Curriculum Vitae - Anthropology

CONTACT INFORMATION

Postal: Department of Anthropology, Trent University, 55 Thornton Road South, Oshawa, ON L1J 5Y1, Canada
Office: Room 182
Telephone: Voice: 705 748-1011 x5043; Fax: 905-721-3014
Electronic: rogerlohmann@trentu.ca, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Roger-Lohmann-2

CURRENT POSITION

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Trent University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

cultural dynamics, religion, imagination and perception, dreaming, Melanesia

EDUCATION

Ph.D. 2000 Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Cultural Anthropology Concentration, Minor in Sociology.
- Dissertation: Cultural Reception in the Contact and Conversion History of the Asabano of Papua New Guinea. Advisor: Maria Lepowsky
M.A. 1989 Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A. 1986 Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1985–1986 Junior Year Abroad, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn, Germany
1983 University of Wisconsin Sheboygan County Center

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Trent University

2007–present Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
2005–present Faculty Member, Anthropology Graduate Program
2003–2007 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

University of Toronto

2002–2003 Instructor, Department of Anthropology

College of Wooster

2001–2002 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
1999 Visiting Instructor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Western Oregon University

2000–2001 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

University of Wisconsin-Rock County

1999–2000 Lecturer, Department of Anthropology and Sociology

University of Wisconsin-Madison

2001 Honorary Fellow, Department of Anthropology
2000 Associate Instructional Specialist, Dance Program
1997–98 Instructor, Department of English
1996, 1998 Lecturer, Department of Anthropology
1990, 92, 3, 7 Teaching Assistant, Project Assistant, Department of Anthropology

University of Sydney

1996 Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology

HONOURS

2008 Merit Award for Excellence in Research, Trent University
2006 Nominated for Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching “very highly ranked”
2004 Merit Award for Excellence in Research, Trent University
2004 Nominated for Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching
1998 Robert J. Miller Prize in Anthropology. “Awarded to a Graduate or Undergraduate Student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in recognition of Innovation and Research or Instruction in Anthropology” (US$100)

RESEARCH GRANTS

External

2004 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant (C$98,276). Anthropology of the Imagination Project: Mapping the Boundary between Perceiving and Imagining in a Melanesian Culture
1994 Fulbright Student Grant Extension (US$5,250)
1993 Fulbright Student Grant (US$23,950). Transmission and Evolution of Religious Beliefs among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea

Internal

2010 Nind Fund, Trent University (C$280). To aid establishing Anthropology Lab
2003 SSHRC Operating Grant, Trent University (C$5,000). Imagination and Immortality Beliefs in a Papua New Guinea Society

TRAVEL GRANTS

2002 Faculty Development Fund, College of Wooster (US$345)
1999 Faculty Development Fund, College of Wooster (US$2000)
1994 Target Opportunity Speaker, U.S. Embassy to Papua New Guinea (K260)
1993 Graduate School, University of Wisconsin–Madison (US$300)
1992 Graduate School, University of Wisconsin–Madison (US$420)

PUBLICATIONS

Submitted, Accepted, and In Press Manuscripts – Refereed

Book

In preparation Supernatural Evidence: Causes of Religious Belief Explored among the Asabano of New Guinea.

Chapter in Edited Volume

In press Capitalism Meets Its Match: Failed Mimesis of Market Economics among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea. In Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters: In Time, in Trade, and in Ritual Reconfigurations. Jeannette Mageo and Elfriede Hermann, eds. New York: Berghahn.

Book Reviews

in preparation Review of Christian Politics in Oceania. The Journal of the Polynesian Society.

Dissertation

2000 Cultural Reception in the Contact and Conversion History of the Asabano of Papua New Guinea. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Edited Volume – Refereed

2003 Dream Travelers: Sleep Experiences and Culture in the Western Pacific. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Guest Edited Special Issues of Journals – Refereed

2014 Ending War and Sustaining Peace in Pacific Societies / Mettre fin à la guerre et assurer la paix dans les sociétés du Pacifique. Thematic section. Anthropologica 56(2).
2010 Creations: Imagination and Innovation, Anthropological Forum 20(3).
2008 Biographies of Anthropologists. Special issue, Reviews in Anthropology 37(2–3).
2007 Gendering Religious Objects. Special issue, Material Religion 3(1).
2003 Perspectives on the Category “Supernatural”. Special issue, Anthropological Forum 13(2).

Journal Articles – Refereed

2014 Investigating the Causes of Peace to End War: An Introduction. Thematic section, “Ending War and Sustaining Peace in Pacific Societies / Mettre fin à la guerre et assurer la paix dans les sociétés du Pacifique,” Anthropologica 56(2):255–260.
2014 Introduction: Interroger les causes de la paix pour mettre fin à la guerre. [French version of the above]. Thematic section, “Ending War and Sustaining Peace in Pacific Societies / Mettre fin à la guerre et assurer la paix dans les sociétés du Pacifique,” Anthropologica 56(2):261–267.
2014 A Cultural Mechanism to Sustain Peace: How the Asabano Made and Ended War. Thematic section, “Ending War and Sustaining Peace in Pacific Societies / Mettre fin à la guerre et assurer la paix dans les sociétés du Pacifique,” Anthropologica 56(2):285–300.
2013 Sleep, Dreaming, and the Imagination: Psychosocial Adaptations to an Ever-Changing World. Reviews in Anthropology 42(2):56–84. [co-authored by Roger Ivar Lohmann and Shayne A. P. Dahl].
2010 How Evaluating Dreams Makes History: Asabano Examples. Special issue, “Imprints of Dreaming,” History and Anthropology 21(3):227–249.
2010 In the Company of Things Left Behind: Asabano Mementos. Special issue, “Creations: Imagination and Innovation,” Anthropological Forum 20(3):291–303.
2010 Introduction: The Anthropology of Creations. Special issue, “Creations: Imagination and Innovation,” Anthropological Forum 20(3):215–234.
2009 Dreams of Fortune: Reo Fortune’s Psychological Theory of Cultural Ambivalence. Special issue, “Gang of Four: Gregory Bateson, Ruth Benedict, Reo Fortune, and Margaret Mead in Multiple Contexts,” Pacific Studies 32(2–3):273–298.
2008 Introduction: Biographies of Anthropologists as Anthropological Data. Special issue, “Biographies of Anthropologists,” Reviews in Anthropology 37(2–3):89–101.
2007 Introduction: Objects, Gender, and Religion. Special issue, “Gendering Religious Objects,” Material Religion 3(1):4–13. [co-authored by Roger Ivar Lohmann and Susan Starr Sered]
2007 Sound of a Woman: Drums, Gender, and Myth among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea. Special issue, “Gendering Religious Objects,” Material Religion 3(1):88–109.
2007 Souvenirs des morts: Technologies de gestion de la mémoire dans un village de Nouvelle–Guinée [Mementos of the Dead: Technologies of Memory Management in a New Guinea Village]. Special issue, “Dossier Hertz revisité (1907–2007): Objects et changements dans les rituels funéraires,” Journal de la Société des Océanistes 124(1):45–58.
2005 The Afterlife of Asabano Corpses: Relationships with the Deceased in Papua New Guinea. Ethnology 44(2):189–206.
2004 Sex and Sensibility: Margaret Mead’s Descriptive and Rhetorical Ethnography. Reviews in Anthropology 33(2):111–130.
2003 Introduction: Naming the Ineffable. Special issue, “Perspectives on the Category ‘Supernatural,’” Anthropological Forum13(2):117–124.
2003 The Supernatural Is Everywhere: Defining Qualities of Religion in Melanesia and Beyond. Special issue, “Perspectives on the Category ‘Supernatural,’” Anthropological Forum 13(2):175–185.
2003 Glass Men and Spirit Women in Papua New Guinea. Special issue, “Shamanisms and Survival,” Cultural Survival Quarterly 27(2):53–54.
2001 Introduced Writing and Christianity: Differential Access to Religious Knowledge among the Asabano. Ethnology 40(2):93–111.
2000 The Role of Dreams in Religious Enculturation among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea. Ethos 28(1):75–102.

Chapters in Edited Volumes – Refereed

2014 Cultural Contingency and the Varieties of Lucid Dreaming. In Lucid Dreaming: New Perspectives on Consciousness in Sleep. Vol. 2: Religion, Creativity, and Culture. Ryan Hurd and Kelly Bulkeley, eds. Pp. 23–43. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO [co-authored by Roger Ivar Lohmann and Shayne A. P. Dahl].
2013 Sleeping among the Asabano: Surprises in Intimacy and Sociality at the Margins of Consciousness. In Sleep around the World: Anthropological Perspectives. Katie Glaskin and Richard Chenhall, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 21–44.
2012 Religion. In Polynesian Outliers: The State of the Art. Richard Feinberg and Richard Scaglion, eds. Ethnology Monograph Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology. [co-authored by Richard Feinberg, Judith Macdonald, and Roger Ivar Lohmann]. Pp. 187–216. Pittsburgh, PA: Ethnology Monographs.
2011 Empathetic Perception and Imagination among the Asabano: Lessons for Anthropology. In The Anthropology of Empathy: Experiencing the Lives of Others in Pacific Societies, Douglas Hollan and C. Jason Throop, eds. Pp. 95–116 New York: Berghahn.
2010 Boiled Eggs with Chicks Inside, or What Commensality Means. In Adventures in Eating: Anthropological Experiences of Dining from around the World, Helen R. Haines and Clare A. Sammells, eds. Pp. 21–42. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.
2008 Sexual Snakes Strike Again: Immortality Expressed and Explained in a New Guinea Myth. In Sexual Snakes, Winged Maidens and Sky Gods: Myth in the Pacific, An Essay in Cultural Transparency, Serge Dunis, ed. Pp. 113–125. Nouméa, New Caledonia: Le Rocher-à-la-voile and Papeete, French Polynesia: Éditions Haere Po Tahiti.
2007 Dreams and Ethnography. In The New Science of Dreaming, Vol. 3: Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives. Deirdre Barrett and Patrick McNamara, eds. Pp. 35–69. Westport, CT: Praeger.
2007 Morals and Missionary Positionality: Diyos of Duranmin. In The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond, John Barker, ed. Pp. 131–147. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press.
2003 Turning the Belly: Insights on Religions Conversion from New Guinea Gut Feelings. In The Anthropology of Religious Conversion, Andrew Buckser & Stephen Glazier, eds. Pp. 109–121. Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield.
2003 Dream Travels and Anthropology. In Dream Travelers: Sleep Experiences and Culture in the Western Pacific, Roger Ivar Lohmann, ed. Pp. 1–17. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
2003 Supernatural Encounters of the Asabano in Two Traditions and Three States of Consciousness. In Dream Travelers: Sleep Experiences and Culture in the Western Pacific, Roger Ivar Lohmann, ed. Pp. 188–210. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Book Section – Refereed

2007 Ground Stone Adze Production in Central New Guinea [interview with Salowa Hetalele]. In Archaeological Approaches to Technology, by Heather Margaret-Louise Miller. Pp. 62–64. Amsterdam: Academic Press.
Articles Reprinted in Readers / Textbooks
2012[2003] The Supernatural Is Everywhere: Defining Qualities of Religion in Melanesia and Beyond. In Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Anthropology. 5th edition. Robert L. Welsch and Kirk M. Endicott, eds. Dubuque: McGraw Hill, pp. 310–317.
2009[2003] The Supernatural Is Everywhere: Defining Qualities of Religion in Melanesia and Beyond. In Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Anthropology. 4th edition. Kirk M. Endicott and Robert Welsch, eds. Pp. 229–236. Dubuque: McGraw Hill.
2006[2003] The Supernatural Is Everywhere: Defining Qualities of Religion in Melanesia and Beyond. In Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Cultural Anthropology. 2nd edition. Kirk M. Endicott and Robert Welsch, eds. Pp. 131–138. Dubuque: McGraw Hill.
2001[2000] The Role of Dreams in Religious Enculturation among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea. In Dreams: A Reader on Religious, Cultural, and Psychological Dimensions of Dreaming, Kelly Bulkeley, ed. Pp. 111–132. New York: Palgrave.

Encyclopedia Entries – Refereed

2012 Anthropology and Dreams. In Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams, Deirdre Barrett and Patrick McNamara, eds. Vol. 1, pp. 42–43. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
2006 Field Methods. In Encyclopedia of Anthropology, H. James Birx, ed. Pp. 962–968. Thousand Oaks: Sage Reference.
Culture. In Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd edition, Lindsay Jones, ed.-in-chief. Pp. 2086–2090. New York: Macmillan Reference.
2004 Dreams and Shamanism (Papua New Guinea). In Shamanism: An Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices and Culture, Mariko Namba Walter and Eva Jane Neumann Fridman, eds. Pp. 865–869. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.

Book Reviews – Refereed

2015 Review of The Shark Warrior of Alewai: A Phenomenology of Melanesian Identity. Pacific Affairs 88(4):973–975.
2013 Review of Communing with the Gods: Consciousness, Culture, and the Dreaming Brain. Ethos 41(1):1–3.
2011 Review of Mary, The Devil, and Taro: Catholicism and Women’s Work in a Micronesian Society. Anthropological Forum 21(3):336–338.
2011 Review of Looking through Ancestors’ Eye-Holes: Epistemic Body-Mind-Spirit and Discourse Formations among the Lau’um of West Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Pacific Affairs 84(3):617–618.
2009 Review of Reflexive Ethnography: A Guide to Researching Selves and Others. Anthropological Forum 19(1):109–111.
2007 Review of Pathways to Heaven: Contesting Mainline and Fundamentalist Christianity in Papua New Guinea. Anthropological Forum 17(1):94–97.
2007 Review of Selected Readings in the Anthropology of Religion: Theoretical and Methodological Essays. Anthropology of Consciousness 18(1):107–113.
2006 Review of Yali’s Question: Sugar, Culture, and History. Anthropological Quarterly 79(4):755–761.
2006 Review of Cargo, Cult and Culture Critique. Journal of the Polynesian Society 115(2):191–193.
2006 Review of Women as Unseen Characters: Male Ritual in Papua New Guinea. Anthropological Forum 16(2):191–193.
2006 Moral Conflict and Cultural Change. Review of Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society. Anthropology & Humanism 31(1):99–100.
2004 Review of Dream Trackers: Yapa Art and Knowledge of the Australian Desert. (CD-ROM) Anthropology of Consciousness 15(2):69–70.
2002 Review of Humors and Substances: Ideas of the Body in New Guinea. Journal of Anthropological Research 58(2):301–303.
2001 Review of Emplaced Myth: Space, Narrative and Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea. Pacific Affairs 74(3):466–467.
2001 Review of An Introduction to the Anthropology of Melanesia: Culture and Tradition. Pacific Studies 24(1/2):131–134.
1996 Review of Payback: The Logic of Retribution in Melanesian Religions. American Anthropologist 98(3):682–683.
1991 Review of Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft. American Ethnologist 18(3):605–606.

Edited Journal Issues with Authored Editorial Introductions

2006–2011 Reviews in Anthropology Volume 35, Issue 1 to Volume 40, Issue 4.

EDITORIAL POSITIONS

2005–2011 Editor-in-Chief of Reviews in Anthropology.
1990–91 Editor, Bulletin of NASA (National Association of Student Anthropologists) and Contributing Editor, American Anthropological Assn.’s Anthropology Newsletter.

ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM

1998 Life with the Asabano of Papua New Guinea. 50 minute video.

EXHIBITS

2013–2014 Anthropology (display illustrating courses at Trent Oshawa). Trent U Oshawa.
2011–2012 Anthropology (display illustrating the discipline). Trent University Oshawa.
2001 Coverings, Containers, and Decorations: Traditional Dress of the Asabano of Papua New Guinea. Hammersley Library, Western Oregon University.
1997–2000 Artifacts of the Asabano of Papua New Guinea. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin–Madison.

ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELDWORK

2007, June–Aug Asabano, Duranmin, Papua New Guinea
2005, July–Aug Asabano, Duranmin, Papua New Guinea
1994–95, Mar, Sept Asabano, Duranmin, Papua New Guinea
1991, Jan–Mar Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea
1984–1990, intermittent Wiccan Groups, Wisconsin, USA

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Conference Sessions

2017 Organizer/Chair. Imaginary Peoples of the Pacific. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Līhuʻe, HI.
2015 Respondent. South Asian Ritual Landscapes Symposium, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto.
2012 Organizer/Chair. Ethnography of Imaginary Cultures: Storied Innovations. American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, CA.
2012 Organizer/Chair. Ends of War: Causes of Peace in the Pacific. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Portland, OR.
2011 Co-organizer/Co-chair. Agency in Religious Experience. American Anthropological Association, Montréal, QC.
2011 Organizer/Chair. Ends of War: Causes of Peace in the Pacific. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Honolulu, HI.
2010 Organizer/Chair. Ends of War: Causes of Peace in the Pacific. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Alexandria, VA.
2009 Organizer/Chair. Artifacts of Imagination and Innovation in Pacific Oceania. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Santa Cruz, CA.
2008 Round Table Discussion Panel Member. What We All Think about Knowing: Cross-Cultural Uniformity and Diversity in Epistemic Assessments. Interdisciplinary Workshop. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
2008 Organizer/Chair. Imagination and Innovation in Pacific Oceania. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Canberra, Australia.
2007 Co-chair. Cognitive Theory of Religion. American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC.
2007 Organizer/Chair. Imagination and Innovation in Pacific Oceania. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Charlottesville, VA.
2005 Co-organizer. Adventures in Eating: Anthropological Experiences of Dining from around the World, American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.
2004 Chair. Governing Populations. Canadian Anthropology Society, London, ON.
2003 Co-organizer/Co-chair. Mortuary Ritual: Anthropological Approaches. American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL.
2003 Co-organizer/Co-chair. Anthropological Archaeology of Mortuary Ritual. Canadian Archaeology Association, Hamilton, ON.
2001 Organizer/Chair. Reassessing the Category ‘Supernatural.’ American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.
2001 Organizer/Chair. Culture and Memory, Society for Psychological Anthropology, Decatur, GA.
2000 Organizer/Chair. Pacific Dreams. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Vancouver, BC.
1999 Organizer/Chair. Gendering Religious Objects. American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL.
1999 Organizer/Chair. Pacific Dreams. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Hilo, HI.
1998 Discussant. Historical Transformations in the Mountain Ok Region of Papua New Guinea. American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA
1993 Organizer/Chair. Convergent Evolution of the Subfields: Darwinian Models in Anthropology. American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.

Peer Reviews

2016 Economic Anthropology Article
2016 Anthropological Quarterly Article
2016 Ethos Article
2015 Taylor & Francis Textbook
2015 American Anthropologist Article
2015 Rowman & Littlefield Textbook Pair
2015 Stanford University Press Book Proposal
2015 ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology, Berghahn Press Book Manuscript
2014 Sleep Medicine Article
2014 American Anthropologist Article
2014 Bloomsbury Publishing Book Proposal
2014 University of Toronto Press Book Proposal
2014 Oxford University Press Book Proposal
2014 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Research Proposal
2014 Anthropological Forum Article
2013 Anthropological Forum Article
2013 American Ethnologist Article
2013 Ethos 2 Articles
2013 Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry Article
2013 University of Toronto Press 2 Book Proposals
2012 The Australian Journal of Anthropology Article
2012 Social Science and Medicine Article
2012 Transcultural Psychiatry Article
2012 Ethos Article
2011 Social Science and Medicine Article
2011 History and Anthropology Article
2011 University of Alabama Press Book
2011 Berghahn Book
2010 Europeanist Studies in Socio-Cultural Anth. and Ethnology (Lit Verlag) Book
2010 American Ethnologist Article
2010 Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde Article
2009 National Science Foundation (USA) Grant Proposal
2009 The Australian Journal of Anthropology Article
2009 The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Article
2009 American Anthropologist Article
2009 Ethos Article
2009 Anthropological Forum Special Issue
2009 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada Grant Proposal
2008 Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences Article
2008 Anthropological Forum Article
2008 Society for Psychological Anthropology Book Series Book
2008 Anthropological Forum Article
2008 Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences Article
2008 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Article
2007 Economic and Social Research Council (UK) Final Research Report
2007 Berg Press Book
2007 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Article
2007 Current Anthropology Article
2006–2011 Reviews in Anthropology Articles (numerous)
2006 Broadview Press Book
2006 Ethos Article
2006 Society for Psychological Anthropology Book Series Book
2006 Broadview Press Book Proposal
2005 American Anthropologist Article
2005 Anthropologica Article
2005 Current Anthropology Article
2005 Human Nature Article
2005 Anthropological Theory Article
2004 American Anthropologist Article
2004 Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde Special Issue
2004 Ethnos Article
2003 Wadsworth Publishing Textbook Proposal
2000 American Ethnologist Article
2000 American Anthropologist Article

University Service

2016–present Faculty Liaison, Academic Mentoring Program, Trent U Durham
2016 Member, Anthropology Curriculum Committee
2016 Seminar Instructor, “Think Tank” Student Orientation, Trent U Durham
2016 Member, Hiring Com., Communication and Critical Thinking, Trent U Durham
2016–present Member, Environmental Advisory Board, Durham Subcommittee, Trent Univ.
2015–present Member, Durham Faculty Caucus, Trent University Durham
2015–16 Organizer, Anthropology Lecture Series, Trent University Durham
2015 Acting Chair, Department of Anthropology, Trent University
2015 Acting Director, Anthropology Graduate Program, Trent University
2014–15 Member, Richard B. Johnston Prize Evaluation Committee, Trent Anth Dept.
2014–15 Organizer, Kenneth Kidd Lecture Series, Trent Anthropology Department
2014–15 Organizer, Trent Oshawa Anthropology Lecture Series
2014 Acting Director, Anthropology Graduate Program, Trent University
2014 Member, Appointments Advisory Com. to Dean of Graduate Studies, Trent U
2013–2015 Member, Library Advisory Subcommittee, Trent University
2013–2014 Member, Interdisciplinary Degree Working Group, Trent University Oshawa
2012–2013 Organizer, Trent Oshawa Anthropology Lecture Series
2012–2013 Member, Trent Oshawa Strategic Plan Committee
2012–2013 Member, Anthropology Curriculum Committee
2012–2016 Chair, Trent Oshawa (later known as Trent Durham) Awards Committee
2011–2012 Member, Trent Oshawa – City/Region Committee
2011 Member, Chair Search Committee, Trent Anthropology Department
2011 Anthropology Representative, Trent University Oshawa
2010–2011 Member, Trent University Sustainability Task Force
2010–2011 Organizer, Kenneth Kidd Lecture Series, Trent Anthropology Department
2010 Member, Personnel Committee, Merit Award, Trent Anthropology Department
2010–2012 Member, Trent Oshawa Awards Committee
2010 Member, Hiring Committee, Senior Tutor, Trent University in Oshawa
2008–2009 Member, Ph.D. Committee, Anthropology Graduate Program, Trent University
2008 Member, Personnel Committee, CUPE Hiring. Dept. of Anthropology, Trent U.
2007–2008 Anthropology Representative. Open House, Trent in Oshawa
2006–2013 Member, Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology Sub-disciplinary Committee, Trent Anthropology Department
2006 Member, Hiring Committee, Trent Anthropology Department
2005–2006 Coordinator, Kenneth Kidd Lecture Series, Trent Anthropology Department
2005 Organizer and Host, Trent University in Oshawa Lecture Series Inaugural
2004–2009 Member, Peterborough-Oshawa Relations Committee, Trent University
2004–2005 Anthropology Rep., Advising Fair & Open House, Trent in Oshawa
2004 Designer, Trent Anthropology Recruitment Brochure
2004 Designer, Two Trent Anthropology Service Courses
2003–2009 Editor, Trent Anthropology News
2003–2006 Member, Trent Anthropology Department Curriculum Committee
2001–2002 Faculty Advisor, Wooster African Drum and Dance Student Organization
1989–1990 Graduate Student Member, Anthropology Events Committee, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Positions in Scholarly Organizations

2012–13 Past Chair, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
2011–12 Member, Distinguished Lecture Committee, Assn. for Social Anth. in Oceania
2011–12 Chair, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
2010–11 Chair Elect, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
2009–13 Board Member, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
2006–09 Program Coordinator, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
1992–94 Vice President, National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA)
1989–90 Member, Nominations Committee, NASA
1988–90 Representative of NASA at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
1986–7, 89–90 Central Coordinator, Anthropology Circle Student Organization

Other Academic Service

2007 Chair, Ontario Graduate Scholarship Selection Panel for Anthropology M.A. students.
2006 Member, Ontario Graduate Scholarship Selection Panel for Visa students.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

2016 God and His Angels, Colonists of Asabano Minds. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Līhuʻe, HI.
2015 Capitalism Meets Its Match: Failed Mimesis of Market Economics among the Asabano. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Santa Fe, NM.
2014 Fidelity, Distortion, and Barriers in Asabano Mimesis of Europeans. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Kona, HI (in absentia).
2013 Mimesis and Identification with Europeans in a New Guinea Backwater. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, San Antonio, TX.
2012 Stranger than Fiction: Reflection and Generation of a Culture of Sustainability in Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia. American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.
2012 How the Asabano Made and Ended War. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Portland, OR.
2011 Agency of the Autonomous Imagination: Selves, Others, and Unified Identities in Asabano Religious Experiences. American Amthropological Association, Montréal, QC.
2011 Sleeping among the Asabano. Australian Anthropological Society, Perth, WA, Australia.
2011 Ends of War: Causes of Peace in the Pacific. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Honolulu, HI.
2011 How the Asabano Made and Ended War. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Honolulu, HI.
2010 Artifactual, Proxemic, and Behavioral Dispositions of Sleep among the Asabano. American Anthropological Association. New Orleans, LA.
2010 How the Asabano Made and Ended War. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Alexandria, VA.
2009 Asabano Conceptualization of Time and Event in Past, Present, and Future Ethnographic Tenses. American Anthropological Association. Philadelphia, PA.
2009 Dream Sharing as a Mechanism of Charismatic Church Routinization. Society for Psychological Anthropology & Society for the Anthro. of Religion. Pacific Grove, CA.
2009 Introduction: Artifacts of Imagination and Innovation in Pacific Oceania. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Santa Cruz, CA.
2009 Strategic Objectification of Past Relationships among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Santa Cruz, CA.
2008 Assessing the Reality of Dream Images: A True-False Quiz in New Guinea. European Association of Social Anthropologists, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2008 Distinguishing Imaginary from Real in an Intimate Society: More Complicated than One Would Think. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Canberra, Australia.
2008 Mirrors of Empathy: Perception and Imagination in Knowing One Another in Melanesia. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Canberra, NCD, Australia.
2007 The Continual Re-enchantment of the World: Cognitive and Perceptual Sources of Religion in Dream-Memories. American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.
2007 Empathy as Perception, Empathy as Imagination: “Knowing” the Other in Melanesia. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Charlottesville, VA.
2007 The Anthropology of the Imagination Project: Initial Findings and Future Goals. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Charlottesville, VA.
2006 Empathy as Perception, Empathy as Imagination: “Knowing” the Other in Melanesia. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, San Diego, CA.
2005 Boiled Eggs with Chicks inside Them: Eating with the Asabano in a New Guinea Forest. American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.
2005 To Have and to Destroy: Souvenirs of the Deceased in a New Guinea Village. European Society for Oceanists, Marseilles, France.
2005 Moral Connections among Objects, Memories, and Spirits in a Melanesian Culture. Society for the Anthropology of Religion.Vancouver, BC.
2005 Dreams of Fortune. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Lihu‘e, HI.
2004 Human-Directed Mystical Causation as Imagined by the Melanesian Asabano and Wisconsin Wiccans: Forms and Implications. American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.
2004 Perpetuating and Ending Warfare among Peoples of the Om and Fu River Valleys, New Guinea. Canadian Anthropology Society, London, ON.
2004 Sexual Snakes Strike Again: Immortality Expressed and Explained in a New Guinea Myth. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Salem, MA.
2003 The Afterlife of Asabano Corpses: A Traditional Religious Archaeology in Papua New Guinea. American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL.
2003 Values and Motivation behind Missionary Morality. Society for Psychological Anthropology, San Diego, CA.
2003 The Afterlife of Asabano Corpses. Canadian Archaeology Association, Hamilton, ON.
2003 The Origins of Missionary Morality: Diyos among the Asabano. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Vancouver, BC.
2003 The Permeable Border between Life and Death in an Asabano Myth. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Vancouver, BC.
2002 Imagery and Language Choice: Associations Directing Asabano Vernacular and Creole Uses. American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA.
2002 Spirits, Volition, and Conversion in New Guinea. Society for the Anthropology of Religion, Cleveland, OH.
2002 ‘Trutru’: Interpreting Asabano Religious Epistemology in the Conversion to Christianity. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Auckland, New Zealand.
2001 What’s So Super about Supernatural? Defining Qualities of Religion in Melanesia and Beyond. American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.
2001 The Action of Memory in Cultural Reception, Storage, and Transmission. Society for Psychological Anthropology, Decatur, GA.
2001 “Trutru”: Interpreting Asabano Religious Epistemology in the Conversion to Christianity. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Miami, FL
2000 Modeling Belief Evaluation in Empirical Studies of Religious Conversion. American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.
2000 Perception in Dream, Trance, and Alert States of Consciousness: A Comparison of Asabano Religious Experiences. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania,Vancouver, BC.
1999 The Sound of a Woman: Asabano Drums. American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL.
1999 Asabano Religious Experiences in Two Traditions and Three Modes of Consciousness. Society for Psychological Anthropology. Albuquerque, NM.
1999 New Guinea Religious Experiences While Awake and Asleep Working. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Hilo, HI.
1999 Asabano Dreaming and Charismatic Christianity. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Hilo, HI.
1998 Consequences of the Introduction of Writing to Religious Cultural Transmission among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea. American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia.
1998 Bible and Revival among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea. Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Montréal, QC.
1998 Asabano Dreaming: The Role of Dreams in Religious Enculturation. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Pensacola, FL.
1996 Time and Religion: Anthropology and Asabano Ethnohistory. American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.
1996 Making and Remaking the Sacred among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea before and after Conversion to Christianity. Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Nashville.
1995 New Patterns in Cultural Transmission and the End of Warfare in the Om-Fu River Valleys. Importing Cultures: Regional Transformations in Myth and Ritual in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Brisbane, Australia.
1993 Religious Experience and Expression as Forces of Cultural Evolution. American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.
1990 The Flowering Ethnic Identity of the “Extinct” Tasmanian Race. Culture and Literature Symposium, Madison, WI.

INVITED LECTURES

Formal Colloquia and Addresses

2016 From Four Fields to One Discipline: Defining Anthropology into Existence. Keynote lecture, University of Toronto Mississauga Anthropology Society Conference.
2016 Topics, Not Subfields: What You Can Do to End Provincialism in Anthropology’s Cultural Spaces. Keynote lecture, Western Anthropology Graduate Student Conference. University of Western Ontario.
2011 Natural and Supernatural Explanations of Human Origins. 1st Annual Trent University Interdisciplinary Science Panel: From the Big Bang to You.
2007 Sexual Snakes Strike Again: Potential Meanings of a New Guinea Death Myth. Colloquium. Department of Anthropology, University of Western Ontario.
2003 Night Residues: Religious Change through Dreaming in Central New Guinea. Colloquium. Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Göttingen.
2003 Night Residues: Religious Change through Dreaming in Central New Guinea. Colloquium. Department of Anthropology, Trent University.
2003 Night Residues: Religious Change through Dreaming in Central New Guinea. Colloquium. Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto.
2003 A New Guinea Dream Psychology. Psychology Lecture Series. Department of Psychology, Berry College.
2003 Religious Conversion as Experienced by the Asabano of Papua New Guinea: Relationships among Spiritual Selves and Others. Colloquium. Department of Anthropology, Grand Valley State University.
2002 Dreaming and Charismatic Church Routinization among Asabano Baptists in Papua New Guinea. Colloquium. Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto.
2002 Spiritual Selves and Others within the Asabano. Colloquium. Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Bowdoin College.
2002 Imagery and Language Choice: Associations Directing Asabano Vernacular and Creole Uses. Colloquium. Department of Anthropology, Central Washington University.
2002 Plumbing the Asabano Soul: Volition and Religious Conversion in Papua New Guinea. Colloquium. Department of Anthropology, Central Washington University.
2002 Purpose and Perspective in Dream Interpretation, or, People I’ve Met in Other People’s Dreams in Papua New Guinea. Invited Plenary Address. Association for the Study of Dreams, Boston, MA.
2002 Insights on Religious Conversion from New Guinea Gut Feelings. Mind, Medicine, and Culture Seminar. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles.
2001 Dreaming Up Religious Beliefs: A Melanesian Example. Seminar. Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University.
2001 Perception and Consciousness among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea: Observations on the Cognitive Foundations of Religion. Colloquium. Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon.

Informal Presentations and Guest Lectures

2016 Spotlight on Social Sciences. Mini Lecture, March Open House, Trent Univ. Durham
2015 Escaping the Temple of Doom: The Anthropology of War and Peace. Humanities 101, Trent Durham.
2015 Spotlight on Social Sciences. Mini Lecture, November Open House, Trent Durham.
2015 Using Anthropology to End War and Maintain Peace. Mini Lecture, May Open House, Trent University Durham.
2015 What Your Family and a Tribe in New Guinea Share that Stops Capitalism in Its Tracks. Trent Durham Research Day.
2015 Culture’s Influence on Conscious States. What is Consciousness? Trent Philosophy Society, Peterborough.
2013 To New Guinea, In Search of the Supernatural. Explorers Club, Toronto, ON.
2013 Applied Anthropology. Fall Open House, Trent University Oshawa.
2013 The Human Animal. March Preview, Trent University Oshawa.
2012 Anthropology and University Life. New Student Orientation Day, Trent U. Oshawa.
2012 Cannibal War and Supernatural Peace in the New Guinea Jungle. Trent University Oshawa Research Day.
2012 Anthropology: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Humans but Were Afraid to Ask. Open House, Trent University Oshawa.
2011 The Anthropology of Bladerunner. Trent University Oshawa.
2011 How Dreaming Continually Re-Enchants Human Worlds. Trent University Oshawa Research Day.
2011 What Anthropology Can Tell You about Your Dreams. Trent University Oshawa Campus Open House.
2010 Evidence for the Supernatural: An Anthropological Adventure. Trent University Oshawa Sampling and Mingling Evening, Robert McLaughlin Gallery.
2006 Graduate School Information Session. Panel Member. Trent University in Oshawa.
2003 Exciting Careers in Anthropology. Panel Member. University of Toronto at Mississauga Career Centre and Anthropology Club of Erindale.
2002 Asabano Souls: The Reality of Religion in Papua New Guinea. Lecture. Sociology and Anthropology Club, College of Wooster.
1998 Stories from Papua New Guinea. Storytelling Festival. Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
1997 Asabano Dreaming. Cultural Brown Bag. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
1996 Temporality among Asabano and Anthropologists. Cultural Brown Bag. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
1996 Evidence for Religious Beliefs among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea. Lunch Talk. Department of Religious Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
1994 Religious Change among the Asabano of Sandaun Province. Seminar. Department of Anthropology, Sociology and Social Work, University of Papua New Guinea.
1991 The Religious Situation in Central New Guinea. Anthropology Circle Lunch Talk. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
1991 Spirit Women, Sorcerers, and their Christian Creatrix. Anthropology Circle Lunch Talk. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
1989 Wantok and Urbanization in Papua New Guinea. Anthropology Circle Lunch Talk. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
1988 Fieldwork among Wisconsin’s Witches. Anthropology Circle Lunch Talk. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Guest Lectures in Classes

2016 Using Anthropology to End War and Maintain Peace. Trent Talks. Course: Society, Challenge and Change (Grade 12 University). Virtual Learning Centre.
2015 Using Anthropology to End War and Maintain Peace. St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic High School, Lindsay, ON. 50 Talks for 50 Schools, Trent University.
2014 Introduction to the Anthropology of Religion. Anthropology of Religion. Uni.of Toronto.
2013 Motives for Starting a Community Garden at Trent Oshawa. ESL Level 5. Trent Univ.
2012 How Canadian Political Parties Work. Studies in Social Policy. Trent University.
2011 How Canadian Political Parties Work. Studies in Social Policy. Trent University.
2005 Anthropology. Grades 1 & 5 Class. Duranmin Community School, Papua New Guinea. (co-presented with Heather M.-L. Miller).
2003 A Baptist Mission in Papua New Guinea. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. Berry College.
2003 Studying Religious Experience and Belief. Comparative Religions. Grand Valley State University.
2002 Fieldwork Methods and Adventures in Papua New Guinea. Introduction to Anthropology and Sociology. Denison University.
2002 Anthropology and a New Guinea Dream Psychology. Introduction to Psychology. College of Wooster.
2002 Linguistic Anthropology. Introduction to Anthropology. Central Washington University.
2002 Methods and Challenges of Fieldwork: Adventures in Papua New Guinea. Cultural Anthropology. Central Washington University.
2001 When a New Guinea Religion Met a Baptist Mission. Gods, Spirits, Witchcraft and Possession. Washington State University, Vancouver.
2000 Melanesian Tok Pisin: Learning a Creole in the Field. Language and Culture. Western Oregon University.
1999 Historical Linguistics. Introduction to Anthropology. College of Wooster.
1999 Entering Another Culture. Qualitative Research Methods. College of Wooster.
1998 Fieldwork among the Asabano. Cultural Anthropology. University of Wisconsin–Madison.
1998 Anthropological Fieldwork in Papua New Guinea. Great Scientists. University of Wisconsin–Madison.
1998 Religious Change. Introduction to Anthropology, College of Wooster.
1997 Subsistence Strategies of the Asabano. Joint meeting of Hunters and Gatherers & Archaeological Geology. Ripon College.
1997 Asabano Religion. Introduction to Anthropology. Ripon College.
1997 The Asabano of Papua New Guinea. Cultural Anthropology. University of Wisconsin–Madison.
1997 The Challenges of Fieldwork. General Anthropology. University of Wisconsin–Marshfield.
1993 Religion and Cultural Contact in Central New Guinea. Cultures of the World. University of Wisconsin–Madison.
1993 Religion and Ritual. Cultural Anthropology. University of Wisconsin–Madison.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (Fellow)
European Society for Oceanists

COURSES TAUGHT (partial list)

Graduate

Ethnographic Method and Theory
Cultural Processes

Undergraduate

General Anthropology (1st year)
Applied Anthropology (1st year)
Linguistic Anthropology (1st and 2nd year)
Sociocultural Anthropology (1st and 2nd year)
Archaeology (1st and 2nd year)
Social Organization (3rd year)
Psychological Anthropology (3rd year)
Peoples of the Pacific (3rd year)
Peoples of Melanesia (3rd year)
Anthropological Theory (3rd year)
Anthropology of Religion (3rd and 4th year)
Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective (3rd year)
Ecological Anthropology (3rd year)
Ethnographic Methods (3rd year)
Cultural Dynamics (4th year)

THESIS SUPERVISION

Graduate

Sánchez, José expected 2017
Faught, Natalie expected 2017
Dahl, Shayne A. P. 2013 Knowing Means Connecting with the Source of Life: Sacred Knowledge and Ethics among Blackfoot Traditionalists. (M.A. Thesis, Anthropology Graduate Program, Trent University).
Garrett, Donald Ray, Jr. 2009 The Asabano People of Papua New Guinea and Their Medical System. (M.A. Thesis, Anthropology Graduate Program, Trent University).
Little, Christopher A. J. L. 2008 Becoming an Asabano: The Socialization of Asabano Children, Duranmin, West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. (M.A. Thesis, Anthropology Graduate Program, Trent University).

Undergraduate

Cotton-Kinch, Megan 2007 Conceptualizing AIDS in Southern Ontario. (B.A. Honours Thesis, Department of Anthropology, Trent University).
Artes, Sara Nichole 2002 Coke Culture: The Implications of the Consumption of Soft Drinks as an Alternative to Water in the Impoverished Communities of El Paso County and Ciudad Juárez. (Junior Independent Study, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Wooster).
Black, Carly 2002 The Imagined Tourist: Travelers’ Perceptions of Themselves and East Africa. (Senior Independent Study, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Wooster).
Gustafson, Sonia 2002 The Impact of AIDS on Rural Farming Communities in Western Kenya. (Senior Independent Study, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Wooster).
Kunder, Melissa 2002 “It’s Always Going to Be a Part of You”: Serious Illness and Identity. (Senior Independent Study, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Wooster).
McKee, Kathryn 2002 How They Stay Afloat: Maintaining Middle-Class Status in Female-Headed Households in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. (Junior Independent Study, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Wooster).
Mischler, Karl 2002 Reasons for Ghost Belief among Members of the Ohio Ghost Hunters Society. (Junior Independent Study, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Wooster).
Satyamurthy, Neela T. 2001 The Use of Religion among Hospice Dwellers. (Junior Independent Study, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Wooster).
Young, Erin Rebecca 2001 Sex Industries and Campus Culture: A Sociological Perspective on Pornography and Sexual Promiscuity at the College of Wooster. (Junior Independent Study, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Wooster).

M.A. Supervisory Committee Chair

2015–present Sánchez, José, M.A., Trent University
2015–present Faught, Natalie, M.A., Trent University
2010–2013 Dahl, Shayne A. P., M.A., Trent University
2006–2009 Garrett, Donald Ray, Jr. M.A., Trent University
2006–2008 Little, Christopher, M.A., Trent University

M.A. Supervisory Committee Member

2015–present Zankhna Mody, M.A., Trent University
2013–2016 Lockett, Joshua, M.A., Trent University
2010–2014 Pond, Simon, M.A., Trent University
2008–2009 Houston-Dickson, Jamie-Lee, M.A., Trent University
2007–2013 Sine, Keri, M.A., Trent University
2005–2008 Surette, Flannery, M.A., Trent University
2005–2007 Blainey, Marc, M.A., Trent University

External Examiner

2013 Macdonald, Fraser. Ph.D. Thesis, The Australian National University
2010 Knapp, Regina Anne-Marie. Ph.D. Thesis, The Australian National University
2002 Abboud, Patricia. Senior Independent Study, College of Wooster
2002 Clay, Maia, Senior Independent Study, College of Wooster