# Kathleen M. Adams

Kathleen M. Adams is a cultural anthropologist, Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London, and Professor Emerita at Loyola University Chicago. Her research addresses cultural transformations in island Southeast Asia, (especially Toraja society in Indonesia), critical tourism studies, heritage studies, Indonesian art, and museum studies.

## Education

Adams received her B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Washington. Prior to assuming a faculty position at Loyola University Chicago, she held the Mouat Family Endowed Chair at Beloit College. She was Adjunct Curator at the Field Museum of Natural History from 1997-2022.

## Publications

Adams has authored and edited multiple books, including three award-winners: Art as Politics: Re-crafting Identities, Tourism and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia (2006, winner of 2008 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award), The Ethnography of Tourism: Edward Bruner and Beyond (2019, coedited with Leite and Casteneda, winner of the American Anthropological Association's 2020 ATIG Bruner Book Award)), and Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile (2023, coedited with Bloch, winner of the American Anth. Assoc.'s Council on Heritage and the Anth. of Tourism's 2023-2024 Bruner Book Prize.)

## Awards and honors

Adams currently holds a Fulbright Specialist Award, and was a critical tourism studies specialist and lecturer at Gadjah Mada University (2024) in Indonesia, a Visiting Fellow at The Center for Tourism Research at Wakayama University (2020-2023), Visiting Professor at Ateneo de Manila University (2016), Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (2016), and Loyola University Chicago's John Felice Rome Center (2008-2009). She was a Isaac Manasseh Meyer Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore's Centre for Advanced Study (1999),and taught on University of Virginia Semester at Sea voyages.
Adams' research has been funded by the Fulbright, the American Philosophical Society, and the Henry R. Luce Foundation. She received Loyola University's Sujack Master Researcher Award (2016, 2020), Loyola University Chicago's 2007 Sujack Award for Teaching Excellence, and recognition by Princeton Review as one of the "300 best professors" in the US and Canada in 2012. She was inducted into Redwood High School's Avenue of Giants in 2024.

## Books

* 2000 Home and Hegemony: Domestic Service and Identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia. (Co-edited with Sara Dickey). University of Michigan Press.
* 2006 Art as Politics: Re-crafting Identities, Tourism, and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia. University of Hawaii Press.
* 2011 Everyday Life in Southeast Asia. (Co-edited with Kathleen Gillogly). Indiana University Press.
* 2019 The Ethnography of Tourism: Edward Bruner and Beyond (Co-edited with N. Leite and Q. Casteneda). Rowman and Littlefield.
* 2019 Indonesia: History, Heritage, Culture Key Issues in Asian Studies Series. Association for Asian Studies Press.
* 2022 Seni Sebagai Politik. (Translated by Anwar Jimpe Rachman). Penerbit Ininnawa.
* 2023 Intersection of Tourism, Migration, and Exile. (Co-edited with Natalia Bloch). Routledge.

## Selected key articles

* 1984 "Travel Agents as Brokers in Ethnicity." Annals of Tourism Research 11(3):469-485.
* 1998 Ethnic Tourism and the Renegotiation of Tradition in Tana Toraja, Sulawesi (Indonesia). Ethnology, 309-320.
* 2004 The Genesis of Touristic Imagery: Politics and Poetics in the Creation of a Remote Indonesian Island Destination. Tourist Studies, 4(2):115-135.
* 2005 Public Interest Anthropology in Heritage Sites: Writing Culture and Righting Wrongs. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 11(5):433-439.
* 2008 The Janus-Faced Character of Tourism in Cuba: Ideological Continuity and Change. Annals of Tourism Research, 35(1):27-46. Coauthored with P. Sanchez.
* 2018 Revisiting "Wonderful Indonesia": Tourism, Economy, and Society. Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Indonesia. Routledge.
* 2020 What Western Tourism Concepts Obscure: Intersections of Tourism and Migration in Indonesia. Tourism Geographies.
* 2020 (Post-) Pandemic Tourism Resiliency: Southeast Asian Lives and Livelihoods in Limbo. Tourism Geographies.
* 2024 Tourism Ethnography and Tourism Geographies. Tourism Geographies.