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) 3 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