Kathleen M. Adams is a cultural anthropologist, Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London,[1] and Professor Emerita at Loyola University Chicago.[2] Known for her research on cultural transformations in island Southeast Asia, (especially Toraja society in Indonesia), she has made contributions to critical tourism studies, heritage studies, Indonesian art, and museum studies. Her award-winning books include Art as Politics: Re-crafting Identities, Tourism and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia and The Ethnography of Tourism: Edward Bruner and Beyond (coedited with N. Leite and Q. Casteneda) among others.
Adams received her B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Washington. She held the Mouat Family Endowed Chair for Junior Faculty [3] at Beloit College and was a professor of Cultural Anthropology and Asian Studies at Loyola University Chicago (1993-2020). She was also an Adjunct Curator at the Field Museum of Natural History.
Adams has held fellowships and visiting appointments at various universities, including a Fulbright Specialist Award at Gadjah Mada University (2024) in Indonesia, a Visiting Fellowship at The Center for Tourism Research at Wakayama University (2020-2023) and Visiting Professorships at Ateneo de Manila University (2016), Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (2016), and Loyola University Chicago's John Felice Rome Center (2008-2009). [4] She was also a Isaac Manasseh Meyer Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore's Centre for Advanced Study (1999),and taught on several University of Virginia Semester at Sea voyages.[5]
In addition to research grants from the Fulbright,[6] the American Philosophical Society, the Henry R. Luce Foundation, Adams has received several book prizes, Loyola University's Sujack Master Researcher Award (2016, 2020),[7] Loyola University Chicago's 2007 Sujack Award for Teaching Excellence, and recognition by Princeton Review as one of the "300 best professors" in the US and Canada in 2012.[8] In 2024 she was inducted into Redwood High School's Avenue of Giants.[9]
Books
edit- 2023 Intersection of Tourism, Migration, and Exile. (Co-edited with Natalia Bloch). Routledge.
- 2022 Seni Sebagai Politik. (Translated by Anwar Jimpe Rachman). Penerbit Ininnawa.
- 2019 Indonesia: History, Heritage, Culture Key Issues in Asian Studies Series. Association for Asian Studies Press.
- 2019 The Ethnography of Tourism: Edward Bruner and Beyond (Co-edited with N. Leite and Q. Casteneda). Rowman and Littlefield.(Winner of the 2020 American Anthropological Association ATIG award for best 2nd and beyond book in the Anthropology of Tourism.[10]).
- 2011 Everyday Life in Southeast Asia. (Co-edited with Kathleen Gillogly). Indiana University Press.
- 2006 Art as Politics: Re-crafting Identities, Tourism, and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia. University of Hawaii Press. (Winner of the 2009 Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities Alpha Sigma Nu National Book Award, best in Social Sciences 2007-2009)[11]
- 2000 Home and Hegemony: Domestic Service and Identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia. (Co-edited with Sara Dickey). University of Michigan Press.
Selected key articles
edit- 2024 Tourism Ethnography and Tourism Geographies. Tourism Geographies.
- 2020 (Post-) Pandemic Tourism Resiliency: Southeast Asian Lives and Livelihoods in Limbo. Tourism Geographies.
- 2020 What Western Tourism Concepts Obscure: Intersections of Tourism and Migration in Indonesia. Tourism Geographies.
- 2018 Revisiting "Wonderful Indonesia": Tourism, Economy, and Society. The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Indonesia. Abingdon on Thames: Routledge.
- 2008 The Janus-Faced Character of Tourism in Cuba: Ideological Continuity and Change. Annals of Tourism Research, 35(1):27-46. Coauthored with P. Sanchez.
- 2005 Public Interest Anthropology in Heritage Sites: Writing Culture and Righting Wrongs. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 11(5):433-439.
- 2004 The Genesis of Touristic Imagery: Politics and Poetics in the Creation of a Remote Indonesian Island Destination. Tourist Studies, 4(2):115-135.
- 1998 Ethnic Tourism and the Renegotiation of Tradition in Tana Toraja, Sulawesi (Indonesia). Ethnology, 309-320.
- 1984 "Travel Agents as Brokers in Ethnicity." Annals of Tourism Research 11(3):469-485.
References
edit- ^ "Professor Kathleen M Adams | Staff | SOAS University of London".
- ^ "Dr. Kathleen M. Adams". Loyola University Chicago. Retrieved 2019-10-24.
- ^ "Author Biography". Amazon. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
- ^ "CTR Visiting Fellows | 和歌山大学". Archived from the original on 2021-06-02. Retrieved 2021-07-24.
- ^ "Faculty and Staff – Kathleen Adams". Semester at Sea. Archived from the original on 2017-11-10. Retrieved 2013-11-13.
- ^ "Fulbright in Indonesia" (PDF). Aminex. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
- ^ "Past Recipients Loyola University Chicago Sujack Award". Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
- ^ The Princeton Review (2012). "Best Professors Name" (PDF). THe Princeton Review Best 300 Professors. Princeton Review. p. 1. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
- ^ "AOG Inductee Bios". Retrieved 25 February 2024.
- ^ "Book Prize – ATIG". Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ "Alpha Sigma Nu Week – Loyola University Chicago" (PDF). Alpha Sigma Nu: 1. Summer 2010.
Other sources
edit- "Channeling Tourism Towards Enhancing the Quality of Life for Local Communities". AMINEF American-Indonesian Exchange Foundation. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- "Fulbright-Winning Professor takes Holistic Approach to Critical Tourism in Indonesia". Loyola Today. 26 September 2024. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- "A Short Interview With Kathleen Adams" (PDF). Education about Asia. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
- "Kathleen Adams, Antropolog AS yang Jatuh Hati pada Indonesia". Voice of America. 16 July 2013. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
- "Kathleen Adams over 'Langzame Museologie'". 24 September 2019. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
External links
edit- Kathleen M. Adams at Academia.edu
- Kathleen M. Adams Faculty Page
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