Bruce M. Knauft

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Curriculum Vitae
(March, 2009)

Employment History

Director, States at Regional Risk Project (SARR) 2008 - 2011
Executive Director, Institute of Critical International Studies (ICIS) 2004 - 2009
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology, Emory University 2001 - present
Professor of Anthropology, Emory University 1995
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Emory University 1990
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Emory University 1985

Faculty Affiliations

Program Faculty Member, Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University 2002 - present
Associated Faculty Member, Women's Studies, Emory University 1995 - present
Department of Anthropology 1985 - present

Education

Ph.D. Anthropology; The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1983
M.A. with honors, Anthropology; The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1979
B.A. Magna Cum Laude Anthropology; Yale University, 1976

Fellowships, Research Grants, and Awards

• Institute for Developing Nations, Emory University, “Investigating Challenges
  to Professionalism and Development in Liberian NGOs” ($25,000), 2008
• Carnegie Corporation, “States at Regional Risk” (project total $483,276), 2008- 11
• Carnegie Corporation, "States at Risk" ($25,000), 2006 - 07
  Emory College, "States at Risk" [matching funds] ($25,000), 2006 - 07
• Burke Nicholson Forum, "The Imperial Present" ($2,000), 2006
• Burke Nicholson Forum, "Fear and Religious Minorities" ($7,500), 2005
• NEH Fellow and Resident Scholar, The School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico ($40,000), 2003-04
• Director and P. I. of "Vernacular Modernities," a Crossing Borders program funded by The Ford Foundation and Emory University ($578,000), 1999-2003
• Winship Distinguished Research Award, Emory University ($30,000), 1998-2000
• H. F. Guggenheim Foundation write-up grant ($30,000), 1999
• National Science Foundation, field research grant ($18,994), 1998
• Wenner-Gren Foundation, field research grant ($15,000), 1998
• Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Award ($32,000), 1998
• Emory University Research Committee, field research grant ($15,000), 1998
• Fellow, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris ($4,000), 1994
• Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Stanford, CA ($20,000), 1991-92
• H. F. Guggenheim Career Development Award ($112,500), 1990-94
• Emory University Research Committee Grant ($3,846), 1989
• H. F. Guggenheim Foundation Research Grant ($101,973), 1985-1988
• National Institutes of Health Post doctoral Fellowship ($34,776), 1983-1985
• National Institutes of Health Pre doctoral Fellowship ($29,630), 1980-1983
• National Science Foundation Dissertation Research Grant ( $8,991), 1980 1982
• Horace H. Rackham Dissertation Grant ($1,449), 1980
• Horace H. Rackham Graduate Fellowship ($8,000), 1979 1980
• Department of Anthropology stipends and fellowships, The University of Michigan, 1977 1979
• C.S. Ford Cross Cultural Research Prize, Co-winner ($250), 1976

PUBLICATIONS

Books

• 2010 The Gebusi: Lives Transformed in a Rainforest World, 2^nd edition. New York: McGraw-Hill. [1^st edition, 2005: xvi + 217 pp., 19 illustrations]
• 2002 [Edited volume] Critically Modern: Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies. Indiana University Press (ix + 317 pp., 20 illustrations, references, index; paperback/hardback).
• 2002 Exchanging the Past: A Rainforest World of Before and After. The University of Chicago Press (x + 292 pp., 24 color photographs, map, references, index; paperback/hardback).
• 1999 From Primitive to Post-colonial in Melanesia and Anthropology (x + 320 pp., 1 map, 8 figs., 16 color photos; paperback/hardback). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
• 1996 Genealogies for the Present in Cultural Anthropology (viii + 384 pp., 3 Figures, 1 Map; paperback/hardback). New York: Routledge Press.
• 1993 South Coast New Guinea Cultures: History, Comparison, Dialectic (xiv + 298 pp., 7 Figures, 1 Map, 8 Tables, 1 Appendix; paperback/hardback). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• 1985 Good Company and Violence: Sorcery and Social Action in a Lowland New Guinea Society. Berkeley: University of California Press (x + 474 pp., 37 Tables, 22 Figures, 2 Maps, 16 pp. Photos, 7 Appendices; hardback).

Refereed journal articles

• 2007, "Provincializing America:  Imperialism, Capitalism, and Counter-hegemony in the 21st Century."  Current Anthropology, 48 (6): 781-805.
• 2006, Anthropology in the Middle. Anthropological Theory 6:407-430 .
• 2006 [co-authored with Michael Peletz] "Structure, Cultural Logic, and Transformational Dynamics in the Social Organization of Unstratified Societies: The Work of Raymond C. Kelly." Michigan Discussions in Anthropology 16:66-105.
• 2003 What Ever Happened to Ritualized Homosexuality? Annual Review of Sex Research 14:137-159.
• 2000 Symbols, Sex, and Sociality in the Evolution of Human Morality. Journal of Consciousness Studies 7:130-139.
• 1997 Theoretical Currents in Late Modern Cultural Anthropology. Cultural Dynamics 9:277-300.
• 1997 Experience and Diversity in Religious Practice: Mayotte and the Anthropology of Religion. Cultural Dynamics 9(2)149-160.
• 1997 Gender Identity, Political Economy, and Modernity in Melanesia and Amazonia. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (incorporating Man) 3:233-259.
• 1995 Beyond Classic Scribes and Others' Dia-tribes: Ethnography and History along the New Guinea South Coast. Pacific Studies 18(4):176-191.
• 1994 Foucault Meets South New Guinea: Knowledge, Power, Sexuality. Ethos 22:391-438.
• 1994 Pushing Anthropology Past the Posts: Critical Notes on Cultural Anthropology and Cultural Studies as Influenced by Postmodernism and Existentialism. Critique of Anthropology 14:117-152.
• 1993 Like Money You See in a Dream: Petroleum and Patrols in South New Guinea. Oceania 64:187-190.
• 1993 Monument of Miscast Error: Obeyesekere versus Sahlins and Captain Cook. Social Analysis 34:34-42.
• 1991 Violence and Sociality in Human Evolution. Current Anthropology 32:391-428.
• 1990 Melanesian Warfare: A Theoretical History. Oceania 60:250-311.
• 1990 The Question of Ritualized Homosexuality among the Kiwai of South New Guinea. Journal of Pacific History 25:188-210.
• 1987 Reconsidering Violence in Simple Human Societies: Homicide among the Gebusi of Papua New Guinea. Current Anthropology 28:457-500.
• 1987 Homosexuality in Melanesia. The Journal of Psychoanalytic Anthropology 10:155 191.
• 1986 Text and Social Practice: Narrative "Longing" and Bisexuality among the Gebusi of New Guinea. Ethos 14:252 281.
• 1985 Ritual Form and Permutation in New Guinea: Implications for Socio Political Evolution. American Ethnologist 12:321 340.
• 1978 Cargo Cults and Relational Separation. Behavior Science Research 13:185 240.
• 1978 The Paradox of Holism: Dead End or Dialectic? Michigan Discussions in Anthropology 3:199 204.

Chapters in edited volumes

• 2007 Moral Exchange and Exchanging Morals:  Alternative Paths of Cultural Change in Papua New Guinea.  In The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond.  Edited by John Barker, pp. 59-73.  Burlington, Vermont:  Ashgate.
• 2007 From Self-Decoration to Self-Fashioning:  Orientalism as Backward Progress among the Gebusi of Papua New Guinea.  In Body Arts and Modernity.   Edited by Elizabeth Ewart and Michael O’Hanlon, pp.88-107.  Wantage, Oxon, UK:  Sean Kingston Publishing.
• 2004 Relating to Women: Female Presence in Melanesian "Male Cults." In Women as Unseen Characters: Male Ritual in Papua New Guinea. Edited by Pascale Bonnemère. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
• 2002 Not Just for Fun: Formalized Conflict and Games of War in Melanesia. In War and Games (Studies on the Nature of War, Vol. 3). Edited by T. J. Cornell and T. B. Allen. San Marino: Boydell Press / Center for the Interdisciplinary Research on Social Stress.
• 2002 Critically Modern: An Introduction. In Critically Modern: Alterities, Alternatives, Anthropologies. Edited by B. Knauft, pp. 1-54. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• 2002 Trials of the Oxymodern: Public Practice at Nomad Station. In Critically Modern: Alterities, Alternatives, Anthropologies. Edited by B. Knauft, pp. 105-143. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• 2001 Theorizing Power and the Self [co-authored with Jeanette Mageo]. In Power and the Self. Edited by Jeanette Mageo. pp. 1-25. Cambridge University Press.
• 1998 How the World Turns Upside Down: Changing Geographies of Power and Spiritual Influence among the Gebusi. In Fluid Ontologies: Myth, Ritual, and Philosophy in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Edited by Laurence R. Goldman and Chris Ballard, pp.143-161. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey.
• 1998 Creative Possessions: Spirit Mediumship and Millennial Economy among Gebusi of Papua New Guinea. Bodies and Persons in Africa and Melanesia. Edited by Michael Lambek and Andrew Strathern, pp. 197-209. Cambridge University Press.
• 1996 The Human Evolution of Cooperative Interest. In The Anthropology of Peace. Edited by Thomas Gregor, pp. 71-94. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
• 1994 Reassessing Competitive Leadership and Economic Exchange in South Coastal New Guinea. In Migration and Transformation: Regional Perspectives on New Guinea. Edited by Andrew J. Strathern and Gabriele Stürzenhofecker, pp. 155-178. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
• 1994 Culture and Cooperation in Human Evolution. The Anthropology of Peace and Non-violence. Edited by Leslie Sponsel and Thomas Gregor, pp. 37-67. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.
• 1991 Gebusi. In Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Volume 2: Oceania. Edited by Terence E. Hays, pp. 76-79. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co.
• 1989 Bodily Images in Melanesia: Cultural Substances and Natural Metaphors. In Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part Three. Edited by Michel Feher, Ramona Naddaff, and Nadia Tazi, pp. 198-279. New York: Urzone.
• 1989 Imagery, Pronouncement, and the Aesthetics of Reception in Gebusi Spirit Mediumship. The Religious Imagination in New Guinea, edited by Michele Stephen and Gilbert H. Herdt, pp. 67-98. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
• 1987 Managing Sex and Anger: Tobacco and Kava Use among the Gebusi of Papua New Guinea. In Drugs in Western Pacific Societies: Relations of Substance. Edited by Lamont Lindstrom, pp. 73 98. Association for Social Anthropology of Oceania, Monograph #11. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

Shorter articles/commentaries in journals

• 2007 Agency, Subordination, and Change: A Reply to Dwyer and Minnegal.  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society 13:563-565.
• 2007 Distinction from Within?  In A Community of Excellence.  Edited by Claire Sterk, pp. 80-83.  Office of the Provost, Emory University.
• 2007 Book review of The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia:  Humiliation, Transformation, and the Nature of Cultural Change.  Edited by Joel Robbins and Holly Wardlow.  Burlington, Vermont:  Ashgate, 2005.  The Contemporary Pacific 19(2):618-620.
• 2005 Re-placing Cultures: A Dialogue Among Disciplines. Academic Exchange, Vol. 7, No. 5, Pp 1-3 & 11.
• 2004 Scholarship in Time, Or, Sipping Champagne from a Fire Hydrant. Academic Exchange 7(2), October.
• 2004 A Flood of Ideas. Emory Report 57 (7), p. 2. October 4.
• 2002 Other Ways of Being Modern: Cultural Homogeneity or Diversity in the Contemporary World? Academic Exchange, September, pp. 10-12.
• 2001 Commentary on Bronwen Douglas' "From Invisible Christians to Gothic Theater: The Romance of the Millennial in Melanesian Anthropology." Cultural Anthropology 42 (5):636-637.
• 1996 Commentary on Christopher Boehm, "Emergency Decisions, Cultural Selection Mechanisms, and Group Selection." Current Anthropology 37:781-782.
• 1995 Commentary on Soltis, Boyd, and Richerson, "Can Group-Functional Behaviors Evolve by Cultural Group Selection?" Current Anthropology 36:485-486.
• 1994 Commentary on Taçon and Chippendale, "Australia's Ancient Warriors." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 4:229-231.
• 1994 On Human Egalitarianism. Current Anthropology 35:181-182.
• 1993 Commentary on "Egalitarian Behavior and Reverse Dominance Hierarchy," by Christopher Boehm. Current Anthropology 34:243-244.
• 1993 Commentary on "`The New Guinea Highlands': Region, Culture Area, or Fuzzy Set?" by Terence E. Hays. Current Anthropology 34:153-154.
• 1992 Warfare, Western Intrusion, and Ecology in Melanesia. Man 27:399-401.
• 1990 Violence among Newly Sedentary Foragers. American Anthropologist 92:1013-1015.
• 1989 Sociality versus Self-Interest in Human Evolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12:712-713.
• 1989 Hobbes, Rousseau, and the Analytic Abuse of Children in Simple Societies. The Journal of Psychohistory 17:202-203.
• 1988 Reconsidering Violence in Simple Societies (reply to CA commentary). Current Anthropology 29:629-633.
• 1979 On Percussion and Metaphor. Current Anthropology 20:189 191.

International Research and Related Travel

• Site visits and collaborations, Liberia, 2007-2009
  
• Emory delegation trip to Palestine, Jordan and Israel, July-August 2007
• Site visits and collaborations - Senegal and Morocco, 2006
• Site visit and study trip to Mali, 2005
• Study Trip to India (5 cities), Sponsored by The Halle Institute of International Affairs, Emory University, 2003
• Nomad area, Western Province, Papua New Guinea, 6 months research, 1998
• Gebusi people, Western Province, Papua New Guinea, 22 months research, 1980-1982

Doctoral Dissertation

• Good Company and Anger: The Culture and Sociology of Sorcery among the Gebusi of the Strickland Plain, Papua New Guinea (2 Volumes). Department of Anthropology, The University of Michigan. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms (1983).

Invited professional presentations (since 2000)

• "Decline: The Gebusi meet the USA?" Presentation in the session, "Decline: Deterioration amid Expectations of Progress," organized by Jerry Jacka and Bruce Knauft at the Annual meetings of the 2008 American Anthropological Association Meetings, November 19-23, 2008, San Francisco.
• “Modernity, Religion, and Extremism in the 21^st Century.” Presentation at the conference, “The Wrathful God: Religious Extremism in Comparative Perspective. Organized by Vincent J. Cornell. ICIS, Emory University, March 3-4, 2008.
• Discussant for “Returns to the Field: Engaging with Minorities in a Global World.” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, December 1, 2007. Washington, D.C.
• “Hidden Transcripts of Dominant Concepts: Tricks and Tropes of Development Thought.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, November 30, 2007. Washington, D.C.
• "Modern Redux, Modern Reflux: The Revenge of the Modern in the 21st Century." Keynote presentation, "Contested Modernities" conference. August 14-15, 2006, Kasmu, Estonia.
• "Concepts of Modernity: Oppositions and Dialectics." Tallinn University Summer School presentation. August 16, 2006. Tallinn, Estonia.
• "Gebusi through Time: Price and Potential of Change." Invited presentation at "Longitudinal Ethnographic Fieldwork" workshop, August 18-20, 2006. Oslo, Norway.
• "Cracking the Nut of American Imperialism" Paper presented at the ICIS Conference, "The Imperial Present," March 24, 2005, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
• "Cracking the Nut of American Empire." Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C., December 2, 2005.
• "American Anthropology, American Empire, and International Studies." Washington University, St. Louis, February 7, 2005.
• "The Gebusi: The Price and Potential of Change." Washington University, St Louis, February 7, 2005.
• "On Re-placing Cultures." Conference Introduction. Emory University, January 28, 2005.
• "9/11 as Culture and Ideology: The Construction of Crisis in Contemporary American Politics." Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Ethnological Society, Atlanta, GA, April 22-25, 2004
• "American Empire, Late Capitalism, and the Enchantments of Alterity." Paper presented at The University of California, Irvine. March 2, 2004.
• "American Empire: Dominance without Hegemony?" Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Chicago, November 19, 2003.
• "9/11 and the Production of Global Crisis." Paper presented at the colloquium series of The School of American Research, Santa Fe, NM, October 8, 2003.
• "From Moral Exchange to Exchanging Morals: Reciprocity and Renunciation among Gebusi and Tangu of Papua New Guinea." Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Association for the Social Anthropology of Oceania. Vancouver, B.C., February 15, 2003.
• "9/11 and the U.S. Production of Global Crisis (The Eighteenth Brumaire of George W. Bush)." Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. New Orleans, LA. November 21, 2002.
• "Becoming Otherwise Modern: Agents, Ideologies, and Constructions of Crisis in Alternative Worlds." Culture / Theory / History colloquium presentation. The Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University. November 5, 2002.
• "From Self-decoration to Self-fashioning: Orientalism as Backward Progress at Nomad Station, Papua New Guinea. Paper presented at the conference, "Body Arts and Modernity," organized by Michael O'Hanlon. Oxford University, England, June 27, 2002.
• "On Religious Rupture and Continuity: From Global to Local and Back Again." Paper presented at the Biannual Meetings of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Cleveland, OH. April 5, 2002.
• "Grassroots Exploitation: Underdevelopment and Capital Inequity in an Out-of-the-Way Place." Presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C. Decenber 2, 2001.
• "Exchanging the Past: A Rainforest World of Before and After." Paper presented at the Department of Anthropology, University of Rochester, November 16, 2001.
• "Cultural Accounts of Human Origins" Paper presented at "Becoming Human and Beyond," American Association for the Advancement of Science, The Field Museum, Chicago, Nov. 1-3, 2001.
• "Desiring Development: The Affect and Motivation of "Progress" in Out-of-the-Way Places." Paper presented (in absentia) at the annual meetings of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Atlanta, GA, October 19, 2001.
• "Trials of the Oxymodern: Public Practice at Nomad Station. Paper presented at the Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, October 18, 2001.
• "What Ever Happened to Ritual Homosexuality: The Incitement of Modern Sexual Subjects in Melanesia and Elsewhere." Plenary address to The Third Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Sex, Culture, and Society. Melbourne, Australia, October 1, 2001.
• "Sorcerers of the Past, Subjects of the Future: Modern Change in the Midst of the Rainforest." Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, April 12, 2001.
• Respondent and Commentator on presentations by Neil Smith, Anna Tsing, and Christopher Waterman at the ICIS conference, "Rethinking Regional Connections / Reconfiguring Area Studies," Emory University, April 7, 2001.
• "The Semblance of Success in Gasumi Corners: Virtues of Modern Different in a South Lowland Papua New Guinea Community." The Annual Meetings of the Association for the Social Anthropology of Oceania, Miami, FL, February, 2001
• "'We are Backsliders!': Primitive Peril and the Promise of Progress in Nomad Christianity. The Annual Meetings of the Association for the Social Anthropology of Oceania, Miami, FL, February, 2001.
• "Modern is as Modern Does." Discussant's comments in the session "Inflections of Modernity," organized and chaired by B. Knauft. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, California, November 16, 2000
• "Melanesian Women and Masculine Agency: Continuity and Change among Gebusi and Elsewhere in Papua New Guinea." Marseille, France. May 15, 2000
• "Sorcery Past, Satan Present, Nomad Future: Christian Fundamentals in the Western Province, Papua New Guinea" EHESS, Paris, France. May 11, 2000.
• "Trials of the Oxymodern." Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago. February 28, 2000.
• "Semblance of Success in Gasumi Corner." In the session "Worth, Morality, and Modern Success in the Western Pacific," Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania," Vancouver, February 19, 2000.

Professional Service (selected)

• Association for Social Anthropology of Oceania, Monograph Editorial Board, 2000-2006
• Society for the Anthropology of Religion, Executive Board member, 2000-2004
• External Reviewer, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, 2001
• Editorial Board, Reviews in Anthropology, 1995-2002
• National Science Cultural Anthropology Dissertation Research Review Committee, 1995-97
• Co-editor, Melanesian Studies Monograph Series, University of California Press, 1994-1997

Journal submission reviewer

• American Ethnologist
• American Anthropologist
• Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society
• Current Anthropology
• Comparative Studies in Society and History
• Oceania
• The Contemporary Pacific
• Cultural Dynamics

Courses taught

Undergraduate

• Anthro. 101, Introduction to Anthropology (4-field)
• Anthro. 190, Living Across Cultures
• Anthro. 202, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics (2-field)
• Anthro. 250, Anthropology of Today's World: Ethnographic Perspectives
• Anthro. 257, Peoples and Cultures of Melanesia
• Anthro. 354, Culture and the Evolution of Violence
• Anthro. 401, Foundations of Anthropological Theory
• Anthro. 495, Honors Undergraduate Research
• Anthro. 497, Undergraduate Directed Readings

Graduate courses taught

• Anthro. 585, Subalternity and Difference
• Anthro. 585, Politics, Governance and Development
• Anthro. 501, Foundations in Anthropological History and Theory
• Anthro. 506, Culture and Power
• Anthro. 585, Gender, Identity, and Agency
• Anthro. 586, Power, Practice, and Representation
• Anthro. 585 / ILA 790 Vernacular Modernities I
• Anthro. 585a / ILA 790a Vernacular Modernities II
• Anthro 585 / ILA 790 / Soc 729 Globalization in Practicum
• Anthro 585, Critical Theory and Ethnography
• Anthro. 790, Proposal preparation or directed readings
• Anthro. 797, Dissertation Research

Graduate Advisees Ph.D. Completed (in chronological order)

+ = Chair of committee
* = placed in tenure-track academic position

• Wynne Maggi+
• Holly Wardlow+* (University of Toronto)
• Gayatri Reddy+* (University of Illinois, Chicago)
• Andrew Cousins* (University of Illinois, Chicago)
• Donna Murdock+* (University of the South)
• Lara Deeb* (University of Calfornia, Irvine)
• Holly Maluk+
• Michael McGovern* (Yale University)
• Elaine Salo* (University of Western Cape, South Africa)
• Ime Kerlee* (University of New Mexico)
• Andrea Abrams
• M. Benjamin Junge+* (State University of New York, New Paltz)
• Daniel Mains
• Joanna Davidson+ (* = declined)
• Sarah Mathis*
• Svea Closser*
• Maysoun Freij+

Current Graduate Advisees = 11 (6 as Chair)

Completed Post-doctoral Fellows

* = placed in tenure-track position

• Carla Freeman* (University of Colorado, Boulder)
• Ken MacLean* (Clarke University)
  
• Gayatri Reddy* (University of Illinois, Chicago)
• Christopher Krupa* (University of Toronto)

Committees and service history at Emory (selected)

• Emory University Strategic Race and Difference Initiative Co-leader           
• Emory University Committee for Community and Diversity        
• Emory Institute for Developing Nations Academic Board
• Emory College Fundraising Committee
• Emory College Development Studies Planning Group
• Emory University International Advisory Council
• ICIS Visiting Scholars Program (Chair)
• University Strategic Plan Implementation Group
• University Task Force for Peoples of the Developing World
• University Internationalization Task Force
• University Internationalization Task Force Research Sub-committee (Chair)
• Executive Director, Institute for Comparative and International Studies (ICIS)
• ICIS Executive Committee (Chair)
• ICIS Faculty Research Funding Committee (Chair)
• ICIS Faculty Travel Committee (Chair)
• ICIS Undergraduate Research Funding Committee
• Director, Vernacular Modernities Program
• President's University Faculty Council
• University Committee on Academic Freedom and Student Affairs (co-chair)
• Humanities Council
• Editorial Board, Academic Exchange
• Area Studies Coordinating Council
• Educational Policy Committee
• Library Policy Committee
• Executive Committee on Program Assessment
• Faculty Grievance Committee
• Academic Standards Committee
• Woodruff Graduate Fellowship Selection Committee
• Library, Director of Collection Management Search Committee
• Library Grievance Committee
• Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship Selection Committee (chair)
• Women's Studies Graduate Executive Committee
• Women's Studies Faculty Search Committee (chair)
• Freshman seminar leader

Departmental committees and service (selected)

• Executive Committee
• Director of Graduate Studies
• Graduate Admissions Committee (chair)
• Graduate Concerns Committee (chair)
• Proposal-writing seminar leader/organizer
• Faculty Search Committees [numerous] (chair, co-chair, member)
• Library Acquisitions Committee (chair)
• Departmental infrastructure and office space committee (chair)
• Information Technology Committee
• Undergraduate Concerns Committee
• Curriculum Committee

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