Professional Service Activities
Association Offices:
Editor, Book Review Forum, Pacific Studies (2008-current)
Membership Coordinator, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO), 2010-2013
Council Member, New England American Studies Association (NEASA), 2010
Chair, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO), 2006-2007
Board of Directors, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO), 2005-2008
Reviewer for journal articles:
American Anthropologist
Journal of Anthropological Research
The Contemporary Pacific
Journal of Sustainable Tourism
Culture, Health, and Sexuality
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Association
DePauw Journal of Undergraduate Research
Reviewer of book manuscript proposals:
Oxford University Press
Berg Press
Reviewer of book manuscripts:
University of Michigan Press
Rowman & Littlefield
University of Hawaii Press
Reviewer of grant proposals:
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
National Endowment for the Humanities
Miscellaneous Activities:
Guest, "Noon Edition" radio program on Fatherhood, WFIU National Public Radio affiliate), June 17, 2005
(click to listen to the archived program)
Organizer, Showing of films by Gregory Bateson and a Cash Bar, Pesidential Event, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, 2004
Ethnographic Consultant, Papua New Guinea art exhibition, DePauw University Anthropology Museum, 1997
Ethnographic Consultant and Public Lecture, Sepik River art exhibition, Indiana State University, 1994
Ethnographic Consultant. Sepik River Art Exhibition. University of Maine‑Orono, 1992
Ethnographic Consultant for the film “Margaret Mead: An Observer Observed” (released 1996), 1991
Assistant to the Australian Museum, Sepik Art Documentation Project, Papua New Guinea, 1988-1990
Ethnographic Consultant and Curator, Sepik River Art Exhibition, University of Florida, 1987-1988
Research Assistant to David Lipset, Dept. Anthropology, University of Minnesota. Gender and maritime exchange in Papua New Guinea, 1987-1988
Research Assistant, Center for Ancient Studies, University of Minnesota, 1984-1985
Pottery Draftsman, Kommos Excavations, Crete, Greece, 1983.
Plus, I am frequently interviewed by reporters (e.g., San Francisco Chronicle, Philadelphia Daily News, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Detroit News, L.A. Daily News, Voice of America, ABC Radio News, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, USA Today, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, National Public Radio, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and National Public Radio)