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Kathleen M. Adams

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Kathleen M. Adams is a cultural anthropologist, Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London,[1] and professor emerita at Loyola University Chicago.[2] Her research addresses cultural transformations in island Southeast Asia, (especially Toraja society in Indonesia), critical tourism studies, heritage studies, Indonesian art, and museum studies.

Education

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Adams received her B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Washington. Prior to assuming a faculty position at Loyola University Chicago, she held the Mouat Family Endowed Chair [3] at Beloit College. She was Adjunct Curator at the Field Museum of Natural History from 1997 to 2022.

Publications

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Adams has authored and edited multiple books, including three award-winners: Art as Politics: Re-crafting Identities, Tourism and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia (2006, winner of 2008 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award),[4] The Ethnography of Tourism: Edward Bruner and Beyond (2019, coedited with Leite and Casteneda, winner of the American Anthropological Association's 2020 ATIG Bruner Book Award [5])), and Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile (2023, coedited with Bloch, winner of the American Anth. Assoc.'s Council on Heritage and the Anth. of Tourism's 2023-2024 Bruner Book Prize.[6])

Awards and honors

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Adams currently holds a Fulbright Specialist Award, and was a critical tourism studies specialist and lecturer at Gadjah Mada University (2024) in Indonesia, a Visiting Fellow at The Center for Tourism Research at Wakayama University (2020–2023), Visiting professor at Ateneo de Manila University (2016), Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (2016), and Loyola University Chicago's John Felice Rome Center (2008–2009).[7] She was an Isaac Manasseh Meyer Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore's Centre for Advanced Study (1999),and taught on University of Virginia Semester at Sea voyages.[8]

Adams' research has been funded by the Fulbright,[9] the American Philosophical Society, and the Henry R. Luce Foundation. She received Loyola University's Sujack Master Researcher Award (2016, 2020),[10] Loyola University Chicago's 2007 Sujack Award for Teaching Excellence, and recognition by Princeton Review as one of the "300 best professors" in the US and Canada in 2012.[11] She was inducted into Redwood High School's Avenue of Giants[12] in 2024.

Books

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Selected key articles

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References

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  1. ^ "Professor Kathleen M Adams | SOAS". www.soas.ac.uk.
  2. ^ "Dr. Kathleen M. Adams". Loyola University Chicago. Retrieved 2019-10-24.
  3. ^ "Author Biography". Amazon. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  4. ^ https://www.alphasigmanu.org/images/uploads/newsletters/winter2009.pdf). Retrieved 19 February 2025. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ "Book Prize – ATIG". Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  6. ^ "Book Prize". 8 February 2025.
  7. ^ "CTR Visiting Fellows | 和歌山大学". Archived from the original on 2021-06-02. Retrieved 2021-07-24.
  8. ^ "Faculty and Staff – Kathleen Adams". Semester at Sea. Archived from the original on 2017-11-10. Retrieved 2013-11-13.
  9. ^ "Fulbright in Indonesia" (PDF). Aminex. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  10. ^ "Past Recipients Loyola University Chicago Sujack Award". Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  11. ^ The Princeton Review (2012). "Best Professors Name" (PDF). THe Princeton Review Best 300 Professors. Princeton Review. p. 1. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  12. ^ "AOG Inductee Bios". Retrieved 25 February 2024.

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