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RALPH A. LITZINGER
Curriculum Vitae -- September 2000
Department of Cultural Anthropology
Duke University
Box 90091
Durham, NC 27708
Office phone: (919) 681-6250
Home phone: (919) 416-0520
Email: litz@socsci.duke.edu
Education
Employment
1994 – Present Duke University. Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural
Anthropology.
1993 – 1994 Seattle Pacific University. Instructor in anthropology, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences.
1993 – 1994 University of Washington. Instructor in anthropology, Department of Anthropology.
Awards and Fellowships
2000 Smith Faculty Enhancement Grant for Interdisciplinary Studies, Duke University. Funding for the project, "Global Environmentalism and the Politics of Development in Contemporary China."
1999 International Studies Research Grant, Duke University. Funding for preliminary research on environmentalism in China, research stipend, Duke University.
1999 Arts and Sciences Research Council Research Grant, Duke University.
1998 Nominated for Alumni Teaching Award Duke University.
1997 Arts and Sciences Research Council Research Grant, Duke University.
1996 Arts and Sciences Research Council Research Grant, Duke University.
1995 Luce Foundation Grant for Faculty Research, Duke University.
1995 Research Travel Grant Asian/ Pacific Studies Institute, Duke University.
1993 Curriculum Transformation Seminar Grant American Ethnic Studies Program University of Washington.
1990 – 1992 Dissertation Research Grant Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China, National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC.
1990 – 1991 Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program, United States Department of Education, Washington DC.
1987 – 1990 Foreign Language Area Fellowship (FLAS) Chinese language study, United States Department of Education, Washington DC, 1987 – 1990.
1984 – 1985 Evergreen Foundation Grant The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA.
Fieldwork Experience
2000. Fieldwork in Beijing and Yunnan, China, fall.
2000. Fieldwork in Yunnan, China, summer.
1998. Fieldwork in Beijing and Nanjing, China, June – December.
1996. Fieldwork in the Beijing and Guangxi, China, summer.
1995. Fieldwork in Guangxi, China, summer.
1990 - 1992. Fieldwork in Beijing, Guangxi, Hunan, and Yunnan, China.
1988. Fieldwork in Beijing and Guangxi, China, June - December.
Books
2000 Other Chinas: the Yao and the Politics of National Belonging. Duke University Press, September.
Articles
In press "Questions of Gender: Ethnic Minority Representation in Contemporary China." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, (spring – summer), 2001.
In press "Government from Below: The State, the Popular, and the Problem of Autonomy." Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, 9:1 (spring), 2001.
In press "Theorizing Post-socialism: Reflections on the Politics of Marginality in Contemporary China." South Atlantic Quarterly, special issue on "The Vicissitudes of Theory," (fall-winter), 2001-2002.
In press "Tradition and the Gender of Civility." In Chinese Femininities/ Chinese Masculinities: An Introductory Reader. Edited by Susan Brownell and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, University of California Press, spring, 2001.
1999 "Screening the Political: Pedagogy and Dissent in The Gate of Heavenly Peace." Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 7 (3): 827-850.
1999 "Re-imagining the State in Post-Mao China." In Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger, edited by Jutta Weldes, Mark Laffey, Hugh Gusterson, and Raymond Duvall, 293-318. University of Minnesota Press.
1998 "Memory Work: Reconstituting the Ethnic in Post-Mao China." Cultural Anthropology 13 (2): 224-255.
1995 "Making Histories: Contending Conceptions of the Yao Past." In Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers, edited by Stevan Harrell, 117-139. University of Washington Press.
1995 "The Work of Culture and Memory in Post-Mao China." Asian/ Pacific Studies Institute Working Papers Series, Duke University (This essay appeared in revised form as "Memory Work" in Cultural Anthropology).
Review Essays
In press "Beyond the Museum Complex: Minority Culture and History at the Mountain Patterns Exhibit." Asian Ethnicity, 2:1 (March), 2001.
2000 "Race, Taxonomy, and Auto-Ethnographic Critique in Ethnographic Film Criticism." American Anthropologist, 102:3 (September), 2000.
Work in Progress
n.d. "The Imperialism of Values: Debating Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Global Order: A Critical Review." Commissioned by the journal Asian Survey.
n.d. "The Privacy Rage." To be submitted to the Journal of Asian Studies special issue on Asia, Sex, and the Erotic.
n.d. "Ethnology, Place, and Locality in the Study of the Jinxiu Yao." To be published in The Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Sinology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. (This essay draws on material from Chapter 2 of Other Chinas).
Reviews
In press Review of Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasants, Migrants, the State, and the Logic of the Market, by Dorothy J. Solinger. American Ethnologist, (spring), 2001.
In press Review of Producing Guanxi: Sentiment, Self, and Subculture in a North China Village, by Andrew B. Kipnis. Transcultural Psychiatry (fall), 2000.
2000 Review of Nationalism and Ethnoregional Identities in China, Edited by William Safran. Asian Ethnicity, 1(1): 84-86.
1998 Review of Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia. Edited by Tani E. Barlow. American Anthropologist, 100 (2): 813-814.
1997 Film review of Electric Shadows, directed by Herve Cohen and Renaud Cohen. Education about Asia, Volume 2, Number 2 (fall).
1995 Review of The Discourse of Race in Modern China, by Frank Dikotter. Distributed on H-World Internet service, Dan Segal, co-editor, posted on May 24, 1995.
Scholarly Presentations
2000 "Transnational Governmentality: Towards an Ethnography of Nature Preservation in Postsocialist China." Paper to be presented at the panel "Anthropology and Public Life in Postsocialist China." Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 15-19, 2000.
2000 "Global Environmentalism and the Critique of Development: Critical Perspectives from Anthropology and Beyond." Paper presented at the International Congress on Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge, Kunming, China, July 21- 30, 2000.
2000 "’Dissecting a Sparrow’: Ethnology, Place, and Locality in the Study of the Jinxiu Yao." Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Sinology, Academia Sinica, Taibei, Taiwan, June 29-July 1, 2000.
2000 "The Privacy Rage: Discourses of Intimacy and Suffering in 1990s China." Paper presented at the Third International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Birmingham, England, June 21-25, 2000.
2000 "The Greening of Postsocialism: Preliminary Reflections on Environmentalism, NGOs, and Nature Conservation in the PRC." Paper presented to the conference, "The Perilous Project of Ethnography in Contemporary China," Harvard University, June 17, 2000.
2000 "Minorities in a Modern State." University of California, Santa Barbara conference on "Renegotiating the Scope of Chinese Studies, March 13-15, 2000.
2000 "The Privacy Rage: Discourses of Intimacy and Suffering in 1990s China." Paper presented for the panel, "Mass Media, Globalization, and Asian Sexualities." Annual meeting for the Association of Asian Studies, San Diego, March 9-12, 2000.
1997 "The ‘Nationalities Problem’ in China: Rethinking Security in the Age of Electronic Media." Paper presented for the panel, "The Anthropology of National Security and the Cold War in Korea and China." Annual meeting for the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, November 19-23, 1997.
1997 "The Politics of the Fragment: Writing Ethnography in Post-Mao China." Paper presented for the panel, "Writing Chinese Culture: Ethnographic Imaginations of Post-Mao Society." Annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Chicago, March 12-16, 1997.
1996 "Screening China: On the Elusiveness of the Political." Paper presented for the invited session, "Splitting the Difference: Transnational Culture and the Politics of Localization." Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 20-24, 1996.
1995 "Narratives of Identity in Yao ‘Post-national’ Cultural Discourse." Paper presented for the panel, "Identity, Community, and the Local in Transnational Cultural Production." Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, November 15-19, 1995.
1995 "The Politics of the Margin: Constructions of State Power in Post-Mao China." Paper presented at the workshop, "Culture and the Production of Insecurity," University of Minnesota, October 27-29, 1995.
1995 "Memory and Marginality in Contemporary China." Paper presented at the conference, "Asian-Pacific Identities: Culture and Identity Formation in the Age of Global Capital," Duke University, April 13-15, 1995.
1994 "Some Thoughts on Memory and Forgetting in Representations of Yao Culture." Paper presented at the Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies conference on "Chinese Identities," February 25, 1994.
1992 "Returning the Traditional to a Socialist Modern Landscape: Yao Popular Ritual in the People's Republic of China." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, December 2-6, 1992.
University Service
2000 - 2001 Campus Director, Duke Study in China Program, Duke University.
1999 - 2000 Co-convener, Pacific Visions Seminar, Oceans Connect Ford Foundation Grant, Duke University.
1998 Resident Field Director, Duke Study in China Program. Beijing and Nanjing, China (six months).
Transnationalism," Duke University.
1996 - 1997 Co-convener, Departmental Colloquium Series, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University.
1995 - 1998 Academic advisor, Pre-Major Advising Center, Duke University.
1995 - Present Faculty advisor, Comparative Area Studies Program, Duke University.
1995 - 1996 Convener, Marxism and Society Faculty Seminar, Duke University.
1995 - 1996 Travel grant committee member, Asian/ Pacific Studies Institute, Duke University.
1994 - 1997 Faculty in Residence, Wilson Hall, Duke University.
1994 - 1996 Director, FOCUS Program, Popular Culture and Mass Media, Duke University.
1994 - 1995 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University.
1994 - 1995 Director of "Screening the Other: Directions in Ethnographic Film," Ethnographic Film Festival, Duke University, February 15 - March 8, 1995.
Teaching Experience
1994-Present Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University:
"Research Methods in Anthropology" (CA 332S), spring 2000.
"Anthropology and Film" (CA 104), spring 2000.
"Ideology and the Image" (CA 210), spring 1999.
"Anthropology and Film" (CA 104), spring 1999.
"Anthropology and History of China" (CA 194), fall 1998 (China).
"Field Research in Contemporary China" (CA 190), fall 1998 (China).
"Crossing Cultures" (CA 189), fall 1997.
"Theories in Cultural Anthropology" (CA 331S), spring 1997.
"Anthropology and Film" (CA 104), spring 1997.
"Contemporary Chinese Cinema" (CA 62S), fall 1996.
"Media and Culture in Everyday Life" (IDC 105F), fall 1996.
"Post-structural Ethnography" (CA 280S), spring 1996.
"Anthropology and Film" (CA 104), spring 1996.
"Through Other Eyes: China and the West" (CA 62S), fall 1995.
"Media and Culture in Everyday Life" (IDC 105F), fall 1995.
"Foundations in Cultural Anthropology" (CA 100), spring 1995.
"Research Seminar in Cultural Anthropology" (CA 332S.01), fall 1994.
1993 - 1994 Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Seattle Pacific University.
"Introduction to Anthropology," winter, 1994.
"Anthropology of Cultural Communication," spring 1994.
1993 - 1994 Department of Anthropology, University of Washington.
"Chinese History and Society," spring 1993.
"Introduction to Socio-cultural Anthropology," winter, 1993.
Consultation
1999 - Present Chief consultant for the National Geographic and BBC production, Voices from the Dayao Mountains, directed by James Standifer.
Professional Associations
1988 – Present American Anthropological Association
1988 – Present American Ethnological Society
1988 – Present Society for Cultural Anthropology
1990 – Present Association for Asian Studies
1990 – Present International Yao Studies Association