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1 NATALIE H. PORTER Department of Anthropology 321 Huddleston Hall University of New Hampshire 73 Main Street, Durham NH ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2014-present Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire Department of Anthropology Associate Fellow, University of Oxford Institute for Science, Innovation and Society School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford Institute for Science, Innovation and Society School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography EDUCATION 2012 Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ph.D. Minor in Southeast Asian Studies Dissertation Title: Threatening Lives: Controlling Avian Flu in Vietnam s Poultry Economy Dissertation Committee: Katherine Bowie (advisor), Linda Hogle, Claire Wendland, Kenneth George, Paul Nadasdy, Mark Sidel 2006 M.A. Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2002 University of California Santa Barbara B.A. Summa Cum Laude: Double Major in Anthropology & Global and International Studies (regional emphasis in Southeast Asia) 2001 National University of Singapore, Southeast Asian Studies Department RESEARCH SPECIALIZATIONS medical anthropology; science and technology studies; multispecies ethnography; biopolitics; property; risk and food production; southeast Asia; Vietnam PUBLICATIONS Peer Reviewed Publications Porter, N Bird Flu Biopower: Strategies for Multispecies Coexistence in Vietnam. American Ethnologist 40(1): Natalie H. Porter 1

2 Porter, N Global Health Cadres: Avian Flu Management and Practical Statecraft in Vietnam. Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 28(1): Porter, N Risky Zoographies: The Limits of Place in Avian Flu Management. Environmental Humanities 1: Under Review Porter, N. Ferreting Things Out: Designing Pandemic Flu in Animal Models. BioSocieties. Porter, N. and J. Lezaun. Containment and Competition: Transgenic Animals in the One Health Paradigm. Social Science and Medicine. Porter, N. and A. Hinterberger. Genomic and Viral Sovereignty: Tethering the Materials of Global Life Science. Public Culture. In Preparation Porter, N. Viral Economies: An Ethnography of Bird Flu in Vietnam. Book manuscript. RESEARCH SUPPORT AND AWARDS Dissertation Writing Fellowships Andrew W. Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship Advanced Opportunity Dissertation Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison Field Research Grants Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Grant Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Research Grant 2008 Blakemore-Freeman Fellowship for Advanced Study of Asian Languages (declined) 2008 Fulbright International Institute of Education Dissertation Research Grant (declined) 2007 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars Fellowship 2006 Scott Kloeck-Jensen International Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant Awards and Training Grants 2012 Society for Medical Anthropology Science, Technology & Medicine Paper Prize 2011 Society for Medical Anthropology Travel Fellowship 2010 National Science Foundation Travel Grant 2010 Vilas Conference Presentation Funding Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison Center of Southeast Asian Studies Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2006 Vietnamese Advanced Summer Institute Grant, Fulbright-Hays Program Funding Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow 2005 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow, SEASSI Summer Language Program Advanced Opportunity Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2004 Vilas Welcome Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison Natalie H. Porter 2

3 CONFERENCES AND PAPERS PRESENTED Conference Organization 2013 Animal Exchanges: Anthropologies Between and Beyond Species. Co-organized with Javier Lezaun and Amy Hinterberger. University of Oxford, May 24. Panel Organization 2013 Security Regimes and Topographies of Exclusion in Southeast Asia. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting. San Diego, March Pushing Boundaries of Risk, Rights, and Responsibility: New Horizons of Choice in Biomedicine Co-organized Junjie Chen. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Baltimore March Conference Presentations 2013 The Transgenic Inscription of Human-Animal Connections. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, November Animal Experimentation and the Structuring of Security in Pandemic Flu Research. Animal Housing: Practical Infrastructures, Infrastructural Practices Conference. University of Oslo, November Viral Sovereignty: Global Health Security and the Ownership of Asian Entities. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting. San Diego, March Bird Flu Brokers: Avian Appropriation and the Commensuration of Life in Vietnam. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, November Ferreting Things Out: Designing Pandemic Flu in Animal Models. Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting. Copenhagen, October Claiming Sovereignty over Viruses and Genomes: Exploring Acts of Owning and Appropriating in International Life Sciences Research. Creativity of Property Workshop. University College London, June Everything in its Place: Spatial Ontologies in Pandemic Disease Management. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Montreal, November 'We ve Got to Make Bird Flu Sexy': Selling Biosecurity in Vietnam. Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting. Tokyo, August Bird Flu Counter-Conduct in Vietnam. Sentient Creatures: Transforming Biopolitics and Life Matters Conference. University of Oslo, September Constructing the Vietnamese Long-Haired Warrior. 31 st Annual Wisconsin Women Studies Conference. University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 21. Natalie H. Porter 3

4 2006 Mother, Wife, Warrior: Vietnamese Women in Revolutionary Ritual, Rhetoric, and Art. Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs. Madison, WI, October How the Gun Became her Husband: Understanding Revolutionary Mobilization through Women s Memoirs. Vietnam Studies Conference. UC Berkeley February 10. Invited Lectures 2013 Viral Economies: Farming Bird Flu in Vietnam. Laboratorie d anthropologie Sociale. College de France, December Legal and Tacit Regulations on Select Agent Research. Biosafety Training Course. Argonne Laboratories. University of Chicago, November Commoditizing Viruses in Vietnam. Southeast Asia Seminar Series, St. Anthony s College. University of Oxford, November Securitizing Pathogens in Policy and Practice. Center for Pathogen Evolution. University of Cambridge, October Ferreting Things Out: Circulating Pandemic Flu in Animal Models. Data Matters Workshop. University of Oxford, September Brokering Life in Vietnamese Bird Flu Management. Medical Anthropology Lecture Series. University of New Hampshire, February Towards an Interspecies Approach to Avian Influenza. Bioethics & Society. University of Wisconsin-Madison, February Write it Down and the Chicken Dies : Regulating Life in Vietnamese Bird Flu Management. Center for Southeast Asian Studies Friday Forum Series. University of Wisconsin-Madison, February Hearts, Minds, and Hand-Washing: The Politics of Bird Flu Management in Vietnam. Special Series in Health & Societies. University of Pennsylvania, March Rethinking Neoliberal Governance in Vietnamese Bird Flu Interventions. Southeast Asian Studies Collaborative Colloquium. University of Freiburg, February 'Không ai muốn chăn nuôi mà!' Một số nhận xét về việc kiểm soát dịch cúm gia cầm ở Việt Nam. [ 'No One Wants to be a Poultry Farmer!"' Reflections on Avian Flu Management in Vietnam's Poultry Economy]. Anthropology Department Seminar Series. Hanoi National University, December The Political Economy of Avian Influenza in Southeast Asia. Anthropology of Mainland Southeast Asia. Center for Khmer Studies, Cambodia, May Avian Influenza Management and the Ethics of Poultry Sector Reforms in Vietnam. Bioethics & Society. University of Wisconsin-Madison, May Nanotechnology Developments for Avian Flu: Reconfiguring Risk and the Natalie H. Porter 4

5 Body. Anthropology Colloquium. University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 23. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2011 Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Freiburg, Germany (designed and taught Anthropological Approaches to Vietnam; Ethnographic Methods) Vietnamese Instructor, Institute of Foreign Languages. University of Freiburg, Germany (designed and taught language and culture courses) 2008 Teaching Assistant, Anthropology 104: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison English Instructor, Shane English Center Vietnam (designed & taught courses) FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE 2012 Two months of research for book manuscript in Vietnam Sixteen months of multi-sited field research for dissertation in Vietnam 2007 Two months of pre-dissertation on avian flu management in Vietnam 2006 Two month pilot study on public health institutions in Vietnam Sixteen months of teaching and language study in Vietnam OTHER RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2009 Qualitative researcher, Avian Influenza Division. UNICEF-Vietnam Qualitative researcher, Avian Influenza Communications. Abt Associates-Vietnam Visiting Researcher, Anthropology Department. Hanoi National University Research Assistant, Center for Nanotechnology & Society. University of Wisconsin. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Professional Memberships: American Anthropological Association Society for Social Studies of Science Association for Asian Studies Society for Applied Anthropology Association for American Geographers Manuscript Reviewer For: Medical Anthropology Medical Anthropology Quarterly Environment and Society Review Environmental Humanities LANGUAGES Vietnamese- Fluent; Spanish- Advanced; German- Intermediate REFERENCES Upon request Natalie H. Porter 5

Siri Suh. 35 Claver Place, Apt. 1 Brooklyn, NY Phone: (917) *

Siri Suh. 35 Claver Place, Apt. 1 Brooklyn, NY Phone: (917) * Siri Suh 35 Claver Place, Apt. 1 Brooklyn, NY 11238 Phone: (917) 232-2835*Email: jsuh@barnard.edu; sirisuh@gmail.com EDUCATION Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York, NY Ph.D.