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

2008-Present

Associate professor, Department of Anthropology, Purdue University.

2000-2008

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

2008

Martin Duberman Fellowship

2007

Ruth Benedict Prize for the book Women’s Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia.

2001

Fulbright Grant for Senior Scholars

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

2008

Transnational discourse and circuits of queer knowledge in Indonesia.  GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 14(4): 481-507.

2007

Regulation of sexuality in Indonesian discourse: Normative gender, criminal law and shifting strategies of control. Culture, Health and Sexuality 9(3): 293-307.

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.

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.

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

2008

Not your average housewife: Minangkabau women rice farmers in West Sumatra. In Women and Work in Indonesia. Lyn Parker and Michele Ford, eds. New York: Routledge.

2007a

Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia E. Wieringa. Globalization, sexuality and silences: Women’s sexualities and masculinities in an Asian context. In Women’s Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia.

2007b

Transnational sexualities in one place: Indonesian readings. In Women’s Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia.

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.

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.

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.

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

Association for Feminist Anthropology: Board member, 2002-2004, treasurer 2007-2009.

International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society: Executive board member, 2003-2009.

Hong Kong University Press, Queer Asia Book series, Advisory Board.

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:
Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists
Society for Cultural Anthropology
AFA
IASSCS - the seventh international conference in Hanoi, Vietnam