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Luke-Condra

Given Name:

Luke

Family Name:

Condra

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Rank:

Assistant Professor

Department:

Public and International Affairs

Office:

3933 Posvar Hall

Office phone number:

412.648.8088

Regional specialty:

South Asia

Southeast Asia

Email Address:

lcondra@pitt.edu

Region:

South Asia, Southeast Asia

Area of specialization:

Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea

Biography:

Dr. Luke Condra is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.  His research focuses on international security and political violence in the Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia.  He teaches two classes at the university.  His fall class is titled "Economics and Politics of Counterinsurgency" and his spring class is titled "Ethnic Politics".

Elisa-Beshero-Bondar

Given Name:

Elisa

Family Name:

Beshero-Bondar

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Rank:

Associate Professor

Department:

English

Office:

Pitt-Greensburg FOB 204

Office phone number:

724-836-7195

Regional specialty:

Southeast Asia

Email Address:

ebb8@pitt.edu

Region:

Pacific Islands

Area of specialization:

Pacific Islands and Anglo-Pacific contact in the eighteenth century

Biography:

Dr. Beshero-Bondar, Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg campus, has developed a project called Digital Archives and Pacific Cultures in conjunction with the Digital Humanities courses at the Pitt-Oakland and Pitt-Greensburg campuses. Digital Archives and Pacific Cultures is a collaborative effort between University of Pittsburgh faculty and students to explore the voyage narratives from the 18th century European expeditions to the Pacific Islands through English poetry, prose, and first-hand accounts of what was witnessed during the journey. The aim is to understand more about Polynesian culture when the Europeans first discovered the new world. This project can be accessed at the following link: <a href="http://pacific.pitt.edu/" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" target="_blank">http://pacific.pitt.edu</a>

Gemma-Marolda

Given Name:

Gemma

Family Name:

Marolda

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Rank:

Lecturer

Department:

Political Science

Office:

4600 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Office phone number:

412-648-7250

Regional specialty:

Southeast Asia

Email Address:

gmarolda@pitt.edu

Region:

Southeast Asia

Area of specialization:

Government and politics of Southeast Asia; the European Union's presence in the Asia-Pacific

Qualifications:

PhD, University of Maryland, 1994

Andrew N.-Weintraub

Given Name:

Andrew N.

Family Name:

Weintraub

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Rank:

Professor

Department:

Music

Office:

305 Music Building

Office phone number:

412-624-4126

Regional specialty:

Southeast Asia

Indonesia

Email Address:

anwein@pitt.edu

Area of specialization:

Indonesia; Southeast Asia; Ethnomusicology; Sound Repatriation; Popular Music; Cultural Rights; Islam

Qualifications:

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1997

Publications:

2014 “Pop Goes Melayu: Indonesian Popular Music, 1968-1975.” In Sonic Modernities. Ed. Bart Barendregt. Leiden: Brill Press.

2013 “The Sound and Spectacle of Dangdut Koplo: Genre and Counter-Genre in East Java, Indonesia.” Asian Music.

2012 “The Audible Future: Reimagining the Role of Sound Archives and Sound Repatriation in Uganda.” [co-authored with Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza]. Ethnomusicology

Richard-Donato

Given Name:

Richard

Family Name:

Donato

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Rank:

Professor

Department:

Education

Office:

5314 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Office phone number:

412-624-7248

Regional specialty:

Southeast Asia

Thailand

Email Address:

donato@pitt.edu

Region:

Southeast Asia

Area of specialization:

Second and Foreign Language Acquisition; Foreign Language Education; Sociocultural Theory and Language Development; Language Program Assessment

Qualifications:

PhD, University of Delaware, 1988

Publications:

2013 Troyan, F., Davin, K., & Donato, R. Exploring a practice-based approach to teacher education: A work in progress. Canadian Modern Language Review

2013 Davin, K., & Donato, R. (2013). Student collaboration and teacher-directed classroom dynamic assessment: A complementary pairing. Foreign Language Annals

2013 Troyan, F.J., Davin, K., Donato, R., & Hellmann, A. (2012). Integrated performance assessment (IPA) in an elementary school Spanish program. Association for Childhood Education International: Focus on the Elementary

David M.-Berman

Given Name:

David M.

Family Name:

Berman

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Rank:

Professor Emeritus

Department:

Education

Office:

5602 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Office phone number:

412-648-2115

Regional specialty:

Southeast Asia

Email Address:

dmberman@pitt.edu

Region:

Southeast Asia

Area of specialization:

Social Studies Education; Comparative and International Education; Schooling in Extreme Conditions

Qualifications:

PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 1986

Publications:

2009 “‘Never Forget the Sacrifice’: A Visit to Chu Van An High School in Hanoi, Vietnam,” The Social Studies 100:4 (July/August 2009) 148–153 (100th Anniversary Issue Reprint).

2007 The War Schools of Dobrinja: Reading, Writing, and Resistance during the Siege of Sarajevo. San Francisco, Caddo Gap Press.

2006 “Školovanje u Ekstremnim Okolnostima: Lekcije iz Bosanskih Pejzaža” [Schooling in the Extreme: Lessons from Bosnian Landscapes], Prosvjetni List [The Educational Gazette], (Ministry of Education and Science, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina) 932:61; New Series 100:10, 17–20.

Nguyen-Dung

Given Name:

Nguyen

Family Name:

Dung

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Rank:

Professor Emeritus

Department:

Business

Office:

240 Mervis Hall

Office phone number:

412-648-1521

Regional specialty:

Southeast Asia

Email Address:

nguyen@katz.pitt.edu

Region:

Southeast Asia

Area of specialization:

Optimal Sales Behavior; Optimal Advertising; Economic Decisions under Uncertainty; Applications of Stochastic Control Theory; Estimations of Various Econometric Systems;

Biography:

Dung Nguyen's research interests include various aspects of management decisions such as optimal sales behavior, optimal advertising, economic decisions under uncertainty, applications of stochastic control theory, and estimations of various econometric systems. He is currently interested in theoretical and empirical issues of theories of business cycles and aspects of international economics. Nguyen has published in and served as a referee for several professional economics and management journals, and has regularly presented papers at professional meetings. His teaching assignments at the Katz School include managerial economics at the MBA level, and doctoral seminars in econometrics and multivariate analysis.

Publications:

N/A "Competitive Advertising Strategies and Market Dynamics: A Research Note on Theory and Evidence," with Larry Shi, in Management Science.

2005 "Firm Capabilities, Timing of Internet Adoption, and Performance," with L. Shi, J. Hulland, and R. Chatterjee, MSI Reports, Issue Four, Marketing Science Institute, Boston, MA.

2003 Book Review: The Vietnamese Economy, edited by B. Tran Nam and C. Do Pham, Routledge-Curzon, in Journal of Asian Business.

Andrew J.-Strathern

Given Name:

Andrew J.

Family Name:

Strathern

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Rank:

Mellon Professor

Department:

Anthropology

Office:

3302 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Regional specialty:

Southeast Asia

Email Address:

strather@pitt.edu

Region:

Pacific Islands, East Asia

Area of specialization:

The Analysis of Political and Economic Systems; Kinship Theories; Social Change; Religion and Ritual; Symbolism; Ethnicity; Legal Anthropology; Conflict and Violence; The Anthropology of the Body; Cross-cultural Study of Medical Systems

Biography:

Andrew Strathern received his Ph.D from Cambridge University and is an internationally recognized scholar and social anthropologist with a wide range of interests, including the analysis of political and economic systems, kinship theories, social change, religion and ritual, symbolism, ethnicity, legal anthropology, conflict and violence, the anthropology of the body, and the cross-cultural study of medical systems. He has carried out long-term fieldwork in the Pacific (especially Papua New Guinea), Asia (especially Taiwan), and Europe (with a focus on Ireland and Scotland) and continues an active research and publication program in these global arenas as well as others. He also conducts research in and teaches on contemporary anthropological theory, linguistic anthropology, and linguistic and social issues in Europe and globally. For many years he has collaborated with Dr. Pamela J.Stewart pamjan@pitt.edu and they have published widely on their findings. They are frequently invited international lecturers, discussing their current theoretical perspectives. Currently they have completed a new book, “Peace-Making and the Imagination” (Strathern and Stewart, 2011)” and they have just launched a new global research project, “Disaster Anthropology”, exploring the impact of NGOs, Ritual, Widgets (e-technology), Internet Images [visual and textual], and Conflict. For more information, visit: <a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~strather" target="_blank">http://www.pitt.edu/~strather</a>

Qualifications:

PhD, Cambridge University

Publications:

Their most recent co-authored books include:
Diaspora, Disasters, and the Cosmos: Rituals and Images. Stewart, Pamela J. and Andrew Strathern, co-authors. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press (under contract, in preparation).
2015 Research Companion to Anthropology. Stewart, Pamela J and Andrew Strathern (Co-Editors). London: Ashgate Publishing.
2014 Working in the Field: Anthropological Experiences across the World. Stewart, Pamela J and Andrew Strathern, co-authors. Palgrave Macmillan.

2014 Ritual: Key Concepts in Religion. Stewart, Pamela J and Andrew Strathern, co-authors. London: Bloomsbury.London: Continuum Publishing (Bloomsbury).
2011 Peace-making and the Imagination: Papua New Guinea Perspectives. Stewart, Pamela J and Andrew Strathern, co-authors. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press.

A selection of Stewart and Strathern's recent influential articles/essays:
---2015 (forthcoming, in press)   Strathern, Andrew J. and Pamela J. Stewart. Introduction. In, Research Companion to Anthropology, edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern. Ashgate Publishing
---2015 (forthcoming, in press)   Stewart, Pamela J. and Andrew Strathern. Disaster Anthropology. In, Research Companion to Anthropology, edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern. Ashgate Publishing
---2013 Strathern, Andrew and Pamela J. Stewart (Strathern). Medicine and the Body. In, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior and Society, edited by W.C. Cockerham, R. Kingwall, and S.R. Quah. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
---2013 Stewart (Strathern) Pamela J. and Andrew Strathern. Symbols, Language, Ritual, and Scale. Neo-Lithics 2/13, pp. 37-40.
---2013 Strathern, Andrew J. and Pamela J. Stewart (Strathern). Dark and light shamanisms: themes of conflict, ambivalence, and healing. In, Shamanism and Violence. Power, Repression and Suffering in Indigenous Religious Conflicts, edited by Diana Riboli and Davide Torri. London: Ashgate Publishing, pp 11-23.
---2013 Strathern, Andrew J. and Pamela J. Stewart. Religion and Violence in Pacific Island Societies. In, Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence, edited by Mark Juergensmeyer, Michael Jerryson, and Margo Kitts. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, pp 167-182.
---2013 Stewart, Pamela J. and Andrew J. Strathern. Religion and Violence from an Anthropological Perspective. In, Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence, edited by Mark Juergensmeyer, Michael Jerryson, and Margo Kitts. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, pp 375-384.
---2012 Strathern, Andrew J. and Pamela J. Stewart. [Updated and Reprinted] Ceremonial exchange: debates and comparisons. In, A Handbook of Economic Anthropology, Second Edition, edited by James G. Carrier. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 239-256.
---2011 Stewart (Strathern), Pamela J. and Andrew Strathern.   Fun with Fads: What Comes Next was Probably Here Before (Plus Ca Change). Anthropologica (Canadian Anthropological Society journal): 53 (2): 330-331.
---2011 Strathern, Andrew J. and Pamela J. Stewart. Bamboo Knives, Bows, and Waterfalls: The Presentation of "Traditional Knowledge" in Melpa Kang Rom, Duna Pikono and the Works of Hesiod and Virgil. In, Sung Stories from the Papua New Guinea Highlands: Studies in Form, Meaning and Sociocultural Context, edited by Alan Rumsey and Don Niles. Canberra, Australia: Australian National University e-press, pp. 303-316.
---2011 Strathern, Andrew J. and Pamela J. Stewart. Chapter 22, PERSONHOOD: Embodiment and Personhood. In, A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment, Frances E. Mascia-Lees (ed.). Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., pp. 388-402 (2011).
---2010. Strathern, Andrew and Pamela J. Stewart.   Kinship, Ritual, Cosmos. Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes 130-131, pp 79-88.
---2010. Strathern, Andrew and Pamela J. Stewart. The Appearing and Disappearing World of the Bogaiya: A Corner of Papua New Guinea Cultural History. In, McElhanon, K.A. and Ger Reesink (eds.) A Mosaic of Languages and Cultures: Studies Celebrating the Academic Career of Karl J. Franklin. Dallas, Texas: SIL Publications. pp. 399-407. [e-book, ISBN 978 1 55671 250 0]
---2010 Strathern, Andrew J. and Pamela J. Stewart (1998) [Reprinted in Ritual]. Embodiment and Communication: Two Frames for the Analysis of Ritual. Social Anthropology (Journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists) Vol. 6, part 2. Pp 237-251. In, Stewart, Pamela J. and Andrew Strathern (eds.). Ritual. (The International Library of Essays in Anthropology), London: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 83-97.
---2010 Strathern, Andrew and Pamela J. Stewart (2008) [Reprinted in Ritual]. Shamanic Performances: Issues of Performativity and Comparison. Journal of Ritual Studies 22.1, pp. 53-59. In, Stewart, Pamela J. and Andrew Strathern (eds.). Ritual. (The International Library of Essays in Anthropology), London: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 283-289.
---2010 Stewart, Pamela J. and Andrew Strathern. Shamanic Performance and Cosmological Praxis, pp. 291-300. In, Stewart, Pamela J. and Andrew Strathern (eds.). Ritual. (The International Library of Essays in Anthropology), London: Ashgate Publishing.
---2010 Stewart, Pamela J. and A.J. Strathern (1999) [Reprinted in Ritual]. Female Spirit Cults as a Window on Gender Relations in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. [Sept. 1999] 5(3):345-360. In, Stewart, Pamela J. and Andrew Strathern (eds.). Ritual. (The International Library of Essays in Anthropology), London: Ashgate Publishing ,pp. 369-384.
---2010 Stewart, Pamela J. and Andrew Strathern. How Can Will be Expressed and What Role Does the Imagination Play? In Toward an Anthropology of the Will, Keith M. Murphy and C. Jason Throop, Editors. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 140-157.
---2010 Strathern, Andrew and Pamela J. Stewart. Shifting Centres, Tense Peripheries: Indigenous Cosmopolitanism, in, United in Discontent: Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism and Globalization, Dimitrios Theodossopoulos and Elisabeth Kirtsoglou, eds., Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, pages 20-44.
---2010 Strathern, Andrew and Pamela J. Stewart.   "Placing and Dis-Placing the Dead". In Religion and Retributive Logic: Essays in Honour of Professor Garry W. Trompf., Carole M. Cusack and Christopher Hartney, eds. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Publishing, pages 131-144.
---2009 Strathern, Andrew and Pamela J. Stewart. Preface to the New Edition. Inequality Reconsidered: Models and Histories of Change, pp. viii-xii. In, Inequality in New Guinea Highlands Societies. [Re-issued with corrections, 2009]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
---2008 Strathern A.J. and Pamela J. Stewart. Anthropology of Violence and Conflict, Overview. (Updated and expanded), In, Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict, 2nd Edition. published by Elsevier Inc., Oxford, pages 75-86.
---2007 Strathern, Andrew and Pamela J. Stewart. Preface to the New Edition. 2007 Waves of Change, pp. xv-xviii. In, The Rope of Moka. [Re-issued with corrections, 2007]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
---2007 Strathern, Andrew and Pamela J. Stewart. Actors and Actions in 'Exotic' Places, pp. 95-108. In, Wassmann, Jurg and Katharina Stockhaus (eds.) Experiencing New Worlds. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Richard-Scaglion

Given Name:

Richard

Family Name:

Scaglion

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Rank:

Professor Emeritus

Department:

Anthropology

Office:

3302 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Regional specialty:

Southeast Asia

Email Address:

scaglion@pitt.edu

Region:

Pacific Islands

Area of specialization:

Pacific Islands Studies; New Guinea; Ecuador; Anthropological Theory and Method; Legal Anthropology; Human Ecology; Tribal Societies; Colonial and Postcolonial Change

Biography:

Richard Scaglion is a four-field anthropologist who specializes in the study of the Pacific Islands and has developing interests in Latin America. He is particularly interested in human migration and mobility in Oceania, in people’s relationships with their natural environments, and in the growth of social complexity. His applied work has involved the anthropology of law and sustainable development in island nations. He has a special relationship with the Abelam people of Papua New Guinea, with whom he has conducted long-term field research beginning in 1974.

Qualifications:

PhD, University of Pittsbugh, 1976

Publications:

2015 Scaglion, Richard. “Indigenous Education in the Pacific Islands.” In Indigenous Education: Language, Culture, and Identity. W. J. Jacob, S. Y. Cheng, and M. K. Porter (eds.), pp. 281-299. Springer, Dordrecht.

2013 Scaglion, Richard. "Law" (Chapter 17). In The Pacific Islands: Environment and Society, Revised Edition. M. Rapaport (ed.), pp. 202-213. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.

2012 Feinberg, Richard and Richard Scaglion (eds.) Polynesian Outliers: The State of the Art. Ethnology Monographs No. 21, Pittsburgh.

Nicole-Constable

Given Name:

Nicole

Family Name:

Constable

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Rank:

Professor

Department:

Anthropology

Office:

3124 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Office phone number:

412-648-8846

Regional specialty:

East Asia

Southeast Asia

Email Address:

constabl@pitt.edu

Region:

East Asia, Pacific Asia

Area of specialization:

transnationalism, migration and mobilities; the commodification of intimacy; gender and reproductive labor; ethnographic writing and power.

Biography:

Nicole Constable is a sociocultural anthropologist whose interests include transnationalism, migration and mobilities; the commodification of intimacy; gender and reproductive labor; ethnographic writing and power. Her geographical areas of specialization are Hong Kong, China, the Philippines and Indonesia. She has conducted fieldwork in Hong Kong on constructions of Hakka Chinese Christian identity, on resistance and discipline among Filipina and Indonesian domestic workers, and among migrant parents. Recent publications have focused on cross-border marriages, internet ethnography, the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act, religion and labor protests among migrant workers.  Her newest publication is a book titled Born Out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor (University of California Press and Hong Kong University Press 2014).

Qualifications:

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1989

Publications:

2014 Constable, Nicole. Born Out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor. University of California Press, 2014.

2013 "Correspondence Marriages, Virtual Communities, and Counter-Erotics on the Internet" In Media, Erotics and Transnational Asia. Purnima Mankekar and Louisa Schein, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, pp. 111-37.

2013 "Conference as Feminist Ethnography and the Blurring of Boundaries". Special issue Remapping the Erotic: Interrogations from Asia, Sik Ying Ho, ed. Sexualities.

2012 Brides, Maids and Prostitutes: Reflections on the Study of “Trafficked” Women. In: Shadow lines: Women and Borders in Contemporary Asia. Devleena Ghosh, ed. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, pp. 14-35.