Kathleen M. Adams

Kathleen M. Adams (born 1957, San Francisco, California) is a cultural anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Loyola University Chicago. She is also an adjunct curator of Southeast Asian Ethnology at the Field Museum of Natural History. Her research focuses on island Southeast Asia, critical tourism studies, heritage studies, museums, material culture and ethnic arts, globalization, ethnicity and nationalism. She first began anthropological fieldwork in Indonesia in 1984 and received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1988.

Adams is author of several books, including the award-winning Art as Politics: Re-crafting Identities, Tourism and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia, co-editor of Everyday Life in Southeast Asia, and Home and Hegemony: Domestic Service and Identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia, as well as over fifty articles. Her research has led to profiles and interviews on National Public Radio' show "Soundprint," Voice of America and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. A former Fulbright recipient, Adams has consulted for Indonesia's Ministry of Education and Culture/UNESCO and served as academic adviser for several BBC and National Geographic documentary film and television projects.

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