Kathleen M. Adams

Kathleen M. Adams is a cultural anthropologist and Professor at Loyola University Chicago,[1] and an Adjunct Curator at the Field Museum of Natural History. Her books include Art as Politics: Re-crafting Identities, Tourism and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia, Everyday Life in Southeast Asia (With K. Gillogly), Indonesia: History, Heritage, Culture, Home and Hegemony: Domestic Service and Identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia (with S. Dickey), and The Ethnography of Tourism: Edward Bruner and Beyond (with N. Leite and Q. Casteneda). Adams is best known for her research on cultural transformations in island Southeast Asia, especially Toraja society in Indonesia), and her contributions to critical tourism studies, heritage studies, and museum studies.

A former Fulbright recipient,[2] Adams received a B.A. in anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an M.A./Ph.D. in cultural anthropology at the University of Washington. Adams previously held the Mouat Family Endowed Chair for Junior Faculty [3] at Beloit College in Wisconsin, and was visiting professor at Loyola University Chicago's John Felice Rome Center, Ateneo de Manila University, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, the National University of Singapore and on several University of Virginia Semester at Sea voyages.[4]

Adams' book on the politics of art and tourism in Sulawesi (Indonesia)[5] won the Alpha Sigma Nu award as the best social science book published in 2007–2009 by faculty at Jesuit institutions.[6] A past Fulbright awardee (1984–85) and Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship (1999) recipient, Adams' work has been supported by the American Philosophical Society and other foundations. She received Loyola University's 2016 Sujack Master Researcher Award,[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]

Significant publications

References
  1. "Dr. Kathleen M. Adams". Loyola University Chicago. Retrieved 2019-10-24.
  2. "Fulbright in Indonesia" (PDF). Aminex. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  3. "Author Biography". Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  4. "Faculty and Staff – Kathleen Adams". Semester at Sea.
  5. Adams, Kathleen (2006). Art as Politics: Re-Crafting Identities, Tourism and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. pp. 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-8248-3072-4.
  6. "Past Winners of Alpha Sigma Nu Awards" (PDF). p. 3. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  7. "Past Recipients Loyola University Chicago Sujack Award". Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  8. The Princeton Review (2012). "Best Professors Name" (PDF). THe Princeton Review Best 300 Professors. Princeton Review. p. 1. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  9. "Alpha Sigma Nu Week – Loyola University Chicago" (PDF). Alpha Sigma Nu: 1. Summer 2010.

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