James M. Wilce

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jim.wilce@nau.edu

 

CURRENT POSITION

PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY, Northern Arizona University (since July 2004)

EDITOR, Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture (book series; since 2005)

 

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY, Northern Arizona University. (Fall 1999 to Spring 2004)

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY, Northern Arizona University. (Fall 1994 to Summer 1999)

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D.                  UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES. Ph.D. in Anthropology,    June 1994. Paul V. Kroskrity, dissertation advisor/chair.

 

M.A.                  CLAREMONT GRADUATE SCHOOL, Claremont, CA. Master of Arts, Asian Studies, Summa cum laude, May, 1983.

 

M.Div.               FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, Pasadena, CA. Master of Divinity,      June, 1978. Emphasis in field linguistics and cross-cultural studies.

 

B.A.                   Azusa Pacific College, Azusa, CA. Bachelor of Arts, Summa cum          laude, December, 1975. Major: Social Sciences. Minor: Music.

 

non-degree         University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.  Morphology and Syntax,    Linguistic Principles of Translation. Summer, 1988.

 

THESES

Ph.D                   ³Repressed Eloquence: Patients as Subjects and Objects of Complaints in Matlab, Bangladesh.²

 

MA                    ³Caste and Class among South Asian Muslims: Changing Patterns of Identity and Ideology.² Claremont Graduate School

 

Research interests

The ethnography of communication; linguistic ideologies; semiotics; embodiment and phenomenology; interactive rhythm in schizophrenia; medical and ethnopsychiatric discourse, doctor-patient communication, idioms of distress, madness; verbal art and ethnopoetics; psychological anthropology, family and human development, the self, emotion; psychoneuroimmunology; South Asia, Muslim communities in South Asia, gender, caste and stratification systems; modernity, globalization, and metaculture

 

              VISITING SCHOLAR POSITIONS AND OTHER HONORS

                           Elected guest lecturer, L¹École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, May 15-June 15, 2003.

Who¹s Who in American Universities and Colleges, 1983-84

 

CREDENTIALS AND MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

California Community College Credential in Anthropology

American Anthropological Association

American Ethnological Society

International Pragmatics Association

Society for Cultural Anthropology

Society for Linguistic Anthropology

Society for Medical Anthropology

Society for Psychological Anthropology

Association for Asian Studies

American Ethnological Association (1990-2001)

 

Publications

 

BOOKS

2003                   Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems (Editor). (Theory and Practice in                 Medical Anthropology; Susan DiGiacomo, editor). New York: Routledge.

1998                   Eloquence in Trouble: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh. (New York: Oxford University Press).

 

BOOKS IN PREPARATION AND IN submission

In preparation     Language and Emotion. Under contract by Cambridge University Press (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language).

In preparation     Time Out, ³Brain Out²: Families, Psychiatrists, Madness, Asynchrony and Modernity in Bangladesh

Under review     Crying Shame: Metaculture, Modernity and the Exaggerated Death of Lament.

 

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS

2005                   Traditional Laments and Postmodern Regrets: The Circulation of Discourse in Metacultural Context. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15(1): 60-71.

2004a                 Madness, fear, and control in Bangladesh: Clashing bodies of knowledge-power. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 18 (3): 357-375.

2003                   Published comment on ³The Meaning of Interjections in Q'eqchi'-Maya: From Emotive Reaction to Social and Discursive Action," by Paul Kockelman. Current Anthropology 44(4): 484-5.

2002                   Genres of Memory and The Memory of Genres: ³Forgetting² Lament in Bangladesh. Comparative Studies in Society and History 44 (1): 159-185.

2001a                 Divining TROUBLES or diVINing troubles? Gender, conflict, and polysemy in Bangladeshi divination. Anthropological Quarterly. 74 (4): 190-199.

2000                   The Poetics of Madness: Shifting Codes and Styles in the Linguistic Construction of Identity in Bangladesh. Cultural Anthropology 15 (1): 3-34.

1999a                 Healing. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 9(1): 93-95 (Special issue, ³Language Matters in Anthropology: A Lexicon for the Millennium²).

1998b                 (Wilce, Guest Editor) ³Communicating Multiple Identities in Muslim Communities.² Special issue of Ethos 26(2).

1998c                 The Kalimah in the Kaleidophone: Ranges of Multivocality in Bangladeshi Muslims¹ Discourses. Ethos 26(2): 229-257.

1998d                 Communicating Multiple Identities in Muslim Communities: An Introduction. Ethos 26(2): 115-119.

1998e                 The Pragmatics of ³Madness²: Performance Analysis of a Bangladeshi Woman¹s ³Aberrant² Lament. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. 22(1): 1-54.

1997a                 Discourse, Power, and the Diagnosis of Weakness: Encountering practitioners in Bangladesh. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 11(3): 352-374.

1996a                 Reduplication and Reciprocity in Imagining Community: The Play of Tropes in a Rural Bangladeshi Moot. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 6(2): 188-222.

1995                   ³I Cannot Tell You All My Troubles²: Conflict, Resistance, and Metacommunication in Bangladeshi Illness Interactions.  American Ethnologist 22(4): 927-952.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS AND OTHER Publications AND PAPERS:

2005                   Narrative Transformations: Emotion, Language, and Globalization. Companion to Psychological Anthropology`. Conerly Casey and Robert Edgerton, eds. Pp. 123-139. Oxford, Malden, MA: Blackwell.

2004b           To ³Speak Beautifully² in Bangladesh: Subjectivity as Pa\gala\mi

                           In Schizophrenia, Culture, and Subjectivity: The Edge of Experience. Janis Jenkins and Robert Barrett, eds. Pp. 196-218. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2004c                 Language and Madness. Companion to Linguistic Anthropology. Alessandro Duranti, ed. Pp. 414-430. Oxford, Malden, MA: Blackwell.

2004d                 Where Hybrid ³Monsters² Dwell. Anthropology News 45(8):9-11. (Series on 2004 AAA meeting theme).

2003                  (second author, with Robert R. Desjarlais) The Cultural Construction of Emotion. The Oxford Companion Encyclopedia of Sociology and Social Anthropology (Part VII, The Personal Sphere and its Articulation. Veena Das, Ed. Oxford University Press: Delhi.

2003a                 Complaint. The Encyclopedia of South Asian Folklore. Margaret Mills, ed. Pp. 118-120. New York: Routledge.

2003b                 Bengali (language) Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. Scribners/Berkshire Reference Works.

2003d                 (with Laurie Price) Immune Metaphors Our Bodyminds Live By? Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems, J. Wilce, ed. Pp. 50-80. London: Routledge.

2003e                 Introduction: Theorizing the Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems

                           Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems, J. Wilce, ed. Routledge.

2002                   Tunes Rising from the Soul and Other Narcissistic Prayers: Contested Realms in Bangladesh. In Everyday Life in South Asia. Diane Mines and Sarah Lamb, eds. Pp. 289-302. Indiana University Press

2001b                 Healing. In Key Terms in Language and Culture. Duranti, Alessandro, ed.

                           Blackwell Publishers Blackwell Publishers.

2001c                 Cura / [Italian translation of my article, Healing, above]. Culture e discorso. Un lessico per le scienze sociali. Pp. 96-100. A cura di Alessandro Duranti. Roma: Meltemi Editore

1999b                 Transforming Lament Traditions: Performativity and Rationalization as Linguistic Ideologies. In Languages of Sentiment : Cultural Constructs of Emotional Substrates. Gary B. Palmer and Debra Occhi, eds. Pp. 39-64. New York and Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

1998f                  Coping with the Language of Madness in Rural Bangladesh: Aesthetics and Language Ideologies. Language and Ideology: Proceedings of the 5th International Pragmatics Conference . Pp. 584-595. (Antwerp: International Pragmatics Association.)

1998g                 Coping with the Language of Madness in Rural Bangladesh: Aesthetics and Language Ideologies. Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture . Pp. 13-26. (Los Angeles: UCLA CLIC Graduate Student Association/ Department of Applied Linguistics).

1998h                 Lamenting Death, or the Death of Lament? The Politics of Lament and Religion in Bangladesh and Beyond. In SALSA V (Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Symposium about Language and Society). Pp. 235-250.

1996b                 Diglossia, Religion, and Ideology: On the Mystification of Cross-Cutting Aspects of Bengali Language Variation. Proceedings of the 1995 Bengal Studies Conference, University of Chicago. Electronic document. http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/SourcesBySubject/SouthAsia/James.1.html

1995                   Consultant on Bangladesh for World mental health: Priorities and problems in low-income countries. New York: Oxford University Press (Arthur Kleinman, Leon Eisenberg, and Robert Desjarlais, eds.).

1994a                 Repressed Eloquence: Patients as Subjects and Objects of Complaints in Matlab, Bangladesh. UCLA: Ph.D. dissertation.

1989                   Analysis of a Paharia Folktale: The Jackal Story. Anthropology UCLA, 16/1: 35-59.

1983                   Caste and Class among South Asian Muslims: Changing Patterns of Identity and Ideology. Unpublished M. A. Critique: Claremont Graduate School.

 

ARTICLES & CHAPTERS IN SUBMISSION, IN PRESS, AND IN PREPARATION

In preparation a  Diglossia and the Indexing of Religious Identity: Cross-Cutting Aspects of Bengali Language Variation. In The Sociology of Language and Religion: Change, Conflict and Accommodation, Omoniyi and Fishman, eds. John Benjamins.

In submission a  On Global Display: Toward a Theory of Discursive Interaction and Shame in the Context of Globalizing Modernity. For submission to American Anthropologist.

In submission b  Seen in the Global Register of Speech Communities: Toward a Sociolinguistic Theory of Shame, Cultural Concepts, and Enregisterment. Language in Society.

In press b           Magical Laments and Anthropological Reflections: The Production and Circulation of Anthropological Text as Ritual Activity. Current Anthropology

In press c            Arabic Loanwords in Bengali. To appear in Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, K. Versteegh, general editor. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

 

FILMS AND VIDEOS

Under review     Crying Shame: The Global Story of Lament. Documentary film. Producer: Illume (http://www.illume.fi/Englanninkielinen/Framesetko.engl.htm)

2002                   (available from author) Crying Shame: Lament and Modernity. (30 minutes).

2001                   (available from author) The Rhythm of Human Interaction: Culture and Interactive Synchrony. (30 minutes).

1996                 (available from author) Verbal Art and the Art of Lament (20 minutes)

 

BOOK REVIEWS:

2004                   Passionate Scholarship: Recent Anthropologies of Emotion. Reviews in Anthropology. 33: 1-17.

2003                   Review Essay: Speaking of Feelings (Review of works on language and emotion by Kövecses, Reddy and Harkins & Wierzbicka). American Anthropologist 105 (4): 852-855.

2003                   Review of Healing Powers and Modernity: Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Societies (Linda H. Connor and Geoffrey Samuel, eds.), American Anthropologist. 105 (2): 399-401.

2002                   Review of Macklin, Ruth (1999) Against Relativism: Cultural Diversity and the Search for Ethical Universals in Medicine. Social Science & Medicine 55 (3): 510-511.

2001                   Review of Talk, Work and Institutional Order: Discourse in Medical, Mediation and Management Settings (Srikant Sarangi and Celia Roberts, eds.) American Ethnologist 28(1): 252-3.

2001                   Review of Shifting Languages (by J. Joseph Errington). Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

2000                   Review of Shelter Blues (by R. Desjarlais). Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 10(2): 303-4.

2000                   Review of The Moral Parameters of Good Talk: A Feminist Analysis (by Maryann Neely Ayim). Discourse in Society

1999b                 Review of Caste, Protest, and Identity in Colonial India: The Namasudras of Bengal, 1972-1947. (by S. Bandyopadhyay). South Asia.

1999c                 Review of Talking Heads (by Benjamin Lee). American Anthropologist. 101(3): 660-661.

1998i                  Review of Grammar, Language, and Society: Contemporary Indian Contributions (R. Singh, ed.). Contemporary South Asia 7(3): 379-380.

1998j                  Review of The state, class formation, and development in Bangladesh (by S.M. Shamsul Alam). Contemporary South Asia 7(1): 93-94.

1997b                 Review of Culture in School Learning: Revealing the Deep Meaning (by Etta R. Hollins). Educational Horizons, 75/4: 153.

1997c                 Review of Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India: The Nattukottai Chettiars (by David West Rudner). South Asia. Vol. XX, No. 2 (n.s.): 166-167.

1994b                 Review of All the mothers are one: Hindu India and the cultural reshaping of psychoanalysis  (by Stanley N. Kurtz). Anthropology UCLA 21: 118-120.

1994c                 Review of Purity and communal boundaries: Women and social change in a Bangladeshi village (by Santi Rozario). American Ethnologist 21/4: 986-7.

1992                   Review of Language and the politics of emotion (C. Lutz and L. Abu-Lughod, eds.). Language in Society 21/1: 132-6.

 

Grants and Fellowships

GRANTS SUBMITTED

In process b        Culture and schizophrenia: Interaction and values. Proposal to be submitted to the W.T. Grant Foundation.

2005                   Language Across the Univers(ity): A Speaker Series in Linguistic Anthropology. Proposal submitted to the Salus Mundi Foundation. Jim Wilce, PI

2004                   Radio Consultation Grant: ³Crying Shame: Traditional Lament and Modern Mourning.² National Endowment for the Humanities.

2003                   Culture and schizophrenia: Interaction and values. NIMH R21 (Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant). Submitted October 1, 2003.

2003                   Intramural Grant, NAU. Crying Shame: Metaculture, Modernity and Lament.

2002                   NEH Summer Stipend grant requested to complete Crying Shame: Metaculture, Modernity and Lament in Summer 2003.

2001                   National Institutes of Health R01. ³Narrating Stress: Culture, Coping, Health, and Immunity² (Wilce, Principal Investigator). Submitted, June 1, 2001

2000                   National Institutes of Health R01. ³Culture, Health and Immunity in Narrating Stress.²

2000                   Wenner-Gren Small Grants. ³Crying Shame: Globalization and the Transformation of Grieving and Lament.²

2000                   School of American Research Scholar-in-Residence Program. ³Crying Shame: Globalization and the Transformation of Grieving and Lament.²

2000                   John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. ³Crying Shame: Globalization and the Transformation of Grieving and Lament.²

2000                   National Center for the Humanities. ³Crying Shame: Globalization and the Transformation of Grieving and Lament.²

2000                             Institute for Advanced Study in Social Science, Princeton. ³Crying Shame: Globalization and the Transformation of Grieving and Lament.²

2000                    Organized Research Committee, Northern Arizona University. ³Videotaping Family Interaction with Persons With Schizophrenia.² Wilce, Principal Investigator.

1999a                 National Institutes of Health R01. ³Culture, Health and Immunity in Writing about Stress.² (Wilce, Principal Investigator)

1999b  Organized Research Committee, Northern Arizona University. ³Interactional Madness in Bangladesh.² (Granted, 2000-01).

1998                   Organized Research Committee, Northern Arizona University. ³Culture, gender, and trauma-writing as therapy: Outcomes in frequency of physicians visits.²

1997                   National Institutes of Health. ³Cross-Cultural Investigation of Health and Emotional Expression.² (Heidi Wayment, Principal Investigator)

1996                   Organized Research Committee, Northern Arizona University. ³Cross-Cultural Investigation of Health and Emotional Expression.² (with Heidi Wayment, co-PI) (Granted, 1997-8).

1996                   National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend: ³Lament, The State of the Art: Lamenting Loss and Threat, and the Threatened Loss of Lament.²

1996                   School of American Research, Advanced Seminars: ³Lament, The State of the Art: Lamenting Loss and Threat, and the Threatened Loss of Lament.²

1995                   Organized Research Committee, Northern Arizona University. ³Fragments of eloquence: The poetics and politics of self and complaint in a rural Bangladesh community.² (Granted in 1996-7).

 

Grant-related Conference Participation:

1996                   Roundtable participant in ³Placebo and Nocebo Effects: Developing a Research Agenda,² a conference sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (Program in Alternative Medicine), Bethesda, MD. Dec. 2-4, 1996.

 

GRANTS RECEIVED

2005-2008

Language Across the Univers(ity): A Speaker Series in Linguistic Anthropology (Salus Mundi Foundation; Jim Wilce, PI)

$11,400

2000-2001

Organized Research grant, Northern Arizona University

$ 5, 860

1997-1998

Organized Research grant, Northern Arizona University

$11, 700

1996-1997

Organized Research grant, Northern Arizona University

$10, 200

1995-1996

Organized Research grant, Northern Arizona University

$ 5, 000

1993-1994

University Teaching Fellowship, UCLA

$ 5, 000

1992-1993

National Science Foundation Dissertation Enrichment Grant

$10, 000

1991-1992

American Institute for Bangladesh Studies    

$10, 000

1991-1992

Graduate Study Abroad Grant, Institute of International Education (Fulbright)

$19, 000

1990-1993

McMannis Educational Trust Fund (annually-renewed fellowship)

 $3, 000

1989-1990

University Fellowship, UCLA

 

1989-1990

Research Grant, Dept. of Anthropology

$   500

1988-1989

Research Grant, Dept. of Anthropology

$   500

 

Conference papers

2005                   A Case of Occluded Nerves: Shameless Media, Group Shame, and Anthropological Anxiety. Paper presented at ³Localities and Subjectivities² panel. American Anthropological Association meetings. Washington, D.C.

2005                   Äänelläitkijät: Finno-Karelian Lament and The Modernity of Tradition. Paper presented at Finngrandfest, Marquette Michigan, August 11, 2005.

2005                   Magical Laments and Anthropological Reflections: Anthropological Writing as Ritual. Paper presented at the 2005 Meeting of the American Ethnological Society, San Diego, CA, April 7-10.

2003                   Discussant Comments presented at the panel I organized: Histories of Emotion/Discourses/Regimes. American Anthropological Association. Chicago, IL, November 2003.

2003                   Representing South Asian Lament. Paper presented at the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Tempe Arizona, October 10, 2003.

2002                   Laments as Intertextual Links: The Circulation of Text in Metacultural Context. Paper presented at the SLA Invited Session, ³Intertextuality in discourse and culture: Problems and prospects,² 101st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans. November, 2002.

2001                   Madness, Fear, and Control in Bangladesh: Clashing Bodies of Knowledge-Power. Paper presented at the panel, ³Illness and Illusions of Control,² American Anthropological Association meetings, Washington, D. C., November 29, 2001.

2000                   Modernity and the fate of ³emotional genres² in South Asia. Paper presented at the panel ³³Linguistic Modernity and Its Discontents.² American Anthropological Association meetings, San Francisco. November, 2000.

1999                   Divining Troubles: Gender, Conflict, and Polysemy in Bangladeshi Divination. Panel on ³Situations and Interpretations: Explorations in Interpretive Practice,² American Anthropological Association Meetings. Chicago: November, 1999.

1999                   Lamenting the Past, or the Passing of Lament? The Postcolonial Fate of a Genre in Bangladesh and India. In the panel, ³Genres in Tension and Transformation,² South Asia Conference. Madison, WI. October 16, 1999.

1999                   The Study of Videotaped Interaction: Discourse Methods for Psychological Anthropology. Presidential Session on Methods. Biennial Society for Psychological Anthropology Meetings. Albuquerque: September 22-25.

1999                   Madness in Bangladesh: Schizophrenia and Other Forms of Pa\gala\mi

                           Arizona/Nevada Academy of Sciences Meetings. Flagstaff: April 17.

1999                   Mrittur Bilaap baa Bilaper Mrittu [Lamenting Death, or the Death of Lament?]—The Future of Lament in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Studies Conference. Fayetteville, NC. April 3, 1999.

1998                   Attunement and Its Discontents: Language Ideologies in the Face of Madness in Bangladesh. Paper presented at the ` Panel on ³Embodying Linguistic Ideologies.² American Anthropological Association Meetings, Philadelphia, PA. December 5, 1998.

1998                   Coping with the Language of Madness in Rural Bangladesh: Aesthetics and Language Ideologies. Paper presented at the 6th International Pragmatics Conference. Reims, France. July 20, 1998.

1998                   Coping with the Language of Madness in Rural Bangladesh: Aesthetics and Language Ideologies. Paper presented at the Third Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC), UCLA. Los Angeles, CA. May 8, 1998.

1998                   Tuneful Prayer as Narcissism: The View from Bangladesh. Presented at the panel, ³The Pragmatics of Prayer,² at the Annual Meetings of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Seattle, WA., March, 1998.

1997                   (co-authored with Laurie Price). Immune Metaphors Our Bodyminds Live By? Paper presented at panel ³Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems² (organized by J. M. Wilce) at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., Nov 22, 1997.

1997                   Remembering and Forgetting Lament: Iconicity, Erasure, and De-Generification in Bangladeshi Modernist Responses. Paper presented at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society, Austin, Texas, October 30, 1997.

1997                   Lamenting Death, or the Death of Lament? The Politics of Lament and Religion in Bangladesh and Beyond. Symposium About Language and Society in Austin (SALSA), April, 1997

1997                   Exploring Immune Links with Naturally-Occurring Grief Discourses. Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Anthropology, Seattle, March, 1997.

1996                   The Poetics of Madness: Shifting Codes and Styles in the Linguistic Construction of Identity in Bangladesh. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association meetings, San Francisco.

1996                   Diglossia, religion, and ideology: On the mystification of cross-cutting aspects of Bengali language variation. Paper presented at the 25th Anniversary Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI.

1995                   The kalimah in the kaleidoscope: Snapshots of the swirl of Muslims¹ identities in contemporary Bangladesh. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association meetings, in the panel ³Communicating Multiple Identities in Muslim Communities,² (organized and chaired by myself).

1995                   Diglossia, Religion, and Ideology: On the mystification of cross-cutting aspects of Bengali language variation. Paper presented at the Bengal Studies Conference, University of Chicago, May 1995.

1994                   Facing Power and Losing face: Patients¹ Encounters with Practitioners in Bangladesh. Paper presented at the dually invited session (SMA/SLA) on Medical Discourse, American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, GA.

1994                   ³Body² Themes in the Body Politic: Rhetoric in a Rural Bangladeshi Moot. Paper presented at South Asian Language Analysis Roundtable XVI (³Languages in Contact²), University of Pennsylvania, May 20-22.

1993                   The Aesthetics of Complaining: Conflicting Values in a Rural Bangladeshi Illness Performance. Presented in the Society for Medical Anthropology¹s invited session on ³Aesthetics, power, and medicine² at the 92nd annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.

1992                   ³I Cannot Tell You All My Troubles²: Health Complaints as Social Action in Matlab, Bangladesh. Presented at the 91st annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, Dec. 2.

1991                   ³The Whole Body Hurts² : Social Support and a Health Complaint in a Bengali Household. Presented at the 4th International Conference on Social Psychology and Language, Santa Barbara, CA, Aug. 5.

1990                   Analysis of a Paharia Folktale: The Jackal Story. Presented at the 12th South Asian Language Analysis Roundtable, Berkeley, CA., June 10-12.

 

INVITED PRESENTATIONS/CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

2005                   Invited lecture, Globalized Stages for Linguistic Performance: Baptizing New Frames and Inducing New Shame. University of California, San Diego Linguistic Anthropology Colloquium Series, April 27, 2005.

2004                   Invited lecture, Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems. School of Life Sciences Seminar Series. Arizona State University. September 10, 2004.

2004                   NAU Anthropology Colloquium Presentation. Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems. September 7, 2004, SBS 217.

2003                   Invited Scholar, L¹École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, May 15-June 15, 2003. Lecture titles: 1) Semiotic and Cultural Processes: The Micro-Embodiments and Global Flows of Signs , 2) Crying Shame: Global Flows of Discourse Transforming Expressive Genres , 3) Communalism and Madness, 4) Interactive Synchrony, and Its Discontents: Ethnographic Studies of Embodied Interaction (The Semiotics of Madness) (presented at Laboratoire d¹Anthropologie Sociale, College de France).

2003                   Linguistic Anthropology Methods: Semiotics and Cultural Context. Brown Bag Lecture for NAU Applied Linguistics, January 22, 2003.

2002                   NAU Post-Sabbatical Talk/Anthropology Colloquium: Culture is Dead! Long Live Metaculture!. December 2, 2002.

2002                   Crying Shame: Lament Genres, Modern Sensibilities, and Metacultural Globalization. Distinguished Lecture in Anthropology, Pomona College, March, 2002.

2002                   Crying Shame: Lament Genres, Modern Sensibilities, and Metacultural Globalization. Invited lecture, Anthropology Colloquium, University of Chicago, Feb. 18, 2002.

2001                   Crying Shame: Global Flows of Discourse Transforming Genres of Grief. Invited lecture, Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry Research Seminar (2001-02 Series, ³Psychiatry and Rationality²), Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. November 17, 2001.

2001                   Invited participant in the Inaugural Symposium for New Research on Culture-Brain Interactions, sponsored by Foundation for Psycho-Cultural Research), Ojai, CA, June 28-July 1.

1999                   Intersubjectivity and Its Discontents: Eloquence in Trouble. Invited Colloquium. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis. Nov. 8, 1999.

1999                   Attunement and Its Discontents: The Body as Target and Mediator of Ideologies of Semiosis. Cardiff University Roundtable: Discourses of the Body. June 9-11, 1999.

1998                   Madness and Gender in Bangladesh: Schizophrenia and Other Forms of ³Pagalami². Schizophrenia, Subjectivity, and Culture. Invited Symposium, October, 1998. Russell Sage Foundation.

1998                   Schizophrenia as a Key Symbol in American Culture. Guest Presentation in ANT639, Anthropology of American Culture, Northern Arizona U.

1997                   The Language of Power and The Power of Language. Guest presentation, Anthropology 198, Northern Arizona University. February 5, 1997.

1996 a                High Stakes Verbal Art: Performativity, Pronouns, and ³Powerlessness² in a ³Diagnostic² Lament. Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, February 27, 1996.

1996 b                Language and Consciousness: Lessons from Political and Medical Discourses. Seminar paper presented at the Center for Social Studies, Dhaka University, July 21, 1996.

1995                   A Four-Field Role for Linguistic/Semiotic Anthropology. Guest presentation, Anthropology 498: Senior Seminar, Northern Arizona University. February 15, 1995.

BOARD MEMBERSHIPS

2005 onward      Member, Editorial Board, American Anthropologist

2005 onward      Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS

2006                   External reviewer for national search involving the case of linguistic anthropologist Robin Shoaps, candidate at University of Chicago

2005                   Co-organizer, AAA Executive Session, ³Purified Pasts, Hybrid Futures?  (Meta)Languages of Science, Magic, and Religion,² American Anthropological Association meetings, Washington, D.C.

2004                   Nominated for Linguistic slot on the American Anthropological Association¹s Long Range Planning Committee (elections in spring 2005)

2004                   External reviewer for tenure; case of David Samuels, U Mass Amherst.

2004                   External reviewer for tenure; case of Murphy Halliburton, Queens College.

2004-2006          Member, Stirling Prize Award Committee, Society for Psychological Anthropology

2004                   Co-organizer, AAA Executive Session, ³Where Hybrid ³Monsters² Dwell: A Discursive Bestiary of Magic, Science, and Religion,² American Anthropological Association meetings, San Francisco. (Meetings cancelled)

2003                   Organizer, Panel entitled, ³Histories of Emotion/Discourses/Regimes.² American Anthropological Association. Chicago, IL, November 2003. Received the highest ranking among submissions to the Society for Psychological Anthropology.

2003                   Grant reviewer for NSF submission, ³Beyond the Placebo Effect - The Role of Culture in Medical Intervention.²

2002                   Discussant for the Panel, ³Misrecognition, Linguistic Awareness, and Linguistic Ideologies: Ethnographies and Approaches.² 101st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans. November, 2002.

2000                   Organizer, Panel entitled ³Linguistic modernity and its discontents: Mixed evidence, hybrid models.² American Anthropological Association meetings. San Francisco. November, 2000

2000    External reviewer for tenure, promotion; case of Robert Desjarlais, Sarah Lawrence College; case of Richard Senghas, Sonoma State University; case of  Sarah Lamb, Brandeis University

2000                     Reviewer for Resident Scholar Program at the School of American Research.

1999                   External program reviewer for Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

1998                   Grant reviewer for NSF and Aukland Medical Research Foundation.

1996-present      Reviewer for Comparative Studies in Society and History, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Qualitative Health Research, Transcultural Psychiatry, Medical Anthropology

1999                   External reviewer for promotion to Professor; case of Susan Rasmussen, University of Houston

1999                   Co-organizer, Situations and Interpretations: Explorations in Interpretive Practice. American Anthropological Association meetings. Chicago: November, 1999.

1999                   Discussant, ³Narrative, Dialogue, Selfhood: The New Wave in Life-History Research in South Asia² panel. South Asia Conference. Madison, WI: October 15, 1999.

1999                   Organizer, double session ³Genres in Tension and Transformation: The Politics and Circulation of Lamentation and Related Forms,² South Asia Conference. Madison, WI: October 16, 1999.

1998                   Discussant for the panel, ³Japanese Speaking Choices: Gender and Language Ideologies,² at the 6th International Pragmatics Conference. Reims, France. July 20, 1998.

1998                   Grant reviews for National Science Foundation and Auckland Medical Research Foundation

1997-1999          Co-editor of Society for Linguistic Anthropology column in Anthropology Newsletter.

1998                   Chair and organizer, SLA Invited Session, ³Embodying Linguistic Ideologies,² American Anthropological Association Meetings, Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 2-6, 1998

1997                   Chair and organizer, Panel on ³The Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems,² American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington, D.C. Nov. 19-23, 1997

1997                   Developed web page with of documents related to the Ebonics controversy for use by my students and other virtual visitors

1997                   Chair and organizer, Society for Medical Anthropology Panel on ³Culture and Immunology,² SMA Meetings, Seattle, March 4-9, 1997

1996                   Chair and co-organizer, AAA Panel on ³Looking Back at Looking At Language: : The Role of Method in Imagining Language and the World.² American Anthropological Association Meetings, San Francisco, CA, November 20-24, 1996.

1995                   Chair and organizer, AAA Panel on ³Communicating Multiple Identities in Muslim Communities.² American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., November 15-19, 1995

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2003                   Fieldwork on revival of lament in Uukuniemi, Finland, June 15-28. Studying Finnish at home, 2003-2004.

2000-2001          (December and January) Fieldwork and videotaping in Bangladesh in collaboration with Dhaka psychiatrists on the topics of: schizophrenia; stress, globalization, and culture change; and mother-child interaction.

1997                   Fieldwork in New York City and Merced, California on the management of bereavement and maintenance of cultural traditions among Bangladeshi, Haitian and Hmong immigrants.

1996                   Fieldwork in Matlab, Bangladesh in cooperation with the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh. Sociolinguistic and ethnolinguistic investigation of laments and related genres of verbal performance.

1991-1992          Fieldwork in Matlab, Bangladesh in cooperation with the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh. ³The patient as linguist agent: Health complaints in rural Bangladesh.²

1990-1991          Research associate for Dr. Allen Johnson, Chair, Department of Anthropology. Cross-cultural study of Oedipal myths: Literature searches, compilation of myths, coding of myths and sociocultural variables, statistical analysis using SAS-PC.

1989                   Fieldwork in Los Angeles among Bengali speakers: Recording naturally-occurring conversations, training transcribers, conducting interviews.

1976                   Linguistic fieldwork near Cap Haitien, Haiti (June- August).

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2004-present      Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University

2000-2004          Associate professor, Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University.

1994-2000          Assistant professor, Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University.

1993-1994          Graduate instructor, Social Sciences Collegium, UCLA. Culture, medicine, and language (Spring Œ94).

1992-1993          Teaching associate, Dept. of Anthropology, UCLA: Cultural Anthropology (Fall 92); Human Evolution (Winter Œ93, Spring Œ93).

1990-1991          Teaching associate, Dept. of Anthropology, UCLA: Human Evolution (Fall Œ90, Winter Œ91); Human Biology and Behavior (Spring Œ91).

1989-1990          Teaching associate, Dept. of Anthropology, UCLA: Human Evolution (Spring Œ90).

1988                   Instructor, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Mt. San Antonio Community College, Walnut, CA. Intro. to Cultural Anthropology (Spring ¹88).

1979                   Teacher, English as a Foreign Language. Pakistan Adventist College. Designed EFL curriculum submitted to international accreditation committee.

 

PH.D. COMMITTEES

2003-present   Neill Hadder (Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin), ³The Dissociation of Everyday Life (Out of Sight, Out of Mind)

2004                Sayeed Ahmed, (Political Science, NAU) (qualifying exams reader)

since 1994       Applied Linguistics dissertation committees (Chandrika Balasubramanian, Marie Helt, Erika Konrad, Kristin Precht, Sarah Soller)

 

MA THESES AND INTERNSHIPS CHAIRED

³Nez Perce Language Revitalization,² by Kaylene Day (internship paper defended, spring 2005)

³Communicative Practices of Football Coaches,² by Karin Knudsen. (Thesis defended summer 2005).

³Wishful Walking: Performing the Self and Other in Hindu Pilgrimage,² by Christopher Engleke. (Thesis defended spring 2005).

³Made in Bangladesh,² by Michael Adair-Kriz. Defended, April 2002.

³Music in Self Defense,² by R. Neill Hadder. Defended, May 1998.

³Authenticity and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution,² by Derek Taylor. Defended, April 1998.

³Battered Women and the Police: Conflicting Perceptions and Common Ground,² by Tina Capito. Defended, May 1997

 

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH MENTORING

Hooper Undergraduate Research fellow, Nat Krancus, ³Hopi Language Revitalization,²

fall semester 2004

 

COURSES TAUGHT

Advanced Seminar in Linguistic Anthropology; Anthropological Theory; Language, Power, and Medicine; Madness and Culture; Social Life in South Asia; Gender & Healing in South Asia; Studying Cultures; Ethnography of Communication; Language in Society; Culture and Communication; Survey of Linguistics; Languages of the World; Verbal Art in Anthropological Perspective

 

ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY SERVICE WHILE AT NAU

NATIONAL SERVICE

Chair of Society of Linguistic Anthropology¹s Nominations Committee (2001-2002)

Member, Planning Taskforce on Executive Panels for the American Anthropological Association¹s Executive Committee

 

UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE SERVICE

Member, Tri-University College of Public Health

Member, University Committee on Academic Standards, 2000-2001, 2002-2003

Member, University Academic Standards Council 2002-present

Director, Asian Studies Program, NAU (1998-1999)

Member, Asian Studies faculty (94-present)

University advisor for interdisciplinary minor in linguistics (94-present)

Member, Senate Council on Academic Standards & Student Life (96-99)

Member, University Library Committee (97-present)

Member, Review Committee for NEH Summer Stipend Applications (97-98)

 

DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE SERVICE

Departmental Library Representative (reviewer of anthropology acquisitions) (1995-Spring 2003)

Graduate Committee (including graduate admissions, 95-99, 02-present)

Merit Committee (95-97)

Curriculum Committee (97-98)

 

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Letter to the editor, Arizona Daily Sun, spring 2004, on the use and abuse of the culture concept in debates on snowmaking on the sacred San Francisco Peaks

 

Church lecture on Islam, Living Christ (Lutheran) Church, Flagstaff, AZ., December 2003

 

Public School Lectures—on Language and Culture at DeMiguel Elementary School (1996) and Northland Preparatory Academy (High School), 1999; on Islam at Flagstaff Arts & Leadership Academy, October, 2001

 

Lecture on relations with the Muslim world, Trinity Heights United Methodist Church, October 2001

 

Member, Executive Board, Flagstaff Master Chorale (since spring 1998)

 

President, Flagstaff Master Chorale (2002-2004)

 

LANGUAGES

·      Bengali: Fluent (speaking, reading, and writing)

·      Finnish: Currently studying, beginner¹s level