Personal Data |
U.S. Citizen, born Los Angeles, California |
| Education | 1986 Ph.D. in anthropology, University of Hawaii 1981 M.A. in anthropology, University of Hawaii 1960 B.A. in anthropology, Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota |
| Employment | 2004-2007 International Academic Editing Consultant, SIL International 1994- Adjunct Professor of Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington 2001-2008 Visiting Professor of Linguistics, University of North Dakota 1989-1994 Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington 1986-1989 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington 1960- Member, Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) and Wycliffe Bible Translators 1984- Int'l Anthropology Consultant, SIL 1974-1976 Language Survey Coordinator, SIL Philippines 1971-1979 Chair, Ethnology Dept. SIL Philippines 1970-1979 Translation consultant, SIL Philippines 1962-1977 Field linguist, Bible translator, SIL Philippines 1954-1956 U.S. Army; in Japan with the U.S. Paratroopers (508 Airborne Regimental Combat Team) |
Expertise |
Ecological anthropology, hunter-gatherer societies, Philippine Negritos, tropical forest human ecology, culture change, swidden cultivation systems, ethnoscience, descriptive linguistics, translation theory. Geographical area of interest is Insular Southeast Asia. |
Grants received |
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Field Experience |
1962-1986, 1991-1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2006: Lived in the Philippines for 20 of these 31 years, working under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1962-1986, 1991-1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2006: A total of 15 years of fieldwork during this 44-year period among the Agta Negrito hunter-gatherers of the Philippines. 1957, 1961, 1968 (summers): Fieldwork among the Mixtec and Tzeltal Indians in southern Mexico, under the Summer Institute of Linguistics. |
Membership in Professional Organizations |
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Peer Reviewer of Manuscripts, Research Proposals, and Faculty Appointments |
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Other Appointments and Professional Activities |
2008. Keynote plenary speaker at the Annual Meeting of the American Scientific Affiliation, George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon, August 1–4. 2007 Served as invited chair for the Anthropology and Environment poster session #1-043 on “Injustice,” held at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, November 29. 2005 Elected to adjunct membership on the Graduate Faculty, Univ. of North Dakota. 2004 Served as invited chair of a symposium titled "Rescheduled Presentations" with twelve speakers, held at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, Georgia, December 18. [Served at the request of the AAA Program Chair]. 2003 Gave the Distinguished Lecture for the BRIT Distinguished Lecturer Series on "Biodiversity Hotspots of the World"; organized by the Botanical Research Institute of Texas and hosted by the Fort Worth Botanic Garden (on March 6), and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center (Austin, on March 7). 2001 Invited speaker at Beloit College (Wisconsin), March 21-23. Spoke five times. Main lecture (campus-wide) titled "Faith and Science: Should We Check Our Brains at the Door?" Sponsored by the Beloit College Anthropology Department and the Beloit Campus Christian Fellowship. 2000 Served as organizer and chair at anthropology forum titled "What Place For Hunter-Gatherers in Millennium Three?" Held at Southern Methodist University, September 25. Forum proceedings published in Headland 2002. 2000 Served as main consultant of museum exhibit titled "The Philippine Agta: Their Rainforest is Gone: What Now?" at the International Museum of Cultures (Dallas, Texas) from March 18 to January 18, 2001. (See http://www.internationalmuseumofcultures.org/exhibits/exhib-2000.htm.) Reviewed in American Anthropologist 103:515-518 (2001). 1999 Interviewed as guest on NPR radio program "Talk of the City" (FM 89.3 KPCC, Pasadena City College, California) on the topic of "Endangered Languages"; 60 minutes. December 9. (Reported in Anthropology News 41(6):35, September 2000.) 1998 Served as invited chair of the session entitled "Migration and Culture Change," held at the 97th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 2. [served at the request of the AAA Program Chair]. 1998 Plenary speaker at a colloquium at the Embassy of the Philippines, hosted by the Philippine Ambassador, December 8. Spoke on indigenous human rights in the Philippines. (Reported in Anthropology Newsletter, May 1999, p. 27; http://www.sil.org/silewp/1999/004/SILEWP1999-004.html.) 1998 Plenary speaker at the environmental science conference, "Co-Managing the Environment"; at Isabela State University, Philippines, September 21-24 (sponsored by Leiden University). 1998 Served as invited co-chair of symposium entitled "Relations Between Hunter-Gatherers and Agriculturalists," held at the 8th Int'l Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies, Osaka, Japan, October 26-30. 1998 Interviewer, in the videofilm The Scholar's Heart: A Tribute to Dr. Kenneth Pike. [An interview of Kenneth Pike.] Produced by SIL International. 1997 Plenary speaker at Houghton College (NY) week of October 27-31, conference titled "New Vision Week." (Presented 5 all-campus lectures plus 9 talks in classes.) 1997 Interviewed on National Public Radio (NPR) for 7 minutes on May 17 (program "It Sounds Like Science"). 1995 (May-June) Taught a course in cultural anthropology in Singapore at the RELC (Regional English Language Center). 1995 Interviewed on "Steel On Steel" on February 15 (radio station KRKS Denver) for 50 minutes on the topic of missionaries and human rights. 1988-1995 Lectured each year at the "Perspectives on the World Christian Movement" courses in Dallas (sponsored by U.S. Center for World Mission). 1994 Served as invited speaker at the AAA President's Panel titled "Open Forum on Human Rights," held at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, Georgia, November 30-December 4. (Speech reviewed in Anthropology Newsletter, January, 1995, p.3). 1994 Served as invited organizer and chair of a Presidential Session entitled "Missionaries and Human Rights," held at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, Georgia, November 30-December 4 [served at the request of the AAA President and the Chair of the AAA Commission for Human Rights]. Reported on wire services of NNI (News Network Int'l) and the Associated Press; reported in 1995 in Christianity Today January 9; Los Angeles Times February 4 and October 29; Anthropology Today February, and in over 100 national newspapers. 1994 Appointed a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology (executive editors David Levinson and Melvin Ember), a project of the HRAF at Yale University, published in 4 volumes in 1996. 1994 Promoted from Associate Member to full Member of the Graduate Faculty, Univ. of Texas at Arlington. 1993 Elected a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association (April) 1993 Served as invited chair of the session entitled "Global Perspectives on Regional Ecological Issues," held at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, November 17-21 [served at the request of the AAA Program Chair]. 1993 Interviewed on CBN News on a special news story titled "Those Awful Missionaries?" broadcast on 300 independent television stations nationwide, on October 11. 1993 Interviewed on NOVA program titled "The Lost Tribe," broadcast on public television (PBS) in the U.S. and Canada by WGBH on March 30, Show #2009. [Reviewed in The Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53:1028-1030.] 1991 Interviewed on National Public Radio (NPR) for 30 minutes on May 28 (radio station WBEX in Chicago) on the anthropology of the Tasaday hoax controversy. 1991 Served as invited guest editor with Robert Bailey for a special issue of the journal Human Ecology, vol. 19, no. 2, consisting of seven articles critiquing Headland and Bailey's theory called "The Wild Yam Question." [Reviewed in Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology (1996), Vol. 4, pp. 1363-66.] 1990 Served as co-organizer and co-chair of an Invited Session entitled "Tropical Forest Ecology: The Changing Human Niche and Deforestation," held at the 89th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 28 - December 2. (symposium results were reported in The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 12, 1990, pp. A5, A8.) 1989 Served as advisor for the production of multi-projector anthropology film entitled We Must Not Forget, produced by the Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1989 Served as organizer and chair of an Invited Session entitled "The Tasaday Controversy: An Assessment of the Evidence," held at the 88th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 15-19. (Symposium results were reported in the following: Science News, November 25, p. 343, The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 29, pp. A5, A10, Science, December 1, p. 1113, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, December 1, the Los Angeles Times, January 8, p. B8, Anthropology Today, February, pp. 16-18, U.S. News & World Report, February 19, pp. 54-56, and in three newspapers published in Manila, Philippines.) 1989 Appointed Associate Member of the Graduate Faculty, Univ. of Texas at Arlington. 1988 Served as organizer and chair of an Invited Session entitled "Emics and Etics: Two Views of Its History and Application: A Dialogue Between Kenneth Pike and Marvin Harris," held at the 87th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Phoenix, Arizona, November 16-20. 1988 Served as advisor for the production of multi-projector anthropology film entitled Tell Them We Are Not Auca: We Are Waorani, produced by the Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1988 Served as co-chair of Symposium 19.7, on "The Question of the Tasaday Hoax," held at the 12th Int'l Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, July 24-31. 1988 Served as organizer and chair of Symposium 9.2, entitled "Deculturation and Survival Among SE Asian Negritos: What Can Be Done?" held at the 12th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, July 24-31. 1986 (summer) Instructor, Philippine Normal University, Manila, Philippines, teaching one graduate summer course in applied anthropology. 1983, 1984 (summers) Instructor, Baguio Normal School, Baguio City, Philippines, teaching two graduate courses each summer in applied anthropology to Filipino educators. 1982 Chosen Alumnus of the Year by Bethel College (St. Paul, Minnesota), and awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award in Anthropology, Oct. 9. 1981 Editorial Advisor for the publication Language Atlas of the Pacific Area, edited by Stephen Wurm and Shiro Hattori, published in Canberra in 1983 by the Australian Academy of the Humanities in collaboration with the Japan Academy, Australian National University. 1977-78 Coordinated research project to collect color terms in Philippine languages; sponsored by National Science Foundation (Brent Berlin, Paul Kay, and William Merrifield, principal investigators). 1974, '75, '76, and '79 Conducted a series of four 2-week anthropology workshops for missionaries in the Philippines. 1973-74 Teaching assistant for anthropology professor Charles Kraft, Fuller Seminary, Pasadena California. 1972 Served as consultant for the National Museum of the Philippines, during the compilation of their map The Filipino People (published 1974). |
Awards, Honorable Mentions |
2007 2007 2007 2006 2005 2003 2001 2000 1998 1995 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1985 1982 |
