ROGER N. LANCASTER

Professor of Anthropology and Cultural Studies

Director of the Cultural Studies Ph.D. Program

Cultural Studies, MSN 5E4

George Mason University

4400 University Drive

Fairfax, Virginia 22030-4444

COMMUNICATIONS:

rlancast@gmu.edu

(703) 993-2851 (office) and (703) 993-2852 (fax)

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, Spring, 1987

M.A., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, Fall, 1983

B.A. summa cum laude, Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Spring, 1982

DISSERTATION

Thanks to God and the Revolution: Popular Religion and Class Consciousness in the New Nicaragua (February, 1987)

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION

Topical: Political Economy and Critical Theory; Gender/Sexuality and Lesbigay Studies; Public Culture; Social Movements and Cultural Change; Science and Technology; Comparative Religions. Areal: American Studies; Latin American Studies.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

(Author:) Sex Panic and the Punitive State. University of California Press, in press, 2011.

(Author:) The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture. University of California Press (May 2003)

(Editor, with Micaela di Leonardo:) The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy. Routledge, September 1997 [2 printings]

(Author:) Life is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua. University of California Press, A Centennial Book (Hardback: November 1992 [2 printings]; Paperback: July 1994 [multiple printings].

(Author:) Thanks to God and the Revolution: Popular Religion and Class Consciousness in the New Nicaragua. Columbia University Press (Hardback, September 1988 [2 printings]; Paperback, December 1988 [4 printings]).

SCHOLARLY PAPERS, CHAPTERS, AND ARTICLES

“Republic of Fear: The Triumph of Punitive Governance in America,” In Press, Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson, eds., The Insecure American (University of California Press, 2009), 63-76

“Republic of Fear: The Rise of Punitive Governance in the United States,” in Rethinking America: The Imperial Homeland in the 21st Century, ed. Jeff Maskovsky and Ida Susser (Paradigm, 2009), 201-212

“Panic Attack: Sex and Terror in the Homeland,” Terror Incognita: Immigrants and the Homeland Security State, a special issue of NACLA Report on the Americas, vol. 41, no. 6 (November/December 2008): 31-35

“Preface,” New Landscapes of Inequality, ed. by Jane Collins, Micaela di Leonardo, and Brett Williams (Santa Fe, New Mexico: School for Advanced Research Press, 2008), pp. xi—xiv

“State of Panic,” New Landscapes of Inequality, ed. by Jane Collins, Micaela di Leonardo, and Brett Williams (Santa Fe, New Mexico: School for Advanced Research Press, 2008), pp. 39—64

“Sex, Science, and Pseudoscience in the Public Sphere,” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (special issue on anthropology of the US) 13 (2006): 101—138

“Tolerance and Intolerance in Sexual Cultures in Latin America.” Passing Lines: Immigration and (Homo)Sexuality, Brad Epps, Kaja Valens, and Bill Johnson González, eds. David Rockefeller Center on Latin American Studies and Harvard University Press: 2005, pp. 255—274

“Use and Abuse of Ethnography,” In Rafael Ramirez et al., eds., Caribbean Masculinities, Working Papers (Published by HIV/AIDS Research and Education Center, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras) August 2002

“Rigoberta’s Testimonio” NACLA Report on the Americas, vol. 32 no. 6 (May/June) 1999

“Transgenderism in Latin America: Some Critical Introductory Remarks on Identities and Practices.” Sexualities 1 (3) (1998): 263-276

(With Micaela di Leonardo:) “Embodied Meanings, Carnal Practices.” Introduction to The Gender/Sexuality Reader (Routledge, 1997)

“Sexual Positions: Caveats and Second Thoughts on ‘Categories.’” The Americas. July 1997: 1-16

“Guto's Performance: Notes on the Transvestism of Everyday Life.” Lead essay in Daniel Balderston and Donna Guy, eds. Sex and Sexuality in Latin America. NYU Press: 1997. Reprint: Lancaster and di Leonardo, eds., The Gender/Sexuality Reader. Translation: "La Actuacción de Guto." Debate Feminista (México) vol 16 (Octubre 1997): 153-188. Reprint: Sexo y Sexualidades in América Latina (Buenos Aires, Paidós, 1999)

(With Micaela di Leonardo:) “Gender, Sexuality, Political Economy.” New Politics 21 (6 [8]) (Summer 1996): 29-43. Reprint: Socialist Feminism: A Contemporary Reader in Theory and Politics, edited by Nancy Holmstrom (Monthly Review Press, 2002)

“‘That We Should All Turn Queer?’ Homosexual Stigma in the Making of Manhood and the Breaking of a Revolution in Nicaragua." Richard Parker and John Gagnon, eds. Conceiving Sexuality: Approaches to Sex Research in a Postmodern World. Routledge, 1995. Reprint: Culture, Society and Sexuality, Parker and Aggleton, eds. (London, UCL Press). Also reprinted in Greek

“Skin Color, Race, and Racism in Nicaragua,” Ethnology 30(4):339-353 (October, 1991). Reprint: Race and Ethnicity: Comparative and Theoretical Approaches. John Stone and Rutledge Dennis, eds. Basil Blackwell (Readers in Sociology Series), 2003.

“Subject Honor and Object Shame: The Construction of Male Homosexuality and Stigma in Nicaragua,” Ethnology 27(2):111-125 (April, 1988). Var. reprints and translations

EXHIBITION CATALOG ESSAY

“Interdiktion und Introjektion: Technologien des Selbst in Altem und Modernem Kult,” Die Zehn Gebote. Herausgegeben von Klaus Biessenbach (für das Deutsche Hygiene-Museum). Dresden: Deutches Hygiene-Museum und Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004

(The German Hygiene Museum in Dresden published a stand-alone ethics reader to serve as exhibition catalog for its exhibit on the Ten Commandments in an age of globalization.)

MAJOR REVIEW ARTICLES

“On Homosexualities in Latin America (and Other Places),” American Ethnologist 24 (1) (February 1997): 193-202. (9,000 words)

“Coming Out Stories: Recent Video on Gay and Lesbian Themes,” for American Anthropologist 98 (3) (Sept 1996): 604-616 (10,000 words)

COMMENTARIES, DEBATES, & DIALOGUES

“Lessons from Nature?” Comment on Julian C.H. Lee, “Against the Order of Nature,” in Julian Lee, ed., The Malaysian Way of Life (Marshall Cavendish International, 2010).

“Anthropology and War,” Letter to the Editor, New York Times, 9 October 2007.

“Sex and Race in the Long Shadow of the Human Genome Project,” Is Race “Real?” A web forum organized by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC): http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/Lancaster/ (The SSRC has organized a collective response from social scientists and biologists to recent articles and op-eds in the New York Times that promoted scientific racialism: the idea that “race” is a viable, useful genetic concept)

“Text, Subtext, and Context: Strategies for Reading Alliance Theory.” American Ethnologist 32 (1) (February 2005)

“Two Cheers for Gay Marriage,” Anthropology News 45 (6) (September 2004)

“The Place of Athropology in a Pulbic Culture Reshaped by Bioreductivism,” Anthropology News (February 2004). Reprint: Talking About People (an introductory anthropology text published by McGraw Hill), by Luis Vivanco et al. (June 2005; c 2006)

“A Word or Two on ‘Ethics’: A Reply to Arboleda and Murray.” American Ethnologist (in press, 1998)

“The Use and Abuse of Reflexivity.” American Ethnologist 23 (1) (February 1996): 130-31

“Comment on Arguelles and Rich,” Signs, 12(1):188-192 (Autumn, 1986)

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

Who Owns Knowledge? Science and Technology in the Global Circuit. The Cultural Studies Spring Conference, George Mason University. April 18—19, 2006. Participants included: Itty Abraham, Stanley Aronowitz, Mario Biagioli, Jeremy Crampton, Troy Duster, Hugh Gusterson, Cori Hayden, Daniel Kevles, Chris Mooney, Rayna Rapp, Susan Merrill Squier, Langdon Winner

New Sex: Changing Conditions of Gender, Sexuality, and Intimacy. The Cultural Studies Spring Conference, George Mason University. March 27—28, 2003. Participants included E.J. Graff, Lisa Duggan, Wendy Kaminer, James Kincaid, Jose Munoz, Julia O’Connell Davidson, Richard Parker, Laura Kipnis, Mandy Merck, Jennifer Baumgardner, Judith Stacy

GENERAL INTEREST PUBLICATIONS

“Moral Creators and Moral Agents,” Off the Edge (Malaysia), Summer 2008.

“Just When You Thought the Culture Wars Were Over,” American Sexuality Magazine, January 2004, vol. 2 Issue 1.

“Amendment Fever,” Washington Blade, Nov 21, 2003.

“Post-Sodomy Sex Panics,” Washington Blade, July 11, 2003.

“Weighing Arguments in the Marriage Wars,” San Diego Union-Tribune, July 3, 2003.

“Festival of Disguises,” The Progressive, Nov. 1986, p. 50. Reprint: Inscriptions: Group for the Critical Study of Colonial Discourse, vol. 2 (1986)

“Tom Watson, George Wallace, and the Long Travail of Southern Politics,” People's Voice, Nov., 1984

“What AIDS Is Doing to Us,” Christopher Street, Apr., 1983

RECOGNITIONS

2006—07 — Fulbright Garcia-Robles

2004 –– The Trouble with Nature was the subject of a plenary session at the meetings of the Society for the Anthropology of North America

1997 –– Keynote Address: “On Gay/Lesbian Studies in Latin America.” Conference on Latin American History (a division of the American Historical Association)

1993 –– Winner, 1992 C. Wright Mills Award (for Life is Hard), Society for the Study of Social Problems (American Sociological Association)

1993 –– Winner, 1993 Ruth Benedict Prize (for Life is Hard), Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists

1992 –– Life is Hard selected by faculty editors at University of California Press for publication as a Centennial Book

1988 –– Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities

ACADEMIC WORK

POSITIONS HELD

Professor of Anthropology and Cultural Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Fall 2003—

Associate Professor of Anthropology and Cultural Studies, George Mason University, Fall 1995––

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, Fall 1993––Spring 1995.

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology George Mason University, Fall 1988––Spring 1993.  (Tenured and promoted: Spring 93.)

Visiting Member of the Faculty, Program in Central American Studies, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, Fall 1987––Spring 1988.

Teaching Assistant and Reader (various courses, introductory and upper-division) with Gerald Berreman, Jack Potter, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Dept. of Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley, 1983––1987.

COURSES TAUGHT

Undergraduate: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; Gender, Sexuality, and Culture; Anthropological Perspectives on History; Anthropology and Literary Theory; Classics in Anthropology; Contemporary Controversies; Cultures in Comparative Perspective; Peoples and Cultures of Latin America; Semiotics; Reading Cultural Signs

Graduate: Science and Technology; The Social Body; Theorizing Gender, Sexuality, and Power; Contemporary Cultural Theory; Histories of Cultural Studies; Semiotics; Introduction to Lesbigay Studies; Student/Faculty Colloquium; Culture and Political Economy

DEPARTMENTAL and UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Since Spring 1999, I have served as Director of the Cultural Studies Program (a stand-alone interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program).

Other forms of departmental service include: Anthropology Curriculum Committee; var. Search Cmtes; Organizer, Department Seminar series (F 92); Anthropology Masters Planning Coordinator (95–97); Student Advising; Study Groups; Cultural Studies Colloquium Planning Committee (95–96); Anthropology Program Coordinator, F 97–S 99; Cultural Studies Executive Committee (97–99); Colloquium/Conference organizer. At Columbia: Dept curriculum reform; Dept Liaison to CUE (Committee on Undergraduate Education); Graduate Admissions Committee; Study Groups and Student Advising; Summer Chair (94, 95); College and General Studies Advisor/Coordinator (Anthropology Undergraduate Advisor) (94–95).

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

CONSULTATION (LEGAL)

Expert testimony (pro bono) on country conditions affecting gays and lesbians in Nicaragua, US Immigration Court, Baltimore, MD. 10 September 2009.

PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY

From 2004 to 2006, I served as the American Anthropological Association’s media points-person on kinship, marriage, and the family, fielding media questions on the changing institution of marriage, especially questions regarding same-sex marriage. My remarks and commentaries have appeared in these and other venues:

Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Washington Times, San Diego Union Tribune, The Oregonian, Bloomberg News, Oprah Magazine, Tacoma News Tribune (Scripps Howard News Services), Washington Blade, The Advocate, Fairfax Journal, Southeast Missourian, News Channel 8/Associated Press.

I have also appeared on BBC, Pacifica Radio, and a number of NPR affiliates.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Anthropological Association (Fellow)

American Ethnological Society

Society for Cultural Anthropology

Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists

Kroeber Anthropological Society

Latin American Studies Association

Latin American Subaltern Studies Group

OUTSIDE EXAMINER (PhD COMMITTEES)

Cambridge University, Rutgers University, City University of New York, University of New Mexico, and American University.

OUTSIDE REVIEWER

National Science Foundation; Guggenheim Foundation; Fulbright Fellowships; Wenner-Grenn Foundation; Westview Publishers; University of California Press (multiple times); Duke University Press; Columbia University Press; Ohio University Press Monographs in International Studies; Routledge; Rutgers University Press; University of Texas Press; University of Illinois Press; American Anthropologist; American Ethnologist; Cultural Anthropology; Social Science and Medicine Quarterly; Identities; and others

OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Executive Board Member, Sexuality Research and Social Policy (2004—2007)

Editorial Board, Society for Latin American Anthropology (1998—2002)

Executive Committee, Society for Cultural Anthropology (1997—2002)

Book Review Editor, Anthropological Quarterly (1992—93)

RESEARCH AND PRESENTATIONS

FIELDWORK

American South (undergraduate), Managua, Nicaragua (graduate and post-graduate), Mexico (various sites) (graduate language training, ongoing postgraduate research)

PAPERS, TALKS, INTERVIEWS (Highlights)

2009

“The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science, Popular Culture, and Social Movements,” George L. Mosse Program, University of Wisconsin, September 30, 2009.

“How Sex Panic Reshaped American Culture,” History Department Gender Workshop, University of Wisconsin.

2008

“Sex and Terror and Business as Usual,” New States of War and Policing, American Anthropological Association, November 20.

“The Politics of Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture,” Plenary Session Lecture, National Council on Family Relations Annual Conference, November 6 (Little Rock, Ark.).

2007

“State of Panic,” Invited Panel, American Anthropological Association.

2006

“Republic of Fear,” Presidential panel and festschrift for Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association.

Presenter/Participant, School of American Research Seminar: “New Landscapes of Social Inequality,” organized by Jane Collins, Micaela di Leonardo, and Brett Williams (March 11—16).

Presenter/Participant: “Cultural Studies and the Social Sciences.” Plenary Panel, Annual Meetings of Cultural Studies Association (Arlington, Virginia) (April 20).

2005

I appeared on BBC News International, discussing Judge Jones’s ruling on the Intelligent Design case from Dover, Pennsylvania. (20 December)

“The Marriage Wars,” presented as part of the Presidential Panel (jointly sponsored by SOLGA), “Same-Sex Marriage,” at the AAA meetings in Washington, DC. (3 December)

“Excluded Knowledges,” presented as part of the Presidential Panel, “Anthropology and Public Perceptions,” at the AAA meetings in Washington, DC. (2 December)

“The Fall and Rise of Genomania: Sex and Race in Science Today.” Talk presented at the CUNY Graduate Center. Sponsored by the CUNY Anthropology Department, the Center for Humanities, and the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. (11 November)

“What Constitutes a Marriage?” With Good Reason. (This radio interview aired August 27—September 2 across Virginia and on various NPR affiliates.)

“Is There a Place at the Table? Sex and Empire Since the Gay 90s.” Society for the Anthropology of North America (May 2005, Mérida, Mex).

“Is America Turning Fascist,” Colloquium talk at American University (March 29).

2004

“Interdiction and Introjection: Reflections on Stone Tablets,” Cultural Studies Colloquium, George Mason University (21 October).

Some reflections on public anthropology, Exploring Public Anthropology, day-long workshop/conference at American University (16 October).

“Is America Turning Fascist?” The World Looks At Us: Rethinking the U.S. State; Conference funded by the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Critique of Anthropology, and the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at CUNY (8—10 October). Location:  Arden House, Newburgh, New York

2003

In 2003, I gave some twenty radio interviews (mostly to NPR affiliates and small progressive radio stations), wrote two op-eds, and appeared on BBC News.

July 2, “Focus 580,” WILL-AM (the broadcasting service of University of Ilinois, NPR), one hour interview/talk show.

July 21, Gordene McKenzie, WMBR - “Gender Talk” (Boston and on the web), 20-25 min interview/discussion of bioreductivism and gender essentialism.

July 24, Penny Andrews, KMUD - The Digital Divide (Redway, CA), 20-30 minute live interview on “the gay gene.”

July 28, Jeff Shechtman, KVON-AM, “Morning Edition” (Napa, CA), 30 minute live interview.

July 31, Jack Danger, KBOO (Portland), 30 minute live interview.

July 31, "Sirius Radio" The John McMullen Show, 30 minute interview/discussion.

Aug 1, Ellen Kimball, "Kimball in the City" Oregon Public Radio (Portland), 1 hour interview/discussion of gender roles, sexuality, and bioreductivism.

Aug 1, Blair Feulner, KCPW (Salt Lake City NPR), 20 minute radio interview.

Aug 1, The Arnie Arnesen Show (Airs on four New England stations: WNTK AM & FM, WBMX, KXL), 20 minute interview on sex, science, and the news.

Aug. 4, Jone Devlin, “Lesbian and Gay Voices” KPFT (Pacifica) (Houston), 15 minute live phone interview.

Aug 5, Richard Baker “Perspectives” (syndicated to 20 stations), 30 minute interview.

August 5, Charone Padget, WRFG-FM (Atlanta), 20-30 minute live interview.

Aug 7, Dan Skinner WBAA (NPR) (W. Lafayette, IN), 20 minute live interview.

August 18, Gregg Shapiro, “Windy City Radio” WICN (Chicago), 10-15 minute live interview.

Aug 18, Guy Rathbun, “Issues & Ideas” KCBX - FM (NPR) (San Luis Obispo), 30 minute taped interview.

Aug 21, Paul Tigan, "A las Ocho" - KRZA (Alamosa, CO), 30 minute taped interview.

Aug 28, Deborah Leech, “A Chautauqua” - KOPN (NPR) (Columbia, MO), 1 hour live interview.

Sept 7, Peter Solomon WIP (Philadelphia), 30 minute live phone interview with call-in.

Sept 21, Heather Kitching “Queer FM”, CITR (Vancouver, BC), 20 minute phone interview.

Sept. 30, Stan Woodard, The 8:00 Buzz – WORT-FM (Madison, WI), 20 minute live interview.

“Tolerance and Intolerance: Sexual Cultures in Latin America,” Ohio State University Colloquium on Race, Class, and Gender in Latin America (Sponsored by Center for Latin American Studies, co-sponsored by Department of History, OSU-WID, and Department of Spanish and Portuguese, in Collaboration with Clusters of Interdisciplinary Research on International Themes (CIRIT) Gender and Ethnicity; major funding by Office of International Affairs) (14 November)

“Book Discussion,” American Studies Faculty, Northwestern University (8 October).

“The Politics of Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture,” Northwestern University (Gender Studies, American Studies, Anthropology) (9 October).

2002

“Reading the New York Times Science News,” presented at Micaela di Leonardo and Jeff Maskovsky’s panel on American Studies at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans (November).

“Cultural Anthropology and Cultural Studies,” Presented at the University of California, Berkeley, Centennary Celebration (April).

“Sexual Postfordism,” Presented at the Lavendar Languages Conference Plenary Panel, American University (15 February).

2001

Co-Chair/Co-Organizer (with Bill Leap), “Sex in the Global Circuit,” American Anthropological Association (1 December). Paper: “Sexual Postfordism” (same panel).

Paper: “Tolerance and Intolerance in Sexual Cultures in Latin America.” Male Friendship and Homosociality in Latin America, Brown (7 April).

Paper: “Tolerance and Intolerance in Sexual Cultures in Latin America.” Passing Lines: Immigration and (Homo)sexuality. Harvard (5 April).

Paper: “Tolerance and Intolerance in Sexual Cultures in Latin America.” Gender and Sexuality in Latin America, March 16-18. Ohio University.

2000

Chair/Organizer: Society for Cultural Anthropology’s “Culture at Large” panel for the meetings of the American Anthropological Association (November). Paper: “Homo Faber, Family Man” (Masculinities panel at same meeting.)

1999

Paper: “Nature Wars, Culture Wars,” presentation to the cultural studies group at University of Northern Colorado, Greeley. Presentation: Discussions on the formation of a cultural studies major at UNC-G.

“Use and Abuse of Ethnography.” Conference on masculinity studies, University of Puerto Rico (April).

“On the Tarnishing of an Icon.” The All Fool’s Day Conference, “Cultural Icons . . . Cultural Iconoclasm.” Cultural Studies, George Mason University. (April 1)

1997

Keynote, Luncheon Speaker: “On Gay/Lesbian Studies in Latin America.” Conference on Latin American History, a division of the American Historical Association. (Jan 3)

Paper: “Gendered Performances and Carnal Ambiguities.” “Rethinking Gender: Latin American and U.S. Perspectives,” A panel organized and chaired by Jean Franco. Latin American Studies Association, 20th International Congress, Guadalajara, Mexico (17-19 Apr).

Co-Organizer (with Micaela di Leonardo), “Embodying Anthropology: Gender/Sexuality, History, Political Economy,” a Panel invited by the Association for Feminist Anthropology and the Society for Cultural Anthropology (November 1997).

Paper: “When ‘I’ Was A ‘Girl’: Thoughts on Identity, Kinship, and Other Selective Affinities,” a paper for Embodying Anthropology. AAA, Washington, D.C. (Nov 1997).

1996

Co-Discussant on two Invited Sesions at the Meetings of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco: “Transgenderism in Latin America: Persons, Practices, and Meanings” (with Judith Butler), and “Neoliberalism and Structural Violence” (with Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Arthur Kleinman).

Paper: “Bodies/Politics: Caveats and Second Thoughts on Sexual ‘Categories’.” Crossing National and Sexual Borders: Queer Sexualities in Latin/o America. A Conference presented by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and the Albert Schweitzer Program in the Humanities, New York University. 3-5 October.

Paper: “Carnal Performances and Gender Ambiguities: The Transvestism of Everyday Life.” Invited Panel, American Ethnological Society, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (April.)

Introduction to GMU International Week's Keynote Address by Bianca Jagger. (April.)

Talks: “Guto’s Performance: Notes on the Transvestism of Everyday Life.” Rutgers (Gender Studies, March), University of North Carolina (Anthropology, March), and Georgetown (Sociology and Anthropology, April).

1995

Discussant: Malinchismo/Machismo: Gender and Manhood Among Mexicanos in the United States. A conference presented by Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, University of California, San Diego. (October).

Featured Lecture/Paper: “The Queer Body: Notes on Masculinity, Desire, and Sexuality.” New York Academy of Sciences. (January).

1994

Paper: “The Queering of Theory: New Approaches to Gender and Sexuality Studies in Latin America and Beyond.” LASA (Latin American Studies Association) Plenary Session: “Gender and the Politics of Sexuality in Latin America.” (Mar 1994).

Lecture and Seminar: “Ethics in Fieldwork.” Ford Foundation training program for graduate students in the social sciences, Columbia University. (Fall 1994).

1993

Paper: “‘That We Should All Turn Queer?’ Homosexual Stigma in the Making of Manhood and the Breaking of a Revolution in Nicaragua.” “Gender Power” panel; Conference on International Perspectives in Sex Research, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sponsored by the Working Group on Sexual Behavior Research of the AIDS and Reproductive Health Network. April.

Discussant: “Sex, Gender, and Personhood” panel. Conference on International Perspectives in Sex Research, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sponsored by the Working Group on Sexual Behavior Research of the AIDS and Reproductive Health Network. 22-25 April.

Talks: “The Making of Manhood and the Breaking of a Revolution in Nicaragua.” Department of Anthropology, Yale University. October. Department of Anthropology, Columbia University. February.

Co-chair, Co-organizer: “Central America Today: A Low-Intensity Peace.” (With Michael J. Higgins.) 92nd Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C. November.

Talks on Life is Hard: Elliot Bay Bookstore, Seattle, Washington; Modern Times Bookstore, San Francicso, California; Vertigo Books, Washington, D.C. January.

Interviews: On Life is Hard: The San Francisco Chronicle; KPFA Radio, Berkeley. January.

Invited Lecture: “A History of the Nicaraguan Revolution,” Program on Environment and Culture in Latin America, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington. January.

Invited Lecture: “Gender and Sexuality in the Nicaraguan Culture of Machismo,” Program on Power, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington. January.

Talk: “Gender and Sexuality in the Nicaraguan Culture of Machismo,” Department of Anthropology and Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley. January.

1992

Talk: “Letters Home: Love, Lies, and Death in Nicaraguan Family Life.” Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Fall Colloquia series, George Mason University. December.

1990

Talk: “After the Elections: Nicaragua Today.” International Week, George Mason University. March.

Talks: “Skin Color, Race, and Racism in Nicaragua.” Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle. February, and Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California. January.

1988

Paper: “Nicaraguan Carnival,” Nov. 1988 meetings of the American Anthropological Association.

Paper: “The Church and Revolution in Nicaragua,” presented as part of Thomas Walker's symposium, “Nicaragua in the 1980s” at the Mar. 1988 meetings of the Latin American Studies Association in Pittsburgh.

Interview: “Liberation Theology,” Epicenter (March 1, 1988) 1(1):4-5.

1987

Paper: “Popular Religion and Class Consciousness in Managua's Working Class Barrios.” Nancy Scheper-Hughes’ and Jean Comaroff’s Invited Panel on popular culture, Apr. 1987 meetings of the American Ethnological Society in San Antonio.

Talks: “Traditional Popular Religion and Liberation Theology in Nicaragua: Breaks and Continuities.” Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. January. Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin. January.

1986

Paper: “El Cochón and the Milieu-Specific Construction of Stigma and Sexuality in Nicaragua.” Invited Panel on “Stigma, Meaning and Discourse,” Dec. 1986 meetings of the American Anthropological Association in Philadelphia.