Education
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 M.A. Anthropology, Columbia University
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B.A. Anthropology, Barnard College / Smith College, 1/1972
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Ph.D. Anthropology, Columbia University, 1/1985
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Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
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Tenure Track Appointments
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Professor of Anthropology, University of Southern California, 2007-2008
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Visiting and Temporary Appointments
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Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies, University of Michigan,
Spring
1995
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Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1992-1993
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Description of Research
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Summary Statement of Research Interests
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Professor Lutkehaus researches Melanesian gender and social organization, political and economic anthropology, religion and symbolic anthropology. Recent research involves the study of women, children, gendered missions, and the maternal behavior of Catholic nuns in Papua New Guinea. In addition to her regional interest in Oceania, she has also begun research on the role of community-based organizations in Kenya concerned with adolescent girls and HIV/AIDS. She is also interested in visual studies, especially in Western representations of Pacific Island peoples and in the display of non-Western art in Western fine art museums.
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Research Keywords
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Melanesian gender and social organization, political and economic anthropology, symbolic anthropology, and the art and cultures of Oceania in general. Visual culture. Ethnographic and documentary film. Western visual representations on non-Western peoples.
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Research Specialties
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The art and cultures of Oceania. Gender in Melanesia and East Africa (Kenya in particular). Missionaries in Oceania. Margaret Mead and the history of anthropology.
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Funded Research
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Contracts and Grants Awarded
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University-Ngo Coalition-Building Initiative (UNCBI) In Nairobi and Eldoret, Kenya to Strengthen the (American Council of Education/HED), Lutkehaus, Nancy Christine, Kristin Ferguson, Eliz Sanasarian, Grace Dyrness, $125,000, 08/01/2006-10/31/2009
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Publications
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Book
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Lutkehaus, N. C.
(2007).
Margaret Mead: The Making of an American Icon. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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Lutkehaus, N. C.
(1995).
Zaria's Fire: Engendered Moments in Manam Ethnography. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1995. Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press.
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Book Chapter
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Lutkehaus, N. C.
(2007).
"In the Way": Modernity and the New Woman in Papua New Guinea as Catholic Missionary Sister. pp. 146-167. London: Ashgate.
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Lutkehaus, N. C.
(2004).
"Foreword" to Margaret Mead's Ruth Benedict: A Humanist in Anthropology. pp. xix-xli. New York, New York: Columbia University Press.
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Journal Article
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Lutkehaus, N. C. "Putting Culture" into Cultural Psychology: Anthropology's Role in the Development of Jerome Bruner's Cultural Psychology. Ethos: The Journal of the Society of Psychological Anthropology.
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Mattingly, C., Lutkehaus, N. C., Throop, J.
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"Introduction" to Special Issue, "Anthropology Meets Psychology: The Role of Athropology in Jerome Bruner's Cultural Psychology. Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology.
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Other
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Lutkehaus, N. C. Gendered Missions: Men and Women in Missionary Discourse and Practice, co-edited with Mary Huber, 2000.
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Lutkehaus, N. C. Gender Rituals: Female Initiation in Melanesia. Including Introduction and Gender Metaphors: female rituals as cultural models in Manam, 1995.
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Lutkehaus, N. C. Sepik Heritage: Tradition and Change in Papua New Guinea Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, co-edited with Christian Kaufmann, William Mitchell, Douglas Newton, Lita Osmundsen, and Meinhard Schuster, 1990
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Multimedia Scholarship and Creative Works
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Video, "Finishing 'Apui's Name": Death and Mortuary Ritual on Manam Island., 1994-1995
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Honors and Awards
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USC Center for Excellence in Teaching, Faculty Fellow, 8/1/2005-5/31/2008
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National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Research Scholar at the School of Advanced Research, Santa Fe, 1997-1998
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USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, For book, Zaria's Fire: Engendered Moments in Manam Ethnography, 1996-1997
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Fulbright Award, Doctoral Research Award to Australia, 1977-1978
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Service to the University
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Administrative Appointments
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Chair, Department of Anthropology, 2007-2008
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Director, Gender Studies Program, 09/01/2004-08/15/2007
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