JANE C - Department of Anthropology at Illinois



Curriculum Vitae

JANE C. DESMOND, Ph.D.

Professor of Anthropology

Affiliated Faculty, Gender and Women’s Studies

And, The College of Veterinary Medicine

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Urbana, Illinois U.S.A.

desmondj@illinois.edu

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Jan. 2007 to Present:

Professor of Anthropology and Affiliated Faculty, Gender and Women’s Studies; the Unit for Theory and Criticism; and the College of Veterinary Medicine.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and

Director, International Forum for U.S. Studies: A Center for the Transnational Study of the United States (UIUC)

Founding Resident Director, Summer Institute in Animal Studies (UIUC-Animals and Society Institute collaboration), Center for Advanced Study, Annual, July, 2017, 2018, 2019

August 2004 to Dec. 2006: Associate Dean of International Programs

University of Iowa.

Responsible for: B.A. in International Studies degree program with over 400 majors, liaison with and advisor for all Area Studies programs at the UI; oversee the IP Office of Research and Development; direct an interdisciplinary M.A. program in International Studies. Run all IP faculty award competitions, budgeted at over $200,000. (These include: all International Travel Grant awards on campus, Global Scholar Award, International Summer Research Awards, Provost’s Forum competition; Major Projects Awards, Obermann-IP Fellowship for Faculty, and IP Curriculum Development Awards. Develop Post-doctoral fellowships.). Advise program directors on multi-year planning and funding strategies. Half-time appointment.

2003 to Dec. 2006 Associate Professor of International Studies

University of Iowa

1999 to 2006 Associate Professor of American Studies (tenured)

1995. to Present: Co-Founder and Co-Director,

The International Forum for U.S. Studies

A Rockefeller Residency Site and research institute for Transnational American Studies

2000 (fall): Visiting Appointment: Otto Salgo Chair in American Studies. Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary.

1993-1999 (Untenured) Associate Professor of American Studies and Women’s Studies, University of Iowa

1998 (summer): Co-Director, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies International Faculty Seminar "Legacies of 1898" at UI

1982-1993 Duke University, full-time faculty appointment (on leave 1986-1988, and 1991)

Artist-in-Residence in Dance.

Faculty, Inst. of the Arts Multidisciplinary Certificate Program and Film and Video Certificate Program.

Teaching courses in critical theory and the performing arts; the arts, ideology and American culture; dance history; video and performance; choreography, all levels modern dance technique. Graduate seminar in Performance and American Culture for Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program.

Director, Duke in New York Arts Program,

Fall, 1990, Fall 1992.

New York City-based program for arts students. Seminars in: Postmodernism and the Arts; The Arts, Identity and Cultural Politics; The Structures of the New York Art World. Responsible for curriculum development, teaching, student selection, guest speakers, and overseeing student internships and operating budget.

1980. Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

Assistant Professor, Tenure track, Department of Theater.

Co-director, Dance Performance Program. Acting Director of the Dance Program: 1977-1978. Courses in: choreography, improvisation, movement for actors (graduate level), modern dance technique and repertory.

1975-1978 Cornell University, Lecturer in Dance.

Guest Teaching Abroad:

Orientale Summer School in International American Studies,

Seminar director for Ph.D. students from Europe, the Midle East and North Africa

May 2018, 2016, 2014, 1 week.

Short Courses at La Sapienza University, Rome, American Studies Department

May, 2018, 2016, on “Legacies of 1968 (co-taught with Virginia Dominguez), and on Ethnography and Performance Studies. 2 weeks each.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. 1993 Yale University, New Haven, Conn., American Studies

Concentration: Critical theory and representation in the performing and visual arts, late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dissertation: Physical Evidence: Bodies in Contemporary American Performance.

Co-dir: Bryan Wolf and Jennifer Wicke.

M.Phil. 1991 Yale University in American Studies

M.F.A. 1975 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N.Y.

Concentration in dance, additional work in music.

Primary faculty: Bessie Schonberg, Norma Dalby, June Finch.

B.A. 1973 Brown University, Providence, R.I., Independent major in Music and Dance.

Additional Study:

1984-1985 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Graduate study in media theory, criticism, and production.

SERVICE ON NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BOARDS:

EDITORIAL POSITIONS:

2013 to Present—Editorial Board, Korean Journal of Dance Studies.

2011—Present. Editorial Board, Tourist Studies Journal, U.K.

2011—Present. Editorial Board, Acoma: Journal of the Italian American Studies Association, Rome.

2007 to 2017.: Member, International Editorial Board, Dance Chronicle.

2016 Dance Chronicle Prize committee

2002-Present:

North American Editor, Journal of Comparative American Studies (U.K.),

2002-2005:

Member, National Editorial Advisory Board for Blackwell Publishers for New American Alchemies: Reconfiguring American Studies in Changed Contexts

2002-2004:

Member, National Advisory Board for on-line journal Americana, published by the Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture.

2001-2004:

Member, Editorial Board, American Studies Journal (U.S.)

1996-2011:

Member, National Advisory Board, Dance Research Journal

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP POSITIONS:

2007-2011: President, International American Studies Association

2005-2007:

Vice President, International American Studies Association

2000-2005:

Executive Council: International American Studies Association

2000-2003:

Board of Directors, Society for Dance History Scholars

1994-1995:

National Advisory Committee:

Pacific Bridges Project for International Cultural Studies, based at U.C.-Davis.,

1993-1996:

Board of Directors, Congress on Research in Dance

1987-1988:

National Executive Council, Society for Cinema Studies

GRANTS, HONORS AND AWARDS

2019 Named Research Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. Annual global competition. (in residence March-May, 2019)

2018 Arnold O. Beckman Award for innovative research, UIUC.

2016-2017 University of Illinois Center for Advanced Study.

Appointed Faculty Associate through campus wide competition. One semester teaching release.

2010-2011 University of Illinos: Center for Advanced Study.

Appointed the Faculty Associate-in-Residence, leading

“Knowing Animals” campus- wide initiative.

3 University of Illinois—Program on Research in the Humanities Residential Faculty Fellowship Award. One semester teaching release. Selected through campus-wide competition.

2009, 2010, 2016, 2017: Named to List of Excellent Professors, UIUC for both undergraduate and graduate teaching

2008: Named as “Eminent World Scholar” for visiting teaching appointment, summer, 2007 by Beijing Foreign Studies University. Graduate Seminar in visual culture.

2005-2006: Year of Public Engagement Grant, U of Iowa.

Co-PI with Teresa Mangum. Project: Organizined Statewide competition and touring exhibition (photos and essays): “The Animals Among Us.” Toured through 2010.

2005-2006: CIC Academic Leadership Program Fellow,

for specialized leadership training seminars at several CIC (Big 10) institutions. Selected through campus wide competition.

2005 (Fall): Co-Director and Faculty Fellow, Interdisciplinary Faculty Research Seminar, “Articulating the Animal” at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies.,UI. Co-convener with Teresa Mangum. $75,000.

2005 (Spring): Fulbright Commission “Direct Contact with the Muslim World,”

Received competitive award to sponsor 1 month residency and course on “Islam in South Asia,” by Dr. Kousar Azam through the International Forum for U.S. Studies.

2004: University of Iowa Arts and Humanities Individual Research Award: For Displaying Death/Animating Life book.

2002: Travel/Lecturing Award: U.S. American Studies Association—Japanese American Studies Association Globalization Project. Selected through national competition as one of two American scholars to represent the ASA at the Japan American Studies Association meetings in Tokyo and pursue a two-week speaking tour of Japan, June, 2002.

2002: University of Iowa Interdisciplinary Course Development Award for new course in American Studies/Theater Studies/Sexuality Studies. With Kim Marra.

2002: Selected as Obermann Scholar/Faculty Fellow to participate in the Sexuality and Politics Faculty Research Seminar at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, University of Iowa, a course release for fall semester.

2000-2002 Named University of Iowa Global Scholar. Campus wide competition.

Research Leave Award (Spring semesters) and research funding for international work.

2004. The Rockefeller Foundation.

To extend activities of the International Forum for U.S. Studies into Latin America. (extended through 2005). Co-PI with Virginia Dominguez.

1999-2002 Ford Foundation, "Crossing Borders" grant to UI,

International Forum for U.S. Studies Component.

Research and exchanges with India and South Africa.

Co-PI with Virginia Dominguez.

1999-2000 U. of Iowa Arts and Humanities Initiative Award

Research project on “Comparative American Studies: Russia, Cuba, and the U.S.”

Primary investigator, in collaboration with V. Dominguez

1998 Co-Director, Obermann Center International Faculty Seminar:

"Legacies of 1898: Sovereignty and Colonialism in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, and Hawai'i, and their Impact on the U.S." June 15-July 2,1998. With Virginia Dominguez

Funded by U of I and Christopher Reynolds Fndt.

1995-1999 The Rockefeller Foundation.

To establish the International Forum for U.S. Studies as a Humanities Residency site.

Co-founder, and Co-director, Co-PI with Virginia Dominguez.

1997 Research Award, Univ. of Iowa.

College of Liberal Arts competition for

Special Projects in the Arts and Humanities.

For: "Representing U.S. Colonies in 1898"

1996 Old Gold Summer Research Fellowship, Univ. of Iowa.

1994 Faculty Research Award, Univ. of Iowa.

Central Investment Fund for Research

University-wide faculty competition.

Research on Hawaiian culture and identity.

1994 Selected for inclusion in International Who's Who of Women

1993 Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for Faculty"Cultural Politics of the Pacific," East/West Center, Honolulu.June 14-Aug.8. Directors: Geoffrey White and Lamont Lindstrom

1992 and prior--Faculty research and travel grants at Cornell and Duke in the $1,000 range. (1980, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992)

1992 Selected for inclusion in Who's Who in the Humanities.

1991-1992 Yale University Dissertation Fellowship.

1987-1988 Rose Herrick Jackson Fellow in American Art,

Yale University. Work on publications, research, and exhibition planning. Emphasis on minimalist art of the 1960's.

1987 National CINE Golden Eagle Award for excellence in non-fiction film, for: Chuck Davis: Dancing through West Africa (Co-Producer). Screened natonally on PBS.

1986-1990 Yale University Scholarship

1980 Summer Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities

Summer Seminar for College Teachers,

"Anthropology and Drama," Dir.: Colin Turnbull.

1973-1975: Scholarship for Graduate Study

Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N.Y.

Travel Grants:

2008,’09, ‘10, ‘11: UIUC travel awards for conference presentations.

2003: University of Iowa International Travel Fund

Grant for Canada conference.

1997 U of Iowa Miller Fund travel award to participate in American Anthropological Association meetings, Washington, D. C.

1996. American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant

Alternate.

1996 U of Iowa International Travel Fund award for participation in International Cultural Studies conference, Tampere, Finland.

1990 The Asian Cultural Council, New York City.

American Dance Guild support for travel to the Fifth International Dance Conference, Hong Kong.

PROFESSIONAL GRANTS IN THE ARTS

In media: Film and video projects supported by grants (1984-1986) from:

The North Carolina Arts Council

The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation,

The North Carolina Center for Public Television.

Additional support from the New York State Council on the Arts through Ithaca Video Projects, Inc., the Cornell Council on the Arts, and the Duke Institute of the Arts for dance and video projects.

In choreography: Supported by grants from:

The New York State Council on the Arts, 1979.

The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Residency Fellowship, 1977.,

The Z.B.S. Foundation for Experimental Audio,

Residency Fellowship, 1977

MAJOR WORKS:

BOOKS

Books in Print

2017 Co-Editor, with Virginia Dominguez. Global Perspectives on the United States: Pro-Americanism, Anti-Americanism, and the Discourses Between (University of Illinois Press, spring 2017) 330 pages.

2016 Author, Displaying Death and Animating Life: Human-Animal Relations in Art, Science and Everyday Life, University of Chicago Press. 333 pages. CHOICE Recommended selection. Reviewed on NPR.

2001 Editor, Dancing Desires: Choreographing Sexuality on and off the Stage

Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Society of Dance History Scholars Series.

1999 Author, Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Nov. 1999.

1997 Editor , Meaning in Motion: New Cultural Studies of Dance

Durham: Duke University Press.

Post-Contemporary Interventions Series, Fredric Jameson and Stanley Fish, series editors. In second printing.

Reviews of these books have appeared in American Quarterly; American Studies; The Contemporary Pacific; Dance Research Journal; Signs; Theatre Journal; Journal of American Folklore; CHOICE; Theatre Survey; American Anthropologist; TDR:The Drama Review (Performance Studies); Journal of Canadian Literature, Journal of Dance Education; Hawaiian Journal of History; Pacific Studies, among other journals. Also reviewed in newspaper Metro Times (Detroit) and in the Queer Caucus for Art Newsletter, and College and Research Library News.

SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS, GUEST EDITOR

In print:

Co-Editor, “America” in India, special double issue, 2014, _Comparative American Studies. (co-editor with Rajeshwari Pandharipande and Virginia Dominguez.. Maney Publishers, U.K.

Editor, “Special Issue on Legacies of 1898: Revisiting U.S. Colonialisms,” Comparative American Studies: An International Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2, June 2007 (120 pages).

Looking North: Latin American Scholarship on the U.S. in International Perspective. Co-edited with Sonia Torres, Universidade Federale Fluminense, Brazil. Published by Contracapa Press, Rio, Brazil, as a special issue of Transit Circle, Journal of the Brazilian American Studies Association. In English, with Spanish and Portuguese abstracts. 175 pages. 2010.

BOOK SERIES FOUNDED:

Founding Executive Editor of Book Series: “Animal Lives” at University of Chicago Press, launched 2013.

Co-Editor of Book Series: Global Studies of the United States, University of Illinois Press, launched 2010.

PUBLICATIONS: Refereed Articles

In Print:

2019 “Zones of Production in Possible Worlds: Dance’s Precarious Placement, An Afterword,” in Dance Research Journal, special issue on precarity and dance, Vol. 59-#1, April. (10 pages)

2019 “Vivacious Remains: An Afterword on Taxidermy’s Forms, Fictions, Facticity, and Futures,” in Configurations: Journal of Literature, Science and the Arts (27): 255-264.

2014 “Ethnography as Ethics and Epistemology: Why American Studies Should Embrace Fieldwork and Why it Hasn’t,” American Studies vol. 53: 1, 2014: 27-56.

2010 “Orientalism and American Studies” in Chinese Journal of American Studies,

published in Chinese translation, fall, 2010, c. 15 pages. This is the leading journal of American Studies in China.

2008 “Postmortem Exhibitions: Taxidermied Animals and Plastinated Corpses in the Theaters of the Dead,” in Configurations: Journal of Science and Literature, vol.16, #3, pp: 347-378.

2003 “Transnational American Studies: Limits to Collaboration” in American

Studies International.

2002 “Mapping American Studies Across National Boundaries,” in the Hungarian Journal of American Studies, summer.

1999 "Picturing Hawai'i: The 'Ideal' Native and the Origins of Tourism (1880-1915)."

Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, Vol. 7, No. 2 (fall): 459-502.

1999 "Towards a Political Economy of American Studies: Reports from an Experiment in Process," in Through the Looking Glass: American Studies in Transcultural Perspective, European Contributions to American Studies, Vol. 40, Amsterdam, pp. 196-215.

Co-authored with Virginia Dominguez.

1997 "Invoking the Native: Body Politics in Hawaiian Tourist Shows," TDR (The Drama Review): the Journal of Performance Studies, Vol. 41, No. 4, winter, 1997, pps. 83-109.

1996 "Resituating American Studies in a Critical Internationalism."

co-authored, Jane Desmond and Virginia Dominguez. American Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 3, Sept. 1996, pp. 475-490.

1994. "Embodying Difference: Issues in Dance and Cultural Studies," Cultural Critique, Vol. 26, winter, 1993-1994, pp. 33-64.

(2003) Reprinted in Philip Auslander Performance Studies.

(1998) Reprinted in: The Routledge Dance Studies Reader,

Alexandra Carter, Ed. (London: Routledge):154-162.

(1997): Reprinted in: Every-night Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America, Delgado and Esteban Munoz, eds., (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997), pp. 33-64.

1993 "Mapping Identity onto the Body," Women and Performance, Special Issue on Video, Vol. 6, No. 2, #12, Fall, 1993, pp. 103-126.

1993 "Where is 'The Nation?': Public Discourse, the Body, and Visual Display," East/West Film Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2, July, 1993, pp. 81-109.

1991. "Dancing out the Difference: Cultural Imperialism and Ruth St. Denis' 'Radha' of 1906," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 17, No. 1, (Autumn, 1991), pp. 28-49.

(2001) Reprinted in: Moving History/Dancing Cultures: A Dance

History Reader, Eds. Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright, (Middletown, Ct.: Wesleyan University Press): 256-270.

(1997): Reprinted in: History and Theory: Feminist Research, Debates, Contestations, edited by Laslett, Joeres, et. al. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press),

pp. 254-275.

(1993): Reprinted in: Revising the Word and the World: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism, Eds. Veve Clark, Ruth-Ellen Joeres, Madelen Sprengnether, Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1993, pp. 191-212.

(1993): Reprinted in: Writings on Dance, Vol. 9, "Thinking Through Feminism," Autumn, 1993, Victoria, Australia, pp. 40-54.

1991 "Ethnography, Orientalism, and the Avant-Garde Film," Visual Anthropology, Vol. 4, (summer 1991), pp. 147-160.

1989. "How I Met Miss Tootie: The Home Shopping Club," Cultural Studies, Vol.3, No. 3, (October, 1989), pp. 340-347.

Invited Articles and Chapters in Books:

Book Chapters:

2017 “Thinking about Talking about Writing about…’Animals’, An Afterword” in Beyond the Human-Animal Divide: Creaturely Lives in Literature and Culture, Edited by Roman Bartosch and Dominik Orhem, Palgrave MacMillan.

2017 “Extreme Animal Tourism: Staging Privilege and Proximity,” for Linda Kalof, Editor, Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies. (Oxford U. Press). ( 30 pages.) (online publication 2016, final book publication, spring 2017).

2017 “Staging the Political Economy of Dance,” for Martin and Kowal, eds., Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics, commissioned by Oxford U. Press). (30 pages). Published, Spring 2017.

2017 “Ambivalence, Ambiguity, and the ‘Wicked Problem’ of Pacific Tourist Studies—An Afterword,” in Touring Pacific Cultures, Eds. Kalissa Alexeyev and John Taylor,, Australian National University Press, released spring 2017.

2017 “The Sounds of Silence: Commissions, Omissions, and Particularity in the Global Anthropology of the United States—An Afterword” in America Observed: Global Anthropology of the United States, Eds. Jasmine Habib and Virginia R. Dominguez, Berghann Books, Publisher. Spring 2017: pp. 164-172.

2016 “’And Never the Twain Shall Meet?’: Considering the Legacies of Orientalism and Occidentalism for te Transnational Study of the U.S.”, in Armin Paul Frank and Marietta Messmer, eds. The International Turn In American Studies ( Peter Lang Publishers, Switzerland) 2016..

(first English language publication of a piece that originally appeared in Chinese translation only, in 2009/10.)

2015 Three of my previously published articles were translated into Korean (“Dancing out the Difference,” “Dance and Cultural Studies: Terre Incognita,” and “Embodying Difference”), and appeared in the book: Dance and Cultural Studies, edited by Suein Kim and Hyanjung Kim, Published by Sangkyunkwan University Press, South Korea.

2014 “Kinesthetic Intimacies,” commentary on Kim Marra’s “Horseback Views”, in Animal Acts: Performing Species Today, Chaudhuri, U. and Holly Hughes, eds. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014): 131-139.

2013 “Requiem for Roadkill: Death and Denial on America’s Roads,” in Kopnina and Shoremann-Ouimet, eds., Environmental Anthropology: Future Directions (New York: Routledge, 2013) 46-58.

2012 “Can Animals Make “Art”?: Popular and Scientific Discourses About Expressivity and Cognition in Primates,” . In Smith, J. and Robert Mitchell, eds., Experiencing Animal Minds: An Anthology of Human-Animal Encounters (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012): 95-110.

2011 “Animal Deaths and the Written Record of History The Politics of Pet Obituaries,” in Kalof and Montgomery editor, Making Animal Meaning (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2011): 99-112.

2009. “Touring the Dead: Imagination, Embodiment, and Affect in Gunter Von Hagen’s Body Worlds Exhibitions,” in Great Expectations: Tourism and the Imagination, 2011, U.K., Berghan Press.

2007 “What’s Performance Got to do with it?” Americana: E-Journal of American Studies

in Hungary (vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2007) (americanaejournal.hu) Interviewed by Eva Federmayer.

2007 “Towards a Prismatic ‘American Studies’” in _Safundi_:

The Journal of South African and American Studies, (Routledge), Vol. 8, No. 1, January: 5-14.

2007 “Legacies of 1898: US Imperialism in a Multi-sited Historical Perspective,

Comparative American Studies, Introduction to Special Issue, Vol. 5, No. 2, June, 115-118.

2007 Book Review Forum on Staging Tourism in Pacific Studies Journal.

A multi-reviewer discussion of my book, with author’s response, Pacific Studies Journal, Vol. 29, Nos.1/2 (March/June 2006): 159-175.

2004: “Fetishizing the Foreign at the Whitney”

Extended review essay of international art exhibit commissioned by American Quarterly,

Dec. 2004: 56:4:1051-1066.

2002: “Displaying Death, Animating Life: Fictions of Liveness from Taxidermy to Animatronics,” in Nigel Rothfells, ed.,Representing Animals (University of Illinois Press, 2002):159-179..

2001: "Making the Invisible Visible: Staging Sexualities through Dance,"in

Desmond, Ed., Dancing Desires (Madison: University of Wisconsin

Press,): 3-32.

2001: “New Approaches to American Studies Scholarship: Doing Performance

Studies at ‘Home’ and ‘Abroad’,” in Rediscovering America: American

Studies in the New Century, Kousar Azam, editor. (New Delhi: South

Asian Publishers): 89-101.

2001: Prologue: “’America’ and the Changing Object of Study,” co-authored

with Virginia Dominguez, in Rediscovering America, as above: 14-24.

2000: "Terras Incognita: Mapping New Territory in Dance and ‘Cultural Studies’" Dance Research Journal, 32:1, Summer,2000: 43-53 Commissioned.

1999 "Engendering Dance: Feminist Inquiry and Dance Research," in Researching Dance: Evolving Modes of Inquiry, eds. Sondra Horton Fraleigh and Penelope Hanstein (Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press,: 309-334. Commissioned.

1997 "Introduction," in my Meaning in Motion: New Cultural Studies of Dance, Duke University Press, 1997, pps. 1-25.

1995 "Performing Nature: Shamu at Sea World," in

Cruising the the Performative: Interventions into the Representation of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Sexuality.

Eds., Sue-Ellen Case, Philip Brett, Susan Foster, Indiana University Press, pps. 217-236.

Book and Exhibition Reviews:

In Press:

Review of Authentic New Orleans: Tourism, Culture, and Race in the Big Easy, in American Journal of Sociology (in press).

In Print:

Book Review of _Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance, published (May, 2016) in Studies in Theater and Performance (U.K.

2008 Review of Toni Bentley’s Sisters of Salome for Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 17, No. 1, Jan. 2008: 138-140.

Review of John Knight’s Waiting for Wolves in Japan: An Anthropological Study of People-Wildlife Relations, by John Knight, in American Ethnologist, vol. 34:2, May, 2007.

Review of Russ Castronovo’s Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth Century United States for Current Anthropology.

Review of Mary Masayo Doi’s Gesture Gender, Nation: Dance and social Change in Uzbekistan, for Slavic Review.

Review of Jeanette Malkin’s Memory: Theater and Postmodern Drama, for Theatre Research International.

2005 Review of Alma Guillermoprieto’s Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution. New West Indian Guide: Vol. 79.

2004 Review of Susanna Sloat’s Caribbean Dance from Abakua to Zouk: How Movement Shapes Identity. New West Indian Guide 78:1-2: 149-151. 2004.

2002 Double Review essay. Review of Susan Broadhurst,Liminal Acts: A Critical Overview of Contemporary Performance and Theory (Cassell, 1999) and Case, Brett, and Foster, eds. Decomposition: Post-Disciplinary Performance (Indiana, 2000), The Drama Review, fall.

2001 Review of Where is Ana Mendieta: Identity, Performativity, and Exile, by Jane Blocker (Duke, 1999) for Niew West Indian Guide vol. 75, no. 1 and 2. (Caribbean Studies). fall.

2001 Review of : Africans on Stage: Studies in Ethnological Show Business, Bernth Lindfors, ed. (Indiana, 1999). For American Ethnologist. Spring.

2001 “Making America Dance” Double review article of books by Sally Ness and Brenda Dixson Gottschild for American Quarterly, winter.

2001 Review of Steve Baker’s The Postmodern Animal, (London:Reaktion Press Ltd., 2000 London)., in Society and Animals.

1997 Review of Marta Savigliano's Tango and the Political Economy of Passion and of Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory and Literature as Dance, eds. Goellner and Murphy, in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, winter 1997-8.

1997 Review of Moving Words: Re-Writing Dance , Gay Morris, Ed., in TDR (The Drama Review): A Journal of Performance Studies, vol. 41, No. 4, winter, p. 174.

1995 "Crafting Exhibitions: Contemporary Navajo Weaving at the Jocelyn Museum."

Co-authored with Virginia Dominguez. Review essay on politics of exhibitions. American Anthropologist, 97:4:779-782.

Public engagement Writings:

(“The other Victim of the Opiod Crisis,” Op Ed. May, 2018.

Washington Post. Com “Can Animals Make Art?”: Animalia. August 2016.

Huffington Post (“Should Animals be Soldiers?) and the Washington Post Animalia blog “Art by Animals?” 2016.

SELECTED INVITED LECTURES AND KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

2019 “Anthropologies of (Veterinary) Medicine,” Czech Institute of Ethnology, Prague, Czechoslovakia, May 16.

2019 “Medical Anthropology when the patient is a dog,” Glasgow University invited lecture, Medical Humanites Network, Glasgow, Scotland, March 27, 2019.

2018 “Transdisciplinary Collaborataive Work in a More than Human World,” invited address to the humanities faculty at Koln University, Koln, Germany. November.

2018 “Transnational Hunters and Killing Polar Bears in Canada,”Border Studies Program invited lecture, University of Saarsland, Saarbruken, Germany. November.

2018 “Cockatoos and Choreography: Dancing in a more than human world,” Cultural Studies Program invited lecture, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. November.

2018 “Poetry as Ethnography,” invited lecture, Erlanger University, Erlanger, Germany. November.

2018 “Exploring the Clinic in a More than Human World” Orientale Summer School in American Studies, Plenary lecture, Procida, Italy, May.

2017 “When the Patient is a Dog,” British Animal Studies Network plenary lecture, October, University of Southampton, UK.

2016 Temple University Dance Department, Resident Scholar lecture, “Dance and the Non-Human Turn,” October, 2016.

2015, Invited Lecture, Seoul, Korea. Korean Society of Dance, August, “When Dances Travel: Chuck Davis: Dancing Through West Africa, a film Screening and Discussion.”

2014: Keynote Address, Tourism Symposium, Wesleyan University: “Extreme Animal Tourism: Privilege and Proximity”

2014: Invited Lecture: “Tracking the Political Economy of Dance,” Denison College, Ohio.

2014: Invited Lecture: “Mourning for Animals: Pet Cemeteries and Mourning Practices,” Procida Seminar in International American Studies, Italy, May.

2011: Presidential Address: “Intellectual Passions,” International American Studies Association 5th World Congress, Rio, July , 2011.

2010: Keynote, Polish American Studies Association 20th Anniversary Celebration, Lodz, Poland, Nov. “From Inhuman to Humane: U.S. Soldiers at the Baghdad Zoo”

2009: Keynote: annual meeting of the Italian American Studies Association, Rome, Nov.

“Critical Issues in International American Studies”

2009: Keynote: Conference on Elites and Elitism in the U.S., at Seoul National University Center for American Studies, Nov.: “Ivy Halls and Ivy Walls: the Continuing Legacy of the Ivy League”

2009: Keynote: Korean Dance Studies Association, Seoul. “Tracking the Political Economy of Dance,” Nov. 2009.

2009: Presidential Address, International American Studies Assocition: “Orientalism and American Studies, “ Beijing, China, Sept. 2009, 4th World Congress.

2008 Invited Lecture, Conference Keynote. “Thinking about Who’s Dancing What:

Tracking the Political Economy of Dance across Social Divides.” Aug. 31. Cornell University.

2008 Invited Lecture. Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. “ Ethnography and Everyday Life in the U.S. (May.)

2006 Plenary address. “Doing Ethnography and Doing American Studies,”

at the Engaging the ‘New’ American Studies Conference. University of Birmingham, U.K., May 13, 2006.

2006 Invited lecture. “Ethics and Aesthetics: Moving from the Community to the Stage.” Centre National de la Danse (National Dance Center), Paris, France. May, 22.

2005. Plenary Address: “Transnational American Studies” at

Doshisha University Conference on American Studies,

Kyoto, Japan, July.

2004. Keynote Address: “Performativity and American Studies” at the

Hungarian Association for American Studies Annual Meeting,

Budapest, Hungary, November.

2004 Keynote address: Cultural Transmission and Artistic Transformations: Tracking the Political Economy of Dance from Community to Concert Stage,” delivered at the Translations/Transferrals Conference: Vernacular and Popular Culture on the Concert Stage, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, March.

2004. “What’s Wrong with the Concept of Hemispheric Studies?” plenary roundtable remarks at Oxford University Rothermere Center for American Studies, U.K., Sept.

2004 Plenary address. “Public Grieving: Pet Obituaries in Print and On Line”

International Association of Pet Cemeteries Annual Conference, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, March.

2003. Invited Lecture. “Performing Sexuality in the Public Sphere,”

University of Bremen, American Studies Program, Germany, June.

2002. Invited Lecture. “Performing Sexuality in the Public Sphere:

the Limits to Citizenship,” presented at Denison College, Ohio, October.

2002. Invited Lecture. “Performance Studies and/as American Studies,” presented at Tokyo Women’s Christian University and Tsuda Women’s College (Tokyo), June.

2002. Invited Lecture. “Transnational American Studies and the Limits to

Collaboration,” presented at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan.. June.

2001. Keynote Address: “Mapping ‘American Studies’ across National

Boundaries: The Politics of ‘Politics,’ the Politics of Knowledge, and the Limits to Collaboration.” Presented at Baltic Association for American Studies Annual Meeting, Estonia, March.

Versions of this paper also presented in:

Moscow at the Russian American Studies Association meetings, February, 2001.

Budapest at the Hungarian American Studies Association meetings, March, 2001.

Santiago, Chile, December, 2001, at the Chilean American Studies Association meetings.

2000. Keynote Address: American Studies Abroad,” Moldovan American Studies

Association, October 1, 2000. Chisinau, Moldova.

2000. Plenary Address. “Performing ‘America’ and ‘American’: Performance Studies and American Studies,” at the “Futures of American Studies” Seminar Dartmouth University, June.

2000. Keynote Address: “Terras Incognita: Mapping New Territory in Dance

Studies” University of California at Riverside, “Dance Under Construction” conference, March 11, 2000.

2000. Plenary Address. “Performance Studies And/As ‘American Studies’”

International Conference on “Rediscovering America: American Studies in the New Millennium,” Indo-American Centre for International Studies, Hyderabad, India (March 15-18,2000)

1998. Invited Lecture. "Picturing Hawai'i: The 'Ideal' Native and the Origins of Tourism (1880-1915)," Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

1997. Plenary Speaker, Netherlands American Studies Association meetings:

Through the Cultural Looking Glass," "Towards a Political Economy of American Studies," Co-authored with Virginia Dominguez. Middleburg, The Netherlands, July.

1992. Invited Lecture. "Where is 'The Nation?': Public Discourse, the Body, and

Visual Display," The Center for Cultural Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz, January.

1992. "Where is 'The Nation?': Public Discourse, the Body, and Visual Display," New York University, Dept. of Performance Studies, N.Y.C., April.

1991. “Where is ‘the Nation?’: Public Discourse, the Video Body.

presented at the Symposium on Cinema and Nationhood at the East/West Center, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, Dec. 1-7, in conjunction with the 11th Annual Hawaiian International Film Festival.

1991 Plenary Address. "Theorizing Dance and Cultural Identity," given at the

conference "Politics in Motion: Culture and Dance in Latin America," held at Duke University.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ORGANIZED and CHAIRED:

2012 “America” in India. Sponsored by the International Forum for US Studies. UIUC.

2006 “America” in the World Part II: Discourses of “Americanization” and “Anti-Americanization”

IFUSS, University of Iowa, April, 2006.

Co-Organized with Virginia Dominguez

2005 “America” in the World Part I: Discourses of “Americanization” and “Anti-Americanization” Sponsored by IFUSS, University of Iowa, March. Co-Organized with Virginia Dominguez.

2004 “Latin American Studies of the U.S. in International Perspective,” Co-organized with Sonia Torres and Virginia Dominguez at the Universidade Federale Fluminense, Brazil, May30-June 5. A week long working conference sponsored by IFUSS and the Rockefeller Foundation.

1999"Outside/In: U.S. Studies in a Global Context," April 21-25.

Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, with additional funding from the University of Iowa and travel assistance by USIA. Co-Organized with Virginia Dominguez.

A working conference for 35 scholars from 15 countries, held at the University of Iowa, Iowa City.

PAPERS/PANELS at National and International Conferences

2019 “Cremains” “Animal Remains Conference,” Sheffield Center for Animal Studies, Sheffield, UK. April25, 2019.

2018, “Transnational Hunters, Indigenous Hunting Rights, and Killing Polar Bears in Canada,” paper presented at the European Association for Social Anthropology Bi-Annual Meetings, Stockholm, Sweden.

2017 “Real Doctors Treat More than one Species, “ Living with Animals conference. Eastern Kentucky University, March 2017.

2016 American Anthropological Association panel organizer and speaker, “When the patient is a dog,” Minneapolis, MN., Oct. 2016/

2015 International American Studies Association 7th World Congress, Seoul, Korea. President’s Panel: Prospects and Retrospects on Transnational American Studies and IASA. (August, 2015, Seoul National University.)

2014: Commentator, American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Panel on Performance and Ethnography, Washington, D.C.

2010: Commentator, American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Panel on U.S. Studies and Anthropology, New Orleans, Nov.

2010 U.S. American Studies Association, San Antonio, Texas, Nov. “From Inhuman to Humane: U.S. Soldiers at the Baghdad Zoo,” Panel on the U.S. and War

2009 American Studies and the Middle East Conference, American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Nov. “From Inhuman to Humane: U.S. Soldiers, the Iraq War, and the Baghdad Zoo.

2008 Animals: Past, Present and Future. Michigan State University, April.

“Animal Deaths and the Written Record of History.”

2008 Central States Anthropological Association Annual Meetings. U of Illinois. April.

Participant/Speaker: President’s Roundtable on the Futures of Anthropology.

Chair, Panel on “International Anthropology of the U.S.: the Elephant in the Room?”

2008 International Society for Anthrozoology (ISAZ). University of Toronto, Canada. August.

“Apes as Artists and the Influence on Primate Enrichment Programs.”

2008 “Minds of Animals” Conference. ISAZ pre-conference. University of Toronto. August.

“Ape Art and Cognition.”

2008 American Studies Association. Panel Respondent for “The Animal Nature of Human Social Relations, “ Albuquerque, N.M. (read in absentia.)

2008 International Association of Obituarists. Las Vegas, N.M. June. Invited presentation.

“Pushing the Limits: Pet Obituaries.”

2007 Mid-West Primate Interst Group Annual Meeting, Carbondale, Il.

“When the Artist is an Ape: Is Painting by Non-Human Primates ‘Art,’, Cognitive Evidence, or Enrichment? (podium presntation)

2007 International Association of American Studies Third World Congress, Lisbon, Portugal.

Panel organizer and Chair, “Making Meaning with Popular Culture,”

2007 American Ethnological Society Annual Meetings, Toronto, Canada

“Tansnational Art Markets and the Near Human”

2006 American Comparative Literature Association meetings, Princeton, N.J.

“Transnational Art Markets for Art by Animals,” March.

2005 American Anthropological Association meetings, Washington, D.C. Nov.

Participant in Roundtable on “Ethnography outside the Discipline of Anthropology.”

2004 Society for Literature and Science, Duke University, October, 2004,

“Discourses of Art and Anatomy: the work of Gunter von Hagens”

2004 American Studies Association meetings, panel chair and

commentator, “Leisure, Bodies, and Gender,” Atlanta, Georgia.

2003. American Studies Association meetings, 2003, Panel chair and

commentator, “Dancing Social History,” Hartford, Connecticut.

2002 European Association for American Studies, Bordeaux, France, bi-annual

meetings. Panel discussant on “Transnational American Studies.” March.

2002 Guangdong, China. Conference on : Rereading America, Guangdong

University. Paper presented: ‘Transnational American Studies: Limits to Collaboration,’ June, 2002.

2002 Tokyo, Japan. Japanese Association for American Studies meetings.

Paper presented: “Performing Sexuality in the Pubic Sphere.” June.

2002 London, England. Internationaol Society for Anthrozoology conference,

University College London. Paper Presented: “On the Margins of Death: Pet Cemeteries and Mourning Practices.” August.

2002 Panel Organizer, Chair and Commentary for “Trans-species Studies,” at

American Studies Association annual meeting, Houston, Texas, November.

2001. Mainz, Germany. “Writing Performance Histories of Colonialism in Post-Colonial Times: Doing Ethnography and History,” presented at Performance Studies International conference.

2000 “From Taxidermy to Animatronics: Changing Fictions of ‘Liveness’ in

Twentieth Century Animal Displays,” at the conference “Representing Animals” Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April.

1999. Co-chair, co-organizer, and commentator:"Performance and

Performativity: New Initiatives in American Studies,” with Barry Shank. American Studies Association Meetings, Montreal, Oct.

1998 Co-Chair and co-organizer, "Legacies of 1898" panel discussion, American Studies Association Meetings, Seattle, Washington, Nov. International panel funded by the Christopher Reynolds Foundation and the USIA.

1997. Co-chair, co-organizer, and speaker, American Studies Association

Annual Meetings, Panel on "Ethnography And/In American Studies," Washington, D.C., Nov. Co-chair with, Janice Radway.

1997 Respondent, American Anthropological Association Meetings, panel on "International Theme Parks and cultural Centers: Logics, Economies, Identity," Washington, D.C. Nov.

1996 Chair and Respondent, Technologies of Pleasure: Vision, Motion,

and Play in Amusement Parks, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Kansas City, Nov., 1996.

1996. Tampere, Finland. "Dancing Cultural Capital: Tourism and Bodily Display

in Hawaii," International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Tampere, Finland, July.

1996. Chair and Respondent: The Politics of Women's Humor in Vaudeville,

Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June, Chapel Hill, N.C.

1995. Chair and Respondent, Ms.-Representations: How U.S. Television Defines

Feminism, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Nov.

1995. Paper, "To 'Be,' To 'Act,' To 'Look': Invoking the "Native" in Contemporary

Hawaiian Tourist Shows," Conference on Rewriting the Pacific, U.C.-Davis, and U.C.-Berkeley, Oct. 1995.

1995. Respondent, Plenary Session, Congress on Research in Dance, International conference on "Performance in the Americas and the Caribbean," Miami, Nov.

1994 Respondent, "Black Bodies/White Bodies: Revisionary Narratives of

American Dance," American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN., Oct.

1993. Respondent, Panel on National Cultures and Global Media,

Conference on Internationalizing Cultural Studies, East-West Center, Honolulu, Dec

1992 Paper, American Studies Association, University of California at Riverside, Feb., "Shamu at Sea World"

1992 Paper, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, "Selling the Postmodern Primitive in Paradise: Hula, Tourism, and the Female Body" Nov. 1992, Costa Mesa, CA.,

1992 Society of Dance History Scholars Conference on American Dance Abroad, Riverside, C.A., Feb.,

Paper: "Hula Hips and Smiling Lips: Americans Abroad At Home"

Respondent: panel on contemporary dance in Yugoslavia, Italy, Japan.

1992 "Cornered Again: Adrian Piper and the Bodily Discourse of Race," Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference.

1990 Fifth International Dance conference, Hong Kong,

Panel chair, organizer, and presenter, "Post-structural Theory and Dance Criticism."

1990. Panel chair and organizer, “Video and Postmodern Theory,” Society for

Cinema Studies Annual Conference.

1989. "Desire and Commodification in the Home Shopping Club,

" Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference.

1989 Congress on Research in Dance (C.O.R.D.)-U.N.C.-Greensboro, conference

on Dance Scholarship, 1989. "Cultural Politics and Mechanisms of Meaning."

1989 American Studies Association Annual Conference, Toronto.

"Cultural Imperialism and Early Modern Dance."

1988. "The Avant-Garde Ethnographic Film,"

Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference.

1987 Yvonnne Rainer and the Practice of Theory,”

Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference,

1986. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Conference on Dance and Film, co-sponsored by Congress on Research in Dance, “Dance and Ethnographic Film.”

1986. “Narrative and Spectacle in TV Wrestling”

Society for Cinema Studies National Conference.

Other Writings:

1987 "Television Criticism: a Selective Bibliography," with Robert Allen and Ginger Walsh, in Allen's Channels of Discourse: Television and Contemporary Criticism, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1987.

1984 "African Dance: A Southerner Brings it Home," in Southern Exposure, July/August, 1984.

1980-1982 Various dance reviews and interviews for the off-Broadway review of theater and dance, Other Stages, N.Y.C.

1980-1982 Freelance articles on cultural histories of various countries for U.N.I.C.E.F. publications, N.Y.C.

1981 "The Best Movement Training for Actors: Modern Dance," Dance Teacher, summer.

1980 "Our Physical Selves," Anthropology, Drama and the Human Experience, George Washington University Publications.

1977 "Looking at Dancing," Performing Arts Review, Vol. 7, No. 2. fall/winter, 1977, pp. 263-266.

EXHIBITIONS CURATED

2005-2006:

“Animals Among Us” Co-curated with Teresa Mangum and Pamela Trimpe. Opens: Fall 2006 at Old Capital Museum and at Iowa Children’s Museum, Iowa City, and tours throughout the state though 2010 at DNR sites and libraries.

2006:

“Animal Tracks: Prints from the UI Art Collection”

Co-Curated with Teresa Mangum, and the Oberman Animal Studies Collective. Opens Spring 2006 at UI Art Museum. $10,000.

2004:

“Images of ‘America’: Anti-American Sentiment in South Africa

An IFUSS On-Line Web Exhibit, PI, with doctoral candidates Brian Hallstoos and Chrys Poff, available on IFUSS website.

1992:

Curator: "Physical Evidence: New Explorations of the Video Body,” with gallery guide to the exhibit. Duke University Museum of Art

1990: Curator: "Video, Politics, and Performance" Features International artists.

"Eighties Artists: New Performances on Video"

Duke University Museum of Art.

FILMOGRAPHY

Chuck Davis: Dancing Through West Africa.

Co-producer, with Gorham Kindem. Co-writer, assistant editor, sound recordist.

Distributor: Filmmaker's Library, Inc., N.Y.C. (available in film and video from 1988 to present).

Awarded CINE Golden Eagle, 1987,by the Council on International Nontheatrical Events.

This work is in the collections of educational and arts institutions throughout the country, including the collections of the New York Public Library, Harvard University, Temple University, and the African-American Museum, among many others.

Broadcasts and Screenings:

National Broadcasts by PBS (1988, 1989) and on the Discovery Channel

Monterey Film Festival (1989)-selected among "Best of Festival"

University Film and Video Association (1988)

Sinking Creek Film Festival (1987)

Third World Studies National Conference (1987)

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

Reader of manuscripts for the following academic Journals:

American Quarterly

American Ethnologist

Cultural Anthropology

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

Visual Anthropology

Society and Animals

Ethnic and Racial Studies (U.K.)

Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (Nat’l. Communication Assoc.)

American Studies

The Contemporary Pacific

Dance Research Journal

Dance Chronicle

Impulse: Intl. Journal of Dance Science, Medicine, and Education

Man in Oceania (Japanese anthropology journal)

Theater Journal

Centro: Journal of Puerto Rican Studies

Contours: A Journal of the African Diaspora

Tourist Studies (England)

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change (U.K.)

Human Ecology Review

Book Manuscript Reader for Academic Presses:

Princeton University Press;

University of Chicago Press;

Duke University Press,;

Wesleyan University Press;

University of Minnesota Press,

Blackwell Publishers,

Sage Publishers U.K.;

Taylor and Francis Publishers, U.K.

Roman and Littlefield, International

Invited as External Evaluator for Tenure and Promotion Cases at:

Barnard College, Columbia University

University of California at Santa Cruz

University of California at Riverside

Western Washington State University

Northwestern University

University of Michigan

The New School, N.Y.C.

The Ohio State University

University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Seoul National University, South Korea

State Academic evaluation board of South Africa

External Reviewer, American Studies Panel for individual awards, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2018

External Reviewer, ACLS Humanities Fellowships, fall 2017.

External Reviewer, National Science Foundation, “Science and Society” Program , 2007, 2008.

Invited External Evaluator of Post-doc Fellowship Applications for the Radcliffe Institute,2004

External Reviewer, Ph.D. dissertations, at University of British Columbia (2008), and LaTrobe University, Australia (2006), and University of Woolagong, Australia (2008)

Federal Grant Proposal Reviewer:

National Endowment for the Humanities. Institutional grant category, 1995.

Service on Committees of National Organizations and Conferences:

2004-2007 (U.S.) American Studies Association International Committee

2004 Program Committee, Society for Dance History Scholars national conference at Duke University

2003 and 2004 Selection Committees: Gertrude Lippincott Award for best article in dance, offered by the Society of Dance History Scholars.

1999-2001 President's Task Force on International Women, American Studies Association,

1999 Chair, Bode-Pearson Prize for Lifetime Service Selection Committee, American Studies Association.

1998 Program Committee, Mid-America American Studies Association

Annual Regional Conference.

1997. Congress on Research in Dance Annual Conference

Proposal Reviewer

1993-1996 Congress on Research in Dance,

Chair, subcommittee to develop new national scholarly awards.

1995 National Conference Planning Committee: International Conference of the Congress on Research in Dance, "Performance in the Americas and the Caribbean," Miami, Florida.

1985 Judge--International Television Association Regional Awards for Excellence,

UNIVERSITY SERVICE—University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2007- to present)

Advisory Committee, IPRH (2018-2021)

Awards Committee (IPRH, faculty and graduate fellows): 2018

Search Committee, American Indian Studies faculty appointment, 2018

Anthropology Newsletter chair, 2016-present

Awards Committee, Anthropology, 2017-2018

Chair, Dance Department Head, 5 year review committee, 2016

Development Committee, Chair, Anthropology Dept., 2014-15.

Faculty Senate (elected): 2008—2010

Anthropology, chair of Financial Aid (2010-2011)

Anthropology Search committee for Archaeology, 2011

Dean of LAS Faculty Input Team, appointed (2010-2012)

GWS Advisory Committee (2008--2010)

Search Committee, Gender and Women’s Studies Program Director (2007-2008)

Tenure and Promotion Committee for GWS (spring, 2008)

Anthropology ad hoc committee on Speaker’s Series (fall and spring, 2008)

Anthropology, chair of fundraising committee (2007-8)

TEACHING AND ADVISING: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2007 ---)

Graduate Advising: Present Ph.D advisees:

Nicole Cox (co-advisor), Austin Hoffman (Advisor), Monica Santos (co-advisor), Jennifer Baldwin (M.D./Ph.D. Medical Scholars Program), Lila Dodge (co-advisor)

Past advisees:

Alex Lee, Natalye Tate, Isis Rose

Intellectual committee member for:

Kate Grim-Fineberg, Angela Glaros, Michelle Hanks, Lauren Anaya, Joel Zovar (all anthropology), Diana Jahar (Theater Phd.), Maria Lux (Art, MFA), Martha Sherril Hawkins (Applied Health Sciences)

• Independent Studies: eight (graduate), undergraduate thesis advisor (1), undergraduate capstone course director (4)

Recent Courses:

• Senior Seminar in Gender and Women’s Studies

• The “Culture” of “Nature” (anthro. undergrad.)

• Sustainability, Humans and Animals (anthro. Undergrad.)

• Graduate Seminar in Performance Studies (GWS and anthro.)

• Performing ‘America’ (anthro, undergraduate versions)

• “Knowing Animals” (graduate)

• Grand Challenge Learning Experience course: Humans and Animals: food or friend?

• Contemporary Issues in Veterinary Medicine: Medicine and Society

UNIVERSITY SERVICE--University of Iowa

University Wide:

2004-2006: Faculty Senate (elected)

2004-2006 Faculty Advisory Committee, Museum Studies Certificate program

2000 to 2006 International Programs: Executive Committee

2004. Mentor, Junior Faculty Development Program

(For CIES faculty visiting UI from former Soviet Republics).

2004 Departmental Review of History Department, committee member.

2004 Selection Committee,

Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, Summer Seminar participants.

2004 Selection Committee, UI Student Fulbright Applicants

2005. Faculty Advisory Committee, UI Art Museum

2003. Faculty Advisory Committee, Interdisciplinary Degree Program

2003 UI Global Scholar Award Selection Committee

2000. Dean’s Ad Hoc Committee on Museum Studies

2000 Selection Committee, Associate Dean for International Programs position

2001. Major Projects Awards Selection Committee, International Programs

1995-2000 Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry Curriculum Committee

1999-2001 Faculty Senate, (elected)

1996-1997 College of Liberal Arts Faculty Assembly Representative (elected)

1995-1996 AHI Advisory Committee, Office of the Vice President for Research,

1993-1996 University Cultural Affairs Council, 1993-1996

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA:

AMERICAN STUDIES AND WOMEN’S STUDIES

Women's Studies Program

1993 to Dec. 1999 Steering Committee (Policy issues, advising chair on budget)

Promotion to Tenure review committee for Anne Donaday.

Committee to develop the WS Ph.D.

Chair, Long Range Planning and Fund Raising, 1997 to Dec., 1999.

American Studies Program

1993--to 2006 Steering Committee

(This committee: advises graduate students on plans of study, nominates students for awards, makes graduate student travel and research awards, advises the Chair on budgetary decisions, selects AS faculty affiliates, assesses requests for cross-listings and co-sponsorships with other departments, decides on the awarding of special topics course teaching to graduate students).

Other duties in AS have included:

Speaker, Graduate Student Orientation Day, (2003, 2004).

Annual review of untenured colleagues: teaching assessment 2005

Search committee (2002)

Graduate Admissions (2002, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996)

Director of Honors (fall, 2001, 2002- present)

Liason for International Linkages, 2001—present

Speaker, Graduate Workshop on Publication Practices, 1998.

Chair, Graduate Admissions, 1997.

TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

Courses offered: (AS=American Studies/WS=Women’s Studies)

Graduate Only

• Graduate Seminar: Theory and Practice in American Studies (AS)

• Graduate Seminar in Visual Culture: Performance Studies (AS)

• Graduate Seminar: The Arts, Identity and Cultural Politics (AS)

• Graduate Seminar: Crossing Borders: Foreign Scholarship on the U.S.

(Co-taught with V. Dominguez) (AS and CB Graduate Program)

Graduate and Undergraduate combined:

• Museums and the Politics of Representation (AS)

• Dance in America (AS)

• Performing America Queerly (Co-taught with Kim Marra) (AS/Sexuality Studies)

• The Arts in American Culture (AS)

• Gender on Stage and Off (WS/AS)

Undergraduates only:

• The Culture of Nature (AS)

• The Craft of Research: The UI Women’s Archives (WS/AS)

Independent Studies: numerous at the graduate and undergraduate level.

Teaching Activities (2005-2006)

(regular teaching suspended while Assoc. Dean)

• Develop and oversee teaching of “Senior Projects Preparation Course” in International Programs. Three units/year. (fall and spring, 2005-2006)

• Three graduate independent studies in Performance Studies (Spring 2006)

• Honors Thesis in American Studies ( Spring, 2006)

• Directing Graduate Position Papers for: Danielle Rich, Brian Hallstoos

Ph.D. Dissertations Directed (completed):

• Danielle Rich (completed, July, 2010)

• Visiting Instructor, Ringling College of Art, Sarasota, Florida

• Ulrich Adelt (completed October, 2007)

• Visiting Assistant Professor in African American and American Studies, University of Wyoming.

• Kristin Solli (completion Sept. 2006)

Has three-year Mellon Post-Doctoral Appointment at Duke University (2006-2009)

• Chrys Poff (completed 2004).

Has book developed from her dissertation in press with University of Mississippi Press.

• Mary Anne Beecher (completed 2003)

Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon, dept. of architecture.

Currently Chairing American Studies diss.: Gyorgy Toth (completion date 2012)

M.A. in American Studies Thesis Directed: Lucille Hernandez Gregory

Graduate Exams and Dissertation Committees: approximately 20

for Ph.D. students in:

• American Studies, and in

• Anthropology,

• History,

• Art History,

• Communication Studies,

• English,

• Spanish and Portuguese,

• Cinema and Comparative Literature,

• Women’s Studies

Completed Honors Theses for B.A. in American Studies directed: three.

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT IN THE ARTS

1990: Movement designer, The Handmaid's Tale.

Dir.: Volker Schlondorff. Screenplay: Harold Pinter. National Release by Cinecom, 1990. (S.A.G. eligible).

1975-1988: Professional Modern Dancer and Choreographer

1982-1988: Freelance choreographer and performer, North Carolina.

1980-1982: Freelance dancer, N.Y.C.

Dance and music concert performances with choreographers Wendy Perron, Bonnie Schiebman, Ed Dilello, and others (1980-1982).

1975-1980: Choreographer and performer throughout New York State with the Ithaca Dancemakers Company.

ARTS CONSULTING

1991-1992:

Consultant to the Dean of the Arts, University of California at Santa Cruz. Responsible for developing proposals for new interdisciplinary arts courses initiatives for undergraduate education in theater, dance, film, visual arts, and music.

1989-1990:

Consultant, The National Faculty of the Arts and Sciences.

National consulting organization for the improvement of secondary education. Serve as site visitor for various arts curriculum projects, and as faculty for summer institutes for teachers.

1984 Consultant: North Carolina Arts Council, Grants Reviewer.

1979-1981: Consultant, New York State Council on the Arts, Dance Program Site evaluations of companies in N.Y.C. and throughout New York State. Evaluate performances and make funding recommendations.

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