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This has been another banner year for the Department, and there is much to report by way of new developments and new achievements. But this year is also my last as Department Chair, so after summarizing a few of the year’s highlights, I will also provide a note of retrospect.

Once again, we have exciting news to report by way of new faculty. First, we are delighted to report that Assistant Professor Sharika Thiranagama has joined the Department, coming to us from New School University. Professor Thiranagama, who has had visiting appointments with us in recent years, will now serve as Assistant Professor in the Department, where she will also contribute to the University's growing expertise in South Asian Studies. Her research has been in Sri Lanka, where she has made important contributions to the anthropological understanding of violence and memory, by exploring the effects of protracted civil war on ideas of home, kinship and self. Her book on these topics, In My Mother’s House: Civil War in Sri Lanka, appeared in 2011. She is currently undertaking new research in Sri Lanka on post war life in the Jaffna Peninsula mapping new post-war social configurations, while also preparing for new fieldwork on ‘The Cultural Life of Communism’ in Kerala, South India. Please join me in warmly welcoming Sharika to the Department (and see our feature on her in this newsletter, p. 10).

Second, Assistant Professor Krish Seetah joined the Department in September, coming to us from the University of Cambridge and Reading University in the UK. As I noted last year, Krish is an archaeologist with a special focus on human-animal interactions. He takes a special interest in questions of scientific methodology, especially the area of Geometric Morphometrics, as well as the topic of technology, trade and socio-economic attitudes under conditions of colonialism.

Geographically, he is interested in a number of colonial contexts in Europe, as well as processes of colonialism and environmental change in Mauritius. Krish’s arrival will strengthen our already formidable archaeology group, while also linking nicely with a range of cross-cutting interests in the Department such as historical anthropology, the anthropology of colonialism, and environment and ecology. Please see our feature on Krish in this newsletter (p. 11).

We are equally excited to welcome Assistant Professor Kabir Tambar. Kabir comes to us from the University of Chicago (where he did his Ph.D.), via the University of Vermont (where he has taught for the last two years). His research deals with changing forms of political identity in Turkey, where established relations between Islam, nationalism, and secularism are being reconfigured in ways that challenge conventional social scientific understandings of both religion and politics. Although Kabir was already appointed last year (and was featured in an article in last year’s newsletter) he spent the 2011-12 year on a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and only arrived here this Autumn, so it seems appropriate to welcome him once again, and to reiterate how delighted we are to have him!

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he economic downturn over the last 5 years has had a profound effect in the academic world, with many institutions reporting significant losses in endowment earnings and/or state revenue. To stay afloat, public and private

schools alike implemented multi-year budget cuts, layoffs, and furloughs. They suspended faculty hires and even eliminated full time tenure-track positions in order to cut costs. According to the 2011 American Association of University Professors, the ratio of tenure-track openings to new doctorates has dropped to 1 opening for every 4 graduates. For many PhD students graduating between 2008 and 2012, the prospect of finding a job in this tough economic time was bleak.

Not so for Stanford PhD graduates, says Jim Ferguson, the Anthropology Department Chair. “Despite a slumping economy, our students have had excellent success finding employment”, Ferguson notes. “Our graduates have found a variety of attractive positions both within the US and internationally.” Indeed, between 2008 and 2012, the Department of Anthropology graduated over 40 PhD students and more than 90 percent have found jobs, ranging from postdoc positions and tenure-track assistant professorships at top colleges to positions as scientists in start-up companies and as anthropologists working for NGO’s. The placement record in academic jobs is especially impressive, with students landing excellent, tenure-track jobs in major US research universities (including at the University of Minnesota, UCLA, Saint Louis University, UC Santa Barbara, North Dakota State, Rutgers, University of Toledo, University of Idaho, University of Utah, University of Kentucky, Harvard University, and UNC Chapel Hill) and top liberal arts colleges (such as Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke, Spelman College, Wellesley College, Haverford College, and University of Richmond), as well as universities across the globe (including Yonsei University, UCL Qatar, University of Queensland, University of Toronto, and the Universidad de Tarapca).

In this issue of the newsletter, five recent graduates of the Stanford Department of Anthropology PhD program talk about their experience in finding work in the academic community. They describe their current positions, responsibilities, and research projects and share their experiences “on the job.”

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Beliso De Jesus Year of Graduation: 2009 Position: Assistant Professor Department: African American Religions Affiliation: Harvard Divinity School

Going directly from dissertation writer to assistant professor in a tenure-track position is a significant shift in perception and orientation. As a Stanford graduate student I was able to hone my skills, toughen my skin, and make significant connections that have shifted my perceptions towards a career as an anthropologist. Since accepting my position as Assistant Professor of African American Religions at Harvard Divinity School in June 2010, my conceptualizations of self have also been in flux, as I am reoriented as a professional scholar—an anthropologist outside of an anthropology department. Managing this new domain of professorship in a research-based institution has been a process similar to breaking in a new pair of shoes. I have had to continuously remind myself why I am doing this work: that for me, this career as an academic is about the value of research as a potential for social change. It has also been important for me to remember that people like me (single parent, Latina, etc.), are not often paid to be thinkers. Rather than privileging my “voice,” however, this acknowledgment serves to remind me how my positionality is an integral component of my academic trajectory. With this in mind, then, doing scholarship is a priority both for career success and my theoretical contributions. Here, I outline some important highlights that have come out of earning a doctorate in anthropology at Stanford and my aspirations as a scholar and professor at Harvard.

Seeking an academic job in 2009 as an “all but dissertation” (ABD) graduate student in anthropology was a disturbing rite of passage. This terrifying moment is known as “being on the market.” Application deadlines, annual meeting interviews, and long hours of writing, intermixed with worry, followed by more writing, and then the long periods of waiting to hear back, were only somewhat comforted by the fact that I was not alone. Other graduate students actually made it tolerable (sometimes even pleasant). As a cohort we supported each other, gave advice, offered encouragement, shared good food, good

times, and (lots of) drinks. Yes, the market is hard, but we were doing it together. As it is described, “being on the market” is a process of turning your academic self into a commodity—the strange way in which, like the Marxian chair, your scholarly self is constructed within neoliberal academia. Spun on its axis, this new self is strutted through conference parades, and made attractive for the consumers (search committees) that you hope will invest in your (almost newly minted) brand. I learned several important lessons from being on the job market (most of which were taught during our anthropology department’s job search workshops). First, you must astutely master the elevator introduction. Second, be able to succinctly (in three sentences or less) articulate your research. And third, never order expensive sparkling water or too many alcoholic drinks during job talk visits. I have continued to employ this sage advice during my short time as an assistant professor. But, the most important thing I learned from successfully maneuvering “being on the market,” was to enjoy time as a graduate student.

Time is sacred space, one that must be properly cared for and carved out. I currently see many graduate students racing through the process, and I think that it is truly important to take your time. Senior colleagues and mentors were key in assisting me to maneuver through this terrain, to ensure I was a good “citizen” while not taking on (or being given) too many assignments, which could hamper my “productivity” (i.e. writing and publications).

However, the host of new commitments one is expected to attend to as a faculty member makes this difficult. Dinners, events, committee meetings, new course development and students are all demands that one does not necessarily encounter in the same way as a graduate student. At Harvard, I have found it very useful to clarify what is expected of me, from both senior colleagues and administrators, and to prioritize my time, while being a positive member of the larger university community.

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Stacy Camp

Year of Graduation: 2009 Position: Assistant Professor Department: Sociology and Anthropology Affiliation: University of Idaho

When my plane touched down on a tiny runway nestled in between the frigid, snow-capped rolling Palouse hills of Moscow, Idaho, I struggled to imagine relocating to such a rural, isolated region: one that was far from the life I had been living in the Bay Area. This was my second and last fly-out interview during my first year on the job market, which I was thrilled with given I was A.B.D. Of all the job applications I had submitted that year (20072008), I spent the most time contemplating whether or not I should mail my job materials to the University of Idaho (located in Moscow, Idaho). The general rule with academic jobs is that you should not waste a hiring committee’s time reviewing your application and potentially interviewing you if you are not serious about moving to and taking the advertised position.

I hesitantly mailed off my application materials to the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Idaho, a school known for its distinction in my sub-discipline of historical archaeology. Some of my concerns were laid to rest when I met and talked with one of the search committee members at a conference and spoke with his graduate students, who had nothing but wonderful things to say about the community surrounding the university. The fly-out interview confirmed what my colleague and his students had said about the University of Idaho, and today I find myself as a genuinely happy Assistant Professor of Anthropology living in a tight-knit community that is supportive, vibrant, and surprisingly progressive.

What I took away from this experience is that you should keep an open mind about academic positions, even if they are located in areas you initially deem undesirable.

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This is especially crucial given the reduction in tenure track jobs in recent years and the competitive nature of the job market. If you are lucky enough to be flown out for an interview in a place that may not seem ideal, ask if you can spend a little time touring the region or area.

Because of external perceptions about our region and state, our department gives our job candidates extensive tours of the area so that they know what to expect if they get a job offer. Since our area is limited in terms of commerce and business, our university also puts a great deal of effort into helping trailing spouses and partners secure employment; within months of hiring me, my partner was offered a full-time staff position.

Though living in a community where anonymity is nonexistent and you can always expect to run into a colleague or student when you decide to run for milk at 8am on a Saturday morning in your sweats, working at a rural, land-grant university has also opened up a number of unexpected opportunities for my research and professional development. There is a good deal of internal funding to support state- and region-based research, which is one of the reasons I began working on my current project, the Kooskia Internment Camp Archaeological Project (www. uidaho.edu/class/kicap), an archival and archaeological study of a World War II Japanese American internment camp. I also serve as the Assistant Director of our state archaeological repository that is located on campus, which houses an impressive collection of artifacts from all over the state and world and is a rich source of data for researchers like myself. This position has also given me practical professional and management experience in the field of curation.

Nikhil Anand

Year of Graduation: 2011 Position: Assistant Professor Department: Geography, Environment and Society Affiliation: University of Minnesota

I write this short note as I transition between jobs. As students, faculty, and everyone in between knows, applying for the dwindling number of tenure track positions in the United States is a stressful process. As for so many others, my search for a tenure-track job has required that I think of my research in ever broadening terms. In some sense, this is inevitable after the narrowly defined questions that direct our dissertation projects. Moreover, the proliferation of joint and interdisciplinary appointments at colleges and universities these days poses a further challenge to students trained in the conventional subfields and discrete ‘areas’ of anthropology.

Nevertheless, the opportunity to think and work in areas beyond our formal training is also full of possibility, particularly as new modes of uncertainty and precarity govern our worlds. Cultural anthropologists bring special skills to interdisciplinary projects that ask uncommon questions of our everyday environments. For example, in recent years, scholars have worked through multispecies ethnography and with Science and Technology Studies to shed new insights on some of the most trenchant questions that anthropologists have worked with over the last four decades.

In this regard, I have been fortunate that my research has cooperated with my efforts to think together with scholars in different disciplines. In my first project on water infrastructures in Mumbai, I attend to the ways in which cities and citizens are made and mediated by the politics, socialities, and materialities of infrastructure networks. Attending to the everyday relations between the pipes, plumbers, politicians, residents, and engineers of the city water department, this work seeks to better understand how public systems and biopolitical regimes are maintained around the provision of water services.

As such, my research revisits questions of materiality and meaning that have long been of interest to anthropologists. By exploring the social life of infrastructure

after the poststructural turn, this research explores how social and political relations are brought into being with environmental resources and technological and material forms that govern the city.

It was through fieldwork that I came to appreciate the power of materials and also the difficulties of doing the necessary work of engineering, technology and science.

Managing a water system is difficult work that challenges the “rule of experts”, even as it produces compromised forms of citizenship in the city. While much of what I read while preparing for fieldwork taught me to be wary of biopolitical forms of control, fieldwork revealed how many settlers in Mumbai worked hard to be constituted and counted as deserving subjects of the city’s water system. Through their everyday work of making connections to the city’s water, I learned how to simultaneously work with, across, and against difference, where difference was not just a matter of social location, but also of epistemology, knowledge and mundane relations of power. As such, fieldwork helped me rethink some of my own research and writing in broader terms. Doing so turned out to be especially helpful not only in writing my dissertation, but also in securing my first job at Haverford College.

The Department of Anthropology at Haverford was seeking a scholar who could work with colleagues in a range of disciplines (including Chemistry, English, Biology and Political Science), to help form and offer courses in its incipient Environmental Studies program. Having been formerly trained in Biology and Environmental Science, and having conducted fieldwork with engineers in Mumbai, I was excited by the possibility of such a collaboration. Soon after I joined the Department in 2011, I was immersed in the everyday work of building the Environmental Studies Program with a host of other, very accomplished colleagues. In working with them, I found that it was important to not only use anthropology to

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Brian Codding

Year of Graduation: 2012 Position: Assistant Professor Department: Anthropology Affiliation: University of Utah

True to the training and mentorship by faculty in the ecology and environment program at Stanford’s Department of Anthropology, my graduate research maintained a topical and regional breadth atypical in most anthropology programs. While this is positive, it brings potential risk as such diversity is not typically explicit in job advertisements. As someone working across anthropological subfields (including ecology, ethnography and archaeology) and on two continents (Australia and North America), I worried that departments interested in hiring new faculty for one specialty or region might dismiss my application given my work in another. After two seasons of job applications, this seemed like it might be true. However, my advisors reminded me that the right job would come along for the right person and, given the market, I shouldn’t expect too much without a PhD in hand.

They were right. In my first round on the market after receiving my PhD, my luck turned: late in the season, an advertisement came up that looked to be a potential fit. I applied, was short-listed, interviewed and offered a job in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Utah. An internationally acclaimed department that includes three National Academy members on the faculty, I am extremely honored to have been offered this position.

As is typical for a research university, I’m expected to obtain external funding, publish research in peer-reviewed journals, teach two courses per semester, and serve on university, departmental, and graduate student committees. Through my first year, I’ve worked in each of these facets with a group of very supportive and collegial colleagues. I continue to work on research projects in Western North America and Western Australia focused on understanding the ecology of foraging economies in the past and present. Among others, my collaborators include my advisors at Stanford, to whom I’m eternally grateful for facilitating my graduate education and encouraging the breadth of research that ultimately allowed me to compete in today’s job market.

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Babül Year of Graduation: 2012 Position: Assistant Professor Department: Anthropology Affiliation: Mount Holyoke College

I sat in front of the computer trying to find a “hook” to write about my experience in the job market last year.

Despite the decline in the available academic jobs since the 2008 financial crisis, which resulted in severe cutbacks in tenure-track positions across campuses, in my second year of applications I was lucky to get a job as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Mount Holyoke College. Unfortunately, the list of articles retrieved by a quick Internet search on the “academic job market” reveals that my experience is not at all common. As a result of stark employment conditions, most of the personal testimonies of current or recent PhDs I came across on the Internet had a disheartened and resentful tone, expressing anxiety, self-doubt and anger towards the situation they found themselves in, as well as the lack of structural resources they can turn to for support.

In light of this bigger picture, my own experience in the job market certainly appears as an anomaly. I am a part of an extended cohort of seven people, who, upon graduation, have all found jobs with varying degrees of permanence, ranging from post-doctoral positions to tenuretrack jobs and visiting assistant professorships. These placements, though not all tenure-track, still point to the strength of the Department of Anthropology at Stanford, in spite of a down economy that continues to strain the academic job market.

The most important factor in my success on the job market was the strong institutional and moral support that I received from the department. These support mechanisms ranged from faculty-led dissertation writers’ seminars, where I produced my first chapter and the first draft of my job talk, to formal professionalization trainings and informal student initiated workshops, where I developed my cover letter for job and post-doc applications. I was surrounded by an extremely supportive network of faculty, peers and administrators, with whom I consulted at every step of my application process. I had access to a databank of previous successful applications

generously shared by the department alumni, a tightknit and collaborative cohort, a dissertation committee that was invested in my success, consistent and sound advising, and department staff who helped me overcome various problems – including those that arise from being an international student.

Of course, the fact that the job description matched my own research and teaching experience has played a vital role in my selection as well. What is equally important, however, is that as a graduate student, I was given the time and the opportunity to shape and develop interests and experience that carried me to my current post.

As someone who is employed in an institution self-defined as a “research liberal arts college,” I am expected to maintain a high level of competence in both scholarship and teaching. As a candidate for this job, I had to demonstrate that I have a strong basis to develop as a zealous teacher as well as a skillful researcher. Being trained in a research university such as Stanford, we are usually prepared to assume the latter role more naturally.

In the classroom, we engage with stellar scholars, whose research shapes the latest approach in their particular field. During research, we are endowed with generous support that enables us to immerse ourselves in fieldwork to collect rich and robust data, which can then lead to insightful and rigorous analysis. While all these wonderful opportunities helped me emerge as a noteworthy candidate to be invited for a campus visit, I was told by my current colleagues (after the fact) that what really influenced their decision was my performance in the classroom during my teaching demo. I was chosen for the job because I was able to combine a compelling job talk with effective teaching.

What this means is that while my academic development within the standard five-year period of the program as I

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Aisha Beliso De Jesus (continued from PG 3) As a faculty member you will never have the time to work on your scholarship the way you can as a graduate student.

Doctoral research is such an invaluable tool for future work, but also for developing your own process as a scholar.

For instance, in my doctoral work, I was able to access funding to allow my research on Afro-Cuban Santeria religious circulations to be, methodologically, transnational. Being able to do extensive research in both Cuba and the United States with religious practitioners transformed the way in which I think about my research and my subject matter.

With a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2011, I was able to write my current manuscript at Yale University’s Department of Anthropology. Based on my dissertation work, this book explores the transnational circulation of Santeria religious practices between Cuba and the United States, and examines diaspora “through the senses.”

Working as an anthropologist in Religious Studies at a Divinity School has also allowed me to make connections across various analytic topics. I developed an ethnographic theory and methods course for students who will be working with religious or spiritual communities. Teaching from an interdisciplinary space, based in anthropology, has allowed me to encourage students to develop innovative methods that move with the communities with which they will work. It has also pushed me to develop interdisciplinary classes that bring anthropology into larger conversations. My research and teaching thus emphasize this commitment to interdisciplinarity, methodological innovation, and theoretical criticism. By putting these interests at the center of everything I do, I try to make every academic moment count.

My next research project explores how to bring together the anthropology of the African diaspora with the ethnography of police, to think about how policing contexts shift around particular religious spaces. With funding from the Weatherhead Center for International Studies at Harvard University, I will begin working this summer on “Policing African diaspora Religions,” exploring the intersection between law enforcement and particular religious diasporas in the United States.

Being a graduate student and now professor with children (two growing boys) was challenging to say the least.

However, the steadfast encouragement I received from my mentors, professors, administrators, and colleagues, who always supported my choice to become a scholar, has been invaluable. They made this process worthwhile, and even during the most difficult moments, have allowed me to envision, and then carve out, a space where I am a career thinker.

Elif Babül (continued from PG 7) took classes, prepared for my qualifying exams, conducted research and wrote my dissertation has equipped me with the competence necessary to assume the role of junior faculty, what really put me at an advantage for this job was the extra time I was able to spend in graduate school, during which I had the chance to strengthen my teaching abilities. The way I interact with the students in and out of class, the methods I use to evaluate their course performance, and how I frame the topic I plan to teach are all shaped by my experiences as TA and instructor for the additional courses I taught in my five plus years. Running out of graduate fellowship support in my sixth year, I picked up the teaching of undergraduate proposal writing in the department. I took a job as the TA for Introduction to Feminist Studies, which expanded my teaching experience beyond anthropology. I TA’d and ran the research methods lab for Introduction to Cultural Anthropology during summer school. I also taught research methods for two consecutive years at the summer school at my alma mater in Turkey. In addition to providing me with valuable teaching experience, these classes helped me produce the sample syllabi and student evaluations I could then submit as part of my application package.

The excellence of academic preparation we get in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford goes without saying.

What I also want to underline is the value of our development as teachers, and the time that it takes to acquire the necessary experience, which then makes us even stronger candidates in the academic job market. I feel the need to emphasize this specific aspect of my experience of finding a job, particularly because of the recent widespread discussions about the costs and benefits of extended training in PhD programs across campuses. Due to reluctance on the part of academic institutions to hire tenure-track faculty, recent PhDs often find themselves in precarious positions.

Delaying graduation, while further investing in our development as scholars and teachers is a strategy we all employ to cope with this precariousness. Remaining a graduate student for what seems like a long period can indeed be draining both financially and emotionally. But as someone who got a tenure-track position in her eighth year in the program, I can definitely say that I could not have been where I am right now if I had to graduate on a faster track.

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James Clifford - Visiting Professor We are delighted to welcome James Clifford to the Department. Clifford is a Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and an Emeritus Professor in the History of Consciousness Department, University of California, Santa Cruz. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recent Guggenheim recipient and an External Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center.

Clifford joined the Department this year as a Visiting Professor, and he will have a continuing appointment for one term each year over the next several years. This will allow him to offer a graduate seminar each year and to work with students and faculty on a range of issues. His work has been enormously influential within anthropology, while also linking our discipline to a stimulating set of interdisciplinary discussions around issues such as indigenous identity, the representation of culture, travel, and translation.

After completing his PhD in European Intellectual and Social History at Harvard (1977), Clifford joined the History of Consciousness Department at UCSC. Working with Hayden White, and followed by Donna Haraway, Teresa de Lauretis, Barbara Epstein, Angela Davis and other colleagues, he helped develop a successful interdisciplinary PhD program linking the Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts. This intellectual milieu shaped his scholarship, encouraging experimentation and border crossing.

Over the years, Clifford’s research and teaching have combined perspectives from history, literary analysis, anthropology and cultural studies, and drawn on contemporary poetics and museum studies. The stimulation from innovative colleagues and students that he found in the unique, risk-taking interdisciplinary environment at Santa Cruz was critical to his intellectual development. Clifford remained at UCSC for thirty-three years until his retirement in 2011.

He has held visiting professorships at Yale, University College London, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and the Freie Universität in Berlin.

Clifford’s initial work contributed to the intellectual history of anthropology, emphasizing the Western notions of culture, art, and the exotic as these were related to changing colonial and postcolonial situations. His first book, Person and Myth: Maurice Leenhardt in the Melanesian World (1982) explored the limits and possibilities of cross-cultural

understanding in the violent historical context of French New Caledonia.

His next two books developed a critique of anthropological knowledge and research practices: Writing Culture; the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, co-edited with George Marcus (1986), and The Predicament of Culture: 20th Century Ethnography, Literature and Art (1988). The former has enjoyed a continuing succès de scandale in anthropology and a broad influence across many fields of cultural analysis and artistic production. (Its 25th anniversary was recently recognized in a special issue of Cultural Anthropology 27 (3), 2012.) The Predicament of Culture has been widely read and translated. It was followed, in 1997, by a sequel: Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late 20th Century. These two works combine close, analytic readings with critical and poetic experimentation, expanding the forms and rhetorics of the scholarly essay.

During this period Clifford also edited, introduced, and translated the writings of the relatively unknown but seminal French surrealist and ethnographer, Michel Leiris (1986). He also co-edited (with Vivek Dhareshwar) a collection of essays, Traveling Theories, Traveling Theorists (1989), which explored the de-centering of the West as headquarters for social and historical analysis.

The latter work grew out of a graduate student research cluster. Graduate teaching, very much a two-way street, has always been a key source for Clifford’s thinking, and he brings this collaborative attitude to his seminars at Stanford.

Clifford began as a historical critic of European systems of thought—linked conceptions of “culture,” “man,” the “primitive,” and the “exotic.” He is still a historian of ideas, theories, and representational practices, but with a sharpened awareness of the traveling, translated, situated nature of his objects and tools. He attributes this shift in emphasis to the important, still unfinished decolonization of anthropology and of the academic milieux in which he has worked.

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Sharika Thiranagama - Assistant Professor Sharika Thiranagama was born in the northern peninsula of Jaffna, one of the disputed areas in Sri Lanka’s three decade long civil war. As the war continued, Sharika and her family left as refugees for London, United Kingdom.

She received her BA (Hons) in Archaeology and Anthropology (Social Anthropology Tripos) from St. John's College, the University of Cambridge. She then went on to complete an MSc in Social Anthropology (with Distinction) and a PhD in Anthropology from Edinburgh University, graduating in 2006. From 2005-2006, she was the Nancy L Buc postdoctoral fellow at the Pembroke Center, Brown University, which she followed in 2006-2007 with an ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council of Great Britain) Postdoctoral Fellowship at Edinburgh University.

After teaching at the University of Amsterdam for two years, Sharika returned to the United States in 2009 as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research in New York. While on leave from the New School, she joined the Stanford faculty as a visiting Assistant Professor in 2011. In April 2013, Sharika joined the faculty permanently as Assistant Professor of Anthropology.

Sharika’s research has focused on various aspects of the Sri Lankan civil war. The civil war was fought between the Sri Lankan governments and Tamil militants, most prominently the guerilla group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) known popularly as the Tamil Tigers. The Tigers ran a repressive and authoritarian quasi state in northern and eastern Sri Lanka, forcibly requisitioning taxes and young people for its ranks.

While not enthusiastically, the minority supported them in large part because successive Sri Lankan governments and the Sri Lankan army and security forces committed continuous human rights violations and failed to provide comprehensive political reform to remedy ethnic discrimination and minority aspirations. Sharika examines the everyday life of this protracted war, which has formed the primary horizon of experience for ordinary people in minority areas. Primarily, she has conducted research with two different minority ethnic groups, Sri Lankan Tamils and Sri Lankan Muslims. Rather than avoiding the question of LTTE violence, her work examines the ways in which fear of LTTE as well as state terror became the backbone of ethnic life in northern Sri Lanka. Her research explores changing forms of ethnicisation, the effects of protracted civil war on ideas of home in the midst of profound dis-

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placement, and the transformations in and relationships between the political and the familial in the midst of political repression and militarization. Her book In My Mother’s House: Civil War in Sri Lanka (2011, University of Pennsylvania Press) examines these themes. In her edited collection with Tobias Kelly Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy and the Ethics of State-Building (2010 University of Pennsylvania Press), she further develops the ways in which violent ethno-nationalism has treated dissidents as “traitors” and the kinds of consequences this has for political life in Sri Lanka and other places.

Sharika has also conducted other research on the history of railways in Sri Lanka and the BBC World service in South Asia. She is currently undertaking new research in Sri Lanka on postwar life in the Jaffna Peninsula mapping new post-war social configurations. These ongoing interviews are with Muslims and Tamils returning to post-war Jaffna, Muslims after a twenty-year absence, and the reestablishment of multi-ethnic neighborhoods as well as the tensions and separations, which attend such new configurations. In the future, Sharika will be looking towards South India and new long-term fieldwork. This project will be entitled ‘The Cultural Life of Communism in Kerala’ and will be based in Kerala, South India.

Kerala has consistently elected (one of two) communist parties in the ruling coalition since the 1950s. The project will investigate how a distinct form of Keralan communism has evolved within everyday practices of family life, local public spaces, and ideas of personhood and self-improvement.

Sharika is currently on the Board of Directors of the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies and has been the initiator and organizer of an annual Graduate Student Conference on Sri Lanka for the last three years. The fourth such conference will be held at Stanford in the Fall 2013.

This conference brings together graduate students from across the US to present work, build a strong interdisciplinary cohort, and develop new research on Sri Lanka.

Sharika has been one of the lead actors and participants in the Canadian National Film Board docu-drama No More Tears Sister: Anatomy of Hope and Betrayal about the life of human rights activist Dr. Rajani Thiranagama. Her most recent achievement is baby Aneesa Rajani, five months old, who joins her five-year-old brother Mirak.

Krish Seetah - Assistant Professor Krish's appointment to Stanford consolidates three positions held in the UK: a lectureship at the University of Central Lancashire, and two on-going fellowships from Reading University and the University of Cambridge.

Professor Seetah comes to Anthropology and Archaeology from a non-traditional background. His BSc in Biology and first MSc in Ecology for Sustainable Development were both from the University of Surrey, UK. His introduction to archaeology focused on skeletal morphology. His second MSc in Osteoarchaeology, from Bournemouth University, UK, was crucial in linking his previous research from the biological sciences with the humanities. He then went on to complete a PhD in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, with collegiate affiliations at Fitzwilliam College and Peterhouse. This was followed by a Levehulme funded post-doc at the McDonald Institute, Cambridge, in 2010, focusing on morphological markers to differentiate between horse populations from Central Asia and China.

Since completing his PhD, he has held research posts at the Truth and Justice Commission, Mauritius (2009), the Scientific Research Centre, Slovenia (2010), and at Reading University (2011) where he was an ERC Fellow.

Trained primarily in Osteoarchaeology, specifically Zooarchaeology, his earlier research focused on actualistic studies related to tool technology and carcass dismemberment. Alongside work at the experimental archaeology facilities at Roskilde, Denmark, he undertook short courses in metal tool production from blacksmiths specialising in archaeological technologies. To this he brought his own highly idiosyncratic vocational experience as a qualified butcher. Thus, his approach to cut mark analysis is informed from practice and relies heavily on modern analogy. Initially, as part of both MSc and PhD research, his enquiries were focused on the Roman and Medieval worlds. During his PhD, which focused on Britain, he developed research interests on the continent, specifically the Baltic (Poland, Latvia and Lithuania) and the Mediterranean (Italy and Montenegro). These latter projects relied on methods developed during his PhD to aid in the phases of transition as they related to

the Northern Crusades (Baltic) and Venetian Republican Expansion (Mediterranean). More recent work has looked at the cultural context of meat in a range of settings, for example, in 2010 he worked with a group of Maasai in Kenya to look at the social aspects of food sharing, community hierarchy as expressed through consumption, and the medicinal role that meat plays in Maasai culture.

His earlier research on Roman and Medieval Europe inspired a deep desire to better understand processes of colonisation and colonialism. While initially focusing on food culture and economic aspects of consumption, in 2008 he initiated a project that brought his research into the post-medieval with an investigation of the broader ecological and socio-economic implications of Europeanization and globalisation. Using the remarkable test case of Mauritius, a small colonial enclave in the Indian Ocean and the testing ground for the replacement of slaves with indentured labourers in the 1834, he and a team of archaeologists have since undertaken an extensive programme of excavations on the island. Working with the Island’s two UNESCO World Heritage Sites and local institutions, they aim to better understand how the ecological and sociocultural legacies of colonialism impact modern descendent communities.

His efforts since joining Stanford have been split between completing writing projects from earlier research on more traditional aspects of zooarchaeological enquiry, for example a long overdue edited volume titled: Bones for Tools: Tools for Bones (McDonald Institute Monograph Series, 2012), and developing new synergies with scientific expertise at Stanford. These include links with the SLAC x-ray synchrotron facilities and teams in Bio-X. Ultimately, he is keen to develop research that uses modern analogy in innovative and imaginative ways to understand the past, while simultaneously demonstrating how the longue durĂŠe approach has value for informing the present.

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Robert Bayard Textor 1923 - 2013 An anthropologist and futurist, Robert Textor passed away peacefully of natural causes at his home in Portland, Oregon on the morning of January 3, 2013.

He was 89 years old.

Born at home in the middle of a snowstorm on March 13, 1923 in Cloquet, Minnesota to Clinton and Lillian (nĂŠe Nickles) Textor, Robert Textor received a public school education until his family relocated to Easton, Pennsylvania in 1937. He transferred to Blair Academy in Blairstown, New Jersey, where he was a day student and later valedictorian of the Class of 1940. His valedictory address was passionately isolationist, a view he critiqued six decades later during a commemorative speech given at Blair at his 60th reunion.

Textor attended Antioch College for two years before enlisting in the army in 1942.

After scoring well on the language aptitude exams, he enrolled in the Army Japanese Language School and he spent the remainder of the war studying Japanese in Ann Arbor, Michigan, graduating with his BA in 1945. He immediately sought a post with the occupational administration of Japan and eventually became second in command of education for the whole of Wakayama Prefecture in 1947-48. He keenly observed the consequences of the Second World War and its aftermath on Japanese society as well as the American post-war occupation. His first book, Failure in Japan: With Keystones for a Positive Policy (1951) assessed the state of the US occupation and was listed as an Outstanding Book of 1951 by the New York Times.

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Inspired by his time in Japan to devote his career to cross-cultural understanding, in the early 1950s Textor entered the PhD program in Anthropology at Cornell, where he studied under Lauriston Sharp. He was one of the original members of the Cornell Thailand Project which focused primarily on the study of Bang Chan, then a village in the Min Buri district close to Bangkok.

During his fieldwork in Thailand he was ordained as a Buddhist monk, the first American to ever undergo this process.

After returning to the United States in 1958, Textor received his PhD in 1960 and took a post-doctoral research associate position at Yale, followed by a research fellowship at Harvard.

During the latter period, he played a key role in the establishment of the Peace Corps in Thailand, and was hired in 1961-62 to train the first group of volunteers for Thailand. He consulted on a number of Peace Corps projects for several years and drafted the original memo sketching out what would become known as the “In, Up, and Out” policy, the basis for the Peace Corps’ time-limited “five year rule” employment policy.

He also edited an anthology titled Cultural Frontiers of the Peace Corps, published in 1966. During that same period, he published the monograph From Peasant to Pedicab Driver (1965), the first scholarly work to examine the labor migration of rural northeastern Thais to Bangkok.

In 1964, Textor accepted a joint position in Anthropology and Education at Stanford University, later moving full-time to Anthropology in 1986. During his quartercentury at Stanford, he founded the Council on Anthropology and Education of the American Anthropological Association in part to bridge the gap between the two disciplines. International education was an ongoing research interest, again with a focus on Southeast Asia. This region, and Thailand in particular, remained a major focus of research throughout Textor’s career.

In the mid-1970s Textor’s developing interest in futures studies inspired a new methodology, which he called "ethnographic futures research,” or EFR. This method utilizes an active ethnographic dialogue to invite participants to project and then synthesize a range

of alternative future scenarios. His focus on futures research led to a pioneering study on technology and culture in Austria (1983), researched during a 1982 stint as visiting professor at Stanford’s overseas studies campus in Vienna. EFR in turn helped to drive the field of Anticipatory Anthropology.

After taking early retirement from Stanford in 1990, Textor moved to Portland, Oregon, where he soon began consulting for Motorola among other companies. He established the Textor Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology through the American Anthropological Association in 1998. His latter-day publications include edited and introduced volume The World Ahead, on Margaret Mead’s writing (2005), a slate of publications related to the 20th anniversary of his Austria research (2006 and 2007), as well as several publications on the Peace Corps.

In 1997 Textor and several friends began meeting regularly at a local Portland pub to talk about current events and other issues of the day. These meetings evolved into a salon of sorts. Participants, who came to be known as Thirsters, met on Thursdays to discuss culture and politics, their conversations often supplemented by talks on various topics by experts in their fields. For his far-flung network of friends and colleagues, Textor also instigated and moderated a listserv of timely articles, which he called “Thirstergrams.”

The Thirsters were Textor’s intellectual and social community for over 15 years, and gradually gained political significance. By mid-2000s, many Democratic candidates running for statewide office would make Thursday night appearances. One of the last speakers Textor introduced to Thirsters was former Congresswoman Elizabeth Furse, who spoke on Indian land rights. The day he died, he was excited that Afghan anthropologist and Portland State University professor emeritus Zaher Wahab, his former graduate student, was scheduled to speak.

He is survived by his children, Alex Robertson Textor of London, United Kingdom and Marisa Robertson-Textor of Brooklyn, New York.

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a w a r ds and grants

Kaplan Foundation, US Department of State, Thiel Foundation

Ian Hodder recently received several grants to support a conservation effort at Çatalhöyük, a world-renowned site dating to the late 8th and 7th millennia BCE in Turkey. It is an example of a series of mega-sites that emerged during the Neolithic in the Middle East and is thus important for understanding why humans settled down and adopted agriculture. In addition to its great size and longevity, the site is unique in its concentration of narrative paintings and ritual installations inside domestic houses.

However, the site poses severe conservation problems because the art and installations are painted and formed on finely laminated mud plasters and on walls of unfired mud-brick that are often unstable. The Çatalhöyük Research Project has worked at the site for 20 years (in a 25 year project) and a large amount of research has been focused on conservation. This year the site was inscribed onto the UNESCO World Heritage list.

The UNESCO inscription and rising visitor numbers have resulted in a need to institute a stable conservation program and a response team with local and regional expertise that will continue after the current 25-year research project ends. This proposal suggests three solutions to the conservation challenges and in response to the World Heritage listing: conservation, partnership and training over three years.

The aim is to set up a long-term integrated and sustainable system for the conservation at Çatalhöyük. The mud-brick and capped architecture will need continual monitoring and management even after the current research project at the site ends in 2018. Knowledge transfer and partnership are needed at international, national and local levels. Grants from the Kaplan Fund and the US Department of State: US Embassy in Ankara, Turkey will be used to initiate this new phase of work at Çatalhöyük and to set up a long-term sustainable framework to care for and protect this unique new World Heritage site. The Thiel Foundation grant will also be used in this capacity.

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National Institute of Health James Holland Jones was awarded a grant from the National Institute of Health for his research on comparative spillover dynamics of avian influenza in endemic countries.

Avian influenza A/H5N1 was first identified in the late 1990s. To date, it has caused outbreaks in poultry or wild birds in 58 countries resulting In at least 571 human cases, and 335 human deaths, and more than $10 billion in economic losses, largely due to culling of poultry.

Despite radical, often draconian, control efforts, H5N1 persists across many parts of the Old World and continues to threaten global health and development.

The project will use a combination of three different modeling approaches, a collection of field surveillance data on domestic poultry and wild birds, and a contact survey in A/VH5N1 endemic countries to investigate what factors lead to the endemic persistence of A/H5N1.

Dynamical, spatial, and network models will be integrated to develop a predictive capacity for the spillover of H5N1 from poultry to people.

The project involves assembling a multidisciplinary team of leading disease ecologists, leveraging many years of experience in three H5N1 endemic (Bangladesh, China, and Egypt) and one control country (Cameroon, where H5N1 is not endemic) to collect data on wild waterfowl migration, poultry farm size, market dynamics, and human contact networks with these sources of infection. Samples will be collected and tested for viral incidence within animal populations at 10 sites in each country. Specifically, the team will test 3 hypotheses to understand why H5N1 is able to persist endemically in these countries: (1) The pattern, size, and distribution of poultry farms that drive H5N1 endemism; (2) The pattern, frequency, and intensity of contact networks among wild birds, domestic birds, and people that influence the risk of spillover and prolongs transmission; and (3) Integrating dynamical, network, and spatial models across scales to provide a strategy to better predict influenza-A transmission risk.

This work will significantly advance the understanding of the long-term dynamics of H5N1 by using fine-scale measurements of realistic contact networks in epidemiological models of H5N1, allowing researchers to explain the poorly understood capacity of H5N1 to persist at low prevalence in endemic countries. Furthermore, the improved predictive models will aid in developing more effective control measures in these critical, high risk countries.

Social Science Research Council Tanya Luhrmann received a grant from the Social Science Research Council to test the hypothesis that different “theories” of mind will shape the way prayer practice is experienced and the kind of spiritual experience with which it is associated. The aim of this project is to compare the experiences of congregants in similar churches in India and Africa to ask whether the patterns observed in the American context differ systematically in the non-American contexts. More specifically, the project asks: a. How do congregants in three culturally disparate settings represent the aim and experience of these imaginal dialogues and other imagination-rich prayer practices? b. What specific spiritual experiences (for example, the audible voice of God; tongues; out of body phenomena; etc) do congregants in these three culturally disparate settings recognize, elaborate and report? c. Do congregants in India and Africa who report more prayer practice, more spiritual experience, or more vivid interactions with God also score more highly in ‘absorption,’ than American congregants do?

National Science Foundation Rebecca and Doug Bird were recently awarded a National Science Foundation grant to study indigenous fire regimes, land-use ecology, and contemporary livelihoods in northern California.

One of the longest standing and most sweeping effects of humans on natural systems in fire-prone areas has likely been intentional use of fire: people burning natural grasslands and woodlands for particular subsistence and land management purposes. Intentional fire has almost certainly been widespread for millennia in what is now California, and may have changed the ecology and driven the evolution of species in ways that in turn affect the ability of people to obtain important cultural resources. This project will measure direct effects of indigenous burning practices on woodlands and low-elevation, mixed forests in the Central Valley, Klamath Mountains, and Sierra Nevada, and indirect effects of these practices on the availability of foods and materials used by indigenous peoples from these regions. Tribal participants and researchers will quantify differences in plant species composition between areas burned by traditional practitioners and areas subject to fire suppression, and test effects of burning practices on the regeneration of oaks and on infestation of their acorns by insects.

Detailed studies of time required to harvest and process cultural resources will show whether burning does in fact improve resource availabilities for people. This work will take a scientific look at a potentially very important interplay between humans and nature that has been the subject of intensive debate but little quantitative study.

The project brings together researchers, tribal practitioners, and other land managers to develop a better understanding of how to manage fire to achieve social goals and to restore and maintain natural systems. As currently managed, much of California's oak woodlands and low-elevation conifer forests ecosystems are under a threat of high-intensity, destructive wildfires. These ecosystems may in fact be adapted to frequent, low-intensity fires that burn off understory debris, increase species diversity, and reduce the threat of future wildfires. The project will disseminate findings to tribal and federal agencies.

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Cities Unbound Workshop Series

In the Cities Unbound Workshop, Stanford anthropologists collaborated with faculty and graduate students in other disciplines and from other universities to explore contemporary urban life. Developed by James Ferguson, Sylvia Yanagisako, and Thomas Blom Hansen and led by Hansen and Richard Roberts (History), the workshop sought to bring anthropologists, historians, sociologists, geographers, and others together through their shared interest in cities. Throughout the world, most people now live in cities and their peripheries, yet relatively little is known about their experiences. This is in part because urban studies is still largely reliant on 19th and 20th century theory based on American and European cities. Much of what happens in contemporary cities around the world is termed ‘informal’—informal settlements, informal markets, informal institutions of various sorts—and remains insufficiently understood by urban theorists and other scholars. The Cities Unbound Workshop created an interdisciplinary forum to interrogate these forms of ‘informal’ daily urban existence and to use them to begin to rethink urban theory itself.

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from Stanford and outside institutions who study various regions from many disciplinary perspectives and who are at different stages in their careers. The workshop gave particular attention to nonwestern urban life. Asef Bayat spoke about everyday politics in the Middle East; Sumeet Mhaskar and Durba Chattaraj discussed ‘slum’ and peri-urban life in India; Martijn Koster and Rivke Jaffe presented work on crime and citizenship in Brazil and Jamaica, and James Holston and Teresa Caldeira spoke about urban space and participation in Brazil. Cities Unbound also engaged with life in American cities, with Richard Walker discussing San Francisco, George Lipsitz commenting on life in inner city Los Angeles, and Robert Sampson looking at neighborhood change and stasis in Chicago. Cities Unbound brought these scholars into conversation with the work of Stanford graduate students, including Tristan Ivory’s research on African entrepreneurs in Japan, Bruce O’Neill’s work on boredom in Romania, and Destin Jenkins’ scholarship on deindustrialization in San Francisco. Ferguson, Hansen, and Yanagisako will build on the work of the Cities Unbound Workshop next year, beginning with a conference in the fall at the Stanford Center at Peking University in Beijing.

Ecology and Environment Winter Colloquium Series The ecology and environment track of the Anthropology Department hosted its own winter colloquium with a thematic focus on the intersection of ecology and health. The colloquium was funded by a grant from the Lang Fund. The Department hosted eight leading scholars representing a wide range of specialties and interdisciplinary engagements in human-environment interaction. Don Hankins (CSU Chico) kicked off the colloquium with a talk on indigenous fire knowledge and ecological restoration. John Speth (Michigan) provided an updated archaeological perspective on the "man the hunter" hypothesis of modern human origins. Indiana University's Michael Muehlenbein spoke on evolutionary anthropological perspectives on clinical endocrinology and immunology. Jessica Rothman, from the CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College, gave a talk on measuring nutritional constraints that structure foraging decisions among African apes. Shauna Burnsilver (Arizona State) presented her work on sharing and cooperation and their role in resilient responses to climate change in Native Alaskan communities. Catherine Panter-Brick, from Yale, spoke on biological and cultural resilience among street children of Afghanistan. John Mitani (Michigan) spoke on long-term research on cooperation in wild chimpanzees. Craig Hadley (Emory) concluded with a talk about his new synthesis of cognitive anthropology and population health. All of these talks were followed by lively receptions at EE faculty's homes that allowed students to interact extensively with both the speakers and EE faculty members.

Language Information and Techné “Language, Information, and Techné,” one of the Theodore and Frances Geballe Workshops at Stanford Humanities Center this year, explores the diverse technological and technical conditions of mediation that brings “language” into being, and builds new vocabulary to reclaim its originary materiality and technicity as well as its cultural and historical specificity. How can we bring “language” back into “information technology?” How do different devices and modes of inscription bring out different social forms of organizations? How can we understand the sign in and as material forms? The workshop strives to stake out a new territory of scholarly inquiry to investigate the technical and technological infrastructure that makes language and information possible.

City Beneath the City

City Beneath the City, a contemporary art installation hosted at the Stanford Archaeology Center, explores the buried histories of Silicon Valley through displays of artifacts excavated from the site of the Market Street Chinatown in downtown San Jose. Designed by artist and Stanford alum Rene Yung, the exhibit hauntingly displays remnants of a once thriving Chinatown community that was home to more than 1000 Chinese immigrants for two decades in the late 1800's. On May 4, 1887, amidst anti-immigrant sentiments, Market Street Chinatown was destroyed in an arson fire.

City Beneath the City was first exhibited at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art for the Zer01 art and technology biennial thematic, "Seeking Silicon Valley." Working with Anthropology professor Barb Voss, the chief investigator of the Market Street Chinatown Archaeology Project, Chinese Historical and Cultural Project, and History San Jose, Rene Yung redesigned the exhibit to bring the artwork to Stanford University. In this exhibition, Yung explores the tension between the artifacts' pleasing aesthetic qualities and the troubling history that transformed a thriving community into an archaeological site. These objects - simultaneously fragile and durable echo the struggles of Santa Clara County's early Chinese immigrants, who continued to rebuild their communities despite legal restrictions, racial discrimination, and direct violence. In reflecting on their persistence, we may feel hope in the midst of loss.

City Beneath the City will be at the Stanford Archaeology Center until June 30, 2013.

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Cultures, Minds, and Medicines Workshops 2012-3 has been the second and spectacularly successful year (and first full year) of Cultures, Minds and Medicines, a interdisciplinary seminar around the complex interconnections of social formations, culture and experience and their implications for clinical and anthropological research. We organized the series around the basic intellectual commitment of medical anthropology: that disease (an organic process in the body) must be distinguished from illness (the lived experience of disease). We take illness to be shaped by the way disease is identified, diagnosed and treated; by which symptoms are meaningful in a particular setting and by the kind of suffering that motivates care; by medical culture, clinical practice, the consequences of disability and the legal right to care; by the distribution of wealth and poverty; by both the intimate and the broad social world. The series is also motivated by the sense that for students to do good work in this area, they should understand the different intellectual approaches that underpin different disciplines, and develop a sense of what counts as data, argument and effective presentation across different fields. As such, we bring in people from a range of different disciplines to speak, and we bring in writers and artists to give people a sense of the varying ways in which arguments are made active in public space.

Students love this opportunity to hear the way people present from different perspectives. The seminars are routinely packed, with rarely fewer that forty people present and sometimes over sixty, and they come from all over the university. We have anthropologists and medical students, psychology graduate students and Modern Thought and Literature students, psychiatric residents and freshmen.

We began this year with the renowned psychologist Hazel Markus and Alan Conner, speaking on the way different cultural expectations affect the choices people make about their health. Then we heard Melissa Caldwell, an anthropologist from UCSC, talk about food security in

Russia. Ian Gotlib, a psychologist who does fine-grained psychiatric work, talked about depression. Victoria Sweet, a MD/PhD from UCSF, read from her recent book, God’s Hotel, about slow medicine and the loss of a way of caring for the patient that she strongly values.

In the winter term, our first speaker was Jose Maldonado, a physician who works with hypnosis and whose expertise is in psychosomatic medicine and trauma. That session was followed by anthropologist Natasha Schull, who described gambling addiction and the ways in which casinos in Las Vegas are built to maximize the experience of the “zone” such gamblers crave. She was followed by another anthropologist, the famous Nancy ScheperHughes from UC Berkeley, who spoke about an asylum in Argentina and its involvement in the dirty war. Then we heard from MD/PhD Carl Elliott from the University of Minnesota, bioethicist and writer, about his attempts to disentangle the role of the pharmaceutical industry in psychiatric research.

In the spring, we focused on sociology and science and technology studies. We heard anthropologist Sharaon Kaufman from UCSF, who spoke about the ease with which the medical system moves people at the end of life into more and more procedures and painful cures, and the paradoxes of eliminating sudden heart failure which, after all, can help someone at the end of life achieve a fast, painless death. Sociologist Hannah Landecker from UCLA, looked at the way the science of metabolism had been cut off from the science of reproductive medicine, and the ways in which epigenetics was now changing the ways in which we understood how food entered and transformed our bodies. Sociologist Jackie Orr gave a performance about the biological catastrophe of the BP oil disaster. Charis Thompson of UC Berkeley, spoke about the question of good science and what makes it possible.

These workshops are great occasions, with great conversation, and we serve dinner. Please join us!

South Asia Graduate Student Conference In May 2013, the Center for South Asia hosted the second annual “South Asia by the Bay Graduate Student Conference.” This year, the conference focused on the theme of “Tense Times: Intimacies, Enemies, and Strangers in South Asia,” exploring how large-scale transformations in South Asia touch and condition the individual and intimate lives of ordinary people – both in the present and in a longer historical perspective. The conference featured six panels of graduate student research and four keynote addresses. From the Department of Anthropology, Dolly Kikon, who is currently writing her dissertation, and Guilia Mazza, a second year PhD student, presented their work. Dolly shared her research on the politics of ethnic purity in the militarized and violent frontiers of Northeast India. Guilia discussed her work on the democratic transition in Bhutan. There were also several other anthropology doctoral students from other universities presenting a wide range of topics, from discussions about the deaf community in Nepal to dealing with loss in the Vanni of Sri Lanka to investigation of the dynamics of family counseling and kinship in Rajashtan.

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Urban South Asia Workshops Stanford’s Center for South Asia held a series of workshops over the past two years on the theme of urban life in South Asia. In the 2012-13 academic year, CSA held the third and fourth workshops in the series entitled “The Sacred and the City: Religious Imagination and Everyday Enchantments in the South Asian City” and “Vernacular Urbanism And The Provincial City” respectively.

“The Sacred and the City” explored a) how ideas of the sacred, religious practices, and religious boundary-making continuously have structured social life in South Asian cities and b) how these dynamics may be incorporated into how space and social practices can be theoretically framed and understood. Anthropologists presenting papers at this event included Laura Bear (LSE) whose paper focused on the Viswakarma Puja and Shipbuilders in Kolkata, Madhura Lohokare (Syracuse) who looked at the phenomenon of young men in Pune involved in Ganesh Mandals, Radhika Gupta (Max Planck) who presented “Shiite Religiosity in Contemporary Mumbai,” and Megan Moodie (UC Santa Cruz) who

discussed Scheduled Tribe followers of the Radhasoami in Jaipur.

“Vernacular Urbanism And The Provincial City In South Asia” was structured around two questions: 1) what spatial, political, and cultural imaginings and designs define the public life of provincial cities? (2) what are the relations between ‘community’ as an ethical and practical structure, and the commercialization of public life, increasingly mediated by access to capital, land and coveted private sector jobs? Several anthropologists presented at this event, including, Kathinka Froystad (Bergen) with a paper entitled: "Ambivalent belonging in a Dirty City" (on the city of Kanpur), Smriti Srinivas (UC Davis) with a paper entitled "Patrick Geddes, the Festive Vernacular, and South Asian Urban Theory," Bea Jaregui (Cambridge) who focused on the role of the police in shaping contemporary Lucknow, and Matthew Rosen (New School of Social Research) who looked at Print Culture and Public Space in a South Asian City.

N e w Books Krish Seetah, Assistant Professor Bones for tools - tools for bones. The interplay between objects and objectives (University of Cambridge, 2012) Animal procurement and tool production form two of the most tightly connected components of human behaviour. They are tied to our emergence as a genus, were fundamental to the dispersal of our species, and underpin the development of our societies. The interaction between these fundamental activities has been a subject of archaeological inference from the earliest days of the discipline, yet the pursuit of each has tended to encourage and entrench specialist study. As a result, our understanding of them has developed in full-view but in general isolation of one from the other.

This volume begins the process of integrating what have all too often become isolated archaeological and interpretative domains. Exposing and exploring contexts spanning much of prehistory, and drawing data from a wide range of environmental settings, the book covers both sides of the complex inter-relationship between animals, the technologies used to procure them and those arising from them. In taking a more inclusive approach to the material, technological and social dynamics of early human subsistence we have returned to the earliest of those archaeological associations: that between stone tools and animal bones. In revealing the inter-dependence of their relationship, this volume takes what we hope will be a first step towards a revitalized understanding of the scope of past interactions between humans and the world around them.

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L etter from the Fi el d

Fırat Bozçalı – Doctoral Candidate, Dissertation Writer

Protestors performing traditional Kurdish dance near the police checkpoint in front of the former-prison-Courthouse

Justice is Not Fair I spend almost every morning in a prison in Van, Turkey.

As a paralegal, I drive to the courthouse in the mornings and Van Courthouse is a former prison. Following the earthquake in October 2011, the former courthouse was evacuated due to the damage. Van M type prison was also damaged during the earthquake, so after a prison break the prison was relocated and the courthouse was moved into the prison. Judges, prosecutors, court clerks, lawyers, and paralegals spend most of their days inside grated windows and use bunk beds as file cabinets. However, a prison-courthouse is a good metaphor to think about how people experience the Turkish legal system in Van: “going to a court mostly ends with going to prison; justice is not fair.” In fact, I was initially struck by the fact that almost everyone that I met has a personal story about courts and/ or prisons, either as a prisoner who had previously served time, or as a visitor visiting a relative in prison. There is a rich repertoire of legal consciousness in Van and this consciousness hardly believes in equality before the law.

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Van province has the longest land border of Turkey with Iran. It is predominantly Kurdish populated and significantly marked by the devastating effects of a three decade long civil war between the Turkish army and Kurdish rebels: militarization of rural areas, village evacuations, forced displacement, torture, missing and disappeared people, mass graves, and poverty alongside a deep social and economic devastation. Besides the identification of the province with armed rebellion (or “terrorism” in the eyes of the state officials), Van province has also been identified with smuggling activities. Members of a distinctive ethnic minority, Kurds, live on both sides of the Turkish-Iranian border and have sustained close kinship and trade relations with each other. Therefore, various kinds of smuggling have historically existed in this borderland. In fact, almost all of the personal stories about the legal system are based on either smuggling cases or political cases.

I should also note that many people consider smuggling and/or armed struggle as legitimate, although they are illegal according to Turkish law.

In looking at cases of oil smuggling in Turkish courts, my research explores how allegedly standard border crossing

regulations are negotiated and altered through alternative ethical and technical narratives. I examine how materiality of court documents and oil as well as local ethical regimes on national market, state, and border help local actors to reframe smuggling in alternative ways, such as a means of survival or private enterprise. Throughout my fieldwork, however, I have observed new research aspects and revised my research framework. Besides the cases of oil smuggling, I have started looking at other kinds of smuggling cases such as tobacco and sugar smuggling. I have also developed an interest in court experts and expert witness reports. To handle the casework in law offices, I started studying criminalistics and assisting lawyers to challenge the expert witness reports.

optimal spaces to observe how village politics meet urban politics. I occasionally spend time in those coffee houses as well.

After the court sessions end, I leave the courthouse for law offices to do casework. Except the cases of criminal arrest and political cases of the high-profile politicians such as a popularly elected mayor, courts mostly do not hold sessions in the afternoon. On a regular afternoon, the court secretary and clerks process paperwork, while judges and prosecutors examine cases in their offices. However, on the days of a high-profile political case session, the courthouse changes significantly: the entrance of the prisoncourthouse is blocked by police tanks, a police checkpoint is established, and thousands of protestors gather to support defendants in front of the courthouse.

Among the cases in border towns, I particularly focus on the cases of murder of the smugglers, who walk across military zones along the border, by border guards. Lately, Van Bar Association’s Human Rights Commission has initiated a research project on rights violations in border regions, and I have become member of the commission. This has added a new practice to my daily routine: attending bi-weekly commission meetings and travelling to border villages to produce fact-finding reports on human rights violations.

In late afternoons and evenings, I visit cafes where activists, local politicians, and professionals such as schoolteachers, lawyers, and doctors gather to talk about politics and/or gossip. These cafes are extremely rich ethnographic sites. Traditional village coffee houses are also rich ethnographic sites in Van city. Located next to mini bus stations where village shuttles stop, these coffee houses are

Besides the cases in Van city, I also follow smuggling cases in border towns. Van Province has 11 towns in addition to Van city. Four of these towns (Çaldıran, Özalp, Saray, and Başkale) are on the Turkish-Iranian border and courts of the border towns mostly prosecute smuggling cases. Every week, I drive to a border town, attend court sessions, visit defendants and spend nights in villages near the Turkish-Iranian border. During these visits, I gather many stories about local history as well as current kinship and village politics.

Before ending my letter, I should also note that social life could be quite demanding in Van city as well as in bordering villages. People here enjoy drinking tea and chatting for long hours. Although this habit of long chats is a valuable opportunity for an anthropologist, it can also exhaust one’s energy and attention. Fortunately, I have been able to secure time and energy to write field notes so that I can organize my thoughts on a daily or bi-daily basis.

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Helen Human – Doctoral Candidate, Dissertation Writer Tracing World Heritage It was my first time in Mesopotamia. I traveled there to see Göbekli Tepe, a potential UNESCO World Heritage site.

Perched on the top of a mountain ridge in southeastern Turkey, I stared down into the enormous circular compounds the German archaeological team had excavated over the past ten years. This Neolithic sanctuary from 9000 B.C. is the oldest religious site yet discovered. In the scorching sun, I squinted my eyes to find the animal reliefs carved into the ten to twenty ton T-Shaped limestone pillars that are the awe-inspiring features of this site. After climbing up to the top of the tell, I sat by the lone tree on the site – a wishing tree with fabric scraps tied to its limbs flapping in the wind, marking a slightly more recent Muslim grave.

Göbekli Tepe evoked archaeological questions about how a prehistoric people, who did not yet have pottery or metal tools, created this place.

Located above the Syrian plain, miles from the border, this potential World Heritage site also raised more immediate questions about the limits of the World Heritage Convention in times of armed conflict. Just weeks earlier I had read an appeal from UNESCO’s Director General for the protection of Syria’s cultural heritage amidst the escalating crisis. If World Heritage status does not protect sites from destruction, then what does this designation do?

At that moment, my phone rang with an update that shifted my thoughts momentarily towards St. Petersburg, Russia, where the UNESCO World Heritage Committee was voting on the World Heritage nomination of Çatal-

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höyük, a Turkish Neolithic site. As a part of my dissertation research, I had drafted the site’s nomination dossier.

Over the phone, my colleague played the live web-stream of the meeting and the Committee’s decision to inscribe Çatalhöyük to the list – making it Turkey’s eleventh World Heritage site. The nomination, however, was contingent upon the development of a site management plan. A benign sounding document, the site management plan, I had learned, was the major stumbling block for Turkey’s World Heritage nominations.

Four weeks earlier, sitting in the Efes beer factory on the Konya Plateau, I listened as forty stakeholders brainstormed a potential “vision” statement for Çatalhöyük’s new site management plan.

As a nominee for World Heritage status, the site needed an up-to-date management plan and Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism was under pressure to produce one, or else the nomination might fail.

The Ministry sent invitations to forty archaeologists, local politicians, and bureaucrats to attend a stakeholder’s meeting, where the Ministry’s technocrats would explain and encourage discussion of Çatalhöyük’s main management issues. This kind of stakeholder participation was also an UNESCO requirement. Since 1993, a foreign archaeological team, including professors and students from Stanford University, has excavated Çatalhöyük. I was invited to the meeting as a member of that team and as a key participant in the World Heritage nomination process.

After listening to information about site boundaries, risk management and animal burrowing for an hour or so, the

meeting participants started to become restless. They were anxious to talk about what mattered to them – the archaeologists wanted to talk about the specifics of site preservation and research, and local politicians and business owners seemed to want to talk about developing tourism. Whatever subject the officials from the Ministry introduced, the conversation inevitably came back around to tourism – hotels, museums, visitor centers. When the Ministry officials encouraged discussion of the site’s accessibility, the mayor of a small town twelve kilometers from Çatalhöyük became heated, accusing the Ministry of planning to re-route tourists away from the town, thereby “taking the site from our hands!” One of the young women I worked closely with at the Ministry finally exploded, “Our goal is this plan, its aims, not the increase of tourism in the region!”

cording to him, was being more cooperative and showing enhanced concern for and understanding of the challenges of protecting World Heritage. A representative from Turkey’s delegation told me that aside from donating 5 million dollars to UNESCO, Turkey was considering volunteering for a term on the World Heritage Committee.

While archaeological sites in the middle of nowhere, such as Göbekli Tepe, seem at first glance to be ineffective places for realpolitik, the World Heritage process allows Turkish officials access to an international forum where states negotiate issues of human rights, development, and international intervention.

Just recently, shelling in Syria toppled the minaret of the historic Omayyad Mosque, which is part of the Aleppo World Heritage site. Speaking to the UNESCO General Committee, Turkey’s ambassador called for action: “As UNESCO, we have a responsibility to be the moral voice of the international community…If we want to have this organization to remain relevant and uphold its reputation, it is high time that we sent a strong message to deplore the destruction of hundreds of cultural heritage sites and properties - Ambassador of Turkey in Syria.”

"As UNESCO, we have a responsibility to be the moral voice of the international community…If we want to have this organization to remain relevant and uphold its reputation, it is high time that we sent a strong message to deplore the destruction of hundreds of cultural heritage sites and properties in Syria."

With the World Heritage nomination looming, everyone felt that stakes were high. While local politicians assigned economic value to World Heritage status, Ministry officials had anxiety about the responsibilities and international oversight associated with the World Heritage process.

Whatever the tensions in the room, all factions seemed to agree on one thing: World Heritage status mattered. Perceived to be at stake was nothing less than international power, tourism and foreign investment.

A trip to Paris confirmed as much. Sitting in a conference room in UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre, a young midlevel UNESCO official who had worked on Turkey’s portfolio for six years, informed me that relations between his office and Turkey’s Permanent Delegation to UNESCO had dramatically improved in the past two years. Turkey, ac-

My interviews in Paris, my travel to Mesopotamia, and my work at Çatalhöyük were all part of a wider effort to trace the diverse stakes in World Heritage and the many kinds of work that World Heritage designation performs. While World Heritage status may fail to protect sites from destruction, it certainly succeeds in allowing Turkey to craft an image of itself on the international stage as a protector of human and cultural rights - a liberal democratic leader between Europe and the Middle East that is ripe for foreign investment.

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Michael Price – Doctoral Candidate, Dissertation Writer As my motorized canoe skips gently over gentle ocean swells, I worry about the digital camera and laptop in my waterproof backpack in front of me. Would they survive a fall into the ocean? But I’ve made such trips many times before without mishap, so I put this worry out of my mind.

Instead, I focus on the sensations I am experiencing as my canoe draws ever closer to my destination. The salty tang of ocean air fills my nostrils, evoking memories of playing at the beach as a child. The sun beats down mercilessly from above, so I am thankful for the pleasant ocean spray which the canoe kicks up intermittently as it cuts through a particularly large swell. To my right are towering cliffs covered with moss and the occasional intrepid tree which has somehow managed to secure a foothold (well, roothold) on the cliffs’ sheer vertical face. The sonorous hum of the motor makes me drowsy. It’s about 12 pm, but I’ve been awake and traveling since 4 am today, and have spent much of the past few days traveling, too.

My journey began a few days ago in Jakarta, the bustling, cosmopolitan capital of Indonesia, where I boarded an airplane for Ambon, the capital and transportation hub of the province of Maluku in eastern Indonesia. In Ambon, I stayed in a very nice business hotel with high speed internet, air conditioning, and an attentive staff, conveniently close to a score of restaurants with some of the best seafood I’ve ever tasted. With little regret, I left that comfort behind when I hailed an ojek (motorcycle taxi) from the street to take me (and my precariously balanced baggage) to Pasar Batu Merah (the Red Stone open air market).

There, I boarded a public anggkot (minivan) crowded with people, baggage, garden produce, and chickens which took me speedily to the port of Tulehu north of Ambon town, where I boarded a ferry for the port of Amahai on the south coast of the island of Seram. From Amahai, I took another public minivan to the town of Masohi where I spent the night in a stuffy little wisma (motel). In Masohi, I chartered a car to take me to a village on the north coast of Seram, where I boarded the motorized canoe where I am worrying about my electronics. On the canoe, the busy trappings of urban life already seem a distant memory.

The canoe makes a sharp right turn, and I behold one of the most idyllic scenes I’ve ever seen. Nestled between the sea and the rainforest at the end of a small bay lies a village built partly on land and partly on stilts in shallow water which contains a myriad of darting fish and colorful coral. Children paddle about the bay in small canoes, racing or trying to capsize the canoes of friendly rivals. Adults paddle or motor about the bay in larger canoes, returning or departing from fishing or errands. In this village, you

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can do without a motorbike, but not a boat. Children take a canoe to and from school each day, not a school bus.

This village (let’s call it Oceanside) is my ultimate destination, along with another village (let’s call it Jungleville) a few kilometers away. I spend much of my time in Jungleville, but because the two villages maintain close social and economic ties, I find myself making frequent trips between the two. The contrasts between Oceanside and Jungleville are fascinating, both in their own right and from the perspective of my research.

Oceanside (as the name deliberately and eponymously suggests) is located by the ocean in a hilly area, so it is a compact, dense settlement. Houses are located sideby-side and often share walls. Jungleville, on the other hand, is located a few kilometers inland on a small rugged road. It is a much more sprawling settlement. Houses are leisurely spaced. Since Oceanside is located right on the ocean, it has a much greater maritime focus. Fishing is more important than hunting for daily sustenance, as is ocean-based trade, which today is mostly conducted using motorized canoes, but in the past was conducted using sails and oars. Even though Jungleville has been located at

its present site relatively near the ocean for about a century, most of its residents originate from interior tribes, with whom Jungleville still strongly identifies. Treks into the interior are frequent to hunt, patrol, and gather and utilize forest resources, including cloves and other spices so coveted during the heyday of the spice trade in the Indonesian Archipelago.

A strong sense of history linked to the spice trade exists in both Oceanside and Jungleville, albeit filtered through the

lens of everyday experience interacting with ideas, events, and things of the past. There is a general sense that the Spice Islands, of which Seram is one of the largest, are a backwater today, but that they played a central place in world history in times past, both before and after the arrival of European powers (most professional historians share this view). But not all of the patterns which underpinned the spice trade have disappeared. The spice trade could not have existed without an accompanying trade in food stuffs, notably rice imported from Java and Bali and starch extracted from the sago palm produced and traded locally in the Spice Islands, to support the large labor force

which specialized in producing and transporting spices and other export goods. Specialization created distinct differences in the orientations or perspectives of different groups of people. Traders and fishermen maintained an often explicit maritime orientation (perhaps best exemplified by the Orang Laut, or sea people), whereas many of the procurers and producers of foods and forest products maintained an often explicit terrestrial orientation. Even though the spice trade has waned, the distinction between maritime and terrestrial orientations is salient both today and for understanding history. Much history privileges the maritime perspective because maritime folks were the ones moving about, interacting, and (for the most part) writing the history. With this observation, I can now bring some order to what has perhaps seemed like a hopefully entertaining but somewhat undirected creative essay.

By describing my journey from Jakarta to Oceanside and Jungleville, I hoped to successively reduce focus from the global and urban life most of us experience on a daily basis to a very specific and less frenetic local setting. By focusing sharply on a specific local setting, I was able to contrast two different perspectives or orientations which remain salient in eastern Indonesia: the maritime and the terrestrial. I then expanded focus once again to describe how the maritime and the terrestrial interacted in the historic spice trade, and argued that much history is written from a maritime perspective. I can now link to my own research.

The reason I spend more of my time in Jungleville than in Oceanside is that I am conducting an ethnoarchaeological project to better understand two things: (1) what factors influence subsistence decisions in the mostly interior (or terrestrially) oriented subsistence system of Jungleville; and (2) what are the material by-products of those subsistence decisions which an archaeologist might uncover centuries or millennia later. Much of my work involves establishing how, why, and in what quantities different types of food scraps (such as starch) become deposited in trash heaps. Not surprisingly, this renders my research more than a little bizarre to many of my friends and informants in Oceanside and Jungleville (and not just to them!) who observe me weighing trash and other odd materials, but I hope that my research can provide better tools to identify terrestrially oriented subsistence so archaeologists can better understand the interaction of maritime and terrestrially oriented peoples in the past, as well the contribution of terrestrially oriented peoples to some very important historic and prehistoric events.

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Yvette Dickson-Tetteh – Undergrad Anthropology Major

With heartfelt thanks to the Beagle II Award and the Boas/ Rosaldo grants, I was able to travel to Ghana to live and learn amongst the members of the Hindu Monastery of Africa. My friend Alessandra Santiago and I stayed in the temples there, attending ceremonies, participating in worship, making friends, all the while filming and interviewing for the documentary we are now making. I will be writing my senior thesis based on the research I conducted while there.

Odorkor, Ghana The main road through Odorkor, a region in Greater Accra, bursts with bustling bodies and hazy moving colours at every, and any, hour of the day. It is characterised by an ever-present tide of Ghanaians doing life in whatever way they decide – from the five a.m. dash to catch the trotro to work, to the evening stroll home at the end of the day.

Hawkers sell their wares along and in the street, expertly dodging the speeding vehicles as they do. It appears some unwritten tradition that taxis, trotros, and in some instances trucks, proclaim a written statement in sticky yellow or white letters on their back or front window. Here, intriguingly, is where we see one of the most obvious examples of how Christianity, and more generally, religion, infuses most threads in the fabric of Ghanaian life. These yellow

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and white messages tend to be digested interpretations of common Christian teachings (“My Redeemer”), direct quotes from the Bible (“God is Good”), and if neither of these, then certainly some type of religiously inspired advice (“Heaven’s Gate No Bribe”). Occasionally one sees a message that indicates an Islamic sentiment, like “Allahu Akbar”.

The religious structure of Ghana is one that is predominated by Christianity in the south and centre of the country and Islam in the north, with Christians comprising 63% of the population, Muslims 16%, and indigenous faith adherents 21%. Over the last decade, Ghana has experienced a significant rise in the number of evangelical churches, whose increasing popularity can be credited to the highly religious nature of the Ghanaian people. Where in another country billboards might solely advertise products, services, and concerts, in Ghana they publicise large-scale arena sermons, gospel concerts and sometimes, very simply, just the fact that “Jesus is Coming”.

Despite the ubiquitous presence of Christianity in cultural, social, and political life, as well as in the built environment of the city, it is not the only religion decidedly established in Ghana. In every major city there is also a specifically Mus-

lim area known as an “Azongo”, where lived communities of Muslims (the other majority of religious practitioners).

The overwhelming predominance of these two giants of religion in Ghana, against a background of traditional belief, would suggest that any alternative fledging religion or spiritual practice would find it impossible to take root and grow. But against all expectations, if one looks carefully enough, there are signs of other religious presence – and if one follows the signs, one eventually finds whole groups, whole communities, practising a wholly unexpected faith.

One such discovery is the aforementioned Hindu Monastery of Africa, a community of indigenous Ghanaians practicing Hinduism, and the people of my research.

The community is comprised of, and centres around five ashrams in Ghana (Accra, Cape Coast, Kumasi, Tema and Mampong) and one in Lome, Togo. The original and head branch sits unobtrusively along the side of the main road in Odorkor, a small compound contained within white washed walls. Along these walls the ubiquitous Ghanaian “Gye Nyame ” sign is painted in gold. Large bushes that provide leaves and flowers for use in the daily worship grow in nurtured beds at the entrance. A large, slightly faded sign informs passers-by that this is “The Hindu Monastery of Africa”. This first branch officially became a monastery in 1975 when Swami Ghanananda Saraswati was ceremoniously initiated into Sannyasa by Swami Krishnananda Saraswati (a visiting Sannyasin) and became a monk in residence. The other branches – all ashrams – followed individually at intervals of a few years during the eighties and nineties, as demand grew in the particular regions.

Though recent history gives evidence of the massive proliferation of Christianity into Africa during and after the colonial period, the unique and unlikely rise of the Hindu Monastery of Africa (HMoA) in Ghana demands a new look at the subject of conversion and religious experience. In the case of the HMoA there were no missionaries and no enforcement; it was not even that Ghanaians joined an existing Indian Hindu temple; rather it is the amalgamated story of hundreds of people’s personal search for new answers, and a new faith. The continuing life of this community is a case study in how such a group defines itself, and how it manoeuvres around tensions with other local social and religious groups to continue not only to practise, but also to grow. The phenomenon of the Hindu Monastery of Africa adds to the academic discourse on the incidence of and reasons behind religious conversion, and complicates our understanding of the boundaries between religions, domestic and international culture, and society.

The animating question of my thesis, then, asks how the particular socio-cultural and religious context of the members of the HMoA informs their understanding of their religious practice and their identity. It also asks how the relationship between their socio-cultural and religious context and their new, chosen religion is evident in their worship, their everyday life, and in their relationships with others (members and non-members alike). Crucially, these questions will be investigated and discussed with a view to understanding more about the concept of identity, cultural identity, and the process of identity formation. As a Ghanaian-British female studying in America, and having lived in several different countries including Switzerland, South Africa and Nigeria, I feel a resonance when studying the cross-cultural communication that occurs between different peoples and different cultures. In this study, I was and am interested in the relationship between the identities we construct, inhabit, and then the way in which they are communicated. In this study, I was and am excited to explore a side of myself that I have not yet delved; I look forward to immersing myself in the analysis of this unique part of Ghanaian culture, and to understanding my cultural heritage from an academic standpoint.

It is impossible for me to express how important this project is to me; not only will it add to an undeveloped space in cross-cultural anthropological research, I truly believe that, at least for me, it will be another essential step to understanding what culture is, who we are, and what it means to belong.

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Elizabeth Rosen – Undergrad Anthropology Major The Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük is located in central Anatolia, approximately 37 miles to the southeast of Konya, one of the fastest-growing cities in Turkey. Çatalhöyük was first occupied by early farmers about 9,000 years ago and was eventually home to 5,000-10,000 people. Much of its fame derives from its status as one of the earliest known urban settlements in which mudbrick buildings were constructed with access only through the roofs. The archaeological record shows significant artistic achievement, including intricate wall paintings of hunting scenes and geometric

objective of non-profits and governments alike. Its appeal lies in its driving principle, that cultural heritage sites are valuable not only for the pleasure gained from visiting them, but as potential generators of economic growth in developing communities. The Global Heritage Fund is attempting to develop a universally adaptable model for archaeological and economic intervention from which to examine the many pitfalls and potentials such pursuits.

These include ensuring the organization’s cultural and technical preparation, developing team competency and

designs, pottery, textiles, clay figurines, and wooden artifacts, and generally considered more advanced than at its Anatolian and Near Eastern contemporaries. The site was first recognized for its archaeological significance in the late 1950s and was excavated by James Mellaart from 1961-1965. Since 1993, Professor Ian Hodder’s team of international archaeologists has carried out new excavations, research, conservation, and local outreach projects.

sensitivity, establishing accountability by monitoring the consistency of results, and developing a sustainable and scalable model to overcome cultural and geographic variations between sites.

For the past three years, I’ve been studying the relationship between Çatalhöyük and the Palo Alto-based Global Heritage Fund in an honors thesis that attempts to reconcile archaeological preservation and economic development in the context of a young field called heritagebased development. Although still in its formative years, heritage-based sustainable development has become an

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An exploration of the GHF’s pilot project at Çatalhöyük reveals a well-intentioned but poorly communicated, unilaterally executed, and ultimately mission-undermining attempt to apply the strategies of venture capitalism to the skeptical and methodology-oriented cultural heritage establishment. However, it also raises and makes progress towards answering many important questions, including: How do issues of transparency and accountability in the non-profit sector reflect those encountered in academia, and how does that dynamic manifest when the two groups interact? What can we learn from the current

state of NGO-driven heritage-based development in order to increase future project impact? And perhaps the most painful question to address for members of the heritage community: can heritage-based development even have a positive, long-term impact on developing communities?

Before diving into a discussion of cultural heritage preservation as a component of sustainable international development, perhaps an introduction to some of the various definitions of “cultural heritage” over the years would be appropriate. Cultural heritage was first mentioned officially in The Declaration of the Brussels Conference of 1874 and the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. Since its ratification in November 1972, the UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage (known more commonly as the World Heritage Convention) has served as the standard global definition of cultural heritage, being:

From the GHF’s situation at this contentious intersection of international public policy, nonprofit-academic partnerships, archaeological research and conservation, and sustainable economic development, stems my research: a case study of the collaboration between the GHF and Çatalhöyük, a Neolithic Turkish archaeological site, from which I aim to extrapolate the significance and trajectory of heritage-based development from both an academic and a philanthropic perspective. This research is not an at-

“monuments: architectural works, works of monumental sculpture and painting, elements or structures of an archaeological nature, inscriptions, cave dwellings and combinations of features, which are of outstanding universal value from the point of view of history, art or science; groups of buildings: groups of separate or connected buildings which, because of their architecture, their homogeneity or their place in the landscape, are of outstanding universal value from the point of view of history, art or science; sites: works of man or the combined works of nature and man, and areas including archaeological sites which are of outstanding universal value from the historical, aesthetic, ethnological or anthropological point of view” The concept of cultural heritage and its public scales of valuation, such as placement on the World Heritage List (962 sites strong as of 2012), have not remained solely symbolic and political in their significance. Rather, cultural heritage has become very closely linked in both developed and developing countries with the concept of heritage-based economic (primarily touristic) development, a link which carries with it a dense and inconsistent discourse on the economics, morals, logistics, ethics, and philosophy of archaeology-as-economics .

tempt to provide definitive ‘truths’ or ‘best practices’ regarding the role of NGOs in heritage-based development.

Instead, my aim is to extrapolate from the following findings to suggest policy – primarily oriented towards strategies and attitudes toward communication between nonprofit professionals and their academic collaborators – for future organizational procedure, both for the GHF and for similar organizations.

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1950 Nancy M Williams (1950 AB) Honorary Reader,School of Social Sciences, University of Queensland. Co-editor Oceania; member Research Advisory Committee Kakadu National Park; current consultancies include peer review of Dhimurru Indigenous Protected Area Sea Country Management Plan and peer review of Yulluna Native Title Application for Queensland South Native Title Services.

James H Boreta [James Houck] (1951 BA) Bookstore owner for 39 years. I am continuing to run an independent community bookstore and enjoying 5 adult grandchildren.

Joanna Kirkpatrick (1951 AB) Bennington College, 1967-94; retired.

Faculty, Film rev. ed. with journal Visual Anthropology for past 6 years, recently retired from that job. Continue to help out where needed. 2007 "Railroad Trains in Bangladeshi Ricksha and Popular-Commercial Arts", is my article with PowerPoint slide show, on a CD-ROM included with this book: Ian J. Kerr, ed., 27 Down: New Departures in Indian Railway Studies.

Hyderabad: Orient Longman. The hardback book's cover also bears a ricksha art panel (my collection) in color of a railroad train going over an urban flyover.

2012 Review of Jamal J. Elias, On Wings of Diesel: Trucks, Identity and Culture in Pakistan, Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 71:1, pp.287-288. 2012 Another of my ricksha art panels--a railroad train cruising through the jungle and being attacked from both sides by a purple elephant and a tiger; it’s in color on the front cover of this hardback publication: India's Railway History : A Research Handbook, by John Hurd and Ian J. Kerr. Boston: Brill. Vol. 27 of the Handbook of Oriental Studies.

James H Erickson (1952 BA) Assistant Surgeon General Retired US Public Health Service. Retired from US Public Health Service as Assistant Surgeon General 1993. Since then involved in ministry and medicine in a variety of settings.

Most recent: Adjunct faculties at North Park Theological Seminary, Chicago and Northeastern Illinois University. Served 8 months cross-cultural ministry sabbatical in Idilo, IL 2011-2012, as well as continuous medical education at Idilo Medical Center.

Lois Lancaster [M. Lois Fellows] (1954 BA) Artist: Artists' Books, Fiber Sculpture, Prints, Shown at MOMA SF; MOMA Tokyo; British Library; Savaria Museum, Hungary; British Craft Centre, London; American Craft Center, New York ,NY. Curator and

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participating artist, Jan. 2011, Korea Foundation Gallery, Seoul, Korea entitled "Five Looking West" consisted of five California artists whose work is influenced by Korean art and culture. An article about the exhibit including an interview with Lois, pp.50-55, Koreana magazine, vol.25, No.1, Spring 2011. www.koreana.or.kr/months/ news.

Martha M Bell [Martha March] (1958 BA) Retired. Hosting and training rescued ponies. Quilting with a group who make quilts for our son's orphanage in Guatemala and quilts for Wounded Warriors. Trying water colors with my husband, Tim.

1960 Lynda Lytle Holmstrom (1961 BA) Professor Emerita and also part-time faculty member, Boston College, Dept. of Sociology. Recently, a colleague, Ann Burgess, and I were asked to write an encyclopedia entry devoted to “rape trauma syndrome,” a concept we developed and presented in 1974 in the American Journal of Psychiatry. We wrote about the development of this now-classic concept, its subsequent use, and related research appearing in the ensuing decades. On the lighter side, I had a fascinating trip driving around Ireland. Visiting The Aran Islands’ famed stone cliff fort (Dún Aengus), County Sligo’s isolated and unattended passage tombs, and County Mayo’s Céide Fields preserved in bogs proved to be an ideal vacation for an anthropology major.

Alan Howard (1962 PhD) Professor emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i.

Since retiring from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawai"i in 1999 I have co-authored one book and co-edited two special issues of journals and published or co-authored 16 journal articles and chapters in edited books. I was elected an honorary fellow of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania in 2007, and was given an award by the College of Social Sciences at UH for Distinguished Retired Faculty for 2010-11.

Keith H Richmond (1963 BA) Retired International Civil Servant/Freelance Editor/Olive Partner. Maker of prizewinning extra virgin organic olive oil (see www.boggioli.com) Don I Gray (1966 AB) Retired HS teacher and retired financial advisor. Served as Chair of the Alaska Democratic Party during the recent presi-

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Cultural Anthropology is helpful in practical politics, but under Alaska's current rules, Gerrymandering by the Governor and his appointees still trumps one-person, one-vote. Am truly saddened by our loss of Professor Robert Textor, friend, former advisor and founder of the Thirsters.

Virginia N McNeely [Virginia Narsutis] (1966 AB) Deacon at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Sacramento, CA. Ordained as a permanent deacon in the Episcopal Church.

Keith Basso (1967 PhD) Regents Professor, University of New Mexico. Linguistic and ethnographic research with members of the White Mountain Apache Tribe.

Margaret A Covert [Margaret Ann Bartz] (1967 MA) President, Capstone International. Unretired to lead company serving universities in need of adjunct faculty and programs to serve their corporate clients.

Michael Agar (1967 AB) Chief Paradigm Mechanic, Ethknoworks LLC, Eldorado, NM. New book coming out soon, The Lively Science: Remodeling Human Social Research. Projects blooming around water research in New Mexico. See www.ethknoworks.com for details.

Laurie Ascenzi [Laurie Terr] (1967 AB) Teacher, Albuquerque Public Schools.

Pioneering and sustaining Dual Language Immersion Program in Albuquerque Public Schools--elementary level.

Carolyn B Poe (1967 AB) Retired early in 1998 from high-tech corporate banking (BofA, Silicon Valley Bank, Boston Safe Deposit and Trust) and venture capital (Technology Funding Inc.) Had exciting finance career with MS in Sociology (SJSU) and MBA (Santa Clara University). Traveling, playing tennis, attending lectures and courses, and having fun with family and friends since retirement. Life is good!

Clyde M Woods (1968 PhD) Retired. Doing my best to stay alive while navigating the corrupt medical (HMO) system!

Savannah T Walling (1968 BA) Artistic Director, Vancouver Moving Theatre, Associate Artistic Director, Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival Co-wrote: The Minotaur Dreams, Bah Humbug!, We Are the People. Published: Excavating Yesterday: Evolution of an Artist

Ann Hitchcock (1968 AB) Senior Advisor for Scientific Collections and Environmental Safeguards, National Park Service. Leading team to develop policy on benefits sharing for the National Park Service.

Anya P Royce [Anya Peterson] (1968 AB) Chancellor's Professor of Anthropology and of Comparative Literature, Indiana University. External Examiner MA Ethnochoreology, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick Book: Becoming an Ancestor: Isthmus Zapotec Ways of Death. 2011 (hardback), 2012 (pbk). SUNY Press. Honorary doctorate, D.Litt, University of Limerick, 2010., New Frontiers Exploratory Research Travel Grant 2013: “Journeys of Transformation: Isthmus Zapotec Pilgrimages Ancient and Modern.”, Pilobolus: The Anatomy of a Collaborative Creative Enterprise, 1971-2010, under contract with Wesleyan University Press.

Peter Bourne (1969 MA) Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Green Temple College, University of Oxford, UK Co-Convenor of annual global conference on energy market economics and the social welfare challenges they face. See www.gtc.ox.oc.uk/ems.

William F Gerdes (1969 MA) RETIRED. I feel proud to have fully enjoyed the different ways of two cultures, SE Asia, and Middle America, living a happy life retired and traveling around in each one. I moved from The Sea Ranch, CA to Cebu, Philippines, to the wonderful town of Atenas, Costa Rica, where I bought a mini Hacienda. I cultivate a fine tropical garden and swim in my pool. Look for my ad in the Stanford Magazine and come on down to rent my casita! Your inquiry gets my photos.

John P O'Grady (1969 MA, 1967 BA) Professor: Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts,, Medical Director: Family Life Center, Mercy Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts .

Roberta R Katz [Roberta Reiff] (1969 BA) Associate VP for Strategic Planning, Stanford University.

Phillip Riles (1969 BA) Managing Director of Gemstone Educational Management.

Diane Silven [Diane Pickett] (1969 BA) Retired high school teacher, San Mateo Union High School District, SM, CA. I am now on the Board of Directors for the San Mateo County Community College District.

I am an active member of the American Association of University Women (AAUW).

I teach exercise to active senior citizens through the SMUHSD's Adult School. I also teach dance and choreograph for children grades 3 through 8 in local community school and theater programs.

Jay O'Brien (1969 AB) Purdue University, Department of Anthropology. Taught my last classes Fall 2012 at Purdue University. I will retire in May 2013! Struggling with cancer. Plan to live in Santa Cruz area when Ellen retires and in summers until then.

1970 Frederic Van Rheenen (1970 MA) Awarded teaching award in psychiatry at Stanford Medical School Psychiatry Department, 1970 anthropology work included field work in Guatemala.

Pam Maes [Pam Balch] (1970 BA) Nurse Practitioner. Still working as a family practice Nurse Practitioner with Gary Maes; feel lucky to travel to Burma in June with VIA Alumnae and families. Three sons grown, married, and in Colorado, New York, and Oakland.

Mary P Kelsey (1971 BA) Independent Visual Artist. I will be traveling to Colombia's Choco area later this summer 2013 to document community and environmental effects of large-scale gold mining. My role is to create drawings, while my partner will make photographs.

We will create exhibitions and other materials after our return. Project Website: www.elchocomining.net.

Kathryn March (1971 AB) Professor of Anthropology, Feminist Studies and Public Affairs. This year the Cornell-Nepal Study Program celebrates its

20th year providing field research training for students from Tribhuvan University (Nepal) and universities throughout the US. Visit our Facebook page.

Theodore E Downing (1972 PhD) Research Professor of Social Development, Director of Social Development Division, Arizona Research Laboratories, University of Arizona; former state legislator, ran as an nonpartisan and independent for the Arizona State Senate 2010; President of the International Network on Displacement and Resettlement (www. displacement.net). Profile at www.teddowning.com.

Rodger H Buehler (1972 BA) Independent collector of fine art and ethnic artifacts. Found a mate to the Danish modern name armchair I've had 50 years (i.e. since high school).

Janice A Larkin (1972 BA) Clinical psychologist. Continued provision of direct services and supervision. Development of family communication model for facilitated discussion of bio-ethical issues regarding aging, chronic illness, end of life. Development of straight-ally outreach to LGBTQ youth via internet discussion forum, including discussion of expert keynoted addresses in response to audience requested topics.

Diane E Shepherd (1972 BA) Shepherd Veterinary Clinic. Hawaii Veterinary Medical Association, President; Maui Classical Music Festival, President.

Nancy B Chandler [Nancy V. Borstelmann] (1973 BA) I have built a successful small organic farming business from a run-down dairy farm.

I feed 34 seniors and over 20 families with nutritious fruits and vegetables that keep them healthy. I have assisted in business planning and successful growing with immigrant farms and taught over 20 college graduates to farm. I provided leadership to a natural resource protection nonprofit after it lost federal funding. I continued giving board development, serving county financing, and leading the search to find an executive director.

Jean DeBernardi (1973 BA) Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta. In February 2011, I launched a new research project on contemporary Chinese tea culture in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces. I recently edited the collected essays of British social anthropologist, Marjorie Topley, who did early research on Cantonese society in postwar Singapore and Hong Kong, and the book was published in early 2011.

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in the Downtown Eastside; Reflections on a crosscountry collaboration in community arts training (alt.theatre). Production: 7th annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival (w/over 40 community partners, 30 venues, hundreds of artists); 2nd Downtown Eastside Arts for All Institutes (week long course - principles and practices that engage with and build community) Bah Humbug! (staged reading of eastside adaptation of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”); The Minotaur Dreams: (new telling of an ancient tale, promenade style, puppet-based); Spirit Rising Festival and East End Blues & All That Jazz (festival and concert of music and memories of East End’s historic black community) ; We Are the People : (concert celebrating Vancouver’s founding neighbourhood).

Awards: joint recipients of the 2008 British Columbia Community Achievement Award; City of Vancouver 2009 Mayor’s Award (Community Arts).

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writing a book on society in a post-Singularity world. Oh, and bicycling 12,000 miles per year.

Kelly Stewart (1973 BA) Research Assistant, Department of Anthropology, UC Davis. Book: Gorilla Society by A.H. Harcourt & K.J. Stewart, University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Jack Bilmes (1974 PhD) Emeritus Professor. Latest publication: "Truth and proof in a lawyer's story." In Journal of Pragmatics, 2012. My recent efforts have mostly been devoted to what I call "occasioned semantics", structures of meaning as they emerge in conversation. My most recent article on the subject is "Occasioned semantics...", in Human Studies, 2011. I have submitted an article on "Preference and the spirit of conversation analysis", and am currently returning to occasioned semantics. I have also been teaching one or two courses a year.

Sheldon F Shaeffer (1974 MA) Retired from Director, UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau of Education, Bangkok.

Failing retirement -- working with UNICEF, UNESCO, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank in the areas of inclusive education, language policy in education, multi-grade teaching, early childhood care and development, teacher education, education reform, and Education for All in Southeast Asia and East Africa.

extension, have, as of last month, started cataloging 5 boxes of my field work notes on Overseas Chinese in the New World, especially Peru.

Philip Ritter (1978 PhD) Software developer/research associate, Stanford School of Medicine. Continuing research in patient education and self-management, publications in medical journals.

Frederic Spielberg (1978 BA) Emergency Specialist, EMOPS - UNICEF, Geneva Promoting use of simulations and table-top exercises to improve disaster preparedness among government and humanitarian organizations.

Robert R Alvarez (1979 PhD) Emeritus Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego. Current President (2012-2015) Society for Applied Anthropology; Recent Publications: 2012 Familia: Migración y Adaptación en Alta y Baja California (First Spanish translation) Universidad Autónoma de Baja California & Instituto Sudcaliforniano de Cultura; 2012 "Reconceptualizing the Space of the Mexico-US Borderline" in A Companion to Border Studies, Blackwell; 2012 "Neoliberialism and the Transnational Activity of the State: Offshore Control in the US-Mexico Mango and Persian Lime Industry" in Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico, University Press of Colorado.

Katherine Verdery (1977 PhD) Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center Peasants under Siege: the Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture (Princeton, 2011), co-authored with Gail Kligman, won 3 prizes and 3 honorable mentions covering history, sociology, anthropology, and general social sciences. Now writing my memoirs, My Life as a "Spy", based on my secret police file from the Romanian government.

Frederic Bruno (1977 BA) Owner, Bruno Law. Alberto R Sanchez [ Rudi Sanchez] (1977 ) Vice-President of Student Affairs, GLendale Community College, AZ. Initiated planning for retirement, supported 2 children through higher degrees, still relatively sane, happily married, recently planned and supervise an a $25 million, 85,000 square foot community college campus

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David Fetterman (1981 PhD) President and CEO, Fetterman & Associates and Arkansas Evaluation Center.

Recent Books: Empowerment Evaluation in the Digital Villages: Hewlett-Packard's $15 Million Race Toward Social Justice and Ethnography: Step by Step. Award: American Educational Research Association Distinguished Scholard Award. Position: Past President - American Evaluation Association (webpage: www.davidfetterman. com).

Emily Bunker (1981 BA) Writer/editor/digital photo album designer

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Kathryn M Anderson-Levitt (1982 PhD) Professor Emerita, U Michigan Dearborn, Lecturer, UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. I become a co-editor of Comparative Education Review in July: Anthropologies of Education: A Global Guide to Ethnographic Studies of Learning and Schooling (Berghahn Books) is out in paperback. Click on https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title. php?rowtag=Anderson-LevittAnthropologieshttps://www.berghahnbooks.com/ title.php?rowtag=Anderson-LevittAnthropologies.

Janice M LeCocq (1980 PhD) Semi-retired; life sciences consulting with Collins Mabry & Co., LLC. Photographer co-author of gardening blog: Form and Foliage (formandfoliage.wordpress.com), several published articles written and photographed related to veterinary practice, articles on local non-profits, etc.

Leo R Chavez (1982 PhD) Professor of Anthropology, UC Irvine. 3rd edition 2012, Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society (Thomson/Cengage). 2nd edition 2013, The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation (Stanford University Press).

Philip H Otto (1980 BA) Founded L.O.V.E. this year based: an architectural design firm that is exploring a new approach that can best be described as culturally based design. The goal is to seamlessly address both digital and physical spaces as they pertain to specific audiences.

Paul Espinosa (1982 PhD) Professor & Filmmaker, School of Transborder Studies, Arizona State University. I am currently working on “The Dawning of Liberty”, a two hour documentary film, on the life and times of Padre Antonio José Martínez, a public intellectual and activist priest in the American Southwest during the 19th century. Perhaps best known as the fictional villain in Willa Cather’s novel “Death Comes for the Archbishop,” the real Martínez was an ardent champion of enlightenment thinking and the importance of education for an emerging democracy. The film provides audiences with a rich and provocative vehicle for exploring how individuals adapt and survive in borderlands society, preserving elements of one culture while embracing

Adebisi Oteduko (1975 PhD) I retired in June 2007. Currently I am Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Washington University.

Edith B Wade (1976 BA) PRL Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California San Francisco.

Julie A Cohn (1980 AM, AB) I have just completed a Ph.D. in American History at the University of Houston. The topic of my dissertation is the development of the North American electric power grid. I enjoyed employing a few anthropology techniques when interviewing engineers about their experiences as builders of the power grid!

Charles L Raison (1980 BA) Barry and Janet Lang Associate Professor of Integrative Mental Health, University of Arizona. Conducted two studies of novel biological treatments for major depression; developed a research program in compassion meditation that has garnered international attention; I have two 4-year-old twin boys, Marshall and Charles.

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Sierra P Guerrra [Sierra Pena] (1982 BA) Family Physician. Married, doctor, mom of three sons. Welcome questions from students/alums, especially those interested in medicine.

Tom Harrington (1982 BA) Director of Marketing, Applied Geographics.

Helene E. Hagan (1983 MA) President, Tazzla Institute for Cultural Diversity. Published Tazz'unt, Ecology, Ritual and Social Order in the Tessawt Valley of the High Atlas of Morocco (2011) - Held Fourth Annual Los Angeles Amazigh Film Festival in 2012, as Director of the Festival, and preparing Fifth Annual in New York. See http://www.laaff.org.

Heidi R Benson (1983 BA) International Sales - Health Food.

Gigi P Pucker (1984 BA) CEO, OddLot Entertainment, CEO, Relevant Theatricals. Producer of film and theater. FILM: ROSEWATER with Jon Stewart & Scott Rudin, DRAFT DAY starring Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner & Denis Leary, ENDER'S GAME staring Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis and Asa Butterfield; THEATRE: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET (Las Vegas, Chicago & National Tour).

Philippe Bourgois (1985 PhD) Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology and of Family Medicine & Community Health. I am trying to force myself to stop doing fieldwork in the poorest corner of Philadelphia's Puerto Rican inner-city where I've been documenting the relationship of residents to the globally-driven open-air narcotics market for the past 5 years. I was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim this year as well as an ACLS collaborative grant that will hopefully spur me to write the first draft of my next book, "Cornered" at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe next year.

Steven L Mandeville-Gamble (1987 AB) Associate University Librarian for Collections and Scholarly Communication, George Washington University.

Kath Weston (1988 PhD) Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia. Recent publications: * “Lifeblood, Liquidity, and Cash Transfusions: Beyond Metaphor in the Cultural Study of Finance.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19 (2013): S24-

S41 (special issue, Blood Will Out: Essays on Liquid Transfers and Flows, ed. Janet Carsten)., * "Biosecuritization: The Quest for Synthetic Blood and the Taming of Kinship." In Christopher H. Johnson, Bernhard Jussen, David Warren Sabean, and Simon Teuscher, eds., Blood and Kinship: Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present, pp. 244-265. Berghahn, 2013., * "Political Ecologies of the Precarious."

Anthropological Quarterly 85:2 (2012):429455., Books in progress:, * The Intimacy of Resources: Technology and Embodiment in the Synthesis of Nature (forthcoming, Duke 2015), * The Magic of Capital: A Cultural Critique of Circulation and Generation in Finance.

Ashley David (1988 AB) The University of Georgia. On April 2, I successfully defended my dissertation, American (post): Performing a Theory of Text. The creative-critical project traverses media (poetry/art/performance/criticism) and disciplines (creative writing, literature, visual arts, anthropology, et al.) to explore democratic potential and to offer social justice applications for Roland Barthes's theory of text and the arts. ashleydavid. com.

JoAnn D Barbour (1989 AM) Professor, Texas Woman's University, Dept. of Teacher Education, Program in Ed Administration & Leadership. Recently I published two documents: 1) Edited my second book for the International Leadership Association: Leadership for transformation. A volume in the series Building Leadership Bridges. San Francisco: JosseyBass, 2011; and 2) a chapter in a book: Critical policy/practice arenas predicting 21st century conflict. In F. English, (Ed.), Handbook of Educational Leadership, 2nd Edition, (pp. 153-175). Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 2011. I also am excited about teaching in May interim a new anthropology course for adult/senior life-long learners titled “The Everyday Anthropologist.”

Sarah Bryer (1989 BA) Director, National Juvenile Justice Network. The National Juvenile Justice Network leads and supports a movement of state and local juvenile justice coalitions and organizations to secure local, state and federal laws, policies and practices that are fair, equitable and developmentally appropriate for all children, youth and families involved in, or at risk of becoming involved in, the justice system. We are often hiring and looking for good interns, so if you know anyone interested in social justice issues, please send them to us! www.njjn.org.

Nicole J Holzapfel (1989 BA) Head of Business Support, Commercial Banking, JPMorgan Chase.

Robert Shaw (1989 AB) Regional Division Head, General Internal Medicine, Fraser Health Authority, BC, Canada. Appointed as Clinical Assistant Professor in Medicine at University of British Columbia. Elected as executive in Community and Rural Internal Medicine Section of British Columbia. Learning Punjabi to serve the south Asian community in greater Vancouver. Undertaking a 1 month rotation at McGill University in Montreal for bedside echocardiography.

Robine M Vaneck [Robine Ralston] (1989 AB) Teacher, math & science, The Waring School, Beverly, MA. Dana Fleming (1989 BA ) CEO / Portfolio Manager, Vision Wealth Management Ltd., Vancouver, BC.

1990 Ashley R Gaddis [Ashley Ryan] (1990 BA) Freelance editor/writer.

Alison Holcomb (1990 BA) Drug Policy Director, ACLU of Washington.

I was the primary author of Washington State Initiative Measure No. 502, which legalizes, taxes, and regulates marijuana.

I also directed the campaign, New Approach Washington, that secured I-502's passage on November 6, 2012, by a 55%44% margin.

David A Rimer (1990 BA) General partner, Index Ventures.

Douglas Upton (1990 AB) Assistant Director, Global Education Center Colleges of the Fenway, Inc. Increase internationalization and support international activity at a consortium of six small colleges in Boston.

Tsuyoshi Shibata (1991 MA) Head of English Department, Seiun Academy, Nagasaki, Japan.

Sharon Talbott [Sharon Tu] (1991 MA) Consultant, Energy & Smart Grid. Here's a snapshot of today: Nurturing the ethnolinguistic curiosity of my "tween" kids - my daughter has chosen to recreate ancient cosmetics and research the culture of pulchritude in the Roman Empire. We drew the line at harvesting the equivalent of gladiator sweat, but grinding malachite is not out of the realm of possibility... My son studies Latin and is willing to contribute semantic analysis, but not actual perspiration, to the project. Too bad we aren't going to work on a dig in Pompeii! Instead, this summer, the whole family will spend a month in Kunming studying Mandarin.

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those of another. In presenting a story lost to the conventional American narrative, the film offers an overdue re-telling of U.S. history from the site of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

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Work is fine too - there are a fair number of anthropologists entering the clean tech space, working on behavioral studies and climate change, so it's wonderful to get paid for ethnographic insight. And passing through life's seasons in my community of faith - continuing to cultivate counter-cultural behavior as we grow older together - has been a steady gift.

Namino Glantz (1991 BA) I do not Tweet, Facebook, or e-mail much, but my professional trajectory is cached at www.HealthandCulture.org. The website involves ten years of health research in the land of the Zapatistas (Chiapas, Mexico), followed by a PhD in medical anthropology from the University of Arizona, a career in public health as a health planner with Boulder County Public Health, and most recently an appointment to Associate Professor Adjunct at the Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado.

I enjoy life in Colorado, reveling in the “Boulder bubble” lifestyle, which includes 300 sunny days a year, gourmet food, and lots of Lycra. My primary activity is co-parenting four children with my very sweet husband, Jeff. The kids are warm spirits, above average students, athletes, dog-lovers, artists, activists, and, alas, all adolescents (literally 13, 15, 17, and 19).

Lisa S Lipschitz (1991 BA) Department Chief OBGYN, Scripps Mercy Hospital; two beautiful children ages 5 & 3.

Dawn M Rodeschin [Dawn M McGuinness] (1991 AB) US Army lieutenant colonel, Northeast Asia Foreign Area Officer.

Working with Government of Iraq to send qualified individuals to training in the US - ensuring exposure to American way of life, democratic values, respect for human rights while providing technical and strategic training essential for the future of a strong, stable and democratic Iraq.

David Stoll (1992 PhD) Professor of Anthropology, Middlebury College. Rowman and Littlefield has just published my book El Norte or Bust! How Migration Fever and Microcredit Produced a Financial Crash in a Latin American Town.

Joel Streicker (1992 PhD) Development Director, Central American Resource Center of SF. My review of the novel Almost Dead, by the Israeli novelist Assaf Gavron, will appear in the journal Shofar in the winter of 2012. The literary journal Hanging Loose will publish my translation of the short story The Craving, by the Mexican writer J.M. Servin, this October.

Evelyn Blackwood (1993 PhD) Professor, Department of Anthropology, Purdue University. Promoted to full professor in 2010. Recent publications

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include Falling into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia, University of Hawaii Press (2010) http://www.uhpress. hawaii.edu/shopcore/978-0-8248-3487-6/.

Also co-edited the award-winning anthology, Women's Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia (2007). For more info see my webpage at, http://web.ics.purdue. edu/~blackwoo/index.htm.

Bianet Castellanos (1993 BA) Associate Professor, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota. M. Bianet Castellanos, Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera, and Arturo Aldama, eds. 2012.

Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press. M. Bianet Castellanos. 2012. "Repositioning Native Subjects." In Dossier: Celebrating and Engaging Renato Rosaldo's Culture and Truth. Aztlan 37(1): 155-166.

Dee A Espinoza [Dee Ann Jones] (1993 BA) Owner/Principal Investigator, Espinoza Cultural Services, LLC. I started a cultural resource management consulting firm, Espinoza Cultural Services, in 2010. ECS is a small, woman- and minority-owned, HUBZone-certified business. We have offices in Colorado and Texas. ECS has completed several projects in South Dakota and Texas since its inception over a year ago. We will have a busy field season in 2011, consisting mostly of fieldwork in the Dakotas and adjoining northern states. Visit our website and drop us a line: www.ecs-arch.com.

Mun Wei Chan (1994 BA) Divisional Director, Corporate Planning, Sentosa Leisure Group.

Clea Koff (1994 BA) 1. Author; 2. Director, MPID (Missing Persons Identification Resource Center). A two-book deal for the worldwide English rights to publish the first books in my mystery novel series, which features two forensic anthropologists profiling missing persons in order to help identify the backlog of unidentified bodies in the U.S. FREEZING, the first in the series, will be published by Severn House in the Fall of 2011.

Lynn D Burnham [Lynn Dungan] (1994 ) Reading Intervention Teacher, Denver Public Schools.

Sonja V Srinivasan (1995 BA) I am studying opera singing, a serious fiction writer, and also occasionally wearing my hat as an academic teaching consultant. I also am a classical music reviewer.

I let go of a very promising career in academia to pursue an arts career. Though I began studying singing in 1998, it was only two years ago when I decided to drop everything to do it. My voice professor is the James Gibbs of the opera world----another African-American trailblazer! As if pursu-

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Amy Turnbull (1995 BA) Adjunct instructor, Lewis & Clark College.

Suzanne Fanger (1995 AB) Finished PhD in "Human Development and Family Sciences" at the University of Texas at Austin, December 2012. Study preschool peer relationships.

Ana M Juarez (1996 PhD) Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Texas State University.

Kathryn M Bauer [Kathryn Morgan] (1996 BA) Acupuncturist & Chinese Herbalist.

Liliana Suárez-Navaz (1998 PhD, 1992 MA) On Sabbatical 2012-13, Tinker Professor Center for Latin American Studies/Anthropology at Stanford. Professor at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain); Chair of the Graduate Studies Program on Public Anthropology. Publications: "Politics of Representation: Migration, Media and Citizenship" (2013); In preparation: "'Latinidades' across the Atlantic: Diaspora and Transnational identities of Latin Americans in Europe", and "Iberian Worlds after the promise of Europe". New Research Grant on the National Spanish Program on the Making and Marketing of "latin@s" US/ EU. Rebecca Brams (1998 BA) I work part-time as a grant writer and development consultant for nonprofits including environmental, social services, and arts organizations. I live in Berkeley and mother two young sons, ages 6 and 2, with my husband Mikhail Davis (also a Stanford alum). And in my copious "free time," I work on creative writing: my historical novel set during the Inca Empire that I am finally coming back to after a 6-year "break," blog (www.thismamawrites. com), creative nonfiction essays, etc.

Imani S Haygood (1998) Administrative Director, Paradise Baptist Church.

Jamie Dermon (1999 MA) Senior Medical Officer, Middlemore Hospital Emergency Department, Auckland, New Zealand.

Gautam A Deshpande (1999 MA) Staff Physician, US Embassy Tokyo, Researcher, St. Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo. Moved to Tokyo. Great city, except for all the earthquakes.

Elizabeth Pollman [Elizabeth Smith] (1999 AB) Associate Professor of Law, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.

2000 Victoria D Sanford (2000 PhD) Professor of Anthropology & Doctoral Faculty, Lehman College & Graduate Center, City University of New York; Director, Center for Human Rights & Peace Studies.

I have had the honor of spending much of the past year working with Guatemalan and Spanish colleagues on Guatemalan genocide case - ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt was convicted of the crime of genocide and sentenced to 80 years on prison by a Guatemalan court. http://www.pbs. org/newshour/updates/science/jan-june13/ guatemala_05-08.html.

Gilbert Borrego (2000 MA, BA) Librarian for the Biodiversity Heritage Library at the Smithsonian Institution. The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of 15 natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” My work focuses mainly on social media, ebook creation, collection building, exhibitions and the overall promotion of BHL (biodiversitylibrary.org).

Bobby E Vaughn (2001 PhD) Associate Professor of Anthropology, Notre Dame de Namur University.

Laura C Brown (2001 MA, BA) Post Doc, Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University. Joining the Anthropology Department at the University of Pittsburgh in the Fall. Let me know if you’ll be in town.

Allison O'Sullivan (2002 BA) Farm Educator at Zenger Farm.

Falu Bakrania (2003 PhD) Associate Professor, Race and Resistance Studies Program, College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University. My book, Bhangra and Asian Underground: South Asian Music and the Politics of Belonging in Britain, will be published by Duke University press in October, 2013.

Carole R Blackburn (2003 PhD) Assistant Professor.

Diana S Reddy (2003 BA) Attorney, California Teachers Association.

Parker Vanvalkenburgh (2003 BA) Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis. Received Ph.D. in Anthropology, Harvard University, 2012; received Wenner-Gren Post-Ph.D. research grant, 2012; started postdoctoral fellowship; will begin as Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont, July 2013.

Michael Osofsky (2003 ) Managing Director - Partner, Baytree Capital Associates, LLC. Alison B Pearce (2004 PhD) Teacher and Curriculum Developer, Big Learning, Inc. Erich Fox Tree (2004 PhD) Department of Religion and Culture, Wilfrid Laurier University.

Che Banjoko (2004 MA) Small business employee. Awarded President's Volunteer Service Award by the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation (2011).

Sohi Sohn Chien (2004 MA) Google, Policy Specialist.

Nicole Fox [Nicole Probst] (2004 BA) Vice Consul, US Consulate General Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. I am a member of the US Department of State's Foreign Service and am currently serving as a Vice Consul at the US Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It's an interesting time to be working as an American diplomat in Vietnam, and I am enjoying being a part of the evolving relationship between the two countries. Before arriving, I spent 6 months studying Vietnamese full time at the Foreign Service Institute. For the past 8 months, I've been working in the consular section at Post and will soon transition to serving as one of the Consulate's two economic officers, specifically handling the environment, science, technology, and health portfolio. As such, I work on issues as disparate as climate change, fish exports, Agent Orange, and intellectual property rights.

Lindsey E Johnson (2004 BA) Helmet Product Manager, Smith Optics Immediately after graduation I utilized my anthropology degree in the marketing field. I soon realized how much more about business I wanted to know and enrolled at the University of Washington.

In June of 2009 I completed an M.B.A. with a focus in marketing. As I explored my career options, I thought back to my time at Stanford when I ran track and completed my senior project in sports anthropology.

I've since come full circle, moving back into the sports field as a helmet product manager for Smith Optics, a company in the ski and action sports industry, based out of Sun Valley, Idaho. In small ways, every day, I help save lives. In between I ski at lunch, mountain bike from the office, and travel internationally for “work”.

Marisa E Macias (2004 BA) Ph.D. Student, Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University. In December, I coorganized the Women in Science and Engineering Symposium at Duke University, attended by 200 students, postdocs, and professionals. I recently accepted a Wenner-Gren Foundation dissertation fieldwork grant, which will fund my research in South Africa, East Africa, and Europe. In addition to a university fellowship for dissertation research as well as a university award for outstanding women in science, I received an honorable mention for the Ford Foundation dissertation fellowship. I co-authored an article "The upper limb of Australopithecus sediba", published in Science this April. I am currently working on my dissertation, Functional Integration of the Hominin Forelimb, at Duke University.

Kevin A Medrano (2004 BA) Associate, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. Sage H Bearman [Sage Hyman] (2005 MA) Maternal Child Health Researcher and Student Nurse Midwife at UCSF. Leila M Ben-Youssef (2005 MA) Highland Hospital Emergency Medicine Resident Physician. 2011-2012 National Institute of Health Fogarty Scholar in Nairobi, Kenya.

Laura P McLendon (2005 MA) Project Manager, Sempervirens Fund.

Evan W Fox (2005 BA) Marine Planning Consultant. Principal Planner for California marine protected area planning project resulting in protection for 16% of the State's coastal waters.

Developed conceptual framework for marine spatial planning in Mid-Atlantic states.

Developed National Programme of Action for Vietnam addressing land-based marine pollution.

Kristin Gangwer (2005 BA) Food Hub Manager, Our Harvest Cooperative, Local Food Research Consultant, Green Umbrella.

Elba G Garcia (2005 BA) Master of Public Policy, University of Southern California (May 2011).

Julia K Nelson (2005 BA) Manager, Advisory Services (Energy

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Daniel E Howard (1999 BS) Pediatrician, Austin Diagnostic Clinic. I completed my pediatrics residency and am now a full-time pediatrician in Austin, Texas. I picked up a masters of public health along the way, and did some medical research during my training. I have an amazing wife and 2 wonderful children.

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& Extractives), Business for Social Responsibility. Facilitated four community visioning processes to create a regional development plan for a major copper mine in Mongolia. Running the Apparel Mills & Sundries Working Group, a coalition of major retailers, brands and suppliers seeking to improve labor, health & safety and environmental conditions in textile mills and sundry facilities around the world.

Otolaryngology department. I hope to pursue research in otology and congenital hearing loss. I believe that my foundation in anthropology and linguistics has given me a unique evolutionary perspective on the importance of speech, hearing, and communication.

Jeremy C Wilson (2005 BA) Corporate Law Associate. I recently passed the bar exam in IL and started working full-time as an Associate at Vedder Price, a large law firm in Chicago. I also recently launched an education storytelling and crowdsourcing platform, The Education Matters Project. Our goal is to carry out a public engagement campaign of compelling stories to show how much education still matters. You can visit our website at http://www.educationmattersproject.org.

Matt Zafra (2006 BA) Health & Benefits Consulting Leader, Philippines, Mercer Inc.

Abby Hall (2005 MA, BA) Policy Advisor, U.S. EPA Office of Sustainable Communities.

Amy L Breakwell [Amy Lisa Isaacs Koplowicz] (2005) PhD Candidate, Johns Hopkins University, Department of History. My first article, "A Nation in Extremity: Sewing Machines and the American Civil War,” was published in a Special Textiles & the Military Issue of Textile Magazine, May 2010. I am looking forward to teaching my third undergraduate class this summer: Household Technology and American Culture.

Angela Gonzalez (2006 BA) Public Health Investigator with LA County Department of Public Health. Masters in Public Health (MPH) obtained in 2009.

Worked with the 2010 Decennial Census for two years. I held four positions: field worker, receptionist, field operations office supervisor and manager for Quality Assurance. Currently working as Public Health Investigator with various communicable diseases: sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis, salmonella, and other food-bourne illnesses.

Krista Kiyosaki (2006 BA) Resident - Stanford University Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery Dept. I will be earning my M.D. in May from the University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine. I am excited to return to the Farm in June to begin my surgical residency with the Stanford University ANTHROPOLOGY

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Erin E Beller (2006 ) Historical Ecologist, San Francisco Estuary Institute. I have been working as a historical ecologist at the San Francisco Estuary Institute since 2006, using historical archival sources to piece together an understanding of how California watersheds formerly looked and functioned 200 or 300 years ago.

Christopher E Olin (2006 BS) Managing Partner, Alesia Asset Management.

Charles M Armstrong (2005 MS) Product Manager for Evri, Inc; a semantic web startup. Continuing from my interest in the study of the trajectory of human communication, recently completed a program in computational linguistics at the University of Washington.

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Celina I Martinez (2006 BA) KIPP special education teacher.

Kevin L O'Neill (2007 PhD) Assistant Professor, Department and Centre for the Study of Religion, Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto. I recently edited, with Kedron Thomas, Securing the City: Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala (Duke University Press 2011).

I am working on a single authored book about God and gangs in Guatemala. Parts of this project appear in Public Culture (22:1), American Quarterly (63:2), and Social Text (forthcoming).

Pamela Donohoo (2007 BA) Performer: Aerialist, Dancer, Gymnast, Choreographer. My aerial choreography premiered at Enlightened Theater's Women's Collective in Los Angeles, as well as for the eARTh Studio Sustainability and Art Event. I was a featured artist at the Center for Living Peace’s Women, War and Peace Series and recently received the Inspiring Solo Performance Award at the 19th Annual Los Angeles Women's Theater Festival. After leaving my position as Research Center Manager at the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs at the University of California, Irvine I began performing aerial, dance and acrobatics in Le Reve - The Dream in Las Vegas.

Scott Walter (2007 MSc, BA) Ophthalmology Resident, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. I am currently a second year opthalmology resident at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, FL. My recent work exploring the relationship between ganglion cell loss and vision-related quality of life in patients with multiple

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Avi Tuschman (2008 PhD, 2002 BA) Inter-American Development Bank. My first book is coming out in September. The title is Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us. Please see: http://www.randomhouse.com/ book/229071/our-political-nature-by-avi-tuschman. Feel free to connect on Facebook for updates or to catch up.

Stephanie Cruz (2008 BA) 2nd Year Graduate Student in Social Cultural Anthropology at the University of Washington.

Sam Dubal (2008 BA) PhD candidate in medical anthropology, Joint Medical Program, UC-Berkeley/UCSan Francisco. I am currently engaged in dissertation fieldwork examining the lives of former Lord's Resistance Army/Movement (LRA/M) rebels in northern Uganda.

Carolyn Mansfield (2008 BA) Left my job as an applied anthropology consultant to the US Government in March. Traveling for the spring and summer before starting a dual MBA/MPP at MIT Sloan and Harvard Kennedy School.

Brenna M Henn (2009 PhD) Assistant Professor, Dept. of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University. After completing my PhD in 2009, I spent three years as a postdoctoral scholar in Dr. Bustamante’s Lab, Stanford University School of Medicine. During this time, I expanded my field site in southern Africa to include Nama pastoralists and the former Khomani hunter-gathers. We published several papers on African population genetics, modeling clines of genetic diversity and suggesting that southern African KhoeSan people retain the greatest levels of diversity. Additionally, I worked on the history of North African populations showing that there has been substantial, recent gene flow from the Maghreb into Europe.

In 2013, I joined the Dept. of Ecology and Evolution at SUNY Stony Brook as an Assistant Professor. My lab will continue to explore patterns of genetic diversity within Africa and begin to model the evolution of basic phenotypes, like skin pigmentation and height, over the past 100,000 years.

Rachel S King (2009 BA) PhD Candidate at School of Archaeology, University of Oxford.

Mitali Thakor (2009 BA) Ph.D. student in MIT Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology,

2010 Erica L Williams (2010 PhD) Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Spelman College. My book, Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements, is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press in November 2013. In May 2013, I was inducted into the Beta Omega chapter of Phi Beta Delta honors society for international education. I won a fellowship for HBCU faculty from the Palestinian American Research Center to participate in a Faculty Development Seminar in Palestine from May 16-27, 2013. I also won the UNCF/ Mellon Faculty Residency fellowship to embark on a new research project on the roles that sexuality and Afro-Brazilian religiosity play in Afro-Brazilian feminist activism in Salvador, Bahia. In October 2013, I am marrying my partner, Terence L. Courtney in October, and gaining a 10-year old step-daughter, Kaeming Courtney.

Claire Menke (2010 BA) Social Science Researcher, Department of

Anthropology, Stanford University. Helping an interdisciplinary initiative through the Woods Institute for the Environment to conduct an analysis of the current status of development in two counties of Costa Rica - Osa and Golfito. Lead team member for the education system analysis.

Working to construct recommendations for the national and local governments, as well as for local actors.

Liese Pruitt (2010 BA) Medical student, University of Chicago.

I have recently been awarded a Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship for the upcoming academic year. I will be taking a one year leave of absence from medical school to return to Nigeria to continue my qualitative research on cultural and social barriers to breast cancer care in Southern Nigeria.

Woubzena T Jifar (2010 BA) AmeriCorps Volunteer Coordinator at the Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County youth program. Recruited more than 200 youth to volunteer for various non-profit organizations throughout Santa Cruz County over the last eight months. In August I will be headed to UCLA to start my M.A in African Studies.

Nikhil Anand (2011 PhD) Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Haverford College. I have just accepted a tenure track position in the Department of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota. In 2013-2014, I will be a residential fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Hannah C Appel (2011 PhD) Postdoctoral Research Fellow - UC Berkeley/Ciriacy-Wantrup Fellowship in Natural Resources. I've just finished my first year as a postdoc at UC Berkeley, and it's great to be back in the Bay Area. After one more year in this position, I'll start a tenure-track job in UCLA's Department of Anthropology (fall 2014). In the meantime, my husband and I are expecting a baby on May 1st.

Tiffany C Cain (2011 MA) PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania. This year I was nominated as a Kolb Society Fellow and an F.S. Pepper Fellow in support of my continued study at UPenn.

I also gave a paper at the Society for Applied Anthropology meetings in March and have a book review in press. I will be beginning my field work on a communityorganized heritage project centered on the 19th century Maya Caste War this summer in Quintana Roo, Mexico.

Peter G Kauhanen (2011 MA) Environmental Researcher at Environmental Defense Fund.

Mimi Chau (2011 BA) Professional Research Assistant, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Children's Hospital Colorado, Section of Emergency Medicine. I was admitted into medical school at the University of Colorado and am planning to pursue an MD/MPH. Gaylan Dascanio (2011 BA) Graduated in March 2011, elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society, recent publication in University of California Anthropology Undergraduate Association Journal Spring 2011 Issue.

Amy Dao (2012 BA) Student I will be receiving my paralegal certification mid-June from an American Bar Association approved university in Southern California.

Misa Shikuma (2012 BA) Shortly after receiving my diploma last June, I moved to Paris where I just recently completed the Diplôme de Pâtisserie program at Le Cordon Bleu. I am currently adjusting to the rigorous demands of a French kitchen as an intern, and afterwards plans to travel east(ish) through north Africa, Asia and Oceania on my way back to California. Thoughts and photos on expat life, traveling and internship woes can be found on my personal website, misashikuma.com.

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and Society. I am a 3rd year PhD student in the MIT Program in History, Anthropology, & STS. I use feminist science studies and critical race theory to explore the politics of aid, rescue, and technology development in sex trafficking in the US and Southeast Asia. After earning my B.A. degrees in Feminist Studies and Anthropology from Stanford, I worked in the Philippines on a mobile health initiative to study young adult sexuality. I have also worked with Dr. Danah Boyd on Microsoft Research's Human Trafficking Project, exploring online forms of sex trafficking in the US. I am active with local groups supporting care for sexual trauma survivors and sex workers’ rights, especially among youth, queer, and immigrant communities.

I am also an RA in an MIT dorm and enjoys mentoring undergrad engineering students on the merits of feminist humanities work and teaching them laughing yoga.

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a wide reputation for innovation. It worked to bring non-Western perspectives and trans-national global problems into a broad range of scholarship. Clifford’s own writing extended the seminal research of the Birmingham Centre for Cultural Studies into cross cultural, ethnographic contexts. He particularly values this tradition’s willingness to grapple, non-reductively, with problems of economic determination, social structuration, and the “relative autonomy” of cultural expressions.

critique the ways in which we know the environment and problematize its various formations, but to also engage with the work of science (and scientists) more fully. The process, while difficult, was also very rewarding. To my surprise, I found that Anthropology was generative in providing the language for engagements across the disciplines, and the processes of translation these entailed. As I co-taught classes in Environmental Studies with Chemistry and Biology professors, I also learned a lot about water and the environment through critical research in the natural sciences.

Clifford’s work has both problematized and championed ethnographic perspectives especially when combined with culturally sensitive historical analysis. His present book, Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the 21st Century, flows from its predecessors, Predicament and Routes and is the completion of a trilogy—though unfinished and open-ended. Scheduled for publication by Harvard University Press in September 2013, Returns is both a critique of historical ethnography (with “history” always lost and found in translation) and an attempt to put it into practice.

Clifford explores the messy, proliferating domain of “indigenous” cultural claims and identity politics, finding there a rich site for complex, dialogical, realist accounts of how global forces are organized locally (and vice versa). Like its predecessors, Returns is a combination of analytic scholarship, meditative essays, and poetic experimentation.

Clifford continues to work on issues related to indigeneity, globalization, museum studies, literary and visual studies—all in cross-cultural translation.

His part-time appointment at Stanford offers exciting new opportunities for dialogue and experimentation in Anthropology and its interdisciplinary neighbors.

Working at Haverford was splendid. Yet, family responsibilities presented a new challenge soon after I started.

With our respective positions promising to separate us by a thousand miles, my partner and I started looking for new positions again this past year. As we re-engaged in the high-energy acrobatics of imagination, hope, and the making of possibility that is the application process, I applied for a position in Urban Geography at the University of Minnesota. When presented with a wonderful offer to join the Department of Geography, Environment and Society, I was initially apprehensive about the changes this move would entail. For their part, mentors and future colleagues assured me there was little to worry about in a discipline that is often moved by commitments similar to those that animate anthropology. Again, the questions that motivate my research were critical to opening me up to the possibilities in a new field and a new department.

Water has long been studied by geographers, and the discipline is home to some of the best critical scholarship on urban water infrastructure. In February of this year I accepted the promise (and relief) of this new position.

While this move was not one I had anticipated three years ago, I look forward to situating myself in a new location from which to explore urban ecologies and the relations of technology, sociality and power that produce them.

Jim Ferguson (continued from PG 1) In addition, this was the first year of a continuing visiting appointment in the Department for Professor James Clifford, recently retired from the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz. Jim was with us this Winter quarter, and will continue in the coming years as part-time Visiting Professor, teaching one quarter each year, as well as working with Ph.D. students, and participating in the Department’s intellectual community. This arrangement will allow him to work with students and faculty on a range of issues of common concern. Professor Clifford’s work has, of course, been enormously influential within anthropology, while also linking our discipline to a stimulating set of interdisciplinary discussions around issues such as indigenous identity, representations of culture, and issues of travel and translation. We are delighted and honored to have such an eminent scholar join us, and are pleased to present a brief profile of Jim and his work in this issue of the newsletter (p. 9).

As I look back on my term as Department Chair, I am struck at how lucky I have been to preside over such a fruitful and rewarding period in the Department’s growth and consolidation. The unification of what had been (until I took the job of chairing the new Department in 2007) two separate departments has been more successful than any of us dared hope at the time. We have made a string of absolutely outstanding external hires (at all ranks, CONTINUED on PG 40

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Beagle II Award

2013 Undergraduate Honor Papers

Genevieve Dezso “Coincidence of Travel in Yucatan: Resistance of Maya Tradition and the Global Market”

Ina Tiangco Briana C. Evans Devney Hamilton Lauren Claire Kelly Erika Noel Alvero Koski Elizabeth Jane Rosen

Ma'ayan Dembo “City Beautification Through Alleyways and Abandoned Walls” Jake Friedler “Following Bashō’s Narrow Road to the Interior” Tina Miller & Jennifer Schaffer “A Cultural Flourishing: Mapping the Creative Landscape…”

Franz Boas Summer Scholars Genevieve Dezso "Coincidence of Travel in Yucatan: Resistance of Maya Tradition and the Global Market."

Maia Kazin "Unraveling Locally Autonomous Development: A Look at the Impact of a Community-Based Development Project from Several Community Viewpoints."

Phi Beta Kappa Kelly Vicars

Distinction List Elizabeth Jane Rosen Kelly Vicars

2013 Undergraduate Awards Nancy Ogden Ortiz Memorial Prize for Outstanding Performance in Anthro 90B Theory in SocioCultural Anthropology Emma Makoba Kelly Vicars

Tambopata Summer Research Scholars

Anthropology Award for Outstanding Performance in Anthro 90C Theory in Ecological, Environmental, and Evolutionary Anthropology Grace Hultquist

Mark Bessen "Plant defenses against herbivory in Amazonian mature-forest and colonizing plant species"

The Joseph H. Greenberg Prize for Undergraduate Academic Excellence Devney Hamilton

John Getsy "The Impact of Amphibian Prevalence and Biodiversity on the Abundance of Waterborne Pathogens and Vectors"

The James Lowell Gibbs, Jr. Award for Outstanding Service to the Department in Anthropology Elizabeth Jane Rosen Briana C. Evans

Anna Wietelmann and Louise Barnett "The Effect of Rainforest Expeditions’ Tours in the Tambopata Reserve on Tourists’ Environmental Awareness"

The Michelle Z. Rosaldo Summer Field Research Grant Briana C. Evans “On the Way to the ER: A Cross-Cultural view of Emergency Medical Transportation”

The Robert Bayard Textor Award for Outstanding Creativity in Anthropology Taylor Winfield Stanford Class of ‘13 Award of Excellence Briana C. Evans Emily Pollock Elizabeth Jane Rosen Taylor Winfield Kyle Lee-Crossett Department Award of Merit Kyle Lee-Crossett

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Student Achi evem en t s

2013 Graduate Awards The Annual Review Prize for Service to the Department Aisha Ghani The Anthropology Prize for Outstanding Graduate Research and Publication Bruce O'Neill The Bernard J. Siegel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Written Expression by a Ph.D. Student in Anthropology Amrapali Maitra

The Anthropology Prize for Academic Performance by a Masters Student Stephanie Chan

New Job Placements Corisande Fenwick Postdoctoral Fellow, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University. In May 2014, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester

Robert Bayard Textor Award for Outstanding Creativity in Anthropology Corisande Fenwick

Dolly Kikon Two-year Postdoctoral position with Prof. Bengt G. Karlsson, Head, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University

The Anthropology Prize for Academic Performance Hilary Chart

Adrian Myers

Humanities and Sciences 2013 Centennial Teaching Award Alexa Hagerty Elspeth Ready

Archaeologist, AMEC Environment & Infrastructure (http://www.amec.com/)

Bruce O'Neill Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Saint Louis University

Jim Ferguson (continued from PG 38) and across a wide range of specializations) and seen through five successful tenure cases. Our graduate program has gone from strength to strength, and today nearly twice as man prospective Ph.D. students apply to Stanford anthropology as did so when I first arrived at Stanford in 2003.

Indeed, the recent success of our graduate students has been striking, and we have chosen to feature it as the theme of this year’s newsletter. During an economic recession that loomed over what has generally been regarded as one of the toughest job markets in recent memory, our Ph.D. graduates have been enjoying a level of success that is absolutely extraordinary. As you will see in the featured articles, both the numbers of successful placements in good jobs, and the specific career paths and intellectual journeys that those placements are helping to make possible, are extremely impressive. Here, as in other areas, the Department is clearly flourishing in quite an extraordinary way.

All of these achievements have only been possible due to the remarkable efforts of the entire anthropology community here at Stanford. So while I step down as chair with a certain sense of relief (and eager anticipation of a research leave for the coming year!), I also feel a sense of profound appreciation and thanks to all the colleagues, students, staff, and others who have made these years so rewarding. Finally, I must note a special sense of gratitude to the new incoming Chair, Sylvia Yanagisako, who has graciously agreed to pick up the baton and lead the Department into its next chapter of life. Thanks to the extraordinary wisdom, experience, energy, and commitment that she brings to the job, I am confident that the Department can look forward to even better times ahead in the years to come.

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A n thropol ogy Facul ty Rebecca Bliege Bird (Associate Professor; Ph.D. UC Davis, 1996) Behavioral ecology, landscape ecology, subsistence decisions, public goods, anthropogenic fire, gender, prestige, Australia/Oceania.

Lisa Curran (Professor; Ph.D. Princeton, 1994) Political ecology of land use; governmental policies/transnational firms; natural resource sector; ecological dynamics; land rights/rural livelihoods; NGOs/protected areas/donor agencies; REDD carbon payments; corruption; Asia/Latin America.

William H. Durham (Professor; Ph.D. Michigan, 1977) Biological anthropology, ecological and evolutionary anthropology, cultural evolution, conservation and community development, resource management, environmental issues; Central and South America.

Paulla A. Ebron (Associate Professor; Ph.D. Massachusetts at Amherst 1993) Comparative cultural studies, nationalism, gender, discourses of identity; Africa, African-America.

James Ferguson (Professor; Ph.D. Harvard, 1985) Political economy, development, migration and culture; neoliberalism and social assistance, Southern Africa.

James A. Fox (Associate Professor; Ph.D. Chicago, 1978) Linguistic anthropology, historical linguistics, biology and evolution of language, archaeological decipherment, settlement of the New World, mythology, computational methods; Mesoamerica, Americas.

Duana Fullwiley (Associate Professor; Ph.D. UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco, 2002) The Anthropology of science; Medical anthropology; Genetics and identity; Economic anthropology; Global health politics; Africanist anthropology; Race; Health disparities; Environmental resource scarcity as a source of ethnic conflict, Senegal, West Africa, France, and the United States.

Angela Garcia (Assistant Professor; Ph.D. Harvard, 2007) Medical and psychological anthropology; violence, suffering and care; addiction, morality and science; subjectivity; ethnographic writing; Unites States, Mexico.

Thomas Blom Hansen (Professor; Ph.D.) South Asia and Southern Africa. Multiple theoretical and disciplinary interests from political theory and continental philosophy to psychoanalysis, comparative religion and contemporary urbanism.

Ian Hodder (Professor; Ph.D. Cambridge, 1974) Archaeological theory, the archaeology and cultural heritage of Europe and the Middle East, excavations in Turkey, material culture.

Miyako Inoue (Associate Professor; Ph.D. Washington University, 1996) linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, semiotics, linguistic modernity, anthropology of writing, inscription devices, materialities of language, social organizations of documents (filing systems, index cards, copies, archives, paperwork), voice/sound/noise, soundscape, technologies of liberalism, gender, urban studies, Japan, East Asia.

S. Lochlann Jain (Associate Professor; Ph.D. U.C. Santa Cruz, 1999) Extra-legal forms of communications, such as warning signs and medical apologies; queer studies; art and design.

James Holland Jones (Associate Professor; Ph.D. Harvard, 2000) Human ecology, population biology, formal methods, family demography and kinship, social epidemiology, HIV/STD epidemiology, conservation biology; Africa, Asia, Americas.

Richard Klein (Professor; Ph.D. Chicago, 1966) Paleoanthropology; Africa, Europe.

Matthew Kohrman (Associate Professor; Ph.D. Harvard, 1999) Medical anthropology, governmentality, illness experience, gender, China.

Tanya Luhrmann (Professor; Ph.D. Cambridge, 1986) The social construction of psychological experience, social practice and the way people experience their world, the domain of what some would term the "irrational" Liisa Malkki (Associate Professor; Ph.D. Harvard, 1989) Historical anthropology; historical consciousness and memory; mass displacement and exile; racial essentialism and mass violence; nationalism and internationalism; the ethics and politics of humanitarianism; religion and contemporary missions in Africa; religion and globalization; social uses of the category, art, and the politics of visuality.

Lynn Meskell (Professor; Ph.D. Cambridge, 1997) Archaeological theory, ethnography, South Africa, Egypt, Mediterranean, Middle East, heritage, identity, politics, embodiment, postcolonial and feminist theory, ethics, tourism.

John W. Rick (Associate Professor; Ph.D. Michigan, 1978) Prehistoric archaeology and anthropology of band-level hunter-gatherers, stone tool studies, analytical methodology, animal domestication; Latin America, Southwest U.S. Ian G. Robertson (Assistant Professor; Ph.D. Arizona State, 2001) Archaeology of complex and urban societies; statistical and formal methods; ceramic and lithic analysis; Mesoamerica.

Krish Seeta (Assistant Professor; Ph.D. University of Cambridge, 2006) Zooarchaeology, human-animal relationships, colonialsm, Indian Ocean World.

Kabir Tambar (Assistant Professor; Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2009) Religion and secularism, pluralism and nationalism, the politics of affect, Islam, Middle East, Turkey.

Sharika Thiranagama (Assistant Professor; Ph.D. University of Edinburgh, 2006) Ethnicity, Violence, Gender, Kinship, Displacement, Political Anthropology and Political Theory, Sri Lanka, South Asia.

Barbara Voss (Associate Professor; Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 2002) historical archaeology, archaeology of colonialism, culture contact, Spanish-colonial archaeology, overseas Chinese archaeology, postcolonial theory, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, cultural resource management, public archaeology, communitybased research, California archaeology Michael Wilcox (Associate Professor [teaching]; Ph.D. Harvard, 2001) postcolonial approaches to archaeology; ethnic identity and conflict; political and historical relationships between Native Americans and anthropologists and archaeologists.

Sylvia J. Yanagisako (Professor; Ph.D. University of Washington, 1975) Kinship, gender, feminist theory, capitalism, ethnicity; U.S., Italy.

EMERITI Clifford Barnett, Harumi Befu, George A. Collier, Jane F. Collier, Carol L. Delaney, Charles O. Frake, James L. Gibbs, Jr., Renato Rosaldo.

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