CURRICULUM VITA

David Douglas Caulkins March, 2005

Department of Anthropology Office (641) 269 3136

Grinnell College Home (641) 236 5461

Grinnell, Iowa 50112 Email: Caulkins@grinnell.edu

U.S.A FAX: (641) 269 4330

Research Interests:

Indigenous knowledge systems, organizational cultures, regional, ethnic, and national identity, regional development and entrepreneurship, social networks and social capital, research methods and assessment, Western Europe, North America (Native American and European-American)

Education:

Ph.D. in Anthropology, Cornell University, January 1982

Dissertation: "Community and Organizational Networks in Western Norway: An Evaluation of Three Models,"

B.A. with Honors and Distinction in Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton College, Northfield Minnesota, May 1962

Honors Thesis :"Persistence and Change in Chippewa Culture"

Academic Positions:

Acting Associate Dean of the Faculty (spring semester, 2001)

Interim Director of International Studies (2000-2001)

Named Chair: Earl D. Strong Professor of Social Studies (May, 2000-).

Professor of Anthropology, Grinnell College, 1989‑‑

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Grinnell College, 1980‑1989

Assistant Dean of the Faculty, Grinnell College, 1980‑1983

Director of Off‑Campus Study, Grinnell College, 1979‑1983

Assistant Professor, Grinnell College, 1974‑1980

Instructor, Grinnell College, 1970‑1973

Fellowships, Grants and Professional Development:

Committee for the Support of Faculty Scholarship grant for 3 summer MAPs for Welsh Diaspora field research and eHRAF North American Ethnic Group coding (Total $7,000), Summer 2004 (Total $10,200)

Committee for the Support of Faculty Scholarship grant for two summer MAPs for Welsh Diaspora research in Iowa and Lakota Healthways Project (Total $7,000), Summer 2003

Assessment Consultant, “Reducing the Prevalence of Diabetes for Indigenous People by Building a Bridge of Healing Cultures between Indigenous, Alternative and Western Health Practices.” Funded by Department of Health and Human Services. 2002-2004.

Research at Undergraduate Institutions NSF supplementary grant, March 5, 2003, $4,000 for support of additional student researcher on “Cultural Construction and Retention in Ethnic Diaspora Populations” grant BCS-0217156.

National Science Foundation 2 year Grant "Cultural Construction and Cultural Retention in Two Welsh Diaspora Groups." BCS-0217156 ($66,074) Carol Trosset coPI. (2002-2004)

Summer 2002 “The End of Narrative in West European Ethnographies?” $16,000 for 4 student assistants; $3,200 for two student researchers in Scotland and England. Grant from Committee for Support of Faculty Scholarship.

Summer 20001- Visiting Researcher, Stirling University. Organizational Culture of British Heritage Sites. $2,800 grant from CSFS.

2000-01 Mentored Advance Project, with Jane Cherry, undergraduate researcher, York England, Canterbury, England. $850 grant from CSFS.

2000 Mentored Advanced Project, with Christina Hanson, undergraduate researcher, Machynlleth, Wales. $2800 grant from CSFS.

2000 Visiting Researcher, More Research Institute, Volda College, Volda, Norway. Spring semester. Research on social capital in Norway, March-June.

1999 Visiting Researcher, Department of Entrepreneurship, University of Stirling, (Scotland) June-July. Taught Directed Summer Research capstone on Politics of Scottish Identity, 10 weeks.

1998 Durham University Research Fellowship: “Cultural Models of Success and Failure in Life Stories of Northeasterners (England). “Granted Leonard Slater Fellowship for Michaelmas term (October-December). Awarded and declined.

1998 Visiting Professor at Norwegian Center for Leadership and Management, Bergen, Norway (May, June).

1998 Grant for hiring student researcher for interviews in County Durham, $2000.

1997 Celtic Cultural Values: Restudy and Expansion ($2800 for student research assistant’s expenses in Highland Scotland)

1996 Celtic Cultural Values: Restudy and Expansion ($2500 for student research assistant’s expenses in Carrick on Shannon, Ireland)

1996 Celtic Cultural Values, Success, and Career Narratives Grinnell College Grant Board ($2800 for research assistant’s expenses in Wales)

1995 Celtic Cultural Values: Ireland Grinnell College Grant Board ($800 for research assistant’s expenses in Ireland)

1994 Supplement to National Science Foundation Grant, "Ideological Heterogeneity and Concepts of Personhood" ($3100 for research on ethnic identity, focusing on Welsh‑Americans in Iowa)

1992 National Science Foundation Research Grant, "Ideological Heterogeneity and Concepts of Personhood" (Carol Trosset, co‑principal investigator) research in Wales, summer, 1993. DBS-9213430 Four student assistants funded.($53,878 awarded)

1992 Participant, Summer Institute on Comparative Research, directed by Carol Ember and Michael Burton, June 28‑July 17, U.C. Irvine (National Science Foundation funded)

1991 Honorary Research Fellow, University of Stirling, Scotland, July

1991 Hatfield Fellowship, Hatfield College, Anthropology Department, University of Durham, Durham, England (January ‑ June) (Board and Room plus 400 pounds sterling)

1990 Visiting Professor, Department of Organization and Work Science, Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim University, Trondheim, Norway (September ‑ December)

1988 Participant, National Science Foundation sponsored Summer Institute on the Construction of Primary Data In Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville

June 12‑July 1 (funded by NSF)

1987 Honorary Research Associate, Scottish Enterprise Foundation, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, July‑December

1987 Honorary Visiting Fellow, Anthropology Department and Durham Business School, Durham University, Durham, England, February‑June

1984 Mellon Senior Fellowship, Center for Humanistic Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence Kansas

1983 Faculty Intern, Office of Technology Assessment, United States Congress, Fall semester, Washington D.C.

1966‑68 National Institute of Mental Health Pre‑doctoral Grant

1962 National Science Foundation First Year Fellowship

Publications

Journal Articles (Works coauthored with a student or former student are marked with *)

2004, Identifying Culture as a Threshold of Shared Knowledge: A Consensus Analysis Method.” The International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management Vol 4(3):317-333

2003 Douglas Caulkins. Globalization and the Local Hero: Becoming a Small-scale Entrepreneur in Scotland. Anthropology of Work Review XXIII (1-2) Spring and Summer. 2002 (pages 24-29).

*2002 Douglas Caulkins and Christina Peters. Grid-Group Analysis, Social Capital, and Entrepreneurship in North American Immigrant Groups. Cross-Cultural Research. 36 (1): 48-72.

2001 Douglas Caulkins “Consensus, Clines, and Edges in Celtic Cultures.” Cross-Cultural Research.35 (2):109-126.

2001 Carol Trosset and Douglas Caulkins, “Triangulation and Confirmation in the Study of Welsh Concepts of Personhood.” Journal of Anthropological Research. 57 (1): 61-81.

*2000 Douglas Caulkins, Carol Trosset, Anna Painter, and Meredith Good. Using Scenarios to Construct Models of Identity in Multiethnic Settings. Field Methods. 12 (4):267-281.

*2000 Douglas Caulkins, Anna Painter, and Tanya Hedges “Regional Identity and the Prospect of Devolution in Northeast England: A Method for Cross-Regional Comparison.” World Cultures: Journal of Comparative and Cross-Cultural Research. 11 (2):121-137.

*2000 Tanya Hedges and Douglas Caulkins, “Consensus or Contestation in the Construction of Irish Identity.” World Cultures: Journal of Comparative and Cross-Cultural Research. 11(1): 66-76

1999 D. Douglas Caulkins, “Student Faculty Research Collaboration in a Liberal Arts College.” Anthropology of Work Review.Vol XIX, No. 4 (18-23)

*1999 Anna Painter and Douglas Caulkins, “Work and Success in a De-industrialized Region of England.” Anthropology of Work Review. Vol XIX, No. 4 (23-28)

*1999 Douglas Caulkins and Susan B. Hyatt, “Using Consensus Analysis to Measure Cultural Diversity in Organizations and Social Movements.” Field Methods.11(1):5-26.

1999 Douglas Caulkins, Jonathan Andelson, Vicki Bentley-Condit, and Kathryn Kamp. “Discovery-Mode Teaching using the Electronic Human Relations Area Files for Cross-Cultural Comparison.” Cross Cultural Research 33 (3):278-297.

1999 Douglas Caulkins, “Small Indigenous Firms and Regional Development” in Anthropology Newsletter (American Anthropological Association) 40 (3) March (p. 53)

1999 Douglas Caulkins, “Social Capital” in Anthropology Newsletter (American Anthropological Association) 40 (3) March (p. 53)

1999 Douglas Caulkins, “Is Mary Douglas’s Grid /Group Analysis Useful for Cross-Cultural Research? Cross-Cultural Research, 33 (1):108-128.

*1998 Douglas Caulkins and Elaine S. Weiner, “Finding a Work Culture that Fits: Egalitarian Manufacturing Firms in MidWales.” Anthropology of Work Review. XIX (1) Fall 1998

1998 John Whittaker, Douglas Caulkins, and Kathy Kamp, “Evaluating Consistency in Archaeological Typology and Classification.” Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 5 (2):129-164.

1995 Douglas Caulkins, "Stumbling into Applied Anthropology: Collaborative Roles of Academic Researchers." Practicing Anthropology 17 (1‑2):21-24. February/March.

1995 Douglas Caulkins, "Are Norwegian Voluntary Associations Homogeneous Moralnets? Reflections on Naroll's Selection of Norway as a Model Society." Cross‑Cultural Research Special Issue in Honor of Raoul Naroll (1920‑1985), Part II, 29 (1): 43-57.

1991 Douglas Caulkins, “Measuring Diversity in Organisational Culture.” Dyn: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Durham University. 10 (1):1‑21.

1989 Douglas Caulkins, “And Now for a Word From the Author: Teaching Texts with Tape Recorded Communications from the Writer.” National Social Science Perspectives Journal. 3 (3): 23‑36.

1988 Colleen Cohen and Douglas Caulkins, “Report on the Summer Institute on the Construction of Primary Data in Anthropology (June 13‑July 1, 1988).” NLA NEWS. 6 (2): 3

1981 Douglas Caulkins, “The Norwegian Connection: Eilert Sundt and the Idea of Social Networks in 19th Century Ethnology.” Connections: Bulletin of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, 4 (2): 28‑31.

1980 Douglas Caulkins, “Community, Subculture, and Organizational Networks in Western Norway.” Journal of Voluntary Action Research, 9 (1‑4): 35‑44.

1980 Douglas Caulkins, “Contemporary American Urban Subcultures: Ethnography in the 1970's.” Choice: Journal of the American Library Association, 17 (1): 29‑40.

1978 Douglas Caulkins, “Cluster Analysis for the Classroom.” Regional Computer Center News, University of Iowa, summer.

1978 Douglas Caulkins, “Contemporary Western European Community Studies and Ethnographies.” Choice: Journal of the American Library Association 15 (7): 805‑824.

1977 Douglas Caulkins, “Talet paa frivillige organisasjoner i nokre kommuner vest og nord i landet.” Heimen, Vol. 17. (Norwegian journal of local history)

1976 Douglas Caulkins, “A Note on the Prevalence of Voluntary Associations in Two Norwegian Provinces.” Journal of Voluntary Action Research, 6 (3‑4): 155‑159.

1976 Douglas Caulkins, Comment on James Kerri, “Studying Voluntary Associations as Adaptive Mechanisms: A Review of Anthropological Perspectives.” Current Anthropology, 7 (1): 36.

1976 Douglas Caulkins, “Course Design and Taped Correspondence with Experts on Other Campuses.” Council on Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 8 (2): 30‑34.

1964 Frank C. Miller and Douglas Caulkins, “Chippewa Adolescents: A Changing Generation.” Human Organization, 23 (2):150‑159. (adapted from B.A. Honors Thesis)

Book Chapters, Reference Work Entries, and Reports (Works co-authored with a student or former student are marked with *)

Forthcoming 2005 “Norwegian Religious Practices” in Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices. Gale Publications Group

*2004 D. Douglas Caulkins, Vickie Schlegel, Christina Hanson, and Jane Cherry, “The Politics of Authenticity and Identity In British Heritage Sites.” Regional Development on the North Atlantic Margin, Reginald Byron, Jens Christian Hansen, and Tim Jenkins, (eds.) (p. 103-121) Aldershot: Ashgate.

2004 Douglas Caulkins “Organizational Memberships and Cross-cutting Ties: A Cluster Analytic Approach to the Study of Social Capital” In Sanjeev Prakash & Per Selle (editors) Investigating Social Capital: Comparative Perspectives on Civil Society, Participation and Governance. (p 162-183) New Delhi: Sage.

2004 “ Research Results” in Reducing the Prevalence of Diabetes for Indigenous People by Building a Bridge of Healing Cultures between Indigenous, Alternative and Western Health Practices. Submitted to Health Resources and Services Administration.

2003 “Frivillige organisasjonar” [Voluntary Organizations] in Johannes Barstad, Fylkesbarometer for Sogn og Fjordane [Social Indicators for Sogn og Fjordane County, Norway]. More Forsking, Volda, Norway.

2003 "Organizational Culture" in Encyclopedia of Community: Shared Places, Shared Meanings, from the Village to the Virtual World, edited by Karen Christensen, David Levinson, et al. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference, (pages 1039-1041)

2003 "Voluntary Associations" in Encyclopedia of Community: Shared Places, Shared Meanings, from the Village to the Virtual World, edited by Karen Christensen, David Levinson, et al. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference, (pages 1463-1465)

2002 Carol Trosset and Douglas Caulkins. Cultural Values and Social Organization in Wales: Is Ethnicity the Locus of Culture? In Nigel Rapport, (ed.) “British Subjects” An Anthropology of Britain. Oxford: Berg.(239-256).

2001 D. Douglas Caulkins, "Norway" In Ember, Melvin and Ember, Carol R. eds. Countries and Their Cultures. New York: Macmillan Reference USA (pages 1667-1679)

2001 D. Douglas Caulkins and Lorna W. Caulkins. Entries on:

Richard Burton, (1925 - 1984).

Morgan John Rhees, (1760-1806).

David Thomas, (1794-1882).

Frank Lloyd Wright, (1869-1959)

In Elliott Barkan, editor, Making it in America: Sourcebook of Eminent Ethnic Americans. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio( 52-53),(309-310), (374-375), ( 419-420).

1999 Douglas Caulkins and Vicki Bentley-Condit, “Participation and page references: sharpening the focus of class discussions.” In Patricia Rice and David McCurdy, (eds.) Strategies for Teaching Anthropology. Prentice Hall. (1-5) ISBN 0-13-025683-8

*1999 D.Douglas Caulkins and Elaine S.Weiner, “Enterprise and Resistance in the Celtic Fringe: High Growth, Low Growth and No Growth Firms,” In Local Enterprise on the North Atlantic Margin : Selected Contributions to the Fourteenth International Seminar on Marginal Regions, Reginald Byron and John Hutson, editors. Ashgate Aldershot. U.K. (191-204). ISBN 1 84014 932 9

1998 "Consensus analysis: Do Scottish business advisers agree on models of success?" In Victor DeMunck and Elisa Sobo, editors, Using Methods in the Field: A Practical Introduction and Case Book. Walnut Creek (CA): Altamira Press (175-195).

*1998 Douglas Caulkins, and Elaine Weiner “An Entrepreneurial Culture for Wales? The Role of Menter a Busnes in Culture Change.” In Michael Thompson (ed.) Proceedings of Third Annual Conference on Welsh Studies, Rio Grande, Ohio, June 27.

*1998 Douglas Caulkins and Susan B. Hyatt, “Measuring Cultural Consensus and Diversity in Organizations and Networks.” Center for Leadership and Management, (University of Bergen & Bergen School of Management) Paper Series #9733 (32 pages).

1997 Douglas Caulkins “Is Small Still Beautiful? Low Growth Firms and Regional Development in Scotland’s Silicon Glen.” In Jonathan Andelson, (ed) Anthropology Matters: Essays in Honor of Ralph Luebben. Grinnell: Grinnell College (pp.53-63) ISBN 0-9607182-0-6

1997 Douglas Caulkins “ Welsh Americans” in American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation. David Levinson and Melvin Ember, editors. Macmillan. (Pp.935-941).

1996 Douglas Caulkins “The Ethnography of Contemporary Welsh and Welsh-American Identity and Values” (With Carol Trosset) Proceedings of the First North American Conference on Welsh Studies, Rio Grande University, Rio Grande, Ohio, June 1995 (pp 9-16).

1996 Douglas Caulkins "Voluntary Associations", in David Levinson, editor, The Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, A Henry Holt Reference Book. July, (pp 1351-1356)

1995 Douglas Caulkins "High Technology Entrepreneurs in the Peripheral Regions of the United Kingdom.” Reginald Byron, (ed) Economic Futures on the North Atlantic Margin: Selected Contributions to the Twelfth International Seminar on Marginal Regions. Aldershot (Hants.): Avebury Press (287-299)

1994 Douglas Caulkins "Norwegians: Cooperative Individualists" in Carol Ember, Melvin Ember, and David Levinson, Portraits of Culture: Ethnographic Originals, Prentice Hall.

*1992 Susan B. Hyatt with D. Caulkins Putting Bread on the Table: Women's Work of Community Activism. Unit on Work and Gender, Occasional Paper #4. University of Bradford, Department of Social and Economic Studies

1992 Douglas Caulkins The Unexpected Entrepreneurs: Small High Technology Firms and Regional Development in Wales and Northeast England. In Frances Abrahamer Rothstein and Michael Blim (eds), Anthropology and the Global Factory: Studies in the New Industrialization of the Late Twentieth Century. New York: Bergin & Garvey (119‑135)

1991 Douglas Caulkins "Eilert Sundt." In Christopher Winter (ed), International Dictionary of Anthropologists. New York: Garland (676‑677)

1991 Douglas Caulkins and Michael Scott "Measuring Organisational Culture." Confidential Report to the directors of a Scottish high technology firm (16 pages)

1988 Douglas Caulkins Networks and Narratives: An Anthropological Perspective for Small Business Research. Scottish Enterprise Foundation Occasional Paper Series, University of Stirling, Scotland. No. 1/88 ISBN 1 870930 05 3

1984 Douglas Caulkins Section (pages 37‑40) of final report on Technology, Innovation, and Regional Economic Development (Washington D.C.: U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, OTA‑STI‑238, July 1984) edited from staff paper, 1983b.

1983 Douglas Caulkins The Role of Entrepreneurship in High Technology Innovation. Staff paper, Science, Transportation, and Innovation Program, Congressional Office of Technology Assessment.

1983 Douglas Caulkins Community, Subculture, and Organizational Networks in Western Norway. (see 1980b) reprinted as a chapter in David Horton Smith and Jon Van Til (editors), International Perspectives on Voluntary Action Research, University Press of America, Washington, D.C., 171‑180.

1977 Douglas Caulkins From Manos to Matrices: Archaeological Classification and Computer‑Assisted Cluster Analysis. Proceedings of the Eight Conference on Computers in the Undergraduate Curricula, Michigan State University, 307‑311.

Book Reviews: More than 40 published book and film reviews for Choice, Urban Life, and Rural Sociology during 1970s and 80s. Some recent reviews:

2005 D. Douglas Caulkins, review of Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South. By Celeste Ray. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. American Ethnologist, Vol 32, nr. 4.

2002: D. Douglas Caulkins, Review of Mark Alan Hewitt, Gustave Stickley's Craftsman Farms. The Quest for an Arts and Crafts Utopia. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.) for Communal Societies. Journal of the Communal Studies Association. Vol 22 (140-142)

2002 D. Douglas Caulkins, Review of Welsh Reflections: Y Drych and America, 1857-2001, by Aled Jones and Bill Jones. Journal of American Ethnic History 11 (1) 2002 (103-104).

1998: Review of The Culture of Labourism: The East End Between the Wars, by John Marriott. In Anthropology of Work Review, XVIII, 4 (44-45).

1997 Review of John Liep and Karen Fog Olwig, “Komplekse Liv: Kulturel Mangfoldighed i Danmark” for American Ethnologist,.24, 1, February 1997 (244-245)

International Conference Papers and Invited Lectures

(Papers coauthored with a student or former student are marked with *)

2003 Douglas Caulkins, “A Cultural Revitalization Movement for Scotland and Wales? Devolution and Contested Identity in the UK. 17th International Seminar on Marginal Regions: Government and Governance: Nations, Regions, and Communities on the Margins. Harlech, Wales. August 2, 2003.

*2003 Douglas Caulkins, Christina Hanson and Emily Zabor, “Organizational Culture and Organizational Stress in the British Heritage Industry.” 17th International Seminar on Marginal Regions: Government and Governance: Nations, Regions, and Communities on the Margins. Aberystwyth, Wales. August 7, 2003.

*2003 Douglas Caulkins and Jennifer Robinson, “Forging the Cultural Connections with the Old Country: The Welsh Diaspora in Mid-Western US” 17th International Seminar on Marginal Regions: Government and Governance: Nations, Regions, and Communities on the Margins. Aberystwyth, Wales. August 7 2003.

2002 Douglas Caulkins. “Culture, Subculture, Contestation or Turbulence? Using Consensus Analysis to Study Organizations and Fields.” Conference on Identifying Culture, Stockholm International Business School, Stockholm, Sweden, June 12-15.

*2001 Douglas Caulkins, Vickie Schlegel, Christina Hanson, and Jane Cherry, “The Politics of Authenticity and Identity In British Heritage Sites.” Presented at the Sixteenth International Seminar on Marginal Regions, August 5-12, 2001, Aalesund and Volda, Norway

2001 Douglas Caulkins, “Social Capital and Local Identity as Resources for Development.” Presented at the Sixteenth International Seminar on Marginal Regions, August 5-12, 2001 Aalesund and Volda, Norway

2000 Douglas Caulkins “Organizational Memberships and Cross-cutting Ties: A Cluster Analytic Approach to the Study of Social Capital” for Power and Democracy Project Workshop, LOS Centre, Bergen, Norway. (Invited participation) May 18-21

2000 Douglas Caulkins, invited lecture on “Entrepreneurship and Social Capital: Diversity and Complexities.” Volda College, Department of Regional Planning, Volda, Norway. May 5.

*1997 Douglas Caulkins and Tanya Hedges, “ But is it Irish: Consensus or Contestation in the Construction of Irish Identity.” International Society for the Study of Marginal Regions, Inverness, Scotland, July 12-19.

*1997. Douglas Caulkins and Elaine Weiner, “An Entrepreneurial Culture for Wales? Regional Development and Advanced Technology Industries in Mid Wales.”

International Society for the Study of Marginal Regions, Inverness, Scotland, July 12-19

1993 "High Technology in the Peripheral Regions of the U.K.: Prospects for the Next Decade." Plenary Session presentation, "Future of Marginal Regions," International Society for the Study of Marginal Regions 12th annual meeting, Newtown, Wales 22 July.

1993 "Models of Cultural Agreement and Contestation in Norwegian Organisations and Welsh Communities" Seminar presentation for Geography Department, St. David's University College, University of Wales, Lampeter, 13 July.

1991 Mapping the Diversity in Organizational Cultures: Scottish Business Advisers, Yorkshire Miners' Wives, and Norwegian Industrial Scientists. Invited lecture, Hatfield College, University of Durham, June 4

1991 Culture and Consensus in Organizations in Norway and the U.K. Invited seminar, Department of Anthropology University of Durham, England, March 1

1990 Silicon Glen and Scottish Re‑industrialization: The Role of Small, Indigenous High Technology Firms. Invited lecture at the Center for Technology and Society, University of Trondheim, Norway, Dec. 19

1990 Cognitive Anthropology in an Applied Setting: the Occupational Culture of Norwegian and Scottish Business Consultants. Invited lecture for the Social Anthropological Institute, University of Trondheim, November 28

1990 The Case of the Disappearing BUNT Consultants. Program evaluation research paper presented at the annual BUNT (Business Development and New Technology) conference, Oslo, November 19.

1990 Networks, Narratives and Cognitive Models: Approaches to Intra‑cultural Variability in Organizational Environments. Invited lecture for The Division of Organization and Work Science, Norwegian Technical University, Trondheim, Norway,

October 9.

1990 Ideas of Success and Failure in Small Business in the De‑Industrialized British North. Panel on The Politics of Local Economic Regeneration in Britain, Society for Applied Anthropology meetings, York, England, March 31, 1990.

1989 Consensus Modeling and Small Business: A method illustrated with a case study of the Scottish Enterprise Foundation." Staff seminar for Department of Business and Management, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, July 12

1987 Narratives and Networks: Anthropological Perspectives for Small Business Studies. Seminar for Scottish Enterprise Foundation Research Staff, Stirling, Scotland, Oct 14

1987 Androcentric Ethnography: Reflections on Women's Voluntary Organizations in Western Norway. Invited lecture for Durham University Anthropology Society, April 14

1987 Implicit Narrative in Western European Ethnography. Seminar for Anthropology

Department Staff, Durham University, (England) April

1980 Community, Subculture, and Organizational Networks in Western Norway. (in absentia) First World Congress of International Voluntary Action Research, June 21‑24, Brussels, Belgium

National Conference Presentations & Invited Lectures

(Papers coauthored with a student or former student are marked with *)

*2005 Douglas Caulkins and Ilana Meltzer (’05) “Grid/Group Analysis and Social Capital Among North American Immigrant Groups.” Panel on Global Models and Perspectives, Society for Cross Cultural Research Annual Meetings, February 25, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

*2005 Douglas Caulkins and Ilana Meltzer (’05) “How to Find Plots in Discourses: Examples from Ethnographic Representation.” Panel on Global Models and Perspectives, Society for Cross Cultural Research Annual Meetings, February 25, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

*2005 Douglas Caulkins and Ilana Meltzer (’05) “The Plot Thickens: Tracking Changes in Narrative Structures in Ethnography.” Society for Anthropological Sciences General Meeting, February 24, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

*2005 Douglas Caulkins and Molly Offer-Westort (’05) “Perceiving Ethnic Differences: Consensus Analysis and Personhood in Welsh-American Populations.” Panel on Contemporary Research in Cognitive Anthropology, Society for Anthropological Sciences General Meeting, February 26, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

2004 Douglas Caulkins and Kristi Welch, “Crafting a Holistic Web-Based Health Tracker for Diabetics” Society for Applied Anthropology annual meetings, March 31-April 4, Dallas, Texas.

*2004, Douglas Caulkins and Cristina Wood, “How Good Is My Culture? A Test of the Ethnocentrism Hypothesis in the British Isles.” Society for Cross-Cultural Research annual meetings, February 18-22, Jan Jose, California.

*2003 Douglas Caulkins, Christina Hanson, and Emily Zabor, “Services, Challenges, and Organizational Cultures in Celtic Heritage Sites.” Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meetings, March 19-23, 2003, Portland, Oregon.

*2003 Douglas Caulkins and Ilana Meltzer, "Modernization Narratives in European Ethnography." Panel on "The Plot Thickens: Narrative Structures in Ethnographic Writing, 1930-2000." (organized by D. Caulkins) Society for Cross-Cultural Research Annual Meetings, Charleston, S.C. Feb 23.

2003 Douglas Caulkins "Devolution and Contested Identity in Scotland and Wales" Panel on "Contested National Identities in the United Kingdom" (organized by D. Caulkins) Society For Cross-Cultural Research Annual Meetings, Charleston, S.C. Feb 20.

*2002 Douglas Caulkins, Christina Hanson, Jane Cherry and Vickie Schlegel. “Comparing Organizational Discourses in British Heritage Sites.” Society for Cross-Cultural Research annual meetings, February 22, Santa Fe, NM.

2001 Douglas Caulkins. November 29 "Globalization and the Local Hero: Becoming a small-firm Entrepreneur in Scotland." Paper in panel on "Work is the Spine of History:" Papers in honor of Herbert Applebaum. American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, November 28, 2001, Washington, D.C.

2000 Douglas Caulkins, invited lecture on “Consensus Analysis in Urban Research.” Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. February 3, 2000

*2000 Christina Peters and Douglas Caulkins, “Grid Group Analysis, Social Capital and Entrepreneurship Among North American Immigrant Groups.” Society for Cross-Cultural Research Annual Meetings, New Orleans Feb 24-27.

*1999 Anna Painter and Douglas Caulkins, “Constructing Career and Success

in a De-Industrialized English Region “ Central States Anthropological Society Annual Meetings, April 16, Chicago, Illinois

*1999 Tanya Hedges and Douglas Caulkins, “Consensus or Contestation in the Construction of Irish Identity.“ Central States Anthropological Society Annual Meetings, April 18, Chicago, Illinois

1999 Douglas Caulkins “Consensus, Clines, and Edges in Celtic Cultures.” Society for Cross-Cultural Research Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM, Feb 6.

*1997. Douglas Caulkins and Tanya Hedges. “But is it Irish? Consensus or Contestation in the Construction of Irish Identity.” Society for Pyschological Anthropology Meetings, San Diego, October 11.

*1997 Elaine S. Weiner and Douglas Caulkins. “Career Continuity or Fragmentation? Women in the Labor Force in Wales and the Czech Republic.” 22^nd Annual European Studies Conference, University of Nebraska, Omaha, October 4.

*1997 Douglas Caulkins, and Elaine Weiner, “An Entrepreneurial Culture for Wales? Regional Development and Advanced Technology Industries in Mid Wales.” Third Annual Conference on Welsh Studies, Rio Grande, Ohio, June

*1997 Tina Popson and Douglas Caulkins "Cultural Transmission of Welsh Values in Diaspora Populations" National Association for Ethnic Studies meetings on March 23, 1997 in LaCrosse, WI.

1996 “Measuring Cultural Continuity in the Welsh Diaspora” (with Carol Trosset)

Poster Session: “Shifting Identities: Social and Racial Adjustments.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, November 21, San Francisco.

1996 “Using Scenarios to Assess Cultural Consensus and Cultural Criticism,” invited presentation for Seventh International Kurt Lewin Conference, Society for the Advancement of Field Theory, September 7, University of California, Los Angeles.

1996 “From Description to Comparison: Teaching a Combined Ethnographic and Cross-Cultural Research Methods Course.” Panel on Teaching Cross-Cultural Methods, Society for Cross-Cultural Methods 25th annual meeting, Pittsburgh, February 16

*1996 “Is there a Cultural Focus in the Celtic Fringe? Ethnogenetic and Cladistic explanations of Cultural Similarities in Ireland and Wales.” With Carol Trosset and Annette Giangiacomo. Society for Cross-Cultural Research 25 th annual meetings, Pittsburgh, February 15.

1995 “Images of Commercial Success and Failure in Scotland: Sectarian Resistance to the Thatcherite Enterprise Culture.” Presentation solicited and peer reviewed for Panel “Transforming “The Social”: Culture, Democracy, and Public Policy in Europe” American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Washington D.C., November 16

1995 “The Ethnography of Contemporary Welsh and Welsh-American Identity and Values” First North American Conference on Welsh Studies, June 1, Rio Grande University, Rio Grande, Ohio

1995 “ Further Explorations in Grid/Group Analysis for Comparative Research” Society for Cross Cultural Research Annual Meetings, Savannah, Georgia, February 17

1994 "Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes of the Welsh, By the Welsh, and For the Welsh" (With Carol Trosset) Panel on Constructing Race and Racism in Contemporary Europe, American Ethnological Society, Santa Monica, April 16

1994 "Scenarios of Ethnicity: Strategies for Studying Welsh Identity" in panel on "Welshness Re‑examined: The Construction of Identity in Wales" (D. Caulkins, organizer) Central States Anthropological Society Meetings, Kansas City, March 19.

1994 "Too Much or Not Enough? Convergent Values in Wales and the U.S. (With Carol Trosset) Society for Cross‑Cultural Research Meetings, Santa Fe, February 18.

1994 "Is Mary Douglas's Grid/Group Analysis Useful for Cross‑Cultural Research?" Society for Cross‑Cultural Research Meetings, Santa Fe, February 17.

1993 "Is Ethnicity the Locus of Culture? The Image and Reality of Ethnic Subcultures in Wales." (with Carol Trosset) American Anthropological Association, 19 November, Washington D.C.

1992 Cultural Barriers to Technology Transfer in Small Firms in Northern Europe, for the NAPA panel on "Organizational and Cultural Barriers to Technology Transfer" American Anthropological Association meetings, San Francisco, December 5

1992 Presenter for a roundtable on Consensus Analysis and Grid/Group Analysis for the Society for the Anthropology of Work at the American Anthropological Association annual meetings, San Francisco, December 4, 1992

*1992 Hyatt, Susan B. and Douglas Caulkins "Who's On Our Side? Consensus Modeling and Activists' Responses to Community Upheaval in North England." Society For Applied Anthropology, Memphis, Tennessee, March 28

1989 High Tech and Low Expectations: Fitful Collaboration Between an Academic Anthropologist and Small Business Support Organizations in the U.K. Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, April 7

1988 From Coal Tips to Silicon Chips: Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer in England's Industrial Northeast. American Anthropological Association Meetings, Phoenix, November 17

1988 And Now a Word from the Author: Teaching Texts with Tape‑Recorded Comments from the Writer. National Social Science Association Meetings, Atlanta, November 10

1988 Is Small Still Beautiful? Images of Success Among Scotland's High Technology Entrepreneurs. Central States Anthropological Society, St Louis, March 25

1984 Voices from the Field: Personal Narrative in Western European Ethnography. 9th annual European Studies Conference, Omaha, October 13

1984 Measuring Mary Douglas' Grid/Group Dimensions: A New Perspective on Voluntary Organizational Networks in Western Norway? invited presentation, Anthropology Department Colloqium, University of Kansas, April 27

1984 Narrative Conventions in Western European Ethnography. Mellon Faculty Development Seminar, Center for Humanistic Studies, University of Kansas, April 25

1984 Discussant for paper on Discourse Analysis, Mellon Faculty Development Seminar, Center for Humanistic Studies, University of Kansas, February 8

1983 High Technology and Regional Development: A Report on Research in Progress. Meeting of the Society for the Anthropology of Work, American Anthropological Association, November 18, Chicago

1982 Voluntary Organizations and Regional Characteristics in Norway. Seventh Annual European Studies Conference, October 13, Omaha, Nebraska

1981 "Eilert Sundt and the Idea of Social Networks in 19th Century Norwegian Ethnology. 13th Annual meeting of CHEIRON: International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences, June10‑13, River Falls, Wisconsin

1981 Community Centrality and Interorganizational Networks: Lost, Saved, and Liberated Community Models. (in absentia) Sunbelt Social Network Conference, February, Tampa, Florida

1980 Women's Associations and the Persistence of Regional Subcultures in Norway. Fifth European Studies Conference, October, Omaha, Nebraska

1980 Teachers and Preachers: Social Dramas and Religious Movements in Western Norway. American Academy of Religion (Midwest), March 15, Chicago

1979 Eilert Sundt: Networks in Early Norwegian Ethnology. American Anthropological Association, November, Cincinnati, Ohio

1979 Women's Associations in Western Norway: Some Neglected Aspects of Community Structure. Fourth European Studies Conference, Oct. 12, Omaha, Nebraska

1978 Computer Assisted Instruction in the Social Sciences. two‑part presentation of computer workshop, Northern Plains Consortium for Education, Inc. Jamestown, North Dakota

1977 From Manos to Matrices: Archaeological Classification and Computer‑Assisted Cluster Analysis. Eight Conference on Computers in the Undergraduate Curricula, Michigan State University, June 21.

1975 Voluntary Associations and Social Networks: A Preliminary Report. workshop on Scandinavia in the Post‑Industrial Age, Madison, Wisconsin

Local Conference Presentations & Invited Lectures

(Papers coauthored with a student or former student are marked with *)

March 4, 2004 “Welsh Diasporas: A Preliminary Report” Presentation for the St. David’s Day meeting of the Iowa Welsh Society, Indianola, Iowa (Invited presentation)

2001 Douglas Caulkins “Student/faculty Research in the “Braveheart” Era: Mapping Cultural Identity in Celtic Cultures. Grinnell College Alumni College, May 31, Grinnell.

*2000 Sarah Silberman and Douglas Caulkins, “Social Capital in Post-Devolutionary Scotland: Increasing or Decreasing? Paper for Iowa Academy of Science, April 21, Des Moines.

*1998 Anna Painter and Douglas Caulkins. “Coal is Still our Life: Moral Superiority of a De-Industrialized Region of Northern England.” Poster Paper for Research Symposium, Grinnell College Presidential Inauguration, October 10.

1996 “Is there a Contemporary Celtic Culture? A Comparison of Cultural Values in Wales and Ireland.” Iowa Academy of Science, Anthropology Section, Indianola, April 27

*1996 “Identity, generational depth, and stereotypes among Irish and German Americans “(with Tanya L. Hedges), Iowa Academy of Science, Indianola, April 27

*1996 “Measuring Celtic cultural values: If it is Irish is it necessarily good?” (with Annette L. Giangiacomo), Iowa Academy of Science, Indianola, April 27

*1995 “A Cross-Cultural Test of Mary Douglas’s Theory of Cultural Bias,” (with Kathleen A. Munley), Iowa Academy of Science,Waverly, Iowa , April 21.

*1995 “How Welsh are the Iowa Welsh?” (with Victoria E. Schlegel) Identity and Cultural Continuity between Wales and Welsh-Americans. Iowa Academy of Science, April 21, Waverly, Iowa, April 21

*1995 “To be or not to be Welsh: Dilemmas in Claiming Ethnic Heritage as an Important Part of Identity.” (with Tina N. Popson) Iowa Academy of Science, Waverly, Iowa

1994 "Discovering Welsh Identity, 1974‑1994" Lecture for the Iowa Welsh Society meetings, Ames, Iowa, Oct 8

1994 "The Construction of Welsh Ethnic Identity" Lecture for Western European Studies Concentration, Grinnell College, February 25.

1992 Accidental Entrepreneurs, New Technology and Regional Development in Thatcher's Britain. Western European Studies Concentration Public Lecture, Grinnell College, April 26