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CAROLYN REBECCA NORDSTROM
Department of Anthropology
623 Flanner Hall 574-631-5072
University of Notre Dame [email protected]
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
EDUCATION
1986 Ph.D in Medical Anthropology: University of California, Berkeley
and University of California, San Francisco.
1980 M.A. in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.
1978 B.A. summa cum laude in Anthropology and Theatre/Dance,
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
APPOINTMENTS
2005 Professor: Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame
1997 Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame
Associate Professor; and
Fellow - Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies (UND).
Tenured: Spring 1999.
1996-1997 Institute of International Studies. University of California, Berkeley.
Research Associate / Visiting Fellow
1996 Fall Institute for Shipboard Education [University of Pittsburgh] - World Voyage.
Invited: Core (Faculty) Director & Lecturer. Anthropology / Int’l Studies.
1995 Fall International Relations. Australian National University (RsPAS).
Invited: Visiting Fellow & Lecturer.
1994, 1995 Women's Studies. University of California, Berkeley. Visiting Lecturer.
1993 Fall Peace Research Centre: Australian National University (RsPas).
Invited: Visiting Fellow.
1986-94 Peace and Conflict Studies Program. University of California, Berkeley.
Postdoctoral Fellow / Visiting Lecturer.
1987 Institute for Shipboard Education [University of Pittsburgh] - World Voyage.
Visiting Lecturer. International Studies / Peace and Conflict Studies.
1984; 80-81 University of California, Berkeley: Anthropology Department:
(Head) Teaching Assistant; Cultural Anthropology; Medical Anthropology.
1979 Resident Director; Institute for Shipboard Education.
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FELLOWSHIPS / GRANTS
Examples of recent Honorariums 2012 – 2013: Three of 5,000.00 and above.
2004-2005 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
12 month Research and Book Production grant:
The Power and Cultures of the Extra-Legal in the 21st Century
2004 University of Uppsala, Sweden. Lecture Series and Writing grant.
Holocaust and Genocide Studies / Anthropology. In Residence: September, 2004.
2003 Travel, Research and Writing Grant
College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame
Beyond Citizen Kane – production of film script.
2001-2002 The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
20 month Research and Writing Grant / Program on Global Security and
Sustainability
Shadow Networks and Cultures: Inquiries into Transnational Illicit and Non-State
Powers.
1999 Travel & Research Grants - Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, UND.
1) Fieldwork in Southern Africa, summer 1999.
2) Hague Appeal for Peace Conference, May 1999.
1998 Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts / University of Notre Dame
Children and war in Africa.
1997-1998 Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and Arts, Regional Conference grant.
1996-1997 United States Institute of Peace
Contemporary Political Violence: A Study of War and Peacebuilding
2 year Research & Writing Grant: USIP-138-95S.
1995-1996 Life and Peace Institute (Sweden). Invited: Writing Grant.
1995 Australian National University: Department of International Relations.
Visiting Fellow/ship. Invited.
1993 Australian National University: Peace Research Centre.
Visiting Fellow/ship. Invited.
1990-1991 Mozambique - US Research Grant
Invited by Ambassador Wells and Minister of Health (Moz.) Dr. Simão.
1989 John T. and Catherine C. MacArthur Foundation. Research Grant.
Through Institute for International Studies, UC Berkeley, MIGISS grant.
1987 Social Science Research Council. Travel & Conference Grant.
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1987 Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation:
International Security: Summer Seminar Fellowship.
1982-83 National Science Foundation. Doctoral Dissertation Research in Anthropology
Grant No. BNS-8209434.
1980,82,84, 85, 86 Robert H. Lowie Graduate Scholarships/Travel Grants
1979-80 Genevieve McEnerney Fellowship. University of California, Berkeley.
ADDITIONAL HONORS
2013 Distinguished Lecture – American Ethnological Society
Wars of the Future: Invisible Modes of Power”
Chicago: April 12, 2013.
2012 Joyce Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
2012 Closing Address, 15th International Anti-Corruption Conference, 11/10/2012
November 7-10, 2012, Brasilia, Brazil.
2011 Reinhold Niebuhr Award. University of Notre Dame.
2011 Opening Address & Closing Keynote: Conference On Transnational Organized
Crime. Heinrich Boll Foundation, Berlin, June 6 – 8, 2100.
2010 International State Crime Initiative.
King’s College London, University of Hull, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.
2008 Book Award for Global Outlaws, Society for Economic Anthropology.
2008 NBC-produced / ND sponsored video short for national TV, fall 2008.
available online: http://www.nd.edu/video/global-economy/
2007 Selected University of Notre Dame’s Inspirational Faculty.
speech available: supporting.nd.edu/spirit
Video production of research and scholarship with award
video available: http://supporting.nd.edu/spirit
2007 Joyce Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
2005-6 Kaneb Faculty Fellow, University of Notre Dame
2003 Kaneb Teaching Award, University of Notre Dame
1999 Fellow, Kellogg Institute of International Studies, University of Notre Dame.
1994 United Nations Elections Observer;
and World Council of Churches Provincial Election Leader
1994 Mozambican Elections.
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1994 Provincial Elections Co-ordinator for the Association of Western European
Parlimentarians: Niassa Province, 1994 Mozambican Elections.
RECENT FILMS/VIDEOS ON MY WORK – EXAMPLES:
2013 Cyber-Security (and the EU) Stockholm, Sweden
http://www.europeanglobalstrategy.eu/nyheter/opinions/nordstrom-new-realities-
in-cyber-security-mean-europe-must-act
2013 Transitioning From War to Peace. Swedish Institute of International Affairs
http://www.ui.se/play/#da0lJlPpbk7zVWxfsKAHgQ
2011 Interviewed by Colgate University President Jeffrey Herbst
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8qEqMAygXc
2011 [Nordstrom giving] Schaehrer Memorial Lecture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjB9B5DxeRM
2009 Piracy and Illegal Global Economies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zreAJDwncJk
2008 Fighting for a Healthy Global Economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvLCrp8ztig
2008 Civilians in Warzones, The Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden
http://www.nai.uu.se/events/multimedia/nordstrom_080926-1/
BOOKS
2014 Cyber Shadows: Beyond Big Data, Botnets, and Privacy
Carolyn Nordstrom & Lisa Carlson, Corby Press & EBooks
Expected Publication: February/March 2014
2007 Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World
University of California Press
Public Anthropology Series: editor: Professor Rob Borofsky
Book Award: Society for Economic Anthropology, 2008
2004 Shadows of War:
Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the 21st Century
Berkeley: University of California Press
Public Anthropology Series: editor: Professor Rob Borofsky
*2005 Leben mit dem Krieg
Translated into German: Campus Verlag Publishers, Germany.
1997 A Different Kind of War Story.
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Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Invited as launch book for UPP’s series on Political Violence.
Reprinted: Spring 2000
1995 Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival.
Carolyn Nordstrom and Antonius Robben, eds.
Berkeley: University of California Press. Available electronically.
1992 The Paths to Domination, Resistance and Terror.
Carolyn Nordstrom and JoAnn Martin, eds.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
BOOK MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS
In Progress: When War Comes Home.
Epistemologies for the 21st Century.
RESEARCH MONOGRAPH
1997 Girls and Warzones - Troubling Questions.
Uppsala, Sweden: Life and Peace Institute.
*2005 Filles et zones de guerre: Questions troublantes
Updated, Reprinted; Translated into French Sweden: Life and Peace Institute.
FILM SCRIPT
2003 Beyond Citizen Kane. With Katia Lund (co-director of City of God).
Copyright: Library of Congress TXu1-130-504, 2003.
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
2012 Happiness (is not a warm gun). AA Vital Forum Topics: On Happiness,
Barbara Rose Johnson, ed. American Anthropologist 114 (1), March 2012.
2011 Extra-Legality: In The Middle. Middle East Report, Winter 2011, MER 261:10-13.
2011 Das Schmuggel-Virus. Böll Thema, Ausgabe 3,2011 nr. 3: 7-8.
2010 Women, Economy, War. International Review of the Red Cross. Vol 92 Number
877, March 2010.
2010 On “Global Outlaws:” A Response to Anton Blok. Dialectical Anthropology.
18 February 2010: http://www.springerlink.com/content/1k217t82lw8njg37/
?p=f46f4d70a3564b67b3b8a9bb228c4c78&pi=1. Pps 1 – 7.
2010 Web-article: Simultaneity, Multi-plexity, Extra-legal: Emerging ideas in times of
global crisis. Austrian Academy of Science / Institute for Social Anthropology.
2008 Prelude: An Accountability, Written in the Year 2108. Social Analysis. Vol. 52 (2)
Summer 2008: 1 – 11.
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2008 Global Fractures. Social Analysis. Vol. 52 (2) Summer 2008: 71 – 86.
2008-09 A New Generation. Notre Dame Magazine, Winter 2008-09:22-24.
Edition features my classes/student’s ethnographies defining their generation.
2007 What the Highwayman Knew. The Chronicle of Higher Education. August
10, 2007: B10-B11. Reprinted: The Australian, August 2007.
2005 (Gendered) War. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. Vol. 28 (5): 399 – 412.
2005 Rough Trade. 1st of the Month. Summer 2005 Vol. VII, Issue I: 17 – 18.
2004 Invisible Empires. Social Analysis. Vol. 48 (1), Spring 2004: 91 – 96.
2004 Living on the Frontlines. 1st of the Month. Fall 2004 Vol VI, Is III: 11 – 14.
2004 Prestidigitation: Wars, Profits, and the Creation of Risk. Bulletin of the Royal
Institute for Inter-Faith Studies 6 (1), Spring/Summer 2004: 97 – 112.
2002 Four Ways to Tell a Story on Violence. With Adriana Quiñones Giraldo
Reviews in Anthropology 31(1)1-19.
2001 Carita’s War. Development 44(3): 30-35. September 2001.
2000 Finding the Frontlines. Antropologiska Studier Nr. 66-67, 2000: 15-33.
2000 Shadows and Sovereigns. Theory, Culture & Society Vol 17(4):35-54, 2000.
1999 Visible Wars and Invisible Girls: Shadow Industries and the Politics of Not-
Knowing. International Feminist Journal of Politics. Vol. 1 No. 1:14 – 33, 1999.
*2000 Reprinted: Women's Global Network, Vol. 70 (#2): 7-15.
1998 A War Dossier. Public Culture. Vol. 10, No. 2, Winter 1998.
New format: article starts on front cover and runs for 13 pages, pre-masthead.
1998 Terror-Warfare and the Medicine of Peace. Medical Anthropology Quarterly
11(2):1-19.
1998 Deadly Myths of Aggression. Journal of Aggressive Behavior 24(2)147-159.
1998 Imagining the Next 100 Years of War. Uppsala, Sweden: Life and Peace
Institute, May 1998.
*2005 Les 100 prochaines années de guerre.
Updated & Reprinted; Translated into French. Sweden: Life and Peace Institute.
1997 Children & Warzones. New Routes: A Journal of Peace Research and
Action. Spring 1997.
1996 Girls Behind the (Front) Lines. Peace Review 8(3): 403 – 410, September 1996.
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1996 Rape: Politics and Theory in War and Peace. Australian Feminist
Studies 11(23):147-162. May 1996.
1995 Overcoming Conceptual Habitus in Conflict Management: UN
Peacekeeping and Warzone Ethnography. (Co-authored with A. B.
Fetherston.). Peace and Change 20(1): 94 – 119, January 1995.
1995 Women and War. Cultural Survival Quarterly, Vol. 18(4) March, 1995.
1995 Guest Editor: Cultural Survival Quarterly, On Women and War, March 1995.
1993 Treating the Wounds of War. Cultural Survival, Summer 1993:28-30.
1993 Sexual Harassment in the Military. Pacific Research 6(4):30-31.
1992 War: Intricacies and Complications. Life and Peace Review 6(4):6-8.
1991 Women and War: Observations from the Field.
Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military, IX(1):1-15.
1989 A Question of Medicine Answering. (Co-authored with M. Nichter.)
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 13:367-390.
1989 Ayurveda: A Multilectic Interpretation. Social Science & Medicine 28(9):963-70.
1988 Exploring Pluralism: The Many Faces of Ayurveda.
Social Science and Medicine 27(5):479- 489.
1981 Joint Editor: Kroeber Anthropological Society. Volumes 57-58 and 59-60.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
2009 Fault Lines.
In: Global Health in a Time of Violence. Paul Farmer, Linda Whiteford, and
Barbara Rylko-Bauer (eds) Santa Fe: School for American Research, 63-87.
2009 The Bard.
In: Anthropology Off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing. Alisse
Waterston & Maria Vesperi (eds). Malden: Blackwell. 2008 Casting Long Shadows: War, Peace and Extra-legal Economies. In: Contemporary Peacemaking: Conflict, peace processes and post-war
reconstruction. 2nd edition John Darby & Roger Mac Ginty (eds). Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan
2008 Interpretazioni in conflitto. Il ruolo dell'antropologia nell'analisi dei conflitti
contemporanei.
In Antonio De Lauri, Luigi Achilli (eds) Pratiche e politiche dell'etnografia ,
Roma: Meltemi: 127 – 142.
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2005 Extrastate Globalization of the Illicit
In: Why America’s Top Pundits are Wrong. Catherine Besteman and Hugh
Gusterson (eds.) Berkeley: University of California Press:138 – 153.
2004 The Tomorrow of Violence.
In Violence. Neil Whitehead (ed.). Santa Fe: School of American Research Press:
223 – 242.
2003 IT and the Illicit
In: Bombs and Bandwidth: The Emerging Relationship Between Information
Technology and Security. Robert Latham (ed.) with Social Science Research
Council. New York: The New Press. 235 – 250.
2003 Public Bad, Public Good(s) and Private Realities
In: Political Transition: Politics and Cultures. Paul Gready (ed.) London: Pluto
Press. 212 – 224.
2003 Herero Headdress
In: Face to Face. Charles Loving and the Snite Museum of Art (ed.)
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. 66 – 69.
2002 Out of the Shadows.
In: International Intervention and Local Governance in Africa.
T. Callaghy, R. Kassimir, R. Latham (eds.) Oxford: Cambridge University Press.
216 – 239.
2000 Toward a (Gendered) Theory of War.
In: Gender Perspectives on Peace and Conflict Studies. Kari Karamé and Torunn
Tryggestad (eds.) Oslo, Norway: International Peace Research Institute /
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. 17 – 40.
1999 Requiem for the Rational War. In Deadly Developments: Capitalism,
States, and War. S. Reyna, ed Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach. 153 – 175.
1999 Girls and War Zones. In Engendering Forced Migration. D. Indra, ed.
Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books. 63 – 82.
1997 The Eye of the Storm: From War to Peace.
In Cultural Variations in Conflict Resolution: Alternatives to Violence.
D. Fry and K. Bjorkqvist, eds. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 91-104.
1995 Creativity and Chaos: War on the Frontlines. In Fieldwork Under Fire:
Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival. C. Nordstrom and
A. Robben, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press. 129 – 153.
1995 The Anthropology and Ethnography of Violence and Socio-Political
Conflict. Co-authored with A. Robben.
In Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival. C.
Nordstrom and A. Robben, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1-23.
1995 Contested Identities/ Essentially Contested Powers. In Conflict
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Transformation. K. Rupesinghe, ed. London: MacMillan, 1995. 93 – 115.
Reprinted In War and Peacemaking: Essays on Conflict and Change.
Ed Garcia, ed. Quezon City: Claretian Press, 1994.
1992 The Backyard Front.
In The Paths to Domination, Resistance, and Terror. C. Nordstrom and
J. Martin, eds. University of California Press. 260 – 274.
1992 The Culture of Conflict: Field Reality and Theory. (Co-authored with J.
Martin.) In The Paths to Domination, Resistance and Terror. C. Nordstrom and J.
Martin, eds. University of California Press. 3 – 36.
1992 The Dirty War: Civilian Experience of Conflict in Mozambique and Sri
Lanka. In Internal Wars and Governance. K. Rupesinghe, ed. Macmillan
Press. 27 – 43.
1989 Its All in a Name - Female Healers in Sri Lanka.
In Women as Healers - Cross-Cultural Perspectives. C. McClain, ed.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 42 – 57.
ARTICLES REPRINTED/REVISED IN BOOKS
2009 Girls Behind the (Front) Lines, in Cultures of Fear. Uli Linke, and Danielle Taana
Smith (eds.). London: Pluto Press: 189-200.
2009 Prelude: An Accountability, Written in the Year 2108. (Pages 1 – 11),
In: An Anthropology of War: Views from War Zones. Alisse Waterston (ed.) New
York: Berghahn Books.
2009 Global Fractures, In: An Anthropology of War. Alisse Waterston (ed.) New York:
Berghahn Books: 71 – 86.
2006 The Jagged Edge of Peace. The Creation of Culture: War Orphans in
Angola, In: Troublemakers or Peacemakers? Youth and Post-Accord Peace
Building. Siobhán McEvoy-Levy (ed). Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame
Press: 99 – 116.
2007 (Gendered) War. In: Female Terrorism and Militancy. Cindy Ness (ed). New
York: Routledge: 69-83.
2004 Invisible Empires. In: State, Sovereignty, War. Bruce Kapferer (ed.) New
York: Berghahn Books: 46 – 55.
2003 Shadows and Sovereigns. In: State/Space. N. Brenner, B. Jessop, M. Jones,
G. Macloed (eds.) Oxford: Blackwell Publishers: 326-343.
2002 Terror-Warfare and the Medicine of Peace. In: Violence: A Reader. Editor:
Catherine Besteman. New York: New York University Press. 273 – 298.
1998 Girls Behind the (Front) Lines. In: The Women and War Reader. L. Lorentzen and
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J. Turpin (eds.) New York: New York University Press. 80 – 89.
1996 Treating the Wounds of War. In: Talking About People: Readings in
Contemporary Cultural Anthropology. Eds. Haviland & Gordon. London:
Mayfield Publishing.
A number of my articles and book chapters have been reproduced in university press textbook
compilations.
ENCYCLOPEDIA
2001 Requested: Entry on WAR.
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Editors: Smelser and Baltes. New 26 Volume Edition.
MONOGRAPH
1990-91 African Health Care Systems and the War in Mozambique.
Seven Part Series. Maputo: Ministry of Health. In English & Portuguese.
*Stress-syndrome, Social Chaos, Allopathy & Curandeiros.
October 1990.
*Legitimacy and Power. November 1990.
*The Problem with Numbers: Qualitative Studies of Health Care
Behavior. January 1991.
*Peace, Conflict and Traditional Medicine. February 1991.
*Popular (non-clinical) Illness Categories; and
*Mental & Physico-Social Illnesses: Zambezia/Niassa Comparison.
March-April 1991.
*Formalizing Traditional Medicine. June 1991.
INTERVIEWS: I have been interviewed, both for print and live presentation, in a wide range of
venues internationally; including: Associated Press, BBC, NBC, The New York
Times, ABC News, National Public Radio as well as other radio stations, Frontline
PBS, Christian Science Monitor, Australian Broadcasting, German Broadcasting,
etc. (and even publications like 17 Magazine on Child Soldiers.)
KEYNOTES & DISTINGUISHED PRESENTATIONS – INVITED & FUNDED
2013 Moderator: Introductory Talk: Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez,
From Aid to Accompaniment Conference, Nov 17 – 19, UND.
2013 Global Digital Outlaws
University of Wisconsin, Madison Nov 7, 2013
2013 Precarious Peacebuilding: Identifying Emerging Challenges.
Swedish Institute for International Affairs, Stockholm. Oct. 1 – 2, 2013
And:
In/Tangible Boundaries. Lund University, Sweden, Oct. 4, 2013.
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2013 Global Outlaws: Extra-Legal, Extra-Global
Mount St. Mary’s University. April 9, 2013.
2013 In/Tangible Boundaries: In &Out of Place, February 11, 2013.
Manchester University, UK.
2012 Society’s Shadow: Domestic Violence and the Human Condition
Hesburgh Lecture, Detroit MI, June 5, 2012
2012 Neither Here Nor There (Global Warlords and Bots Without Borders)
Whitman College, February 25, 2012
2012 Global Fractures, Cyber-Sovereignty, and Wild Card Powers
Framing The Global Lecture, University of Indiana, 01/26/12
Hutton Honors College Students lecture, UI 01/25/12
2011 “The Global Shadows of Modern Tomorrow’s War”
Schaehrer Memorial Lecture. Colgate University, 10-13-2011.
2011 “A Hidden Side of Power.” Keynote: Unspoken Human Rights Forum, Utica
NY, 10-14-2011.
2011 “Tomorrow’s War and Gender Violence in the 21st Century” Keynote:
Symposium on War and Gender, University of Kentucky. 9-9-2011
2011 “Transnational Organized Crime.” Security; Singularity University. 7-1-2011.
2011 “Multiplexes” Humboldt University, Anthropology, Berlin Germany. 6-9-2011.
2011 “Vi/olence,” UCSB, 5-19-2011.
2011 “(Not so) Goods: Economic’s Underbelly.” Global Commodities Conference,
Northeastern University, Boston. 3-31-2011.
2011 “Pirates.” World Affairs Council, Cleveland. 2-22-2011.
2010 “Theories that go Bump in the Night” Keynote. University of Denver, 10/29/10.
2010 “Catorzina’s World” Plenary: Peace and Justice Studies Organization,
Winnipeg, Canada, 10/02/10.
2010 Keynote. PJSA Youth Summit. Winnipeg, Canada, 10/01/10.
2010 “Theory with Touch and Anatomy of Nothing.” University of California
Berkeley, April 14, 2010;
and “A Different Kind of War Story,” UCB, April 15, 2010.
2009 Haptikós and Shadows. University of Chicago, 9 Nov. 2009.
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2009 “Simultaneity, Multi-plexity, Extra-legal: Emerging ideas in times of global
crisis.” Vienna: Austrian Academy of Science / Institute for Social
Anthropology. 14 Nov. 2009.
2009 Keynote: “New Directions” PACSA. Burg Schlaining, Austria. 9-11 Oct 2009
2009 “Shadow Theories” Keynote
and discussant: “Liminal Premises: Implanting and Emplotting Catastrophes.“
Megaseminar “The Modern Field” - Danish Research School for Anthropology
and Ethnography Sandbjerg, Denmark 28-30 August 2009
2009 Keyonte: Mozambique / Africa: (Invisible) Centers in Global Flows. University of
Witswatersrand, South Africa. May 29, 2009.
2009 Fractures and Flows: Africa, Elizabeth Colson, and the Current Global Meltdown
Elizabeth Colson Lecture, Refugee Studies Center, Oxford UK. May 20, 2009.
2009 Fundamental Faultlines. Colgate University. March 30, 2009.
2009 Africa and the Global Meltdown. University of Florida, Feb. 13, 2009.
2008 Emergent(cies)… Yale University: Franke Lecture in the Humanities, 12-3-2008.
2008 “Civil Populations in Warzones” and “Shadow Economics”
Nordic Africa Institute & Defense Research Institute Uppsala Sweden
September 26, 2008.
2008 “Out-Law, 21st Century”; and “Existential Reality of Fieldwork”
University of Tennessee, Knoxville. September 7 & 8.
2008 “Violence and the Illicit Global Economy: What is the Relationship?
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. New York, May 30 – 31.
2008 “A Port From 4 Perspectives: smuggler, security, industry, wild card…”
Security of Global Port Cities Conference, University of Indiana, Bloomington,
April 30 – May 2, 2008
2008 “Global Fractures and Flows Radiating from a Bullet Wound.” Topographies of
War and Registers of Violence. University of Michigan, April 4–5, 2008.
2008 “Keynote.” Conference: Social Configurations of Violence and War Beyond the
State. Halle, Germany: Max Plank Institute. February 21 – 22, 2008
2007 “Fractures & Flows African and the Global Extra-State”
CAS Annual Lecture, School of Oriental and African Studies, London,
November 22, 2007.
2007 "in-war out-law: local wars and the global illegal"
The Research Council of Norway, Oslo, November 14, 2007.
2007 “Global Fractures in an Act of Violence”
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University of Wales, Aberwystwyth, UK. November 9, 2007.
2007 “The Future of the State?” St Andrews University, UK, October 23, 2007.
2007 Thematic Session War and Violence From the Ground Up,
American Sociological Association, New York City, August 14 2007.
2007 “war and ethnography” Williams College, May 1, 2007.
2006 “The Interpretation of War.”
Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan Italy, December 15, 2006.
2006 “Fault Lines” School for American Research Santa Fe, October 4 – 7, 2006.
2006 “(Why) Anthropology, as written by the authors Peace and Violence”
European Association for Social Anthropology, Bristol UK Sept. 18 – 21, 2006.
2006 “Females and Frontlines: Stories of Violence and Survival”
University of Louisville, September 7, 2006
2006 “Children and War in the World Today.” University of Ireland, May 1, 2006.
2005 “Terrorism: Economics and Gender” John Jay School of Criminal Justice /
Center on Terrorism Nov 11, 2005
2005 “Power in the 21st Century” Conference on Global Realities
University of Queensland, Australia, April 1 – 3, 2005
2004 Sweden: September 2004:
University of Stockholm: “Violence and Profiteering in the 21st Century”
University of Uppsala: “Shadows and War”
University of Uppsala, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and
Anthropology: “Theory and Method in Violence Studies.”
2004 “Terrorism.” NIC Conference. Washington DC: June 28 – 30, 2004.
2004 Social Science Research Council: Chair: A New Challenge: Globalization and
Conflict, April 19 – 20, 2004.
2004 “Voices from the Frontlines: Women on War.”
Keynote: “Feminist Locations / Southeastern Women's Studies Association
Savannah, GA, March 25 - 28, 2004
2004 “Memories of the Invisible?” Harvard University.
Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Feb. 13, 2004.
2003 “The Economic Impact of the Illicit Drug Industry”
Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Transnational Institute (TNI)
2003 “Prestidigitation: Wars, Profits, and the Creation of Risk” Conference: Risk,
Complex Crises, and Social Futures. Amman, Jordan Oct. 11 – 13, 2003
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2003 “Power,” Women in the After-Math of War. University of Michigan 3-24-2003.
2003 “Resource Wars” Conference: Africa and the Middle East Advocacy Days
February 23 – 26, Washington DC.
2002 “Cold Civil Wars, Hot Profits” Conference: Civil Wars and the Cold War
Columbia University, November 14 – 16, 2002
2002 “Children and War.” Butler University, November 5, 2002
2002 “War, Smuggling and Illegal Pharmaceutical Empires”
University of Pennsylvania October 7, 2002
2002 “Invisible Horizons” Conference: An Ever Changing World: The Shape and
Future of Peace Studies. Colgate University, September 20 – 22, 2002
2002 “Terrorism & Political Violence”
Norwegian Institute on International Affairs, Amsterdam, June 17 – 18, 2002
2001 “Gender / Political Violence” Social Research Institute & University of
Hamburg. Hamburg Germany, June 7 – 9, 2001.
2000 Keynote: "Public Bad, Private Good(s) and Private Realities".
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London. September 14-16, 2000.
2000 Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales &
Social Science Research Council. Conference: "Beyond Borders: Il(licit) Flows of
People, Objects and Ideas." Paris, July 1 - 4, 2000.
2000 "Requiem for Violence." University of Maryland. April 27, 2000.
2000 Conference: "Sri Lanka." Uppsala University. May 9 - 14, 2000.
2000 "Anthropology and War" UC Berkeley, Human Rights Center. April 6, 2000.
2001 "Life After Death: At the 'Heart' of the Frontlines," Colgate University, 3-6-2000.
1999 “A Dog Called Remember,” Colby College. October 17 1999
1999 "Warscapes: Surviving Ethically, Academically, Physically"
University of Uppsala, Sweden September 16-21, 1999.
1999 "Illusions" Keynote: "After War Comes Peace?
September 20, 1999. University of Uppsala, Sweden. Sept. 16-21, 1999.
1999 Social Science Research Council & American Council of Learned Societies
"Beyond Borders: Illicit Flows of People, Objects, and Ideas"
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 7 - 9, 1999.
1999 "Being Female on the Frontlines." & "Fieldwork in Warzones."
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International Peace Research Institute, Oslo Norway. May 19 & 20.
1999 Teachers As Scholars: Grant through University of Notre Dame from
Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
1999 "Memory, Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Post-Conflict Societies" University of
Ulster/United States Institute of Peace.Ulster, Northern Ireland, April 22-25, 1999.
1999 School of American Research -- Advanced Seminar
"Local Perspectives on Military Reorganization, Economic Restructuring and
Daily Life" Sante Fe, March 20 – 26, 1999.
1999 Social Science Research Council & American Council of Learned Societies
"Beyond Borders: Illicit Flows of People, Objects, and Ideas"
New York, February 13 – 14, 1999.
1998 Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Foundation
"States in Crisis, States in Flux: Processes of Reconfiguration"
Antigua, Guatemala, May 24-28, 1998.
1998 “Out of the Shadows: Post-War Transformations and Extra-State Realities.”
Invited: Local Governance and International Intervention in Africa.
Florence, Italy, European University Institute, March 28-29, 1998.
1995 “Children and Warzones: Troubling Questions”
And: Discussant: Plenary Session.
Invited Conference: (En)Gendering Violence. Zagreb, Croatia. October 27-28.
1995 The Construction of Self and World in Conditions of Extreme Political
Violence. Invited: Stanford University, April, 1995
1994 Lecture Series: Aucland and Wellington, New Zealand.
United Nations and Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1992 Internal Conflicts and Conflict Transformation;
International Peace Research Association. Kyoto, Japan. July 1992.
1992 Political Violence and Conflict Transformation.
International Alert, London, February 1992.
FORMAL CONFERENCE PAPERS / INVITED PRESENTATIONS
2012 “Death by a Thousand Cuts” (11/15/2012) and;
“The Nomadic War Machine: Violence Without Borders,” Discussant
American Anthropology Association, San Francisco, 11/17/2012.
2012 Professors Unplugged, UND, 03/27/12
2011 “Ethics – Exploring Shades of Grey” – Ethnics Committee of the AAA
American Anthropological Association, Montreal Canada 11/18/11
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2011 “Women on the Frontlines” United States Institute of Peace. 4-5-2011.
2010 “Invisible Flows.” Invited, American Anthropological Association, New Orleans
11/19/10.
2010 “Europe and Our Families in History” Discussant. American Anthropological
Association, New Orleans, 11/18/10.
2009 Violence in Structure and Structure in Violence: discussant. Society for Applied
Anthropology meetings, Santa Fe, March 20, 2009.
2009 Professors Unplugged, University of Notre Dame. 14 April 2009
2009 On Global Outlaws. University of Illinois, Chicago. 3/16/ 2009.
2009 Rape. UND/Gender Relations, 2/27/2009.
2009 The Meaning and Measure of Development. UND: 2/16/ 2009.
2008 1) “War Writes a Letter to Anthropology” 11/21/2008 Invited Session.
2) Speaker, Special Event: Collaborations for Human Security in Disaster
Assistance and Reconstruction, 11/20/2008
3)Discussant: Conflict, Post-Conflict, and the Return of Violence 11/19/2008
American Anthropological Association, San Francisco: Nov. 19-23, 2008.
2008 “Storm Drain Morals” Keynote: Association for Moral Education. UND, 11-15.
2008 The Africa In Portuguese, the Portuguese In Africa, Chair. UND, April 18.
2007 “Fault Lines” Invited Plenary: Society for Applied Anthropology, Tampa,
Florida, March 29, 2007.
Podcast: http://sfaapodcasts.net/2008/01/15/global-health-in-the-time-
of-violence-part-i-session-th-123-from-the-2007-sfaa-meeting/
2006 AAA Presidential Session “War” – Invited.
“War & the Academy in the 21st Century – An Accountability written in the Year
2101” AAA meetings, San Jose, Nov. 15 – 19, 2006.
2006 Discussant: Invited Session: “Ethnographies of Violence.
American Anthropology Association meetings, San Jose, November 15 – 19, 2006.
2005 AAA Presidential Session – Invited. “Placing Ethics at the Discipline’s Center”
AAA meetings, Washington D.C. Nov. 30 – Dec. 4.
2005 Discussant: Youthful, Feared and Naturalized Futures: Constructions in the
Shadows of Violent Pasts, AAA meetings, Washington D.C. Nov. 30 – Dec. 4.
2005 Anthropology and Forensic Medicine – Discussant
Consequences of the Civil War in Spain, UND, October 28-29.
2004 AAA Presidential Session, Invited.
“Where do we go from here: Toward a more public ethical anthropology.”
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Discussant / Presentation. AAA meetings. Nov. 17 – 21, 2004.
2003 The Impossible Contradiction (Peace-Keeping?) Invited: AAA meetings, Chicago.
Nov 19–23, 2003.
2003 Discussant: The ethics and praxis of doing fieldwork in situations of high
conflict and violence. AAA meetings, Nov. 19-23, 2003.
2003 Living on the Front Lines: An Anthropologist Looks at the Realities of War.
Saturday Scholar Series, University of Notre Dame, November 1, 2003.
2003 The Church on the Frontlines of War and Peace, UND, September 21 – 24.
2003 The Jagged Edge of Peace.. UND, September 11-13.
2002 Invisibilities and Illegalities – Power (Intended to be) Beyond Belief.
American Anthropological Association, New Orleans November 20 – 24, 2002
2002 Ethnography in the Dangerous Field: Anthropologies of Violence, Terror, and
Suffering. Discussant: AAA meetings, New Orleans, November 20 – 24 2002.
2002 Youth and War. University of Notre Dame; September 26 – 28, 2002.
2001 Children: Living on the Streets. Brunel University, UK June 20–23, 2001
2000 Organizer: Panel Organized Crime: The "Legal," Illegal Economies and Moral
Orders of Globalization. American Anthropological Association meetings,
San Francisco November 15 - 19, 2000.
2000 A Politics of Invisibility. AAA meetings, San Francisco, November 15 - 19, 2000.
2000 Globalization of t he Illicit. AAA meetings, San Francisco November 15 – 19.
2000 Discussant: "Salvage Anthropology": The Public Life of a Discipline.
AAA meetings, San Francisco, November 15 - 19, 2000.
2000 Panelist and Discussant: AAA Committee for Human Rights: Fieldwork in
High Conflict Zones: Praxis, Ethics, and Human Rights. AAA meetings, San
Francisco November 15 - 19, 2000.
2000 Conference on "Sri Lanka." Uppsala University, Sweden. May 9 - 14, 2000.
2000 Past Paradigms and Cultures of Peace in the 21st Century.
Peace History Society & International Congress of Historical Sciences.
Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway. August 11 - 12, 2000.
2000 Shadows Across Landscapes of Power. International Peace Research
Association, Tampere, Finland. August 5 - 9, 2000.
2000 Anthropology and War. UC Berkeley: Human Rights Center. April 6, 2000.
2000 Life After Death: At the 'Heart' of the Frontlines.
Colgate University. 2 Keynotes. March 6-7, 2000
1999 AAA Presidential Session, Invited: A Public Anthropology
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American Anthropology Association meetings. Chicago November 17 - 21.
1999 “The 101st Year of the Hundred Year War.”
Invited Session: Does War Have any Future?
American Anthropology Association meetings, Chicago November 17 -21.
1999 Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics.
The Hague Appeal for Peace Conference. The Hague, May 11 - 15, 1999
1999 Memory, Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Post-Conflict Societies.
Ulster, Northern Ireland, April 22 - 25, 1999. Invited.
1999 The Crisis of Development in Africa. Henkels Lecture Series.
Notre Dame University, March 5-6, 1999.
1999 Taking Theory to the Frontlines, and Vice Versa. Invited.
International Studies Association, Washington DC, February 16 - 20, 1999.
1998 Theory That Laughs and Cries.
Invited Session: Public Anthropology. American Anthropological Association
Meetings, Philadelphia, December 2-6 1998.
1998 U.S. Bombing in Sudan and Afghanistan: An Antidote to Terrorism?
Panelist/Discussant. September 3: University of Notre Dame.
1998 Suffering and Medical Treatment. Elkhart General Hospital. September 3. Invited.
1998 Careers in Peace and Justice Organizations. Panelist/Discussant September 29.
University of Notre Dame.
1998 Violence as a Medical and Epidemiological Issue. Elkhart General Hospital, 10-14.
1998 Children and the Family, Advisory Council presentation: UND, October 23.
1998 The War in Post-War. Commission: The Resolution of Intra-State Conflicts:
Reconciliation, Reconstruction in War-Torn Societies. International Peace
Research Association meetings, Durban, South Africa, June 23-26, 1998.
1998 Girls and Warzones, International Peace Research Association meetings, Durban,
South Africa, June 23-26, 1998.
1998 "War Zone Experience" Dinner Speaker: Africa and the African Peoples in the
21st Century. All-African Student Conference. May 9.
1998 Chair: "Religious Peacebuilding: Conflict Resolution." Conference: The
Sacred, The Sword, and Global Security. April 16 - 18.
1998 Peace Research and the Study of Violence: Contributions from Ethnographic
Work in Warzones. International Studies Association, Minneapolis, March 18 - 21.
1997 Invited Session The Next 100 Years of War: or Why is Imagination Suddenly
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Important in Anthropology? AAA Meetings, Washington DC, November 19-23.
1995 Defining the Violence in Political Violence.
International Relations (RsPAS), Australian National University.
1995 Violence, Self/Identity, and the Creative Imaginary.
Australian National University, Borderlands Series, September, 1995.
1995 Invited panel: Indomitable Voices: Portuguese Legacy, Nationalism and
Cultural Identity, UC Berkeley, February 28.
1994 Title Deleted (The Un-Studying of Violence)
Invited Session: AAA meetings.
1994 Discussant: Human Rights, Gender and Sexual Politics: Perspectives
From Asia and Pacific. American Anthropology Association meetings.
1994 War: A Crime Against Women.
Invited: Hodgkins Peace Studies Lecture. California State University, Chico.
1994 Cultures of Violence and Contemporary Political Landscapes.
Invited Lectures: University of Auckland. New Zealand;
Ministry: Disarmament and Arms Control and the United Nations
Association of New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand.
1993 Global Disorder and Beyond: Overcoming Cultures of Violence.
Keynote Address. The University of Sydney. Australia.
1993 Political Violence. Peace Research Centre, Australian National University.
1992 Organizer, Invited Panel: Dangerous Anthropologies.
American Anthropological Association meetings.
1992 Reason. The Problem of the Absurd in the Midst of Violence
and Thinking about Violence. Invited Panel: AAA meetings.
1991 The Second War, Or The Curandeiro and the Terror. AAA meetings.
1990 The Cultural Front of the Dirty War. International Peace Research Association:
The Netherlands.
1990 Vortex of Violence - The War/Famine Cycle in Mozambique. AAA meetings.
1989 Clean Theories/Dirty Wars. American Anthropological Association meetings.
1989 Women and Revolution in Mozambique and Sri Lanka.
Social Science History Association.
1988 Women in War/Women and War. Invited panel, AAA Meetings.
1988 Organizer, Invited Session: Communal Violence. AAA meetings.
1988 Violence: Learned Trait/Genetic Imbroglio. Invited lecture: U.C. Berkeley.
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1987 Veda and the Grandmother: Privileged Texts and Popular Renditions
in Ayurveda. 16th Annual Conference on South Asia. University of Wisconsin.
1987 Organizer, Panel: The Meaning of Illness and the Concept of
Well-Being in Ayurvedic and Chinese Medical Traditions.
Association for Asian Studies meetings.
1986 The 'Rationalization' of Violence - From Riot to Conflict. AAA meetings.
1986 Discussant, Panel for Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast meetings.
1986 Dialectic of Interpretation - The Metaphors of Ayurveda, "State"
and Society. Association for Asian Studies meetings.
1986 Communal Conflict in Sri Lanka: Toward an Anthropology
of Mobs and Riots. Kroeber Anthropological Association meetings.
1986 Communal Conflict in Sri Lanka, A Theoretical Analysis.
Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies (UCB).
1985 Charisma. American Anthropological Association meetings.
1985 Exploring Pluralism: The Many Faces of Ayurveda. AAA meetings.
1985 The Sick Role-A Cross Cultural Perspective. AAA meetings.
1985 Ayurveda in Tradition and Practice. Association for Asian meetings.
1984 The Illness Episode and the Reconstruction of Meaning. AAA meetings.
1984 Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - A Reconsideration.
Association for Asian Studies meetings.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES - SERVICE COMMITTEES: UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
Note: Semester and year-long committees are listed below. I have served on numerous short term
committees such as grants reviews, development and assessment projects, student support and scholarship
committees, educational panels, etc.
I also maintain an active honors thesis and research mentoring role every semester (e.g. 5 – 6 senior theses
in 2011)
2013 – 2014 Search Committee Anthropology/Institute for Latino Studies
2013 Selection Committee – Fellowships: Kellogg Institute
2013 – 2014 Graduate Selection Committee, Anthropology
2013 – 2014 CAP, Anthropology Smith-Oka’s tenure research evaluation
2012 – 2014 Faculty Senate
2012 – 2014 Faculty Senate representative to Campus Life Council
2011 - 2012 Search Committee, Anthropology
2011 – 2012 Visiting Scholars Selection Committee, Kellogg Institute
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1999 – present CAP, anthropology
2008 – present Faculty Advisory Committee, Kellogg Institute
to present Kellogg Fellow
2008 – 2009 Chair: Anthropology/Kellogg Institute job search, assistant professor
2008 – 2009 Faculty Senate & Academic Affairs committee
2005 – 2006 Academic Council – elected
2005 “ Executive Committee of the Academic Council - elected
2005 “ Faculty Affairs Committee, Academic Council
2006 – “ President’s Committee on Women
2005 – 2006 Honor Code Committee
2005 – 2006 Chair: Anthropology job search: assistant professor
2005 Freshman Orientation Presentation. August 10, 2005
2004 Student Mentoring Steering Committee, UND.
2004 Kaneb Teaching Award Selection Committee, UND
2004 Scholarship Fellowship Recognition Weekend Presentation to
Donors/Benefactors.
2003 – 2004 Academic Council – elected
2003 “ Executive Committee of the Academic Council
2003 “ Chair: Faculty Affairs Committee, Academic Council
2003 - 2004 University Committee on International Studies
2003 - 2004 Search Committee – Anthropology Faculty
2003 University Committee on Women Faculty and Students
2002 - 2003 Anthropology Club Officer
2002 - 2004 Honor Code Committee
2002 Ten Year Strategic Planning: Cross Divisional Programs
2000-2002 Advisory Council -- Law School: Center for Civil and Human Rights
1999-02 Academic Council - elected (Plus subcommittees)
1999-02 Faculty Senate - elected (Plus Subcommittees)
1999 - 2000 Director of Graduate Studies - IIPS
1999-00 Teachers As Scholars Program
1999-00 Chair: Graduate Advisory Committee - IIPS
1999-00 Graduate Admissions Committee - IIPS
1999-03 Faculty Hire Search Committee - Anthropology
1999-00 Luce Professor Search Committee
1999-03 Faculty officer for Anthropology Club
1999 Henkels Grant (ISLA) Review Committee
1998-01 Executive Council IIPS - elected
1998-00 Executive Committee, Gender Studies - elected
1998-99 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee - Anthropology
1997-98 College Council - elected
1997-99 Notre Dame Core Review Committee
1997-98/99-00 Graduate Admissions Committee - IIPS
1997-98 Graduate Advisory Committee - IIPS
1997-99 Graduate Program Assessment - IIPS
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1997-98 Research and Publications Committee - IIPS
1997-03 Honor Code - Anthropology
1997-98 Lilly-funded Conference - grantee/organizer
1997-98 CANDIX McNair program advisor.
1998 Selection committee: ND Kenya summer grant program
1998, 99, 00 Orientation for first year students
Thesis advising at UND:
Fall 2013 5 Senior Theses plus 1 (our first) graduate student Directed Research.
* While all semesters are not as full of senior theses as Fall 2013 – I generally have around 5 or so
Theses and Directed Research/Readings a year. Numbers and names available on inquiry.
Ph.D. Adviser, external: recent Marita Eibl, Michigan State University, Anthropology – completed 2009
Rebecca Galemba, Brown University, Anthropology – completed 2010
Lily Bunker, Comprehensive MA, University of Cape Town – completed 2011
Helga‘s Þórólfsdóttir, University of Iceland - current
Additional ND Service Work:
I have participated in a wide range of service activities supporting UND too numerous to list.
Examples include:
moderator, chair, and panelist for numerous ND conferences;
speaker at formal university events such as the Spirit of ND launch, junior-parents
weekend, and orientations;
participant in informational/promotional videos, websites, and catalogues;
discernment dinners;
dorm faculty advisor;
speaker for campus organizations,
panelist for performances, such as the Vaginal Monologues controversies;
faculty advisor for student work such as “Loyal Daughters;”
formal and informal advisor for students university-wide traveling abroad.
I even Kissed a Pig for University Fundraising (Spring 2013).
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
1998 "Talking Across Boundaries: Cultures of Violence, Cultures of Peace" Regional
Conference, Notre Dame, April 3-4, 1998.
1980 Kroeber Anthropology Association International meetings, University of
California, Berkeley.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES -- NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
CONTINUOUS: I ENGAGE IN SERVICE INTERNATIONALLY, INCLUDING: REVIEWING GRANTS,
SERVING AS EXTERNAL EVALUATION FOR ACADEMIC PROMOTION (TEUNRE AND FULL PROFESSOR)
AND ON DISSERTATION COMMITTEES IN THE EUROPEAN TRADITION, ADVISING UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENTAL DEVELOPMENT AND ORGANIZATION POLICY, CONDUCTING ACADEMIC
WORKSHOPS FOR PH.D. AND POST-DOCTORAL EDUCATION, AND ASSISTING WITH FUNDING AGENCY
PROGRAM DESIGN.
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IN ADDITION: I HAVE ALSO CONSISTENTLY DONATED RESEARCH TIME TO SUCH ORGANIZATIONS
AS: UNITED NATIONS GROUPS, SAVE THE CHILDREN, WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, LOCAL RED
CROSS CHAPTERS, ETC.
Continual: Numerous External Reviews for Tenure and Promotion to Full Professor at Universities
throughout the USA and in Europe.
2012 European Association of Social Anthropologists – Book Prize Comm.
2010 – present Advisory Board: Conflict and Society (Journal)
2009 –2012 Editorial board: Humanity (Journal).
2006 – present Contributing Editor: University of California Public Anthropology Series.
2001 - 03 John D. and Catherine C. MacArthur Foundation – grant reviews
1999, 2003 Wenner-Gren grant reviews
1998 - 03 Editorial Board: Social Justice: Anthropology, Peace and Human Rights.
1998 Social Science Research Council – MacArthur Post-Doctoral Fellowships
1997 Social Science Research Council - MacArthur Dissertation Fellowships
1997 - 2011 Associate Editor: International Feminist Journal of Politics. Routledge.
1996 Social Science Research Council - MacArthur Post-Doctoral Grants
1997 - present Editorial / Advisory Board: University of Pennsylvania Press:
Ethnography of Political Violence Series.
1995 Elected Member: Institute of Current World Affairs.
1993 Co-Organizer / Publications: Priorities 1995: Anticipating the UN World
Conference on Women in Beijing.
1992 - 1996 Executive Council: Internal Conflicts and Conflict Resolution.
International Peace Research Association
1986-94 Department and Curriculum Development: Peace and Conflict Studies.
1986-90 Executive Committee: International Association for the Study
of Traditional Asian Medicine - North American Chapter.
1986-88 Advisory/Steering Committee of the Sri Lanka Studies Group
of the Association for Asian Studies. Elected member.
1981 UCB Educational Improvement Grant Committee: funding evaluation & allotment.
1980-81 UCB Graduate Assembly representative / G. S. Executive Council.
1979-81 Kroeber Anthropological Society and Journal. Officer and Editor.
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Referee service: examples of journals:
Theory Culture Society [social science theory]
Social Science and Medicine [medical social science]
Peace and Change [peace and conflict studies]
Signs [feminist studies]
International Journal of Feminist Studies [int’l political theory]
American Anthropologist [anthropology]
American Ethnologist [cultural anthropology]
Human Organization [applied anthropology]
European Journal of Cultural Studies [international]
Referee service: examples of presses:
University of California Press &
University of Minnesota [university]
University of Pennsylvania Press [series review]
Routledge Press [trade]
Blackwell [European]
Cambridge University Press &
United Nations University Press. [international]
CLASSES CREATED AND TAUGHT
Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
Anthropology for the 21st Century
Peace And Conflict Studies
The Anthropology of War and Peace
Global Crime and Corruption
Ethnography
Patterns of War and Conflict Resolution
Violence in the Streets / Mobs, Riots and Communal Violence
International Political Violence / International Conflict Resolution
Field Methodology
Power
Women and War
Women and In/Justice & Women and Human Rights
Global Perspectives
University Seminar
University Core
LANGUAGES
English (fluent)
Portuguese (conversational)
Sinhalese (conversational in 1982-5; now limited until refresher course)
FIELDWORK
2011, 2012, 2013 USA & Europe (cyber-security)
2009 summer Uganda
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2008 summer Mozambique
2007 fall London; teaching.
2004 -2005 Globalization studies: Europe, USA, shipping routes, Polynesia, Sri Lanka,
Burma/Thailand. 15 months.
2003 summer Brazil, Namibia
2001-2002 Southern Africa and Europe. 20 months.
1999 summer Southern Africa (Angola, Mozambique, South Africa)
1998 summer Southern Africa (Mozambique, South Africa, Angola)
1997 Spring Southern Africa (South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia)
1996 Fall University World Voyage: Institute for Shipboard Education.
[Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Vietnam, India, Egypt, Turkey, Isreal,
Greece, Morocco]
1996 Spring Mozambique; Angola; South Africa; Kenya
1995 Croatia; Bosnia; Hungary; Romania
1993; 1995 Australia (Aboriginal Concepts of Violence and Conflict Resolution)
1990-91; 1994 Mozambique.
1988; 1991 Sri Lanka.
1989 Mozambique; Zimbabwe; Kenya; Tanzania
1988 Mozambique & Somalia
1987 University World Voyage: Institute for Shipboard Education.
[Spain, Yugoslavia, USSR, Turkey, Egypt, India,Malaysia, Philippines,
China, Taiwan, Japan]
1985; 1986 Sri Lanka; Singapore; Malaysia - mainland and Sarawak
1981; 1982-83 Sri Lanka.
1979 University World Voyages: Institute for Shipboard Education.
[Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Egypt, Tunisia, Crete, Italy,
Spain.]
1977 University World Voyage: Institute for Shipboard Education
[Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Tunisia, Greece,
Morocco.]
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1975-76 Spain.
1974 Yugoslavia and Hungary.
1971 Vera Cruz and Oaxaca, Mexico.