Curriculum Vitae

Ara Wilson


Contact Info
    Box 90760
    (email)
Education

    Ph.D. City University of New York 1997
    M.Phil. City University of New York 1992
    B.A. Vassar College 1984
Areas of Research

gender/sexuality in global modernity; urban Southeast Asia and transnational zones; cultural political economy and heterodox economics

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
  • Intellectual Community Planning Grants: Counting Justice, Duke University, 0 2016
  • Faculty Manuscript Workship, Mellon- Franklin Humanities Institute, April, 2012
  • Faculty Recognition, Duke LGBT Center, Lavender Graduation, April, 2008
  • Fellowships, Grants, and Awards, January, 2002-06

Conferences Organized
  • India, Sexuality & Archive SymposiumIndia, Sexuality & Archive Symposium. February 13, 2009, February 13, 2009
  • Ethnoporn, spring 2007

Professional Service
  • Manuscript review. Feminist Theory, Anthropological Theory. 2022, 1 January 2022, Manuscript review
  • Academic Council, 1 September 2019
  • University Sustainability Committee, 1 September 2019
  • University Committee on Certificates, 1 January 2019
  • Participant. Faculty Success Program. National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD). 2019, 1 January 2019, Participant
  • Misc, 1 August 2017
  • Review, Professor of the Practice Robin Kirk, November, 2012 - present
  • Provost Standing Diversity Committee, September, 2012 - present
  • Duke University Press Editorial Advisory Board, 2012 - present
  • Reviewer. 2012, 2012 - present, Reviewer
  • Journal Referee. Area Studies, Interdisciplinary, Anthropology, Gender Studies journals. 2012, 2012 - present, Journal Referee
  • Coordinator, Publication Planning Committee. 2012, 2012 - present, Coordinator, Publication Planning Committee
  • Human Rights Center Board, January, 2010 - present, Board Member
  • Thai Student Group, 2008 - present, Advisor
  • Editorial Board, Gist from the Mill, 2008 - present
  • Faculty Diversity Standing Committeee, 2008 - present, Member
  • Community Service, 2007 - present
  • LGBT Faculty and Staff Task Force, 2007 - present
  • Women's Studies Steering Committee, 2007 - present
  • I now am a member of the Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty, 2022-24
  • Member, Sexuality Studies Minor Advisory Board. Annual Queer Theory Lecture . SXL/GSFS . 2018 - 2020, 2018-20, Member, Sexuality Studies Minor Advisory Board
  • ECASC, 2017-19
  • Manuscript Review . Gender & Society, GLQ, . 2018 - 2019, 2018-19, Manuscript Review
  • Trinity Research Committee, Liaison, 2018-19
  • Co-chair. Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA). AAA. November, 2013 - November, 2015, 2013-15, Co-chair
  • Review, Undergraduate Thesis, April 2013, Reviewer
  • Human Rights Curruculum Committee, April 2013, Member
  • Panel Organizer, Indebted: On David Graeber's Debt. November 2012, November, 2012, Panel Organizer, Indebted: On David Graeber's Debt
  • Faculty Diversity Working Group, August 2012
  • program in the study of sexualities, September, 2006 - June, 2012, Director
  • Arts & Sciences Council, September, 2011 - December, 2011, Department Representative
  • Discussant : Invited Session: Queer Feminist Futures. November, 2011, November, 2011, Discussant : Invited Session: Queer Feminist Futures
  • Feminist Theory Workshop, March, 2011, Session facilitator
  • Journal Referee. January 14, 2011, January 2011, Journal Referee
  • Journal Referee. July 1, 2010, 2010, Journal Referee
  • Faculty-Athletics, 2009 - 2010, Faculty Liaison, Crew Team
  • Tenure Committee, 2009 - 2010
  • Advisory Board, Center for LGBT Life, 2007 - 2010, Member
  • External Reviewer . Program Review, Gay and Lesbian Studies Minor. Bowdoin College. May, 2010, May, 2010, External Reviewer
  • Book ms. review. January 22, 2010, January 2010, Book ms. review
  • Feminist Theory Workshop, 2010, Workshop Facilitator, with Tani Barlow
  • Tenure Committee, 2009
  • History search, January 2009
  • Transnational Sexualities Project, 2008-2009, Coordinator/ Mentor
  • Feminist Theory Workshop, 2009, Introduction, Ratna Kapur
  • Global Health Working Group, October 2008, Member
  • Book Prize, October 2008, Judge
  • Reviewer : NEH Anthropology Faculty Fellowship Competition. July, 2008, July, 2008, Reviewer : NEH Anthropology Faculty Fellowship Competition
  • Journal Referee, 2007 - 2008
  • Postdoc Fellowship Committee, 2007 - June, 2008
  • CACIM: India Institute for Critical Action: Centre In Movement, Forum Fellowship, 2008-2009, Mentor to Oishik Sircar
  • Global Health A&S committee, 2008-2009, Member
  • Jean Fox O'Barr Distinguished Chair Search Committee, 2006-2007
  • Association for Feminist Anthropology, 2006-2009, Board member
  • Tenure Committee, 2007, Member
Representative Publications   (More Publications)
  1. Wilson, A. The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in The Global City.  University of California, 2004. [html]
  2. Wilson, A. "Medical Tourism in Bangkok." Asian Biotech. Edited by Ong, A; Chen, N. 2010.
  3. Wilson, A. "NGOs as Erotic Sites." Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance. Edited by Lind, A. January, 2010.
Selected Talks

  • On Measure and Care, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 5 December 2019
  • Sexual Latitudes, Dickenson College, December, 2012
  • Sexual Latitudes: The Erotic Life of Globalization, Department of Anthropology, Graduate Center CUNY, December 02, 2011
  • Medical Tourism in Thailand, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Center for Southeast Asian Studies, April 08, 2011
  • NGOs as Erotic Sites, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Anthropology, April 07, 2011
  • The Intimate Economies of Bangkok's Markets, University of Michigan, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, 25 Anniversary Conference, October 22, 2010
  • Sexual Latitudes: NGOs as Erotic Sites, Yale University, History of Sexuality Series, October 11, 2010
  • Sexual Latitudes: NGOs as Erotic Sites, Brown University, Department of Anthropology, October 7, 2010
  • Keynote: Economies in Motion, University of California-Riverside, Dance Under Construction Conference, April 16, 2010
  • Queering Asia, University of Pittsburgh, Asian & Latin American Studies Project Workshop, April 9, 2010
  • Queering Siam, University of Michigan, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, February 14, 2010
  • CLAGS International Research Network Inaugural Lecture: Sexual Latitudes: Queer Studies of Global Life, CUNY, New York, May 3, 2009
  • The erotics of creative destruction: capitalist markets and sexual prospects, Centre for Law, Gender, Sexuality, Kent University, Canterbury UK, February 25, 2009
  • Sexual latitudes, Birkbeck, University of London, February 23, 2009
  • NWSA Presidential Session: Postcolonial Sexualities, NWSA Meetings, Cincinnati OH, June 19, 2008
  • Anti-Globalization and Sexual Politics: Texts, Practice, and History at the World Social Forum, Northwestern University, March 10, 2008
  • Medical Tourism, The Global and the Intimate Conference, Mt Holyoke College, April 18, 2007
  • 10 Invited Lectures, 2003-2006

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