CURRICULUM VITA
David Douglas Caulkins March, 2005
Department of Anthropology Office (641) 269 3136
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,
Dissertation:
"Community and Organizational Networks in
B.A.
with Honors and Distinction in Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton College,
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,
Associate
Professor of Anthropology,
Assistant
Dean of the Faculty,
Director
of Off‑Campus Study,
Assistant
Professor,
Instructor,
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
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,
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
Summer 20001- Visiting Researcher,
2000-01 Mentored Advance Project, with Jane
Cherry, undergraduate researcher,
2000 Mentored Advanced Project, with
Christina Hanson, undergraduate researcher, Machynlleth,
2000 Visiting Researcher, More Research
Institute,
1999
Visiting Researcher, Department of Entrepreneurship,
1998
1998
Visiting Professor at
1998 Grant for hiring student researcher
for interviews in
1997 Celtic
Cultural Values: Restudy and Expansion ($2800 for student research assistant’s expenses in
1996 Celtic
Cultural Values: Restudy and Expansion ($2500 for student research assistant’s
expenses in Carrick on
1996 Celtic
Cultural Values, Success, and Career Narratives Grinnell College Grant Board
($2800 for research assistant’s expenses in
1995 Celtic
Cultural Values: Ireland Grinnell College Grant Board ($800 for research
assistant’s expenses in
1994 Supplement to
National Science Foundation Grant, "Ideological Heterogeneity and Concepts
of Personhood" ($3100 for research on ethnic identity, focusing on Welsh‑Americans
in
1992 National
Science Foundation Research Grant, "Ideological Heterogeneity and Concepts
of Personhood" (Carol Trosset, co‑principal investigator) research
in
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,
1991 Hatfield
Fellowship,
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,
June 12‑July 1 (funded by NSF)
1987 Honorary
Research Associate, Scottish
1987 Honorary Visiting Fellow, Anthropology Department and Durham Business School, Durham University, Durham, England, February‑June
1984 Mellon Senior
Fellowship, Center for Humanistic Studies,
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
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
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
*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
*1999 Anna Painter
and Douglas Caulkins, “Work
and Success in a De-industrialized Region of
*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
1991
Douglas Caulkins, “Measuring Diversity in Organisational Culture.” Dyn:
Journal of the Anthropological Society of
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
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,
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)
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
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)
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
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
2001
D. Douglas Caulkins, "
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
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, “
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.
*1998 Douglas Caulkins, and Elaine Weiner “An Entrepreneurial Culture
for
*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
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
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.
1992
1991
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
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
1983
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,
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.
2002: D. Douglas Caulkins, Review of Mark Alan Hewitt, Gustave
Stickley's Craftsman Farms. The Quest for an Arts and Crafts
Utopia. (
2002 D. Douglas Caulkins, Review of Welsh Reflections: Y Drych
and
1998: Review of The Culture of Labourism: The
1997 Review of John Liep and Karen Fog Olwig, “Komplekse Liv: Kulturel Mangfoldighed i Danmark” for American Ethnologist,.24, 1, February 1997 (244-245)
(Papers coauthored with a student or former
student are marked with *)
2003 Douglas
Caulkins, “A Cultural Revitalization Movement for
*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.
*2003 Douglas
Caulkins and Jennifer Robinson, “Forging the Cultural Connections with the Old
Country: The Welsh Diaspora in Mid-Western
2002 Douglas Caulkins. “Culture, Subculture,
Contestation or Turbulence? Using Consensus Analysis
to Study Organizations and Fields.” Conference on Identifying
Culture,
*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,
2001
Douglas Caulkins, “Social Capital and Local Identity as Resources for Development.” Presented at the Sixteenth International
Seminar on Marginal Regions,
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,
2000 Douglas
Caulkins, invited lecture on “Entrepreneurship and Social Capital: Diversity
and Complexities.”
*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,
*1997. Douglas
Caulkins and Elaine Weiner, “An Entrepreneurial Culture for
International
Society for the Study of Marginal Regions,
1993 "High
Technology in the Peripheral Regions of the
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,
1991 Culture and Consensus in Organizations
in
1990 Silicon Glen and Scottish Re‑industrialization:
The Role of Small, Indigenous High Technology Firms. Invited lecture at the Center for Technology
and Society,
1990 Cognitive Anthropology in an Applied
Setting: the Occupational Culture of Norwegian and Scottish Business
Consultants. Invited lecture for the Social Anthropological Institute,
1990 The Case of
the Disappearing BUNT Consultants. Program evaluation research paper presented at the annual BUNT
(Business Development and New Technology) conference,
1990 Networks,
Narratives and Cognitive Models: Approaches to Intra‑cultural Variability
in Organizational Environments. Invited lecture for The Division of
Organization and Work Science,
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
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,
1987 Narratives and Networks:
Anthropological Perspectives for Small Business Studies. Seminar for Scottish
1987 Androcentric Ethnography: Reflections
on Women's Voluntary Organizations in
1987 Implicit Narrative in Western European Ethnography. Seminar for Anthropology
Department Staff,
1980
Community, Subculture, and Organizational Networks in
(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,
*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,
*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,
*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,
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
*2003 Douglas
Caulkins, Christina Hanson, and Emily Zabor, “Services, Challenges, and
Organizational Cultures in Celtic Heritage Sites.” Society for Applied
Anthropology Annual Meetings,
*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,
2003 Douglas Caulkins "Devolution
and Contested Identity in
*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,
2001
Douglas Caulkins. November 29
"Globalization and the Local Hero: Becoming a small-firm Entrepreneur in
2000 Douglas
Caulkins, invited lecture on “Consensus Analysis in Urban Research.”
*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,
*1999 Anna Painter and Douglas Caulkins, “Constructing Career and Success
in a
De-Industrialized English Region “ Central States Anthropological Society
Annual Meetings, April 16,
*1999 Tanya Hedges
and Douglas Caulkins, “Consensus or Contestation in the Construction of Irish
Identity.“ Central States Anthropological Society
Annual Meetings, April 18,
1999 Douglas
Caulkins “Consensus, Clines, and Edges in Celtic Cultures.” Society for
Cross-Cultural Research Annual Meeting,
*1997. Douglas Caulkins and Tanya
Hedges. “But is it Irish? Consensus or Contestation in the Construction of Irish Identity.”
Society for Pyschological Anthropology Meetings,
*1997 Elaine S.
Weiner and Douglas Caulkins. “Career Continuity or
Fragmentation? Women in the Labor Force in
*1997 Douglas Caulkins, and Elaine Weiner, “An
Entrepreneurial Culture for
*1997 Tina Popson and Douglas Caulkins "Cultural
Transmission of Welsh Values in Diaspora Populations" National Association
for Ethnic Studies meetings on
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,
*1996 “Is there a Cultural Focus in the Celtic Fringe? Ethnogenetic and Cladistic explanations of Cultural Similarities in
1995 “Images of
Commercial Success and Failure in
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,
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
1994 "Too Much or Not Enough?
Convergent Values in
1994 "Is Mary Douglas's Grid/Group
Analysis Useful for Cross‑Cultural Research?" Society for Cross‑Cultural
Research Meetings,
1993 "Is Ethnicity the Locus of
Culture? The Image and Reality of Ethnic Subcultures in
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
1989 High Tech and Low Expectations:
Fitful Collaboration Between an Academic
Anthropologist and Small Business Support Organizations in the
1988 From Coal Tips to Silicon Chips:
Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer in
1988 And Now a Word from the Author:
Teaching Texts with Tape‑Recorded Comments from the Writer. National Social Science Association Meetings,
1988 Is Small Still Beautiful? Images of
Success Among
1984 Voices from the Field: Personal
Narrative in Western European Ethnography. 9th annual European Studies
Conference,
1984 Measuring Mary Douglas' Grid/Group
Dimensions: A New Perspective on Voluntary Organizational Networks in
1984
Narrative Conventions in Western European Ethnography. Mellon Faculty
Development Seminar, Center for Humanistic Studies,
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
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,
1981 Community
Centrality and Interorganizational Networks: Lost, Saved, and Liberated Community Models. (in absentia)
1980
Women's Associations and the Persistence of Regional Subcultures in
1980 Teachers and
Preachers: Social Dramas and Religious Movements in
1979 Eilert Sundt:
Networks in Early Norwegian Ethnology. American Anthropological Association,
November,
1979 Women's
Associations in
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,
1975 Voluntary
Associations and Social Networks: A Preliminary Report. workshop
on
(Papers coauthored with a student or former
student are marked with *)
2001 Douglas
Caulkins “Student/faculty Research in the “Braveheart” Era: Mapping Cultural
Identity in Celtic Cultures.
*2000 Sarah
Silberman and Douglas Caulkins, “Social Capital in Post-Devolutionary
*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,
1996 “Is there a
Contemporary Celtic Culture? A Comparison of Cultural Values
in
*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),
*1995 “A
Cross-Cultural Test of Mary Douglas’s Theory of Cultural Bias,” (with Kathleen
A. Munley), Iowa Academy of Science,Waverly,
*1995 “How Welsh
are the Iowa Welsh?” (with Victoria E. Schlegel) Identity and Cultural
Continuity between
*1995 “To be or not
to be Welsh: Dilemmas in Claiming Ethnic Heritage as an Important Part of
Identity.” (with Tina N. Popson)
1994 "Discovering Welsh Identity, 1974‑1994"
Lecture for the Iowa Welsh Society meetings,
1994 "The Construction of Welsh Ethnic
Identity" Lecture for Western European Studies Concentration,
1992 Accidental Entrepreneurs, New
Technology and Regional Development in Thatcher's
*1989b Scripting a
Life: Narrative and Self-Authoring in the Life History of a Hindu Woman (with
Angela J. Arnold) Iowa Academy of Sciences meetings,
*1989a Prisoners in their own Homes: A
Structural and Cognitive Interpretation of the Problems of Battered Women (with Julie L. Stiles) Iowa
Academy of Science meetings,
1988 Accidental Entrepreneurs: Rural
Development and High Technology Small
Businesses in Mid
1986 "Taming Technology: The Need for
Technology Assessment in the Information Society,"
1985 Narrative Patterns in Western European
Anthropology. Faculty Rhetoric Seminar, Program in the Rhetoric of Inquiry,
1984 Uses of Decision Analysis in Anthropology. presentation for Sloan Faculty Development Seminar on Decision Analysis, Grinnell, July 24
1981
Teaching Concepts in Archeology and Cultural Anthropology with Cluster
Analysis. Conference on Computers in Academics,
May 27‑29,
1980 Community Models and Leadership in
1978
Urban and Regional Planning in
Conference Panels Organized for Grinnell
Undergraduate Participants:
*2003 "The
Plot Thickens: Narrative Structures in Ethnographic Writing, 1930-2000." (organized by D. Caulkins) Society for Cross-Cultural
Research Annual Meetings,
2003 "Contested National
Identities in the
1994
"Welshness Re-examined: The Construction of Identity in
1988 Culture Change
on the Welsh Border: Anthropology Section,
1. Chippewa Adolescents, Red Lake Reservation, Minnesota, summers 1961, 1962
2. Community study, Stirling County Project, Maritime Canada, summer 1963
3. Community organizing and voter
registration,
4. Interorganizational networks,
5. Field schools,
6. Intern, Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, Fall semester, 1983
7. High technology entrepreneurs, Scotland
Wales and
8. Small business culture,
9. Technology transfer,
10. Organizational
cultures,
11. Ideological Heterogeneity, Wales, summer 1993
12. Iowa Ancestral
Heritage,
13. Welsh Culture, Manufacturing, and regional development, Mid Wales, summer 1996
14. Scottish
manufacturing and regional development,
15. Norwegian
voluntary associations,
16. The Politics of
Scottish Identity,
17. Social Capital
in
18. Case study of a Welsh heritage site, summer, 2000
19. Case studies of
three heritage sites and events in
20. Evaluation of web-based tracker for diabetes management on two reservations in
21. Welsh-American
identity in
22. Identity in
“The Irish Capital of
Field Schools Taught:
Urban Ethnographic
Research,
Field Studies in
British Villages,
Professional Activities:
Manuscript reviewer for the following journals and publishers:
American Anthropologist, Cross-Cultural
Research, Qualitative Sociology, American Ethnologist, Journal of Voluntary
Action Research, Current Anthropology, Human Organization, City & Society:
Journal of the Society for Urban Anthropology, Anthropology and Medicine, Contemporary
Member, Editorial Board:
Contemporary
Encyclopedia
of Urban Cultures (Grolier)
Peer reviewer for National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Wenner‑Gren Foundation grant applications.
Professional Memberships (selected):
Fellow, American Anthropological Association
Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology
International Society for the Study of Marginal Regions
Society for Cross Cultural Research, Anthropology Representative
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
Society for the Anthropology of Work
Society
for the Anthropology of
Society for Psychological Anthropology
Publications/Presentations for Non‑Professional Audience
1983 Brief appearance on "Iowa Press"
program on Iowa Public Television, discussing prospects
of high technology development for
1985 "High Tech in
1987 "London Docklands Redevelopment"
Lecture and guided tour for Grinnell College
Trustees,
1990 "High Technology Businesses and Economic Development in Rural Mid Wales," presentation for Grinnell Lions Club, July 23
External Service Positions
· Member of Board of Directors of MidIowa Community Action, 1996-1999
· President, and founder, Pleasant Grove Land Preservation, Inc. A local conservation corporation.
· Member of Board of Directors, Rosewood Foundation. An international conservation foundation.
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Poweshiek
· Acting Associate Dean
· Interim Director of International Studies
· Assistant Dean
· Chair, Anthropology Department (various times); Student/faculty Research Workshop 1998; Technology Studies Concentration; Gender and Women’s Studies Concentration; Wilson Program in Leadership and Enterprise Committee; Goodnow Renovation Committee
· Committee memberships, Division Personnel Review Board; Minority Scholars Committee; Personnel Appeals Board; College Grant Board; Grinnell-in-London Policy Committee; Off-Campus Study Board; Peace Corps Program Committee; Tutorial Committee; President’s Budget Committee; Tutorial Committee; Faculty House Committee; International Studies Steering Committee; Policy Studies Planning Group.
Courses Taught:
1. Introduction to Anthropology
2. Comparative Cultures
3. Hunters
4. Tutorial: Life Histories
5. Tutorial: Entrepreneurs and New Technology
6. Tutorial: Ethnographic Film
7. Technological Assessment
8. History of Technology
9. Anthropology of Southeast
12.
Anthropology of
Contemporary
11. Anthropology of American Culture
12. Theories of Culture
13. Preparing for Cross‑Cultural Experiences
14. Interpreting Cross‑Cultural
Experiences
15. Rural Society
16. Urban Society
17. British Urban Society
18. Field Studies in British Communities
19. Seminar in Ethnographic Writing
20. Seminar in Archaeological Interpretation
21. Ethnographic Research in Complex Societies
22. Senior Seminar in Comparative Anthropology
23. Senior Seminar in Applied Anthropology
24. Senior Seminar in Regional and Community Studies
25. Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies
26. Seminar: Underdevelopment and Resistance
27.
Tutorial: The Legacy of
28.Leadership, Management and
29. Seminar: Comparing Cultures and Nations
30. Seminar: Ethnographic Representation
31. Seminar: Anthropology of Identity
32. Seminar: Organizational Cultures