Silvia Tomášková Department of Women’s and Gender Studies Department of Anthropology 204 Smith Bldg., CB #3135 301 Alumni Hall, CB# 3115 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3135 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3115 tel: (919) 962-3908 e-mail: [email protected] CITIZENSHIP Canada, USA EDUCATION Ph.D. 1995 University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology. M.A. 1990 University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology. M.A. 1988 Yale University, New Haven, Slavic Languages and Literatures. B.A. 1986 McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Anthropology. 1978-81 Prague School of Economics, Czechoslovakia. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2006- Associate Professor, joint appt. in the Department of Women's Studies and the Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2001-06 Assistant Professor, joint appt. in the Curriculum in Women's Studies and the Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2000-01 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 1997-2001 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas - Austin 1996-97 Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University 1995-96 Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages, University of California, Berkeley 1995 Visiting Assistant Professor, Social Science Department, Deep Springs College, Deep Springs, CA 1990-1992 Graduate Student Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley HONORS, AWARDS AND GRANTS External and national grants 2012 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Post-fellowship research award. 2010-11 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New Directions Fellowship (taken 2010/11) 2007-08 School for Advanced Research Residential Fellowship, Santa Fe, New Mexico (taken 08/2007-06/2008) 2007-08 National Humanities Center Residential Fellowship (declined) 2005-06 American Council of Learned Societies, Ryskamp Fellowship (taken 01-12/2006) 2000-02 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research International Collaborative Research Grant 2000-02 Leakey Foundation Research Grant in Human Origins University competitive grants 2009-10 UNC-CH Carolina Seminar: Women in Archaeology Tomášková, S. cv, 2 2008-09 UNC-CH WMST Faculty Excellence Fund Grant 2008-09 UNC-CH Carolina Seminar: Women in Science Seminar 2006-07 UNC-CH Carolina Seminar: Women in Science Seminar 2005 UNC-CH Spray-Randleigh Summer Fellowship 2004 UNC-CH Spray-Randleigh Summer Fellowship 2004-05 UNC-CH Carolina Seminar: Women in Science Seminar 2003 UNC-CH University Research Council Grant 2003 UNC-CH Institute of Arts and Humanities Fellowship (taken Fall 2004) 2003 UNC-CH Junior Faculty Development Grant 2002-03 UNC-CH Carolina Seminar: Women in Science Seminar 2002 UNC-CH Brandes Seminar Faculty Development Grant 2001-02 UNC-CH Carolina Seminar: Women in Science Seminar PUBLICATIONS (all single author unless noted) Dissertation 1995 Boundaries and Differences: Paleolithic Central Europe under a Microscope. Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley. Supervisors: Prof. Margaret W. Conkey and Prof. Ruth Tringham (424 p.). Books In press Wayward Shamans: The Prehistory of an Idea. The University of California Press, publication date May 2013. (350 p.) 2000 The Nature of Difference: History and Lithic Use-Wear at Two Upper Paleolithic Sites in Central Europe. B.A.R. International Series, Archaeopress: Oxford. (257 p.) Refereed Articles In press Seasons of difference: stone tool use and Palaeolithic seasonality in Central Europe, in Canadian Journal of Archaeology (anticipated 36/1 issue) 2011 Landscape for a good feminist: An archaeological review. Archaeological Dialogues 19/4: 109-136. 2008 Nizný Hrabovec: A site with evolved Levallois technology in Eastern Slovakia. (with L. Kaminská, P. Škrdla, J. K. Kozlowski). Journal of Eurasian Prehistory 6/1: 57-64. 2007a Post-processual archaeologies: through a stained glass (not darkly). Cambridge Archaeological Journal 17/2: 15-19. 2007b Mapping a future: archaeology, feminism, and scientific practice. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 14: 264-84. 2005a What is a burin? Typology, technology and interregional comparison. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 12/2: 79-115. 2005b Mapping Gravettian Eastern Europe: Cejkov and eastern Slovak settlement in context. (senior author, with L. Kaminská, M. Hajnalová and D. Hudler. Journal of Eurasian Prehistory 2/2:13-31. 2003 Nationalism, local histories and the making of data in archaeology. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 9/3: 485-507. 1995 A site in history: archaeology at Dolní Vstonice/Unterwisternitz. Antiquity 69/263: 301-316. Tomášková, S. cv, 3 Book Chapters (all refereed) In press Feminist archaeology. In N. A. Silberman (ed.) Oxford Companion to Archaeology, 2nd. ed. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. (5 p) 2012 From a materialist ethic to the spirit of prehistory. In C. Bender and A. Taves (eds.) What Matters: Ethnographies of Value in a (Not So) Secular Age, p.34-60. Columbia University Press. 2011 Archaeology in a middle country. In L. Lozný (ed.) Comparative Archaeologies: A Sociological View of the Science of the Past, pp. 221-42. New York: Springer. 2006 Yes Virginia, there is gender. Archaeology’s many histories. In Bisson, M. and Williamson, R. (eds.) The Archaeology of Bruce Trigger: Theoretical Empiricism. Montreal: McGill- Queens University Press. (32 p) 2004 Time space systematics of Gravettian finds from Cejkov 1. (with L. Kaminská). In J. Svoboda and L. Sedlácková (eds.) The Gravettian along the Danube. The Dolní Vstonice Studies, vol. 11. (30 p) 2002 The exile of anthropology (with P. Redfield). In R. Saunders (ed.) The Concept of the Foreign. Lexington Books: Rowman and Littlefield. (28 p) 1997 Places of art: Art and archaeology in context. In M. Conkey, O. Soffer, and D. Stratmann (eds.) Beyond Art. San Francisco: Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. (22 p) 1994 Use-wear analysis and its spatial interpretation. In J. Svoboda (ed.) Pavlov 1952-53. Monograph Series in Archaeology, University of Liege, Belgium. (12 p) 1991 Report on the results of use wear analysis of the lithic material from Dolní Vstonice. In J. Svoboda (ed.) Dolní Vĕstonice II. Monograph Series in Archaeology, University of Liege, Belgium. (4 p) Invited Comments (refereed unless noted) 2011 Comment on Technologies of Art: A Critical Reassessment of Pavlovian Art and Society Using Chaîne Opératoire Method and Theory (R. Farbstein). Current Anthropology 52/4: 423-4. 2010a Picture me dead: reimagining moral choices. Archaeological Dialogues 17/1: 92-96. 2010b Comment on Inherited Social Difference at the Edges of Flakes (A. Close). Cambridge Archaeological Journal 20/3: 308-10. 2008 History of (COSWA) the Committee on the Status of Women in Archaeology: beginnings, ruptures, and continuities. The SAA Archaeological Record 8/4: 8-12 (invited contribution) 2006a On being heard. Theory as an archaeological practice. Archaeological Dialogues 13/2: 47-51. 2006b Next stop: gender. Women at Roman military forts in Germany. Archaeological Dialogues 13/1: 20-27. 2006c Comment on The Missing Mousterian (H. Dibble). Current Anthropology 47/5: 792-93. 1996 Comment on Self-Representation in Pavlovian, Kostenkian and Gravettian Female Figurines during the European Upper Paleolithic (L. McDermott). Current Anthropology 37/2: 263-64. Book Reviews and Non-refereed Work 2005 Distorting the past: gender and the division of labor in the European Upper Paleolithic, a book review essay. European Journal of Archaeology 8/3: 312-15. Tomášková, S. cv, 4 2001a Paleolithic survey of Eastern Slovak location Niný Hrabovec, (with D. Hudler, L. Kaminská), Slovak Academy of Sciences Annual Reports 2001. 2001b Zisovacie výskumy v povodí Ondavy. (Survey of the Ondava river valley) (with D. Hudler, L. Kaminská), Slovak Academy of Sciences Annual Reports 2000. 2000 Reading the body: representations and remains in the archaeological record, a book review. American Antiquity 65/4: 780-1. 1998 Hunters between East and West: The Paleolithic of Moravia, a book review. American Antiquity 63/1: 179-80. 1995 Faces of feminism in America. Aspekt: Journal of the Czechoslovak Association of Women 96/2. (in Slovak) 1994a Pregnant men and flying hedgehogs: motherhood as a criterion of human value. Aspekt: Journal of the Czechoslovak Association of Women 94/1. (in Slovak) 1994b Nancy Chodorow, psychoanalysis and motherhood. Aspekt: Journal of the Czechoslovak Association of Women 94/1. (in Slovak) 1994c Nisa: a life of a !Kung woman, a book review. Aspekt: Journal of the Czechoslovak Association of Women 94/1. (in Slovak) INVITED TALKS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (refereed presentations include abstracts in conference proceedings) 2012 “Embodied difference: limits of the Neandertal body.” European Archaeology Association annual meting, Helsinki, Finland August 2012 2011a “History of shamans and the prehistory of art.” South Africa Archaeological Society Western Cape, invited talk. 2011b “Traveling spirits: Shamans and the problem of categories”. Rock Art Research Institute, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, invited talk. 2011c “Origin stories: Shamans and the problem of categories”. Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, invited talk. 2011d “Representing sexless animals and gendered humans: prehistoric representations as negotiations.” European Archaeology