Curriculum Vitae

Katherine P. Ewing

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Education:

Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1980
M.A. Boston University, 1973
B.A. Tufts University, 1971

Areas of Research: Religious movements, Islam, migration, masculinity, Pakistan, Turkey, Europe

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University: Associate Professor, Cultural Anthropology and Religion, 1998 - present

: Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, 1991-1997

The University of Chicago: Lecturer, Social Sciences Collegiate Division, 1981-1984

: Harper Instructor in the College, , 1979-1981

Visiting Positions: Visiting Professor, Columbia University, Spring, 2006; Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor, McMaster University, November 1999; Visiting Professor, Bogazici University, 1995, summer; Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke University, 1990-1991; Visiting Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1989-1990; Visiting Lecturer, University of California, San Diego, Spring 1987

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions: Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, 2006-2007
DAAD Fellowship for Intensive Study of German Language, Goethe Institute in Germany, 2003
Fulbright Faculty Seminar: Immigration in Europe, Fulbright, U.S. State Department, Summer 2002
Faculty Fellow, John Hope Franklin Seminar, Duke University, 2000-2001
Berlin Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Berlin, 1999
Summer Stipend: "Adopting Islamic Dress: Conversion and the Process of Identity Formation in Modern Turkey", National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), 1995
Lilly Teaching Fellowship, Duke University, 1992-1993
Recipient of L. Bryce Boyer Prize, Society for Psychological Anthropology, 1990
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, 1981-1982
Harper Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago, 1979-1981
Committee on Southern Asian Studies, University of Chicago, 1977-1978
Berkeley Urdu Language Program, 1974
NDEA Title VI Foreign Language Fellowship in Urdu, University of Chicago, 1974-1975

Conferences Organized: "Muslim Minorities in North America and Europe after September 11." Mellon-Sawyer Workshop, Duke University, March, 2002; Co-organizer with Petra Rethman, "Anger, Suffering, and Political Violence", American Anthropological Association Meetings, Chicago, November 19, 1999; Co-Organizer with Orin Starn, session "Reimagining Modernity: Political Vision and Social Movements in the late Twentieth Century", Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, November 20, 1993; Co-organizer with David Gilmartin, session "Wandering and Settlement in Pakistan: Colonial and Post-Colonial Visions of Autonomy and Control", Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, March 27, 1993; Colloquium Organizer, Triangle South Asia Consortium, 1991-1992, 1998-1999; Organizer, workshop "Memory as Narrative in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology", Society for Cultural Anthropology Annual Meetings, Boston, May 17, 1991; Organizer, SSRC/ACLS conference "South Asian Islam: Moral Principles in Tension", Pendle Hill, Pennsylvania, May 22-24, 1981

Lectures

Invited Lectures:

“Stigmatized Masculinity: Muslim Gender Relations and Cultural Citizenship in Europe.” To be published in conference proceedings., Oldenburg University, Oldenburg, Germany, April 14, 2007
“Cultivating a Wholesome Body: Islam and the German Gym Class.", University of California, Los Angeles, May 22, 2006
“Imagining Tradition: Turkish Men, German Media.”, Center for International Studies, Northwestern University, February 21, 2005
"From Cinema to Social Work: Pathologizing Islam in the Diaspora", University of Chicago, May 06, 2004
"From Cinema to Social Work: Pathologizing Islam in the Diaspora.", Harvard University, March 05, 2004
"Germanness and the Islamic Threat as Phantasm", Anthropology Department, The Free University, Berlin, Germany, 29 June 2002
"Legislating Religious Freedom: Muslim Challenges to the Relationship between 'Church' and 'State' in Germany and France", Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, 15 November 2000
"Images of Order and Authority: Legal Consciousness and Shifting Identities in a Runaway Immigrant Daughter.", Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor, Departments of Anthropology, Religion, and Sociology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 15 November 2000
"Official Islam and the Secular State.", American Academy, Berlin, Germany, 3 December 1999
"Negotiating Conflicting Identities: Power, Narrative and the Individual.", Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, November 16, 1999
"The Politics of Dreaming.", International Symposium on Cross-Cultural Psychiatry, Trabzon, Turkey, 7 September 1999
"Negotiating Conflicting Identities: Power, Narrative, and the Individual.", International Symposium on Cross-Cultural Psychiatry, Trabzon, Turkey, 6 September 1999
"Secularist Turkey's Official Islam and the Shaping of Turkish Migrant Religious and Political Identities in Germany.", Taiwan Association for Religious Studies, Institute of Ethnology, Taipei, Taiwan, 6 May 1999
"Images of Order and Authority: Shifting Identities and Legal Consciousness in a Runaway Immigrant Daughter.", Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago, 16 February 1999
"Islam and Local Culture", Paper presented at the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, August 1997
"Negotiating Multiple Identities: Ideologies and Personal Narratives", Keynote lecture at the conference "Multiple Identities: The Interrelations between Gender and Ethnicity", Free University, Amsterdam, May 16, 1997
"Gender Identity and Symbolic Violence", Paper presented at the University of Nijmegen, March 17, 1997
"Public Psyches, Private Cultures, and the Postmodernist Challenge to Ethnography", paper presented to the Anthropology Department, University of California, San Diego, March 18, 1991
"Confrontations with Cultural Inconsistency: How Pakistani Muslims Make Sense of, or at least get by in, a World of Multiple Realities", Paper presented to the Department of Anthropology, Duke University, February 13, 1990

Meetings:

Discussant for the session “Dreaming in the Muslim World.", San Jose, CA, November 18, 2006
Discussant for the session “Emotional Commerce: Rethinking Need and Affect in a Global World”, San Jose, CA, November 16, 2006
"Beyond Crisis: A Critical Second Look at Pakistan.", Johns Hopkins University, April 06, 2006
"Islamist Fantasies, Imperial Desires: The Piety of Thinking and Action.", Annual South Asia Conference, UC Berkeley, February 17, 2006
2005Workshop on Muslims in the United States after 9-11., Russell Sage Foundation, NY, April 01, 2005
Participant in SSRC-sponsored Working Group on Law and Culture, Stanford University, January 16-17, 2004
"Muslim Minorities in North America and Europe after September 11", Mellon-Sawyer Workshop, Duke University, March 23-24, 2002
"Law and Culture", SSRC-sponsored working group, Sanibal Island, Florida, January 2002
"Images of Order and Authority: Legal Consciousness and Shifting Identities in a Runaway Immigrant Daughter", Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor to the Departments of Anthropology, English, Religious Studies, and Sociology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, November 15, 1999
"Negotiating Conflicting Identities: Power, Narrative and the Individual", Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor to the Departments of Anthropology, English, Religious Studies, and Sociology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, November 16, 1999
"Identity Negotiation and Images of Authority among Turkish Migrants", Globalization and Cultural Security: Migration and Negotiations of Identity, sponsored by Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, and the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, Honolulu, October 15-17, 1999
Discussant for session at American Anthropological Association meetings, November 2003
Participant in SSRC-sponsored Working Group on "Law and Culture", New York City, March 2003
Participant in SSRC-sponsored Working Group on "Law and Culture", New York City, March 2003
"The Subject of Identity", Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 2002
Discussant for the session "Homelands", Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 2002
Participant in Russel Sage Foundation Working Group "Assimilating Muslims", Russell Sage Foundation, New York, May 2002
"The Subject of Identity", Paper presented in the invited session, "Subjectivity" at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 2002
Discussant for the session "Homelands", Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 2002
"The Impact of Sept 11 on an Islamist Community: Power, Psyche and the Problem of Truth", Biennial meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Decatur, Georgia, October 20, 2001
"What is Religious Freedom? Muslim Voices in the Debate over Individual vs. Communitarian Rights", Annual Law and Society Meeting, Budapest, July 7, 2001
"Reconsidering Religious Freedom: Muslim Minority Challenges to Public Christianity", Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society, Montreal, May 5, 2001
Discussant for the session, "Debating Orthodoxy: Discourse on Indo-Muslim Authority and Authenticiry", American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., December 1, 2001
"The Impact of Sept 11 on an Islamist Community: Power, Psyche and the Problem of Truth", Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Decatur, Georgia, October 20, 2001
"What is Religious Freedom? Muslim Voices in the Debate over Individual vs. Communitarian Rights", Paper presented at the annual Law and Society Meeting, Budapest, July 7, 2001
Discussant for session "Reimagining the Construction of the Nation at the Millennium: New Critical Work on Culture in Turkey", Meetings of the American Ethnological Society, Montreal, May 6, 2001
"Reconsidering Religious Freedom: Muslim Minority Challenges to Public Christianity", Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Ethnological Society, Montreal, May 5, 2001
"Legislating Religious Freedom: Individual and Communitarian 'Rights' among Muslims in Europe", Conference of the SSRC Working Group "Ethnic Customs, Assimilation, and American Law", Phoenix, Arizona, January 13-16, 2000
"Legislating Religious Freedom: Individual and Communitarian 'Rights' among Muslims in Europe", Paper presented at a conference of the SSRC Working Group "Ethnic Customs, Assimilation, and American Law," Phoenix, Arizona, January 13-16, 2000
"Negotiating Conflicting Identities: Power, Narrative and the Individual", International Symposium on Cross-Cultural Psychiatry, Trabzon, Turkey, September 6-7, 1999
"Representations of Anger and the Construction of Immigrant Identity", American Anthropological Association Meetings, Chicago, IL, November 19, 1999
"The Politics of Dreaming", International Symposium on Cross-Cultural Psychiatry, Trabzon, Turkey, September 6-7, 1999
"Secularist Turkey's Official Islam and the Shaping of Turkish Migrant Religious and Political Identities in Germany", Taiwan Association for Religious Studies at the Institute of Ethnology, Taipei, May 6, 1999
"Identity Negotiation and Images of Authority among Turkish Migrants", Paper presented at the conference Globalization and Cultural Security: Migration and Negotiations of Identity, Berlin, October 15-17, 1999
"Turks and Islam in Germany: An American Point of View", Paper presented at the conference "50 Jahre Bundesrepublik - 40 Jahre Einwanderung", Berlin, December 4, 1999
"Official Islam and the Secular State", Fellows seminar presented at the American Academy in Berlin, December 3, 1999
"Negotiating Conflicting Identities: Power, Narrative, and the Individual", Paper presented at the International Symposium on Cross-Cultural Psychiatry, Trabzon, Turkey, September 6-7, 1999
"The Politics of Dreaming", Paper presented at the International Symposium on Cross-Cultural Psychiatry, Trabzon, Turkey, September 6-7, 1999
"The Politics of Imagination: Psychoanalysis and the Postcolonial Subject in South Asia Postcolonial Subject", Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Academy of Religion, Orlando, November 23, 1998
"Colonial Categories and the Shaping of Muslim Identity", Paper presented at a Conference Honoring K.A. Nizami, Duke University, Durham, NC, November 1, 1998
"Escape from 'Border Crossings:' Using Marriott's Ethnosociology to Re-examine Multiple Identities", Paper presented at the session "papers in Honor of McKim Marriott," at the annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 17, 1998
Discussant for the session "Making Selections: On Collecting and Analyzing Life Histories", Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, November 1997
"The Role of Symbolic Violence in Shaping Self Representations: Turkish Women and Islam", Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, November 1997
Invited Participant, "After Postmodernism", Conference held at the University of Chicago, November 1997
Guest speaker for Workshop "Culture, Self, and the Experience of Inconsistency" (Workshop based on Ewing 1990a), Conference "Cultural Identities in a Pluralist Society" Held at the University of Amsterdam, April 29, 1997
"Agency and Victimization: Adopting Islamic Dress in Secularist Turkey", Paper presented at the Rockefeller-sponsored conference Civilization and its Enduring Discontents: Violence and Aggression in Psychoanalytic and Anthropological Perspective at the Bellagio Conference Center, Italy, September 2-6, 1996
"The Qalandar is Not I: The Disreputable Saint in Modern Pakistan", Paper presented at the 14th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Copenhagen, August 21-24, 1996
"The Place of Otherness in Recent Theories of the Self", Paper presented at the Biannual Meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 6, 1995
"The Lacanian Subject and Sufi Desire", Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, December 2, 1994
"Some Thoughts on Theorizing Collective Identity in Social Movements", Paper presented at the Annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, November 20, 1993
"On the Path to Conversion: Ambivalence in the Process of Identity Formation", Paper presented at the Biannual Meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Montreal, October 9, 1993

Talks:

“Islam is not a Culture”: Negotiating Muslim Identity in Germany and the United States.”, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, March 21, 2007
“Islam, Democracy and Identity: Comparing the Experiences of Muslim Immigrants in Germany and the US.”, Immigration Seminar, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, March 06, 2007
“Islam, Democracy and Identity: Comparing the Experiences of Muslim Immigrants in Germany and the US.”, Seminar Series Diversity and Religion in American Public Life at the University of Texas, Austin, February 27, 2007
Presentation on Danish Cartoon Issue, Columbia University, International Affairs, May 22, 2006
Talk presented to the Anthropology Department, The Free University, Berlin, Germany, June 2002

Other:

Discussant, Workshop on Anti-Americanism, Duke, February 20, 2004
"Religion and Racism: 'Germanness' and the Islamic Threat as Phantasm", Duke's Franklin Seminar, May 4, 2001
"Legislating Religious Freedom: Muslim Challenges to the Relationship between "Church" and "State" in Germany and France", Faculty Seminar, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, November 15, 2000
"Official Islam and the Secular State", Fellows seminar presented at the American Academy in Berlin, December 3, 1999
Participant in Russell Sage Foundation working group "Assimilating Muslims", Russell Sage Foundation, New York, May 2002
Organized Mellon-Sawyer Workshop "Muslim Minorities in North America and Europe after September 11", Duke University, March 23-24, 2002
Participant in SSRC-sponsored working group on "Law and Culture", Sanibal Island, Florida, January 2002
"Religion and Racism: 'Germanness' and the Islamic Threat as Phantasm", Paper presented to Duke's Franklin Seminar, May 4, 2001
"Images of Order and Authority: Shifting Identities and Legal Consciousness in a Runaway Immigrant Daughter", Interdisciplinary seminar sponsored by the Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago, February 16, 1999
"Gender Identity and Symbolic Violence: Becoming a 'Conscious' Muslim Woman in Turkey", Paper presented at monthly formal seminar, Center for Religion and Society, University of Amsterdam, January 1997
"Anthropological Research in Pakistan", Paper presented to a Workshop of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, Washington, D.C., September 22, 1996

Professional Service

Dept Officer: Acting Chair, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Spring 2000; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Spring 2000; Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Cultural Anthropology, 1997-1999

Dept Committee: Islamic Studies Search Committee, 2007 - present; Graduate Committee, 2007 - present; Graduate Committee, 2005; tenure committee for John Jackson, January 2005; Graduate Committee, 1999-2002; member, Search Committee, February-March 2001

A&S Council: Duke representative on Executive Board, American Institute for Pakistan Studies, 2006 - present; Chair, Arts and Sciences Council, November 2, 2003 - May 31, 2005; advisor for Comparative Area Studies, January 2005; Member, Arts and Sciences Council, 1995-1996

Univ Committee: Chair, Ad Hoc Judicial Committee, Graduate School, May 2001; Member, Academic Council, 1998-2000; Member, Library Council, 1992-1995

Papers Refereed: book manuscript evaluation, September, 2006; Journals, 2006 - 2006; Selection Committee, Fulbright Commission, December 08, 2005; several journals, January 2005; Referee, Referee and Reviewer for Journals and Presses, 2004; reviewer, Books refereed for presses, 1999-2003

NSF Reviews And Panels: Representative from the Danish Social Science Research Council, proposal evaluation for NORFACE (a European Social Sciences consortium), May 11, 2006 - May 13, 2006

Univ Services: Duke Representative, Distinguised Educator Meeting, Airforce ROTC field training session, July 10, 2006 - July 13, 2006; Director, Religion, Identity and Conflict in the Middle East FOCUS Program, November 2, 2003 - December 31, 2005; Luce Fellowship committee, July 1, 1999 - 2005; Member, Duke Institutional Review Board for Human Subjects in Non-Medical Research, 1999-2003; Member, International Affairs Committee, 1998-present; Director, Duke South Asia Center, 1998-2001; Member, Executive Committee of the Graduate School, 1999-2001; Member, Advisory Board, Comparative Area Studies, 1998-1999

Other: Member, Editorial Board for Ethos, 1996 - present; Member, Executive Board, Triangle South Asia Consortium, 1990 - present; Member, Membership in Professional Organizations; Chair, Boyer Prize Committee, Society for Psychological Anthropology, 2003; Member, Nominations Committee, American Institute of Pakistan Studies, 2003; Committee member, Anthropology Area Commttee, Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, 1995 - 2000; Section Editor, Society for Psychological Anthropology Amerian Anthroplogical Association Annual Meeting, 2000-2001; Elected Board Member, Society for Psychological Anthropology, 1999-2003; Invited Speaker, International Symposium of Cross-Cultural Psychiatry, September 6-7, 1999; Keynote Speaker, University of Minnesota Undergraduat Anthropology Conference, May 8, 1999; Faculty participant and advisor, SSRC-sponsored dissertation-writing workshop for South Asianists, August 25-30, 1998; Discussant, Conference "After Postmodernism", November 1997; Invited Participant, "Islam and the Media", March 1997; Co-Convenor, Year-long Mellon seminar on Transnationalism and Public Culture, 1996-1997; Discussant, Panel, "Dreams, Visions, and Inspiration", December 2, 1994; Member, Boyer Prize Committee, Society for Psychological Anthropology, 1991-1994; Contributing Editor, Anthropology Newletter for the Society for Psychological Anthropology, December 1991-June 1994; Presenter, Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Psychoanalytic Questions and Methods in Anthropological Fields, 1991; Invited Speaker, NEH Summer Institute, "Society and Self", May 23-25, 1991, September 26; Member, Board of Trustees, American Pakistan Research Organization, 1990-1993; Discussant, Panel "The Birth of the Religious Hero: Psychoanalytic Categories in the Hermeneutics of Narrative", October 5, 1990; Presenter, Special meeting of the Colloquium on Psychoanalytic Methods in Anthropological Fieldwork, 1982

Doctoral Theses Directed: Friedman, Jack, (2003); Kirsten Edey, ??, (Fall, 2006); Richard Collier, (2004); Clare Talwalker, (2000)

Publications (listed separately)

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