Joel C. Kuipers

Professor of Anthropology, International Affairs and Human Sciences

Building X 201
2112 G Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: (202) 994-6545
Fax: (202) 994-6097
E-mail: kuipers@gwu.edu
Homepage: http://home.gwu.edu/~kuipers/

Education:

Ph.D., Yale University

Expertise:

Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia; language, ethnicity

Background:

Professor Kuipers received his B.A. in English and sociology with Honors from Calvin College in 1976, and his M.Phil. (1978) and Ph.D. from Yale in 1982. Before he came to the Anthropology Department at The George Washington University in the fall of 1989, he served on the faculties of Brown, Wesleyan, and Seton Hall Universities. He has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1994-95), and a visiting scholar at Harvard, Stanford, and Brown Universities. His main publications relate to the language and culture of Indonesia, and include: Power and Performance: the Creation of Textual Authority in Weyewa Ritual Speech (University of Pennsylvania, 1990); and Language, Identity and Marginality in Indonesia: the changing nature of ritual speech on the island of Sumba (Cambridge, 1998).

Courses Taught:

Anth 161 Language, Culture, and Cognition
Anth 174 Cultures of Southeast Asia
Anth 202 Proseminar: Sociocultural Anthropology
Anth 269 Topics in Linguistics Anthropology