Cecilia Van Hollen

Cecilia Van Hollen

CECILIA VAN HOLLEN Director of South Asia Center & Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public Affairs 209 Maxwell Hall Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13244-1090 Phone: (315) 443-5102 FAX: (315) 443-4860 Email: [email protected] Areas of Specialization Cultural anthropology; medical anthropology; reproduction; gender; development; nationalism; HIV/AIDS; South Asia Education Ph.D. Medical Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Francisco, May 23, 1998 M.A. Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1992 B.A. Anthropology and Religious Studies, Brown University, 1987 magna cum laude University of Wisconsin-Madison Year in India Program in Madurai, India, 1986–87 Professional Experience Academics: Director, National Resource Center for South Asian Studies, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University August 2010 – present Affiliated Faculty Member, Department of Women’s & Gender Studies, Syracuse University September 2011 – present Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University August 2007 – present Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University August 2003 – August 2007 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame August 2000 – August 2003 Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, UC-Berkeley Summer 1999 “Gender and Power in South Asia” Lecturer, Women’s Studies Department, UC-Berkeley Spring 1999 “Gender & Reproductive Science and Technology: A Global Perspective” Graduate Student Instructor UC-Berkeley Fall 1997 “Introduction to Social/Cultural Anthropology” Fall 1996 “Introduction to Social/Cultural Anthropology” Reader UC-Berkeley Spring 1996 “Anthropology of Aging and the Life Course” Teaching Assistant/Writing Fellow University of Pennsylvania Fall 1990 “India through Western Eyes” International Development/ Non-Profits: Program Assistant, The Asia Foundation, San Francisco, 1988-1989. Assistant Bay Area Coordinator, Pueblo-to-People, San Francisco 1987–1988. Summer Internships 1992 International Development Exchange (IDEX), San Francisco. 1987 Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First), San Francisco. 1985 The Asia Society, Washington, D.C. Publications: Books: Birth in the Age of AIDS: Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India (Under Review with Stanford University Press) Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth & Modernity in South India. 2003. Berkeley: University of California Press. (295 pgs). Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India. 2003. Delhi: Zubaan (an associate of Kali for Women). (295 pgs) Articles and Chapters: “Breast or Bottle? HIV-Positive Women’s Responses to Global Health Policy on Infant Feeding in India” Forthcoming, 2011 (December) In: Medical Anthropology Quarterly 25(4). (Refereed) “Birth in the Age of AIDS: local responses to global policies and technologies in South India” 2011 In: Carolyn Sargent and Carole Browner, eds., Reproduction, Globalization, and the State: 2 New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives. Durham: Duke University Press: 83–95. (Refereed) “HIV/AIDS: Global Policies, Local Realities” 2011 In: Clark-Deces, ed. Companion to the Anthropology of India. Blackwell and Wiley Publishers: 464–481. (Refereed) “HIV/AIDS and the Gendering of Stigma in Tamil Nadu, South India” 2010 In: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 34(4):633–657. (Refereed) “Navigating HIV, Pregnancy, and Childbearing in South India: Pragmatics and constraints in women’s decision-making” 2007 In Medical Anthropology 26(7): 7–52. (Refereed) “Nationalism, Transnationalism, and the Politics of ‘Traditional’ Indian Medicine for HIV/AIDS” 2005 (June) In: Joseph Alter, ed. Asian Medicine and Globalization. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press: 88–106. (Refereed) “Jonathan P. Parry” and “Bernard Cohn,” 2004. In: Amit, Vered, ed., Biographical Dictionary of Anthropology. London: Routledge: 95–96; 401. “Invoking Vali: Painful Technologies of Modern Birth in South India.” In Medical Anthropology Quarterly vol. 17, no.1, March 2003: 49–77. (Refereed) “‘Baby Friendly’ Hospitals and Bad Mothers: Maneuvering Development in the Postpartum Period in Tamil Nadu, South India,” 2002. In: Rozario and Samuel, eds., The Daughters of Hariti: Birth and Female Healers in South and Southeast Asia. New York: Routledge: 163–181. “Moving Targets: Routine IUD Insertions in Maternity Wards in Tamil Nadu, India” In: Reproductive Health Matters. May 1998, volume 6, number 11:98-106. (Refereed) “Perspectives on the Anthropology of Birth: A Review” In: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 1994, 18: 501–512 (12 pages) Book Reviews: Book review of Where There is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India by Sarah Pinto, Berghahn Books. in Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Volume 24, Number 1, March 2010:129 – 131. Book review of Yoga in Modern India: The Body Between Science and Philosophy by Joseph Alter, Princeton University Press. In Journal of Asian Studies. Volume 66, Number 2, May 2007: 562–564. 3 Book Review of Birthing in the Pacific: Beyond Tradition and Modernity? Edited by Vicki Lukere and Margaret Jolly, University of Hawaii Press. In Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Vol. 12, No.1, March 2006: 250–251. Book Review of Living with the AIDS Virus: The Epidemic and the Response in India edited by Samiran Panda, Anindya Chatterjee, and Abu S. Abdul-Quader. In Science, Technology & Society: An International Journal devoted to the Developing World, New Delhi: Sage India. Vol 10, No1. Spring 2005: 143–150. Grants, Fellowships and Honors Appleby-Mosher Fund Award, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Policy, Syracuse University for research on “Biographical Sketch of Miron Winslow: Language, Education, Missionaries, and Identity Politics in Colonial Ceylon and India.” Award granted in February 2010 for summer 2010 ($1,200) Appleby-Mosher Fund Award, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Policy, Syracuse University for research on “Biographical Sketch of Miron Winslow: Language, Education, Missionaries, and Identity Politics in Colonial Ceylon and India.” Award granted in February 2009 for spring 2010 ($1,200) American Institute for Indian Studies (AIIS) Senior Short Term Fellowship for research project on “HIV/AIDS, Women, and Childbearing in Tamilnadu, India” (one month, summer 2008) ($3,950) Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award for outstanding teaching, research and service by an untenured Maxwell School faculty member, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. (2007) ($7,300) Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize (2005) from the Association for Asian Studies to Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India for Best Book in South Asian Studies published in 2003 ($1,000) Summer Project Assistantship Program, Office of the Associate Dean of Sponsored Research (ADSR) Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Summer 2005 ($1,250) Appleby-Mosher Fund Award, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Policy, Syracuse University for research on “HIV/AIDS, Medicine, and Gender: How pregnant women negotiate options to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Tamil Nadu, India.” Award granted in December 2004 for summer 2005 ($1,000) 4 Fulbright Scholar Program Research Award for “AIDS, Medicine, and Gender: How pregnant women negotiate options to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Tamil Nadu, India” for 6 months research (January – July 2004) ($21,615) Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Pilot Fund for Faculty-Student Research in the Social Sciences for research on “AIDS, Medicine, and National Identity Politics in India” 2002 ($10,600) Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Course Development Grant, University of Notre Dame, summer 2001 ($3,500) Research Fellow, International and Area Studies, UC-Berkeley 1998-99 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant in Women’s Studies 1997–98 ($1,500) Fulbright Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship 1995–1996 ($29,587) American Institute for Indian Studies Dissertation Fellowship 1995 (declined) Regent’s Graduate Study Fellowship UC-Berkeley 1994, 1996-1997 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship 1989-1994 (Tamil and Hindi) Robert H. Lowie Graduate Scholarship UC-Berkeley 1993, 1997 Pre-dissertation Research Grant, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 1993 Pre-dissertation Research Grant, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1991 Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University 1987 Minnie Helen Hicks Award for Excellence in Anthropology, Brown University 1987 Professional Presentations Papers Presented Invited Lectures “Reflections from Capitol Hill on the Society for Medical Anthropology Taskforce on Healthcare Reform.” Panelist for Invited Session on Society for Medical Anthropology National Health Task Force Public Event at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Thursday, November 18, 2010. 15 minutes. (Invited Panel) 5 “Birth in the Age of AIDS: Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in South India” presented at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. April 23, 2010 (60 minutes) (Invited lecture) “From Global Health Initiatives to ‘Resistance Sakti’: Women’s responses to the shifting terrain of policy for HIV/AIDS and infant feeding in India” presented at the South Asia Studies Council, Yale University. October 14, 2009. 45 minutes. (Invited lecture; honorarium and expenses paid) “From Acceptability

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