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TATE LEFEVRE Franklin & Marshall CollegeLancaster, PA [email protected]

(845) 807-7112

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

July 2013 presentAssistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Franklin & Marshall College

EDUCATION

2013 Ph.D., Anthropology, New York University2009 Graduate Certificate in Culture and Media, New York University2008 M.A., Anthropology, New York University2004 B.A. (Honors), Anthropology, Dartmouth College, cum laude

Ph.D. Thesis (2013): Creating Kanaky: Indigeneity, Youth and the Cultural Politics of the Possible in NewCaledonia

Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Nouma between Oct 2009 and Nov 2010.Advisors: Fred Myers, Bambi Scheiffelin, Haidy Geismar, Faye Ginsburg & Susan Carol Rogers

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Melanesia and the Anthropology of Oceania Post-colonial FranceNew Caledonia Citizenship and SecularismIndigeneity Youth and Social ChangeSettler Colonialism PersonhoodSovereignty and the Politics of Representation Media and Visual Ethnography

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Franklin Marshal l Col l ege Assistant Professor

ANT100: Introduction to Sociocultural AnthropologyANT410: Anthropological MethodsANT270: Peoples and Cultures of OceaniaANT371: Global Youth and MediaANT277/IST277: Indigenous and Fourth World PeoplesANT271: The Anthropology of MediaANT370: The Anthropology of PersonhoodCNX260: Youth & Moral Panic

Fordham University Adjunct Instructor , Fal l 2011

ANTH2447: Passages: The Anthropology of the Life Cycle

New York University Adjunct Inst ructor , Summer 2012

ANTH-UA123: Anthropology of Media

New York University Teaching Assistant/Section Leader, 2006-2012

CORE-UA 508: Cultures & Contexts The Island Pacific (2012)CORE-UA 536: Cultures & Contexts Indigenous Australia (2011)CORE-UA 505: Cultures & Contexts: Africa (2008, 2009, 2011)ANTH-UA1: Human Society and Culture (2006, 2007)


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AWARDS, HONORS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

National and International Competit ion

2014 CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award (nominee)2012 AAUW Dissertation Fellowship (selected as an alternate)2009 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

University-wide Competit ion

2015 Academic Innovation Grant, Franklin & Marshall College2014 Office of College Grants Faculty Resource Fund Award, Franklin & Marshall College2014 Academic Innovation Grant, Franklin & Marshall College2014 Deans Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences, New York University2012 Deans Dissertation Fellowship, New York University2009 Annette B. Weiner Fellowship in Cultural Anthropology, New York University2008 School of Arts & Sciences Summer Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, New York University2005 Henry Mitchell McCracken Fellowship, New York University2004 Mary E. Westbrook Prize for best honors thesis in Anthropology, Dartmouth College2003 Claire Garber Goodman Award for Undergraduate Field Research in Anthropology

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

In prep. Indigeneity and the Cultural Politics of Possibility in New Caledonia (Book manuscript).

In prep. Culture, Coutume, Kastom: On Having and Performing Culture in NewCaledonia, (article manuscript for The Contemporary Pacific)

In prep. Mtis Hegemonies: Republican Settler Colonialism and the Disavowal ofDifference, (article manuscript for Cultural Anthropology)

In prep. Apocalypse Now? Youth and Uncertain Futures in Nouma, inJournal de la Socitdes Ocanistes, forthcoming special issue on Urban Melanesia

Solicited, in prep. Youth, Moral Panic and the Political Future of New Caledonia State, Society &Governance in Melanesia (SSGM),Discussion Paper.

Solicited, in prep. Bursting the French Bubble? Anglophone Research in New Caledonia Oceania.

2015a Nous ne sommes pas des dlinquants! Lautorit coutumire et la marginalizationde la jeunesse urbain kanak inEthnies Emancipations kanak , n 37-38, Paris,Survival International, pp. 254-267.

2015b Settler Colonialism. in Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology, edited by John Jackson.New York: Oxford University Press.

2013a Turning Niches Into Handles: Kanak Youth, Associations and the Construction of aIndigenous Counter-public Sphere Settler Colonial Studies 3(2):214-219.

2013b Introduction: Difference, Representation, Resistance Settler Colonial Studies 3(2):136-140.


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EDITED COLLECTIONS

2013 Difference, Representation, Resistance: Indigenous Culture as Political Resource in theSettler-state. Special Issue of Settler Colonial Studies3(2).

BOOK CHAPTERS, REVIEWS, ONLINE PUBLICATIONS

In press Forthcoming. La tribu dans la ville : Lespace urbain, lautorit coutumire et lamarginalisation de la jeunesse kanak inLa coutume en question: Politiques de lidentiten Nouvelle-Caldonie, edited by Benot Trpied et Christine Demmer. Paris:LHarmattan.

2015 Reclaiming Hope in Oceania, Cultural Anthropologyonline curated collection (co- edited with Eben Kirksey). Accessible online:

http://www.culanth.org/curated_collections/20-reclaiming-hope

2013 Fibre Skirts and Dance Battles inMelanesia: Art and Encounter, edited by NicholasThomas & Lissant Bolton. London: British Museum Press. Pp. 326-329.

2013b Review of Images et Pouvoirs dans le Pacifique,Jean-Marc Regnault and Viviane Fayaud,eds.European Review of History. (5)1:1-3.

2013c Review of Le paradis autour de Paul Gaugin, by Viviane Fayaud. The Contemporary Pacific25(1):203-205.

2008 Review Essay: Indigenous Motivations: Recent Acquisitions from the NationalMuseum of the American Indian.Museum Anthropology Review 1(2):93-99. (with A.Strickland, S. Thorner, S. Rozenthal, et al.)

2007 Tourism and Indigenous Curation of Culture in Lifou, New Caledonia inTheFuture of Indigenous Museums: Perspectives from the Southwest Pacificedited by Nick Stanley.Pp. 78-93. New York: Berghahn Books.

VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY/DOCUMENTARY FILM

2008 No Such Thing as a Free Lunch (18 min). Ethnographic short documentary on media activism,visual representation and the anti-capitalist Freegan movement in New York City.

2015. Broadcast rights acquired by Community Channel (UK free-to-air televisionchannel for community groups and social justice organizations).

2009. Screened in the RAI series Exploring Food, Connecting Communities, at theBritish Museum.

2008. Winner of the Anthropology as a Service Award, International StudentEthnographic Film Festival (ISEFF), Goldsmiths, University of London.

INVITED LECTURES

2014a Representations and Repossession: Indigenous Youth in a Settler Colonial City." LafayetteCollege Department of Anthropology and Sociology. April 29.

2014b Tactical Subjects: Indigenous Youth, Feminism and the Settler State in New Caledonia.Locations of Learning: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices, BarnardScholar and Feminist Conference. Barnard College. February 22.


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CONFERENCE PAPERS

2015a Making Sense of (Un)expected Events & Manifesting the Possible in New Caledonia.Panel: (Un)making Sense, Reawakening Histories. American Anthropological AssociationAnnual Meeting, Denver, Colorado.

2015b Apocalypse Now? Youth, Temporality & Moral Panic in Nouma. Panel: UrbanMelanesia, Meeting of the European Society for Oceanists (ESfO), Brussels, Belgium.

2015c Backwards Hope: Indigenous Youth & Settler Colonial Teleologies in New Caledonia.Panel: Survivals, Meeting of the American Ethnological Association, San Diego, CA.

2015d Schizophrenic Youth. Panel: Order in Melanesia, Annual Meeting of the Associationfor the Anthropology of Oceania (ASAO), Santa Fe, NM.

2015e Le grand frre du quartier (the neighborhood big brother): Friends and Fictive Kin AmongUrban Kanak Youth. Panel: Friendship in Oceania, Annual Meeting of the Association forthe Anthropology of Oceania (ASAO), Santa Fe, NM.

2014 Constructing Cases, Creating Kanaky. Panel: Pacific Spaces and Sacred Buildings,Annual Meeting of the Association for the Anthropology of Oceania (ASAO), Kona,Hawaii.

2013a Panel Organizer (with Barbara Andersen), The Spatial Politics of Enclosure. Session at the

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago.2013b La Tribu Dans la Ville: Indigenous Sovereignty in a Settler City. Panel: The Spatial Politicsof Enclosure. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago.

2012a Dispossession and Double Jeopardy: Kanak Youth In the Settler Colonial City. Panel:New Dispossessions: Imagining Non-Material Origins for Accumulation, AmericanAnthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

2012b Panel Organizer (with Barbara Andersen), Perils and Pleasures: Melanesian Youth Cultures,Moral Panics, and Imagined Futures, Annual Meeting of the European Society forOceanists (ESfO), Bergen, Norway.Presenter, What does it mean to be a city Kanak?: The political stakes of New Caledoniasyouth crisis.

2012c Kanak Youth Cultures: Figuring (and Reconfiguring) the Possible in New Caledonia,Power in Oceania: Closing Conference of the Bergen Pacific Alternatives Research Group,Os, Norway.

2012d Panel Organizer (with Eben Kirksey), Reclaiming Hope: Sovereignty, Freedom, and thePolitical Dimensions of Imagination in Oceania, Annual Meeting of the Association for theAnthropology of Oceania (ASAO), Portland.Presenter, Captivity and Lines of Flight: Imagining the Future in New CaledoniaPresenter, Breakdancing for the Clan: Kanak Youth and the Re-framing of Tradition inNouma, New Caledonia, Panel: Mimesis and Transcultural Encounters.

2012e Kanak Youth and French Associations, Transforming Colonial Categories? CustomaryLaw, Legal Pluralism and the Cultural Heritage of Indigenous Peoples, organized by theIntellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage Project, York University, Toronto.

2011a Panel Organizer (with Eugenia Kisin), Unsettled States: Indigenous Cultural Activism,Sovereignty, and The Unfinished Legacies of Settler Colonialism, AmericanAnthropological Association Annual Meeting; Montral, Canada.Presenter, Refusing/Reformulating Citoyennet: Kanak Youth and Cultural Productionwithin Associations.

2011b Mtissage and the Disavowal of Difference : The Struggle for Kanak Sovereignty, 5thAnnual Critical Race Studies Symposium, UCLA Law School, Los Angeles.


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2011c Raising Issues: Indigenous Youth and the Legitimization of the Kanak Flag in NewCaledonia, Panel: Cultural Heritage and Political Innovation in Oceania, Annual Meetingof the Association for the Anthropology of Oceania (ASAO), Honolulu.

2010 Il faut quon bouge!: Kanak Youth, Cultural Production and Possible Futures inKanaky/New Caledonia, Annual Meeting of the Australian Association for theAdvancement of Pacific Studies (AAAPS), Melbourne.

2009 Cultural Politics and Cultural Production Among Youth in Nouma, New Caledonia,AGORA 2: Social Science Research in the Francophone Pacific, Centre IRD, Nouma.

2008 Tourism in New Caledonia: Indigenous Performances of Identity in a Pluri-Ethnic, Not-Yet State, Cultural Tourism Movements: Articulating and Problematizing Indigeneity, UCBerkeley Symposium on Indigenous Tourism, Berkeley.

2006 Performing Identity, Fighting Assimilation: Tourism and the Troupe de Wetr in Lifou, NewCaledonia, Panel: Self-Conscious Self-Commodification in Late Capitalism, AmericanAnthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Summer 2014 Nouma, New Caledonia, field research on Kanak youth and customary authority.

December 2014 Paris, France, fieldwork and interviews for project on Kanak: Lart est une parole(first major exhibition of Kanak art ever held in metropolitan France, at Muse duQuai Branly).

2009-2010 Dissertation fieldwork, Nouma, New Caledonia.Summer 2008 Pre-dissertation field research, Nouma, New CaledoniaSummer 2003 Fieldwork for undergraduate honors thesis on cultural tourism & Kanak identity,

Lifou Island and Nouma, New Caledonia.

LANGUAGES

English (native), French (near-native), Drehu (basic speaking)

AFFILATIONS & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Peer Reviewer (journal articles):American EthnologistCity & SocietyAmerican Indian QuarterlyDialectical AnthropologyRAQ (Recherches amrindiennes au Qubec)

Positions Held:2015- Board Member & Co-Chair of the Pacific Islanders Scholarship Fund, ASAO

(Association for the Social Anthropology of Oceania)2010-2014 Convener, MIG (Melanesian Interest Group), American Anthropological Association

Member:American Anthropological AssociationAmerican Ethnological SocietyAssociation for the Social Anthropology of Oceania (ASAO)Melanesian Interest Group (MIG) of the AAAEuropean Society for Oceanists (ESfO)

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