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1 Jan Marci Brunson Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology University of Hawai`i 2424 Maile Way, Saunders Hall 309 Honolulu, HI ~ EDUCATION Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Ph.D., Anthropology, 2008 Dissertation: Reproducing hierarchy: Women s positions and embodiment of social change in the Kathmandu Valley (Chair: Lina M. Fruzzetti. Readers: David I. Kertzer, Daniel J. Smith, Lynn Bennett) A.M., Anthropology, 2001 Master s Thesis: Women s use of contraceptives in the Kathmandu Valley: Enduring side effects and strategizing fertility Eckerd College, Saint Petersburg, Florida B.A., Senior Thesis with Honors, Anthropology, 1999 Minors in Women s and Gender Studies and Religious Studies ACADEMIC POSITIONS University of Hawai`i, Honolulu, Hawai`i Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Affiliate Faculty, Women s Studies, Affiliate Faculty, Center for South Asian Studies, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Eckerd College, Saint Petersburg, Florida Visiting Instructor of Anthropology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Summer Instructor, 2005, 2003, 2002 RESEARCH INTERESTS The politics of reproduction; discourses on development, women, and health; maternal health; new medical technologies and culture; subjectivities of motherhood; structural and interpersonal violence; Nepal, Himalayas, South Asia

2 Brunson 2 PUBLICATIONS Work in Preparation In Prep Family and fertility in a time of social vertigo in Nepal (book manuscript). Submitted Submitted Scooty girls : Gender, mobility, and intimacy at the margins of the Kathmandu Valley (part of special issue submission to Ethnos). Introduction (part of special issue submission to Ethnos). Peer-Reviewed Journals 2010 Confronting maternal mortality, controlling birth in Nepal: The gendered politics of receiving biomedical care at birth. Social Science and Medicine 71(10): Son preference in the context of fertility decline: Limits to new constructions of gender and kinship in Nepal. Studies in Family Planning 41(2): Edited Journals, Encyclopedias, Etc Introduction: Ethnographic encounters with intimate partner violence. Practicing Anthropology 33(3): Moving away from marital violence: Nepali mothers who refuse to stay. Practicing Anthropology 33(3): Nepal. In The Encyclopedia of Women in Today s World. M. Zeiss Stange and C.K. Oyster, eds. SAGE Reference Overpopulation. In The Encyclopedia of Women in Today s World. M. Zeiss Stange and C.K. Oyster, eds. SAGE Reference Women s autonomy and well-being: A case from Nepal. Anthropology News 49(2): The relationship between the status of women and fertility rates: insights from a small rural village. ASIANetwork Freeman Student-Faculty Fellows Papers on Asia 1: PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS Missing women and reappearing men: Traces of imbalance in procreation and scholarship. Invited Panel titled, Feminism and the anthropology of reproduction. American Anthropological Association. Montreal, Canada, November Son preference and the preferences of sons in post-monarchy Nepal. Himalayan Studies Conference, Saint Paul, Minnesota, October Chair, panel titled Sexualities in out-of-the-way places: Tracing intimacies across boundaries. American Anthropological Association. New Orleans, Louisiana, November Defining motherhood(s) through practice: Strategies, indecision, and non-action in Nepal. Panel titled Motherhood/Personhood: Identity, intersubjectivity, and power. American Anthropological Association. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 2009.

3 Brunson 3 Negotiating Opportunities of Motherhood. Society for Medical Anthropology. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, September The gendered politics of receiving biomedical care at birth in Nepal. Society for Applied Anthropology. Santa Fe, New Mexico, March Confronting maternal mortality, controlling birth in Nepal. Loss in Childbearing in sub-saharan Africa and South Asia. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, September The transformative power of impoverished women s work in Nepal: Challenging caste and gender roles. Panel titled Contemporary Ethnographies of Marriage: Re-examining Work, Gender and Identity. American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C., November Moving away from marital violence: Nepali mothers, social constraints, and critical responses. Panel titled Violence- Induced Migration and Its Impact on Reproduction. American Anthropological Association. San Jose, California, November Reproducing hierarchies: Delineating concepts in social theory using women s reproductive realities in Nepal. Panel titled Globalizing Reproduction: Toward Theoretical Centrality. American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C., November Social and biological hegemony over women s bodies in Nepal. Panel titled Reproduction at the Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender. Reproductive Disruptions. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May Images and the official discourse on family planning in Nepal. Poster Session on Medical Anthropology and Health. American Anthropological Association. New Orleans, Louisiana, November Women, identity, and reproduction in Nepal. Panel titled Crafting Genders: Asian Women Making Decisions. American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C., November Contraceptive choice in a semi-urban town in the Kathmandu Valley: Individuals reasons for choosing temporary methods. Poster Session on Fertility and Family Planning. Population Association of America. Washington, D.C., March The relationship between changing values and birth limitation in a Sri Lankan village. Panel titled Anthropological Perspectives on Change: Gender, Reproduction, and Migration. Mid-Atlantic Region Association of Asian Studies. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, November Revisiting conclusions on modernization and birth limitation in a Sri Lankan village. Panel titled Anthropological Perspectives on Change: Gender, Reproduction, and Migration. New England Association of Asian Studies. Providence, Rhode Island, October The relationship between the role of women and fertility rates: insights from a village in Sri Lanka. Panel titled Women s Health. Society for Applied Anthropology. Tucson, Arizona, April RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Redefining the role of sons in post-monarchy, secular Nepal, ethnographic research in northern Kathmandu Valley for book manuscript, July-August 2009, July-August 2010

4 Brunson 4 Reproducing hierarchy: Women s positions and fertility in the Kathmandu Valley, dissertation research in northern Kathmandu Valley, September 2003-August 2004, February- March 2005 Pre-dissertation research around the Kathmandu Valley on the population characteristics of several small towns, February-May 2003 Field and archival research in Darjeeling, India, on the history of Nepalese migration to the area and ethnic identity, May-June 2002 Field research in the Kathmandu Valley on the structure of family planning services, reproductive decisionmaking, and use of hormonal methods of contraception, July-August 2000 HONORS, GRANTS, & FELLOWSHIPS Fletcher Award to support faculty research, Bowdoin College, 2010, 2009 Course Development Award to support research for Globalization and Identity in the Himalayas, Bowdoin College, 2009 Faculty Development Grant for travel to professional meetings, Eckerd College, 2007 Graduate Fellowship, Brown University, 2006 Stephen Robert Graduate Fellowship, Brown University, 2005 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award for Nepal, Supplemental research funds, Andrew Mellon Program in Anthropological Demography, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, 2004, 2003, 2000 Foreign Language and Areas Studies awards for Summer Nepali Intensive Language Program, Cornell University, 2003, 2001, 2000 National Science Foundation Summer Institute for Research Design fellowship, 2002 Summer funds, National Science Foundation Award for the use of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods, Department of Anthropology, Brown University, 2001 Master s research funds, Watson Smith Fund, Department of Anthropology, Brown University, 2000 Ford Foundation Apprentice Scholar, ASIANetwork Freeman Foundation Student-Faculty Fellows Program, 1998 INVITED LECTURES & EXHIBITS Scooty Girls : Gender and Mobility at the Edge of the Kathmandu Valley. Sponsored by the Department of Women s Studies, University of Hawai`i, 24 Feb Panel discussant for the documentary Orgasm Inc.: The Strange Science of Female Pleasure, Bowdoin College, 31 Mar The positions of Nepali Hindu-caste women: Fertility at the intersection of caste, class, and gender. Working Group on Anthropology and Population, Brown University. Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Population Studies and Training Center, 11 Nov Through the lens of an anthropologist: Nepali women s social positions and their fertility and health. Photo essay display. Sponsored by the Population and Studies Training Center, Brown University, Fall Reproductive Realities: Women s positions and health from an anthropological perspective. American Center, Kathmandu, Nepal. Sponsored by the Fulbright Commission to Nepal, 17 Aug Women s use of contraceptives in Nepal: An application of medical anthropology to reproduction. Guest lecture for the course Medical Anthropology, Tufts University, 21 Feb 2002.

5 Brunson 5 TEACHING INTERESTS Nepal and Himalayas, cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, globalization and health, new medical technologies and culture, anthropology of science and reproduction, modernity and the family, adventure tourism, demographic anthropology, feminist anthropology, research methods TEACHING & MENTORING University of Hawai`i (2011- ) Undergraduate Courses Medical Anthropology Applied Anthropology Culture and Humanity Doctoral Dissertations Asami Nago: malaria, political economy, biomedical technologies, Thailand. Crystal Cooper: (Chair) the politics and embodiment of breastfeeding, Hawai`i. Directed Reading or Research Anthropology and alternative birth models, Eden Southworth, Spring 2012 Bowdoin College ( ) Courses Medical Anthropology Globalization and Identity in the Himalayas Anthropological Research (Methods) Culture at the Top of the World (First-year Writing Seminar) Anthropology of Science, Sex, and Reproduction Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Honors Theses Creating a comfortable death: Hospice volunteers, nurses, and chaplains approaches to end-of-life care, Lauren Xenakis, (Chair) Comparing birth models at a hospital in Maine: Obstetricians and nurse midwives, Natalia Richey, Human rights, the cultural defense, and cultural relativism: How law and anthropology understand and use culture, Kate Epstein, Making tattoos: Constructing identity, networks, and social structures among artists and collectors, Skye Lawrence, The development of a national education system in Nepal, Jacob Hearst, 2008 Independent Studies Defining a good death, Lauren Xenakis, Fall 2010, Spring 2011 Anthropology of tourism in Asia, Nga Tong, Fall 2009 NGOs and rural women s health in southern India, Nandini Vijayakumar, Fall 2009 Eckerd College ( ) Courses Medical Anthropology Physical Anthropology Introduction to Anthropology

6 Brunson 6 Culture through the Camera s Lens Culture, Self, and Behavior South Asian Area Studies Brown University ( ) Courses Culture and Human Behavior PROFESSIONAL SERVICE To the University Member of the Globalization in Asia-Pacific Working Group, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawai`i, Member of Department of Anthropology Admissions Committee, University of Hawai`i, Chair of Honors Thesis, Bowdoin College, Pre-major Advisor, Bowdoin College, Advisor to Anthropology Majors and Minors, Bowdoin College, Member of Oversight Committee on Gender and Sexuality Issues, Bowdoin College, Teaching Consultant, The Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Brown University, Writing Center Associate, Brown University Writing Center, Fall 2002 To the Profession Reviewer for the following journals: American Ethnologist, Social Science and Medicine, Social Forces, Journal of Biosocial Sciences, Journal of Family Issues, Studies in Family Planning Steering Committee Member, Council on Anthropology and Reproduction, Website Editor, Council on Anthropology and Reproduction, Co-editor, Council on Anthropology and Reproduction Newsletter, Reviewer for Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age by Ken Guest Colloquia co-organizer, Working Group in Anthropology and Population, Brown University, 2001 PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING LGBTIQ Safe Zone Training and Certification, Bowdoin College, November 5, 2010 McKeen Center Public Engagement Workshop, Bowdoin College, June 3, 2009 Teaching writing in first-year seminars, Bowdoin College, August 29, 2008 Using Blackboard in teaching, Bowdoin College, July 29-30, 2008 New Faculty Seminar on Teaching, Eckerd College, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, The Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Brown University Professional Development Seminar, 2006 Teaching Seminar, 2005 LANGUAGE TRAINING Summer Nepali Intensive Language Program, Cornell University, 2003, 2002, 2000 Fluent in spoken Nepali and competent in written Devanagri script

7 Brunson 7 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Anthropological Association Society for Medical Anthropology Council on Anthropology and Reproduction Society for Applied Anthropology Association for Feminist Anthropology Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies