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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 Repressed Eloquence: Patients as Subjects and Objects of Complaints in Matlab, Bangladesh.
MA Caste and Class among South Asian Muslims: Changing Patterns of Identity and Ideology. 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, L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, May 15-June 15, 2003. Who's 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 press Crying Shame: Metaculture, Modernity and the Exaggerated Death of Lament. Blackwell Publishers.
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS 2006 Magical Laments and Anthropological Reflections: The Production and Circulation of Anthropological Text as Ritual Activity. Current Anthropology 47(6):891-914. 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 The 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: Forgetting 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, Language Matters in Anthropology: A Lexicon for the Millennium). 1998b (Wilce, Guest Editor) Communicating Multiple Identities in Muslim Communities. Special issue of Ethos 26(2). 1998c The Kalimah in the Kaleidophone: Ranges of Multivocality in Bangladeshi Muslims Discourses. Ethos 26(2): 229-257. 1998d Communicating Multiple Identities in Muslim Communities: An Introduction. Ethos 26(2): 115-119. 1998e The Pragmatics of Madness : Performance Analysis of a Bangladeshi Woman's Aberrant 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 "I Cannot Tell You All My Troubles": Conflict, Resistance, and Metacommunication in Bangladeshi Illness Interactions. American Ethnologist 22(4): 927-952.
BOOK CHAPTERS AND OTHER Publications AND PAPERS: 2006a Arabic Loanwords in Bengali. In Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, K. Versteegh, general editor. Leiden: E. J. Brill. 2006b See the Wikipedia entry
on Linguistic Anthropology that I authored in May 2006 (which, given the nature
of Wikipedia, may or may not have been edited by others at the time you see it).
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 Speak Beautifully in Bangladesh: Subjectivity as Paglami 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 Monsters 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.htm 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 presss b Scientizing Bangladeshi Psychiatry: Parallelism, Enregisterment, and the Cure for a Magic Complex. Language in Society.To appear in volume 36, number 1, February 2008. 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: Crying Shame: Traditional Lament and Modern Mourning. 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. Narrating Stress: Culture, Coping, Health, and Immunity (Wilce, Principal Investigator). Submitted, June 1, 2001 2000 National Institutes of Health R01. Culture, Health and Immunity in Narrating Stress. 2000 Wenner-Gren Small Grants. Crying Shame: Globalization and the Transformation of Grieving and Lament. 2000 School of American Research Scholar-in-Residence Program. Crying Shame: Globalization and the Transformation of Grieving and Lament. 2000 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Crying Shame: Globalization and the Transformation of Grieving and Lament. 2000 National Center for the Humanities. Crying Shame: Globalization and the Transformation of Grieving and Lament.
2000 Organized Research Committee, Northern Arizona University. Videotaping Family Interaction with Persons With Schizophrenia. Wilce, Principal Investigator. 1999a National Institutes of Health R01. Culture, Health and Immunity in Writing about Stress. (Wilce, Principal Investigator) 1999b Organized Research Committee, Northern Arizona University. Interactional Madness in Bangladesh. (Granted, 2000-01). 1998 Organized Research Committee, Northern Arizona University. Culture, gender, and trauma-writing as therapy: Outcomes in frequency of physicians visits. 1997 National Institutes of Health. Cross-Cultural Investigation of Health and Emotional Expression. (Heidi Wayment, Principal Investigator) 1996 Organized Research Committee, Northern Arizona University. Cross-Cultural Investigation of Health and Emotional Expression. (with Heidi Wayment, co-PI) (Granted, 1997-8). 1996 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend: Lament, The State of the Art: Lamenting Loss and Threat, and the Threatened Loss of Lament. 1996 School of American Research, Advanced Seminars: Lament, The State of the Art: Lamenting Loss and Threat, and the Threatened Loss of Lament. 1995 Organized Research Committee, Northern Arizona University. Fragments of eloquence: The poetics and politics of self and complaint in a rural Bangladesh community. (Granted in 1996-7).
Grant-related Conference Participation: 1996 Roundtable participant in Placebo and Nocebo Effects: Developing a Research Agenda, a conference sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (Program in Alternative Medicine), Bethesda, MD. Dec. 2-4, 1996. GRANTS RECEIVED
Conference papers 2007 Scientizing Psychiatry: Conjuring Linguistic Fixes for Psychiatry’s Magic Complex. Paper presented at the 30th International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Padua, Italy, June 29, 2007. 2006 Finno-Karelian Lament and The Modernity of Tradition 2005 A Case of Occluded Nerves: Shameless Media, Group Shame, and Anthropological Anxiety. Paper presented at Localities and Subjectivities panel. American Anthropological Association meetings. Washington, D.C. 2005 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, Intertextuality in discourse and culture: Problems and prospects, 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, Illness and Illusions of Control,American Anthropological Association meetings, Washington, D. C., November 29, 2001. 2000 Modernity and the fate of emotional genres in South Asia. Paper presented at the panel Linguistic Modernity and Its Discontents. American Anthropological Association meetings, San Francisco. November, 2000. 1999 Divining Troubles: Gender, Conflict, and Polysemy in Bangladeshi Divination. Panel on Situations and Interpretations: Explorations in Interpretive Practice, 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, Genres in Tension and Transformation, 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 Paglami. 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 Embodying Linguistic Ideologies. 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, The Pragmatics of Prayer, 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 Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems (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 Muslims' identities in contemporary Bangladesh. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association meetings, in the panel Communicating Multiple Identities in Muslim Communities, (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: Patients' Encounters with Practitioners in Bangladesh. Paper presented at the dually invited session (SMA/SLA) on Medical Discourse, American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, GA. 1994 Body Themes in the Body Politic: Rhetoric in a Rural Bangladeshi Moot. Paper presented at South Asian Language Analysis Roundtable XVI (Languages in Contact ), 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 Anthropology's invited session on Aesthetics, power, and medicine at the 92nd annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C. 1992 "I Cannot Tell You All My Troubles" : Health Complaints as Social Action in Matlab, Bangladesh. Presented at the 91st annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, Dec. 2. 1991 "The Whole Body Hurts": 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, L'École 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 d'Anthropologie 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, Psychiatry and Rationality ), 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 Pagalami. 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 Powerlessness in a Diagnostic 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 a linguistic anthropologist at a major university. 2005 Co-organizer, AAA Executive Session, Purified Pasts, Hybrid Futures? (Meta)Languages of Science, Magic, and Religion, American Anthropological Association meetings, Washington, D.C. 2004 Nominated for Linguistic slot on the American Anthropological Association's Long Range Planning Committee (elections in spring 2005) 2004 External reviewer for tenure for a linguistic anthropologist at a major university. 2004 External reviewer for tenure for a South Asianist at an East-Coast university. 2004-2006 Member, Stirling Prize Award Committee, Society for Psychological Anthropology 2004 Co-organizer, AAA Executive Session, Where Hybrid 'Monsters' Dwell: A Discursive Bestiary of Magic, Science, and Religion, American Anthropological Association meetings, San Francisco. (Meetings cancelled) 2003 Organizer, Panel entitled, Histories of Emotion/Discourses/Regimes. 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, Beyond the Placebo Effect - The Role of Culture in Medical Intervention. 2002 Discussant for the Panel, Misrecognition, Linguistic Awareness, and Linguistic Ideologies: Ethnographies and Approaches. 101st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans. November, 2002. 2000 Organizer, Panel entitled Linguistic modernity and its discontents: Mixed evidence, hybrid models. American Anthropological Association meetings. San Francisco. November, 2000 2000 External reviewer for two tenure and promotion cases 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, Narrative, Dialogue, Selfhood: The New Wave in Life-History Research in South Asia panel. South Asia Conference. Madison, WI: October 15, 1999. 1999 Organizer, double session Genres in Tension and Transformation: The Politics and Circulation of Lamentation and Related Forms, South Asia Conference. Madison, WI: October 16, 1999. 1998 Discussant for the panel, Japanese Speaking Choices: Gender and Language Ideologies, 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, Embodying Linguistic Ideologies, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 2-6, 1998 1997 Chair and organizer, Panel on The Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems, 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 Culture and Immunology, SMA Meetings, Seattle, March 4-9, 1997 1996 Chair and co-organizer, AAA Panel on Looking Back at Looking At Language: : The Role of Method in Imagining Language and the World. American Anthropological Association Meetings, San Francisco, CA, November 20-24, 1996. 1995 Chair and organizer, AAA Panel on Communicating Multiple Identities in Muslim Communities.American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., November 15-19, 1995
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2007 Week-long intensive Finnish immmersion, Bemidji, MN. 2003, 2005 Pilot Fieldwork on revival of lament in Finland. Studying Finnish at home, 2003-2007. 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. The patient as linguist agent: Health complaints in rural Bangladesh. 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 å94). 1992-1993 Teaching associate, Dept. of Anthropology, UCLA: Cultural Anthropology (Fall 92); Human Evolution (Winter å93, Spring å93). 1990-1991 Teaching associate, Dept. of Anthropology, UCLA: Human Evolution (Fall å90, Winter å91); Human Biology and Behavior (Spring å91). 1989-1990 Teaching associate, Dept. of Anthropology, UCLA: Human Evolution (Spring å90). 1988 Instructor, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Mt. San Antonio Community College, Walnut, CA. Intro. to Cultural Anthropology (Spring π88). 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), The 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 Nez Perce Language Revitalization,≤ by Kaylene Day (internship paper defended, spring 2005) Communicative Practices of Football Coaches, by Karin Knudsen. (Thesis defended summer 2005). Wishful Walking: Performing the Self and Other in Hindu Pilgrimage,≤ by Christopher Engleke. (Thesis defended spring 2005). Made in Bangladesh,≤ by Michael Adair-Kriz. Defended, April 2002. Music in Self Defense,≤ by R. Neill Hadder. Defended, May 1998. Authenticity and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution, by Derek Taylor. Defended, April 1998. Battered Women and the Police: Conflicting Perceptions and Common Ground, by Tina Capito. Defended, May 1997
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH MENTORING Hooper Undergraduate Research fellow, Nat Krancus, Hopi Language Revitalization, 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 Chair of Society of Linguistic Anthropologyπs Nominations Committee (2001-2002) Member, Planning Taskforce on Executive Panels for the American Anthropological Associationπs 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)
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