Department of Anthropology 14-23 Tory Building, University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H4 Canada [email protected] 780-492-2514 (office) Education
June 2003 Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.
Dissertation title: "Enchanted Ecology: Magic, science, and nature in the Bolivian Chaco."
June 1997 Master of Arts, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.
Thesis title: "The Recruitment of Ethnobotanical Investigation to Indigenous Self-Assertion in Amazonia, 1800 – present."
May 1993 Bachelor of Science, Biology with a minor in Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Professional Employment
2011-present Associate Professor. Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta.
2005-2011 Assistant Professor. Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta. Edmonton, Canada.
Winter 2005 Visiting Assistant Professor. Department of Sociology, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College.
Fall 2004 Postdoctoral Fellow. Center for International and Comparative Studies, Northwestern University.
2003-2004 Visiting Assistant Professor. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Warren Wilson College.
Long and short term ethnographic fieldwork
April 2019 Bolivia
April – May 2018 Bolivia
April 2013 Bolivia
September-October 2009 Argentina and Paraguay
May-July 2008 Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay
June-August 2007 Bolivia and Paraguay
October – November 2005 Bolivia and Paraguay December 2003 – January 2004 Bolivia
April – August 2000 Bolivia
September 1998 – September 1999 Bolivia
June – August 1997 Bolivia
Languages Spanish: fluent Guaraní: proficient Books
2020 Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains. University Press of Colorado.
Journal Articles
2022 "Gender Identity Ideology Conquers the World: Why are Anthropologists Cheering?"
Archives of Sexual Behavior 52(1): 27-33.
2022 with Elizabeth Weiss. “Anthropology’s Three Ontological Turns: A reply to Marks and Geller.”
Anthropology Today 38(6): 29-30.
2022 "Anthropology's Three Ontological Turns: It is time for a fourth, from anti-anthropology back to anthropology." Anthropology Today 38(5): 21.
2021 “Trans Ideology and the New Ptolemaism in the Academy.” Archives of Sexual Behavior 50: 757 – 760.
2020 “Wrong about the Land Without Evil but right about shamanism. The lasting legacy of Hélène Clastres.”
Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften, August 2020: 126-130.
2016 "Shamans, Wives, Families: An Isoseño Case Considered Using Turner on Kayapo Dominance and Beauty." Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America: Vol. 14: Iss. 2, Article 4, 178-209. http://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/tipiti/vol14/iss2/4
2016 “Postscript: The Human Genome Diversity Project and the Precession of Simulacra”. Current reflections on my article originally published in 1998. Invited contribution to the 2016 Virtual Edition (theme: “Futures in Anthropology”). PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review https://polarjournal.org/2016-virtual- edition-kathleen-lowrey/
2016 “Response to Hudson.” Invited response to Hudson, David (2016) "On Dark Continents and Digital Divides: Information inequality and the reproduction of racial otherness in library and information studies" by David Hudson. Journal of Information Ethics 25 (1): 81-82.
2015 “The time travelers: Alfred Russel Wallace and Peter Kropotkin” Victorian Review 41 (2): 133-149.
Special issue guest-edited by me and Robert W. Smith.
2011 “Ethics, politics, and host space: a comparative case study from the South American Chaco.”
Comparative Studies in Society and History 53 (4): 882-913.
2010 “Alfred Russel Wallace as ancestor figure: Reflections on anthropological lineage after the Darwin bicentennial.” Anthropology Today 26(4): 18-21.
2009 with Isabelle Combès and Diego Villar: “Comparative studies and the South American Gran Chaco.”
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America 7(1): 67-100.
2008 “Incommensurability and new economic strategies among indigenous and traditional peoples.”
Journal of Political Ecology 15: 61-74.
2007 “Witchcraft as metaculture in the Bolivian Chaco.” Journal de la Société des Américanistes 93 (2): 121- 152.
2006 with Isabelle Combès: “Slaves without masters? Arawakan dynasties among the Chiriguano (Bolivian Chaco, XVI-XX centuries).” Ethnohistory 53(4): 689-714.
2006 “Salamanca and the City: Culture credits, nature credits, and the modern moral economy of indigenous Bolivia.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 12(2): 275-292.
2006 “Bolivia multiétnico y pluricultural, ten years later: White separatism in the Bolivian lowlands.” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Journal 1(1): 63-84.
1998 "The Human Genetic Diversity Project and the Precession of Simulacra."
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 21(1): 42-53.
1998 “Carbon Disulfide Neurotoxicity: Increased mRNA Expression of Low-Affinity Nerve Growth Factor Receptor -- A Sensitive and Early Indicator of PNS Damage.” Arrel D. Toews, G. Jean Harry, Kathleen B. Lowrey, Daniel L. Morgan and Robert C. Sills. NeuroToxicology 19 (1): 109-116.
1995 "Pex genes: novel pollen-specific genes with extensin-like domains."
A.Rubinstein, A. Broadwater, K. Lowrey, and P. Bedinger. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 92(8).
Refereed Book Chapters
2012 “Indigenous South America” In Richard Fardon, John Gledhill, Olivia Harris, Trevor Marchand, Mark Nuttall, Cris Shore, and Richard Wilson, eds. A Handbook of Social Anthropology. Association of Social Anthropologists of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth. Pp. 472-486.
2008 “Liderazgo entre los guaraníes occidentales del Chaco paraguayo” In José Braunstein and N. Meichtry, eds. Liderazgo, representatividad y control social en el Gran Chaco Sudamericano y zonas adyacentes.
Corrientes, Argentina: Editorial Universitaria de la Universidad Nacional del Nordeste.
2007 “Anthropological Theory, Siglo XXI” In John Holbo, ed. Framing Theory’s Empire. West Lafayette, IN:
Parlor Press.
2006 “Entre estructura e historia: el Chaco” In Isabelle Combès, ed. Definiciones étnicas, organización política, estrategias políticas en el Chaco y la Chiquitania. Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia: Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos. Pp. 25-34.
Contributions to Digital Media
2023 “Canada’s Convenient Victims.” Compact Magazine. March 15:
https://compactmag.com/article/canada-s-convenient-victims
2023 “It’s not what academics are reading. It’s that they don’t.” Gender Dissent. February 23:
https://www.genderdissent.com/post/it-s-not-what-academics-read-it-s-that-they-don-t
2022 "The New Sociobiology." Gender Dissent. June 2: https://www.genderdissent.com/post/the-new- sociobiology
2022 "Mornin' Ralph, Mornin' Sam In Anthropology Today". National Association of Scholars Blog. May 12:
https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/mornin-ralph-mornin-sam-in-anthropology-today
2021 "Are TERFs running the transactivist show?" 4W Newsletter. October 21: https://4w.pub/terfs-run- trans-activist-show/
2021 “Genderism imposes patriarchal religion on women, in violation of the Charter.” Published on Feminist Current. March 6. https://www.feministcurrent.com/2021/03/06/genderism-imposes-patriarchal-religion-on- women-in-violation-of-the-charter/
2020 “From South American anthropology to gender-crit cancel culture: My strange feminist journey.”
Published on Quillette. June 12. https://quillette.com/2020/06/12/from-south-american-anthropology-to- gender-crit-cancel-culture-my-strange-feminist-journey/
2018 “Considering the rapid rise of trans ideology in academia, we should follow the money.” Published on Feminist Current. January 3. http://www.feministcurrent.com/2018/01/03/considering-rapid-rise-trans- ideology-academia-follow-money/
2017 “Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Albertanae; or, Wrestlemania: University Smackdown.”
Published on Arts Squared: A virtual square for the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. November 4.
https://artssquared.blog/2017/11/04/witchcraft-oracles-and-magic-among-the-albertanae-or-wrestlemania- university-smackdown-guest-post-by-kathleen-lowrey/
2016 “Anthropology of Disability: A University of Alberta and Skills Society Exploration.” Published on the Skills Society website, May 9th. http://www.skillssociety.ca/news/anthropology-of-disability/
2014 “Disability and social movements”. Published on Project Citizenship: Supporting the exploration of citizenship and disability. March 19th. http://projectcitizenship.com/disability-social-movements/
2014 “Graduate Student Shrimps on the Doctoral Barbie: The View from Tenure (A Guest Post).” Published on The Professor is In. January 24th. http://theprofessorisin.com/2014/01/24/graduate-student-shrimps-on- the-doctoral-barbie-the-view-from-tenure-a-guest-post/
2013 “Habits of mind and the leadership initiative”. Published on Arts Squared: A virtual square for the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. September 16th.
http://artssquared.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/habits-of-mind-and-the-leadership-initiative-guest-post-by- kathleen-lowrey-anthropology/
2012 Invited commentary on Alfred Russel Wallace’s essay “Evolution and Character” (1908). Published on The Alfred Russel Wallace Page:
http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S649.htm
2012 “Who cares? MOOCs, CAS:T, care work, student evaluations, and the work of evaluating students.”
Published on Arts Squared: A virtual square for the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. November 9th.
2005-2006 Contributor, Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology. 24 posts.
Op-ed pieces
2017 “Old-school learning provides firmness in a disrupting world”. Edmonton Journal: June 1st. 2013 “Behind the pretence of budget 2013”. Edmonton Journal: May 4 (Saturday edition).
2012 “The future of higher education? Online courses for the masses can clarify role of universities”.
Edmonton Journal: September 27th. Book Reviews
2017 Thunder Shaman: Making history with Mapuche spirits in Chile and Patagonia. Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, 2016. American Ethnologist.
2016 A Right to Health: Medicine and marginality in Northeastern Brazil. Jessica Scott Jerome, 2015.
Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 41(3): 462-464.
2014 Hijos de la Selva/Sons of the Forest: The ethnographic photography of Max Schmidt. Federico Bossert and Diego Villar; Viggo Mortensen, editor, 2013. Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America: Vol. 12: Iss. 2, Article 12, 169-171.
2011 Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond. Mario Blaser, 2010. Durham: Duke University Press. Environment and Society: Advances in Research 2: 182-184.
2007 Etno-Historias del Isoso: chané y chiriguanos en el Chaco boliviano (siglos XVI a XX). Isabelle Combès, 2005. La Paz, Bolivia: Institut Français d’Études Andines / Programa de Investigación Estratégica en Bolivia.
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America 5(1): 112-116.
2003 Llamas, Weavings, and Organic Chocolate: Multicultural Grassroots Development in the Andes and Amazon of Bolivia. Kevin Healy, 2001. American Anthropologist 105(3): 656-57.
Conferences
2022 Invited panelist, “Finding funding in a hostile environment.” FiLiA Women’s Rights Conference. Cardiff, Wales: October 23.
2022 Invited panelist, Plenary session: "Misogynistic Algorithms." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute virtual conference: Anthropology, AI, and the Future of Human Society. June 9.
2021 Invited panelist, "La ideología de la identidad de género en las aulas: Congreso Internacional de Docentes Feministas para la Coeducación." https://ne-np.facebook.com/DoFemCo/videos/kathleen-lowrey- docente-en-la-facultad-de-antropolog%C3%ADa-en-la-universidad-de-albe/1438141359915537/ November 19- 21.
2021 “Ancient DNA in the Chaco: The case for ethnographic humility” Paper given as part of panel
“Visibilizing the Chaco region of South America: current perspectives of social, political, and environmental transformations”. Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America Conference. Virtual; hosted at Charlottesville, VA. July 1.
2021 Chair, “The Anthropology of amiability: Friendship, disability, and support work in contemporary Canada.” Panel at the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) annual conference. Virtual; hosted at Guelph, Ontario. May 12.
2021 “Working and good cheer: supporting amiability for support workers.” Paper presented at panel “The Anthropology of Amiability”. Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) annual conference. Virtual; hosted at Guelph, Ontario. May 12
2019 “Fieldwork and finding stuff out: anthropological responsibility in the information age.“ Paper presented at the panel “Life after field work: Reflections on changing research climates and challenges.”
American Anthropological Association / Canadian Anthropology Society joint meetings, Vancouver, Canada:
November 20-24, 2019.
2017 “Transhumanism, disability, and the evidence from other cultures: An incapabilities approach to the good life.” Paper presented at the panel “Virtually Human: Anthropological Perspectives on Transhumanism”.
American Anthropological Association Meeting. Washington, D.C.: November 29 – December 3rd.
2017 Invited presenter, “Conversations in the Lobby: Teaching Amazonian Anthropology”. 11th Sesquiannual Congress of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America. Lima, Peru: July 20-23.
2016 Organizer and chair, “Post-projectism”. Panel at the 10th Sesquiannual Conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America. New Orleans, USA: January 7-10.
2016 “Isoso and the Fire Next Time”. Paper presented at the panel “Post-projectism”. 10th Sesquiannual Conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America. New Orleans, USA: January 7-10.
2013 “Teaching Kinship Across the Generations”. Paper presented at the panel “Beyond Engagements:
Papers inspired by the work of Terence Turner.” American Anthropological Association Meetings. Chicago, IL:
November 20-24.
2013 “The time travelers: Alfred Russel Wallace and Peter Kropotkin”. Public lecture presented as a part of the “More than Natural Selection” seminar series. University of Alberta: October 2.
2013 Co-organizer, with Robert Smith (Professor, History and Classics, University of Alberta). “More than Natural Selection: A seminar series on Alfred Russel Wallace”. Held at the University of Alberta across October 2013 and funded by a SSHRC Cluster Grant on “Situating Science” with visiting speakers from York University, Harvard University, and the University of Glasgow.
2010 “Alice Dreger and the academic retrosexuals”. Paper presented at the invited roundtable: “History and Education in the Circulation of Ethnographic Knowledge in the Amazon: The Yanomami Controversy, a Decade Later.” American Anthropological Association Meetings. New Orleans, LA: November 17-21.
2010 Invited speaker, Panel discussion: “If changing regimes of intellectual property rights affect the way our informants talk about culture, how does all this affect the way we theorize and study culture?” Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America Conference. San Antonio, TX: January 14-17.
2009 Invited participant, Branislava Susnik Symposium, Centro de Investigaciones en Antropología Filosófica y Cultural. Buenos Aires, Argentina: October 5.
2009 Invited speaker, “Pensar Santa Cruz” Symposium. Paper presented via Skype teleconference to audience at the Universidad Mayor San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia: September 18, 2009.
2009 Discussant, “Current Currencies: Virtual, Cultural, and Ethical Media of Exchange”. Panel at the CASCA/AES Conference. Vancouver, Canada: May 13-16.
2008 Organizer, conference round-table at the Musée du Quai Branly. “El Chaco y sus Otros / Le chaco et les Autres / The Chaco and its Others”. Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America Conference &
Claude Lévi-Strauss Centennial. Paris, France: June 20-21.
2008 “Turning Ways of Life into Means of Livelihood: Observations from the South American Chaco”. Paper presented at the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America Conference. Oxford, England: June 17-19.
2007 “Estratégias socioeconómicas de los guaraníes del Chaco boliviano comparadas con las de los guaraní- occidentales del Chaco paraguayo.” Paper presented at the 27th Conference of Regional Geohistory, sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at the National University at Asunción. Asunción, Paraguay: August 16-18.
2006 “Liderazgo entre los guaraníes occidentales del Chaco paraguayo.” Paper presented in absentia at an invited seminar for historians and anthropologists of the South American Chaco. Sponsored by the Argentine National Council for Scientific and Technical Research: Liderazgo, representatividad y control social en el Gran Chaco Sudamericano y zonas adyacentes. Resistencia, Argentina: August 17-19.
2005 “Reivindicaciones étnicas en América del Sur: paralelos y contrastes entre los casos andinos, amazonicos, y chaqueños.” Paper presented at an invited seminar for scholars of the Chaco and Chiquitanía from France, Bolivia, Argentina, England, the United States and Canada. Sponsored by the French Institute for Andean Studies: Définitions ethniques, organisation sociale et stratégies politiques dans la Chiquitania et le Chaco. Santa Cruz, Bolivia: October 5-7.
2005 “Cambas, collas, cocaleros, and regional nativism in contemporary Bolivia.” Paper presented at the Third International Congress of the Bolivian Studies Association. Miami, FL: February 26-28.
2003 “Innocents Agog? Science, Technology, and New World Political Imaginaries.” Paper presented at the Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies annual conference. Chapel Hill, NC: March 6-8.
2001 “Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Networks, Indigenous Monopolies: An alternative perspective on contemporary cultural and intellectual property rights debates.” Paper presented at the American
Anthropological Association (AAA) meetings. Washington, D.C.: November 28 - December 2.
2001 Invited panelist. “Contesting Science, Contested Science, ‘People's Science’.” Invited session on
"Engaging Regimes of Technoscience." Society for Cultural Anthropology Biennial Meetings. Montreal, Canada: May 3-6.
2001 “Wages, Profits, Rents and Historical Accounting in the Americas.” Paper presented at the Council for Peace and International Cooperation Annual Conference. University of Chicago: April 27.
2000 Organizer and Chair. “Amerindians and the Public Sphere: A Regional Approach to Representation, Institutions, and Politics in the Americas.” AAA panel, San Francisco, CA: November 15-18.
2000 “Hybrid Polities and Ethnographic Practice: Analyzing contemporary forms of public speech in a Guaraní community.” Paper presented in above panel.
2000 “Collective Labor, Individual Wages: Cultural Property and Sustainable Development in Isoso, Bolivia.”
Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association 22nd International Congress. Miami, Florida:
March 16-18.
1999 Invited panelist. “Reconceptualizing the Field.” Conference on "Fieldwork at the End of a Century".
Social Sciences and Humanities Division, University of Chicago: November 18.
1997 Co-organizer. “Appropriation, Cultural Self-Consciousness, and Commodification.” Panel at the AAA meetings, Washington D.C.: November 21.
1997 “The Recruitment of Scientific Investigation to Creole and Indigenous 'Self Fashioning' in Latin America.” Paper presented in above panel.
1997 Co-organizer. “Indigenous Knowledge and Environmental Resources: An Examination of
Contemporary Structures in the Global Economic System.” Panel at the Central States Anthropological Society (CSAS) meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin: April 4.
1997 “A Natural History of Ethnobotany.” Paper presented in above panel.
Webinars, Podcasts, Media Interviews
2022 Interview with Frances Widdowson, Rational Space Disputations 4. March 8.
https://wokeacademy.info/rational-space-disputations-episode-four-with-kathleen-lowrey/
2021 Interview with Julian Vigo, Savage Minds podcast. November 9.
https://savageminds.substack.com/p/kathleen-lowrey#details
2021 “Gender critical academics and academic freedom: one anthropologist’s view.” Invited speaker:
Feminist Friday, Women’s Network of Ontario. August 20.
2021 “Article 5: Right to Peaceful Assembly and Association.” Invited speaker, panel articulating the articles of the Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights. Virtual booth, United Nations Commission on the Status of Women NGO Virtual Forum. March 20.
2020 “Canadian Women in Academia”. Invited talk at two-day virtual conference organized by Radical Feminists Unite – Toronto entitled “A feminist analysis of women in Canada: The unspoken pandemic.”
November 29.
2020 “The Bigger Picture”. Invited talk at Women’s Human Rights Campaign – Feminist Question Time.
Weekly international webinar. November 16.
2020 “Being Cancelled in Canada.” Invited talk at Women’s Human Rights Campaign – Feminist Question Time. August.
2020 Interview with Meghan Murphy, Feminist Current. June 15.
https://www.feministcurrent.com/tag/kathleen-lowrey/
2020 Interview with Ezra Levant, Rebel News. June 13.
https://www.rebelnews.com/gender_critical_feminist_dismissed_u_alberta_ezra_levant_prof_kathle en_lowrey
2020 Kay, Barbara “U of A Professor Holds the Line on Free Expression” June 9.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/barbara-kay-u-of-a-professor-holds-the-line-on-free-expression 2020 Edmonton Journal: June 9, June 9, and June 13
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/u-of-a-professor-says-she-was-dismissed-over-views- that-biological-sex-trumps-transgender-identity-for-policy-decisions
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/advocates-say-u-of-a-professors-firing-over-views-on- transgender-identity-not-an-academic-freedom-issue
https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-gender-critical-views-no-grounds-for- stifling-academic-freedom
2019 Boudjikanian, Raffy. “Some Canadian schools see China’s Confucius Institute as a handy teaching tool.
Others reject it as propaganda.” https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/confucius-institute- schools-funding-1.5370858
Major Research Grants
2007-2011 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grant. Project title, “Economic strategies in indigenous communities in Paraguay and Bolivia: Turning ways of life into means of livelihood”. $95,000.
Other Awards
Fall 2022 Killam Research Fund, University of Alberta. Travel grant to present at panel “Finding funding in a hostile environment.” FiLiA Women’s Rights Conference. Cardiff, Wales: October 22-24.
Fall 2019 Killam Research Fund, University of Alberta. Travel grant to present at panel “Life after field work: Reflections on changing research climates and challenges.” American Anthropological Association / Canadian Anthropology Society joint meetings, Vancouver, Canada: November 20-24, 2019.
Spring 2018 Endowment Fund for the Future – Support for the Advancement of Scholarship, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta. Travel and research grant, “Who cares? Care work, anti-care, and the right not to care in traditional and modern societies”.
Fall 2017 Killam Research Fund, University of Alberta. Travel grant to present at panel “Virtually Human:
Anthropological Perspectives on Transhumanism” at American Anthropological Association meeting.
November 29 – December 3: Washington, D.C.
Summer 2017 Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund, University of Alberta. Travel grant to present at invited panel “Conversations in the Lobby: Teaching Amazonian Anthropology” at the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America conference. July 20 – 23: Lima, Peru.
Spring 2006 Endowment Fund for the Future, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta. Two awards: one to equip an ethnographic laboratory, the other for conference travel to Argentina.
Fall 2005 French Institute for Andean Studies. Sponsored panelist at a multi-day seminar for scholars of the Chaco and Chiquitania from France, Bolivia, Argentina, England, the United States and Canada. Theme:
"Définitions ethniques, organisation sociale et stratégies politiques dans la Chiquitania et le Chaco". October 5- 7: Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.
2004-2005 Rockefeller Foundation Residential Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for International and Comparative Studies, Northwestern University. Project title: “Natural values, cultural values, marginality and legitimacy in lowland Bolivia”.
Spring 2001 Starr Prize Lectureship, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.
2000 – 2001 MacArthur Scholars Dissertation Fellowship (Council for Advanced Studies in Peace and International Cooperation). Project title, “Speaking as Experts: Epistemic communities and indigenous knowledge”.
Summer 2000 Hewlett Field Research Grant for Latin America.
Summer 2000 University of Chicago Special Overseas Dissertation Research Grant.
1998 – 1999 Fulbright – Institute of International Education Award for Bolivia.
Summer 1997 Tinker Foundation Summer Travel Research Award.
1995 – 2000 University of Chicago Unendowed Graduate Fellowship.
1992 – 1993 Yarbrough Research Fellow, North Carolina Academy of Science.
Courses Taught
Anthropology 101 Introduction to Anthropology
Anthropology 207 Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
Anthropology 230 Anthropology of Science, Technology, and the Environment Anthropology 235 Anthropology of Disability
Anthropology 286 Indigenous South America Anthropology 324 Economic Anthropology Anthropology 332 Anthropology of Science Anthropology 350 Kinship and Social Organization
Anthropology 420 / 520 Anthropology and the Twentieth Century Anthropology 487/587 Anthropology of Women
Graduate Supervision
MA Thesis supervisor: Deanna Joyce Neri, Anthropology. (“Friendship and Inclusion of People with Intellectual Disabilities and Immigrant Care Workers”). Successful defense / completion: Winter 2021.
MA Thesis supervisor: Ella Forgie, Anthropology (2019 – 2020)
MA Thesis supervisor: Jocelyn Beyer, Humanities Computing and Anthropology (“Playing with Consent: An autoethnographic analysis of representations of race, rape, and colonialism in BioWare’s Dragon Age”).
Successful defense / completion: Winter 2018.
MA Thesis supervisor: Calli Waltrip, Anthropology (2008-2011).
MA Thesis supervisor: Alicia Hibbert, Humanities Computing and Anthropology (“Fair Game: An
Anthropological Study of the Negotiation of Fairness in World of Warcraft”). Successful defense/completion:
Winter 2010.
MA Thesis supervisor: Thomas Baynes, Anthropology (“History and Heritage: Canada's Life in Stories”).
Successful defense/completion: Winter 2009.
Visiting MA student: Miguel Borba de Sá, Canadian Graduate Student Exchange Programme Fellow from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. Thesis topic: Indigenous politics in Bolivia (Winter 2009).
Undergraduate Advising
BA Honors thesis advisor: Ashley Reid (fall and winter 2017)
BA Honors thesis advisor: Joshua Wasyliw (winter 2011)
BA Honors thesis advisor: Matthew Hundert (fall 2008)
BA Honors thesis advisor: Ross Gordon (winter 2008)
BA Honors thesis advisor: Meghan Horn (fall 2007)
Roger S. Smith BA Research Award Supervisor: Meghan Horn (summer 2007) Academic Service
2022-2025 Member, Academic Affairs Committee, Faculty of Arts
2022-2023 Member, Health, Safety and Environment Committee, Faculty of Arts
2019 - 2022 Faculty of Arts Representative, General Faculties Council, University of Alberta 2019 - 2021 Member, Facilities and Development Committee, University of Alberta
2019 - 2020 Associate Chair, Undergraduate Programs Department of Anthropology 2018 - 2020 Joint University Planning and Budgets Committee
2017-2018 Social Sciences Representative, Academic Affairs Committee, Arts Faculty
2016-2017 Member, Teaching and Learning Committee, Academic Faculty Committee of the Association of Academic Staff
2015-2017 Member, Critical University Studies Working Group
Spring 2016 Academic Governance Working Group, General Faculties Council
2013-2016 Faculty of Arts Representative, General Faculties Council, University of Alberta Fall 2015 Faculty of Arts Teaching and Learning Environment Committee
2014 Academic Faculty Committee Representative, Salary Committee, Association of Academic Staff 2011 - 2014 Latin American Studies Working Group, University of Alberta.
2005-2013 Advisory Council member, Science, Technology, and Society Program, University of Alberta.
2007-2012 Faculty of Arts Representative, Faculty of Nursing Council, U Alberta.
2008-2010 Library representative, Science, Technology, and Society Program, U Alberta.
2008-2009 Representative for the Departments of Anthropology, Sociology, and Linguistics, Association of Academic Staff.
