Fieldwork Experiences Papua New Guinea: Tambunum Village, Sepik River, 1988‑1990, 1994, February 2008.   My earlier research (1988-1990, 1994) focused on self and identity, emotions, masculinity, concepts of the body, cosmology, ritual, death, mythology, art and aesthetics, tourism, social organization, kinship, and marriage.   My recent work (2008), which I hope to continue in summer 2010 and beyond, focuses on modernization and changing notions of fatherhood, families, and childhood (including children's drawings).  I am also interested in studying how Eastern Iatmul today understand and use money and financial institutions. My research in PNG has been supported by a Fulbright Award (1988-1990), Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (1994), Institute for Intercultural Studies (1988-90), Wheelock College (2008), DePauw University (1994), and the University of Minnesota (1988-1990).    American Jewish Community: Currently, I am studying (non-Orthodox) American Jewish fathers through surveys and in-depth interviews.  What, if anything, do these men see as distinctly Jewish about their fathering? How does Judaism--as a religion and an ethnicity--shape their fathering, and also their perceptions of childhood and mothering?  Much of this research occurs through my affiliation with the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, and Wheelock College. For my book on the history of Jewish clothing, I conducted interviews with American Jews involved in the manufacture and sale of religious and secular Jewish apparel.  The bulk of this research was supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship.   Brief study-travel experiences: Tourism in Nepal (January 1997). Urbanization in southern Africa (Zimbabwe, Malawi; June-August 1993, Indiana Consortium for International Programs). Japanese culture and religion (October 2005, DePauw University Asian Studies Program).