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Nancy C. LutkehausDepartment of Anthropology 213-740-1917 (o), 213-740-1900 (dept)University of Southern Californiafax: 213-747-8571Kaprielian 348, 3620 South Vermont Ave.email: lutkehau@dornsife.usc.eduLos Angeles, CA 90089-0032 nancy-lutkehauseducationPh.D. Anthropology, Columbia University, 1985M.A. Anthropology, Columbia University, 1975B.A. Anthropology, Barnard College/Smith College, 1972, Magna cum laudeprofessional experienceProfessor of Anthropology, USC, 2009-presentCo-Director, Center for Visual Anthropology (CVA), USC, 1995-2020Chair, Department of Anthropology, 2018-2019Director, USC Visual Studies Graduate Certificate program, 2017-2019Director, Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology, 2013-2015Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California, 2007-2012Chair, Gender Studies Program, University of Southern California, 2001-2007Visiting Associate Professor, Women's Studies Program and Visiting Scholar,Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Spring 1995Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1992-1993Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology, USC, 1991-1995Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Southern California, 1992-2008Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, USC, 1985-1991Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, New York University, 1984-1985Research Intern, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, New York City, 1984-1985Research Consultant, World Bank: Enga Development Program, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea, 1983Administrative Assistant, Dr. Margaret Mead, American Museum of Natural History, New York City, 1972-1974Awards and HonorsUSC Albert S. Raubenheimer Outstanding Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service, 2020USC Gender Studies “Big Splash” Award, 2013USC Phi Kappa Phi Society award for outstanding scholarship: Margaret Mead:The Making of an American Icon (Princeton University Press), 2010 USC Mellon Graduate Student Mentor Award, 2009 Faculty Fellow, USC, Center for Excellence in Teaching (CET), 2005-2008USC Phi Kappa Phi Society award for outstanding scholarship: Zaria’s Fire:Engendered Moments in Manam Ethnography (Carolina Academic Press), 1997Major Research Grants and FellowshipsAmerican Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2015-2016International Organization for Migration (IOM), “Migration, Environment, Climate Change: Evidence for Policy (MECLEP)” Research Award, Manam Island, PNG (With Dr. John Connell, School of Geosciences, University of Syndey), 2015Getty Research Fellowship, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, 2009-2010Rockefeller Archives Research Fellowship, 2008-2009USC Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities Award, 2007-2008HED/USAID-IDEAS Grant: “University-NGO Coalition Building Initiative,” Nairobi and Eldoret, Kenya. PI with Dr. Grace Dyrness, Dr. Eliz Sanasarian, Dr. Kristin Ferguson, Dr. Bernard Boyo and Dr. Emily Choge, 2006-2008.National Endowment for the Humanities Research Scholarship, School of American Research, Santa Fe, NM, 1997-1998Summer Resident Scholar Stipend, School of American Research, Santa Fe, NM, 1998.USC Annenberg Center for Communication, (With Dr. Najm Meshkati, Engineering and Prof. Doe Mayer, CSA), 1996.USC Annenberg Center for Communication, (With Dr. Najm Meshkati and Prof. Doe Mayer), 1995.Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Grant, 1992.The Spencer Foundation. Study of impact of ethnographic film on undergraduate students, 1988.Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), 1980Fulbright Pre-Doctoral Research Award: Australia, 1976-1978National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 1977-1979Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Columbia University, 1974-1977Small GrantsUSC Visual Studies Research Institute, Collaborative Summer Research Funds, 2021. Declined.USC Provost Interdisciplinary Teaching Grant: “Museum Cultures,” w/ Daniela Bleichmar, 2019.USC Dornsife Integrated General Education Stipend, with Spatial Sciences Program, 2019.Harry Ransom Center for the Humanities, University of Texas, Austin, TX. Research Fellowship, 2011Fogarty International Center/NIH: “Pacific Rim Global Health Framework,” with Dr. Andrew Johnson, Dr. Lawrence Palinkas, et. al., 2006-2008.USC College, Faculty Development Award, 1999-presentUSC, Provost’s Fund for Research on Tsunamis and Other Natural Disasters, 2005.USC, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, Pew Foundation Faculty Small grant, 2005.USC, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, Pew Foundation Faculty Small grant, 2004.Zumberg Research and Innovation Fund (ZRIF), University of Southern California, 1992.The Pioneer Fund: Film Grant (with Ilisa Barbash) (Declined), 1992.USC Institute for the Study of Women and Men in Society Summer Faculty Support, 1990.The Cousteau Society. (Declined), 1988.Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Grant, 1987.Institute for Intercultural Studies, New York City, 1984.Conferences & Film Festivals OrganizedVisual Anthropology Review, 30th Anniversary celebration, Annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Vancouver, CA, November 2019. Documentary Educational Resources (DER)/CVA Tim Asch 50 Year Retrospective, November 9, 2018, USC School of Cinematic ArtsUSC-China Institute Award, Contemporary Chinese Ethnographic Film Festival, USC, April 2009Co-organized with Janet Hoskins and Gary Seaman (USC)USC-RAI (Royal Anthropological Institute) Film Festival, USC, March 20-22, 2018 USC Visions and Voices Arts and Humanities Grant: “Dancing with Shakti”: Classical Indian Dance Troupe Performance, Film Screening, and Dance Workshop, 2006.Asian Studies Association, Northeast Asian Council for conference on “Anime and the Contemporary Japanese Imagination.” Co-organized with Dr. Mizuko Ito, 2004.The Provost’s Distinguished Visitors Program: Isao Takahata, Filmmaker, Japan. Retrospective Film Festival. Co-sponsored with Dr. Mizuko Ito, USC School of Cinematic Arts, 2004.USC Provost's Initiative, Southern California in the World: “Kaleidoscope of Cultures Ethnographic Film Festival,” 1999.EditorshipsEditor, Visual Anthropology Review. Publication of the Society for Visual Anthropology,American Anthropological Association, 1994-1997.Co-editor, Visual Anthropology Review. Publication of the Society for Visual AnthropologyAmerican Anthropology Association, 1993-1994.Keynote Addresses/Memorial Lecture Series“From Artifact to Art Object:” The 20th Century Transformation of “Pagan Artifacts” into “Fine Art.” The Jensen Memorial Lectures. 8 Weeks. May-June, 2013. The Frobenius Institute, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.“Margaret Mead, New York, the World.” Keynote Speaker, The New York Academy of Sciences, New York, New York, (October 1, 2001).University of Rochester, Margaret Mead Centennial Celebration, Keynote Speaker,“Change the World,” (March 31, 2001).publicationsBooksMargaret Mead: The Making of an American Icon. Princeton University Press. December 2008.Zaria's Fire: Engendered Moments in Manam Ethnography. (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1995).American Library Association’s Choice Award for outstanding academic book, 1996.Gendered Missions: Women and Men in Missionary Discourse and Practice. Co-edited with Mary Huber. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999).Co-authored "Introduction: Gendered Missions at Home and Abroad" (pp. 1-38). Author of chapter, "Maternalism Imposed: Women, Children and the Maternal Behavior of Catholic Nuns in Papua New Guinea" (pp. 207-235). Gender Rituals: Female Initiation in Melanesia. Co-edited with Paul Roscoe. (New York:Routledge, 1995).Author of "Introduction: Feminist Anthropology and Female Initiation in Melanesia” (pp. 3-29) Author of "Gender Metaphors: female rituals as cultural models in Manam" (pp. 183-204). Sepik Heritage: Tradition and Change in Papua New Guinea. Principle Editor. Co-edited with Christian Kaufmann, William Mitchell, Douglas Newton, Lita Osmundsen, and Meinhard Schuster. (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1990)Author of "Introduction," (pp. xxi-xxii) Author of: "Introduction to Social Relations and Authority," (pp. 253-254) Author of: "Introduction to Person and Socialization," (pp. 323-324)Author of chapter: "The Tanepoa and the Tambaran: Traditional and Modern Forms of Leadership and Authority in Manam ," (pp. 298-308). Edited English translation of Karl B?hm, The Life of Some Island People of New Guinea. (Das Leben einiger Insel v?lker Neuguineas.). (Berlin: Reimer Verlag, 1983).Author of: Introduction, (pp. 13-69) Author of: "Introduction to Grammatical Outline of Manam Language," (pp. 286-304).Books in ProgressFrom Artifact to Object d’Art: The Intersection of Art and Anthropology in 20th Century America.Book based on the Jensen Memorial Lectures, Goethe University, Frankfurt, 2013 The Met Goes “Primitive:” Postwar America, the Politics of Culture, and the Rockefeller Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.”Published Reports2016 Another Manam? The Forced Migration of the Population of Manam Island, Papua New Guinea due to Volcanic Displacement in 2005. Migration, Environment, Climate Change: Evidence for Policy, (MECLEP) Report. International Organization on Migration.Geneva, Switzerland. 70 pp. 2016Video "Finishing Kapui's Name:" Death and Morturary Ritual on Manam Island. Written andDirected by Nancy Lutkehaus. Edited and shot by Sarina Pearson. Center for Visual Anthropology, University of Southern California, 1995 (25 mins.)Co-editor, Special Issue, Referred Journal “From Romance to Reality: Representations of Pacific Islands and Islanders,” Co-edited with Judith Schachter. Co-author of “Introduction,” Pacific Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1-2, April/August 2015. Pp. 1-13.“Anthropology Meets Psychology: The Role of Anthropology in Jerome Bruner's Cultural Psychology.” Co-edited volume with Cheryl Mattingly and Jason Throop. Special Volume of Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology. Co-author of “Introduction” (with Cheryl Mattingly and Jason Throop). January 2008.Articles in Referred Journals2020 “Drawing as Ethnographic Practice: Miguel Covarrubias’s Balinese Drawings & Sketches as Visual Anthropology,” Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 2019 “Tim Asch and the Cambridge Connection: Timothy Asch and the Cambridge Connection: American Ethnographic Film in the 1950s and 1960s” Special Issue on Ethnographic Film, Décadrages: cinéma, á travers champs. Association Décadrages. Lausanne, Switzerland. September 2019.2017. “Escaping Zaria’s Fire? The Volcano Resettlement Problem of Manam Island, Papua New Guinea,” Co-authored with John Connell. Asia-Pacific Viewpoint.2017. “Environmental Refugees? A Tale of Two Coastal Resettlement Projects in Coastal Papua New Guinea,” with John Connell. Australian Geographer.2015, “The Bowerbird of Art Collectors”: On Nelson A. Rockefeller and “Collecting the Stuff That Wasn’t in the Metropolitan,” in Art/Artifact/Commodity, Robert J. Foster and Kathryn H. Leacock, eds. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, Vol. 42, 2015, pp. 125-136. 2015. “Jack London’s Pacific Voyage of Transformation: An Anthropologist Looks at ‘The Cruise of the Snark’,” Pacific Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1-2, April/August. Pp. 51-74.2013. “Bodily Transformations: The Politics and Art of Men as Pigs and Pigs as Men on Manam Island, Papua New Guinea.” Pacific Arts, Spring.2012. “René d’Harnoncourt and the Display of Non-Western Art,” Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archive Professionals. Vol. 8, No. 2, Spring 2012, pp. 114-115.2008. Putting “Culture” into Cultural Psychology: Anthropology’s Role in the Development of Bruner’s Cultural Psychology. Special Issue of Ethos, The Journal of the Society ofPsychological Anthropology. January.2007. The Society of the Divine Word (SVD) Missionaries: Diverse Sources of Ethnographic and Linguistic Data from the Northeast Coast of New Guinea. Ethnology, Vol. 45(4), December 2007.1990. From Charismatic Leader to Cultural Anti-Hero: The Life of Irakau as Cultural Allegory, Ethnology 29:243-259.1990. Hierarchy and “Heroic” Societies: Manam Variations in Sepik Social Structural. Oceania. 60:179-197.1989. "Excuse Me, Everything is Not All Right: On Ethnography, Film and Representation,"Cultural Anthropology, (4) 4: 422-433.1986. "She was Very Cambridge”: Camilla Wedgwood and the History of Women in British Anthropology. American Ethnologist 13(4): 776-98.1985. Pigs, Politics and Pleasure: Manam Perspectives on Trade and Regional Integration. In Research in Economic Anthropology, Barry Isaac, ed., Vol. 7: 123-144. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.1982. Ambivalence, Ambiguity and the Reproduction of Gender Hierarchy in Manam Society,Social Analysis, Special Issue: Sex Antagonism in Melanesia. 12:36-51.1982. Manipulating Myth and History: How the Manam Maintain Themselves, Bikmaus 3(1): 81-90.Book Chapters in Process2021. “The Road to Dispossession: From Economic Autonomy to (Oil Palm) Plantation Laborers,” in Small Islands in Peril, Colin Filer, eds. Australian National University Press.Book ChaptersIn Press. “René d’Harnoncourt, 20th Century Culture Broker: Bridging Art History and Anthropology Through the Display of Non-Western Art,” in Regarding the Unknown: Art History and Anthropology—Early Encounters, Peter Probst and Joseph Imorde, eds. Getty Publications.2019. Finishing Kapui’s Name: Birth, Death and the Reproduction of Manam Society, PNG.” In Mortuary Dialogues: Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities. David Lipset and Eric Silverman, eds. NY and Oxford: Berghahn, Pp. 135-158. Paperback Edition.2016. “Margaret Mead,” in Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers. Lori Marso, ed. NY: Routledge. Pp. 155-160.2016. Finishing Kapui’s Name: Birth, Death and the Reproduction of Manam Society, PNG.” In Mortuary Dialogues: Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities. David Lipset and Eric Silverman, eds. NY and Oxford: Berghahn, Pp. 135-158. Paperback Edition.2014. “Miguel Covarrubias and the Pageant of the Pacific: The Golden Gate International Exposition and the Idea of the Transpacific, 1939-1940.” In Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field. Janet Hoskins and Viet Nguyen, eds. University of Hawaii Press. Pp. 109-133.2007. “In the Way” in Melanesia: Modernity and the New Woman in Papua New Guinea as Catholic Missionary Sister.” In Dilemmas and Exemplars: The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia, John Barker, ed. London: Ashgate Publishers. Pp. 149-162.2005. Foreword, to Ruth Benedict: A Humanist in Anthropology, by Margaret Mead. 30th Anniversary Edition. Columbia Classics in Anthropology. Reissue of volume from Leaders in Modern Anthropology Series [1974]. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. xix-xli2004. Margaret Mead: Anthropology’s Liminal Figure. In Reading Mead/Reading Benedict: Feminism, Racism and the American Empire. Lois Banner and Dolores Janiewski, eds. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Pp. 193-204.2004. Man, A Course of Study: Situating Timonty Asch’s Pedagogical Assumptions about Ethnographic Film.” In Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film, Edited by E. D. Lewis. London: Harwood Academic Publishers. Pp. 57-74.From The Process of Education to The Culture of Education: An Intellectual Biography of Jerome Bruner’s Contributions to Education. Co-authored with Patricia Greenfield. In Educational Psychology: A Century of Contributions. Barry J. Zimmerman and Dale H. Schunk, eds. (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003). Pp. 409-430.Paradigms Lost, and Found: The Impact of the New Ethnography on Ethnographic Film,Co-authored with Jennifer Cool. In Visible Evidence: The Return of the Real, Jane Gaines and Michael Renov, eds. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999). Pp. 116-139.“Identity Crisis”: Conflicting Images of Chieftainship in Manam, Papua New Guinea. In Chieftainship Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Sir Raymond Firth on His 90th Birthday. Richard Feinberg and Karen Watson-Gegeo, eds. (London: London School of Economics Monographs in Anthropology. Athlone Press, 1996). Pp. 343-375.Margaret Mead and the “Wind-Rustling-in-the-Palm-Trees” School of Ethnography. InWomen Writing Culture, Ruth Behar and Deborah Gordan, eds.( Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995) Pp. 187-206.Introduction: Margaret Mead Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years. Margaret Mead.(New York and Tokyo: Kodansha International Press, 1995). Pp. xi-xx.Refractions of Reality: On the Use of Other Ethnographers' Field Notes. In Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology. Roger Sanjek, ed. (Cornell University Press, 1990). Pp. 303-323.Reprinted Articles2004 “Paradigms Lost, and Found: The Impact of the New Ethnography on Ethnographic Film,”(Co-authored with Jennifer Cool.) In Visual Rhetoric in a Digital World: A Critical Sourcebook, Carolyn Handa, ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s. Pp. 434-454.2019 “Finishing Kapui’s Name: Birth, Death and the Reproduction of Manam Society, PNG.” In Mortuary Dialogues: Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities. David Lipset and Eric Silverman, eds. NY and Oxford: Berghahn, Paperback Edition, Pp. 135-158.Short ArticlesObituary: Mary Catherine Bateson (1938-2021), Anthropology and Humanism. In Press.“Margaret Mead,” In Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia. Jon McGee and Richard Warms, eds. (Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2013).“Margaret Mead,” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition. (New York: Macmillan Reference) 2008. At the Museum: Margaret Mead, American Icon, Natural History Magazine, December, 2001. 115. Music and Gender in Melanesia. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Australia Pacific Islands, Vol. 9. Adrienne L. Kaeppler and J.W. Love. (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc, 1998). Pp. 245-246.Ruth Benedict. Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion. ( New York: Macmillan Reference, 1998). Margaret Mead. Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion. (New York: MacmillanReference, 1998).Margaret Mead as Cultural Icon: Anthropology and the Media in American Culture. Anthropology Newsletter. American Anthropological Association. September, 1996.Film, Television, and Photography in South Asia, Introduction to Special Section: “Re-Visioning the Past, Re-Viewing the Present,” Visual Anthropology Review, 11(2):1-6, 1995.Interview with Filmmaker Bob Connell at the Margaret Mead Film Festival. Visual Anthropology Review, 11(2): 75-78. (Fall, 1994).Manam Island. In Encyclopedia of World Cultures. Oceania vol. Terence Hays, ed. (Boston:G.K. Hall, 1992).Camilla Wedgwood: On the Use of Another Ethnographer's Fieldnotes." Anthropology Today, 1991. Pp. 9-12.Beatrice Blackwood. In Women Anthropologists: A Biographical Dictionary, Ute Gacs, et al,eds. (Greenwich, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988). Pp. 17-21.Women and Violence in Enga: A Preliminary Report. Working Papers Series, Institute for the Study of Women and Men in Society, University of Southern California, 1988.Sepik Culture History: Variation, Innovation and Synthesis: Report on a Wenner-Gren Conference. Co-authored with Paul Roscoe. Current Anthropology 28(4): 577-581, 1987.Response to Jason Williams' "Ethnographic Film?" Society for Visual Anthropology Newsletter 1(4): 2-3, 1986. Women and Violence: Pack Rape in Enga Province, Enga Nius (NS) 3:21-24. (Feb, 1984). Film ReviewsReview of Taking Pictures (Video), Les McLaren and Annie Stiven. Pacific Studies. Vol. 24, Nos. 3/4: 119-124. (Sept.-Dec, 2001)."Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control": Errol Morris (and Others) at Sundance 1997. Visual Anthropology Review 13(1): 77-86. ( Spring/Summer 1997).Ethnographic Film at the Sundance Film Festival, Visual Anthropology Review 12(2):121-129. (Fall/Winter 1996-1997).Review of From Leaves to Cowries, Anthropos Film Festival Catalogue, Pg. 44. Universityof Southern California. (May, 1987).Film Festival ReviewsReview of the Nordic Anthropological Film Association (NAFA) Festival, Visual Anthropology Review, Vol. 12, No. 1: 86-94. Spring 1996.Sundance Film Festival: Notes Towards an Ethnography of a Film Festival. Visual Anthropology Review 11(2): 98-108, 1995.Book Reviews2017. Review of Hearing the Future: The Music and Magic of the Sanguma Band, Denis Crowdy. Pacific Affairs. Vol. 90, No. 3: 643-645. 2016. Review of Across the World with the Johnsons, Lamont Lindstrom, et. al.. Oceania.1999. Review of Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific, Kapala Ram and Margaret Jolly, eds., The Contemporary Pacific. Vol. 11(2): 495-498. 1993. Review of The Mundugumor: From the Fieldnotes of Margaret Mead and Reo Fortune, Nancy MacDowell. American Anthropologist. 95(1): 244-245,1991. Review of Mandak Realities, Brenda Clay. Canberra Anthropology 14(2): 82-86. 1991. Review of Camilla: A Life. The Life of Camilla H. Wedgwood, David Wetherell andCharlotte Carr-Greg. Oceania 62: 156-157.1988. Review of Cultural Alternatives and a Feminist Anthropology, Frederick Errington andDeborah Gewertz. American Anthropologist 90:731-732.1987. Review of The Gift of Kinship: Structure and Practice in Maring Social Organization. Edward LiPuma. American Anthropologist 91(2): 510-511.1986. Review of The Wild Woman, Sharon Tiffany and Katherine Adams. American Ethnologist 13(1): 174-175. February.Unpublished ReportsReport to the Spencer Foundation on "The Visual Translation of Culture: The Impact ofFilmic Images on the Perception of the Other," 1989.Documentation of Manam Island artifacts from the Wedgwood collection. Department of Anthropology, Australian Museum. Sydney, 1987.Women's Roles in Dispute Settlement and Tribal Fighting." Report to the Enga Law andOrder Project, World Bank/Enga Provincial Development Program, 1984.Documentation accompanying tape recordings of Manam flute music and song. Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies. Boroko, Papua New Guinea, 1979. Public presentationsRadio InterviewThe Diane Rehm Show, National Public Radio (WAMU, American University). Special2 hour program “To Cherish the World: 100 Years of Margaret Mead.” (December 16, 2001).TV Interview2019 “Race Relations and Racial Unrest in Papua, Indonesia”Film & Television Appearances1989 “Wild Kingdom” Series: “Journey to Ubaigubi,” episode,Role: On-Screen Scientist: AnthropologistInvited Lecture Series 2013 “From Artifact to “Primitive Art”: The Inevitability of Cultural Commodification?”The Jensen Memorial Lectures, Frobenius Institute, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. May-June, 2013.Invited Lectures2021 “Art of the Pacific in the Collection of the Pacific Asia Museum,” 50th Anniversary Series. USC Pacific Asia Museum. June 10, 2021.2020. “Covarrubias in Bali,” Den Pasar, Bali. 2020 “Avatar and Anthropology: The Consultant Who Wasn’t Consulted,” CSUDH, March 12, 2020. (Cancelled) 2014. “Modernity, Museums and Miguel Covarrubias: 20th Century American Anthropology and the Politics of Culture,” UCLA Department of Anthropology, Lecture Series. October 30.2014. “Goethe’s Color Wheel” USC Harmon Polymathic Institute, September 16.2014. “Margaret Mead and the Media: The Making of an American Icon,” Pasadena Senior Citizens Center, Series on Anthropological and Evolutionary Perspectives on the Human Condition, February 20.2012. ‘Anthropology in the Archives:’ Past, Present, Future,” invited lecture at the opening dedication of the Donald Tuzin Melanesian Archives, University of California, San Diego Library, UCSD, May 9, 2012. La Jolla, CA. “From Artifact to Objet d’Art”, paper presented at the USC Institute for Polymathic Studies, Objects of Knowledge Series, April 18, 2012.Invited Speaker, Margaret Mead Film Festival, American Museum of Natural History, New York City, November 13, 2011. Invited Panelist, Visions and Voices Event: “TransPacific Curation,” Organized by Bill Dotson, USC Doheny Library, in conjunction with the International Meetings of Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance, Doheny Library, University of Southern California, November 9, 2011.The Art, Science and Anthropology of James Cameron’s Avatar,” Lecture presented to the Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina State, March 18, 2011.“Margaret Mead and the Media: The Mead-Freeman Controversy,” Lecture presented to the Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina State, March 18, 2011.“Ethnography and Framing the Other: The Display of Non-Western (“Tribal”) Art in Museums (1875-2006)—From Ethnographic Artifact to Objet d’Art.” Lecture given in MDA 501: Introduction to Visual Studies: Methods and Debates. Professor Vanessa Schwartz. Getty Research Institute, October 27, 2010.“Reconsidering “The Cruise of the Snark”: An Anthropologist Looks at Jack London’s Adventures in the South Seas,” Pasadena Public Library, October 1, 2008.Sepik Art in the John Friede Collection. Lecture presented to the docents of the DeYoung Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA. (March 17, 2005).Both Sides of the Archive. Lecture presented at the Centennial symposium on Margaret Mead: “Archival Gold: Treasures from the Margaret Mead Collection,” Washington D.C. (March 22, 2002).Margaret Mead: An Ambivalent Icon. Lecture presented to the Norman Lear Center for the Study of Entertainment, USC Annenberg School of Communication, Politics, Celebrity and Culture Workshop, (February 2002).Melanesian Art in the John Friede Collection. Lecture presented to the docents of the DeYoung Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA. (January 23, 2002)The Ambivalent Legacy of Margaret Mead as a Public Intellectual. Talk presented at the Margaret Mead Centennial Symposium: “Margaret Mead’s Legacy: Continuing Controversies, Barnard College, New York, New York, (April 6, 2001).Participant in symposium on Margaret Mead and Education, Department of Anthropology, Vassar College. (March, 1999).Margaret Mead and the Media. Talk presented to the Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. (November 12, 1998).Margaret Mead and Modernity. Seminar presented to the School of American Research, Santa Fe, NM. (April 14, 1998).Margaret Mead and the Media. Colloquium presented to the Department of Anthropology and theMaxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. (April 30, 1997).Margaret Mead as Cultural Icon: A Contested Symbol of American Identity. Seminar presented to the School of American Research, Santa Fe, NM. (October 29, 1997).Art and Culture of Northeast New Guinea and Art and Culture of Island Melanesia. Lectures presented to the docents, De Young Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA. (March 22, 1997).Commentary on "The Couple in the Cage," video by Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Atlanta. (December, 1994).Gender Rituals: Coming of Age in Papua New Guinea. Lecture presented at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA. (November 10, 1988).Art of the Sepik River. Lecture presented to the docents of the heard Museum in conjunctionwith the exhibit "Authority and Order: Art of the Sepik River." Phoenix, AZ. (February 26, 1988).The Cultural Significance of Birds-of-Paradise: Ritual and Adornment in Papua New Guinea. Lecture to the Southern California Chapter of the Society of Women Geographers. Pasadena, CA. (March 16, 1987). Hierarchy in Manam Culture: Structural Transformation in Sepik Societies. Research colloquium presented at the Melanesian Seminar, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego. La Jolla, CA. (May, 1986).Political and Gender Hierarchies in Manam Society. Research colloquium presented to the Department of Anthropology, New York University. (April, 1985).Women and Violence in Contemporary Enga Society. Research colloquium presented to the New York Women's Anthropology Caucus. Graduate Center of the City University of New York. February, 1985.Pigs, Politics and Pleasure: Manam Perspectives on Regional Trade in Papua New Guinea. Paper presented at the Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University. Dallas, TX. December, 1984.Melanesian Art and Culture in the New Margaret Mead Hall of the Pacific. Lecture presented to the docents of the American Museum of Natural History. New York, NY. November, 1984."Cargo Cults" as a mode of resistance. Research colloquium presented to the Department of Anthropology, Boston University. Boston, MA. February 1983.Papers and Research Colloquia2019 “Cold-War Pedagogy, Man, a Course of Study (MACOS), Ethnographic Film, and Teaching American Kids Science,” paper presented in the session “Pedagogy and Public Anthropology: The Legacy of Marshall and Asch’s Ethnographic Films,” Visible Evidence conference, USC School of Cinematic Arts, July 26.]\2019 “MACOS, Man, a Course of Study: An Early Experiment in Multi-Modal Anthropology,” session on “Pedagogy and Ethnographic Film,” Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) Film Festival, Bristol, UK, March 29.2018, “The Road to Dispossession: From Economic Autonomy to (Oil Palm) Plantation Laborers,” Meetings of the European Society of Cambridge, England.2018, “On Not Being There: Manam Islanders Displacement, Adaptation, and the Dark Side of Neoliberalism,” session “To Be There or Not to Be There: Reflections on Fieldwork’s Shifting Significance in the Ethnographic Landscape, in Honor of Daniel Bradburd. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA. November 16.2017, “Drawing as Ethnographic Practice: Miguel Covarrubias’s Balinese Drawings as Visual Anthropology,” Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónomia México, Mexico City, August 23-26.2016, “On the Fence—and Off the Volcano: Scientific Evidence, International Aid, and the Fate of the Manam Islanders, Papua New Guinea,” in the session “Anthropology Off the Fence: Remembering the Activism and Scholarship of Nancy Sullivan,” Annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis, MN, November.2014. Beyond “Ethnographic Surrealism”: Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1954)—Artist, Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Museum Curator,” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., December 5.2014 “Modernity, Museums and Miguel Covarrubias: 20th Century American Anthropology and the Politics of Culture,” presentation to the Department of Anthropology, UCLA, Research Colloquium, October 30, 2014.2014. Camilla Wedgwood’s Manam Island Photographs: Temporal Transformations in Manam Islander’s Responses to “Our” Archives as “Their” History, paper presented in session, “Reviving the Archives as Pictorial Histories,” Photography and Anthropology Conference, Royal Anthropological Institute, British Museum, May 31. “The Pageant of the Pacific”: Miguel Covarrubias’s Vision of the Transpacific,” paper presented at the Center for Transpacific Studies, November 29, 2013. University of Southern California.“Bodily Transformations: The Politics and Art of Men as Pigs and Pigs as Men on Manam Island, Papua New Guinea,” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the College Art Association, February 25, 2012. Los Angeles, CA.“Jack London’s Pacific Voyage of Transformation: An Anthropologist Looks at London’s The Cruise of the Snark (1911),” paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. February 12, 2012. Portland, OR.“Photographs as Relics: Temporality and Touch as Salient Dimensions of Photographs of Manam Islanders.” Paper for a session on Photography in the Pacific, Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, February 13, 2012, Portland, Oregon.The “Bowerbird” of American Collectors: Nelson A. Rockefeller and Collecting “The Stuff that wasn’t in the Metropolitan.” Paper presented at the conference, Art/Artifact/Commodity. Buffalo Museum of Science. Organized by Dr. Robert Foster (Rochester) and Katherine Leacock (Buffalo Museum of Science). Buffalo, NY. January 5, 2012.The “Bowerbird” of American Collectors: Nelson A. Rockefeller and Collecting “The Stuff that wasn’t in the Metropolitan.” Paper presented in the session “Material Traces and Effacements: Ethnographies of Dealing and Collecting,” organized by Laurel Kendall and Nancy Lutkehaus. Annual meetings of the American Anthropology Association, November 22, 2011. Montreal, Canada.“The Met Goes Primitive: When and Why One of America’s Premier Museums of Fine Art Finally Decided to Collect Non-Western Indigenous Art,” paper presented in the session “Moments and Motives: The Circulation of Objects into Art Markets and Museums,” organized by Laurel Kendall and Nancy Lutkehaus, at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, November 2010. New Orleans, LA.Colloquium on Innovations in Archival Processing, Panel Discussion on Coolaborating with Subject Experts, Getty Research Institute, September 23, 2010. “René d’Harnoncourt and the History of the Aestheticization of Non-Western Art,” Getty Research Scholar lecture at the Getty Research Institute, February 22, 2010.“René d’Harnoncourt and the 20th Century Display of Indigenous Art in America,” paper presented at the Conference “The Task of the Curator: Translation, Intervention and Innovation in Exhibitionary Practice,” Museum Practice Program, University of California Santa Cruz, May 14-15, 2010.“On the Visual in the History of Anthropology,” paper presented at the History of Anthropology Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Henrika Kuklick, organizer. May, 2009. “Finishing ‘Apui’s Name: Mortuary Rites in Manam Society,” paper presented at the annual meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, February 2009. Santa Cruz, CA. “Margaret Mead: Anthropology’s Collaborator Nec Plus Ultra,” Paper presented in the session Collaboration and Ethics, Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, November 17, 2006. Society of the Divine Word Missionaries (SVD): Diverse Sources of Ethnographic andLinguistic Data from the North Coast of Papua New Guinea. Paper for session on“Missionaries in the Development of Linguistic Anthropology and Ethnography,”Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.December 1, 2005.Disneyland Meets the Sepik: American Popular Culture and Melanesian Art. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Chicago. November 20, 2003. Margaret Mead: Anthropology’s Liminal Figure. Paper presented in a PresidentialSymposium honoring Margaret Mead’s Centenary, “Margaret Mead: Anthropology and the Public Sphere.” American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C. November 30, 2001. From Image to Narrative: Anthropology's Role in the Development of Jerome Bruner's Cultural Psychology," Paper presented at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 17, 2000.Finishing Kapui’s Death: Mourning in Manam. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 1999.Gender, Music and Aesthetics in Manam Culture. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 22, 1996.The Impact of Feminist Scholarship on Ethnographic Film. Paper presented at the Visible Evidence Conference, University of Cardiff, Wales. August, 1996.Pratibha Parmar: Postmodern Filmmaker, Transnational Subject. Paper presented at the Visible Evidence Conference. Harvard University, August, 1995.The Paradoxical Power of Images: Situating Timothy Asch's Pedagogical Assumptions about Ethnographic Film. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C, November 1995.Paradigms Lost: The Impact of the "New Ethnography" on Ethnographic Film. Paper co-authoredwith Jennifer Cool. Presented at the Second Visible Evidence Conference, University of Southern California School of Cinema-TV, August, 1994. Maternalism Imposed: Women, Children, and the Maternal Behavior of Catholic Nuns in Papua New Guinea. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C. November, 1993.Song and Sentiment: Music as Art, History, and Politics in Manam Culture. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, CA. (December, 1992.“Identity Crisis”: Chieftainship and Class Formation in Papua New Guinea. Paper presented to the Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan. November 5, 1992.“Identity Crisis”: Conflicting Images of Chieftainship in Manam. Paper presented at Symposium honoring Sir Raymond Firth on his 90th Birthday. London School of Economics. London, December 1991.Islands and Beaches: Temporal Perspectives on Relations Between Manam Islanders and their Coastal Neighbors. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC. November 16, 1989.To Put on the Banana Leaf Skirt: Female Initiation in Manam. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Savannah, GA. March, 1987.From Charismatic Leader to Cultural Anti-hero: The Life of Irakau as Cultural Allegory. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Chicago, IL. November, 1987."We Are Taoa": Regional Exchange and National Identity on the North Coast of New Guinea. Paper presented at the conference on Regionalism in North Coast Societies, Papua New Guinea. Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota. May, 1987. The Commoditization of "Cargo" in Manam, Papua New Guinea.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Philadelphia, PA. December, 1986.Hierarchy and 'heroic history" in Manam Society. Paper presented at the Wenner-Gren Foundation sponsored symposium on Sepik Culture History. Mijas, Spain. February, 1986.Refractions of Reality: On the Use of Other Ethnographers' Fieldnotes. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C. December, 1985.New Rhetoric, Old Motives: The Dialectics of Hierarchy and Equality in Manam Society. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C. December, 1985.War Games: The Ritualization of Violence and Competition in Manam Culture. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Denver, CO. November, 1984.Tambarans and Tanepoa: Music, Politics and Cultural Identity in Manam.Paper presented at the Pacific Arts Association Meeting. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY. September, 194.The Flutes of the Tanepoa: Traditional and Modern Forms of Leadership in Manam Society. Paper prrepared for the Wenner-Gren Foundation on Sepik Anthropology Today. Basle, Switzerland. August, 1984.Pigs for their Ancestors: Manam Perspectives on Trade and Regional Integration. Paper prepared for the Annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Chicago. November, 1983.Remembrance of Things Past: The Social Re-creation of Tradition in Manam Society. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC. November, 1982.Manipulating Myth and History II. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Hilton Head, NC. March, 1982.Ambivalence, Ambiguity and the Reproduction of Gender Hierarchy in Manam. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Los Angeles, CA. December, 1981.Maniuplating Myth and History: How the Manam Maintain Themselves. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C. December, 1980.A Constricting Web of Tradition: The Political Use of Rhetoric on Manam Island, Papua New Guinea. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Galveston, TX. February, 1980.Conferences, Panels and Presentations2021. Discussant: “Ophir,” Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) Film Festival. UK. March 28, 2021.2020. “Covarrubias in Bali,” Conference organized by the Mexican Consulate in Indonesia and the Institute for Art, Den Pasar, Bali.2019. Organizer of Session, “Pedagogy and Public Anthropology,” Visible Evidence Conference, USC School of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles, CA., July 26.2019. Organizer of Session, “Pedagogy and Public Anthropology,” Royal Anthropological Film Festival (RAI), Bristol, UK, March 302018. Discussant for Session: “Modeling Change in Melanesia,” Aletta Biersack, organizer. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA., November 18.Roundtable Panelist, “Asia in the Museum: An International Symposium”, Organized by Dr. Sonya Lee (USC) and Dr. Robert Brown (LACMA/UCLA), Los Angeles County Museum of Art and University of Southern California. January 23-24, 2015.Discussant for Session: “In Honor of Henrika Kuklick, Historian of Science,” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., December 5, 2014.Discussant for Session “Sensory Bodies and Cultural Performance: Reconfiguring Suffering and Healing at the Intersection of Visual and Medical Anthropology,” organized by Anita Kumar and Cheryl Mattingly, Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 14, 2012.Panelist for session on “Interviewing for Biographies,” International Biography Conference, May 19, 2012. University of Southern California.Discussant for Session “Documentary Futures”, organized by Christopher Boebel and Chris Walley, MIT. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, November 14, 2011. Montreal, Canada.Discussant for Session “Anthropologists Take a Look at Avatar,” organized by Eric Silverman (Wheelock College/Brandeis University), Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA. November 2010.Discussant for Session “Visualizing the Invisible,” Organized by Janet Hoskins and Lene Pedersen, Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA, November 15, 2006.Chair, “Utopian Visions and their Technicalities: Social Change and the Internet,” Session at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 30, 2005.Discussant for the symposium “The Gang of Four, or Bateson, Benedict, Fortune and Mead in Multiple Contexts.” Annual Meetings of the Association for SocialAnthropology in Oceania, Lihue, Kaua’i, February 2-5, 2005.Discussant for session, “The Legacy of Margaret Mead: Founding a Theory of Contemporary Cultures.” Presidential Session, American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., November 29, 2001.Discussant, Session on “Pioneering Women in Anthropology,” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Philadelphia, PA. December, 1986.Rapporteur for conference on Sepik Culture History: Variation, Innovation and Synthesis. Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Mijas, Spain. February, 1986.Film Festivals, Film Screenings, and Performances Curated2021 Organized panel discussion with filmmaker Matthias de Groof of “Palimpsest of the Africa Museum,” Visual Studies Research Institute colloquium series, “Images Out of Time, September 3, 20212018 Royal Anthropological Film Festival (RAI) Judge, Bristol, UK, March 2018.2010 Co-organizer with Dr. Janet Hoskins and Dr. Gary Seaman of film festival and conference on “Contemporary Ethnographic Film in China,” Sponsored by the USC US-China Institute and USC Center for Visual Anthropology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, April 24, 2010.2007 “Dharma,” Viji Prakash and the Shakti Dance Company. USC Visions and Voices Arts + Humanities Initiative and USC Center for Visual Anthropology. March 22, 2007.Screening and discussion of documentary “Dancing with Shakti,” by AnitaKumar, USC Dept. of Anthropology, USC School of Cinematic Arts, March 22, 2007. Funded by USC Visions and Voices Arts + Humanities Initiative.Screening of Japanese anime filmmaker Isao Takahata films at the Pacific Theater, Hollywood. Organized with Dr. Mizuko Ito, Annenberg Center. Provost’s Visiting Scholar Funds and Center for Visual Anthropology, April 22-23, 2004.Kaleidoscope of Cultures Ethnographic Film Festival. USC Provost’s Initiative: SC in the World, the World in SC. March 23-25, 2000.Representations of Asians and Asian-Americans in Hollywood Films. Asia PacificMuseum, Pasadena, CA. July-August, 1996.Women and Difference Feminist Film Festival. Sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. January-April, 1995.Academic Panels and Symposia OrganizedCo-Organizer of session with Dr. Eric Silverman (Wheeler College), “Music in the Pacific, Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, San Diego, CA, February 2016.Co-Organizer of session with Dr. Maureen Molloy (University of New Zealand), “Mid-Century Modern: On the History of Modernity and Anthropology,” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washington D.C., December 3-7, 2014.Co-Organizer of session with Dr. Judith Schachter (Carnegie Mellon University), “From “Romance” to “Reality”: Western Images of Pacific Islands and Islanders,” Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Portland, OR. February, 2012.Co-Organizer of session with Dr. Laurel Kendall (American Museum of Natural History, NYC), “Material Traces and Effacements: Ethnographies of Dealing and Collecting,” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Montreal. November 22, 2011.Co-Organizer of session with Dr. Judith Schachter (Carnegie Mellon University), From “Romance” to “Reality”: Western Images of Pacific Islands and Islanders,” Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Honolulu, HI February 12, 2011.Co-Organizer of session with Dr. Laurel Kendall (American Museum of Natural History, NYC), “Moments and Motives: The Circulation of Objects into Art Markets and Museums” at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, November 2010. New Orleans, anizer of session in honor of Douglas Newton, Former Curator of the Art of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City: “Intertwined Traditions: The Confluence of Art History and Anthropology in Oceania; Essays in Honor of Douglas Newton. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Chicago. November, 2003.Co-organizer of session, "Cultural Psychology Meets Anthropology: Papers in Honor of JeromeBruner," Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November, anizer of Special Invited Session: Margaret Mead as a Public Person on the Occasion of her Centennial Year, Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C. December, 2001.Co-organizer of session on "Ethnoaesthetics in the Sepik, Papua New Guinea." Annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA. December, 1996.Co-organizer of session "Gendered Missions: Men and Women in Missionary Discourse and Practice," Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC. November, anizer of workshop on "The Visual Translation of Culture: Teaching with Ethnographic Film." Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC. November, anizer of symposium: "Anthony Forge: In Appreciation of the Art of Ethnoaesthetics." Annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, CA. December, 1992.Co-organizer with Paul Roscoe of symposium on Female Initiation in the Pacific. Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Savannah, GA, March, 1988.Co-organizer of session on Hierarchy and Equality in Oceania. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C. November, 1985. Conferences OrganizedCo-organizer with Dr. Janet Hoskins and Dr. Gary Seaman of film festival and conference on “Contemporary Ethnographic Film in China,” Sponsored by the USC US-China Institute and USC Center for Visual Anthropology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, April 24, 2010.Co-organizer with Dr. Mizuko Ito of conference on “Anime and the Contemporary Japanese Imagination, USC Annenberg Center for Communication, Los Angeles, April 24, 2004.Co-organizer with Dr. Cheryl Mattingly and Dr. Mary Lawlor. International conferenceon Health and Humanity, Malibu, CA. October 5-9, 2003.Co-organizer of conference with Professor Doe Mayer and Dr. Naj Meshkati on “Technology and Cultural Change” Annenberg Center for Communication, May anizer of conference on "The New Museum: The Role of Anthropology in Museums in the Pacific." Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Suva, Fiji. November, 1987.Co-organizer of conference, “Sepik Research Today: The Study of Sepik Cultures In and For Modern Papua New Guinea.” Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Basle, Switzerland. August, 1984.Workshops Organized2020 Levan Institute for the Humanities Working Group on Museums. Co-organized workshop on “Museums and Difficult Objects,” with Daniela Bleichmar. Zoom conference. October 2, anizer of workshop on "The Visual Translation of Culture: Teaching with Ethnographic Film." Annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, GA. December, 1994.Co-organizer with Timothy Asch of workshop on "The Visual Translation of Culture: Teaching with Ethnographic Film." Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco. December, anizer of workshop on "The Visual Translation of Culture: Teaching with Ethnographic Film." Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., 1991Co-organizer with Timothy Asch of workshop on "The Visual Translation of Culture: Teaching with Ethnographic Film." Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans. December, 1990.Co-organizer with Timothy Asch of workshop on "The Visual Translation of Culture: Teaching with Ethnographic Film." Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C. November, 1989.Co-organizer with Timothy Asch of workshop on "The Visual Translation of Culture: Teaching with Ethnographic Film." Annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Phoenix, AZ, November, 1988.Co-organizer with Timothy Asch of workshop on "The Visual Translation of Culture: Teaching with Ethnographic Film." Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Chicago, IL. November, 1987.Co-organizer with Timothy Asch of workshop on "The Visual Translation of Culture: Teaching with Ethnographic Film." Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Philadelphia, PA. November, 1986.Co-organizer with Timothy Asch of workshop on "The Visual Translation of Culture: Teaching with Ethnographic Film." Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C. November, 1985.Professional Activities2021- Advisory Board Member, Collections Committee, Pacific Asia Museum, 2021-2021 Member of Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) Film Selection Committee2018 Royal Anthropological Film Festival (RAI) Juror, Bristol, UK, March 24-7, 20181996 Lecturer, “Melanesian Art,” Docents, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA1998 Lecturer, “Melanesian Art,” Docents, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ1994-1991 Lecturer, American Museum of Natural History, Discovery Tours, Papua New Guinea.Consultantships2019- Consultant to Sapiens Podcast NEH grant proposal, “Margaret Mead and the Discovery of Sexuality.”2007 Consultant to James Cameron, Director of Avatar, Lightsword Productions.2003 Consultant to Department of Fine Arts, Arizona State University. Report on collection of Melanesian Art, 2003.1991 Consultant, Seattle Museum of Art, Sepik Collections, 1991.1988-1992 An Observer Observed: Margaret Mead, documentary film directed by Virginia Yans, Department of History, Rutgers University.1988 Consultant to the Department of Anthropology, California Academy of Sciences.1998 Consultant to Director Anne Peck, WGBH, Documentary Film, Margaret Mead: Taking Note.Scholarly Workshops/Working Groups2020 - “Images Out of Time” Speaker Series & Working Group, Visual Studies Research Institute2011-2012 Objects of Knowledge Working Group, USC Polymathic Institute and Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Program, 2011-2012.2007 Visualizing Religion Working Group, USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, 2007-2000-2007 Steering Committee, Center for Feminist Research, 2000-2007.2001-2005 Working Group on Religion and Culture, USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture.2000-2006 Steering Committee, Seminar on Celebrity, Politics and Culture, Norman Lear Center for the Study of Entertainment, USC Annenberg School of Communication.Fieldwork and Archival Research2021 New York Public Library: Brooke Astor Papers, August 2021 (postponed)2016 Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Papers, Sophia Smith Archives, Smith College, April 2016.2015 Manam Island, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, May 2015 2012 Museum of Primitive Art Papers, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. July 2012.Miguel Covarrubias Papers, Alfred Knopf Papers, Harry Ransom Center for the Humanities, University of Texas, Austin, TX. March 12-16, 2012.Manam Island, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, June 2011.Rene d’Harnoncourt Papers, Museum of Modern Art Archives and the Archives of American Art, New York, NY. 2010.Nelson Rockefeller Papers, Rockefeller Archive Center, Tarrytown, NY. 2009, 2010.Bentley Historical Library, James Neel Archives, Geneticist, University of Michigan, 2007.Library of Congress, Margaret Mead Archives, 2007.Nairobi and Eldoret, Kenya, Interviews with NGOs working with girl-children orphaned by AIDS, November-December, 2006.Big Island, Hawaii, Filming of Annual Aloha Days Revival of Hawaiian Royalty Ritual, 2006.Library of Congress, Margaret Mead Archives, 2005.American Museum of Natural History Archives, New York, 2004.Library of Congress, Margaret Mead Archives, 2004.Columbia University, Special Collections, New York, 2004.Library of Congress, Margaret Mead Archives, 2001.Columbia University, Special Collections, New York, 2001.Bentley Historical Library, Leslie White Archives, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1999.Library of Congress, Margaret Mead Archives, 1998.American Museum of Natural History Archives, Interviews, New York City, 1997.Museum of Broadcast and Television, New York City, 1996.Vassar College, Ruth Benedict Archives, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1996. Library of Congress, Margaret Mead Archives, 1995American Museum of Natural History Archives, New York City, 1995Fieldwork, video production and archival research on SSpS nuns in Papua New Guinea, Germany and Rome. June-August, 1994. Annotation of SSpS Chronicle, Bieng Catholic Mission, Manam Island, Papua New Guinea and interviews with Catholic missionary nuns in Papua New Guinea. March, 1992.London School of Economics, Malinowski Archives. December, 1991.Manam Island, Bogia and Madang, Papua New Guinea. Collection and translation of SSpS Catholic nuns chronicle: 1925-present. March, 1991.Manam Island, Papua New Guinea. Study of Local History: Political Rhetoric and Social Change in Manam Society. June-August, 1987.Cambridge, Oxford, England. Archival research and interviews concerning the role of women in British social anthropology. June-August, 1984.Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. "Women's Roles in Tribal Fighting and Dispute Settlement." (August-December, 1983.Bad Driburg, Sankt Augustin, West Germany. Archival research on early German Catholic missionaries in New Guinea. May, December, 1980.Manam Island Revisited: Leadership, Gender and Political and Economic Change in a Melanesian Chieftainship. Doctoral Research, 1978-1979. The Economic and Social Impact of Missionaries on Amazonian Indians. Yarinachoca, Lowland Peru. June-August, 1974.Teaching ExperienceUniversity of Southern CaliforniaUndergraduate CoursesANTH 201 Introduction to Social/Cultural AnthropologyANTH 235g The Changing Pacific: History, Politics and Culture in the New South SeasANTH 235g/MDA 140 IML Media in the Core, The Changing PacificANTH 263g Exploring Culture Through FilmANTH 320 Male and Female in the PacificANTH 325 Research Methods in Global StudiesANTH 345 Politics and Law from an Anthropological PerspectiveANTH 360 Symbolic AnthropologyANTH 357 Cultures of GenocideANTH 415 Senior Seminar in Global StudiesANTH 440 History of Anthropological TheoryANTH 485 Global Studies Senior Thesis SeminarARLT 100g The Arts of Africa, Oceania and the AmericasARLT 100g From “Romance” to “Reality:” Western Representations of Pacific IslandersSWMS 225 Sex, Gender and Science (formerly Sex Similarities and Differences)SWMS 311 Gender Studies and the Community: Internship SWMS 410 Senior Seminar: “Margaret Mead and the American Century: Anthropology and the Study of Gender, Race and Sexuality in 20th Century America”FSM Freshman Seminar: Tsunami, Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Other Natural Disasters: The Human ResponseFSM Freshman Seminar: Famous American Female IconsMini-Course, Freshmen Orientation, “The Art, Science and Anthropology of James Cameron’s Avatar,” August 2011.Graduate CoursesANTH 502 Contemporary Theory in AnthropologyANTH 562 The Practice of Ethnography ANTH 576 Anthropological Media SeminarANTH 575 Seminar in Ethnographic FilmANTH 577 Advanced Anthropological Media SeminarANTH 601 Feminist Issues in AnthropologyANTH 602 The Anthropology of Popular CultureSWMS 560 Graduate Seminar in Feminist TheoryMDA 599 Picturing Paradise: Western Images of Imaginary Utopias and Real Shangri-Las (co-taught with Dr. Jane Iwamura, School of Religion)New York UniversityANTH 200 Introduction to Cultural AnthropologyProfessional Service: NationalFulbright Fellowship National Screening Committee, IIE Fulbright to Australia, 2016 (Declined)National Screening Committee, IIE Fulbright to Australia and New Zealand, 2009.National Screening Committee, IIE Fulbright to Australia and New Zealand, 1996. National Screening Committee, IIE Fulbright to Australia and New Zealand, 1995.National Endowment for the HumanitiesPanel Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities, Media Division, 1988.American Anthropological AssociationBoard Member, Society for Visual Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 1994-1997Grant Review: National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities,Wenner-Gren Foundation, Fulbright Fellowships (Australia and New Zealand), American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Scholars Post-doctoral Fellowships .Manuscript Review (journals): American Anthropologist, Childhood, American Ethnologist, Human Organization, Pacific Studies, Public Culture, Visual Anthropology Review, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Manuscript Review (presses): University of California Press, University of Hawaii Press Tenure and Promotion ReviewsInternational:Australian National University, University of Bergen, University of AucklandUnited States:University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Colorado, University of Maine, Rutgers UniversityHarvard University, California Academy of ArtService to University of Southern California Department of AnthropologyChair, Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series, 2021Chair, TT Merit Review Committee, 2021Member, RTCP Merit Review Committee, 2021Chair, Tenure Committee, Reighan Gillam, 2021Mentor, Reighan Gillam, 2017-Mentor, Sayd Randall, 2018-2019Chair, Tenure Committee, Stephanie Spray, 2020Member, PhD Committee, 2020-2021Member, MVA Committee, 2010-Chair, Search Committee, Visual Anthropologist, 2019Chair, Search Committee, Department Chair, 2018Graduate Studies Advisor, 2013-2015Chair, Dept. of Anthropology, Curriculum Committee, 2013-2015Chair, Fall 2007-2012Masters in Visual Anthropology Admissions CommitteeUndergraduate Faculty Advisor, 2010-2012Graduate Faculty Advisor, 2010-2012Faculty Advisor, Lambda Alpha National Anthropology Honors Club, 2007-2012Liaison, Global Pacific Health Initiative, 2006-2009Liaison, Center for Health and Humanity, 2005-2009Co-Director, Center for Visual Anthropology, 1995-presentMerit Review Committee, 1986, 1990, 1995Director, Graduate Studies, 1991-1995Ph.D. Curriculum Revision Committee, 2006-presentMedical Anthropology Minor Committee, 2005Senior Hiring Initiative Search Committee, 2003-2004Graduate Admissions Committee, 1986-1995Masters in Visual Anthropology Admissions Committee, 1990-1994Gender Studies ProgramAffiliated Faculty, 2014-2019Chair, Gender Studies Program 2000-2007Steering Committee, Center for Feminist Research, 2000-2007Travel Grants Fellowship committee, 2000-2007Thinking Gender Conference Co-ordinator, 2005Curriculum Committee, 2005Women in Higher Education Luncheon Committee, 2005-2006Search Committee, Streisand Chair, 2005Senior Hiring Initiative Search Committee, 2003-2004Kerkhoff Prize Committee, 2003-2006Faculty Liason, Gender Studies Graduate Student Network, 2001-2005Core faculty, 1998-presentInstitute for the Study of Women and Men in Society, Steering Committee, 1986-1990Affiliated faculty, 1986-1997 Dornsife CollegeMember of DCAPT, 2020- Member, Search Committee, Director of Wrigley Environment Institute, 2019Levan Institute for the Humanities, Steering Committee, 2019 Visual Studies Research Institute, Faculty Advisory Board, 2013-presentVisual Studies Graduate Certificate Summer Fellowships, 2014, 2012Center for Genocide Studies, Visiting Scholar Fellowship Committee, 2014 Interdisciplinary Archaeology NTT Faculty Search Committee, 2012Interdisciplinary Archaeology Advisory Board, 2009-2011Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Program Board Member, 2010-presentCenter for Religion and Civic Culture Research Association, 2008-2012College Visual Studies Initiative Advisory Board, 2007-2009Member, Dean’s Committee on Visual Studies, Fall 2007Literary, Visual and Material Culture Initiative, Steering Committee, 2003-2005“Forbidden Knowledges,” Steering Committee, 2003-2004College Faculty Council, Social Science Representative, 2003-2005College Faculty Council Representative, Academic Senate, 1999-2000College Faculty Council, Social Science Representative, 1999-2001Chair, Faculty Council Subcommittee on Research, 2000-2001College Dean’s Committee on Interdisciplinarity, 2002-2003College Dean’s General Education Committee, 1996-1997College Dean’s Cultural Studies Committee, 1995-1996UniversityMember, USC Decanal Review Advisory Committee for Review of Dean Amber Miller, 2020Internal Review Committee, Provost’s Review of the Pacific Asia Museum, April 2016Faculty Interview Committee for Rhodes and Marshall Scholars, 2014Committee for University Regulations, 2011-2012Committee for Review of Undergraduate Minors, 2010-2011Center for Excellence in Teaching Fellow, 2006-2009WASC Committee, 2006-2009Center for Religion Advisory Board, 2006-2007 University Committee on Academic Programs and Teaching (CAPT): 2005-presentUniversity Committee on Diversity, 2005-2006.Member, Global Health Initiative, 2005-presentLiterary, Visual and Material Culture Steering Committee, 2003-2006Provost’s Interdisciplinary Visual Studies Workshop, 2003Internal Review Committee for the School of Cinema-Television, 2003-2004 University Committee on Commencement and Academic Honors, 2000-2005University Senate, Representative from College Faculty Council, 1999-2000Internal Review Committee for the Classics Department, 1999-2000University Graduate and Professional Program Committee, 1991-1992Undergraduate Overseas Studies Committee, 1990-1991Diogenes Colloquium, 1987-1988Dissertation Committee Chair, Anthropology: Jennifer Cool, Erica Angert, Charles Scull, Scott Frank, Ilda Jimenez y West, Jay Hasbrouck, Wilton Martinez, Patricia GilsonDissertation Committee: Grant Johnson (Art History), Kelly Song (Annenberg), Ritesh Mehta (Annenberg), Amy Hu (Social Work), Gretchen Heidemann (Social Work), Anita Kumar (Anthropology), Christian Hammons (Anthropology) Sadie Moore (Anthropology), Lene Pederson (Anthropology), Pushpa Tulachan (Anthropology), Wendy DeBoer (Sociology), Maxwell Davis (Social Work), Stacey Rowe (Anthropology), Janis Prins (Sociology), Steven Kolettey (Geography), Heidi Pendleton (Occupational Science), Chris Mayda (Geography), Sean Roberts (Anthropology), Manuel Fernandez (Anthropology), Ellen Strain (Critical Studies/Cinema), Stephanie Nelson(Annenberg), Erica Endrijonas (History), Beverly Farb (Sociology) Masters in Visual Anthropology (MAVA): Yiwei Lu, Erica Angert, Anita Kumar, Jennifer Cool, Jay Hasbrouck, Sharon Berman, Gisella Fosado, Gillian Goslinga, Ju-hua Wu, Wilton Martinez,Mei Juin Chen, Hispano Duran, Sarina Pearson, Kaarina Cleverley Rodriguez, Niki Rousso, Micah Van der RynMA Thesis Committee: Annie Manion (East Asian Languages and Cultures)MA Exams: Claudia Martinez (History) Qualifying Exam Committees: Myles Little (Art History), Anita Kumar (Anthropology), Jennifer Cool (Anthropology), Patricia Gilson (Anthropology), Chiara Salprizio (Classics), Ritesh Mehta (Annenberg School of Communication), Linda Veazey (Political Science), Arjana Agarwal (Political Science), Christian Hammons (Anthropology), Gretchen Heidemann (School of Social Work), Amy Hu (School of Social Work), Sadie Moore (Anthropology)ASE Pre-Qualifying Exam Committee: Mark Padoongpatt MentoringTenure-Track Faculty: Reighan Gillam (2017-present)ACLS Emerging Scholars Mentor: Adeem Suhail (2020-21)Mellon Postdoctoral Mentor: Dr. Mizuko Ito (2005)USC Society of Fellows Mentor: Elaine Gan (2017-2018), Sayd Randall (2018-2019) CET Graduate Mentor for: Cristine Carrier (Occupational Science), Frances Cooper (Earth Sciences), Melissa Conteras (Education), Jennifer Stoever (American Studies), Helena Seli (Education), Michele Torre (Cinema/Critical Studies)Languages Speaking ability: French, Manam, Tok Pisin (Melanesia Pidgin)Reading ability: German, SpanishProfessional AffiliationsAmerican Anthropological AssociationAssociation for Social Anthropology in OceaniaCollege Art AssociationCouncil for Museum AnthropologyPacific Arts AssociationPhi Kappa PhiSociety for Visual Anthropology ................
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