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Sociology and Anthropology

Professor Emerita, Anthropology
Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Society
Ph.D., University of Chicago

Fields: anthropology of literature, print literacies, anthropology of art and museums, Indonesia, Sumatra��

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Office Phone: 508-793-3067
Office: Beaven 227
PO Box: 86A
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Biography

Susan Rodgers received her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of ��Chicago in 1978, after conducting two and ��a ��half years of fieldwork in Sumatra, ��Indonesia, on issues of ethnic identity construction, ritual oratory, indigenous print literatures and literacies, and minority/state relations.�� She taught at Ohio University��from 1978 to 1989, when she came to���������� to help establish an anthropology ��program.�� She has returned to Indonesia numerous times for field research, to ����explore ����issues of state power and indigenous arts.�� Translating modern Indonesian ����print literature from the two languages she uses in fieldwork (Indonesian and Angkola ��Batak) is a special interest.�� Prof. Rodgers has also guest curated museum exhibitions on Indonesian arts: “Power and Gold: Jewelry from Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines” for the Musee Barbier-Mueller, the Asia Society, and the Smithsonian Institution Travelling Exhibition Service, in 1985-90, and four Indonesian textile exhibitions for ��������’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery ����(www.holycross.edu/cantorartgallery/). ����The two most recent of these were����“Gold Cloths of Sumatra: Indonesia’s Songkets from Ceremony to Commodity” in 2007 and "Transnational Ikat: An Asian Textile on the Move. ��Among her recent books are��Print, Poetics, and Politics: A Sumatran Epic in the Colonial Indies and New Order Indonesia��(2005, Leiden, the Netherlands: KITLV ����Press);��Practicing Catholic: Ritual, Body, and��Contestation in Catholic Faith��edited by Bruce T. Morrill, S.J., Joanna Ziegler, and Susan Rodgers (2006, New York: Palgrave Macmillan); and��Gold Cloths of Sumatra:��Indonesia’s Songkets from Ceremony to Commodity, by Susan Rodgers, Anne Summerfield, and John ����Summerfield (2007, Worcester, MA: Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art ����Gallery, and Leiden, the Netherlands: KITLV Press).

Susan Rodgers teaches Anthropology 101, the basic introductory class, and courses on such topics as "Food, Body, Power" (ANTH 135) “The Imagined Body” ����(ANTH 256), “Genders and Sexualities in Cross-Cultural Perspective” (ANTH 255), “Anthropology of Religion” (ANTH 262), “Art and Power in Asia” (ANTH 274), and the ethnographic fieldwork seminar (ANTH 310).��She particularly enjoys conducting joint fieldwork in Asia with students.

Courses

• "Food, Body, Power" (ANTH 135)
• "Genders and Sexualities in the Cross-Cultural Perspective" (ANTH 255)
• "The Imagined Body" (ANTH 256)
• "Anthropology of Religion" (ANTH 262)
• "Art and Power in Asia" (ANTH 274)
• "Ethnographic Fieldwork Methods" (ANTH 310)

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Sample Publications

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