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Research Interests & Work in Progress

• Socio-cultural anthropology
• Kinship
• Melanesiaian and Western

Teaching Interest & Responsibilities

• Families: Kinship and Marriage from a Cross-Cultural Perspective
• Culture
• Science and Biotechnology: Redefining the ‘Natural’ Order of Things

Affiliations

• Referee – Academic journal articles- Anthropological, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Anthropology Today.
• Referee - Book manuscripts – Berghahn Books (2); University of Pennsylvania Press (1), University of Hawaii Press (1).
• Programme Organizer – CASCA annual meetings 2007.

Awards & Grants

• 2009 SSHRC Standard Research Grant: "Legislating Care: Kinship, Fosterage, and the State in North America. " $87, 643.
• 2003 Connaught Research Fellowship in the Social Sciences, University of Toronto.
• 2001 Connaught New Staff Matching Grant, "Landscapes of Meeting: Reassessing The Nature/Culture Divide." $30,000.

Publications

• Beyond Kinship: The Genealogical Model Reconsidered. (Edited collection by Sandra Bamford and James Leach) Berghahn Books.
• "Family Trees’ among the Kamea of Papua New Guinnea: A Non-Genealogical Approach to Imagining Relatedness." To appear in S. Bamford & J. Leach (eds) Beyond Kinship: The Genealogical Model Reconsidered. New York: Berghahn Books.
• "Bodies in Transition: An Introduction to Emerging Forms of Bodily Praxis in the Pacific." In S. Bamford (ed.) Embodying Modernity and Post-modernity Ritual, Praxis and Social Change in Melanesia. (Carolina Academic Press).