Select Leadership and Service at Depauw University

  • Coordinator, Jewish Studies.
  • Committee to establish an Ethics Institute.
  • First-Year Advising Program.
  • Various university committees fostering multiculturalism (e.g., establishing a cohort of students from The Posse Foundation, New York City, which “identifies public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential who may be overlooked by traditional college selection processes”)
  • Departmental personnel committees.
  • University search committees (anthropology, sociology, biology).
  • Child Care Committee.
  • Faculty member, interdisciplinary programs in Women’s Studies, Conflict Studies, Black Studies.
  • Scholastic Achievement Committee.
  • Anthropology Museum.  Advisory committee.
  • Honor Scholar Program.  .
  • Coordinator, study-abroad orientation program.
  • Co-founder and Coordinator, Faculty Research Colloquium Series.

Select Professional Experience

Founding Editor, Wheelock International Journal of Children, Families, and Social Change.  (2013-curent). An online, peer-review, Open Source journal.  (http://journal.wheelock.edu/).
Editor, Book Review Forum, Pacific Studies (2008-current)

Chair, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, 2006-2007; Membership Coordinator, 2010-2012; Board of Directors, 1005-2008.

Council Member, New England American Studies Association, 2009-2012.

Journal manuscript reviewer: American Anthropologist; Journal of Anthropological Research; American Ethnologist; Oceania; Culture, Health, and Sexuality; The Contemporary Pacific; Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Association, Language and Linguistics Compass; Pacific Arts; Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly; DePauw Journal of Undergraduate Research.

Book proposal and manuscript reviewer: Oxford University Press, Berg Press, University of Michigan Press, Rowman & Littlefield, University of Hawaii Press. Berghahn Press, Harvard University Press (an article in a volume in the Publications of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature).

Grant reviewer:  Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research; National Endowment for the Humanities; Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Research Award.

 

Major Research Grants

2014    Gordon Marshall Fellowship Award, Wheelock College.  To conduct anthropological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea for current book project.

2010    Institute for Money, Technology, and Financial Inclusion at the University of California at Irvine.  To conduct  anthropological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea on global fiscal marginalization.

2001 – 2002      National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.  To research and write a book on the history Jewish circumcision (published in 2006)

1994      Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, New York City.  To conduct anthropological research on ritual in Papua New Guinea for my 2001 book.

1990 – 1991      University of Minnesota, Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.

1988 – 1989      Fulbright Award.  Funding for doctoral research in Papua New Guinea.

1988 – 1989      Institute for Intercultural Studies, New York.  Research Grant for doctoral fieldwork in Papua New Guinea.

1987 – 1988      University of Minnesota, Shevlin Fellowship.  Pre-doctoral research.