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| I am a PhD Candidate at Brandeis University in the Department of Anthropology. My dissertation research is focused on how health is articulated in charismatic church communities in Samoa. I will begin long-term fieldwork in September 2011. I have conducted four preliminary research trips in Hawaii, American Samoa, California and Samoa. |
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Department of Anthropology jahardin@brandeis.edu Brandeis University United States: (001) 347.306.9679 415 South Street, MS 006 Fax (USA): (001) 781.736.2232 Waltham, MA 02453 EDUCATION Brandeis University PhD, Candidate, 2007-expected 2013 Joint MA with Women’s and Gender Studies, 2011 Discipline: Sociocultural Anthropology Dissertation: Transactional Moralities: Public Health and Charismatic Christian Health Negotiations in Samoa Committee: Richard Parmentier (chair), Sarah Lamb, Elizabeth Ferry UCLA Affiliate Student Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC), 2010 University of Hawaii-Manoa Affiliate Student Department of Indo-Pacific Languages, 2008, 2009 Fordham University B.A., magna cum laude, 2004 Major: History ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Affiliate Researcher Centre for Samoan Studies, National University of Samoa. September 2011-August 2012: Conduct independent research, guest lecture, and participate in research symposia. University Writing Seminar Instructor Brandeis University. September 2010-May 2011. Taught course titled: Embodied Culture: The Experiential and Textual Body. Lecture, grade, create course syllabi, write recommendation letters. Lecturer Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University. June 2011-August 2011. Taught course titled: Introduction to the Comparative Study of Human Societies. Lecture, grade, create course syllabi, write recommendation letters. Teaching Fellow Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University. September 2008-May 2011. Assist professors, lecture, grade, and write recommendation letters: Introduction to the Comparative Study of Human Society, Urban Anthropology, Anthropology of Development, Psychological Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, and the Anthropology of Gender. Tutor English-as-aSecond Language Program, Brandeis University. January 2007-January 2011: Convene sessions with international undergraduate and gradate students on oral and writing skills, advisement on American academic culture. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Research Consultant, Institute for Community Health, 2011: Qualitative interviews, data coding, analysis of interviews, literature review. Research Assistant to Alessandro Duranti, January-May 2010: Analyzed and organized Samoan data on prayer, provided literature reviews, and worked with translator on transcripts. Preliminary Research, Project Title: “Agentive Fasting: Food Practices, Christianities, and Samoans in California and Samoa,” 2010: Conducted ethnographic fieldwork and participant observation in churches in Samoa and California. Formally interviewed 20 individuals. Conducted 5 group interviews with groups of 5. Recorded and transcribed everyday household activities. Preliminary, Project Title: “Samoan Medicine: Healing and Treatment Choices through Narrative,” 2009: Conducted ethnographic fieldwork and participant observation in American Samoa. Formally interviewed 25 individuals, multiple meetings. Administered a village survey, 80 participants. Conducted informal and unstructured interviews daily. Administered a food-recall survey to 15 individuals. Preliminary Research, Project Title: “Food, Feasting, and Embodiment: Dealing with Chronic Illness and Maintaining Social Relationships in Hawaii,” 2008 and 2009: Conducted ethnographic fieldwork and participant observation in the greater Honolulu area. Administered survey to 40 participants. Conducted formal and informal interviews with 25 participants, multiple meetings. Recorded and analyzed cultural performances. Conducted 24-food recalls with 15 participants. Worked closely with a translator. FELLOWSHIPS and AWARDS 2011 Provost Award, Brandeis University 2011 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Brandeis University 2011 Graduate Student Travel Award, Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University 2011 Mellon Dissertation Research Grant, Brandeis University 2011 Graduate Student Association Award, Brandeis University 2010 Manner’s Prize for Best Anthropology Graduate Paper for “Anthropology as Cultural Politics: (Re)Motivating Tradition in Oceania,” Brandeis University 2010 Fulbright-Hays Advanced Samoan Language Abroad, Group Project Abroad, Samoa 2010 Women's and Gender Study Graduate Grant, Brandeis University 2009 Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research Grant 2009 Mellon Dissertation Research Grant, Brandeis University 2009 Sachar Award, Brandeis University 2009 Best Paper Prize for “Constructing Social Boundaries: Remaking Fale Aitu in Hawaii” at the Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium at Wellesley College 2007 Fannie and Simon Shamroth Endowed Fellowship, 2007-2013 2000-04 Dean's List, Fordham University, 2000-2004 2003 Award of Academic Honors, Semester at Sea, University of Virginia, 2003 INVITED PAPERS and PRESENTATIONS 2011 “Christian Solutions to Chronic Problems: Healing Diabetes in Samoa.” Chair and co-organizer (with Anna I. Corwin) of panel titled “Healing Legacies: Bridging Medical Anthropology and the Anthropology of Religion” (SAR Invited Panel). American Anthropological Association conference, Montreal. 2010 “Eating the Word: Fasting and Eating in Making Moral Samoan Persons.” Chair and co-organizer (with Meghan McCullough) of panel titled “Circulating Discourses: Obesity, Body Size, Fatness, and Anthropological Debates about Methods, Ethics, and Representation in Obesity Research” (SMA/SAFN Invited Panel). American Anthropological Association conference, New Orleans. 2010 “Understanding Anapogi (Fasting): Preliminary Observations.” National University of Samoa. 2009 “Food, Feasting, and Embodiment: Dealing with Chronic Illness and Maintaining Social Relationships in American Samoa” (SAFN Invited Panel). American Anthropological Association conference, Philadelphia. PAPERS and PRESENTATIONS 2011 “Body Idioms and Fasting: Charismatic Samoan Approaches to Obesity and Chronic Illness.” Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Honolulu. 2011 “Transactional Moralities: Charismatic Challenges to Exchange.” Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Honolulu. 2011 “Challenging Exchange, Fashioning Emotions: Learning to Alofa.” Society for Psychological Anthropology conference, Santa Monica. 2010 "Reviewing Samoan Exchange: Personhood & Representation.” European Society for Oceanists conference, University of St. Andrews, Scotland. 2010 “Prayer as a Social Activity” with Alessandro Duranti and Anna Corwin. Discourse Lab, UCLA. 2009 "Intersecting Samoan Discourses: Embodiment and Chronic Illness.” Chair and organizer of panel titled “Articulations and Experiences: Biomedicines in the Asia- Pacific Region.” Society for Medical Anthropology conference, Yale University, New Haven. 2009 “Shifting Body Ideals, Food Practices, and Health: Samoan Women in Hawaii.” American Ethnological Society conference, University of British Columbia, Canada. 2009 “Taro or Burgers?: Meals, Space, Place and Fa'a Samoa [the Samoan way].” Northeastern Anthropological Association conference, Providence. 2009 “Constructing Social Boundaries: Remaking Fale Aitu in Hawaii.” Greater Boston Anthropology Consortia, Wellesley College. 2008 “Folk Knowledge, Medical Canon, and Preventable Disease: American Samoa and Hawaii.” East West Center conference, Bali, Indonesia. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Intramural Graduate Student Representative, Brandeis University, 2008-2011 Organizer and Coordinator of the Anthropology Proseminar, Brandeis University, 2010-2011 Organizer and Coordinator of the Graduate Social Science Salon Series, Brandeis University, 2008-2010 Economic Anthropology Working Group, 2008-present Colloquia Committee, Brandeis University, 2010-2011 Extramural Contributing Author, Anthropology News, AES Section News, 2011 Graduate Student Board Member, American Ethnological Society, 2011-2013 Coordinator for the Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture, CLIC, University of California, Los Angeles, 2010 Peer Reviewer: Graduate Journal of Contemporary Anthropology, NASA e-journal, vis-à-vis: Explorations in Anthropology, Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies Book Review Editor: Popular Anthropology Magazine, 2010 Graduate Student Liaison, Center for Public Anthropology, 2008-2009 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Anthropological Association Society for Medical Anthropology Society for Cultural Anthropology American Ethnological Society National Association of Student Anthropologists Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania Society for Linguistic Anthropology Society for Psychological Anthropology GUEST LECTURES 2011 “Doing Preliminary Fieldwork: Pragmatic and Emotional Dimensions” with Sarah Lamb for the Brandeis Anthropology Proseminar. 2010 “Food, Access, and Obesity” for the class Feast and Famine: Food and Social Relations, taught by Elizabeth Ferry at Brandeis University. 2010 “Food, Political Economy, & History in Oceania” for the class Women and Healthcare in the US, taught by Saskia Karen Subramanian at UCLA. 2010 “Thinking Through Body Size and Body Talk” for the class the Anthropology of Body, taught by Meghan McCullough at Brandeis University. |