EDUCATION

BA Psychology, The King’s College, Briarcliff Manor, NY.

MA Anthropology, San Francisco State University,
San Francisco, California.

PhD Anthropology, Stanford University.

TEACHING POSITIONS

2000- present

Associate professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Women's Studies Program, Purdue University.

1994-2000

Assistant professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Women's Studies Program, Purdue University.

1993

Visiting lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

AWARDS AND HONORS

2000

Ruth Benedict Prize awarded for Female Desires: Same-sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures by the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists in recognition of distinguished scholarship.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

2007

Women’s Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia. Palgrave Macmillan. Co-edited with Saskia Wieringa, Abha Bhaiya.

2000

Webs of Power: Women, Kin and Community in a Sumatran Village. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

1999

Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures. New York: Columbia University Press. Co-edited with Saskia E. Wieringa.

1986

The Many Faces of Homosexuality: Anthropological Approaches to Homosexual Behavior. New York: Harrington Park Press. Editor. Originally published as Journal of Homosexuality 11 (3/4).

JOURNAL ARTICLES

2005

Gender transgression in colonial and post-colonial Indonesia. Journal of Asian Studies 64(4): 849-879.

2005

Transnational sexualities in one place: Indonesian readings. Gender & Society 19(2): 221-242.

2005

Wedding bell blues: Marriage, missing men, and matrifocal follies. American Ethnologist 32(1): 3-19. Rejoinder to commentary: The specter of the Patriarchal Man 32(1): 42-45.

2001

Representing women: The politics of Minangkabau adat writing. Journal of Asian Studies 60(1): 125-149.

2000

Culture and women’s sexualities. Journal of Social Issues 56(2): 223-238.

1999

Big houses and small houses: Doing matriliny in West Sumatra. Ethnos 64(1): 32-56.

1998

Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing masculinity and erotic desire. Cultural Anthropology: 13(4): 491-521. (Revised version printed in Female Desires, Blackwood and Wieringa, eds.)

1997

Women, land and labor: Negotiating clientage and kinship in a Minangkabau peasant community. Ethnology 36(4): 277-293.

1985

Breaking the mirror: The construction of lesbianism and the anthropological discourse on homosexuality. Journal of Homosexuality 11(3/4): 1-17.

1984

Sexuality and gender in certain Native American tribes: The case of cross-gender females. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 10(1):27-42.

BOOK CHAPTERS

2006

Marriage, matrifocality and “missing” men. In Feminist Anthropology: Past, Present, and Future, Pamela L. Geller and Miranda K. Stockett, eds., pp. 73-88.  Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press.

2006

Mothers to daughters: Social change and matrilineal kinship in a Minangkabau village. In Globalization and Change in Fifteen Cultures: Born in One World, Living in Another. George Spindler and Janice E. Stockard, eds., pp. 117-143. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

2003

Woman-headed households in agrarian societies: Not just a passing phase. In Gender at Work in Economic Life. Society for Economic Anthropology Monographs, vol. 20. Gracia Clark, ed., pp. 41-59. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.

2002

Reading sexuality across cultures: Anthropology and theories of sexuality. In Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology. Ellen Lewin and William Leap, eds., pp. 69-92. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

1999a

Saskia E. Wieringa and Evelyn Blackwood. Introduction. In Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures, E. Blackwood and S. Wieringa, eds., pp. 1-38. New York: Columbia University Press.

1999b

Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia E. Wieringa. Sapphic Shadows: Challenging the silence in the study of sexuality. In Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures, E. Blackwood and S. Wieringa, eds., pp. 39-63. New York: Columbia University Press.

1997

Native American genders and sexualities: Beyond anthropological models and misrepresentations. In Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality and Spirituality. Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas and Sabine Lang, eds., pp. 284-294. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press.

1996

Cross-cultural lesbian studies: Problems and possibilities. In The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty-First Century. Bonnie Zimmerman and Toni McNaron, eds., pp. 194-200. New York: The Feminist Press.

1995a

Falling in love with an-other lesbian: Reflections on identity in fieldwork. In Taboo: Sex, Identity and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork, D. Kulick and M. Willson, eds., pp. 51-75. New York: Routledge Press

1995b

Senior women, model mothers and dutiful wives: Managing gender contradictions in a Minangkabau village. In Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia, A. Ong and M. Peletz, eds., pp. 124-158. Berkeley: University of California Press.

OFFICES IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Board member, Association for Feminist Anthropology, 2002-2004.

Executive board member, International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society, 2003-2007.

Board of Advisors, AsiaPacificQueer Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 2004-2005

Ethics Committee, liaison for the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, American Anthropological Association, 2001-2003.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Anthropological Association
American Ethnological Association
Association for Feminist Anthropology:
Association for Asian Studies
International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society:
National Women’s Studies Association
Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists
Society for Cultural Anthropology
AFA
IASSCS