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CYNTHIA KEPPLEY MAHMOOD Department of Anthropology Office: 639 Flanner Hall 611 Flanner Hall (574) 631-4744 University of Notre Dame cmahmood@nd.edu Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 www.cmahmood.wordpress.com

EDUCATION__________________________________________________________________

1986 Ph.D. Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

Doctoral Dissertation: Rebellion and Response in Ancient India: Political Dynamics of the Hindu-Buddhist Tradition [initial year at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York]

1981 M.A. Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 1977 B.A. Anthropology and Psychology, New College, Sarasota, Florida 1973 Diplomas, Atheneum in Katwijk aan Zee, the Netherlands/ Wyomissing Area High School, Wyomissing, Pennsylvania

POSITIONS HELD______________________________________________________________

2001 - Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, Indiana (2001- Fellow, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies) (2013- Fellow, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies) 2010 Visiting Research Associate, University of Victoria Centre for Studies in Religion and Society (sabbatical leave) 1996-2001 Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 1991-1996 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Maine, Orono, Maine Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 1986-1996 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Central University of Iowa, Pella, Iowa 1986 Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania 1984-1986 Research Analyst, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana

AREAS OF INTEREST__________________________________________________________

Anthropology of violence; ethnographic methods and ethics in zones of conflict; religious militancy; South Asia; ethnicity and other collective identities, engaged anthropology; anthropology in public discourse; empire, hegemony, and human rights; writing for change.

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PUBLICATIONS_______________________________________________________________

Academic (Refereed) Books 2002 The Guru’s Gift: An Ethnography Exploring Gender Equality With North American Sikh

Women (with Stacy Brady as jr. author). Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Company, 2000. (Republished by McGraw-Hill, 2004) .

1996 Fighting for Faith and Nation: Dialogues With Sikh Militants. Series on Contemporary Ethnography. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Included in Anthropology Online, Alexander Street Press, 2011).

1989 Frisian and Free: Study of an Ethnic Minority of the Netherlands. Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press, 1989.

Collections 2012 One More Voice: Perspectives on South Asia. Philadelphia: Xlibris. 2001 A Sea of Orange: Writings on the Sikhs and India. Philadelphia: Xlibris. Textbooks and Educational Materials 2002 Student’s Guide to the Use of the Internet for Anthropology. Tampa, FL: Thomson

Publishers; new edition 2003. 2000 Anthropology: Hits on the Web (with Carol Lea Clark). Ft. Worth: Harcourt College

Publishers. 1993 Study Guide and Workbook, Instructor’s Manual, Test Bank and Transparency Set to Accompany William Haviland’s Anthropology, Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace; new editions published in 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997. 1993 Study Guide and Workbook, Instructor’s Manual, Test Bank and Transparency Set to

Accompany William Haviland’s Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace; new editions published in 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997.

1993 Study Guide and Workbook, Instructor’s Manual, Test Bank and Transparency Set to Accompany William Haviland’s Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace; new editions published 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997.

Academic (Refereed) Articles 2013 How Jesse Became a Revolutionary. Anthropology and Humanism 38(1): 82-92. 2013 Gun Cultures, Majority Nationalism, and the Prominence of Fear: Reflections on Anti-Sikh Hate Crimes. Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory 8(3): 275-280. 2012 A Hobby No More: Anxieties of Engaged Anthropology at the Heart of Empire. Anthropology Today 28(4):22-25.

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2008 Anthropology From the Bones: A Memoir of Fieldwork, Survival, and Commitment. Anthropology and Humanism 33(2-1):1-11. (Republished in Ethnographic Fieldwork, edited by Antonius Robben and Jeffrey A. Sluka, pp. 274-283. London: Wiley- Blackwell, 2012).

2002 Anthropological Compulsions in a World in Crisis. Anthropology Today 18(3): 1-2. 2001 Myth, Terror, and the Power of Ethnographic Praxis. J of Contemporary Ethnography

30(5): 520-545. 2000 The Tile-Maker. Anthropology and Humanism 13(1): 1-15. 1999 Writing the Bones. Human Rights Review 1(1): 19-33. 1997 On Human Rights. Abstracts of Sikh Studies 1(4): 5-16. 1996 Asylum, Violence and the Limits of Advocacy. Human Organization 55(4): 498-505. 1994 Violence and the Culture of Sikh Separatism. POLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology

Review 17(1): 11-22. 1994 Ayodhya and the Hindu Resurgence. Religion 24: 73-80. 1993 Rethinking Indian Communalism: Culture and Counter-Culture. Asian Survey 33(7): 722-737. 1992 Do Ethnic Groups Exist? A Cognitive Perspective on the Concept of Cultures (with Sharon

Armstrong as jr author). Ethnology 31(1): 1-14. 1991 Muslim and Hindu Castes: An Inquiry Into the Origins of an Ideology. Man in India (New

Delhi) 71(1): 203-212. 1990 Transatlantic Interpretation: Insight or Insult? Etnofoor ( Amsterdam) 3(2) 69-78. 1989 Sikh Rebellion and the Hindu Concept of Order. Asian Survey 29(3): 326-340. 1988 The Cultural Ecology of Neighbor’s Duty in Friesland. Journal of Cultural Geography 9(1): 88-94. Book Chapters (invited/refereed) In press Khalistan as Political Critique. In The Encyclopedia of Sikh Studies, ed. Pashaura Singh and Lou Fenech. London: Wiley-Blackwell. 2012 Sikh Traditions of Violence. In The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence, ed. Mark Juergensmeyer, Michael Jerryson, and Margo Kitts, pp. 67-77. NewYork: Oxford University Press. 2004 Sikhs in Canada: Identity and Commitment. In Religion and Ethnicity in Canada, ed.

Paul Bramadat and David Seljak, pp. 52-68. Toronto: Pearson-Longman. Second edition, 2009, University of Toronto Press.

2002 Fundamentals of Extremism. In History Behind the Headlines: The Origins of Conflicts Worldwide pp. 80-90. Farmington Hills, Missouri: Lucent Books. 1999 Trials by Fire: Dynamics of Terror in Punjab and Kashmir. In Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror, ed. Jeffrey A. Sluka, pp. 70-90. University of Pennsylvania Series on the Ethnography of Political Violence. 1997 Playing the Game of Love: Passion and Martyrdom Among Khalistani Sikhs. In

Martyrdom and National Liberation Movements, ed. Joyce Pettigrew, pp. 72-87.

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Comparative Asian Studies Series No. 18. Amsterdam: Free University. (Republished in Violence: A Reader, ed. Catherine Besteman, pp. 118-135. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.) 1997 Hinduism in Context: Approaching a Religious Tradition Through External Sources. In The Anthropology of Religion: A Handbook, ed. Stephen Glazier, pp. 305- 318. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. 1996 Why Sikhs Fight. In Anthropological Contributions to Conflict Resolution, ed. Alvin Wolfe

and Honggang Yang, pp. 14-32. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia, 1996; reprinted in Abstracts of Sikh Studies, July.

1989 Ethnicity, Equality, and the Political Potential of Buddhism (with Jack Fischer as sr. author). In Buddhism and World Peace, ed. Sachindra Narayan, pp. 25-33. New Delhi: Inter-India Publications.

Encyclopedia Articles 2012 The Khalistan Movement. Encyclopedia of Global Religion, ed. Mark Juergensmeyer,

Sage Publishing. 2001 NGO’s in International Peace-Making (with Geoffrey Wingard as jr author). In Magill’s Guide to Military History, ed. John Powell, pp. 1126-1128. Pasadena: Salem

Press. 2001 The Amritsar Massacre (with Geoffrey Wingard as jr author). In Magill’s Guide to

Military History, ed. John Powell. Pasadena: Salem Press. 2001 Somalia (with Anthony King as jr author). In Magill’s Guide to Military History, ed. John

Powell, pp. 1437-1439. Pasadena: Salem Press. 2001 The Abenaki Wars (with Anthony King as jr. author). In Magill’s Guide to Military

History, ed. John Powell, pp. 5-6. Pasadena: Salem Press. 1999 Cyprus. In Current World Conflicts and Confrontations, ed. R. Kent Rasmussen, pp. 827-

834. Pasadena: Salem Press. 1999 Pakistan. In Current World Conflicts and Confrontations, ed. R. Kent Rasmussen, pp.

631-640. Pasadena: Salem Press. 1998 Residence Patterns. In The International Encyclopedia of Sociology, ed. Frank Magill.

London: Fitzroy Pearson. 1994 The Hindu Caste System. In The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. John K. Roth,

pp. 121-122. London: Fitzroy Pearson. 1994 Jain Ethics. In The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. John K. Roth, pp. 460-462.

London: Fitzroy Pearson.. 1994 Sikh Ethics. In The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. John K. Roth, pp. 800-804.

London: Fitzroy Pearson. 1994 Madhyamaka. In The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. John K. Roth, pp. 518-

522. London: Fitzroy Pearson. 1992 Sikhs in Punjab Revolt. In Great Events From History: Human Rights, ed. Frank Magill,

pp. 2215-2219. Pasadena: Salem Press.

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1991 Images of Europe in Anthropological Case Studies. Proceedings of the Fifteenth European Studies Conference, pp. 192-199. Cedar Falls, Iowa: University of Northern Iowa

1985 Redefining Ahimsa in Political Buddhism (with John L. Fischer as sr author). Encyclopedia of Non-Violence, ed. Sachindra Narayan, pp. 37-46. Ahmedabad: Gujarat Vidyapith (India).

Book Series Editor Founder, Editor and Director The Ethnography of Political Violence. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995 – 2011. [Advisory Board: Antonius Robben, Utrecht; Jeffrey Sluka, Massey; Carolyn Nordstrom, Notre Dame; Kevin Avruch, George Mason] Eighteen volumes:

2011 Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel, by Juliana Ochs. 2010 El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace: Crime, Uncertainty and the

Transition to Democracy, by Ellen Moodie. 2009 Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropologists Can Tell Us About the War, edited by

Antonius Robben. 2009 Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India, by Kalyani

Menon. 2009 Soldiers, Martyrs, Traitors and Exiles: Political Conflict in Eritrea and the

Diaspora, by Tricia Redeker Hepner. 2008 Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State, by Elizabeth F. Drexler, 2007 Guatemala in the Aftermath of Terror: The Refugees Return, by Krista

Ann Stolen. 2006 Child Soldiers in Africa, by Alcinda Honwana.

2006 Liberia: Violence in Democracy, by Mary Moran. 2005 A Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps, by Julie

Peteet. 2005 Hitting Where It Hurts Most: The Traumatization of Argentine Society, by

Antonius Robben. 2004 Karaoke Fascism: Burma and the Politics of Fear, by Monique Skidmore. 2002 Masking Terror: How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka, by

Alexandra Argenti-Pillen. 2002 Crossing the Green Line Between the West Bank and Israel, by Avram

Bornstein. 2001 War and Slavery in Sudan, by Jok Madut Jok.. 1999 Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror, edited by Jeffrey A.

Sluka. 1998 Unraveling Somalia: Race, Violence and the Legacy of Slavery, by

Catherine Besteman. 1997 A Different Kind of War Story, by Carolyn Nordstrom.

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Book Reviews 2013 Helium, by Jaspreet Singh. Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory 9(3):425-426. 2008 The Shifts in Hisbullah's Ideology: Religious Ideology, Political Ideology, and Political

Program, by Joseph Alagha. Religion 550-551. 2006 The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco, by Susan Slyomovics. Journal of

Anthropological Research 62:107-109. 2005 The ‘Huddled Masses’ Myth: Immigration and Civil Rights, by Kevin Johnson. Revue de

L’integration et de la Migration Internationale 522-524. 2003 Paths to Collective Madness: A Study in Social Order and Political Pathology, by Dipak K.

Gupta. Political Psychology 635-637. 1998 Terror and Taboo: The Follies, Faces and Fables of Terrorism, by Joseba Zulaika and

William Douglass. American Ethnologist . 1998 Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival, edited by Carolyn

Nordstrom and Antonius Robben. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 4(3): 597-598.

1998 The Civility of Indifference: On Domesticating Ethnicity, by F.G. Bailey. American Ethnologist 25(1): 65-66. 1997 Merit and Blessing in Mainland Southest Asia in Comparative Perspective, edited by

Cornelia Ann Kammerer and Nicola Tannenbaum. American Anthropologist 99(4): 7-8. 1997 Representing Hinduism: The Construction of Religious Traditions and National Identity,

edited by Vasudha Dalmia and Heinrich von Stientencron. Journal of Church and State: 350-351.

1992 Elk Vist Op Zijn Tij: Een Historisch-Antropologisch Studie van een Zeeuwse Maritieme Gemeenschap, Yerseke 1870-1914 [Out With the Tide: A Historical-Anthropological Study of a Zeeland Maritime Community, Yerseke 1870-1914] by Rob van Ginkel. MAST: Maritime Anthropological Studies 5(1) :87-88.

1991 English Travelers Abroad 1604-1667, by John Stoye. European Studies Journal 8(2): 80- 82. Reports 2012 An Underside of Abuse: Update on Country Conditions in Punjab, India. For use in U.S.

legal settings in which current human rights practices are at issue. 1998 Disappearances in Punjab and the Impunity of the Indian State (with Ram Narayan

Kumar). Coordinating Committee on Disappearances and Cremations, and Report of the People’s Commission on Human Rights. Chandigarh.

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Other Publications 2012 Left, Right and Wrong on Religion: Asymmetries of Power and Knowledge in Global Insurgency. Anthropology News, November. 2010 Mosque Near Ground Zero: The Right Reasons. USA Today, August. 2009 Five Ways Forward in Afghanistan. Afghanistan Crossroads. CNN Website: Invited

Commentary. 2009 On the Passing of a Great Man, True Friend, Inspired Soul. World Sikh News, July 6. 2009 Let’s Carry Each Other’s Heads. World Sikh News, June 25. 2008 Islam’s Unheard Voices. The Times [of London] Higher Education Magazine, July. 2004 Hearts, Minds, and Sustainable Peace in Kashmir. Kroc Institute Peace Colloquy. 2003 Agenda for an Anthropology of Peace. Anthropology Newsletter [invited article] June. 2002 Why I Believe We Need to Talk To Extremists. The Times [of London] Educational

Supplement [invited article], May. 2001 Kashmir and the War on Terrorism. Policy Brief Series of the Kroc Institute, University of

Notre Dame, October. 1999 The Sikh Movement. Pakistan Progressive, October. 1998 The Punjab Conflict: Thoughts on Human Rights and Militancy. North American Sikh

Journal, October. 1997 When They Read What We Write: Fighting For Faith and Nation. Sangat online,

December. 1993 Anthropological Ethics in Arenas of Violence. Anthropology Newsletter, October. 1993 Is There a Hindu Majority? South Asia Monitor, March. 1993 Development or Destruction: Walking the Fine Line in Action Anthropology. South Asia

Monitor, February. 1986 Urbanization and Class Alignment in West Punjab (with Khalid Mahmood as jr author).

Human Mosaic 20(1-2): 13-27. 1985 The Politicization of Tradition in Colonial Burma. Human Mosaic 16(2) 34-44. In Progress: Journal Articles Submitted: “Democracy in Crisis: The Anthropology of State Terror in India” (with Ellen Kozelka as jr. author), to American Ethnologist. Book Proposals Submitted: Democracy and Bare Life: The Anthropology of State Terror in India, to the University of Pennsylvania Press. A Gathering Storm, to Bloomsbury Publishing.

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PUBLIC SPEAKING____________________________________________________________

Academic Presentations 2013 Sikhism and Personhood in India’s Democracy. Stanford University, Center for

South Asia. Amitesh Kaur Memorial Lecture. 2012 Democracy and Bare Life: Silencing Violence in the Garden of India. American Anthropological Association, San Francisco. 2012 How Jesse Became a Revolutionary. American Anthropological Association, San Francisco. 2011 Muslims in the American Midwest: Really Welcome? Conference on Islam and

Democracy. American Islamic College, Chicago. 2010 Democracy and Bare Life: Silencing Violence in the Garden of India. University of

Victoria (B.C.) Centre for Studies in Religion and Society. 2010 Impunity, Insurgency, and Exception. Association for Asian Studies, Chicago. 2009 Women, Human Rights, and the Culture of Shame. University of California, Berkeley. 2009 Publishing in Engaged and Public Anthropology. American Anthropological Association.

(Executive Session) 2009 Sikh Visions on Rights, Sovereignty, and Coexistence in the New Millenium. Rice

University, Houston. 2009 Academy and Community in the Study of Sikhism. Kwantlen Polytechnic University,

Surrey, B.C. 2008 Speech and the Definition of Humanity. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C. 2007 Punjabi Remix: Silencing Violence in the Garden of India. Ohio University. Athens, Ohio. 2006 Risking the Face-to-Face in an Age of Terror. Emory University Initiative on Religion,

Conflict and Peacebuilding, Atlanta. 2006 Cartographies of Persecution: Punjab in Comparative Context. Fordham University

Conference on Genocide, New York. 2006 Why Does the World Hate Women? New Answers, New Questions. Edith Stein

Conference on Redefining Feminism, University of Notre Dame. 2005 Martyring Truths: Risk and Scholarship in the Anthropological Project. Watson Institute

for International Studies, Speakers Series on Engaging Activism, Brown University, Providence.

2004 Violence, Play, and the Problem of Post-Conflict Healing. Emory University Conference on the Event of War, Atlanta.

2004 Genocide in Ethnically Divided Societies. Fordham University Conference on Preventing Genocide, New York.

2003 Terrorists and Martyrs. Teresa Dease Memorial Lecture, University of Toronto, Ontario. 2003 Terrorists and Martyrs. Teresa Dease Memorial Lecture, University of Waterloo, Ontario. 2003 Globalization and Terrorism: The Missing Piece. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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2003 Religion and Peacebuilding in South Asia. Symposium on Religion, Violence and Agency in South Asia, University of Notre Dame.

2003 Islamic Responses and Academic Responsibilities in the Wake of 9/11. Loyola University Lecture Series on Religion and Violence, Chicago.

2002 Conflict in Kashmir: Nervousness in the System. Conference on Multiple Voices: Islam and the West Since 9/ll, University of Notre Dame.

2001 The Limits of War in an Age of Terrorism. Loyola University, Chicago. 2001 Sikh Radicalism and Asylum: The Rights/Violence Dilemma. University of Colorado

Institute for Asian Studies, Boulder. 2000 Human Rights Discourse and the Balance of Power. Conference on Sikh Studies, Oakland

University, Detroit. 2000 Knowledge and Responsibility: Educating for the 21st Century. Distinguished Lecture,

Maine Center for the Arts, Orono. 1999 Women Rebels of Cyprus: A Gendered History of the EOKA movement. Conference on

Cypriot Society Into the New Millenium, University of Greenwich, London. 1999 Torture at the Millenium. American Anthropological Association, Chicago. 1999 Inscribing Power, Interpreting Pain, Interrogating Politics. Conference on Investigating

and Combating Torture, University of Chicago. 1998 Violence and the Sacred: Religious Militancy at the Milennium. University of Cyprus,

Nicosia. 1996 Black Cats: Defining Treason and Nationhood in Punjab and Kashmir. American

Anthropological Association, San Francisco. 1996 Women Seeking Asylum: New Frontiers in International Law. Northeast Womens Studies

Conference, Bangor, Maine. 1996 The Challenge of Terrorism: An Anthropologist’s View. Mid-Coast Forum on Foreign

Relations, Rockport, Maine. 1994 Understanding Violence in the Sikh Militant Community. Key Symposium of the

Southern Anthropological Association, Atlanta. 1994 The Culture of Sikh Separatism. Association for Asian Studies, Boston. 1993 Sikh Militancy and the Anthropology of Resistance. American Anthropological

Association, Washington, D.C. 1991 Deconstruction, Buddhism, and the Concept of Ethnicity. American Anthropological

Association, Chicago . 1990 Responses to Ethnography in Friesland: Negotiating Definitions of Culture. American

Anthropological Association, Chicago. (Presidential Session) 1990 The Establishment of a Research Center in the Netherlands: Issues, Methods, and

Results. Association for European Studies, Omaha, Nebraska, 1990 Images of Europe in Anthropological Case Studies. Association for European Studies,

Omaha, Nebraska. 1989 An Anthropologist’s Role in Frisian Ethnonationalism. Society for Applied Anthropology,

Santa Fe, New Mexico. 1988 Equality, Ethnicity, and the Political Potential of Buddhism.” International Congress of

Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Zagreb, Yugoslavia.

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1988 Sikh Rebellion and the Hindu Concept of Order. American Ethnological Society, St. Louis, Missouri.

Broadcast Media Appearances 2010 Perceptions of Islam in America. The Jim Lehrer News Hour, PBS, August. 2010 Is the Canadian Perception of Sikh Militancy Accurate? CKNW Newstalk 980, Vancouver. 2009 The Sikh Voice after Air India. Channel M TV, Vancouver, June. 2009 Perspectives on Afghanistan. National Public Radio affiliates (interview). 2008 Human Rights and the Sikh Dilemma. CBC Radio and Television (Canada). 2008 Rights, Fears and Multiculturalism. Channel M TV, Vancouver. 2004 Voices of Peace. CBS TV Special on Religion and Violence (with Kroc graduate students). 2003 Facing the Enemy. Vision TV (Canada). 2003 Sikh Women: The Challenge of Faith. Omni TV (Canada). 2003 Canada and the War on Terror. ABC TV, Edmonton. 2001 Face to Face with Jihad. National Public Radio. 2000 Sikh Militancy and the Air India Bombing. CBC Radio (Canada). 1999 Islam in the Kashmir Conflict. BBC World Service. 1998 Saint-Soldiers. BBC World Service. 1995 Conflict in South Asia. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

AWARDS__________________________________________________________________

2013 The Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Award for Excellence in UndergraduateTeaching. University

of Notre Dame. 2012 Honorable Mention for Ethnographic Fiction. Society for Humanistic Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, San Francisco. Short story: How Jesse Became a Revolutionary. 2012 Award of Service from the Sikh Community, Akal Takht, Amritsar, India. 2010 Gallant Defender of Justice Award from the Sikh Religious Society, Chicago. 2010 Research Fellowship, University of Victoria Centre for Studies in Religion and Society.

Project: Democracy and Bare Life: Silencing Violence in the Garden of India. 2009 Voices for Truth Award, Conflict and Peace Institute, Chicago. 2007 Surat Sikh Conference Award for Service to the Sikh Community, New York. 2006 Sikh Heritage Book Award, San Francisco, for Fighting for Faith and Nation. 2002 Centennial Foundation Award for Excellence in the Study of Sikhism, Toronto. 2001 North American Sikh Service Award, Chicago. 1997 Inducted into Phi Kappa Phi as Outstanding Faculty Member at the University of Maine. 1993 Elected Fellow of the American Anthropological Association. 1989 Central College Outstanding Performance Award for Teaching.

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GRANTS_____________________________________________________________________

2012 The Dasvandh Foundation, Pilot Study for a Global Census of Sikhism, $7,000. 2010 The Sikh Spirit Foundation, Democracy and Human Rights: What We Can Learn from

India, $3000. 2010 Sikh Youth Alliance of North America Academic Fellowship, Indian Democracy in Crisis,

$10000. 2010 Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies Faculty Research Grant for The

Anabaptist Roots of Socialist-Pacifism in Reading, Pennsylvania, $3800. 2010 Notre Dame Center for Social Concerns Course Development Grant for The

Anthropology of Human Rights, $2500. 2010 Kashmir-America Council, for Alternative Futures for Kashmir, $2,000. 2002 Kroc Peace Institute Initiative on Kashmir (Principal Investigator). CarEth Foundation,

$5000. 2002 Ethnography of the Kashmir Conflict. Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts,

University of Notre Dame, $5000. 1999 Atrocities in Punjab and the Discourse of Indian Democracy. University of Maine Faculty

Research Award, $7500.. 1999 Ethnic Studies Development Grant, University of Maine College of Liberal Arts and

Sciences, $2000. 1998 Women Rebels of Cyprus. University of Maine Women in the Curriculum Research

Initiative Grant, $2500. 1997 Preliminary Investigation on Women in Greek Cypriot Militancy.- Government of Cyprus

Research Grant, $5000. 1996 Women in Greek Cypriot Militancy. Government of Cyprus Research Grant, $5000. 1996 Films for Anthropological Teaching (with Henry Munson). Bird and Bird Foundation

IInstructional Technology Grant, $1800. 1996 Refugee Warriors: Challenges to State Sovereignty in Canadian Asylum Decisions.

Canadian-American Center Grant, University of Maine, $1200. 1993 Developing Gender Studies in Anthropology. Women in the Curriculum Grant,

University of Maine, $3000. 1992 Anthropological Contributions to the Multiculturalism Debate. University of Maine

Summer Faculty Research Grant, $3500. 1992 Initial Assessment of the Sauria Paharia Tribe of Northern India. University of Maine

Faculty Research Grant, $4500.

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FIELD RESEARCH__________________________________________________________

Ethnographic research locations 2012 Reading, Pennsylvania 2011 Reading, Pennsylvania 1998 Cyprus 2010 Reading, Pennsylvania 1997 Cyprus 2009 Sikh diaspora locations 1996 Jammu & Kashmir, India 2008 Sikh diaspora locations 1995 Sikh diaspora locations 2006 Surrey, British Columbia 1994 Sikh diaspora locations 2004 North-West Frontier, Pakistan 1992 Bihar and Punjab, India 2003 Azad Kashmir, Pakistan 1989 Friesland, the Netherlands 2002 Punjab, India 1988 Friesland, the Netherlands 1999 Azad Kashmir, Pakistan 1983 Punjab and Kashmir, India 1976 Friesland, the Netherlands Ongoing Projects “Commemoration and Remembrance in Transnational Sikhism,” in progress (for potential submission to Cultural Anthropology). “When is a Terrorist Really a Soldier?” in progress (for potential submission to Human Organization. Book manuscript, Democracy and Bare Life: The Anthropology of State Terror in India.

ENGAGED AND PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY________________________________ Community Dialogues 2012 In Memorium: Tragedy in Wisconsin. Commemorative Sikh Gathering, Greenwood, Indiana. Keynote Speaker. 2012 Neglecting Guru Panth. United Sikhs Summer Retreat, Fort Wayne, Indiana. 2010 How Can We Move Towards a Global Panth? SYANA (Sikh Youth Alliance of North America) Summer Retreat, Tennessee. 2010 Possible Futures for the Sikh Panth. Sikh Community of Chicago Meeting. 2010 Steps Towards a Global Panth. SYANA (Sikh Youth Alliance of North America) retreat, Detroit. Keynote Speaker. 2010 Kashmir Peace in the Context of Afghan War. Islamic Society of North American Annual

Conference, Chicago. 2009 Voice in a Time of Crisis. World Sikh Organization Symposium, Vancouver. 2009 Global Youth and Human Rights. World Sikh Organization Youth Symposium, Toronto.

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2009 Where Do We Go After Twenty-Five Years? Revisioning 1984. Oakland Community College Sikh Symposium, Chicago. 2008 Gender Equality in Contexts of Violence. Sikh Youth Conference at Kwantlen College, B.C. 2007 Faith, Vocation, and Community: Challenges for Youth. Surat Sikh Conference, New York. 2003 Towards the Resolution of Conflict in Kashmir. Islamic Society of North America Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. 2002 People of the Book. Centennial Foundation, Toronto. 2000 Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale: Man, Myth, Martyr. Symposium on the Legacy of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, San Jose State University, San Jose, California. 1999 Voices From the Dark of Night. Commemoration of the Massacres of 1984, Boston University. Keynote Speaker. 1999 The Khalsa at 300: Challenges for the Future. Sikh Tricentennial Celebration,

Meadowlands, New Jersey. 1998 Telling the Truth. Toronto Sikh Anniversary Dinner. 1998 Human Rights in India: What Can Americans Do? Sikh Youth Union Retreat, Detroit. 1998 The Situation in Punjab Through the Eyes of the West. International Sikh Convention, Washington, D.C. 1994 Challenges Facing Sikh Youth. United Sikh Association, Boston. Regular speaking at mosques, temples, churches and gurudwaras. Governmental and Legal Contributions 2009 Alternative Visions of the Afghan-Pak Debacle. Envisioning a Different Future for US Relations with South Asia. University of Santa Barbara Institute for Global Studies. 2009 Justice to Peace in a Violent World: The Urgency of Global Human Rights. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Center, Atlanta. Keynote Speaker. 2009 Minorities at Risk: Canada, India and the World. Keynote Address to the House of Commons/World Sikh Organization, Ottawa. 2008 Kashmir to Mumbai: India’s Democracy at Risk. Symposium on Irregular Warfare,

Insurgency and Counterinsurgency. Carr Center for Human Rights (Harvard University) and U.S. Joint Special Operations University, Washington, D.C.

2003 Border Myths: Immigration, Security, and Terrorism. Sixth National Metropolis Conference (Canada), Edmonton, Alberta. 2003 Clash of Civilizations or Social Capital? Canadian Metropolis Forum, Ottawa. 2002 Sikh Militancy and State Repression, or What’s Wrong with ‘Terrorism’? Columbia University Law School Symposium on Process and Punishment, New York. 2002 How Does a War on Terror Become a War on Rights? Harvard Law School Conference on Religion, Democracy, and Human Rights, Cambridge, Massachussetts.

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2000 Religious Terrorism and Issues of Biological, Chemical and Radiological Weapons. Defense Intelligence Agency Project, Maclean, Virginia. 1998 The Punjab Conflict: Human Rights in Context. Symposium on Punjab, Columbia University Law School, New York. 1997 Update on Human Rights in Punjab. Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Toronto. 1994 Assessing Asylum Claims from Punjab. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, San Francisco. Regular expert witness in asylum and security cases relating to South Asia; regular consultant to agencies of the U.S., Canadian and British governments.

PEDAGOGY__________________________________________________________________

Undergraduate courses taught Introduction to Anthropology Minorities and Ethnic Groups Archaeology Gender and Anthropology Magic, Witchcraft and Religion Human Origins Cultural Anthropology Civilization in South Asia Perspectives in Anthropological Analysis Anthropology of War and Peace Gender and Violence (u/g) Ethnographic Method and Writing "Terrorism" (u/g) for Change (u/g) The Prison – College Seminar Anthropology of Human Rights (u/g) Genocide, Witness and Memory (u/g) Graduate courses taught Origins of Violence and Cultures of Peace Culture and Religion in Peacebulding (with Scott Appleby) Ethnic Conflict (with John Darby) Conflict Transformation and Strategic Peacebuilding (with John Paul Lederach) Law and Culture Theses and dissertations advised Program Student Topic Year BA Anthropology Martha Karam Afghan refugees in Greece 2011 BA Anthropology Alicia Quiros women in post-revolutionary Nicaragua 2010

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BA Anthropology Angela Lederach women as peace-builders in Ghana 2007 BA Womens’ St Willow Wetherall widowhood & memory in Cyprus 1999 BA Anthropology Stacy Brady Sikh women reclaim their equality 1998 MA Peace Studies Guntas Kaur, conflict resolution in Punjab, 2010 (University of Bradford) MA Peace Studies Burcu Munyas youth & memory in Cambodia 2004 MA Peace Studies Maria Zapata the creation of peace zones in Mindanao 2004 MA Peace Studies Tom Arendshorst Kenyan peace narratives 2004 MA Peace Studies Maneesha Pasqual peace curriculum in Sri Lanka 2003 MA Peace Studies Alisher Khamidov politics of peace in Kirgyzstan 2002 PhD Sociology Carl Neblett gay & lesbian movement at Notre Dame 2007 PhD Sociology Yuting Wang Muslim community of South Bend 2008 PhD Anthropology Nicola Mooney change in a Punjabi peasant village 2006 (University of Toronto) Teaching outside the university 2006 Directed a field program for Notre Dame undergraduates studying diasporan

Sikhs in Surrey, British Columbia. 2001-03 Catholic Relief Services training; summer seminars updating relief workers on

best practices in peacebuilding, Kroc Instritute, Notre Dame. 1989 Upward Bound program, teaching disadvantaged high school students, Pella,

Iowa. 1987-90 Created and directed ethnographic field school in Friesland, the Netherlands, for

undergraduate study in anthropology and linguistics (co-director Phil Webber) 1987-88 Elderhostel program teaching senior citizens – Pella, Iowa 1979-80 Teaching English as a Second Language – Sapporo, Japan. K-12 Education Teachers as Scholars program, University of Notre Dame/U.S. Institute of Peace, 2005. Taught seminar for K-12 teachers on “Humanizing the Other in an Age of Terror” resulting in K-12 curriculum with DVD. (Recognized by Woodrow Wilson Foundation for excellence in post 9/11 education.) Member of American Anthropological Association Committee on K-12 Anthropology Education, 1988-1994.

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES______________________________________

Service to the Institution Notre Dame 2001-present Fellow, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. 2013-present Fellow, Institute of Asia and Asian Studies. 2002-present Gender Studies Faculty Associate. 2013-present Arts and Letters College Council (and member of the A&L Commmittee on Internationalization) 2009-10 Notre Dame Faculty Senate, elected representative of the Department of &05-06 Anthropology 2003-05 Director of Graduate Studies, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace

Studies. Major activities: development of the two-year M.A. program in International Peace Studies, expansion of the curriculum through five paths of academic concentration, establishment of six-month overseas internships, and creation of a Master's seminar and project.

2001-03 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Major activity: establishment of a Supplemental Major in Peace Studies.

2001-05 Executive Committee, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. 2003-04 University of Notre Dame Graduate Council. Regular lecturer in other classes, at University events and series, and at local colleages and high schools. Participant in departmental activities such as renewal and redefinition of the senior thesis, highlighting students’ summer field experiences, search committees, and planning for a graduate program (Graduate Admissions Committee and Graduate Development Committee). University of Maine 1998-2000 University of Maine Faculty Senate, elected representative of the Department of

Anthropology. 1997-99 Chair, Human Subjects Review Committee, College of Arts and Sciences. 1991-2000 Franco-American Advisory Board Member. 1991-2000 Native-American Advisory Board Member. Key community service: worked with local and statewide leaders from Maine’s two major cultural groups on establishing an ongoing oral history archive, “Islands and Bridges,” at the Old Town Public Library.

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Central College, Iowa 1988-90 Chair, Cultural Affairs Committee. 1989-90 Presidential Search Committee Member. 1986-90 Multiculturalism Initiative, Core Member. Key community service: lectures on the Dutch/Frisian heritage of the region; instruction in Dutch and Frisian languages. Professional Development 2009-10 Feminist Theology and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Notre Dame (year long faculty seminar, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts) 2009 Teaching Film Across the Humanities, Notre Dame (summer faculty course, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts) 2002 The Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Notre Dame (faculty summer seminar, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts) 1993 Refugee Studies, York University, Toronto (intensive summer course resulting in Certificate in Refugee Studies) 1998 Writing Across the Curriculum Workshop, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. (intensive summer seminar) 1988 Statistics for Social Scientists Workshop, Central College, Pella, Iowa (faculty summer seminar) Service to the Discipline

Fellow, American Anthropological Association (elected 1993; member since 1985).

Member, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, 2011- present. Prize Committee 2012- present. Board of Editors, Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory (Routledge). Board of Editors, Journal of Religion and Violence (Academic Publishers). Advisory Board, Series on The Ethnography of Political Violence, University of Pennsylvania Press. Article reviewer for Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Ethnology, Asian Survey, Peace and Change, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, American Ethnologist, Journal of Anthropological Research, Religion, Sikh Formations, Abstracts in Sikh Studies, Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, and other periodicals.

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Manuscript reviewer for the University of California Press, Oxford University Press, Duke University Press, the University of Pennsylvania Press, Princeton University Press, the University of Chicago Press, Cambridge University Press, the State University of New York Press, Routledge, Westview and others. Served on tenure review committees at the University of Ohio, the University of Michigan, Pennsylvania State University, Loyola University, Wake Forest University.