Degrees
1989 Ph.D. University of Virginia, Department of Anthropology.
1981 M.A. University of Virginia, Department of Anthropology.
1975 B.A. University of Tennessee, Department of Anthropology.

Teaching and Administrative Experience
1998-00 University of Richmond, Coordinator of Women=s Studies
1996-99 University of Richmond, Associate Professor of Anthropology
1990-95 University of Richmond, Assistant Professor of Anthropology.
1989 University of Richmond, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology.
1988 Mary Washington College, Adjunct Instructor.
1988 University of Richmond, Adjunct Instructor.
1986 University of Virginia, Adjunct Instructor.
1984-86 Universitas Tadulako, Palu, Sulawesi, Indonesia, Fulbright-Hays Lecturer.
1982-1984 University of Richmond, Adjunct Instructor.
1981-1983 University of Virginia, Teaching Assistant.

Grants and Fellowships

2000 ------------- Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities--(Awarded but declined). Residential fellowship to examine "The Spirits of Colonialism and Violence: Memories of War and Their Impact on the Postcolonial Era in Sulawesi, Indonesia.

1999 ----------- University of Richmond Faculty Research Committee--Funds for research in the Netherlands on Hegemony, Heroism and Local Memory: Perspectives of the Colonial Past in Sulawesi, Indonesia.

1998 --------- University of Richmond Faculty Research Committee--Funds for field research on midwifery in Sulawesi, Indonesia, July 1998-August-1998.

1997--------- University of Richmond Faculty Research Committee--Funds for field research on women's history and midwifery in Sulawesi, Indonesia, June 1997-August 1997.

1995-96------ U.S. Department of Education Title VI--"Expansion of African and Latin
American Studies at University of Richmond." Summer fellowships to revise
and create Peoples of Africa and African Religion Courses.
1994 University of Richmond--Faculty Fellowship for Summer 1994.
1993 University of Richmond--Faculty Travel Grant to Oxford, England.
1993 University of Richmond--Faculty Research Grant to the Netherlands.
1988 University of Virginia--Graduate School Dean's Dissertation Fellowship.
1987-88 National Science Foundation--Research Assistant in Guiné-Bissau, Africa.
1986 Governor's Fellowship--Graduate Study at University of Virginia.
1984-86 Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship--In Indonesia.
1984-86 Wenner-Gren Fellowship for Anthropological Research.
1984-86 Institute for Intercultural Studies Grant.
1982 Ohio University Fellowship--Indonesian Summer Studies Institute.
1980 Satya Wacana University--Advanced Language Overseas Program.
1979-80 Cornell University Southeast Asian Studies Program Fellowship.
1979 University of California, Berkeley Fellowship--Indonesian Studies.

Specializations
Topical Sociocultural Anthropology: Midwifery, Birth, Symbolism, Ritual, Religion, Islam and Animism, Gender Studies, Colonialism, History, Resistance.
Areal Primary Interest: Indonesia, Southeast Asia & Pacific Basin. Secondary
Interest: Africa.

Relevant Research
1998 Tinombo, Sulawesi, Indonesia--Field research on the juxtaposition between traditional knowledge of birth and midwifery and technological, western biomedical notions of midwifery and birth. AMale Midwives and Macho Mothers: Birth and Pregnancy Among
the Laujé of Indonesia.
1997 Tinombo, Sulawesi, Indonesia--Field research on women's memories of colonial history. AHegemony, Heroism and Local Memory: Perspectives of the Colonial Past in Sulawesi, Indonesia.Also began a project on midwifery and traditional birth attendants.
1993 The Hague, Netherlands. Archival research on colonial histories of
resistance movements in Indonesia.
1987 Guiné-Bissau, West Africa--Research Assistant for anthropological study (by Eric Gable) on kingship.
1984-86 Tinombo, Sulawesi, Indonesia--Field research for dissertation on politics, economics
and religion among a highland group of animists and a lowland court whose members are recent converts to Islam.
1980 Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia--Research for master's thesis on Indonesian drama and television.

Book
Fall, 1999 Conceiving Spirits: Birth Rituals and Contested Identities among Laujé of Indonesia.
Smithsonian Institution Press.

Edited Volume
1994 "Official Rhetoric, Popular Response: Dialogue and Resistance in Indonesia and the Philippines." Special issue of Social Analysis (No. 35), edited by Jennifer
Nourse and Greg Acciaioli.

Articles
2000 "Birth in Indonesia." In Fit Pregnancy. August, 2000.
1998 ASawerigading in Strange Places: The I La Galigo Myth in Central Sulawesi@ In
Collected Papers on South Sulawesi History and Culture, edited by Katherine
Robinson and Dr. Mukhlis Paeni. Canberra, Australia and Jakarta, Indonesia:
Australian National University and Arsip Nasional Indonesia.
1996 "The Voice of the Winds vs. The Masters of Cure: Contested Notions of Spirit
Possession Among the Laujé of Sulawesi." Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute, (formerly MAN). Volume 2 (N.S): 1-18.
1996 "Casting Out the Foreigners: Interpretation of a Curing Rite in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia." Anthropology and Humanism. Volume 21 (1): 1-15.
1994 "Making Monotheism: Global Islam in Local Practice Among the Laujé of Indonesia." Journal of Ritual Studies 8 (2): 1-18.
1994 "Textbook Heroes and Local Memory: Writing the Right History in Central Sulawesi." In Nourse and Acciaioli, eds., "Official Rhetoric, Popular Response." Social Analysis 35 (2): 102-121.
1994 "Introductory Remarks." In Nourse and Acciaioli, eds., "Official Rhetoric, Popular Response." Social Analysis 35 (2): 3-10.
1984 "The Tomini Peoples." In Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey.
Second edition. Edited by Richard V. Weekes. Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut.

Newsletters
1996 AResponse to Women in Science by Roni Kingsley@ In The Faculty Exchange for the Arts and Sciences Faculty at the University of Richmond. No. 8, October.
1992 AOn the Genealogy of Teaching@ In The Faculty Exchange for the Arts and
Sciences Faculty at the University of Richmond. No. 1, October, 1992.

Book Reviews
2000 "Review of Some Spirits Heal, Others Only Dance: A Journey into Human Selfhood in an African Village by Roy Willis. American Anthropologist.
1997 AReview of Bewitching Women and Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics
In Southeast Asia@ by Aihwa Ong and Michael Peletz. American Ethnologist, Volume 99, No. 2, June.
1997 "Review of Nationalism & Regionalism in a Colonial Context" by David
Henley. Journal of Asian Studies. Volume 56, No. 2, May.
1997 "Review of Women Writing Culture" edited by Ruth Behar and Deborah
Gordon. American Anthropologist. Vol. 34. No. 3, August.

Book Reviews (Continued)
1994 "Review of Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual by Peter Metcalf and Richard Huntington. Journal of Southeast
Asian Studies 25 (2): 428-429.
1994 Review of Space and Place in Eastern Indonesia by Gregory Forth.
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 24 (2): 408-9.
1994 Review of Javanese Lives: Women and Men in Modern Indonesian Society by Walter Williams. Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 19 (2):
179-180.
1991 Review of Sulawesi: Island Crossroads of Indonesia edited by Toby Alice
Volkman and Ian Caldwell. Antara Kita: Journal of the Southeast Asian
Studies Association. June, 1991 #31: 15-16.

Papers Presented
2000 Keynote Speaker "Women's Studies in the New Millenium" At Feminist Work in Progress X Conference, William and Mary, April 15, 2000.
1999 "Achieving Tenure in Interdisciplinary Programs: Dilemmas." In Panel on Tenure Norms in Anthropology and Academe. American Anthropology Association Meetings, Chicago, Illinois, November, 1999
1998 AReligion/Ethnicity/Life and Death in a Global/Pop Format.@ Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Meetings, Philadelphia, PA, in the Panel "Identities and (Post-) Modernities: Religion, Class and Ethnicity in Contemporary Indonesia.
1997 Male Midwives and Macho Mothers: Birth and Pregnancy Among the Laujé of
Indonesia. Paper to be presented in Invited Panel on Midwifery at the 96th annual
American Anthropological Association Meetings, November, 1997,
Washington, D.C.
1996 Creating Boundaries: Contested Concepts of Ethnic Identity Among the Laujé of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Paper presented at the 95th annual American
Anthropological Association Meetings, November 24, 1996, San Francisco,
California.
1995 "Converting the Missionary: Islamic Transformations in Central Sulawesi
Indonesia." Paper presented at the 94th annual American Anthropological
Association Meetings, November 30, 1995, Washington, D.C.
1995 "The Passive Vessel/ The Voice of the Winds: Possession and Agency Among the Laujé of Sulawesi." Paper presented in the Professional Seminar
Series, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia.
1994 "Making Money: Gambling and the Symbolism of Anti-Production among the Mountain Laujé of Sulawesi." Paper presented at the 93rd Annual American
Anthropological Association Meetings, November 30, 1994.
1993 "Making Monotheism: Global Islam in Local Practice Among the Laujé of Indonesia." Paper delivered at the 92nd Annual American Anthropological
Association Meetings in Washington, D.C., November.
1993 "Local Heroes and Corrupt Others: Negotiating Ethnic and National Identity Among the Laujé of Sulawesi, Indonesia." Paper delivered at The
British Association of Social Anthropologists, Oxford University July.
1993 "Neither Chalice Nor Blade: Reanalyzing Stereotypes of Feminine Culture." Paper Presented for Women's History Month at Mary Baldwin College.

Papers Presented (Continued)
1992 "Textbook Heroes and Local Memory: Writing the Right History in Central Sulawesi." Paper delivered at the 91st Annual American Anthropological
Association Meetings, San Francisco.
1992 "Neither Chalice Nor Blade: Reanalyzing Stereotypes of Feminine Cultures." Paper delivered at the Southern Anthropological Association Meetings, St.
Augustine, Florida.
1991 "Foreign Natives: Negotiating National Identity Among the Laujé of Sulawesi, Indonesia." Paper delivered at the 90th Annual American Anthropological
Association Meetings, Chicago, Illinois.
1990 "The Passive Vessel and the Voice of the Winds: An Analysis of Gender and
Religion Among the Laujé of Indonesia." Paper delivered to the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University.
1989 "Casting Out the Foreigner: Interpretation of Curing Rites in Central Sulawesi,
Indonesia." Paper delivered at American Anthropological Association
Meetings, Washington, D.C.
1988 "I Dreamt I Saw the Soldiers: Ritual as Political Critique in Central Sulawesi" Paper delivered at the 89th Annual American Anthropological Association
Meetings, Phoenix, Arizona.
1986 "The Placental Twin and the Spirit of the Other: Laujé Concepts of Birth and
Illness." Paper delivered at the 88th Annual American Anthropological
Association Meetings, Philadelphia, PA.

Professional Service
2000 Reviewer of Book Manuscript for University of Chicago Press. Book entitled The
Contingent Life Course: African Challenges to the Culture of Western Science , by Caroline Bledsoe.
1999 External Evaluator for Ph.D. Dissertation-Department of Anthropology, York University, Toronto, Canada. Birth and Midwifery in Ontario. A Thesis by Maggie MacDonald.
1998 Chair of Panel, AMaternal and Newborn Health: Indications for Policy and Practice@ Society for Applied Anthropology, 1998 Annual Meeting, San Juan Puerto Rico, April.
1998 External Evaluator for Ph.D. Dissertation-Department of Anthropology, Western Australia University, Nedlands. AResettlement and Sociocultural Change Among the `Isolated Peoples= in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia: A Study of Three Resettlement Sites.@ A Thesis by Johanis Haba.
1998 Member of Tenure Norms Committee for American Ethnological Association and the American Anthropological Association.
1998 Reviewer of Book Manuscript for Gordon and Breach Publishers. Book entitled AFascism and Breastfeeding in Italy.@
1997 Chair of Panel ACross-Cultural Issues in Contemporary Midwifery.@ Panel at the American Anthropological Meetings, Washington, D.C. November, 1997.
1996-97 Member of Organizational Committee for American Ethnological Association Meetings March, 1997, Seattle, Washington.
1994-95 Judge (and editor) of graduate student papers for the Mooney
Prize of the Southern Anthropological Association.
1994 Guest Editor of Social Analysis: Journal of Cultural and Social Practice, Special Issue: "Official Rhetoric, Popular Response: Dialogue and Resistance in Indonesia and the Philippines."

Professional Service (Continued)
1994 Referee of manuscript for American Ethnologist.
1994 Chair of Panel, "Political Economy in Southeast and East Asia." 93rd Annual
American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington, D.C.
1993 Referee of manuscript for Social Analysis.
1991 Chair of Panel, AEthnicity and the Nation-State in South and Southeast Asia.@
90th Annual American Anthropological Association Meetings, Chicago, Illinois.

Recommendations
Ted Lewellen, Chair
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Richmond
Richmond, VA 23173

Richard Handler, Chair
Department of Anthropology
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA

John Wolff, Chair
Program for Southeast Asian Studies
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

Gregory Forth
Professor of Anthropology
University of Alberta
Department of Anthropology
13-15 HM Tory Building
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2H4

Gregory Acciaioli
Department of Anthropology
University of Western Australia
Nedlands, Western Australia 6907