Ph.D.: Balmurli Natrajan--Ph.D. awarded 1999 Jolene Stritecky--Ph.D. awarded 2001 Andria Timmer—Ph.D. awarded 2009 Lavanya Murali Proctor—Ph.D. awarded 2010 Brandy Case-Haub-- Ph.D. awarded Spring 2011 Kenda Stewart—Defense scheduled for December 2011

Completing M.A. but not Ph.D.: Michael Sullivan (1996-2004), Betty Rodriguez-Feo (Ph.D. candidate, and advisee/co-advisee beginning Fall 2005) Ronald Eric Dickerson--began as Ph.D. student (and advisee) Fall 2005

M.A. committees in Anthropology chaired at the University of Iowa: Daniel Anderson--M.A. awarded 5/13/94 Barbara Siebert--M.A. awarded December 1994 (I was her advisor Spring 1994) Gudrun Putz--M.A. awarded 5/12/00 Kelli Beer--I chaired 2002-03 Andria Timmer--M.A. awarded 5/16/03 Kenda Stewart--M.A. awarded 5/16/03 Tomi Castle--M.A. awarded 7/29/05 Michele Hanks--M.A. awarded 12/16/05 Adam Andrew--M.A. awarded 5/12/06 Lavanya Murali--M.A. awarded 5/12/06 Jenna Grant-- M.A. awarded 7/28/2006 Lauren Anaya-- M.A. awarded May 2007 Cristina Ortiz-- M.A. awarded May 2007 Jennifer Skrmetti-- M.A. awarded May 2007

Ph.D. students on whose committees I serve or have served (but not chaired):

••IN ANTHROPOLOGY Brigittine French--Ph.D. awarded 5/11/01 Emily Lee--Ph.D. awarded 5/17/02 Douglas Hertzler-- Ph.D. awarded 5/17/02 Christina Taylor (later Beard-Moose)--Ph.D. awarded 5/14/04 Jerry Wever—Ph.D. awarded 2011 Sarah Ono—Ph.D. awarded May 2010 Rachel Horner--admitted to Ph.D. candidacy, May 2006 John Scott--admitted to Ph.D. candidacy in Spring 1998 but did not complete his Ph.D. (I served on his committee from 1997 till he left the Ph.D. program Fall 2004) ` Jenna Grant— Ph.D. awarded May 2013 Cristina Ortiz— Ph.D. awarded May 2013

••OUTSIDE ANTHROPOLOGY Catherine Lewis--Ph.D. American Studies, awarded 5/16/97 Greg Beatty--Ph.D. English, awarded 7/27/01 (I was out of the country the year he completed and defended his dissertation, so I served until 2000) Aaron Park--Ph.D. Film Studies, awarded 5/17/02 Yu Shi--Ph.D. Journalism and Mass Communication, awarded 5/13/05 Kristin Solli--Ph.D. American Studies, awarded Fall 2006 Deborah Lombard--Ph.D. student, American Studies, late 1990s; 32

Comprehensive Exam completed 2003-04 but later became inactive Jennifer Getting--admitted to Ph.D. candidacy, Women's Studies, 2003 but chose not to complete the Ph.D.. Jerri Drummond—awarded Ed.D. College of Education, 2006 Ulrich Adelt—Ph.D. awarded 2007 (I served on his pre-dissertation committee) Chitra Akoor--Ph.D. student, Communications Studies since 2004 (I joined the committee in Fall 2005 but stopped serving upon leaving Iowa) Amit Baishya--Ph.D. English, awarded May 2010 Matthew Conn--Ph.D. History, Defended, April 2014

M.A. students on whose committees I have served (but not chaired):

••IN ANTHROPOLOGY Sheila Schulte--M.A. awarded May 1995 Tami Olson--M.A. awarded December 1995 Patricia Moreno--M.A. student (1993-1997) Kate Dernbach--M.A. awarded May 1998 (I served on her committee Spring 1997) Natasha Wilson--M.A. awarded 12/16/05

••OUTSIDE ANTHROPOLOGY Zana Friganovic--M.A., International Studies (Interdisciplinary Studies), awarded 5/12/06

At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

Ph.D. advisees: Lauren Anaya (fieldwork in Italy; dissertation advisor) – Dissertation successfully defended April 9, 2014 Michele Hanks (fieldwork in England; dissertation advisor)—Ph.D. awarded December 2011 Tomi (Castle) Tusia (fieldwork in Brazil; dissertation advisor into Fall 2011) Melinda Bernardo (pre-Comps; co-advisor Fall 2008-Spring 2011) Liza Youngling (co-advisor; beginning Fall 2010; concentration on U.S.) Ofira Fuchs (co-advisor; beginning Fall 2011) Amaziah Zuri (Wendy Finley) (co-advisor) (now a Ph.D. candidate) legal/ political anthropology fieldwork to be in New Orleans) John Tao (advisor)--first-year student (came in with J.D.)

M.A. thesis supervised (in Latin American Studies): Nilda Barraza (M.A. awarded summer 2010)

Ph.D. students on whose committees I serve or have served (at pre- and/or post-Comps level): Elizabeth Spreng – Ph.D. completed (linguistic anthropology), Summer 2011 Tim Landry (fieldwork in Benin) Ph.D. awarded (sociocultural anthropology), Summer 2013 Sophia Balakian (now a Ph.D. candidate; political anthropological fieldwork in Kenya on refugees and supranational organizations) Natalye Tate--Ph.D. student (pre-Comps, applied/practicing anthropology) Emily Metzner--Ph.D. candidate (social/political/medical anthro) Jamie Arjona --Ph.D. student (pre-Comps, archaeology) Jennifer Baldwin – MD/PhD Student (in the middle of Comps; fieldwork on trauma and/in the U.S. military)

Hebrew language examiner (at lower-level proficiency)—for biological anthropology graduate student Talia Melber 33

Undergraduate Capstone/Theses Supervised: Rebecca Chan---Senior Honor Thesis, with Highest Distinction; completed Spring 2009 Robert Wilkinson-----Senior Capstone Completed Spring 2011 Jacqueline Panizzo----Senior Capstone Completed Spring 2011 Danielle Cunningham---Senior honors thesis/project on microfinancing in Kenya; completed with Highest Distinction, Spring 2012) Jessica Vaickus--Senior Capstone completed Fall 2012 Scarlett Andes--Senior Thesis to be completed in Spring 2015

Honors thesis (2nd reader): Rachel Zibrat Honors Thesis Completed Spring 2011

Latin American Studies Major Senior Paper Advisee: Xochitl Sandoval (2013-2014

James Scholar/Honors Undergraduate Project Supervision Spring 2013: Katherine Yonover, Jacqueline Yonover, Courtney Wesa, and Marc Chua Spring 2014: Scarlett Andes

Personal Background

Languages: fluent Spanish and English; good-to-fluent Hebrew; good reading (and usable conversational) knowledge of French; reading knowledge of Portuguese and Italian; early intermediate Hungarian; also--formerly-- decent conversational Russian and Saramakatongo; and some conversational Arabic

High School: Colegio del Sagrado Corazon, Montevideo, Uruguay, affiliated with the Catholic University of America; graduated #1 in class in December 1968

Undergraduate- University-Participation: Yale Political Union (Chairman of the Liberal Party, 1970); Yale Election Strategy - College Coordinator (1970); University Committee on Coeducation (1971-72)