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JEAN JACKSON | Curriculum Vitae
December 2006
EDUCATION
| INSTITUTION |
DEGREE |
DATE |
| Stanford
University |
Ph. D. |
1972 |
| Stanford
University |
M.A. |
1967 |
| Wellesley
College |
B.A., with honors |
1965 |
TITLE OF DOCTORAL THESIS:
"Marriage and Linguistic Identity among the Bará Indians
of the Vaupés, Colombia"
TITLE OF M.A. THESIS:
"An Anthropological Study of Pinta, A
Treponemal Disease of Tropical Zones of the Western Hemisphere"
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Social and cultural identity, gender, small-scale
societies, indigenous rights, medical anthropology, Amazonia
ANTHROPOLOGICAL FIELDWORK
March 1987, June-July 1989, July 1991,
July 1992, Sept.-Oct. 1993, Aug. 1996,
July 2000, July-Aug. 2003, November 2006. |
Continuing field research in Bogotá and the Vaupés,
Colombia on indigenous rights. |
| February 1986-February 1987 |
Field research at Commonwealth Pain Center. |
| October 1968-November 1970 |
Dissertation research in the Vaupés, Colombia. |
| Summer 1966 |
Research Assistant in a population-genetics study of Lake
Atitlán, Guatemala; supported by National Science Foundation
grant to Department of Pediatrics, Stanford. |
| Summer 1965 |
Member, Tri-university field training program, Puebla, Mexico.
Supported by training grant from National Science Foundation. |
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
| Margaret McVicar Faculty Fellowship |
February 2004-present |
| National Institues of Mental Health Fellowship # MH41787: "An Ethnographic Study of a Multidisciplinary Pain Center." |
July 1986-June 1988 |
| Grant from MIT Dean's Office for completion of
book manuscript on chronic pain |
January-June 1994 |
| National Institutes of Mental Health Fellowship
# MH41787: "An Ethnographic Study of a Multidisciplinary Pain
Center |
July 1986-June 1988 |
| Misc. internal MIT grants for work on Vaupés
indigenous rights mobilizing |
1982, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1995 |
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
| July 1987-present |
Professor of Anthropology, MIT |
Jul. 2002 - Jan. 2003
July 2003 - July 2006
|
Head, MIT Anthropology Program |
| July 1999 |
Acting Head, MIT Anthropology Program |
July 1994 - July 1995
July 1989 - July 1993 |
Head, MIT Anthropology / Archaeology Program |
| 1977 - 1987 |
Associate Professor of Anthropology, MIT |
| 1972 - 1977 |
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, MIT |
OTHER POSITIONS
| 2004-present |
International Advisory Board, Latin American & Caribbean Ethnic Studies. |
| 2003-present |
Advisory Board, Tipiti: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America. |
| 2002-2003 |
Executive Program Committee, Annual Meetings, American Anthropological Association. |
| 2001-present |
Editorial Board, Boletín de Anthropología, Department of Anthropology, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. |
| 1997-present |
Member, Cultural Survival Board of Directors and Program Council. |
| 1995-2002 |
Editorial Board, Journal of Latin American Anthropology. |
| 1995-1996 |
Executive Program Committee, Annual Meetings, American Anthropological
Association. |
| 1995-1998 |
Associate Editor, American Ethnologist. |
| 1993-1997 |
Editorial Board, South American Indian Studies, Bennington,
VT. |
| 1993 |
Program Committee, American Ethnological Society Annual Meetings,
Santa Fe. |
| 1990 |
Member, NEH Media Panel. Washington, D.C. |
| March 1988 |
Consultant to the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation,
for exhibit on "Cultures at Risk: The Native Peoples of South
America's Tropical Rainforests." |
| 1989,1991,1996 |
Admissions Committee, Bunting Institute. |
| 1984-1986 |
Consultant, NEH-funded film "The Sorceress" |
PARTICIPATION IN CONGRESSES, ETC.
| July 2006 |
|
"Representations of Andean and Amazonian indigeneity in the Colombian national press, 1980-2002: Icons or agents?" Session on "Re-presenting indigeneity: the historic and contemporary display of 'Indians' in national and international public spheres." 52nd International Congress of Americanists, Seville, Spain. |
| March 2006 |
|
"The evolution of Colombian national media portrayals of Amazon indigenous development and organizing, 1980-2002." Session on "De-essentializing Amazonian Social and Political Space," Latin American Studies Association meetings, San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
| March 2006 |
|
Discussant for session on "'Community': Created, Contested, Deployed." Latin American Studies Association meetings, San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
| Nov. 2005 |
|
"Rights to indigenous culture in Colombia." For session on "Transnationalism and the Anthropology of Rights." Washington, D.C., AAA annual meetings. |
| April 2005 |
|
Workshop leader and discussant for conference on "Anthropology of the State and the State of Anthropology," Stanford, CA. |
| Nov. 2003 |
|
"Documenting ethnic resurgence and ethnocide: Representations of indigeneity in the Colombian press. For Presidential symposium on "The violence of representation and its discontents: Creating publics, borders, and bridges." Chicago, AAA annual meetings. |
| July 2003 |
|
"Representations of otherness in exploration accounts about indegenous communities of the Colombian and Brazilian Central Northwest Amazon ( Vaupés/Uaupes)". Congress of Americanists in Santiago, Chile. |
| April 2003 |
|
" What is the Ethnographic Fieldnote Project?" American Ethnological Society Annual Meetings, Providence, RI. |
| Nov. 2002 |
|
"Anthropological representation of indigenous Latin America
in an age of identity movements, negotiated otherness, and neoliberal
agendas." In session on "Moral and political dimensions of ethnographic
research and writing in indigenous Latin America: Indigenous
and academic perspectives." AAA Annual meetings, New Orleans. |
| Nov. 2001 |
|
"‘What the hell did I do to deserve this?' Chronic pain
sufferers' search for answers." In session on "Suffering, the
body and religion," AAA Annual meetings, Washington, D.C. |
| May 2001 |
|
"The meaning and meaninglessness of pain: chronic pain sufferers'
attempts to understand their suffering." In session on "Suffering,
the body, and religion, AES/CASCA/SCA meetings, Montreal." |
| Jan. 2001 |
|
"Colombia's Amazonian Indigenous Communities and the Civil
War." Conference on "Indigenous Amazonia at the Millennium:
Politics and Religion." Tulane University. |
| Nov. 2000 |
|
Discussant for session on "Indigenous Peoples of Argentina:
Political Struggles and Contested Identities." AAA annual meetings,
San Francisco. |
| Nov. 1999 |
|
"Legislating Indian Identity: Contrasts betweern the United
States and Latin America." Session on "Indigenismo/Mestizaje:
New Views on Key Concepts in Latin American Cultural History."
AAA annual meetings, Chicago. |
| Nov. 1999 |
|
Discussant for session on "Indigenous Movements and Language
Politics in Latin America: Speaking, Representing, and Mobilizing
Difference." AAA annual meetings, Chicago. |
| Nov. 1998 |
|
Discussant for session on "Violence & Population: Bodies
and the Body Politic in Indigenous Amazonia." AAA annual meetings,
Philadelphia. |
| Sep. 1998 |
|
"The Politics of Indigenous Resurgence and Social Scientific
Explanation," co-presented with Kay Warren, Latin American Studies
Association annual meetings, Chicago. |
| Jul. 1998 |
|
"Self-Representation in the Vaupés, Colombia: the Impact
of the National Indigenous Movement." Session on "Politics and
Culture in the Northwest Amazon," Robin Wright and Jean Jackson,
co-organizers, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological
Sciences meetings, Williamsburg, VA. |
| May 1998 |
|
"Colombian Indigenous Self-Representation in the Occupations
of the Summer of 1996." Session on "At the Risk of Being Heard:
Indigenous Rights and Advocacy in the Americas." Annual Meetings
of the American Ethnological Society, Toronto. |
| Nov. 1997 |
|
"Colombian Indigenous Self-Representation in the Occupations
of the Summer of 1996." Session on "Indigenous Movements: Sources
and Strategies of Self-Representation," Kay Warren and Jean
Jackson, co-organizers, AAA Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C. |
| Jul. 1997 |
|
"Symbols of Indianness: Contrasts between Colombia's and Guatemala's
Indigenous Rights Movement." Symposium on "Construcción
de Sociedades y Re-creación Cultural en Contextos de
Modernización." International Congress of Americanists,
Quito, Ecuador. |
| Nov. 1996 |
|
"Stigmatizing Chronic Pain." Paper given at the International
Association of Bioethics Meetings, San Francisco. |
| Oct. 1996 |
|
"Contrasting Discourses on Autonomy in Colombian National
Indigenous Politics." Session on "Identity, Autonomy and Nationalism
in Latin America." New England Consortium on Latin American
Studies, Williamstown. |
| Nov. 1995 |
|
Discussant for session on "Unintended Consequences: On the
Practice of Transnational Cultural Critique." American Anthropological
Association Meetings, Washington, D.C. |
| Nov. 1995 |
|
"Chronic Pain and Stigma." Symposium on "Chronic Pain and
Stigma and Social Control," American Pain Society Meetings,
Los Angeles. |
| Nov. 1994 |
|
Discussant for session on "Reflections from a Different Mirror:
Latin American Autoethnography and the Challenge to Anthropological
Representation." American Anthropological Association Meetings,
Atlanta. |
| Nov. 1994 |
|
"The Politics of Ethnographic Practice in the Colombian Amazon,"
Session on "Against the Grain: Nationalism and the Politics
of Ethnographic Practice," American Anthropological Association
Meetings, Atlanta. |
| Jul. 1994 |
|
"Analyzing Lowland Colombian Indian Rights Discourse." Session
on "Native Resistance and Adaptation in Lowland Latin America,"
48th International Congress of Americanists, Stockholm/Uppsala. |
| Nov. 1993 |
|
"The Impact of Recent National Legislation on Tukanoan Communities
in the Vaupés Region of Southeastern Colombia." Session
on "Creation of Indigenous Territorial Entities in the Colombian
Constitution of 1991: Assessing the Impacts," AAA Meetings,
Washington, D.C. |
| Jul. 1993 |
|
"Ethnic Processes on the Indian/White Border in the Vaupés,
Colombia: Challenges to Theory." Session on "Anthropological
Theory and Ethnicity: A New Assessment," 13th International
Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Mexico
City. |
| Apr. 1993 |
|
"Portraits of Indians in Colombian indigenous rights publications:
Representations of Pan-Indianist identity and difference." AES
Annual Meetings, Santa Fe. |
| Dec. 1992 |
|
"Constructing and Contesting Indianness in the Vaupés,
Colombia." Session on "Indigenous Identity and Ideology: A Contested
Zone," AAA Meetings, San Francisco. |
| Dec. 1992 |
|
Discussant for session on "Occidentalism," AAA meetings, San
Francisco. |
| Jul. 1992 |
|
"Nación Indígena," VI Congreso de Antropología
en Colombia, session on "La Construcción de Las Américas,"
Bogotá. |
| Mar. 1992 |
|
"The Politics of Indianness in Colombia: Local, National,
and International Dimensions." Session on "Hegemony and Resistance,"
AES meetings, Memphis. |
| Nov. 1991 |
|
"A Creolization Model of Indian Rights Discourse." Session
on "Sociocultural Creolization," AAA meetings, Chicago. |
| Apr. 1991 |
|
"Re-structuring Ethnic Identity in Contexts of Violent Competition:
Indigenous Self-Organizing in the Colombian Amazon." Session
on "Voices of Oppression: De-Mythologizing the Political Cultures
of Coercion and Terror in Latin America," Latin American Studies
Association XVI Congress, Washington, D.C. |
| Mar. 1991 |
|
"‘Indian Nation': Locally Manufactured Concept or Import?"
Session on "How European is the Nation-State?" AES Meetings,
Charleston. |
| Nov. 1991 |
|
Discussant for session on "The Poetics of Pain." AAA Meetings,
Chicago. |
| Nov. 1990 |
|
"The Rashomon approach to chronic pain." Session on "Narratives
of Illness and Narratives of Healing," AAA Meetings, New Orleans. |
| Nov. 1990 |
|
Discussant for session on "Politics of Contact and Anthropological
Thinking," AAA Meetings, New Orleans. |
| Nov. 1990 |
|
"Medico-Cultural Imperialism or Hippocrates, Frontier Style?"
Session on "The Anthropologist as Healer: Ethical Dilemmas of
Witch Doctoring Among the Indigenous Peoples of South America,"
AAA Meetings, New Orleans. |
| Apr. 1990 |
|
"The self transformed in chronic pain." Session on "The Body
as Existential Ground of Culture," AES Meetings, Atlanta. |
| Dec. 1989 |
|
Discussant for session on "Shame On You!: Shaming and Social
Control in Lowland South America." AAA Meetings, Washington,
D.C. |
| Aug. 1989 |
|
"‘Less than Makú': The Nukaks' sojourn among
Tukanoans." 13th Annual South American Indian Conference, Bennington,
Vt. |
| Nov. 198i |
|
"Patients' Discourse on Real versus Imaginary Pain." AAA Meetings,
Phoenix. |
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INVITED TALKS
| Nov. 2006 |
|
"Indigenous organizing in Colombia: The search for autonomy and self-determination." University of Oregon. |
| Sept. 2006 |
|
"'Extreme behaviors' resulting from integrated body/mind disciplines: The corss-cultural evidence." Paper given at conference on "Longevity & Optimal Health: Integrating Eastern & Western Perspectives." Menla Conference Center, Phoenicia, NY. Columbia University Integrative Medicine Program. |
| Oct. 2003 |
|
"Chronic Pain Voices." Bellagio conference on Narrative, Suffering, and Pain |
| Mar. 2003 |
|
"Me/not me:Self, Language and Pain" Massachusetts General Hospital Palliative Care Grand Rounds |
| Feb. 2003 |
|
"The Crisis in Colombia: The Consequences for Indigenous Peoples"
For conference on "Gaining Ground: Social, Cultural, Environmental
and Political Processes of Latin America's Indigenous Peoples."
University of Liverpool, Institute of Latin American Studies. |
| Oct. 2002 |
|
"Plan Colombia and the Andean Initiative: Anti-terrorist,
or state terrorism?" For conference on "Rethinking Terrorism"
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University
of Illinois Champagne. |
| Jun. 2002 |
|
"Me/not me: Self, language and pain." Conference on The Problem
of Pain: Medicine, Culture and Public Policy. Rutgers, New Brunswick,
New Jersey. |
| Apr. 2002 |
|
"Chronic Pain and Acute Pain: The Differences and their Implications."
Wellesley College. |
| Oct. 2001 |
|
"The indigenous peoples of Colombia: Caught in the Crossfire."
For conference on "Civil-Military Relations: The Andean Regional
Initiative," at The Norman Peterson School of International
Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa. |
| May 2001 |
|
"The indigenous peoples of Colombia and the civil war." Conference
on "The wars in Colombia: Guns, drugs and oil." Hemispheric
Institute on the Americas, University of California, Davis. |
| Feb. 2001 |
|
Sociopsychological components of chronic pain." Tufts University
Medical School, New England Medical Center. |
| Sep. 2000 |
|
"Translation of the Pain Experience." For "Translations—Conference
on Intercultural Understanding." University of Leipzig and Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft. |
| May 2000 |
|
"Pain Voices." Presented at Houghton Mind/Brain/Behavior Colloquium
on "Pain and its Transformations: The Interface of Biology and
Culture." Harvard University. |
| Jan. 1999 |
|
"Contrasting discourses in Colombian national indigenous politics."
Presented at conference on "Indigenous Movements, Self-representation,
and the State in Latin America," Kay Warren and Jean Jackson,
co-organizers, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies,
Harvard University. |
| May 1997 |
|
"The Puzzles of Pain." Given at Symposium on "Pain and Pain
Related Suffering," The Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo, MI. |
| Feb. 1997 |
|
"Who owns culture? Lessons from the Amazon and sundry other
places." New York Academy of Sciences. |
| Dec. 1996 |
|
"Real and Unreal Chronic Pain." Talk for psychiatry residents,
Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, MA. |
| Oct. 1996 |
|
"Contrasting Discourses in Colombian National Indigenous Politics:
the Occupations of the Summer of 1996." Paper given at conference
on "Language Communities, Nation States, and Global Culture:
the Discourse of Identity in the Americas." University of Iowa. |
| Apr. 1996 |
|
"Cultural Manifestations of Pain." Talk for Seminar on Pain,
Harvard Medical School. |
| Mar. 1996 |
|
"Gender in the Northwest Amazon: Research Dilemmas." Anthropology
Department, Tufts University. |
| Feb. 1996 |
|
"Writing the History of 'People Without History.'" The Adams
History Club, Harvard University. |
| May 1995 |
|
"Indianness and the Politics of Culture in the Northwest Amazon,"
Wellesley College. |
| Jan. 1995 |
|
"Indian and Black Identity Politics in Colombia: Contradicting
Nationalisms," East-West Center, University of Hawaii. |
| Jan. 1994 |
|
"Sociocultural and Environmental Factors Influencing Pain,"
in "Workshop on Biobehavioral Pain Research: A Multi-Agency
Assessment of Cross-cutting Issues and Research Needs," NIH,
Rockville, Md. |
| Oct. 1993 |
|
"Exogamía Lingüística en el Vaupés."
Instituto Caro y Cuervo, Yerba Buena, Colombia. |
| Apr. 1993 |
|
"The Role of the State in the Construction of Ethnic Difference:
Examples from Colombia." Given in seminar on "Ethnic Identity
and State Power," University of Washington, Seattle. |
| Oct. 1991 |
|
"The Politics of Indianness in the Vaupés, Colombia."
Anthropology Department, Harvard University. |
| Jan. 1991 |
|
"The Quest for Cultural Autonomy and Ethnic-State Conflict."
Talk given at workshop on "Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Regional
Conflict in the 1990s." Five College Program in Peace and World
Security Studies, Amherst. |
| Jul. 1989 |
|
"El Dolor Crónico y el Juicio Moral." Conference given
in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Hospital San Juan
de Dios, Bogotá. |
| Jun. 1989 |
|
"Changing Tukanoan Ethnicity and the Concept of Culture."
Wenner-Gren symposium on "Amazonian Synthesis: An Integration
of Disciplines, Paradigms and Methodologies," Novo Friburgo,
Brazil. |
| Sep. 1988 |
|
"'Déjà Entendu': The Liminal Qualities of Anthropological
Fieldnotes." Conference on "Editing Reality," Department of
English, SUNY, Buffalo. |
MIT SERVICE
Independent Activities Period
(January Intersession) Projects
"What is Feminism?" Panel sponsored by Women's Studies
Program. Moderator. (1992).
"A Guided Tour through Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology." Organizer (1992).
"A Guided Tour through the MFA Egyptian Department." (1991).
Organizer.
"Understanding Sex Differences and Sexism" (1990).
"Abuse In the Family and Community Response." Urban Studies
and Planning (1990; this activity won the Campus Outreach
Opportunity League award).
|
| Oct. 2005 |
|
"What Every MIT Student Should Know about the Conflict in Colombia and Why." Talk for SHASS Burchard Society. |
| Sept. 2005 |
|
"Caught in the Crossfire: Colombia's Indigenous Peoples and the Armed Conflict." Talk for MIT Club of Boston. |
| Jan. 2005 |
|
MIT Alumni Travel-organized trip: "A glimpse into the lives of Tanzanian women." Anthropologist guide. |
| Feb. 2004 |
|
Panel on "Race: the Power of an Illusion." 2-hour event at Milton Academy. MIlton, MA |
| April 2003 |
|
Panel on "Race: the Power of an Illusion. " 2-hour event sponsored by President's Office. |
| Oct. 2002 |
|
"Plan Colombia and the Andean Initiative: Anti-terrorist or
state terrorism?" Talk for MIT Program in Human Rights and Justice. |
| Apr. 2002 |
|
"Refugees and the Internally Displaced in Colombia." Panel
on "Eritrea, Colombia and the Role of the International Community."
Talk sponsored by United Trauma Relief. |
| Apr. 2002 |
|
"The Changing Economic Situation of the American Family."
Talk for Spouses and Partners@MIT. |
| Feb. 2002 |
|
"Plan Colombia" Talk for MIT Western Hemisphere Project. |
| Apr. 1999 |
|
"Marriage: An Anthropological Perspective." Talk for MIT Wives'
Group. |
| 1997-1998 |
|
Advisory board, "Multimedia/Hypermedia Cross-Cultural Project
for CD-ROM and Web." Funded by N.E.H. Gilberte Furstenberg,
Shoggy Waryn. |
| Feb. 1998 |
|
"The Puzzle of Pain." Talk for MIT Hippocratic Society. |
| Nov. 1997 |
|
In charge of workshop on cross-cultural analysis of dying
for Harvard International Conference on Euthanasia, Harvard/MIT
Hippocratic Societies. |
| Apr. 1995 |
|
"Straddling the Mind-Body Split: Liminality and Chronic Pain."
Science, Technology and Society Colloquium. |
Oct. 1995,
1994, 1992 |
|
Talks on Northwest Amazon for Integrated Studies Program. |
| Mar. 1993 |
|
Moderator for panel on "Women and Civil War in the Former
Yugoslavia" |
| Apr. 1992 |
|
Discussant for Cultural Studies Conference on "Pomp and Circumstance:
Political Uses of Public Culture." |
| Mar. 1992 |
|
Panelist for Colloquium on "What is Cultural Studies? Why
Does It Matter?" Cultural Studies Project. |
| Mar. 1992 |
|
"Women's Social and Personal Identity in Other Cultures" Talk
to the Wives' Group, Medical Department. |
| Dec. 1991 |
|
"Ethnic Nationalism in the Americas: Indian Struggles for
Autonomy and Dignity." Talk to Burchard Scholars, SHASS. |
| Oct. 1991 |
|
"Chronic Pain: Its Social and Cultural Dimensions." Talk to
the Emma Rogers Society. |
| Feb. 1991 |
|
"Real and Unreal Pain: Mind-body Dualism in Patients' and
Therapists' Narratives." Talk given in Program in Science, Technology
and Society. |
| Oct. 1990 |
|
Discussant for Cultural Studies Conference on "Epidemics:
Perspectives in Cultural Studies." |
| Mar. 1990 |
|
"Cross-cultural Attitudes Towards Hair," Student Center. Sponsored
by List Visual Arts Center. |
| 1989-1999 |
|
Coordinator faculty seminar on "Peoples and States: Ethnic
Identity and Struggle." Anthropology Program and Center for
International Studies. |
| 1980-1991 |
|
Member, Advisory Board for Women in International Development,
Joint Consortium of Harvard Institute in International Development
and Center for International Studies, MIT. |
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Anthropological Association
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Sociedad Antropológica de Colombia
Latin American Studies Association
New England Council of Latin American Studies
Society for Latin American Anthropology
American Ethnological Society
Society for Cultural Anthropology
Association for Feminist Anthropology
COURSES TAUGHT
Ethnic and National Identity
Medical Anthropology
Social Theory and Analysis (graduate proseminar)
Introduction to Anthropology
Gender, Sexuality and Society
Issues and Ideas in Anthropology
Joint MIT-Wellesley Seminar on Colonialism, Development, and Nationalism:
The Impact of the State on Traditional Societies
The Contemporary Family
Hunting and Gathering Peoples
Language and Culture
Societies and Cultures of South America
Understanding Culture
American Communes and Utopias
Anthropology and Speculative Fiction
M.I.T. ACTIVITIES AND COMMITTEES
Advisor, Anthropology concentrators, majors and minors,
2000-1, 2002-3
Curriculum Committee, Women's Studies 2000-1, 2002-3
Curriculum Committee, Comparative Media Studies 1999-2001
Admissions Committee, Comparative Media Studies, 2000-1
Award Committee, Kelly Writing Prize, 2001
Faculty Adviser, United Trauma Relief 2000-1, 2002-3
Burchards Scholar speaker, 2001
Fall, 2002;
Fall, 2003-July 2006 |
|
HSSST Graduate Program Steering Committee |
| 1999-2004 |
|
SHASS Gender Equity Committee (Co-Chair, 2001-2002, Chair
2002-2004) |
| 1999-2000 |
|
Chair, HASS Overview Committee |
1998-1999,
2001-2002 |
|
Search Committee, Anthropology Program |
| 1997-1998 |
|
Search Committee, Science, Technology and Society |
| 1995-1997 |
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Search Committee, McMillan-Stewart Chair |
| 1995-1998 |
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Faculty Policy Committee |
| 1993-1997 |
|
Latin American Studies Committee (Chair 1994-95) |
| 1992-1999 |
|
Center for International Studies Executive Committee |
| 1983-2005 |
|
Women's Studies Program Steering Committee |
| 1990-present |
|
Editorial Board, MIT Faculty Newsletter |
| 1994-1996 |
|
Film and Media Studies Committee |
| 1995-1996 |
|
Burchard Scholars, Co-director |
| 1994-1995 |
|
HSSST Doctoral Program Steering Committee; Admissions Committee |
| 1992 |
|
Search Committee for Director of Center for International
Studies |
| 1992 |
|
SHSS Dean's Committee on Family and Work Policy |
| 1992 |
|
Ad Hoc Committee on the Writing Requirement |
| 1992-1993 |
|
Women's Studies Curriculum Committee |
| 1990-1993 |
|
Cultural Studies Steering Committee |
| 1991-1992 |
|
HASS Committee on Joint Appointments |
| 1990-1991 |
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Study Panel on Demonstrations |
| 1987-1990 |
|
HASS Cultures & Societies Committee |
| 1988-1989 |
|
Committee on the Visual Arts |
LANGUAGES
Spanish, fluent; French, some speaking ability, reading;
Portuguese, reading.
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