This curriculum vita summarizes the professional experience and qualifications of Susan D. Russell, Ph.D. It details that she is currently a Presidential Engagement Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Northern Illinois University, and has held various other academic positions there since 1984. Her areas of specialization are in economic anthropology, maritime anthropology, and Southeast Asia (the Philippines). She has extensive experience in funded research projects in the Philippines, including many grants from the US State Department.

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CURRICULUM VITA
Date: February 2015
Name: Susan D. Russell, Ph.D.
Department Office Address: Department of Anthropology
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, Illinois 60115
Phone: (815) 753-8577
e-mail: srussell@niu.edu
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT:
Presidential Engagement Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois
University, July 2011-2015.
Director, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL;
7/99 – 7/05.
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois;
7/02 - present.
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University,
DeKalb, Illinois; 8/90 - 6/02.
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb,
Illinois; 8/86-8/90.
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb,
Illinois 8/84 (on leave) – 6/86.
Rockefeller Foundation Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor,
School of Economics, University of the Philippines; 1/83-1/85.
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois; 1/81-8/81; then
1/82-6/82.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Academic: economic anthropology; maritime anthropology; agrarian change and rural
development; ritual; power; and stratification.
Applied: agribusiness production, marketing, credit, entrepreneurship, cooperative
institutions, upland and maritime development, socio-economic impact analysis,
social soundness analysis, conflict resolution.
Geographic: Southeast Asia (the Philippines)
FUNDED RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND GRANTS:
U.S. State Department, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs grant proposal, 2015-
18, ‘Philippine Youth Leadership Program: Engaging Young Advocates In
Environmental Preservation and Peacebuilding’. [with Lina Ong, Office of
International Training, $250,000 per year].

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Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Short-Term Seminar, U.S. Department of
Education, 2014-2/16, “The Philippines: Ethno-Religious Diversity and Human
Rights in a Transitioning Democracy”, $90,117. To train 12 high school and
community college educators on Philippine history, culture, geo-politics,
language and human rights.
U.S. State Department, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs grant proposal, 2012-
2015. “Environmental Leadership in the Philippines: Developing Youth as
Agents of Change and Ecological Activism”. [with Lina Ong, Office of
International Training; $250,000/year].
U.S. State Department, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs grant proposal, 2009-
2011,“The Past is Always Ahead of Us: Empowering Indigenous and Minority
Leaders in the Southern Philippines”. [with Lina Ong, Office of International
Training; $350,000].
Northern Illinois University, Institute for the Study of Environment, Sustainability, and
Energy, 2010, Summer Curriculum Development Grant for Environmental
Studies; $1,000.
U.S. State Department, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs grant proposal, 2010-
2011, “Philippine Youth Leadership Program: Building a New Generation of
Citizens as Catalysts for Social Change”. [with Lina Ong, Office of International
Training; $275,000/year, e.g., $820,000 for 2009-12 projects].
Social Science Research Council grant proposal, (submitted January 21, 2008), “’Other
Heartlands‘: Understanding Southeast Asian Islam”. [with Eric Jones, Department
of History, $50,000]. Not funded. Resubmitted in November, 2008 under the title
“Civilizational Islam: Communicating Southeast Asian Islam”. Not funded.
U.S. State Department, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs grant proposal, 9/07-
12/09. “Cultural Citizens and North-South Dialogue: Building the National
Identity and Civic Participation in the Philippines”. [with Lina Ong, Office of
International Training; $368,370].
U.S. State Department, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs grant, 7/2003-12/04;
2004-05; 2005-06; 2006-07; 2007-08; 2008-09. ACCESS Philippines: ‘Bridging
the Gap: Engaging a New Generation in Interethnic Dialogue and Conflict
Resolution in the Southern Philippines’. [with Lina Ong, Office of International
Training] ($200,000/year; $1,200,000 total].
U.S. State Department, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs grant, 8/2005 – 5/07.
“The Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao and Majority-Minority Relations
in the Philippines: Religion, Education, Community, and Political Process”. [with
Lina Ong, Office of International Training] ($167,560).
Curriculum Development award from Yr 3 of Title VI, U.S. Dept. of Education award to
Center for Southeast Asian Studies. (To fund interviews and field study on peace
initiatives and indigenous forms of conflict resolution among Filipino Muslims in
Mindanao; $1,600). 7/2006.
Fulbright-Hays Foreign Language Teaching Assistant award, (to offer Beginning Arabic
and enhance Indonesian and Tagalog language teaching program), funded again
for 2005-2006 (see below).
Institute for International Education award, ‘Understanding Contemporary Islam’,
American University in Beirut (application for a Middle Eastern scholar and

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professor of Islamic civilization for comparative course on Islam in Southeast
Asia), Fall 2004.
Title VI National Resource Center grant, U.S. Department of Education, 8/2003-8/2006.
(multidisciplinary, international area studies program grant, $1,411,050)
Fulbright-Hays Foreign Language Teaching Assistant grant, (to offer Beginning Arabic
and enhance Indonesian language teaching program), funded for 2003-04 and
again for 2004-05.
Curriculum Development award from Yr 3 of Title VI grant, 2003 (see below): (To fund
interviews and field study among Thai Muslims in Pattani, southern Thailand;
$4,600). 5/2003-6/2003.
Illinois Humanities Council grant (to fund an international conference on the Ramayana
text in South and Southeast Asia, $10,000; 2001).
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Northern Illinois University (funded my travel and
that of a graduate assistant to conduct an ethnographic field school focused on
Filipinos in Maui, Hawaii, December - January, 2000-01 with ten students).
National Security Education Program, U.S. Department of Defense, research grant,
2/2001 - 2/2003. 'Burmese, Khmer, and Lao: An Interactive, Multimedia
Approach to Teaching their Languages and Cultures'. (multidisciplinary research
program grant, $278,629)
Title VI National Resource Center grant, U.S. Department of Education, 8/2000 - 8/2003.
(multidisciplinary, international area studies program grant, $958,262)
Fulbright-Hayes Scholar-in-Residence grant, 8/2000 - 12/2000. (To bring in a visiting
researcher from Cambodia, $14,000.)
National Science Foundation research grant No. 9107136. 6/91-6/93. To investigate
maritime share contracts among coastal fishermen in Batangas, the Philippines.
$39,224. (Also funded one graduate student from NIU).
National Science Foundation supplementary research grant, 1/92. Additional support for
above project. $3,600.
Fulbright-Hays Foundation research grant. 6/91-1/92. To investigate maritime share
contracts among coastal fishermen in Batangas, the Philippines. Approx.
$16,000.
Fulbright-Hays Foundation research grant extension of above project for 4 months. 1/92-
6/92.
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. 1991. Research grant for
$10,000 funded but turned down owing to previous research grants received.
National Science Foundation research grant No. 9009745. 5/13/90-5/13/91. To
investigate maritime share contracts in Pangasinan, the Philippines. $12,000.
Graduate College, Northern Illinois University, Faculty Research Grant. Summer 1990.
To investigate hypotheses and methods pertaining to maritime economies in the
Philippines. $4,500. (Also funded one anthropology graduate student from NIU).
National Science Foundation Fellowship, Summer Institute in Research Methods in
Cultural Anthropology, June - July, 1989. To attend institute at the University of
Florida. ($4,500).
Faculty Exchange Program Research Grant, NIU and Thammasat University in Bangkok,
Thailand. Grant from the U.S. Information Agency, Bureau of Educational and
Cultural Affairs. (Member of 5 faculty member exchange grant focused on

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eastern seaboard development submitted by Daniel Wit and Ladd Thomas; I was a
co-recipient). March-May 1988. $6,200.
Graduate College, Northern Illinois University, Faculty Research Grant, Summer 1987.
(Analysis of agricultural statistics collected in the Philippines, 1986). $3,500.
Rockefeller Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship in International and Agricultural
Development, 1/83-1/85. (To conduct research on the urban food system with
Prof. Ben Diokno at the School of Economics, University of the Philippines,
Diliman. ($43,000.)
Graduate College, University of Illinois, Graduate Student Grant for archival research at
Cornell University, Southeast Asian Library; 6/82 ($2,500).
National Science Foundation Dissertation Research Grant; for field research on socio-
economic development in Northern Luzon, Philippines; (18 month award) 10/78-
11/80. ($10,800).
Fulbright-Hays Foundation Dissertation Research Grant; for field research on small-scale
entrepreneurship in Northern Luzon, Philippines; 10/78-10/79. (Approx.
$10,000).
Graduate College, University of Illinois, graduate student grant for archival research at
the Philippine Studies Center, University of Chicago; 12/76-1/77. ($750).
Graduate College, University of Illinois; graduate student grant for field research on
traditional elites and political change in Majuro, Marshall Islands, Trust Territory
of the Pacific (Micronesia); 5/75-8/75. ($2,500)
PUBLICATIONS:
Articles and Chapters
2014 ‘Hybrid Peacebuilding: Ambiguities of NGOs in Southern Philippines’. IN
Experiences of Peacebuilding: Learning the Peace Processes in Contemporary
Conflicts, ed. Srisompob Jitpiromsri, et al. Pattani, Thailand: Deep South Watch,
Prince of Songkla University.
2012 Forward. IN Fishing for Fairness: Poverty, Morality and Marine Resource
Regulation in the Philippines, by Michael Fabinyi, pp.ix-xi. Canberra: Australian
National University Press. (invited)
2010 “Conflict Transformation Efforts in the Southern Philippines” [with Rey Ty]. IN
Conflict Resolution and Peace Education: Transformations Across Disciplines,
ed. Candice Carter, pp. 157-86. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
2007 ‘The Mindanao Conflict: Recent Bangsamoro Views of the Peace Process’. The
Mandala (CSEAS newsletter No. 25, Fall 2006).
2007 Feasts of Merit: the Politics of Ethnography and Ethnic Icons in the Luzon
Highlands. In Cordillera in June: Essays Celebrating June Prill-Brett,
Anthropologist, ed. Ben Tapang, pp.30-61. Quezon City: University of the
Philippines Press. [Winner of the National Book Award for Anthology, Manila,
2008, ranked by the National Book Development Commission and the Manila
Critics Circle].

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2007 The Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao and Majority-Minority Relations in
the Philippines: Religion, Education, Community & Political Process (co-edited
with Lina Davide-Ong and Rey Ty). DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University.
2006 Inter-Ethnic Dialogue and Conflict Resolution: Access to Community and Civic
Enrichment. (with L. Ong, R. Ty, and A. Gonzalez). Report for the U.S. State
Department, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Published by Northern
Illinois University (not externally refereed)
2006 Labor Discipline, Debt and Effort in a Philippine Fishing Community. In Labor
in Cross-Cultural Perspective, ed. E. Paul Durrenberger and Judith Marti
(Lanham, MD: Altamira Press).
2005 Mindanao: a Perspective on Youth, Inter-Ethnic Dialogue and Conflict
Resolution in the Southern Philippines. (with L. Ong, A. Gonzalez, R. Ty, N.
Madale, and N. Medina). Report for the U.S. State Department, Bureau of
Educational and Cultural Affairs. Published by Northern Illinois University. (not
externally refereed)
2000 Of Beggars and Thieves: Customary Sharing of the Catch and Informal Sanctions
in an Open Access Fishery in the Philippines. (with R. Alexander) In State and
Community in Fisheries Management: Power, Policy, and Practice, ed. E. Paul
Durrenberger and Thomas D. King. CT: Greenwood Press, pp.19-40.
1999 Introduction: Delineating Theoretical Approaches to Southeast Asian
Anthropology. (with L. Aragon) In Structuralism’s Transformations: Order and
Revision in Indonesian and Malaysian Societies, ed. Lorraine Aragon and Susan
Russell. Tempe, AZ: Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State
University, p.xxiii - lxii.
1998 Measuring Seining Strategies and Fishing Success in the Philippines. (with R.
Alexander) Human Organization: Journal of Applied Anthropology 57(2):145-
158.
1997 Class Identity, Leadership Style, and Political Culture in a Tagalog Coastal
Community. Pilipinas: Journal of Philippine Studies 28:79-96.
1996 The Skipper Effect Debate: Views from a Philippine Fishery. Journal of
Anthropological Research 52(4):433-460. (with R. Alexander).
1994 Institutionalizing Opportunism: Cheating on Baby Purse Seiners in Batangas
Bay, Philippines. In Anthropology and Institutional Economics, ed. James M.
Acheson, pp.87-108. Monographs in Economic Anthropology No. 12. Lanham,
MD: Society for Economic Anthropology and University Press of America.
1991 Reprint of earlier article by Russell and R. Zerwekh 1986-87 (cited below), in
Ethics and Agriculture: An Anthology on Current Issues in World Context, ed.
Charles Blatz, University of Idaho Press, pp. 618-629.
1990 Petty Commodity Fishermen in the Inner Gulf of Thailand. Human Organization:
Journal of Applied Anthropology 49(2):174-187. (With M. Poopetch).
1989 The Grand Cañao: Ethnic History and Ritual Dilemmas in an Upland Philippine
Tourist Festival. Asian Folklore Studies 48(2):247-263.
1989 Informal Credit and Commodity Trade in Benguet, Highland Luzon. Baguio
City: Cordillera Studies Center Monograph Series No. 3, University of the
Philippines.

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1989 Social Change, Cultural Identity, and Ritual Response. In Changing Lives,
Changing Rites: Ritual and Social Dynamics in the Philippine and Indonesian
Uplands, ed. S. Russell and C. Cunningham. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Papers on
South and Southeast Asia, pp. 1-16. (Second co-author: C. Cunningham).
1989 Ritual Persistence and the Ancestral Cult Among the Ibaloi of the Luzon
Highlands. In Changing Lives, Changing Rites (op cit), pp. 17-44.
1989 Introduction: Transformations in Ritual and Economy in Upland and Lowland
Southeast Asia. In Ritual, Power and Economy: Upland-Lowland Contrasts in
Mainland Southeast Asia, ed. S. Russell. DeKalb, IL: Center for Southeast Asian
Studies Monograph Series, pp. 1-26. (First co-author: M. Woodward).
1987 Middlemen and Moneylending: Relations of Exchange in a Highland Philippine
Economy. Journal of Anthropological Research 42(Summer):139-161.
1987 Cheap Food: Politicization and Provisioning Patterns Among the Urban Poor in
Manila. In Production and Autonomy: Anthropological Perspectives on
Development, ed. John Bennett and John Bowen. Monographs in Economic
Anthropology, No. 5. Lanham, MD: Society for Economic Anthropology and the
University Press of America, pp. 275-292.
1986-87 Social Justice and Moral Responsibility: Ethical Perspectives on Agribusiness
in the Philippines. Asian Affairs: An American Review 13(4):22-40. (Second co-
author: Robert Zerwekh).
1986 Agribusiness Enterprise and Marketing Cooperatives in the Highland Philippines.
In 12th Annual Proceedings of the Third World Foundation, ed. Roger Oden, pp.
75-89. Chicago, IL: Third World Foundation.
1986 Mountain People in the Philippines: Ethnographic Contributions to Upland
Development. In Man, Agriculture, and the Tropical Forest: Change and
Development in the Philippine Uplands, ed. Samuel Fujisaka, Percy Sajise, and
Romeo del Castillo. Bangkok: Winrock International Institute for Agricultural
Development, pp. 43-85.
1984 Curing and Commerce: Changes in an Indigenous Medical Practice in a Highland
Philippine Town. Social Science and Medicine 18(2):129-137.
1980 Motivating Development: Alternative Strategies and Long-Range Planning in
Benguet Province. Aghamtao 3:88-98.
Edited Books
1999 Structuralism’s Transformations: Order and Revision in Indonesian and
Malaysian Societies, ed. Lorraine Aragon and Susan Russell. Program for
Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University).
1989 Changing Lives, Changing Rites: Ritual and Social Dynamics in the Philippine
and Indonesian Uplands. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Papers on South and Southeast
Asia Monograph Series, University of Michigan. (Second co-editor: C.
Cunningham). (externally refereed)
1989 Ritual, Power and Economy: Upland-Lowland Contrasts in Mainland Southeast
Asia. DeKalb, IL: Center for Southeast Asian Studies Monograph Series,
Northern Illinois University. (externally refereed)

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Reviews
2015 Book review of ‘A Mountain of Difference: the Lumad in Early Colonial
Mindanao’, by Oona Paredes. 2013. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Journal of Asian Studies 74(4): 1066-68.
2011 Book review of ‘Mapping Thai Muslims: Community Dynamics and Change on
the Andaman Coast’, by Wanni W. Anderson. Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of
Muslim Life, v.7.
2010 Book review of `Shorelines: Space and Rights in South India’, by Ajantha
Subramanian. Political and Legal Anthropology Review, v.33(2).
2010 Book review of ‘Water, Sovereignty and Borders in Asia and Oceania’, ed.
Devleena Ghosh, Heather Goodall, and Stephanie Hemelryk Donald. Pacific
Affairs v. 83(1): 211-13.
2010 Book review of ‘Tourism, Development and Terrorism in Bali’, by Michael
Hitchcock and I Nyoman Darma Putra. Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal
of Southeast Asian Studies 19(2):184-86..
2008 Book review of ‘Mindanao Ethnohistory Beyond Nations: Maguindanao, Sangir,
and Bagobo Societies in East Maritime Southeast Asia’, by Shinzo Hayase.
Anthropos, v.103-2.
2008 Book review of ‘Islam and Violent Separatism: New Democracies in Southeast
Asia’, edited by Ashok Swain. Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of
Southeast Asian Studies. v.19(1).
2006 Book review of ‘Between Hills and Plains: Power and Practice in Socio-Religious
Dynamics among Karen’, by Hayami Yoko. Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute 12(1):242-43.
2005 Book review of ‘Tourism, Heritage and National Culture in Java: Dilemmas of a
Local Community’, by Heidi Dahles. Journal of Asian Studies 64(4):1071-73.
2003 Book review of 'The Anthropology of Economy: Community, Market, and
Culture', by Stephen Gudeman. American Anthropologist v.105(2):418-419.
1998 Book review of ‘The Bajau Laut: Adaptation, History and Fate in a Maritime
Fishing Society of South-Eastern Sabah’, by Clifford Sather. Journal of Asian
Studies 57(3):900-902.
1998 Book review of ‘The Heat of the Hearth: the Process of Kinship in a Malay
Fishing Community’, by Janet Carsten. Journal of Asian Studies 57(3):900-902.
1998 Book review of ‘Sea Hunters of Indonesia: Fishers and Weavers of Lamalera’, by
R.H. Barnes. Journal of Anthropological Research 54:246-248.
1997 Book review of ‘Local Knowledge and Agricultural Decision Making in the
Philippines’, by Virginia Nazarea-Sandoval. Pilipinas: Journal of Philippine
Studies 28:138-140.
1995 Book review of ‘The Tasaday Controversy: Assessing the Evidence’, ed. Thomas
Headland. Anthropological Quarterly 68(2):129-30.
1994 Book review of ‘Politics, Property and Law in the Philippine Uplands’, by
Melanie Wiber. Journal of Asian Studies 53(3):1025-1026.
1993 Book review of ‘Pangasinan, 1801-1900: the Beginnings of Modernization’ and
‘Pangasinan, 1901-1986: a Political, Socioeconomic and Cultural History’, both
by Rosario Mendoza Cortes, 1990. Journal of Asian Studies 52(1):213-215.

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1993 Book review of ‘Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island’,
by Jean-Paul Dumont. 1992. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Pilipinas: Journal of Philippine Studies 20(Spring):78-80.
1993 Book review of ‘Artisans and Entrepreneurs in the Rural Philippines: Making a
Living and Gaining Wealth in two Commercialized Crafts’, by Rosanne Ruttan,
1990. Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
7(2):181-184.
1992 Book review of ‘Rice, Rupees, and Ritual: Economy and Society Among the
Samosir Batak of Sumatra’, by D. George Sherman, 1990. American
Anthropologist 94(1):239-240.
1992 Book review of ‘Mining and Agriculture in Highland Bolivia: Ecology, History,
and Commerce Among the Jukumanis’, by Ricardo A. Godoy, 1990.
Ethnohistory 39(2):219-221.
1991 Book review of ‘Urban Poverty and the Labour Market: Access to Jobs and
Incomes in Asian and Latin American Cities’, ed. Gerry Rodgers, 1989. Journal
of Asian Studies.
1990 Book review of ‘The City Connection: Migration and Family Interdependence in
the Philippines’, by Lillian Trager, 1988. Pilipinas: Journal of Philippine
Studies v. 15:64-65.
1990 Book review of ‘A Sagada Reader’, by William H. Scott, 1989. Journal of Asian
Studies 49(2):444-445.
1990 Book review of ‘On the Road to Tribal Extinction: Depopulation, Deculturation,
and Adaptive Well-Being Among the Batak of the Philippines’, by James Eder,
1987. Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
5(2):148-151.
1988 Book review of ‘The White Apos: American Governors on the Cordillera
Central’, by Frank Jenista, 1987. Journal of Asian Studies 47(3):701-702.
1987 Book review of ‘Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia’, ed. K.
Hutterer, A. Rambo, G. Lovelace, 1985. Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 3(2-3):112-115.
1986 Book review of ‘The Anthropology of Evil’, ed. David Parkin, 1985. American
Journal of Sociology 92(1):216-217.
1984 Book review of ‘Contemporary Trade Strategies in the Philippines: A Study in
Marketing Anthropology’, by Norbert Dannhaeuser, 1983. American Ethnologist
11(3):403-405.
1983 Book review of ‘Who Shall Succeed? Agricultural Development and Social
Inequality on a Philippine Frontier’, by James Eder, 1982. American Ethnologist
10(3):628.
PAPERS PRESENTED
2015 ‘The Mamasapno Incident in Mindanao: Requiem for the Peace Process or a
Silver Lining Playbook?’ Presentation at the Friday Lecture Series of the Center
for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, April 3.

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2013 ‘Peacebuilding NGOs in northern Mindanao’. Invited Presentation at Symposium
on ‘Building the Culture of Peace’, Palawan State University, Puerto Princesa,
Philippines, August 23, 2013.
2013 ‘Hybrid Peacebuilding: Ambiguities of NGOs in the Southern Philippines’.
Invited presentation, Center for Conflict Studies and Cultural Diversity,
International Conference on Comparative Conflicts and Peace Processes, July 25,
2013, Patani: Thailand, Prince of Songkla University.
2013 ‘Hybrid Peacebuilding’, presented at Center for NGO Leadership and
Development Brown bag seminar, March 20, 2013.
2012 Discussant on Double Panel on ‘The Politics of Working Class Fishers Globally’.
American Anthropological Association, Nov. 18-20, San Francisco.
2012 ‘NGOs in the Philippines: A Neoliberal State Agenda or a Transformational
Social Agenda?’ International Conference on the Philippines, Oct. 28-30, East
Lansing, Michigan. (Presenter and organizer). Title of paper: ‘Peacebuilding: the
Role of NGOs in Mindanao’.
2012 ‘Civil Society and the Conflicts of Peacebuilding in Northern Mindanao’. Paper
presented at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, October 12. (invited speaker)
2012 ‘Peacebuilding in the Southern Philippine: the Role of Civil Society’. Paper
presented at the annual Society for Applied Anthropology meetings in Baltimore,
MD, March 28-31.
2010 ‘Peripheral Ethnocide and Human Rights in the Philippines and Thailand’.
Presented on June 15 at the Roger W. Smith Genocide and Human Rights
Summer Institute 2010: Southeast Asia and Africa. Teacher Training program.
Northern Illinois University.
2010 ‘Blurring the Lines Between Academia and Policymaking: Conflict
Transformation and Nation-Building in the Philippines’. Paper presented on
February 19 in the Phi Beta Delta panel, International Studies Association annual
conference, New Orleans. Paper can be viewed at:
http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/4/1/5/4/6/p41546
2_index.html
2008 ‘Conflict Transformation and Peace Education in the Midst of War and Terror in
the Southern Philippines’. [with Rey Ty] Presented on October 6 at the New
Ideas in History conference on Conflict, Violence and the Road Back to Peace,
Northern Illinois University.
2008 ‘Strengthening National Security Through Peacebuilding Coalitions: Countering
Insurgency in the Philippines Through Non-Military Means’. Paper presented at a
Symposium ‘Can the Philippines Break Out of Its Affliction? Prospects for
Democratic Governance, Economic Development and Philippine-US Relations’.
April 7-8. Washington, D.C.: Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies, Johns Hopkins University.
2007 ‘Conflict Transformation in the Midst of War and Rebellion in the Southern
Philippines’. Paper presented at the Symposium on Conflict Transformation:
Theory and Practice for Peace in Troubled Times; University of North Florida,
Jacksonville, October 4-6.

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2007 ‘Guns, Money and Diplomacy: Solving the World’s Longest-Running Conflict?’
Paper (power point) presented at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies Friday
Lecture Series, March 30. [with Eric Jones]
2007 ‘The View from Mindanao: Political Reform or Nation-Building for the
Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao?’ [with Ishak Mastura] Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Boston,
March 21-25.
2006 ‘The Mindanao Conflict: Recent Disparate Views from Some Moro Rebels and
Other ARMM Leaders’. Paper presented at the Midwest Conference on Asian
Affairs, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 20-22.
2006 ‘Recent Bangsamoro Views of the Prospects of Past and Present Peace
Negotiations with the Philippine Government’. Paper presented in the Center for
Southeast Asian Studies Friday Lecture Series, October 6, 2006.
2006 ‘Islam and Christianity in Southeast Asia’. Also, participant in Roundtable on
‘Religion, Culture and Values in Asia’. Invited lecture for the Asia-Pacific
Orientation Course, U.S. Air Force Special Operations School, Hurlburt Field,
Florida, August 14-15.
2006 ‘Prospects and Challenges for Higher Education Partnerships in the 21st Century’.
Informal presentation at Mindanao State University, Marawi City, Philippines,
July 16.
2005 ‘Mindanao: a Perspective on Youth, Inter-Ethnic Dialogue, and Conflict
Resolution in the Southern Philippines’. Informal presentation to the Forum
Series on the Philippines: Philippine National Historical Society, Quezon City,
August 5.
2004 ‘Stories of Development: Environmental Problems in the Philippines’. Invited
day lecture, presented at the 7th International Conference on Philippine Studies,
Leiden-Amsterdam, June 17.
2004 ‘Anthropological Perspectives on the Political Economy of the Philippine
Environment’. Paper presented at the State-of-the Art Roundtable at the 7th
International Conference on Philippine Studies, Leiden-Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, June 16.
2004 ‘Title VI National Resource Center Missions to Connect with 2 and 4 Year
Colleges’. Paper to be presented at the ASIANetwork Spring 2004 Conference,
Lisle, Illinois, April 2.
2003 ‘State and Local Conflicts in Philippine Maritime Conservation’. Paper presented
at the Association for Asian Studies meetings, New York City, March 2003.
2001 ‘The Political Economy of Debt and Fishing Success in a Philippine Seining
Fleet’. Paper presented at the Society for Economic Anthropology meetings,
University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, April 2001.
2000 'Feasts of Merit: the Politics of Ethnography and Ethnic Icons in the Luzon
Highlands'. Paper presented at the Association for Asian Studies meetings, San
Diego, CA, March 9-11, 2000.
1998 ‘Gifts at Sea: the Exchange of Fish and Concepts of Territoriality in a Philippine
Fishing Fleet’. Presented at the Brown Bag lecture, Center for Southeast Asian
Studies, Northern Illinois University, Aug. 28.

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1997 ‘The Skipper Effect Debate: Views from a Philippine Fishery’. Presented at the
Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs meetings in DeKalb, September, 1997.
1996 ‘Of Beggars and Thieves: Customary Sharing of the Catch and Informal
Sanctions in an Open Access Fishery in the Philippines’. Presented at the
American Anthropological Association meetings in San Francisco, November,
1996.
1996 ‘Kinship, Success and Political Culture in a Tagalog Coastal Community’.
Presented at the Association for Asian Studies meetings in Honolulu, April, 1996.
1996 ‘Multiculturalism and an Otherwise Anthropological View of Culture’. NIU
Faculty Bulletin.
1995 ‘Coastal Zone Management: Philippine Policies and Experiences’. Invited
lecture presented at two conferences sponsored by The Asia Society on the
Philippine Environment, Chicago and Seattle.
1995 ‘Rent Capitalism and Resistance in the Luzon Highlands’. Invited lecture
presented at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin,
Madison.
1993 ‘Models of Maritime Peoples: the View from Southeast Asia’. Invited Graduate
Colloquium Lecture sponsored by the Third World Studies Center and
Department of Anthropology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton,
Canada, February 11.
1993 ‘Cheating at Shares in a Tagalog Fishing Fleet’. Invited seminar, Department of
Anthropology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, February 12.
1992 ‘The Institutionalization of Cheating in a Philippine Fishery’. Paper presented at
the American Anthropological Association annual meeting, San Francisco,
December 3, 1992.
1992 ‘The Institutionalization of Cheating on Small Purse Seiners in Batangas Bay,
Philippines’. Paper presented at the Society for Economic Anthropology annual
meeting, March 26-28, 1992, University of California, Irvine.
1992 ‘The Anthropology of Maritime Societies’. Invited lecture, International Center
for Living Aquatic Resource Management, Asian Fisheries Training Seminar,
January, Mandarin Hotel, Manila.
1992 ‘Methods of Testing Qualitative Hypotheses with Illiterate Informants’. Invited
lecture, Social Science Center, University of the Philippines, Baguio, February
20, 1992.
1992 Chair and Discussant, Panel on ‘Managing the Marine Commons’. International
Association for the Study of Common Property, Sept. 17, 1992, Mayflower Hotel,
Washington, D.C.
1991 ‘Economic Anthropology: Trends and Prospects’. ‘Socio-economic Impact
Analysis in the 90s’. Two invited lectures, Western Mindanao State University,
Zamboanga City, Philippines, December 7, 1991.
1991 ‘Fishing in Lingayen Gulf, Philippines’. Presentation, Center for Southeast Asian
Studies, Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series, Spring semester.
1990 ‘The New Institutional Economics and Its Relevance for Understanding Maritime
and Marketing Labor Contracts’. Invited lecture, Division of Social Sciences,
University of the Philippines College, July 7, Baguio City.

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1989 ‘Simple Commodity Production and Class Formation in the Southern Cordillera
of Luzon’. Paper presented at the Annual Association for Asian Studies Meetings,
March 19-21, Washington, D.C.
1988 ‘The Persistence of Small Scale Fishing on the Eastern Seaboard of Thailand’.
Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Council on Thai Studies,
October 14-16, DeKalb.
1988 ‘The Greening of the Highlands: Commercialism and the Creation of an Ethnic
Labor Force in Luzon’s Cordillera, Philippines’. Invited lecture, February 22,
Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe.
1988 ‘Social and Economic Access to Productive Relationships’: Thai-Chinese
Fishermen in Ang Sila’. Lecture presented to the School of Social Work,
Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, May.
1987 ‘Ritual Reification and Ethnic Imagery in Upland Luzon’. Paper presented at the
Annual American Anthropological Association Meetings, November, Chicago.
1986 ‘Ritual Persistence and Economic Pragmatism: the Ibaloi of Highland Luzon’.
Paper presented at the Annual Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute
Conference, July 30, DeKalb.
1986 ‘Social Transformations and Underdevelopment: the Marcos Legacy in Highland
Luzon, Philippines’. Invited lecture, May 2, Chicago Anthropological Society,
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.
1986 ‘Agribusiness Enterprise and Marketing Cooperatives in the Highland
Philippines’. Annual Third World Conference Meetings, March, Chicago.
1986 ‘The Socio-economic Impact of Cash Cropping in the Philippine Highlands’.
Invited lecture, February 19, Philippine Student Association, Urbana, IL.
1985 ‘Street Food Vendors in a Manila Slum’. Invited lecture, March, Philippine
Student Association, DeKalb.
1985 ‘Cheap Food for the Urban Poor? Market Intervention Strategies in the
Philippines’. Paper presented at the Annual Society for Economic Anthropology
Meetings, Warrenton, VA, April 19-21.
1984 ‘New Theoretical Trends in Economic Anthropology: A Critical Review’.
Invited lecture, College of Development Economics and Management, University
of Philippines, Los Banos, February 3.
1983 ‘The Historical Rise and Demise of the Textile Industry in Baguio City’. Paper
presented at the Seminar Series on Economic Research, School of Economics,
University of the Philippines, Quezon City, May.
1983 ‘Ethnic Rhetorics and Entrepreneurial Strategies in Highland Luzon: Ethnicity
and Commerce Reconsidered’. Paper presented at the Annual American
Anthropological Association meetings, Chicago, November 16-20.
1983 ‘Commercial Agriculture and Institutional Change Among Highland Peasant
Producers in Benguet Province’. Paper presented at the National Conference on
Advancement of the Vegetable Industry, Highland Agricultural Research Center,
Mountain State Agricultural College, La Trinidad, Benguet, March 3-4.
1982 ‘Agribusiness Entrepreneurs and Elite Formation in Highland Luzon’. Paper
presented at the Annual Society for Economic Anthropology Meetings, Athens,
Georgia, April 2-3.

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1980 ‘Middlemen and Marketing Cooperatives in Benguet, Luzon’. Paper presented at
the Annual Association of Philippine Anthropology Meetings, San Carlos
University, June.
PUBLIC SERVICE:
2015 Reviewer, Fulbright-Hays Foundation graduate student proposals, Institute for
International Education, New York. December 10.
2014 Reviewer, Fulbright-Hays Foundation graduate student proposals, Institute for
International Education, New York. December 11.
2014 Certification in Strategic Peacebuilding (online course), U.S.Institute of Peace,
Washington, D.C., September.
2014 Certification in Conflict Analysis (online course), U.S. Institute of Peace,
Washington, D.C., October.
2014 Certification in Mediation Skills, July, Center for Conflict Resolution, Chicago.
2010 Invited Participant, Two Day Workshop on `Religion, Peacebuilding, and
Development in Mindanao’. Sponsored by the Social Science Research Council,
May 17-18, Brooklyn Heights, New York City.
2010 Invited Presenter, ‘Mindanao Peace Process’, Academic Seminar on the
Philippines for Ambassador Henry Thomas, U.S. State Department, Washington,
D.C., March 29.
2010 Public lecture, NIU, on political violence in the southern Philippines, 1/28.
Sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at NIU and the DeKalb
Interfaith Network for Peace & Social Justice.
2009 Television appearance - Philippine global news Channel ABS-CBN showed a two
part film documentary on the Philippine Youth Leadership Program on the show
‘The Correspondents’.
2008 National Public Radio – Chicago interview on the collapse of the peace process in
Mindanao, Philippines.
2004-08 Various interviews related to Mindanao for ABS-CBN television and a Chicago
radio station.
2001 Television interview for CBS in Rockford at the International Ramayana Fair;
again in 2005 and 2010.
2001 Radio interview on WILM, Delaware, on the political transition in the Philippines
that ousted President Estrada (1/19/01).
1990 Consultant, Textile Arts Center, Chicago. (Advised the Director, Mary Landis, on
the scholars to be invited to the International Philippine Textile exhibit in May.
1986 Television interview appearance on ‘Chicago Tonight’ to discuss the civilian-
backed military revolt in the Philippines, February 5.
1986 Interview in Northern Illinois University Alumni magazine on cross-cultural
characteristics of money.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Book review editor, Culture and Agriculture Journal, August 2008-2010.

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President, Philippine Studies Group, Association for Asian Studies, 2002-06.
Member, Southeast Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies, 2002-05.
Member, Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute, Executive Board, 2002-05.
Member, Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute, Steering Committee, 2002-03.
Member of the Planning Workshop for the Title VI National Resource Centers and FLAS
Centers Technical Assistance Workshop, held in Washington D.C. at the U.S.
Department of Education, IEGPS, October 26, 2001
Member of Proposal Review Panel, "Asia and Technology", National Security Education
Program, Washington, D.C., June 2001.
National Science Foundation Review Panel Member, Human Genome Diversity Project,
National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., December, 1996.
Reviewer of proposals for National Science Foundation (an average of three proposals
per year);
Book reviews editor for Pilipinas: Journal of Philippine Studies, 1989 - 2002.
Assistant Editor for Southeast Asia, Journal of Asian Studies, 1993 - 1994.
Film Review and Board Member for Southeast Asia, Asian Media Exchange Institute,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1997).
Member, Executive Board of the Society for Economic Anthropology, 1993-96.
Member, Philippine Studies Executive Committee, Association for Asian Studies, 1986-
89; 1993-2005.
Member, International Conference of Philippine Studies, 2004-present.
CONSULTING EXPERIENCE:
Consultant (Subject matter expert), U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations Command,
September 2007. Reviewed the “Cultural Field Guide to the Philippines”
developed by the Marine Corps Intelligence Agency.
Consultant, Bennett and Associates, Inc. Cross-Cultural Training Program, Chicago, IL
(since 1994) and for International Orientation Resources, Northbrook, IL (since
1995).
Consultant, Rural Credit and Marketing Specialist, Philippine Highland Agricultural
Development Project, Asian Development Bank, Manila, 6/86-7/86.
Consultant and Member of Scientific Advisory Panel, Health Promotion Research
Program, Ambulatory Cancer Clients Project, Social Science Research Institute,
DeKalb, 12/85-89.
Consultant on Upland Peoples’ Indigenous Forestry Project, Cordillera Studies Center,
University of the Philippines, Baguio City, 1984.
Consultant, United Nations Development Programme and the Food and Agriculture
Organization, Bureau of Cooperative Development, Manila, 6/80-8/80.
Consultant, University of the Philippines, Baguio City; 3/80-4/80.
EDUCATIONAL CHRONOLOGY:
Ph.D. with High Distinction in Anthropology, 1983; University of Illinois, Urbana.
M.A. in Anthropology, 1977; University of Illinois, Urbana.
B.A. with High Distinction in Anthropology, 1973; University of Illinois, Urbana.

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AWARDS:
2011 Presidential Engagement Professorship Award, Northern Illinois University.
2011 Induction as First Non-Filipino Member of the Manobo Tribe, Mt. Apo,
Philippines.
2009 Faculty Award for Outstanding Contributions to International Education, Phi Beta
Delta Honors Society for International Scholars, Washington, D.C.
2002 Outstanding International Educator Award, Northern Illinois University.
COURSES TAUGHT:
Anthropological Perspectives on Muslim Cultures
Anthropology of Peace and Conflict Resolution
Anthropology of Contemporary World Problems
Rural Development and Theories of Social Change
International Contact in Anthropological Perspective
Globalization and Corporate Cultures
Southeast Asian Peasant Economy
Southeast Asian Peasant Society
Peoples and Cultures of Southeast Asia
Economic Anthropology
Applied Anthropology
Introduction to Anthropology
Anthropological History and Theory
Qualitative Field Methods
Field Research in Anthropology
Marriage and the Family
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
FIELD SCHOOL EXPERIENCE:
Director, Northern Illinois University Ethnographic Field School, Maui, Hawaii,
December-January, 2000-01.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
American Anthropological Association
American Ethnological Society
Association for Asian Studies
Philippine Studies Association
Society for Economic Anthropology
Association for Applied Anthropology
Illinois Network on Islam and Muslim Societies (I-NIMS)
International Studies Association