VITA

NICOLA BETH TANNENBAUM

December 2000

ADDRESS:  Department of Sociology and Anthropology
          681 Taylor Street
	          Lehigh University
	          Bethlehem, PA 18015
PHONE:    office: 610 758-3829; fax: 610 758-6552;
	       home:  610 861-0388;
	       e:mail: nt01@lehigh.edu [note: that's a zero].

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in anthropology, University of Iowa, 1982.
Dissertation title:  Agricultural Decision Making Among the Shan of Maehongson      Province Northwestern Thailand.
MA   in anthropology, University of Iowa, 1975.
BA    with honors, in anthropology, Grinnell College, 1973.

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

8/99 -           Director, Asian Studies Program, Lehigh Unviersity.

8/94 - 	        Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, Lehigh University.

8/89 - 5/94   Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, Lehigh University.

1/88 - 5/89   Adjunct Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, University of  Iowa.

8/87 - 12/87 Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, University of Iowa.

8/86 - 5/87   Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology  Department, Arizona State 		         University.

6/84 - 8/84   Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, University of Iowa.

4/83 - 6/83   Consultant to AID/Thailand:  AID Project No. 483-0296; evaluation of co-		         financing project for funding private voluntary organizations.

8/81 - 8/82   Assistant to the director, Office of  International Education and Services, 		         University of Iowa.

8/78 - 5/79   Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social 		        Work, Illinois State University.

	        Faculty Coordinator of Programs for International House, Illinois State 		        University.

GRANTS

Lehigh Ventures The Electronic Human Relations Area Files, July 2000-2001, $8,390

Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad, Senior Scholar, January 1994-July 1994, $28,510.

Luce Foundation - Association of Asian Studies, Southeast Asian Council Grant, summer 1993, $1,735.

Class of 1968 Fellowship, Lehigh University, summer 1992.

Luce Foundation - Association of Asian Studies, Southeast Asian Council Grant, with Cornelia Kammerer and Richard O'Connor, summer 1991, $1,200.

Faculty Research Grant, Lehigh University, summer 1990.

Franz Fellowship, Lehigh University, summer 1990.

Social Science Research Council post-doctoral fellowship, September, 1984 - July, 1985, $12,000.

Midwest University Consortium for International Activities and International Fertilizer Development Center research grant, June, 1979 - January, 1981, $10,000.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Lehigh University, August 1989 - 
	Anthropology of Peasant Peoples 		Methods in Observation
Comparative Cultures 			Mind, Self, and Culture
	Cultural Construction of Gender		Peoples of Island Southeast Asia
	Dying and Death				Peoples of Mainland Southeast Asia
	Economic Anthropology			Peoples of Southeast Asia
	Food for Thought 				Sociocultural Anthropology
Lehigh Review 	Southeast Asians in Southeast Asia    and America

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, August 1987 - December 1987:
	Cognitive Anthropology.
	Ethnology of Southeast Asia.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Arizona State University, August 1986 - May 1987:
	Anthropology of Peasant Peoples.
	Economic Anthropology.
	Epistemology of Anthropology.
	Introduction to Cultural/Social Anthropology.
	Peoples of Southeast Asia.

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, June 1984-August 1984:
	Anthropology and Contemporary World Problems.

Assistant Professor, Illinois State University, September 1978 - December 1979:
	Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Agrarian Life. 
	Introduction to Cultural Anthropology.

Teaching Assistant, University of Iowa, September 1974 - December 1975:
	Introduction to the Study of Society and Culture.

FIELD EXPERIENCE

Fieldwork among Shan of Maehongsons Province, Thailand.  Changes in rice varieties.  June 2000 – July 2000.

Fieldwork among Shan of Maehongson Province, Thailand.  Change and people's perception of change.  June 1998 - July 1998.

Fieldwork among Shan of Maehongson Province Thailand. Phaya Sihanatraja and the Founding of Maehongson.  May 1996 - July 1996.

Fieldwork among Shan of Maehongson Province, Thailand.  The impact of tourism on Shan ethnic identity.  January 1994 - July 1994.

Interviews towards a life history of the Mahadevi of Yawnghwe, Vancouver, B.C., May 1993.

Fieldwork among Shan of Maehongson Province, Thailand.  A preliminary examination of the impact of tourism on Shan ethnic identity, June 1992 - July 1992.

Fieldwork among Shan of Maehongson Province, Thailand.  Regional Relationships among Shan Villages in Maehongson Province, Thailand.  May 1990 - July 1990.

Fieldwork among Shan of Maehongson Province, Thailand.  A pilot study for the project entitled, "Monks, Monasteries, and Communities: An Analysis of the Community/Temple Network in Amphur Muong Maehongson Province, Thailand.  August 1988 - December 1988.

Fieldwork among Shan of Maehongson Province, Thailand. Project entitled "Shan Calendrical Systems and Cosmology," supported by the Social Science Research Council, September 1984 - July 1985.

Fieldwork among Shan of Maehongson Province, Thailand.  Project entitled "Decisions to Use Fertilizer," supported by Midwest University Consortium for International Activities-International Fertilizer Development Center, June 1979 - January 1981.

Fieldwork on agriculture among Shan of Maehongson Province, Thailand, Summer 1977.

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

March 1983 - July 1984  Evaluator for College Outcomes Measurement Program, American College Testing.

April 12, 1983 - June 1, 1983.  Evaluation of the AID  Co-Financing Project for Funding Private Voluntary Organizations, Project No. 493-0296.  For AID/Thailand.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cognitive anthropology with a focus on theories of description and their relationship to ethnography.

Construction of ethnographic others with a focus on the colonial and post-colonial construction of ethnicity and religiosity in Southeast Asia.

Anthropology of religion especially everyday Buddhism and its relationship to other religious systems.

PUBLICATIONS

In Press Annata and Lack of Control: Shan Constructions of  Buddhism.  Buddhist 	 	Forum.

	Monuments and Memory: Phaya Sihanatraja and the Founding of Maehongson.  	In Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Politics of the Past in the Thai World, 	Shigeharu Tanabe and Charles Keyes, eds. Curzon Press.

	Founder's Cults in Southeast Asia: Ancestors, Agriculture, and Polity, edited with 	Cornelia Kammerer. Yale University Southeast Asia Program Monograph Series.

	Phaya Sihanatraja and the Founding of Maehongson.  In Founder's Cults in 	Southeast Asia: Ancestors, Agriculture, and Polity, Nicola Tannenbaum and 	Cornelia Kammerer, eds.  Yale University Southeast Asia Program Monograph 	Series.

	Introduction: Founder's Cults in Southeast Asia with Cornelia Kammerer.  In	Founder's Cults in Southeast Asia: Ancestors, Agriculture, and Polity, Nicola 	Tannenbaum and Cornelia Kammerer, eds.  Yale University Southeast Asia 	Program Monograph Series. 

Chayanov and Theory in Economic Anthropology with E. Paul Durrenberger.  In Economic Anthropology at the Turn of the Century, Jean Ensminger, ed.  Rowman and Littlefield.

	Review: Loggers, Monks, Students, and Entrepreneurs: Four Essays on Thailand, 	Brian Hunsaker, et al.  Journal of  Southeast Asian Studies.

Review: Household Ecology: Economic Change and Domestic Life among the Kekchi Maya in Belize, Richard R. Wilk.  The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, September 2000.

Review: In the Place of Origins: Modernity and its Mediums in Northern Thailand, Rosalind Morris, Culture and Humanism Quaterly.

2000	Buddhism, Prostitution, and Sex: Limits on the Academic Discourse on Gender in 	Thailand.  In Gender and Sexuality In Modern Thailand, Peter Jackson and  	Nerrida Cook, eds., p.243-260. Chiang Mai, Silkworm Press.

	Protest, Tree Ordination, and the Changing Context of Political Ritual.  Ethnology 39(2):109-127.

	Review: Rituals of National Loyalty: An Anthropology of the State and the Village Scout Movement in Thailand.  Kaherine A. Bowie.  Journal of Asian Studies 58(4):1188-89.

Review: Cooperation and Community in Rural Thailand: An Organizational Analysis of Participatory Rural Development, Shin’ichi Shigetomi.  Journal of Asian Studies 59(2):489-490.

Review: Women of Southeast Asia, Penny Van Esterik, ed.  Journal of the Siam Society 87(1-2):130-131.

1999    Thirty Years of Development in Shan Villages of Northwestern Thailand, with E. Paul Durrenberger.  The World and I April 1999:192-201.

	At the Interface: The Household and Beyond, edited  with David B. Small.  	 	Monographs in Economic  Anthropology, vol. 15. University Press of America.

	At What Interface? Thongmakhsan in its Contexts. In At the Interface: The  	Household and Beyond, David B. Small and Nicola  Tannenbaum, eds., p.77-94.  	Monographs in Economic  Anthropology,  vol. 15, University Press of America.

Conclusions: At the Interface the Household and Beyond with David B. Small. 	 	In At the Interface: The Household and Beyond, David B. Small and Nicola 		Tannenbaum, eds., p. 221-232.  Monographs in Economic Anthropology, vol. 15, University Press of America.

Comment on Graham Fordham’s Northern Thai Male Culture and HIV Risk.     Crossroads 12(1): 122-123.

Review: Economies and Cultures: Foundations of Economic Anthropology, Richard Wilk.  American Ethnologist 26(2): 519-520.

1998    Households, Villages, and Polities among the Shan of Maehongson Province,            Northwestern Thailand.  Tai Culture 3(2):165-171.

	Review: Vietnam: Way of the Heart, a video, Maya Moltzer. Asian Educational 	Media Service Newsletter. [available on the Asian Media Service website: 	http://www.aems.uiuc.edu].

1997   Merit and Blessing in Mainland Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective, 	edited with Cornelia Ann   Kammerer, Yale University Southeast Asia Program 		Monograph Series, no. 45.

Introduction: Merit and Blessing in Mainland  Southeast Asia in Comparative 	 Perspective with Cornelia Ann Kammerer. IN Merit and Blessing in  Mainland Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective, Cornelia Ann Kammerer and Nicola Tannenbaum eds. p. 1-19, Yale University Southeast Asia Program Monograph Series. no 45.

	Blessing and Merit Transfer among Lowland Shan of  Northwestern Thailand. In 	Merit and Blessing in Mainland Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective, 	 	Cornelia Ann Kammerer and Nicola Tannenbaum eds. p. 181-196, Yale 	University Southeast Asia Program   Monograph Series, no. 45.

	Review: Cooking, Care, and Domestication: A Culinary Ethnography of the Tai 	Yong, Northern Thailand, Ing-Britt Trankell.  Journal of Asian Studies 56(4): 	1177-78.

	Review: Ecology and Practical Technology: Peasant  Farming Systems in 	Thailand, Shigeharu Tanabe. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 	 	2(4):768 (publication date 1996, appeared 1997).

	 Review: Dear Uncle Go: Male Homosexuality in  Thailand, Peter Jackson.  	Crossroads 10(1):161-163   (publication date 1996, appeared 1997).

1996   Who Can Compete Against the World? Power- Protection and Buddhism in Shan 	Worldview. Association of Asian Studies Monograph Series no. 51   Ann Arbor, 	Michigan.

	Households and Villages: The Political-Ritual Structures of Tai Communities.  	In  State, Power and Culture in Thailand, E. Paul Durrenberger, ed., p. 139-	165.  Yale Southeast Asia Studies, Monograph 44. New Haven.

	Review: The Ancestral Lords: Gender, Descent, and  Spirits in a Northern Thai 	Village, Michael Rhum. Journal of Asian Studies 55(3):790-791.

1995    Review: Indian Communities in Southeast Asia, K. S. Sandhu, ed.  Crossroads 	9:(1):90-92 (appeared 1996).

1994    Galactic Polities, the Asiatic Mode of Production, and Peasant-States: Southeast 	Asian Pre-Modern   Polities.  The Australian Journal of Anthropology   4(1): 45-	61 (issue is dated 1993, but the issue appeared in 1994).
	
Review: The Village in Perspective: Community and  Locality in Rural Thailand, 	Phillip Hirsch, ed. Journal of Asian Studies 53(2):631-632.

1993    Shan.  Encyclopedia of World Cultures, East and  Southeast Asia volume 5. Paul 	Hockings, ed., p. 239- 241.  Boston: G. K. Hall for Human Relations Area  Files.

	Witches, Fortune and Misfortune Among Shan of   Northwestern Thailand.  	Understanding Witchcraft and Sorcery in South East Asia.  C. W. Watson and 	Roy   Ellen, eds., p. 61-80.  Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii   Press.

	Review: Peasants and Cities, Cities and Peasants, Jeremy Kemp, ed.  Journal of 	Southeast Asian Studies   24(2):395-396.

1992    Household  Economy, Political Economy, and Ideology: Peasants and the State in 	Southeast Asia (with E. Paul Durrenberger).  American Anthropologist 94:74-89.

	Households and Villages: The Political-Ritual Structures of Tai Communities.  	Ethnology 31:259-276.

	Jane Richardson Hanks, (with Cornelia Kammerer).  Crossroads 7(1):6-10.

	Hanks and Hanks in the Hills.  Crossroads 7(1):37-40.

1991    Haeng and Takho: Power in Shan Cosmology.  Ethnos   56(1-2):67-81.

1990    Analytical Perspectives on Shan Agriculture and Village Economics, (with E. 	Paul Durrenberger).  Yale University Southeast Asian   Studies, monograph 	series, no. 37.

	The Heart of the Village: Constituent Structures of   Shan Communities.  	Crossroads 5(1):23-41.

 	Power-Protection: The Nature of Shan Religion and  World View.  Proceedings of 	the 4rth International Thai Studies Conference, Institute of Southeast Asian  	Studies, Kunming, China.

	Hidden Dimensions of the Burmese "Way to Socialism," (with E. Paul 	Durrenberger).  In  Perspectives on the Informal Economy, M. Estellie   Smith, 	ed., p.281-300.  Monographs in Economic  Anthropology, no. 8.  Lanham, MD: 	University Press of America.

1989    Power and Its Shan Transformation.  In Ritual, Power, and Economy in Mainland 	Southeast Asia, S. Russell, ed., p.67-88.  Center for Southeast Asian Studies 		special publication series.  Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, Illinois. 

	Review: The Shan of Burma: Memoirs of a Shan Exile. Journal of Asian Studies 	48:671-672.

	Continuities in Highland and Lowland Religions, (with E. Paul Durrenberger).		Journal of the Siam Society 77(1):83-90.

1988     Control, Change, and Suffering: The Messages of Shan  Buddhist Sermons, 	(with E. Paul Durrenberger). Mankind (Australia) 18:121-132.

	Shan Calendrical Systems: The Everyday Use of  Esoteric  Knowledge.  Mankind 	(Australia) 18:14-25.

1987    Tattoos: Invulnerability and Power in Shan Cosmology. American Ethnologist 	14:693-711.

1984   Shan Calendrics and the Nature of Shan Religion.   Anthropos 79:505-515.

	The Misuse of Chayanov:  "Chayanov's Rule" and Empiricist Bias in 	Anthropology.  American Anthropologist 86:927-942.

	Chayanov and Economic Anthropology.  In Chayanov, Peasants, and Economic 	Anthropology.  E. Paul   Durrenberger, ed., p 27-39.  New York:  Academic  	Press.

1983    A  Diachronic Analysis of Shan Cropping Systems, (with E. Paul Durrenberger). 	Ethnos  48:177-194.

	An   Evaluation of the Co-Financing Project, No. 493-0296 	of USAID/Thailand 	with the Private Voluntary  Organizations, (with Mary B. Anderson). Washington:  	USAID.

1982    Una Reconsideracio de Chayanov i dels seus Critics Recents, (with E. Paul 	Durrenberger).   Estudis d'Historica Agraria 3:7-21  Translation of "A 	Reassessment of Chayanov and His  Recent Critics.

1980    Review:  Participant Observation.  Anthropological Quarterly 53:258-259.

1979    A  Reassessment of Chayanov and His Recent Critics, (with E. Paul 	Durrenberger). Peasant Studies 8:48-63.

PAPERS PRESENTED

1999	One, Two, or Many Religions?  Complexity and Thai Religious Practices. 7th International Thai Studies Conference, Amsterdam, July 4-8, 1999.

Remembering the Peasants.  Roundtable discussion of Paths to Conflagration. 7th International Thai Studies Conference, Amsterdam, July 4-8, 1999

Lords of the Sunset and the Ruler on whose Empire the Sun Never Set: Shan States and British Rule.  Association for Asian Studies, Boston, March 11-14, 1999.

	Protest, Ecological Consciousness, and Political Development?  Society for Economic Anthropology.  Texas A & M University, April 8-9, 1999. Also presented in revised form at the American Anthropological Association meetings in Chicago, Nov. 17-21, 1999.

1998    Thai Yai, Shan, and Tai Long: Political Identity across State Boundaries.  	Association for Asian Studies, Washington, DC, March 26-29, 1998.

	Chayanov and Theory in Economic Anthropology, with Paul Durrenberger, 	Society for Economic Anthropology, Evanston, Illinois, April 17-18, 1998.

The Consumer in Asia: A roundtable discussion.  Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies, Univ. of Delaware, Oct. 23-25, 1998.

1997    Phraya Sihanatraja and the Founding of Maehongson. Association for Asian 	Studies, Chicago, March 13-16, 1997.

	Power-Protection, Buddhism, and Gender among Shan of Maehongson Province, 	Northwestern Thailand.  Women Studies Research Forum, Lehigh University,  	Sept. 26.

	Funerals among Shan of Northwestern Thailand.  Mid-Atlantic Region  	Association for Asian Studies, West Chester University, Oct. 24-26, 1997.

1996    Phaya Sihanatraja and the Founding of Maehongson. 6th International Thai 	Studies Conference, Chiang   Mai, Thailand, Oct. 1996.

	Is it or isn't it Buddhism? Only the Anthropologist  Knows for Sure or the Trials 	and Tribulations of  Studying Religion in Thailand.  Religion Studies, Lehigh 	University, Oct. 1, 1996.

	At What Interface?  Thongmakhsan in its Contexts. American Anthropological 	Association, San Francisco,  November 1996.

	Buddhism, Orientalism, and the Study of Thailand.  Buddhist Studies Forum, 	Harvard University, Dec. 2, 1996.

1995    Buddhism, Prostitution, and Sex: Limits on the  Academic Discourse on Gender 	in Thailand.  Presented   at the International Conference on Thai Gender, 	Canberra, Australia, July 11-12, 1995.

1994   Anthropology, Irrelevance, Science, and Self: An  Apology.  Anthropology in the 	'90's, Nan, Thailand, May 7, 1994.

1993    The Shan Out to Lunch and What They Eat at Festivals. Mid-Atlantic Region 	Association for Asian Studies, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Oct. 30-Nov. 1.

	Annata and Lack of Control: Shan Constructions of Buddhism.  5th International 	Conference on Thai Studies, London, England, July 4-July 11, 1993.

	Blessing and Merit Transfer among Lowland Shan of   Northwestern Thailand.  	Association for Asian Studies Meetings, Los Angeles, March 25-28.

1992    Hill Fields, Reforestation, and the Construction of  Inequality in Maehongson 	Province, Thailand.  Third  Common Property Conference, International 	Association   for the Study of Common Property, Washington DC, Sept. 17-20, 	1992.

	Tourism and Economic Change in Maehongson Province. Mid-Atlantic Region 	Association of Asian Studies  meeting, Oct. 30, 1992, West Chester University.

1991    Variations in Tai Ritual and Structure of Households, Villages, and Polities.  	American Anthropological Association, Chicago Nov. 20 -24, 1991.

	Economic Processes and Agricultural Change in Three  Shan Villages in 	Maehongson Province.  Midwest  Conference on Asian Affairs.  40th Annual 	Meeting, Sept. 13-15.  Iowa City, Iowa.

	Maehongson: The Changing Contexts of Shan-Thai  Interactions.  43rd 	Association for Asian Studies Meetings, April 11-14.  New Orleans.

	Hanks and Hanks in the Hills. Round table  presentation in honor of Jane and 	 	Lucien Hanks.  43rd  Association for Asian Studies Meetings, April 11-14. New 	Orleans.

	 From Opium Wars to Crop Replacement Programs: Changing Patterns of 	Government Intervention in Opium Production.  11th Annual meeting of the 	Society for  Economic Anthropology, April 5-6, Bloomington, Indiana.

1990    Power-Protection: The Nature of Shan Religion and   World View.  4rth  	International Conference on Thai   Studies, Kunming, May 11-13, 1990.

	Household, Village, and Region: Social and Political Organization in Shan 	Communities in Northwestern   Thailand.  42 Association for Asian Studies 	Meetings, April 5-8, 1990.

1989    Power-Protection and Vulnerability: Causes of  Misfortune among Shan of 	Northwestern Thailand. First Canterbury International Symposium on Southeast 	Asian Studies: The Manipulation of Mystical Agency and  Explanations of 	Misfortune, Sept. 25-28.

1988   Who Invites Whom to Festivals, Why, and What was Served: A Field Report 	from a Shan Village.  47th Informal Northern Thai Group Meeting.  Chiang Mai, 		Thailand, Dec. 6, 1988.

	The Heart of the Village: Constituent Structures of  Shan Communities. Presented 	at the Association for  Asian Studies meetings, San Francisco.

	Hidden Dimensions of  the “Burmese Way to Socialism,” (with E. Paul 	Durrenberger). Presented  at the Society for Economic Anthropology meetings, 		Knoxville, TN.

1987    Control, Change, and Suffering: The Messages of Shan Buddhist  Sermons, (with 	E. Paul Durrenberger). Presented at the Southeast Asia Summer Study Institute, 	DeKalb, Illinois.  July 1987.

	Haeng and Takho: Power in Shan Cosmology.  Presented  at the Southeast Asia 	Summers Study Institute, DeKalb, Illinois.  July 1987.

	 Shan Calendrical Systems: The Everyday Use of  Esoteric Knowledge.  	Association for Asian Studies  Meetings, Boston, April 11, 1987.

1986    Continuities in Highland and Lowland Religions, (with E. Paul Durrenberger).		Council on Thai Studies.  Madison, Wisconsin.  October 1986.

	Power and its Shan Transformation.  Paper presented at Southeast Asia Studies 	Summer Institute, DeKalb, Illinois. August 1986.

1985    Shan Tattoos and the Nature of Power.  Paper presented to the Northern Thai 	Group, Chiang Mai, Thailand. August 24, 1985.

1983    Changes  in Shan Agriculture (1976-1981), (with E. Paul Durrenberger).  Council 	on Thai  Studies.  Champaign, Illinois.

1981    The Household Development Cycle and Agricultural Decision Making.  Paper 	presented to the Council on Thai Studies.  DeKalb, Illinois; October 24, 1981.

1979    Chayanov and Economic Anthropology.  Paper presented  at Central States 	Anthropological Association  Meetings, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

1978    A Taxonomy of Rice Varieties and its Relationship to Varietal Strengths.  Paper 	 	presented at the Central  States Anthropological Society Meeting, Notre Dame, 		Indiana.

1977	Rice Varieties and Agricultural Decision Making in a Shan Village in 	Maehongson Province, Northern  Thailand.  Paper presented to Council on Thai 	Studies, DeKalb, Illinois.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Buddhism, Orientalism, and the Study of Thailand.  Buddhist Studies Forum, Harvard University, Dec. 2, 1997.

Beliefs and Religion in Shan Society.  Thai Kadi Institute, Thammasat Univ., Bangkok, Dec. 16, 1988.

Assessment of Decision Models.  Roberts Lecture, Grinnell College, May 24, 1984.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Buddhism, Orientalism, and the Study of Thailand

Shan, Tai Yai, or Tai Long: Ethnicity, Ethnic Identity, and Politics across State Boundaries.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Anthropological Association

Society for Economic Anthropology
  Executive Board 1995-1998

Council on Thai Studies

Informal Northern Thai Group

Association for Asian Studies
  Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia Group of the Association for Asian Studies
  Chair, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia Group of the Association for Asian Studies, 1997-	1999.
  Committee on Research Materials of Southeast Asia 1992-1995.
  Council on Conferences, 2000-2003.

Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies
  Advisory Committee to the Executive Council 1992-1994
  Co-chair book exhibit committee 1995-1999
  Executive Council 1995-1997
  Vice-President, 1997-1998
  President, 1998-1999