Ph.D.| Syracuse University| 2004
MA| Brandeis University| 1998
BA| Lewis and Clark College| 1989
ANTH 101: INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH 202: CONCEPTS AND METHODS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH 265: ANTHROPOLOGY OF GENDER
ANTH 280: SOUTH ASIA: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
ANTH 353: ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH 352: GLOBALIZATION AND TRANSNATIONAL CULTURES
February 12, 2016: Mizell Award, for superior contribution in furthering the education of Oxford College students through leadership in development of Oxford's Ways of Inquiry curriculum
April 17, 2017 Rita Cobb Award, for going above and beyond with suport of the Black Student Alliance
2019 "Authenticity" Invited Talk, Craft Conversation Series, Public Talk Series, Warren Wilson Colege, July 26
2018 Keynote: Shared Ground: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Craft Studies sponsored by Bard Graduate Center, The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, Museum of Art and Design, Sept. 20-22
2018 "Authentic Bodies, Authentic Things" Invited talk, LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY, Oct. 23
2018 "On Making Authenticity" Invited Talk, Hamilton College, Utica NY, October 25
2016 Alienating Markets: Vulnerability and Owernship Under Neoliberal Conditions" American Anthropology Association Meetings, Minneapolis Nove. 17-20
2015 "Asymmetrical Indications: negotiating creativity through geographical indications in North India" Society for Economic Anthropology, Lexington KY April 9-11
2013 “Critical Reflections On Craft: Two Case Studies” American Anthropological Association Meetings, Chicago, Nov. 19-24
2012 “Recasting Borders: Ethnographic Considerations of Caste in Contemporary India. Discussant. American Anthropological Association Meetings Nov. 13-18, San Francisco
2011 “Distinguishing Craft: Small-Scale Artisanship in India's Contemporary Fashion Industry” with Clare Wilkinson_Weber, Invited Session (Chair). American Anthropological Association Meetings, Montréal, Canada November 16-19
2011 “Male Printers, Female Designers: geographical indications and the role of caste, class and gender in Indian Traditional Textile Printing” American University Washington College of Law Eighth Annual IP/Gender Mapping the Connections: Gender and Traditional Cultural Expressions, Washington D.C. April 1
2010 “Asymmetrical Indications: negotiating creativity in a North India textile town” Invited Talk, London School of Economics, London, October, 27
2009 “Developing the Rural: 'Contemporary' NGOs and 'Traditional' Artisans in Rural India” Invited Talk, LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY April 2
2008 “Marking the rural in cosmopolitan discourse: Urban designers discussing traditional (rural) printers in North India” American Anthropological Association Meetings, San Francisco Nov. 19-23
2007 “Patrons of Capital: Artisan Accounts of Merchant Responsibility” American Anthropological Association Meetings,Washington, DC Nov 28-Dec 2
2007 “A Tale of Two Traditions” at American Ethnological Meeting, Toronto May 9-12
2006 “Work(ing) Against the Grain of Class in Academics and Ethnography” at American Anthropological Association Meetings, San José, CA. Nov 14-19
2006 “Deep Roots: Narratives of Tradition in Logging Towns” at Society of Applied Anthropology Annual Meetings, Vancouver, Canada March 28-April 2
2003 “Rural Labor, Urban Design: The politics of tradition in North India’s Print Industry” at American Ethnological Society Annual Meetings, Providence, RI April 24-26
2003 “Designing Tradition” at the Society for Applied Anthropology 63rd Annual Meeting, Portland, OR. March 19-23
2002 “Innovating Tradition in Bagru’s Hand-block Printing Community” at the 31st Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Madison, Madison, WI. October 11-13
2001 “Printing in Bagru: Innovations in Rajasthani Traditional Identity” at the 4th International Conference on Rajasthan in the New Millennium, Jaipur, India Dec. 28-30
I research and write at the intersection of language, work and gender. As a reporter in the 1990s I covered the fall of the timber industry in the Pacific Northwest. As an anthropologist, my interest in labor and culture continues: much of my academic work has focused on artisans and designers in India's Hindi belt, and I have recently been working with artists and artisans in Costa Rica. I have published and spoken in numerous venues on the critical nature of craft, and recently was invited to spend a year as a core faculty member for Warren-Wilson’s new MA program in Critical Craft Studies. I am currently writing a book on Authenticity.