Curriculum Vitae

Education and Career

Since 2001
Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of Indiana, and Hon. Research Associate, Oxford Brookes University

1999-2000
Reader in Anthropology, University of Edinburgh

1997
Recipient, Rivers Memorial Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

1994-99
Lecturer, Reader in Anthropology, Durham University

1987-94
Part-time lecturer in Sociology, University of Virginia

1980-86
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Department Head, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Papua New Guinea

1977-80
Preparation for field work and field work on Ponam Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea

1977
Ph.D., Sociology, University of London (London School of Economics)

Editorial Activities and Editorial Board Memberships

1980-82:
Editor, Research in Melanesia

1985-90:
Overseas Editor, Disability, Handicap and Society

1996-98:
Editor, Studies in Anthropology and History, Harwood Academic Press

1996-98:
Hon. Reviews Editor, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

1999-2001:
Hon. Editor, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

2009-2013:
Editor, EASA Book Series

1999- ongoing:
Advisory Board member, Progress in Development Studies

2009- ongoing:
Editorial Advisor, Environment and Society: Advances in Research

Peer reviews for various journal and publishers, including:
American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, American Jounal of Sociology, Anthropology Today, Berg Publishers, Berghahn Books, British Journal of Sociology, Cambridge University Press, Coastal Management, Conservation and Society, Conservation Biology (assigning editor), Cultural Anthropology, Current Anthropology, Edward Elgar Publisher, Environmental Conservation, Ethnos, Etnografica, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Focaal, Geoforum, Harwood Academic, History and Anthropology, Human Ecology, Human Organization, Journal of Consumer Culture, Journal of Material Culture, Journal of Political Ecology, Landscape Research, Man/Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Ocean and Coastal Management, Oxford University Press, Pacific Studies, Pluto Press, Popular Press, Routledge, Social Analysis, Social Problems, Sociological Forum, Sociological Theory, Sociology of Education, Theory and Society, University of California Press, University of Hawaii Press, University of Michigan Press, University of Pittsburgh Press.

Other Advisory, Commissioning and Examination Work

1998-2000:
External Examiner, Ethnology and Museum Ethnography, Social Anthropology, M. Phil. and M.St. (subsequently M.Sc.), University of Oxford.

2002-04:
Member, ESRC programme commissioning panel, Cultures of Consumption

2006-10:
Member, Publications Committee, Royal Anthropological Institute
Peer reviews for various funding bodies, including: La Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva (Spanish national research funding body), Australian Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council (UK), Israeli Science Foundation, Leverhulme Trust, National Science Foundation (US), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Swiss National Science Foundation, Wenner Gren Foundation.

Memberships in Professional Associations

American Anthropological Association, Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth, European Association of Social Anthropologists, Royal Anthropological Institute