EDUCATION

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS

SEMINARS, COLLOQUIA, ETC.

October 2009		"Tasting and Talking Terroir: Locating Value in American Artisan Cheese." Public lecture presented at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, MA.
October 2009		"Microbes Meet Earth." Presented at the Technoscience Salon, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
June 2009		"Uses of the Terroir Concept among American Artisan Cheesemakers." Presented at the workshop on Ethnographic Studies of Contemporary Cheese Making and Marketing, Schumacher College, Dartington Hall, Devon, UK. (Workshop organizer with Harry West)
May 2009		"Locating Value in Artisan Cheese: Staking 'Terroir' Claims in New World Imaginaries." Presented at the panel on The Territories of Our Food at the Joint Meetings of the Agrictulture, Food, and Human Values Society, State College, PA.
March 2009		"What Makes Artisan Cheese Artisanal?" Art, Craft, and Science in American Artisan Cheesemaking." Presented at the Critical Studies in Food and Culture group, University of California at Davis.
March 2009		"The 'Microbiopolitics' of Raw-Milk Cheese in the U.S." Presented at The Anthropology of Science and Technology Series, Committee on Science and Technology Studies and Department of Anthropology, Brown University, Providence, RI.
February 2009		"Cheese Cultures: American Tastes and Traditions of Artisan Invention." Presented at Tasting Histories: Food and Drink Cultures Through the Ages, Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, University of California at Davis.
November 2008		"What Makes Artisan Food Artisanal?" Presented at the panel on Knorks and Mezzalunas: Cutting Edges of Food Studies in Anthropology at the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.
May 2008		"The Paradox of Maternal Citizenship: Pronatal Nationalism and Family Planning in Urban Greece." Presented at the Department of Social Anthropology and History, University of the Aegean, Mytilini, Greece.
May 2008		"Reproduction as Spiritual Kin Work: IVF and the Moral Economy of Motherhood in Greece." Presented at Motherhood in the Forefront: Recent Research in Greek Ethnography, Department of Social Anthropology and History, University of the Aegean, Mytilini, Greece.
Nov 2007		"Are Women National Symbols or Agents? Interpreting the Paradoxical Politics of Pronatalism and Family Planning in Greece." Presented at the Anthropology and Population Seminar Series, Population Studies Department, Brown University.
Nov 2007		"Cultivating Terroir: How American Producers Locate Artisanal Cheese along a Nature-Culture Continuum." Presented at the Department of Anthropology, University of Iceland.
Oct 2007		"The Art, Craft, and Science of Artisan Cheeesemaking." Presented at the panel on Ways of Knowing Food at the meetings of the Society for the Social Study of Science, Montreal, Canada. (Panel organizer with David Sutton)
April 2007		"Cultivating Terroir in American Artisanal Cheese: A View from Anthropology." Presented at the Culinary Historians of Boston speakers series, Radcliffe College.
Feb 2007		"The Microbiopolitics of Artisanal Cheese: How Human and Microbial Cultures Refigure Taste, Place, Health and Safety in the U.S." Presented at the Anthropology Program, MIT.
Dec 2006		"Reverse-Engineering Terroir : Crafting Nature-Culture in American Artisanal Cheese Production." Presented at the Anthropology Program, MIT.
Nov 2006		"The Raw and the Regulated: The Microbiopolitics of Raw Milk Cheese in the U.S." Presented at the panel on Regulating Bodies: Codified Dieticity and the Formation of Subjects at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA.
June 2006		"Sheep, Goats, and Cows: An Animal Anthropology of Artisanal Cheeses and their Landscapes." Presented at the panel on Animals and Agriculture at the Annual Meeting of the Agricultural History Society, Cambridge, MA.
June 2006		"Cultivating Terroir in American Artisanal Cheese Production." Presented at the panel on Cows, Milk and Cheese in Regional Space at the Joint Meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society, Boston, MA.
May 2006		"Consumption." Discussant commentary presented at What's Wrong with America?, MIT.
March 2006		"Microbiopolitics of Artisanal Cheese: Starter Cultures, Risk Cultures, Taste, and Terroir." Presented at the Department of Anthropology, Rice University.
Dec 2005		"Democratizing Maternal Citizenship by Medicalizing Reproductive Choice." Presented at the panel on Producing the Nation: The Scientific Politics of Reproduction at the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
Sept 2004		"Women as Symbols or Agents of the Nation? The Paradoxical Politics of Pronatalism and Family Planning in Greece." Presented at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University.
Aug 2004		"Cheese Cultures, or Camembert Meets French DNA." Presented at the panel on Microbiopolitics at the meetings of the Society for the Social Study of Science, Paris, France. (Panel organizer with Stefan Helmreich)
April-May 2004		"Love in the Time of Prophylaxis: Erotas, Aghape and Subjectivity in Contemporary Greece." Presented at Love and Globalization . Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.
April 2004		"Sustainable Food System or Elite Treat: The Cultural Economy of Artisanal Cheese in New England." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology, Decatur, GA.
Jan 2004		"Ethics and Abortion: Medicalizing the Moral Discourse of Women's Reproductive Agency in Urban Greece." Presented at the Anthropology Program, Scripps College , Claremont University Consortium.
Nov 2003		"Socializing Reproductive Technology: Making Biological and Spiritual Kinship in an Athens IVF Clinic." Presented at the panel on Divine Interventions and Sacred Conceptions: Religion in the Global Practice of IVF at the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL.
Jan 2003		" Anthropology of Ethics: Family Planning and the Transformation of Abortion in Urban Greece." Presented at the Department of Anthropology, Cornell University.
Nov 2002		"Scaling the Ethical Body: Gender and Reproductive Health in Urban Greece." Presented at the panel on Fractal Body Politics: Scaling Reproductive Agency from Individual to Institution at the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA. (Panel organizer)
Nov 2002		"Agency and Affect: Notes on Pragmatism and Ambivalence in Women's Reproductive Stories." Discussant commentary on the panel History, Technology, Agency: Imagining the Future of the Reproductive Body at the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA.
Oct 2002		"Slow Food: Satisfying Ethical Appetites." Presented at the panel on Edging the Work of Hillel Schwartz into Cultural Studies of Science at the meetings of the Society for Literature and Science, Pasadena, CA.
Feb 2002		"Transforming the Ethical Body: Family Planning and Abortion in Urban Greece." Presented at the Department of Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College.
Dec 2001		"Underfertility's Challenge to 'Modern' Gender and Family Relations in Urban Greece." Presented at the panel on Barren States: the Population Implosion in Southern and Eastern Europe at the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
Oct 2001		"From an Ethic of Service to an Ethic of Choice: The Biomedicalization of Abortion in Greece." Presented at the Health and Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania.
May 2001		" The Difference that Ethics Makes: Changing Gender Inequalities in Urban Greece." Presented at the panel on Humanism, Ethics, and Neo-Liberalism at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, Montreal, Canada.
Nov 2000		"Pronatalism Meets Family Planning: Reproducing 'Tradition' Through 'Modern' Means in Greece." Presented at the panel on Stratified Reproduction, Reproductive Strategies: The Intersection of State Policies with Local/Global Formations in Women's Reproductive Choices at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA
Nov 1999		"Thinking Gender Through Ethics: Modernizing the Moral Discourse of Women's Gender Identity in Urban Greece." Presented at the panel on Traveling Science: Medicine and Rationality in Alternative Modernities at the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL.
Dec 1998		"Questioning the Logic of Family Planning as a 'Modern' Means of Population Control in Greece." Presented at the Society for Medical Anthropology invited panel on Population Control Within Socialist and Socialized Medical Systems: Policy, Discourse, and Practice at the 97th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Nov 1997		"A Necessary 'Evil': Abortion and Maternal Morality in Urban Greece." Presented at the panel on Abortion: Comparative Cultural Constructions, Public Discourses, and Situated Ethics at the 96th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC. (Panel organizer)
March 1997		"In Vitro Fertilization in Athens, Greece: Making Babies, Making Parents." Presented at the panel on New Technologies, New Ethnographies: Studies of Reproduction in Greece at the Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society, Seattle, WA. (Panel organizer with Joanna Skilogianis)
Nov 1996		"Conception, Contraception and Procreative Agency in Urban Greece." Presented at the panel on Inhabiting Feminine Spaces at the 95th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.
Nov 1996		"Gender and Genealogy, Diaspora and Demographics: Notes on Greek Population Policy." Presented at The Mediterranean World , sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and the Department of Classics, Stanford University.
Sept 1996		"Gender and Genealogy, Diaspora and Demographics: Notes on Greek Population Policy." Presented at the Workshop on Procreation Theories . Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics.
Sept 1996		"Rationalizing Sex: Conception and Contraception in Urban Greece." Presented at Changing Contraceptive Technologies . University College, Stockton-on-Tees, Durham University, UK.
Nov 1995		"Demographics, Abortion, and the Greek State." Presented at the panel on Disciplining Modern Citizens at the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.
March 1995		"Demographics, Women, and the Greek State." Presented at the Upper House Seminar Series , British School of Athens, Greece.
Jan 1995		"Why is a Feminist Archaeology Necessary?" Presented at the Finlay Forum Series , British School at Athens, Greece.
Dec 1994		"Archaeology, Representation, and the State of Greece." Presented at the panel on All Things Weird and Wonderful: Past and Present Nationalist Ethnicities in British Archaeology at the 16th Annual Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, Bradford University, UK.
Feb 1994		"Gender, Kinship, and Fertility Control in Athens." Presented at the Department of Anthropology, Panteion University , Athens , Greece .
July-August 1993		"Rethinking Relatedness through Reproduction." Presented at the 13th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Mexico City.
April 1992		"Motherhood, Metaphor, and the Cultural Logic of Contract Pregnancy." Presented at the panel on Gendered Machinations: Representations of Gender, Technologies of Power at Shifting Boundaries: The Eleventh Annual Lewis and Clark College Gender Studies Symposium , Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR.

FIELDS OF INTEREST

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Anthropological Association
Society for Cultural Anthropology
Society for the Social Study of Science
Association for the Study of Food and Society
Council on Anthropology and Reproduction

NATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND COMMITTEES

MIT ACTIVITIES AND COMMITTEES