Kathleen S. Fine-Dare

Chair, Department of Anthropology

Professor of Anthropology & Gender/Women’s Studies

Fort Lewis College

 

Address:

Department of Anthropology          

279 Center of Southwest Studies                              (970) 247-7438 (o)

1000 Rim Drive                                                          fine_k@fortlewis.edu

Fort Lewis College                                                    

Durango, CO  81301-3999   

                                                                                                                                

Degrees:

Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1986

A.M., Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1980

B.A., Anthropology, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, 1974

 

Dissertation

“Ideology, History, and Action in Cotocollao, a Barrio of Quito, Ecuador

 

Honors and Awards:

Invited speaker: II Congress of Ecuadorian Anthropology, Nov. 4-8, 2006

Invited member: Fort Lewis College American Indian Studies Advisory

            Board (representing the school of Natural & Behavioral Sciences) 2006-

Fort Lewis College Featured Scholar: Fall 2005

Fulbright Lecture Scholar: Quito, Ecuador, 2004-05

Invited speaker, Fort Lewis College Commencement Ceremonies: “Truth, Postmodernism, and the Liberal Arts,” 1995

Alice Admire Distinguished Teaching Award, Fort Lewis College, 1994-95

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Fellowship, 1980-81

Doherty Foundation Fellowship (1989; declined due to concurrence of Fulbright award)

University of Illinois Graduate Fellowship, 1977-78

Malpas Trust Scholarship, DePauw University, 1970-74

Indiana State Scholarship, 1970-74

Phi Kappa Phi

 

Research grants

Fort Lewis College Foundation Grant, 2006

Fort Lewis College Faculty Research Development Grants, 2001 and 2003

Fort Lewis College Foundation Grant, study trip to Beijing, 1995

Teaching Development Grant, Fort Lewis College, 1993-94

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research fieldwork grant, 1988

Tinker Foundation Summer Fieldwork Grant 1982

University of Illinois Graduate Scholarship Supplement Grant 1982

National Science Foundation Dissertation Supplement Grant 1980-82

 

Grants for Fort Lewis College

“Cultural Property, Cultural Privacy, and Repatriation: A Long-Term Collaborative Dialogue”--NAGPRA Grant to Museums, National Park Service (awarded August 1995; co-written with Philip Duke; award amount: $54,000)

 

Co-writer (with Amy Stenslien) of successful 5-year Program of Excellence grant awarded the FLC Department of Anthropology by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education ($750,000).

 

Sabbatical leaves awarded 

2004-2005  Academic year: “Education and Social (In)Security in Ecuador.”

1995    Fall term--“Repatriation Issues in the Academy”.

 

Positions held

Professor of Anthropology & Gender/Women’s Studies, Fort Lewis College, 1996-

Visiting Professor, Master’s Program in Anthropology & Culture, Salesian

            Polytechnic University, Quito, Ecuador, 2005-

Chair, Department of Anthropology, Fort Lewis College, 1991-1996, 2007-

Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies, Fort Lewis College, 1990-96          

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Fort Lewis College 1986-1990

Instructor, bilingual ed. certification program, Farmington School District NM 1989

Instructor, Department of Anthropology, Fort Lewis College, 1983-1986

Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois Department of Anthropology , 1978-82

 

Consultation and off-campus professional work

Invited speaker: Doshisha University School of Graduate American Studies, 2006

Invited speaker: Mesa Verde National Park Centennial Lecture Series, 2006

Invited speaker: Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, 2004

Invited speaker: George Mason University, 2004

Invited speaker: Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver, Colorado,  2003

Editorial Board Member, The Journal of Latin American Anthropology, 1999-2003

Fulbright Dissertation Grant Application Review Panel - Institute of International Education;  for South American research: 1994, 1995, 1997

Manuscript reviewer (American Anthropologist, Cultural Anthropology, Culture and Agriculture, University of Illinois Press, University of Nebraska Press, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Identities, Journal of Latin American Anthropology, Latin American Research Review, Mayfield Publishing, University Press of Colorado, University of Texas Press, Wadsworth, Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Studies,  etc.)

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research reviewer for regular and predoctoral grants, 1993

Ethnographic consultant, Southwest Archaeological Services, Inc., Aztec, NM 1990

Anthropological consultant (informal), San Juan National Forest Durango, CO

Colorado Council on the Arts Folk Arts Master/Apprentice panel member 1991-93

Western Colorado Museum small grants reviewer, 1991-1994     

Academic participant/writer for The Mirror Project, funded by the U.S. West   Corporation, administered at Fort Lewis College, Durango, 1989

Associate for Reviews, American Ethnologist, 1983

Assistant for Reviews, American Ethnologist, 1979-80, 1982

Research assistant to Norman E. Whitten, Jr., editor, on Cultural Transformations and Ethnicity in Modern Ecuador  (University of Illinois Press, 1981)

Research assistant to Douglas Butterworth and John Chance, on Urbanization in Latin   America  (Cambridge University Press, 1980)

Editor, Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society, 1977-78

Research assistant to Richard Thompson (University of Illinois) for Ugandan interview project , 1977

Clerk:  editing and archival work, Field Museum of Natural History Department of Anthropology , 1975-76

Chairperson and Treasurer, La Gente Community Center, Chicago, Illinois, 1974-76

 

Languages:

Spanish (fluent); French (reading); Imbabura Quichua (good comprehension and reading; minimal speaking); minimal training in German and in ancient and demotic Greek

 

Anthropological fieldwork/professional travel:

Quito, Ecuador (Cotocollao sector), 4 weeks (2006, 2007); 6 weeks (2003); 3 weeks (2000, 2001, 2002, 2005); 22 months total (1988, 1986, 1982, 1980-81, 1979)

Peguche, Imbabura Province, Ecuador, 2 months (1982)

Cusco, Perú region (August, 1998)

Beijing, China (NGO Conference on Women) Aug-Sept 1995

La Paz, Bolivia, May 29-June 15, 1995

 

Archival research

Archives of Mesa Verde National Park, 1988, 1995, 2006

Archive of the Instituto Otavaleño de Antropología (1981, 1982)

Archive of the Franciscan Order, Quito, Ecuador (1981)

Archive of the Archbishopric of Quito, Ecuador (1981)

 

Research interests

Indigenous cultural politics and repatriation; NAGPRA;  History of anthropology; critical anthropology and indigenous advocacy; neoliberalism and education in Latin America and the U.S.; nationalism and postcolonial theory; Latin American urban fiesta complex; intellectual property rights and Native Americans; anthropology of gender and gender asymmetry; feminist theory; ideological aspects of museum and cultural park interpretation and displays; tourism.

 

Area interests

Andean and Amazonian South America (particularly Ecuador); Native North America; North America (popular culture, museums);  Hispanic and Native Southwest U.S.

 

Courses taught

Anth 151C: Introduction to Anthropology (all 4 subfields plus applied)

Anth 210C: Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology (co-taught in 2001 with Dr. Enrique Salmón)

TS2S 402:  Movements of Resistance

TS2R 407: Representations and Power

Anth 215CE: Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion

Anth 217C: Cultural Images of Women and Men  

Anth 351: Ethnology of South America

Anth 351CE: Ethnology of Andean South America

Anth 355C: Anthropology of Women

Anth 355C: Anthropology of Gender

Anth 371CE: Ethnology of Lowland South America

Anth 371CE: Ethnology of Amazonian South America

Anth 390: Women's Roles in a Changing World

Anth 391: Cultural and Historical Frontiers (co-taught with Neil McHugh)

Anth 391: Tourism and Anthropology in the American Southwest (co-taught with Dr. Debra Martin)

Anth 395: History of Anthropological Thought

Anth 396: Proseminar in Anthropology

Anth 407: Political Anthropology

Anth 451: Advanced Research in Latin American Anthropology

Anth 455: Advanced Research in the Anthropology of Gender

Anth 496: Senior Research Seminar

WS 495: Capstone Seminar in Women's Studies (Winter 2004)

GS 391:  Language and Mind (1-hr. course)Honors 203: Honors Seminar in the Social Sciences/500 Years of Survival: The Quincentenary of the Columbus Voyage (co-taught with Dr. Rick Wheelock)    

Freshman Composition Seminar 101: Native American Experience Through Literature

Freshman Composition Seminar 101: Anthropology Through Literature

Freshman Composition Seminar 101: Rethinking the Quincentenary
General Studies 100: What is Normal?

General Studies 100: Native American Gender & Sexuality

General Studies 101: Human Heritage I

General Studies 102: Human Heritage II

General Studies 191: Human Heritage I Film Series

Southwest Studies 191: Introduction to the Southwest

 

Campus service

Member, American Indian Studies Advisory Board, Fort Lewis College, 2006-

Faculty Co-Advisor, Small Axe/Small Steps (Native American Activists), 2006

Coordinator, Gender & Women’s Studies Program, 2004-2006; 1997-1999

Library Faculty Personnel Committee, 2006

Faculty advisor, PRISM (Gay, Lesbian, and Bi- and Transsexual) Club, 2003-04

General Education Council Chair,  1999-2003

General Education and Colorado State Compliance Task Force ("GE 10"), 2002-04

Geosciences Program Review Committee, 2001-02

Co-Leader, General Education Culture Group, Summer 1999

Elected faculty representative, Presidential Search Advisory Committee, 1998

Convener, Diversity Roundtable Seminar: “Issues in Cultural Privacy”, 1996

Chair, General Education Task Force, 1996-97

Department of Psychology Personnel Review Committee, 1994-95

Department of Theatre Personnel Review Committee, 1994

Writing Assessment Team, 1993-1995

Special Freshman advisor, 1984, 1990-92, 1994

Coordinator, Student Honors Awards Convocation, 1993

Department of History Program Review Committee, 1992

Contributor to NEH grant proposal for Human Heritage Funding, 1992

Human Heritage faculty planning group, 1992-1994

Library Director Search Committee, 1990

Panel presenter for Women's Awareness Week, 1991

Panel presenter for Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week, 1991

Panel presenter for Diversity Day, Fort Lewis College, 1991

Women's Awareness Week panel discussant on professions, 1989

Speaker for opposition to CIA recruiting on campus, 1988

Speaker for opposition to Colorado English-Only Amendment, 1988

Anthropology Club Advisor, 1988-1990

Planning group to obtain funding for interdisciplinary Southwest studies course to enhance freshman literacy (funded by $50,000 Ford Foundation grant) 1987-88

Tutor in Hispanic Cultural Center, Fort Lewis College, 1988-1990; 1996-97

Tutor in Intercultural Center, FLC, 1984-1988

Guest lecturer for several courses on campus (two Psychology Senior seminars; Southwest Studies Senior Seminar; Southwest Indian History; Introduction to the Southwest [several lectures on ethnicity, tourism, and representation in the Southwest];  Introduction to Theatre; Political Science Senior Seminar; Women in Development; various Anthropology courses not my own; etc.

 

Faculty committees

NBS Dean Search Committee, 2007-

Institutional Review Board, 2008-

Curriculum Committee, 1989-1996; 2001-2004, 2006-

Chair, NAGPRA Interim Committee, FLC Department of Anthropology, 2005

Featured Scholar Selection Committee, 2006

General Education Council, 1999-2004; 2006- present

Gender & Women’s Studies, 1995-

General Education Task Force, 1996-97, 1999

Faculty Awards Committee, 1989, 1996, 1997       

Women's Studies Steering Committee, 1992-1994

Honors Council, 1990-1993

International Studies Committee, 1986

Intercultural Committee (1983-1988)

Committee on Salary, Promotion, and Tenure, 1986

Off-Campus Committee, 1987

 

Off-campus service activities

Member, Four Corners Lecture Series coalition

Durango/Four Corners Women's Resource Center Board of Directors, 2002-2005

Invited member, Aztec National Monument Comprehensive Interpretive Plan Task Force, 2003-04

Cangahua School Project co-organizer (Quito, Ecuador)

Alternative Horizons Board of Directors, 1994-97; Hispanic language liaison (1994- present)

La Plata Prevention Partners Multicultural Task Force, 1992-93

Southwest Elements Committee (to plan Animas-La Plata-funded museum and cultural center) 1988

Talks presented in Durango Community:

            Invited Speaker, Mesa Verde Centennial Lecture Series (“Bodies Unburied, Mummies Displayed”) 2006

Invited Speaker, San Juan Basin Archaeological Society ("What is Museum Anthropology?") Fall, 2002

            Invited speaker, Leadership La Plata (summer 2000, fall 2000)

            Colorado Timberline Academy (women’s rights), 1999

            Getaway class talk on Cultural Property and the Past (summer 1997)

            Women's History Month (with B. Wehmeyer) 1994

            Unitarian Church (on the “New Age Movement”) 1993

            San Juan Basin Archaeological Society, 1984, 1990, 2002

            Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Durango, 1991

 

AAA conference sessions organized

2006    Ambivalent Engagements:  Economic Crisis, State Cultural Politics, and Tourism in Latin America” – double session (12 participants).  American Anthropological Association annual meetings, Nov. 13-19, San Jose, CA.

 

2003    “Moving Across Borders: Re-Thinking and Re-Siting Americanist Anthropology in an Era of NAFTA, ALCA, and a "War on Terrorism” – (10 participants)

 

1997    Session on “Anthropological Dimensions of NAGPRA.”  (7 participants)

 

Published books and papers

In press           Border Crossings: Transnational Americanist Anthropology. Kathleen S. Fine-Dare and Steven L. Rubenstein, eds.  University of Nebraska Press.

 

In press           “Bodies Unburied, Mummies Displayed: Indigenous Cultural Politics Across American Borders.”  Chapter 5 In Border Crossings: Transnational Americanist Anthropology.  Kathleen S. Fine-Dare and Steven L. Rubenstein, eds.  Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.

 

In press           ____ and Steven L. Rubenstein, “Introduction: Border Crossings.”  Chapter 1 In

Border Crossings: Transnational Americanist Anthropology.  Kathleen S. Fine-Dare and Steven L. Rubenstein, eds.  Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.

 

In press           Rubenstein, Steven L., and Kathleen S. Fine-Dare.  “Multi-sited Ethnographers and Spatial Practices in the Americas.”  Chapter 11 In Border Crossings: Transnational Americanist Anthropology.  Kathleen S. Fine-Dare and Steven L. Rubenstein, eds.  Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.

 

In press           “Histories of the Repatriation Movement” – chapter 2 of Opening Archaeology: Repatriation’s Impact on Method and Theory, Thomas Killion, ed.  School of American Research Press.

 

In press           Más allá del folklore: La yumbada de Cotocollao.”  Memorias del Encuentro de Ecuatorianistas, Latin American Studies Association.  Quito: Abya Yala y FLACSO.

 

In press           (Presentation given at the II Congress of Ecuadorian Anthropology). 

 

2005    “Anthropological suspicion, public interest and NAGPRA.”  Journal of Social Archaeology 5(2): 171-192 (June).

 

2002    Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

 

1998    “The Cultural Contradictions of Assessment.”  Newsletter of FOSAP (Federation

of Small Anthropology Programs), 7(1):13-16 (Spring)

 

1997  Disciplinary Renewal Out of National Disgrace: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Compliance in the Academy.”  Radical History Review 68: 25-53.

 

1992    “Worldview.”  Contact: Southwest Region Interpreter’s Newsletter XIV: 7-10.  Jan. Mar.

 

1991    Cotocollao:Ideología, Historia, y Acción en un barrio de Quito. Quito: Abya-Yala Press.

 

1988    “The Politics of 'Interpretation' at Mesa Verde National Park.”   Anthropological Quarterly  61(4): 177-186.

 

Published book reviews (selection; I also review 4 times a year for CHOICE):

2006    Review of Laurajane Smith, Archaeological Theory and the Politics of Cultural Heritage (Routledge 2004).  Museum Anthropology 29(2).

2003    Review of Carter Jones Meyer and Diana Royer, eds., Selling the Indian: Commercializing and Appropriating American Indian Cultures (Arizona 2001).  American Ethnologist 30(1).

2003    Review of Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush, eds., Claiming the Stones/Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity.  (Getty Research Institute 2002).  Choice 40-6477 (July).

2003   Review of  Kath Weston,  Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age (Routledge 2002).  The Women's Studies International Forum Journal 26(3): 180-81.

2002    Review of Irma McClaurin, ed., Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics,

            Praxis, and Poetics (Rutgers 2001).  Choice 39-4662 (April).

2002    Review of Devon L. Mihesuah, ed.  The Repatriation Reader (Nebraska 2000).

            Cambridge Archaeological Journal 12(1):153-155 (April).

1998    Review of Peter Wade, Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia (Johns Hopkins 1993).  American Ethnologist 25(1):55-56.

1994    Review of Hans and Judith-Maria Buechler. Manufacturing Against the Odds: Small Scale Producers in an Andean City.  American Ethnologist 21(4):1086-1087 (November).

1993    Review of Joanne Rappaport,  The Politics of History, Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes.  American Ethnologist 20(3):630-631

1993    Review of Stephen Greenblatt,  Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World (Chicago 1991).  The Latin American Anthropology Review 5(1):38 (Spring).

1992    Review of Serge Gruzinski,  Man-Gods in the Mexican Highlands: Indian Power in Colonial Society 1520-1800 (Stanford 1989).  Latin American Anthropology Review           2(2):80-81 (Winter).

1984    Review of Susan Lobo, A House of My Own.  American Anthropologist 86(2):457-            458.

 

Commissioned reports:

1995    (with W. James Judge) Anthropological Frameworks for Establishing Cultural Affiliation, Final Report: A Document to Accompany the Inventory of Native American Human Remains and Associated Funerary Objects in the Possession or Control of Mesa Verde National Park.  Prepared for Mesa Verde National Park and Research Management Division in Partial Fulfillment of Contract #MEVE-R-94-0436.

 

1989    “Cultural Contradictions in the West."  Paper written for The Mirror Project, U.S. West-Fort Lewis College joint project comparing cultural experiences in three western regions of the United States.

 

Unpublished manuscripts:

2006    Ritual Drama, “Cultural Recuperation,” and Municipal Intervention:  The CotocollaoYumbada” of Quito, Ecuador.  Paper presented at the 2006 AAA meetings.

2004 (with Byron Dare): “Winning at the White Man’s Game? Prosperity, Cultural Integrity, and the Struggle for Sovereignty for the Southern Ute Indian Tribe.”  Paper presented at the103rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 17-21, 2004, San Francisco, CA.    

2003    "Vaccinations, Dollarization, and Educational Reform:  Obstacles to Elementary Educational Delivery in a Marginal Area of Northwest Quito, Ecuador" Paper delivered at the Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies Golden Anniversary Conference.  Feb. 20, Tempe, Arizona.

2001    “Bodies Unburied, Mummies Displayed: Anthropology and Repatriation in the Americas.”  Paper given at a Presidential Invited Session, AAA meetings, Washington DC.

2000    “Anti-Anthropology in the Age of NAGPRA: Morality Plays, Neoliberalism, and the End(s) of Native American Advocacy.”  Paper presented for invited session, “Fourth World Rising: A New Native Studies for a New Public Politics,” American Anthropological Association annual meeting. San Francisco, Nov. 15-19.

1996a  “The Discourses of Repatriation: NAGPRA Compliance in Southwest Colorado.”  Paper delivered at the American Ethnological Society annual meetings in San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 17-21, 1996.

1996b  “NAGPRA and the Opportunities for Pedagogical and Dialogical Adjustments: Plus C’est la Même Chose?”  Paper delivered at the American Anthropological Association annual meetings in San Francisco, CA, November 19-24, 1996.

1995    “Truth, Postmodernism, and the Liberal Arts.”  Text of Commencement Address, Fort Lewis College, 16 December 1995.

1994    “Intellectual Property Rights, the Academy, and the Para-academy:  The Appropriateness of Cultural Appropriation in the Grey Areas of University Teaching and Discourse.”  American Anthropological Association national meetings, Atlanta, GA, November 1994.

1993    (with Philip Duke) “Native Americans and Archaeology: A Reply to Meighan.”

1992a  Multicultural Projects and Postcultural Anthropology: The Uneasy Fit Between Metaheuristics and Romanticism.”  Paper for the symposium, “From Mead to Foucault: Multiculturalism in the Modern World” held at the conference, "Many Voices/Many Choices: Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century.”  University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Sept. 24-26.

1992b “Neither Indians nor Cholos but Legitimate Residents Are We: Cultural Strategies of Survival on the Outskirts of Quito, Ecuador.”  Paper presented at the Society for Cross-Cultural Research Annual Meetings, Feb. 26-Mar. 1.

1992c “Urban Indigenous Ritual Performance and Political Ideology in Quito, Ecuador.”  A report prepared for the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

1988    “The Politics of 'Interpretation' at Mesa Verde National Park.”  Paper presented at the 84th annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Phoenix, AZ.  November.

1987    “Los Bailes Urbanos de Cotocollao: Algunas Consideraciones sobre la Resistencia Indígena a la Hegemonía del Estado.”  submitted to Revista Andina Cusco, Perú.

1987    “Cultural Resistance and Cultural Production in Quito, Ecuador.”  Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Ethnological Society. San           Antonio.

1986    “Ideology, History, and Action in Cotocollao, A Barrio of Quito,  Ecuador.”  Doctoral dissertation in Anthropology, University of Illinois,  Urbana-Champaign.  Ann Arbor: University Microfilms.

1984    “A Situational Analysis of Urban Ideology in Quito, Ecuador.”  Paper presented at the 83rd annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Denver, Colorado, November.

1983    “Indigenous Musical Performance in Urban Ecuador: Ethnicity, Folklore, and    Pan-Andean Identity.”  Paper presented at the 82nd annual meetings of the AAA, Chicago, November.

1983    “Masked Ritual Performance in Urban Ecuador.”  Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Ethnological Society, Baton Rouge,  Louisiana, February.

1980    “Power and 'The Problem of Women.'”  Master's paper in lieu of a thesis.  Department of  University of  Illinois, Urbana.

1978    “Urbanization and Women in Latin America.”  Dept. of Anthropology,