Education

1986. Ph.D. Department of Anthropology, Graduate Center, City University of New York

1979. Ethnographic Film Seminar with Jean Rouch, Amherst, Massachusetts.

1976. B.A. cum laude. Barnard College, Honors Thesis in Archeology/Art History

Selected Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

2008. Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar.

2007–2009. Council for the Study of Disability, NYU, $30,000 for three years to develop scholarship and awareness of disability on NYU campus (Co-Director of Project).

For research on Cultural Innovation and Learning Disabilities, with Rayna Rapp

1. • 2007. Spencer Foundation, $40,000
   

2. • 2007. Institute For Human Development And Contextual Change, $10,000
   

2004–2005. Grant for First Nations/First Features Exhibition at MOMA and National Museum of the American Indian, $50,000 (to three institutions), The Ford Foundation. http://www.firstnationsfirstfeatures.org/

2004. Council on Anthropology and Reproduction Most Enduring Edited Collection Book Prize.

2002–2007. Grant to inaugurate Center of Excellence, Center for Religion & Media, Pew Charitable Trusts, $3.5 million  (with Angela Zito)

2002. Women with Resolve, for work with Familial Dysautonomia Foundation, Vogue Magazine, January.

1994–1999. MacArthur Fellowship

1994. Distinguished Alumni Award, Graduate Center, City University of New York

1991–1992. John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship

Books

In Progress. Mediating Culture: Indigenous Identity in a Digital Age. Duke University Press.

2002. Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Co-edited with Lila Abu-Lughod & Brian Larkin. University of California Press.

2002. 9/11 and After, A Virtual Case Book. Co-edited with Barbara Abrash.

1995. Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction. Co-edited with Rayna Rapp. University of California Press.

1. • Council on Anthropology and Reproduction Edited Volume Prize, 2004.
   

1990. Uncertain Terms:  Negotiating Gender in American Culture. Co-edited with Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Boston: Beacon Press.

1989. Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in An American Community. University of California Press.

1. • American Sociological Association, Sociology of Culture Book Award, 1992.
   

2. • Society for Medical Anthropology Eileen Basker Memorial Award for Research on Gender and Health, 1990. 
   

3. • Village Voice Outstanding Books of 1989. 
   

4. • Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Hans Rosenhaupt Book Award, 1989.
   

5. • Second Edition, 1998.
   

6. • net.library Edition, 1999.
   

Selected Publications in Full-text

2008. “Rethinking the Digital Age,” in The Media and Social Theory, David Hesmondhalgh & Jason Toynbee, eds., New York: Routledge.

2007. “Enlarging Reproduction/ Screening Disability,” in Reproductive Disruptions: Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium, ed. Marcia Inhorn.  Berghahn Books, London (with Rayna Rapp).

2006. “A History of Aboriginal Futures,” (with Fred Myers). Critique of Anthropology Vol. 26, No. 1:27–45.

2006. “Ethnography and American Studies,” Cultural Anthropology. Aug 2006, Vol. 21, No. 3: 487–495.

2005. “Blak Screens and Cultural Citizenship,”  Special Issue, Visual Anthropology Review: 80–97.

2005. “Rethinking the Voice of God in Indigenous Australia: Secrecy, Exposure, and the Efficacy of Media,” in Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere, B. Myer and A. Moors, eds. Indiana University Press.

2005. “Dans le Bain Avec Rouch,” American Anthropologist 107(1) March: 109–112.

2005. “Ciné-Trance: A Tribute to Jean Rouch (1917–2004),” Co-editor with Jeff Himpele, Special Section for American Anthropologist, 107(1) March 2005.

2005. In Flow a Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture
                “The latest in reality TV? Māori Television stakes a claim on the world stage,” with April Strickland.
                “Move over Marshall McLuhan! Live from the Arctic”
                “The Unwired Side of the Digital Divide”
                “Rethinking the Digital Age”
                “10,000 Years of Media Flow “

2004. “Atanarjuat Off-Screen: From “Media Reservations” to the World Stage,” American Anthropologist, 105(4), December: 827–831.

2002. “Introduction: The Social Practice of Media,” in Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain (California).

2002. “Screen Memories: Resignifying the Traditional in Indigenous Media,” in  Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain, F. Ginsburg, L. Abu-Lughod, B. Larkin, eds., California.

2001. “Enabling Disability: Rewriting Kinship, Reimagining Citizenship,” with Rayna Rapp. Public Culture 13(3).

1995. “The Parallax Effect: The Impact of Aboriginal Media on Ethnographic Film, Visual Anthropology Review, 11(2).

1994. “Some thoughts on Culture & Media,” Visual Anthropology Review 10(1) Spring.

1994. “Culture and Media: A (Mild) Polemic,” Anthropology Today 10(2): 5–15.

1998. “Institutionalizing the Unruly: Charting a Future for Visual Anthropology,” Ethnos 63(2) pp. 173–196.

1993. “Station Identification: The Aboriginal Programs Unit of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation,” in Visual Anthropology Review 9(2): 92–98.

1993. “Aboriginal Media and the Australian Imaginary,” in Public Culture, 5(2) Special issue on television.

1993. “Embedded Aesthetics: Creating A Discursive Space for Indigenous Media,” Cultural Anthropology 9(2).

1991. “Indigenous Media:  Faustian Contract or Global Village?” Cultural Anthropology, 6(1): 92–112.

Selected Articles

Forthcoming. “My media studies: Remote ideas” in Television and New Media Studies, Toby Miller, ed.

Forthcoming. “Paradigm shift: The Two Laws effect,” in The Two Laws Special Issue, Dossier 3, Studies in Documentary Film, Helen Grace and Deane Williams, eds. Intellect Press.

Forthcoming. “Native Intelligence,” in Visions of Culture: A History of Visual Anthropology, eds. Jay Ruby, M. Banks, University of  Chicago Press.

Forthcoming. “Peripheral Visions: Blak Screens and Cultural Citizenship,” in Cinema at the Periphery, eds. Dina Iordanova, David Martin-Jones, Belen Vidal, Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

2008. “Rethinking the Digital Age,” in The Media and Social Theory, David Hesmondhalgh & Jason Toynbee, eds., New York: Routledge.

2008. “Rethinking the Digital Age,” in Global Indigenous Media, Pam Wilson & Michelle Stewart, eds., Atlanta: Duke University Press.

2008. “Mass Media, Anthropology, and Ethnography,” in The Sage Handbook of Film Studies. ed. James Donald, SAGE:  London, pp. 216–225 (REPRINT).

2007. “Enlarging Reproduction/ Screening Disability,” in Reproductive Disruptions: Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium, ed. Marcia Inhorn.  Berghahn Books, London (with Rayna Rapp).

2007. “Found in Translation,” in Media Res, http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/videos/, launched 3/27/2007.

2006. “A History of Aboriginal Futures,” (with Fred Myers).  Critique of Anthropology Vol. 26, No. 1:27–45.

2006. “Ethnography and American Studies,” Cultural Anthropology. Aug 2006, Vol. 21, No. 3: 487–495.

2006. “Indigenous Television. With Lorna Roth,” in Studying TV: An Introduction, Glen Creeber, ed. London: British Film Institute, pp 146–152.

2005. “Blak Screens and Cultural Citizenship,”  Special Issue, Visual Anthropology Review: 80–97.

2005. “Rethinking the Voice of God in Indigenous Australia: Secrecy, Exposure, and the Efficacy of Media,” in Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere, B. Myer and A. Moors, eds. Indiana University Press.

2005. “Media Anthropology: An Introduction,” in Media Anthropology, E. Rothenbuhler & M. Coman, eds. Sage:  17–25.

2005. “Dans le Bain Avec Rouch,” American Anthropologist 107(1) March: 109–112.

2005. “Ciné-Trance: A Tribute to Jean Rouch (1917–2004),” Co-editor with Jeff Himpele, Special Section for American Anthropologist, 107(1) March 2005.

2005. In Flow a Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture.
“The latest in reality TV? Māori Television stakes a claim on the world stage,” with April Strickland,
“Move over Marshall McLuhan! Live from the Arctic”
“The Unwired Side of the Digital Divide”
“Rethinking the Digital Age”
“10,000 Years of Media Flow”

2004. “Steps to the Future: AIDS and Media Activism in South Africa,” with Barbara Abrash, Visual Anthropology Review 19: 1–2.

2004. “Atanarjuat Off-Screen: From “Media Reservations” to the World Stage,” American Anthropologist, 105(4), December: 827–831.

2003. “Smoke Signals and Screen Memories,” in Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality and Transnational Media, Ella Shohat and Bob Stam, eds. Rutgers University Press, pp. 77–98.

2002. “First Peoples Television. with Lorna Roth  in Television Studies Toby Miller, ed.  London: The British Film Institute.

2002. “Fieldwork at the Movies: Anthropology and Media,” in Exotic No More: Anthropology  on the Front Lines, ed. Jeremy MacClancy, Univ. of Chicago Press, pp. 359–376

2002. “Introduction: The Social Practice of Media,” in Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain (California).

2002. “Screen Memories: Resignifying the Traditional in Indigenous Media,” in  Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain, F. Ginsburg, L. Abu-Lughod, B. Larkin, eds., California

2002. “Standing at the Crossroads of Genetic Testing: New Eugenics, Disability Consciousness,Women’s Work,” (w/ Rayna Rapp) GeneWatch: A Bulletin of the Council for Responsible Genetics 15(1).

2001. “Enabling Disability: Renarrating Kinship, Reimagining Citizenship,” with Rayna Rapp. Public Culture 13(3) special issue on Disability Criticism.

1999. “Fetal Reflections: Confessions of Two Feminist Anthropologists as Mutual Informants,” in The Fetal Subjects: Feminist Postions. Lynn Morgan and Meredith Michaels, eds.(Pennsylvania)

1998. “Institutionalizing the Unruly: Charting a Future for Visual Anthropology,” Ethnos 63(2) pp. 173–196.

1998. “Rescuing the Nation: Operation Rescue and the Rise of Anti–Abortion Militance,” in Fifty Years’ War: A Half Century of Abortion Politics, 1950–2000. Rickie Solinger, ed.  California

1997. “From Little Things, Big Things Grow: Indigenous Media and Cultural Activism,” in Between Resistance and Revolution, Dick Fox and Orin Starn, eds. Rutgers University Press.

1995. “The Parallax Effect: The Impact of Aboriginal Media on Ethnographic Film, Visual Anthropology Review, 11(2).

[1999] reprinted in Visible Evidence. Michael Renov and Jane Gaines, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota.

1995. “Introduction: Conceiving the New World Order,” in Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, eds. (Berkeley: University of California Press).

1995. “Mediating Culture: Indigenous Media, Ethnographic Film, and the Production of Identity,” in Fields of Vision: Essays in Film Studies, Visual Anthropology and Photography, Leslie Deveraux and Roger Hillman, eds., University of California Press, pp. 256–290. 

1995. “Production Values: Indigenous Media and the Rhetoric of Self–Determination,” in The Rhetoric of Self–Making. D. Battaglia, ed. University of California Press.

1995. “Introduction: Conceiving the New World Order,” (with Rayna Rapp) in Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction. F. Ginsburg and R. Rapp, editors; Univ. of California Press.

1994. “Some thoughts on Culture & Media,” Visual Anthropology Review 10(1) Spring.

1994. “Culture and Media: A (Mild) Polemic,” Anthropology Today 10(2): 5–15.

1993. “Embedded Aesthetics: Creating A Discursive Space for Indigenous Media,” Cultural Anthropology 9(2).

1. •[2002] reprinted in Planet TV: A Global Television Reader, Lisa Parks and Shanti Kumar, eds. New York: New York University Press.
   

2. •[2003] reprinted in Critical Cultural Policy Studies: A Reader, Justin Lewis and Toby Miller, eds. Oxford: Blackwell,  88–99.
   

1993. “Station Identification: The Aboriginal Programs Unit of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation,” in Visual Anthropology Review 9(2): 92–98.

1993. “Aboriginal Media and the Australian Imaginary,” in Public Culture, 5(2) Special issue on television.

1991. “Indigenous Media:  Faustian Contract or Global Village?” Cultural Anthropology, 6(1): 92–112.

1. •[1994] reprinted in Rereading Cultural Anthropology. G. Marcus, ed.
   

1990. “Introduction,” in Uncertain Terms:  Negotiating Gender in American Culture (Beacon Press).

1990. “The ‘Word–Made’ Flesh:  The Disembodiment of Gender in the Abortion Debate,” in Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture.  F. Ginsburg, A. Tsing, editors, Boston:  Beacon Press.

Documentary Productions

1988. Visions of Dreamtime. 15 minutes, color.  Documentary on Australian Aboriginal painters for exhibition at The Asia Society.

1982. Prairie Storm. 60 minutes, color.  Documentary on a battle over an abortion clinic in Fargo, N.D. WCCO-TV (CBS), Minneapolis: 4/26/82.

1981. Farewell to Freedom. 60 minutes, color.  Documentary on the history and displacement on the Laotian Hmong, following one refugee family.  Broadcast WCCO-TV:  9/15/81.

1980. In Praise of Camp Mooween. 20 minutes, black and white.  Documentary on all-male camp reunions that celebrate memories of camp and boyhood.  Broadcast WOR-TV (NY): 9/20/80.

1980. In Her Hands: Women and Ritual. 20 minutes, black and white.  Documentary on the role of ritual in the lives of several generations of Syrian Jewish women.  Broadcast WNYC:  6/20/80.

1. •Village Voice Outstanding Books of 1989.