CURRICULUM VITA

 

Date:               April 2008

Name:             Susan D. Russell, Ph.D.

 

Department Office Address: Department of Anthropology

                                                            Northern Illinois University

                                    DeKalb, Illinois   60115

                                    Phone:  (815) 753-8577

                                                            e-mail:  srussell@niu.edu

 

PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT:

 

Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, 7/05 –     

            Present.

Director, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL; 

            7/99 – 7/05.

Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois;  

            7/02 - present.

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University,             DeKalb, Illinois; 8/90 - 6/02.

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb,  Illinois; 8/86-8/90.

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 8/84 (on leave) – 6/86.

Rockefeller Foundation Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Economics, University of the Philippines; 1/83-1/85.

Visiting Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois; 1/81-8/81; then 1/82-6/82.

 

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:

 

Academic:  economic anthropology; maritime anthropology; agrarian change and rural development; ritual; power; and stratification.

Applied:  agribusiness production, marketing, credit, entrepreneurship, cooperative institutions, upland and maritime development, socio-economic impact analysis, social soundness analysis, conflict resolution.

Geographic:  Southeast Asia (the Philippines)

 

 

FUNDED RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND GRANTS:

 

Social Science Research Council grant proposal, (submitted January 21, 2008—under review), “’Other Heartlands‘: Understanding Southeast Asian Islam”. [with Eric Jones, Department of History, $50,000].  Not funded.

U.S. State Department, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs grant proposal, 9/07-12/09.  “Cultural Citizens and North-South Dialogue: Building the National Identity and Civic Participation in the Philippines”.  [with Lina Ong, Office of International Training; $368,370]. 

U.S. State Department, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs grant, 7/2003-12/04; 2004-05; 2005-06; 2006-07; 2007-08; 2008-09.  ACCESS Philippines: ‘Bridging the Gap: Engaging a New Generation in Interethnic Dialogue and Conflict Resolution in the Southern Philippines’.  [with Lina Ong, Office of International Training] ($200,000/year; $1,400,000 total so far; currently beginning 6th year of funding)

U.S. State Department, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs grant, 8/2005 – 5/07.

            “The Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao and Majority-Minority Relations in the Philippines: Religion, Education, Community, and Political Process”. [with Lina Ong, Office of International Training] ($167,560).

Curriculum Development award from Yr 3 of Title VI, U.S. Dept. of Education award to Center for Southeast Asian Studies.  (To fund interviews and field study on peace initiatives and indigenous forms of conflict resolution among Filipino Muslims in Mindanao; $1,600).  7/2006.

Fulbright-Hays Foreign Language Teaching Assistant award, (to offer Beginning Arabic and enhance Indonesian and Tagalog language teaching program), funded again for 2005-2006 (see below).

Institute for International Education award, ‘Understanding Contemporary Islam’, American University in Beirut (application for a Middle Eastern scholar and professor of Islamic civilization for comparative course on Islam in Southeast Asia), Fall 2004.

Title VI National Resource Center grant, U.S. Department of Education, 8/2003-8/2006.  (multidisciplinary, international area studies program grant, $1,411,050)

Fulbright-Hays Foreign Language Teaching Assistant grant, (to offer Beginning Arabic and enhance Indonesian language teaching program), funded for 2003-04 and again for 2004-05.

Curriculum Development award from Yr 3 of Title VI grant, 2003 (see below): (To fund interviews and field study among Thai Muslims in Pattani, southern Thailand; $4,600).  5/2003-6/2003.

Illinois Humanities Council grant (to fund an international conference on the Ramayana text in South and Southeast Asia, $10,000; 2001).

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Northern Illinois University (funded my travel and that of a graduate assistant to conduct an ethnographic field school focused on Filipinos in Maui, Hawaii, December - January, 2000-01 with ten students).

National Security Education Program, U.S. Department of Defense, research grant, 2/2001 - 2/2003.  'Burmese, Khmer, and Lao: An Interactive, Multimedia Approach to Teaching their Languages and Cultures'.  (multidisciplinary research program grant, $278,629)

Title VI National Resource Center grant, U.S. Department of Education, 8/2000 - 8/2003.  (multidisciplinary, international area studies program grant, $958,262)

Fulbright-Hayes Scholar-in-Residence grant, 8/2000 - 12/2000.  (To bring in a visiting researcher from Cambodia, $14,000.)

National Science Foundation research grant No. 9107136.  6/91-6/93.  To investigate maritime share contracts among coastal fishermen in Batangas, the Philippines.  $39,224. (Also funded one graduate student from NIU).

National Science Foundation supplementary research grant, 1/92.  Additional support for above project.  $3,600.

Fulbright-Hays Foundation research grant.  6/91-1/92.  To investigate maritime share contracts among coastal fishermen in Batangas, the Philippines.  Approx. $16,000.

Fulbright-Hays Foundation research grant extension of above project for 4 months.  1/92-6/92.

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.  1991.  Research grant for $10,000 funded but turned down owing to previous research grants received.

National Science Foundation research grant No. 9009745.  5/13/90-5/13/91.  To investigate maritime share contracts in Pangasinan, the Philippines.  $12,000.

Graduate College, Northern Illinois University, Faculty Research Grant.  Summer 1990.  To investigate hypotheses and methods pertaining to maritime economies in the Philippines.  $4,500. (Also funded one anthropology graduate student from NIU).

National Science Foundation Fellowship, Summer Institute in Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology, June - July, 1989.  To attend institute at the University of Florida. ($4,500).

Faculty Exchange Program Research Grant, NIU and Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand.  Grant from the U.S. Information Agency, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.  (Member of 5 faculty member exchange grant focused on eastern seaboard development submitted by Daniel Wit and Ladd Thomas; I was a co-recipient).  March-May 1988.  $6,200.

Graduate College, Northern Illinois University, Faculty Research Grant, Summer 1987.  (Analysis of agricultural statistics collected in the Philippines, 1986).  $3,500.

Rockefeller Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship in International and Agricultural Development, 1/83-1/85.  (To conduct research on the urban food system with Prof. Ben Diokno at the School of Economics, University of the Philippines, Diliman. ($43,000.)

Graduate College, University of Illinois, Graduate Student Grant for archival research at Cornell University, Southeast Asian Library; 6/82 ($2,500).

National Science Foundation Dissertation Research Grant; for field research on socio-economic development in Northern Luzon, Philippines; (18 month award) 10/78-11/80.  ($10,800).

Fulbright-Hays Foundation Dissertation Research Grant; for field research on small-scale entrepreneurship in Northern Luzon, Philippines; 10/78-10/79. (Approx. $10,000).

Graduate College, University of Illinois, graduate student grant for archival research at the Philippine Studies Center, University of Chicago; 12/76-1/77. ($750).

Graduate College, University of Illinois; graduate student grant for field research on traditional elites and political change in Majuro, Marshall Islands, Trust Territory of the Pacific (Micronesia); 5/75-8/75. ($2,500)

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

Articles and Chapters

2007    ‘The Mindanao Conflict: Recent Bangsamoro Views of the Peace Process’.  The Mandala (CSEAS newsletter No. 25, Fall 2006).

2007    Feasts of Merit: the Politics of Ethnography and Ethnic Icons in the Luzon Highlands.  In Cordillera in June: Essays Celebrating June Prill-Brett, Anthropologist, ed. Ben Tapang, pp.30-61.  Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press.

2007   The Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao and Majority-Minority Relations in the Philippines: Religion, Education, Community & Political Process (co-edited with Lina Davide-Ong and Rey Ty).  DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University.

2006    Inter-Ethnic Dialogue and Conflict Resolution: Access to Community and Civic Enrichment.  (with L. Ong, R. Ty, and A. Gonzalez).  Report for the U.S. State Department, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.  Published by Northern Illinois University (not externally refereed)

2006    Labor Discipline, Debt and Effort in a Philippine Fishing Community.  In Labor in Cross-Cultural Perspective, ed. E. Paul Durrenberger and Judith Marti (Lanham, MD: Altamira Press).

2005    Mindanao: a Perspective on Youth, Inter-Ethnic Dialogue and Conflict Resolution in the Southern Philippines.  (with L. Ong, A. Gonzalez, R. Ty, N. Madale, and N. Medina).  Report for the U.S. State Department, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.  Published by Northern Illinois University. (not externally refereed)

2000    Of Beggars and Thieves:  Customary Sharing of the Catch and Informal Sanctions in an Open Access Fishery in the Philippines.  (with R. Alexander) In State and Community in Fisheries Management: Power, Policy, and Practice, ed. E. Paul Durrenberger and Thomas D. King.  CT:  Greenwood Press, pp.19-40.

1999    Introduction:  Delineating Theoretical Approaches to Southeast Asian Anthropology.  (with L. Aragon)  In Structuralism’s Transformations:  Order and Revision in Indonesian and Malaysian Societies, ed. Lorraine Aragon and Susan Russell.  Tempe, AZ: Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University, p.xxiii - lxii.

1998    Measuring Seining Strategies and Fishing Success in the Philippines.  (with R. Alexander) Human Organization:  Journal of Applied Anthropology 57(2):145-158.

1997    Class Identity, Leadership Style, and Political Culture in a Tagalog Coastal Community.  Pilipinas:  Journal of Philippine Studies 28:79-96.

1996    The Skipper Effect Debate:  Views from a Philippine Fishery.  Journal of Anthropological Research 52(4):433-460.  (with R. Alexander).

1994    Institutionalizing Opportunism:  Cheating on Baby Purse Seiners in Batangas Bay, Philippines.  In Anthropology and Institutional Economics, ed. James M. Acheson, pp.87-108.  Monographs in Economic Anthropology No. 12.  Lanham, MD:  Society for Economic Anthropology and University Press of America.

1991    Reprint of earlier article by Russell and R. Zerwekh 1986-87 (cited below), in Ethics and Agriculture:  An Anthology on Current Issues in World Context, ed. Charles Blatz, University of Idaho Press, pp. 618-629.

1990    Petty Commodity Fishermen in the Inner Gulf of Thailand.  Human Organization:  Journal of Applied Anthropology 49(2):174-187.  (With M. Poopetch).

1989    The Grand Cañao:  Ethnic History and Ritual Dilemmas in an Upland Philippine Tourist Festival.  Asian Folklore Studies 48(2):247-263.

1989     Informal Credit and Commodity Trade in Benguet, Highland Luzon.  Baguio City:  Cordillera Studies Center Monograph Series No. 3, University of the Philippines.

1989    Social Change, Cultural Identity, and Ritual Response.  In Changing Lives, Changing Rites:  Ritual and Social Dynamics in the Philippine and Indonesian Uplands, ed. S. Russell and C. Cunningham.  Ann Arbor, Michigan:  Papers on South and Southeast Asia, pp. 1-16.  (Second co-author:  C. Cunningham).

1989    Ritual Persistence and the Ancestral Cult Among the Ibaloi of the Luzon Highlands.  In Changing Lives, Changing Rites (op cit), pp. 17-44.

1989    Introduction:  Transformations in Ritual and Economy in Upland and Lowland Southeast Asia.  In Ritual, Power and Economy:  Upland-Lowland Contrasts in Mainland Southeast Asia, ed. S. Russell.  DeKalb, IL:  Center for Southeast Asian Studies Monograph Series, pp. 1-26.  (First co-author:  M. Woodward).

1987    Middlemen and Moneylending:  Relations of Exchange in a Highland Philippine Economy.  Journal of Anthropological Research 42(Summer):139-161.

1987    Cheap Food:  Politicization and Provisioning Patterns Among the Urban Poor in Manila.  In Production and Autonomy:  Anthropological Perspectives on Development, ed. John Bennett and John Bowen.  Monographs in Economic Anthropology, No. 5.  Lanham, MD:  Society for Economic Anthropology and the University Press of America, pp. 275-292.

1986-87  Social Justice and Moral Responsibility:  Ethical Perspectives on Agribusiness in the Philippines.  Asian Affairs:  An American Review 13(4):22-40.  (Second co-author:  Robert Zerwekh).

1986    Agribusiness Enterprise and Marketing Cooperatives in the Highland Philippines.  In 12th Annual Proceedings of the Third World Foundation, ed. Roger Oden, pp. 75-89.  Chicago, IL:  Third World Foundation.

1986    Mountain People in the Philippines:  Ethnographic Contributions to Upland Development.  In Man, Agriculture, and the Tropical Forest:  Change and Development in the Philippine Uplands, ed. Samuel Fujisaka, Percy Sajise, and Romeo del Castillo.  Bangkok:  Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, pp. 43-85.

1984    Curing and Commerce:  Changes in an Indigenous Medical Practice in a Highland Philippine Town.  Social Science and Medicine 18(2):129-137.

1980    Motivating Development:  Alternative Strategies and Long-Range Planning in Benguet Province.  Aghamtao 3:88-98.

 

Edited Books

 

1999    Structuralism’s Transformations:  Order and Revision in Indonesian and Malaysian Societies, ed. Lorraine Aragon and Susan Russell. Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University).

1989    Changing Lives, Changing Rites:  Ritual and Social Dynamics in the Philippine and Indonesian Uplands.  Ann Arbor, Michigan:  Papers on South and Southeast Asia Monograph Series, University of Michigan.  (Second co-editor:  C. Cunningham). (externally refereed)

1989    Ritual, Power and Economy:  Upland-Lowland Contrasts in Mainland Southeast Asia.  DeKalb, IL:  Center for Southeast Asian Studies Monograph Series, Northern Illinois University. (externally refereed)

 

Reviews

 

n.d.       Book review of ‘Mindanao Ethnohistory Beyond Nations: Maguindanao, Sangir, and Bagobo Societies in East Maritime Southeast Asia’, by Shinzo Hayase.  Anthropos.  To appear in August 2008 (v.103-2)..

n.d.      Book review of ‘Tourism, Development and Terrorism in Bali’, by Michael Hitchcock and I Nyoman Darma Putra.  Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.  Expected to appear in v.19(2).

2008    Book review of ‘Islam and Violent Separatism: New Democracies in Southeast Asia’, edited by Ashok Swain.  Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. v.19(1).

2006    Book review of ‘Between Hills and Plains: Power and Practice in Socio-Religious Dynamics among Karen’, by Hayami Yoko.  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 12(1):242-43.

2005    Book review of ‘Tourism, Heritage and National Culture in Java:  Dilemmas of a Local Community’, by Heidi Dahles.  Journal of Asian Studies 64(4):1071-73.

2003    Book review of 'The Anthropology of Economy:  Community, Market, and Culture', by Stephen Gudeman.  American Anthropologist v.105(2):418-419.

1998    Book review of ‘The Bajau Laut:  Adaptation, History and Fate in a Maritime Fishing Society of South-Eastern Sabah’, by Clifford Sather.  Journal of Asian Studies 57(3):900-902.

1998    Book review of ‘The Heat of the Hearth:  the Process of Kinship in a Malay Fishing Community’, by Janet Carsten.  Journal of Asian Studies 57(3):900-902.

1998    Book review of ‘Sea Hunters of Indonesia:  Fishers and Weavers of Lamalera’, by R.H. Barnes.  Journal of Anthropological Research 54:246-248.

1997    Book review of ‘Local Knowledge and Agricultural Decision Making in the Philippines’, by Virginia Nazarea-Sandoval.  Pilipinas:  Journal of Philippine Studies 28:138-140.

1995    Book review of ‘The Tasaday Controversy:  Assessing the Evidence’, ed. Thomas Headland.  Anthropological Quarterly 68(2):129-30.

1994    Book review of ‘Politics, Property and Law in the Philippine Uplands’, by Melanie Wiber.  Journal of Asian Studies 53(3):1025-1026.

1993    Book review of ‘Pangasinan, 1801-1900:  the Beginnings of Modernization’ and ‘Pangasinan, 1901-1986:  a Political, Socioeconomic and Cultural History’, both by Rosario Mendoza Cortes, 1990.  Journal of Asian Studies 52(1):213-215.

1993    Book review of ‘Visayan Vignettes:  Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island’, by Jean-Paul Dumont.  1992.  Chicago, IL:  University of Chicago Press.  Pilipinas:  Journal of Philippine Studies 20(Spring):78-80.

1993    Book review of ‘Artisans and Entrepreneurs in the Rural Philippines:  Making a Living and Gaining Wealth in two Commercialized Crafts’, by Rosanne Ruttan, 1990.  Crossroads:  An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 7(2):181-184.

1992    Book review of ‘Rice, Rupees, and Ritual:  Economy and Society Among the Samosir Batak of Sumatra’, by D. George Sherman, 1990.  American Anthropologist 94(1):239-240.

1992    Book review of ‘Mining and Agriculture in Highland Bolivia:  Ecology, History, and Commerce Among the Jukumanis’, by Ricardo A. Godoy, 1990.  Ethnohistory 39(2):219-221.

1991    Book review of ‘Urban Poverty and the Labour Market:  Access to Jobs and Incomes in Asian and Latin American Cities’, ed. Gerry Rodgers, 1989.  Journal of Asian Studies.

1990    Book review of ‘The City Connection:  Migration and Family Interdependence in the Philippines’, by Lillian Trager, 1988.  Pilipinas:  Journal of Philippine Studies v. 15:64-65.

1990    Book review of ‘A Sagada Reader’, by William H. Scott, 1989.  Journal of Asian Studies 49(2):444-445.

1990    Book review of ‘On the Road to Tribal Extinction:  Depopulation, Deculturation, and Adaptive Well-Being Among the Batak of the Philippines’, by James Eder, 1987.  Crossroads:  An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 5(2):148-151.

1988    Book review of ‘The White Apos:  American Governors on the Cordillera Central’, by Frank Jenista, 1987.  Journal of Asian Studies 47(3):701-702.

1987    Book review of ‘Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia’, ed. K. Hutterer, A. Rambo, G. Lovelace, 1985.  Crossroads:  An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 3(2-3):112-115.

1986    Book review of ‘The Anthropology of Evil’, ed. David Parkin, 1985.  American Journal of Sociology 92(1):216-217.

1984    Book review of ‘Contemporary Trade Strategies in the Philippines:  A Study in Marketing Anthropology’, by Norbert Dannhaeuser, 1983.  American Ethnologist 11(3):403-405.

1983    Book review of ‘Who Shall Succeed?  Agricultural Development and Social Inequality on a Philippine Frontier’, by James Eder, 1982.  American Ethnologist 10(3):628.

 

PAPERS PRESENTED

 

2008  ‘Strengthening National Security Through Peacebuilding Coalitions: Countering Insurgency in the Philippines Through Non-Military Means’.  Paper presented at a Symposium ‘Can the Philippines Break Out of Its Affliction? Prospects for Democratic Governance, Economic Development and Philippine-US Relations’.  April 7-8.  Washington, D.C.: Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

2007    ‘Conflict Transformation in the Midst of War and Rebellion in the Southern Philippines’.  Paper presented at the Symposium on Conflict Transformation: Theory and Practice for Peace in Troubled Times; University of North Florida, Jacksonville, October 4-6.

2007    ‘Guns, Money and Diplomacy: Solving the World’s Longest-Running Conflict?’  Paper (power point) presented at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies Friday Lecture Series, March 30.  [with Eric Jones]

2007   ‘The View from Mindanao:  Political Reform or Nation-Building for the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao?’  [with Ishak Mastura]  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Boston, March 21-25.

2006    ‘The Mindanao Conflict: Recent Disparate Views from Some Moro Rebels and Other ARMM Leaders’.  Paper presented at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 20-22.

2006     ‘Recent Bangsamoro Views of the Prospects of Past and Present Peace

       Negotiations with the Philippine Government’.  Paper presented in the Center for

       Southeast Asian Studies Friday Lecture Series, October 6, 2006.

2006    ‘Islam and Christianity in Southeast Asia’.  Also, participant in Roundtable on ‘Religion, Culture and Values in Asia’.  Invited lecture for the Asia-Pacific Orientation Course, U.S. Air Force Special Operations School, Hurlburt Field, Florida, August 14-15.

2006    ‘Prospects and Challenges for Higher Education Partnerships in the 21st Century’.  Informal presentation at Mindanao State University, Marawi City, Philippines, July 16.

2005    ‘Mindanao: a Perspective on Youth, Inter-Ethnic Dialogue, and Conflict Resolution in the Southern Philippines’.  Informal presentation to the Forum Series on the Philippines:  Philippine National Historical Society, Quezon City, August 5.

2004    ‘Stories of Development:  Environmental Problems in the Philippines’.  Invited day lecture, presented at the 7th International Conference on Philippine Studies, Leiden-Amsterdam, June 17.

2004   ‘Anthropological Perspectives on the Political Economy of the Philippine Environment’.  Paper presented at the State-of-the Art Roundtable at the 7th International Conference on Philippine Studies, Leiden-Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 16.

2004  ‘Title VI National Resource Center Missions to Connect with 2 and 4 Year Colleges’.  Paper to be presented at the ASIANetwork Spring 2004 Conference, Lisle, Illinois, April 2.

2003   ‘State and Local Conflicts in Philippine Maritime Conservation’.  Paper presented at the Association for Asian Studies meetings, New York City, March 2003.

2001      ‘The Political Economy of Debt and Fishing Success in a Philippine Seining Fleet’.  Paper presented at the Society for Economic Anthropology meetings, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, April 2001.

2000   'Feasts of Merit: the Politics of Ethnography and Ethnic Icons in the Luzon      

Highlands'.  Paper presented at the Association for Asian Studies meetings, San      Diego, CA, March 9-11, 2000.

1998   ‘Gifts at Sea: the Exchange of Fish and Concepts of Territoriality in a Philippine Fishing Fleet’.  Presented at the Brown Bag lecture, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, Aug. 28.

1997   ‘The Skipper Effect Debate: Views from a Philippine Fishery’.  Presented at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs meetings in DeKalb, September, 1997.

1996    ‘Of Beggars and Thieves:  Customary Sharing of the Catch and Informal Sanctions in an Open Access Fishery in the Philippines’.  Presented at the American Anthropological Association meetings in San Francisco, November, 1996.

1996    ‘Kinship, Success and Political Culture in a Tagalog Coastal Community’.  Presented at the Association for Asian Studies meetings in Honolulu, April, 1996.

1996    ‘Multiculturalism and an Otherwise Anthropological View of Culture’.  NIU Faculty Bulletin.

1995    ‘Coastal Zone Management:  Philippine Policies and Experiences’.  Invited lecture  presented at two conferences sponsored by The Asia Society on the Philippine Environment, Chicago and Seattle.

1995    ‘Rent Capitalism and Resistance in the Luzon Highlands’.  Invited lecture presented at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

1993    ‘Models of Maritime Peoples:  the View from Southeast Asia’.  Invited Graduate Colloquium Lecture sponsored by the Third World Studies Center and Department of Anthropology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, February 11.

1993    ‘Cheating at Shares in a Tagalog Fishing Fleet’.  Invited seminar, Department of Anthropology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, February 12.

1992    ‘The Institutionalization of Cheating in a Philippine Fishery’.  Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, December 3, 1992.

1992    ‘The Institutionalization of Cheating on Small Purse Seiners in Batangas Bay, Philippines’.  Paper presented at the Society for Economic Anthropology annual meeting, March 26-28, 1992, University of California, Irvine.

1992    ‘The Anthropology of Maritime Societies’.  Invited lecture, International Center for Living Aquatic Resource Management, Asian Fisheries Training Seminar, January, Mandarin Hotel, Manila.

1992    ‘Methods of Testing Qualitative Hypotheses with Illiterate Informants’.  Invited lecture, Social Science Center, University of the Philippines, Baguio, February 20, 1992.

1992    Chair and Discussant, Panel on ‘Managing the Marine Commons’.  International Association for the Study of Common Property, Sept. 17, 1992, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C.

1991    ‘Economic Anthropology:  Trends and Prospects’.  ‘Socio-economic Impact Analysis in the 90s’.  Two invited lectures, Western Mindanao State University, Zamboanga City, Philippines, December 7, 1991.

1991    ‘Fishing in Lingayen Gulf, Philippines’.  Presentation, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series, Spring semester.

1990    ‘The New Institutional Economics and Its Relevance for Understanding Maritime and Marketing Labor Contracts’.  Invited lecture, Division of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines College, July 7, Baguio City.

1989    ‘Simple Commodity Production and Class Formation in the Southern Cordillera of Luzon’.  Paper presented at the Annual Association for Asian Studies Meetings, March 19-21, Washington, D.C.

1988    ‘The Persistence of Small Scale Fishing on the Eastern Seaboard of Thailand’.  Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Council on Thai Studies, October 14-16, DeKalb.

1988    ‘The Greening of the Highlands:  Commercialism and the Creation of an Ethnic Labor Force in Luzon’s Cordillera, Philippines’.  Invited lecture, February 22, Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe.

1988    ‘Social and Economic Access to Productive Relationships’: Thai-Chinese Fishermen in Ang Sila’.  Lecture presented to the School of Social Work, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, May.

1987    ‘Ritual Reification and Ethnic Imagery in Upland Luzon’.  Paper presented at the Annual American Anthropological Association Meetings, November, Chicago.

1986    ‘Ritual Persistence and Economic Pragmatism:  the Ibaloi of Highland Luzon’.  Paper presented at the Annual Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute Conference, July 30, DeKalb.

1986    ‘Social Transformations and Underdevelopment:  the Marcos Legacy in Highland Luzon, Philippines’.  Invited lecture, May 2, Chicago Anthropological Society, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.

1986    ‘Agribusiness Enterprise and Marketing Cooperatives in the Highland Philippines’.  Annual Third World Conference Meetings, March, Chicago.

1986    ‘The Socio-economic Impact of Cash Cropping in the Philippine Highlands’.  Invited lecture, February 19, Philippine Student Association, Urbana, IL.

1985    ‘Street Food Vendors in a Manila Slum’.  Invited lecture, March, Philippine Student Association, DeKalb.

1985    ‘Cheap Food for the Urban Poor?  Market Intervention Strategies in the Philippines’.  Paper presented at the Annual Society for Economic Anthropology Meetings, Warrenton, VA, April 19-21.

1984    ‘New Theoretical Trends in Economic Anthropology:  A Critical Review’.  Invited lecture, College of Development Economics and Management, University of Philippines, Los Banos, February 3.

1983    ‘The Historical Rise and Demise of the Textile Industry in Baguio City’.  Paper presented at the Seminar Series on Economic Research, School of Economics, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, May.

1983    ‘Ethnic Rhetorics and Entrepreneurial Strategies in Highland Luzon:  Ethnicity and Commerce Reconsidered’.  Paper presented at the Annual American Anthropological Association meetings, Chicago, November 16-20.

1983    ‘Commercial Agriculture and Institutional Change Among Highland Peasant Producers in Benguet Province’.  Paper presented at the National Conference on Advancement of the Vegetable Industry, Highland Agricultural Research Center, Mountain State Agricultural College, La Trinidad, Benguet, March 3-4.

1982    ‘Agribusiness Entreprenuers and Elite Formation in Highland Luzon’.  Paper presented at the Annual Society for Economic Anthropology Meetings, Athens, Georgia, April 2-3.

1980    ‘Middlemen and Marketing Cooperatives in Benguet, Luzon’.  Paper presented at the Annual Association of Philippine Anthropology Meetings, San Carlos University, June.

 

PUBLIC SERVICE:

2004-06  Various interviews related to Mindanao for ABS-CBN television and a Chicago radio station. 

2001    Television interview for CBS in Rockford at the International Ramayana Fair.

2001    Radio interview on WILM, Delaware, on the political transition in the Philippines that ousted President Estrada (1/19/01).

1990    Consultant, Textile Arts Center, Chicago.  (Advised the Director, Mary Landis, on the scholars to be invited to the International Philippine Textile exhibit in May.

1986   Television interview appearance on ‘Chicago Tonight’ to discuss the civilian-backed military revolt in the Philippines, February 5.

1986    Interview in Northern Illinois University Alumni magazine on cross-cultural characteristics of money.

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

President, Philippine Studies Group, Association for Asian Studies, 2002-06.

Member, Southeast Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies, 2002-05.

Member, Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute, Executive Board, 2002-05.

Member, Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute, Steering Committee, 2002-03.

Member of the Planning Workshop for the Title VI National Resource Centers and FLAS Centers Technical Assistance Workshop, held in Washington D.C. at the U.S. Department of Education, IEGPS, October 26, 2001

Member of Proposal Review Panel, "Asia and Technology", National Security Education Program, Washington, D.C., June 2001.

National Science Foundation Review Panel Member, Human Genome Diversity Project, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., December, 1996.

Reviewer of proposals for National Science Foundation (an average of three proposals per year);

Book reviews editor for Pilipinas:  Journal of Philippine Studies, 1989 - 2002.

Assistant Editor for Southeast Asia, Journal of Asian Studies, 1993 - 1994.

Film Review and Board Member for Southeast Asia, Asian Media Exchange Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1997).

Member, Executive Board of the Society for Economic Anthropology, 1993-96.

Member, Philippine Studies Executive Committee, Association for Asian Studies, 1986-89; 1993-present.

 

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE:

 

Consultant (Subject matter expert), U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations Command, September 2007.  Reviewed the “Cultural Field Guide to the Philippines” developed by the Marine Corps Intelligence Agency.

Consultant, Bennett and Associates, Inc.  Cross-Cultural Training Program, Chicago, IL (since 1994) and for International Orientation Resources, Northbrook, IL (since 1995).

Consultant, Rural Credit and Marketing Specialist, Philippine Highland Agricultural Development Project, Asian Development Bank, Manila, 6/86-7/86.

Consultant and Member of Scientific Advisory Panel, Health Promotion Research Program, Ambulatory Cancer Clients Project, Social Science Research Institute, DeKalb, 12/85-89.

Consultant on Upland Peoples’ Indigenous Forestry Project, Cordillera Studies Center, University of the Philippines, Baguio City, 1984.

Consultant, United Nations Development Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization, Bureau of Cooperative Development, Manila, 6/80-8/80.

Consultant, University of the Philippines, Baguio City; 3/80-4/80.

 

EDUCATIONAL CHRONOLOGY:

 

Ph.D. with High Distinction in Anthropology, 1983; University of Illinois, Urbana.

M.A. in Anthropology, 1977; University of Illinois, Urbana.

B.A. with High Distinction in Anthropology, 1973; University of Illinois, Urbana.

 

 

COURSES TAUGHT AND TEACHING AWARDS:

 

Nominated for Presidential Teaching Professor award, Northern Illinois University 2003 (not awarded).

2003 Outstanding International Educator Award, Northern Illinois University.

 

 

Anthropological Perspectives on Muslim Cultures

Rural Development and Theories of Social Change

International Contact in Anthropological Perspective

Southeast Asian Peasant Economy

Southeast Asian Peasant Society

Peoples and Cultures of Southeast Asia

Economic Anthropology

Applied Anthropology

Introduction to Anthropology

Anthropological History and Theory

Qualitative Field Methods

Field Research in Anthropology

Marriage and the Family

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

 

FIELD SCHOOL EXPERIENCE:

 

Director, Northern Illinois University Ethnographic Field School, Maui, Hawaii, December-January, 2000-01.

 

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

American Anthropological Association

American Ethnological Society

Association for Asian Studies

Philippine Studies Association

Society for Economic Anthropology

Association for Applied Anthropology