Curriculum Vitae
JOEL CORNEAL KUIPERS
Professor Department of Anthropology George Washington University Washington, D. C. 20052
(202) 994-3784 (lab)
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kuipers@gwu.edu
1982 Ph.D. Yale University. Anthropology.
Thesis title: Weyewa Ritual Speech. 1978 M.Phil. Yale University. Anthropology. 1976 B.A. with Honors. Calvin College. English and Sociology.
EMPLOYMENT
2001- present Professor, Department of Anthropology, George Washington University
1998-2001 Professor and chair, Department of Anthropology. George Washington University. 1991-98 Associate Professor of Anthropology. George Washington University. 1989-91 Assistant Professor of Anthropology. George Washington University. 1984-89 Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Seton Hall University. 1982-84 Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Wesleyan University.
2008-2009 Research Grant, SRI International, $92,000 2005-2007 President, Society for Linguistic Anthropology 2003 Best paper, National Association for Research on Science Teaching 2002-2007 co-PI National Science Foundation $5.2 million 2001 co-PI National Science Foundation $210,000 2000 Benjamin Banneker Grant for African American Studies $5,000 2000 George Washington University Facilitating Fund Award $9,000 1998 co-P.I. National Institute of Mental Health.$25,000 1997 P.I., National Science Foundation. $49,000 1996 P.I., National Science Foundation. $450,000 1994 Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars $45,000 1993 National Endowment for Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers $40,000 1993 Social Science Research Council Research Grant $20,000 1993 Wenner Gren Foundation Research Grant $8,000
1992 Grantee, Consortium of Washington Universities $2000
1991 George Washington University Junior Scholars Award $6000 1990 George Washington University Research Facilitating Fund Award $11,000 1988 Fulbright - CIES Research Award $40,000 1987 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers $27,500 1987 Social Science Research Council Research Grant $10,000 1986 AT&T Program Development Grant $2,000
Cultural Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Psychiatric Discourse, Ethnography of Classrooms, Ethnography of Writing, Video Ethnography, Southeast Asia.
Objectification and the Inscription of Knowledge in Science Classrooms edited by Gail Brendel Viechnicki and Joel C. Kuipers. Special Issue of Linguistics and Education volume 19, number 3, 2008.
Fine Description: the ethnographic essays of Harold C. Conklin, edited with introduction by Joel C. Kuipers and Raymond P. McDermott. New Haven: Yale University Press. (2007)
Language, Identity and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the island of Sumba. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1998)
Power in Performance: The Creation of Textual Authority in Weyewa Ritual Speech Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (1990).
Refereed Articles and Papers
"Objectification and the Inscription of Knowledge in Science Classrooms" Linguistics and Education; co-authored with Lindsey Massoud) 19.3:211-224 (2008)
“The local and the national in a diverse county: Objectification as a social and policy process” Linguistics and Education; 19.3:206-210 (2008)
“Comments on ritual unintelligibility” Text & Talk, 2007, 27, 4, July, 559-566 "'It's all human error!' When a school science experiment fails" Linguistics and Education (December 2006, 17, 2, 107-130. co-authored with Gail Viechnicki)
"Named speech registers and the inscription of locality in the Dutch East Indies" Language and Communication 28, 4, Oct., 308-322 (2008)
"Examining the effects of a highly rated science curriculum unit on diverse learners" Journal of Research on Science Teaching . v42 n8 p912-946 Oct 2005
"Oratory" Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 9.1: 169-172 (2000) “Ululations from the Weyewa Highlands: Analysis of Speech, Song and Audience Response on the island of Sumba, Indonesia.” Ethnomusicology 43: 490-507 (1999)
"'Medical Discourse' in Anthropological Context: Views of Language and Power." Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 3.2:99-123 (1989)
"Talking about Trouble: Gender Differences in Weyewa Speech Use" American Ethnologist 13.3:448-462 (August 1986).
"Place, Names and Authority in Weyewa Ritual Speech," Language in Society 13:455-466 (December 1984).
"Matters of Taste in Weyewa" Anthropological Linguistics 26.1:84-101 (Spring 1984)
"Images of Life and Death: Textiles in Sumba, Indonesia," Discovery (Winter 1982).
Chapters in books
“Pengunjuk Rasa” (demonstration of feelings) in Sumba: “Bloody Thursday” in its Cultural and Historical Context" to appear in an edited volume by Gunter Senft and Ellen Basso Ritual Communication
"Personal Names and Changing Modes of Inscribing Identity in Sumba, Eastern Indonesia: “Bloody Thursday” in Linguistic and Social Context" to appear in The Power of Names in Southeast Asia edited volume by Charles MacDonald and Zhang Yangwen, Seattle: University of Washington Press and National University of Singapore.
"Indic Scripts of Insular Southeast Asia: Changing Structures and Functions" in Indic Scripts: Past and Future, Peri Bhaskararao, ed. Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. 2003
"Ethnography of Language in the Age of Video:'Voices' in contexts of religious and clinical authority " in Ronald Scollon and Philip Levine, eds. Multimodal Discourse Analysis pp. 167-183. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press. 2004
"Songs of Citizenship in Weyewa, Indonesia" In Cultural Citizenship in Southeast Asia, Renato Rosaldo, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2002
"Deliberation with Consensus in Indonesian culture" In Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Indonesia. Occasional Papers of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Washington DC: WWICS. 1998.
"Insular Southeast Asian Scripts." In The World's Writing Systems. Peter T. Daniels and William Bright. Pp. 293-301. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1996.
"Obligations to the Word: Ritual Speech, Performance and Responsibility in Weyewa, eastern Indonesia" In Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse. Jane Hill and Judith Irvine, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1993. pp 123-146.
"Indonesia: the Society and Its Environment" in Indonesia- a country study. Pp 22-84. Washington DC: Library of Congress. 1992.
"The Pattern of Prayer in Weyewa" in James J. Fox, ed. To Speak in Pairs: The Ritual Languages of Eastern Indonesia. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1988.
"Talking about Trouble: Gender Differences in Weyewa Speech Use" American Ethnologist 13.3:448-462 (August 1986). Reprinted in Jane Atkinson and Shelly Errington, eds. Power and Difference: Essays on Gender in Island Southeast Asia, 1990. Stanford University Press.
"Matters of Taste in Weyewa" in David Howes, ed. The Varieties of Sensory Experience Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991. Also reprinted by Indiana University Press in a special anniversary volume of Anthropological Linguistics. 1996
“Linguistic piety in central Java” paper to be delivered to the Yale University Center for Southeast Asian Studies, April 22, 2009
“Students’ experience of curriculum units: ideologies of science as middle school practice.” Paper to be delivered at the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA April 14th, 2009
“Interdiscursivity as “transfer”: Language and learning in a middle school science classroom” Paper delivered at the Penn Forum on Ethnography, Feb 27, 2009 Philadelphia, PA. (co-authored with Gail Brendel Viechnicki and Lindsey Massoud).
Numerous book reviews for American Anthropologist, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Asian Studies, Man, Canberra Anthropology, Poetics Today, American Sociological Review, American Ethnologist, Language in Society, Wilson Quarterly, Committee of Women and Asian Studies Newsletter, Antara Kita,
Principal Organizer, "Contested Terrain: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Politics of Culture - Anthropological Fieldwork at GWU." Colonnade Gallery, Washington DC September - October 1992.
"Images of Life and Death: Textiles from Sumba, Indonesia." Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, CT. November 1982 to November 1984.
Co-Founder, Institute for Ethnographic Research, George Washington University. 2000present. With its current director, Professor Richard Grinker, the Institute now publishes Anthropological Quarterly, a 77-year old journal with the 3rd highest subscriptions in sociocultural anthropology. This interdisciplinary Institute, known as IFER, hosts a distinguished lecture series, sponsors workshops and conferences, and supports ethnographic research and writing.
Contributing author, Grant Proposal to the Luce Foundation, "A Capital Consortium: An Integrated Program in Southeast Asian Language, Culture and Politics in the Washington DC area." As former head of SEAWASH (Southeast Asianists of Washington), I assisted in the drafting of a major proposal to integrate the institutional resources of George Washington University, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress into a coherent major program in the study of the languages and cultures of the Southeast Asian region. Funded: March 1996.
Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, Summer Quarters, 1994, 1995, 1996.
Program Consultant, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. State Department
Consultant, Meech-Grant Productions, Inc, BBC/CBC Television. Anthropological consultant for documentary on the native customs of the people of Sumba, eastern Indonesia. June 1989 to Feb March 1992. Aired on PBS in Spring 1992.
Consultant, Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, for "Beyond the Java Sea: Art of Indonesia's Outer Islands" October 1989 to March 1991. Paul Taylor, curator.
1987-89 Visiting Scholar. Department of Anthropology, Brown University.
1984-85 Post-doctoral Fellow. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
President, Society for Linguistic Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2005-2007
Secretary Treasurer, Society for Linguistic Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 1993-1995.
Chair, SEAWASH, Southeast Asianists of the Washington Area;
Contributing Editor, Bulletin of the Indonesian Studies Committee, Antara Kita;
Editorial Board, Anthropological Quarterly, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly: International Journal for the Cultural and Social Analysis of Health. 1986-1991. Editorial Board, Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, Cambridge University Press. 1998-present.
References
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