Kathleen M. Adams

Kathleen M. Adams (born 1957, San Francisco, California) is a cultural anthropologist and Professor at Loyola University Chicago and an adjunct curator at the Field Museum of Natural History. Her research focuses on island Southeast Asia, the anthropology of tourism, heritage studies, museum studies, ethnic arts, ethnicity and nationalism.

Education and teaching

Adams received a BA in anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz (1979), and a Ph.D. (1988) in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Washington in Seattle.[1] She also completed additional graduate studies in Museum Studies at the Univ. of Washington and in Indonesian Studies at Cornell University and Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana, Salatiga, Indonesia).

Adams has taught at Beloit College in Wisconsin (1988-1993), where she held the Mouat Family Endowed Chair for Junior faculty.[2] She has been a visiting professor at Loyola University Chicago's John Felice Rome Center, Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, Al-Farabi University in Kazakhstan, and on several of University of Virginia's Semester at Sea voyages.[3]

She is currently a professor of anthropology at Loyola University Chicago and an adjunct curator at the Field Museum of Natural History.[1]

Awards and honors

Adams has conducted research in Indonesia since 1984.[4] Her book on the politics of art and tourism in upland Sulawesi (Indonesia)[5] won the Alpha Sigma Nu award as the best social science book published in 2007-2009.[6] Adams has received several awards for her teaching, including recognition in 2012 by Princeton Review as one of the "300 best professors" in the USA and Canada.[7] She was awarded Loyola University Chicago's 2007 Sujack Award for Teaching Excellence (the university’s highest teaching award).[8]

Significant publications

Kathleen Adams has published several books and numerous articles on island Southeast Asia, the politics of art, domestic work, identity dynamics, museums, and the anthropology of tourism. Some of her most significant works are listed below.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Dr. Kathleen M. Adams: Loyola University Chicago". Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  2. "Author Biography". Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  3. "Faculty and Staff – Kathleen Adams". Semester at Sea.
  4. "Kathleen Adams, Antropolog AS yang Jatuh Hati pada Indonesia". Voice of America. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
  5. Adams, Kathleen (2006). Art as Politics: Re-Crafting Identities, Tourism and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. pp. 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-8248-3072-4.
  6. "Past Winners of Alpha Sigma Nu Awards" (PDF). p. 3. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  7. The Princeton Review (2012). "Best Professors Name" (PDF). THe Princeton Review Best 300 Professors. Princeton Review. p. 1. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  8. "PAst REcipients Loyola University Chicago Sujack Award". Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  9. "Alpha Sigma Nu Week – Loyola University Chicago" (PDF). Alpha Sigma Nu: 1. Summer 2010.
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