Hamilton CV

JENNIFER A. HAMILTON Hampshire College School of Critical Social Inquiry (formerly Social Science) Franklin Patterson Hall G-6 ● 893 West Street ● Amherst, MA 01002 (413) 559-5677 (o) ● (413) 559-5620 (f) jhamilton@hampshire.edu https://hampedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Hamilton

ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2007-Present Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Anthropology, Hampshire College Spring 2011 Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College 2006-2007 Visiting Assistant Professor, Rice University, Department of Anthropology 2004-2007 Postdoctoral Senior Research Coordinator, Center for Medical Ethics &amp; Health, Baylor College of Medicine 2004 Lecturer, Rice University, Department of Anthropology and Program for the Study of Women and Gender, Rice University 2002 Instructor, Program for the Study of Women and Gender, Rice University 2001 Visiting Instructor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Studies, University of Houston—Clear Lake 1999-2003 Instructor, Department of Anthropology, Rice University

EDUCATION Rice University Ph.D., Anthropology, May 2004; M.A., Anthropology, January 2001 Dissertation: Indigeneity in the Courtroom: Law, Culture, and the Production of Difference in North American Courts Committee: James D. Faubion (Chair), George E. Marcus, Hannah Landecker, and Lynne Huffer McGill University B.A., First Class Joint Honors, Anthropology and English Literature, June 1995 (Courses taken toward B.A. at Wilfrid Laurier University)

PUBLICATIONS  Monographs 2009 Indigeneity in the Courtroom: Law, Culture, and the Production of Difference in North American Courts. New York: Routledge.

Reviewed: PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (2009) Canadian Journal of Law and Society (2010) Ethnos (2010)

Peer-Reviewed Articles &amp; Chapters 2011 “Anthropology Becoming…? The 2010 Sociocultural Anthropology Year in Review,” American Anthropologist, 113(2), (with Aimee J. Placas, in press) 2011 “The Case of the Genetic Ancestor: DNA Ancestry Tracing, Legal Subjectivity, and Race in America.” In Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History, edited by Keith Wailoo, Mia Bay, Alondra Nelson, and Catherine Lee. Rutgers University Press (forthcoming).

2009 “On the Ethics of Unusable Data,” in Fieldwork Is Not What It Used To Be: Anthropology’s Culture of Method in Transition, eds. J. D. Faubion and G. E. Marcus, 73-87. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2008 “Revitalizing Difference in the HapMap: Race, Biomedicine, and Contemporary Human Genetic Variation Research,” Journal of Law, Medicine &amp; Ethics, 36(3): 471-477. 2008 “DNA Data Sharing: Research Participants’ Perspectives’, with Amy L. McGuire et al., Genetics in Medicine, 10(1): 46-53. 2007 “Sumptuary Kinship,” with James D. Faubion, Anthropological Quarterly, 80(3): 533-559. 2006 “Resettling Musqueam Park: Property, Landscape, and ‘Indian Land’ in British Columbia,” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 29 (1): 88-109.

Reviews n.d. Review of Karen Engle’s The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy for Anthropological Forum (in preparation). n.d. Review of Knafla and Westra’s Aboriginal Title and Indigenous Peoples: Canada, Australia, and New Zealand for Law &amp; Politics Book Review (in preparation). 2006 “Revisiting the Stored Tissue Issue,” with Richard R. Sharp, review of Robert Weir and Robert Olick’s The Stored Tissue Issue: Biomedical Research, Ethics, and Law in the Era of Genomic Medicine. IRB: Ethics and Human Research, January-February 2006. 2001 Review of Alexandra Harmon’s Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound in Indigenous Nations Studies Journal 1(2).

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, Research Associateship, “Human Genetics and the Gendering of Biological Materials” (2010-2011) Mellon Foundation Grant, “Gender and the Human Genome,” Five College Faculty-Student Summer Research Seminar, with S. Richardson and L. Lovett (2010) Five College Culture, Health and Science Program, Course Development Grant (2010) Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship (2009) UMass Amherst Office of Faculty Development Online Writing Fellowship (2008, 2009, 2010) Martha Sharp Joukowsky Faculty Development Grant, Hampshire College (2008, 2009, 2010) Special Faculty Development Grant, Hampshire College (2008, 2009) Culture, Brain and Development Program, Grant for Faculty Working Group, “Biocultural Perspectives on Food,” Hampshire College (2008) Law &amp; Society Association Summer Institute Scholar (2007) Law &amp; Humanities Junior Scholar Interdisciplinary Workshop Paper Competition (2006) Departmental nomination for John Gardiner Best Dissertation Prize, Rice University (2004) Program for the Study of Women and Gender, New Course Competition, Rice University (2002) Lodieska Stockbridge Vaughan Graduate Fellowship, Rice University (2001-2002) Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (2001-2002) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Doctoral Fellowship (1999-2001) Federalism &amp; Federations Program, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Doctoral Fellowship Supplement (1999-2001) Law &amp; Society Association, Graduate Student Workshop (1998, 2000) Rice University Department of Anthropology, Doctoral Fellowship (1996-1999) Dean’s Honor List, McGill University (1993-1995) Incentive Scholarship, Wilfrid Laurier University (1993) (declined) Flora Roy Scholarship, Wilfrid Laurier University (1992) Honor Roll, Wilfrid Laurier University (1991-1993)

CONFERENCES AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Invited Presentations 2011 "Human Genetics and the Gendering of Biological Materials," Five College Women's Studies Research Center, South Hadley, MA, February 2010 Discussant, Afsaneh Najmabadi: “Sex in Change: Configurations of Sex and Gender in Contemporary Iran,” Critical Sexualities Series, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, UMass-Amherst, Amherst, MA, November 2010 “Gender and the Human Genome: Collaborative Research in Feminist Science Studies," Five College Women's Studies Research Center, South Hadley, MA, October 2010 "Of Caucasoids and Kin: Kennewick Man, Race, and Genetic Indigeneity," Five College Native American Indian Studies Program, Amherst, MA, October 2010 “Human Rights and Bioethics in a Genomic Age,” Human Rights and the New Sciences: A Symposium, University of Chicago 2010 “Public Health Genomics and Direct-to-Consumer Marketing,” Public Health Law Graduate Seminar, University of Massachusetts-Amherst 2010 “Cultivating Epistemic Partners,” History and Ethnography Graduate Seminar, Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2010 “New Eugenics Workshop,” Reproductive Justice Conference, Civil Liberties and Public Policy (CLPP), Hampshire College 2009 Perspectives on Feminist Science Studies, Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, Mount Holyoke College 2009 Panelist, “Reading Nature, Reading Culture: Language and Interpretation in Feminist Research,” Women’s Studies Program, University of Massachusetts--Amherst 2009 “What is Culture in CBD Projects and Research?” Culture, Brain and Development Program, Hampshire College 2008 Panelist, Injury: New Perspectives on American Ideas of Compensation, 2008-09 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series, Measuring the Value of Human Life, University of Massachusetts--Amherst 2008 Discussant, “A Healthy Baby Girl,” Thursday Night Film Series, 2008-09 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series, Measuring the Value of Human Life, University of Massachusetts--Amherst 2008 “Do My Eggs Wear Pink? The Gendering of Biological Materials,” Feminist Studies Series, Women’s Resource Center, Hampshire College 2007 “Mapping and Rethinking Biology in Anthropology and Other Pursuits,” Culture, Brain and Development Faculty Seminar, with Alan Goodman, Hampshire College 2007 Discussant, “Health, Inequality, and Contemporary Capitalism,” Department of Anthropology, University of California—Riverside 2001 “‘Bridging the Cultural Divide’: Gender Violence, Colonialism, and the Problem of Culture,” Rice University Feminist Reading Group Works-in-Progress Series, Houston

Conference Panels Organized and Chaired 2009 “Explorations in Law, Science, and Governance,” Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Annual Meeting, Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA 2008 “Placing Law through Documents: Site, Context, and Circulation,” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, QC (co-organizer) 2006 “Processes of Translation and Translations of Substance in Scientific Knowledge Production,” Society for Cultural Anthropology Spring Meeting, Milwaukee, WI (co-organizer) 2002 “Difficult Objects” in Anthropological Research, Rice University Graduate Student Symposium, Houston (co-organizer) 2000 “Perspectives on Violence against Women: Culture, Inequality, and Difference, Sessions I &amp; II,” American Ethnological Society/Canadian Anthropology Society, Montréal (co-organizer) 2000 Native American Studies: Place, Hypertext, and Indian Education, Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association, Albuquerque (chair)

Conference Presentations 2010 “The Case of the Genetic Ancestor,” Paper selected for Junior Scholar Session, Northeast Law &amp; Society Conference, Amherst, MA, October 2010 “Genetic Maps and Ethical Compliance: The Mobilization of Lay Expertise in the Governance of Human Genetic Variation Research,” Breaking the Knowledge Barrier: Constructing and Reconstructing Expertise in Legal Institutions, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, May 2009 “Ethical Provenance and the Emergence of Novel Bio-Ethical Entities in the HapMap,” Vital Politics III: The Politics of the Life Sciences in an ‘Age of Biological Control,’ London School of Economics, BIOS Centre 2008 “Race and Medicine,” Issues the New President Will Confront, Professors from the School of Social Science Present, Hampshire College 2008 “Activism and/in the Classroom,” Pedagogical Encounters in Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture and Humanities, Faculty of Law, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada 2008 “Law and the Emergence of Ethical Provenance in the Realm of Bioexchange,” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, QC 2008 “The Case of the Genetic Ancestor: DNA Ancestry Tracing, Legal Subjectivity and Race in America,” DNA, Race, and History Conference, Center for Race and Ethnicity, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 2007 Discussant, “the body in/and time,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC 2007 “The Case of the Genetic Ancestor: DNA Ancestry Tracing, Legal Subjectivity, and Race in America,” Law and Society Association Summer Institute, University of Massachusetts—Amherst 2007 “The Case of the Genetic Ancestor: Law, Race, and Past Injustices,” Law and Representations of Injustice, Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Georgetown University 2006 “From Practice to Substance: The Emergence of ‘Ethical Provenance’ in Contemporary Human Genetic Variation Research,” Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University 2006 “From Practice to Substance: The Emergence of ‘Ethical Provenance’ in Contemporary Human Genetic Variation Research,” Department of Anthropology, Rice University 2006 “Healing the Bishop: Consent and the Legal Erasure of Colonial History,” Law &amp; Humanities Junior Scholar Interdisciplinary Workshop, USC Law School 2006 “Ethical Practice, Ethical Substance?: Ethics and the Politics of Human Genetic Variation Research,” Society for Cultural Anthropology Spring Meeting 2006 “‘Frozen Moments’ in the HapMap: Some Ethnographic Speculations on Race, Human Genetic Variation Research, and Biomedicine,” Race, Pharmaceuticals, and Medical Technologies Conference, MIT—Center for the Study of Diversity 2006 “From Indigeneity to Ethics: Locating the Ethnographic Betwixt and Between Apprentice and Professional Anthropology,” Turns and Folly in Apprentice Ethnography: The Pivot of Innovation, Department of Anthropology, UC—Irvine 2006 “The Case of the Genetic Ancestor: DNA Ancestry Tracing, Legal Subjectivity, and Race in America,” Department of Anthropology, Rice University 2005 “Unadorned speculation: Genetic Ancestry Tracing, Race, and Legal Standing in Slavery Reparations,” Law and Society Association, Las Vegas 2005 “More cultural than biological”: Race, Genetics, and Nature/Culture through the Lens of Genetic Ancestry Tracing, American Ethnological Society, San Diego 2002 “The Reach of Culture: First Nations, Canadian Law, and Gender Violence,” Law and Society Association, Vancouver 2002 “Difficult Objects: Law, Indigenous Rights, and the Problem of Culture,” Rice Graduate Student Symposium, Houston 2001 “Bridging the Cultural Divide: Aboriginal Restorative Justice, Multiculturalism, and Gender Violence in Canada,” American Ethnological Society/Canadian Anthropology Society, Montréal 2000 “Bridging the Cultural Divide: Aboriginal Feminist Critiques of Urban Restorative Justice Projects,” American Anthropological Association, San Francisco 2000 “A Fit Sentence: Aboriginal Peoples, Legal Precedent and Restorative Justice in North American Courts,” Law and Society Association, Miami 2000 “The rock wall beyond which multiculturalism cannot pass: Customary Law, Indigenous Peoples, and Settler Societies in Canada,” Canadian Anthropology Society, Calgary 2000 “The Field Down the Street: Negotiating Community, Intimacy, and Representational Responsibility in Urban Anthropology,” Report from the Field: First Nations, Ethnography, and Restorative Justice Issues in Vancouver, Canadian Anthropology Society, Calgary 2000 “But what of the ‘field’ itself?: Negotiated Pathways to Different Forms of Knowledge,” Canadian Anthropology Society, Calgary 2000 “From Crow Dog to Banishment: Aboriginal Customary Law in Pluralist America,” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Albuquerque 2000 “Hopwood, Intersectionality, and Some Thoughts on Teaching Affirmative Action,” Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Social Class Research Workshop and Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver 1999 “Strangers to the common law: Aboriginal Customary Law, Legal Pluralism and the State,” UBC Faculty of Law Graduate Student Conference, Vancouver 1998 “Alternative Sentencing in Native America: Justice, Gender and Legal Pluralism,” Law and Society Association, Aspen 1998 “Tribal Law: Legal Pluralism at the Millennium,” Rice University Graduate Student Symposium, Houston 1998 “The Banishment Case: Native American Tribal Law, Anthropological Research and Competing Claims to Legitimacy,” Rice University Department of Anthropology, Houston

COURSES TAUGHT • Ethnography of Law, Science, and Medicine • Critical Bioethics • Gendered Bodies: Race, Sex, and the Cultures of Biology • Landscapes of Indigeneity: Indigenous Peoples and Law in North America • Bioexchange: Property, Gifts, and Value • Genetic Ancestry Tracing and the Science of Race • Food, Health and Law • Biopower, Biopolitics and Bare Life • Law, Identity, and Bioscience • Injury • Gender, Law, and Technoscience • Modern Ethnography and the Ethnography of Modernity • The Fourth World: Issues of Indigenous Peoples • Medicine, Food, and Health • Gender and Symbolism • Anthropology of Law • Medical Ethics (Section Leader) • Law &amp; Society • Gendered Perspectives on the Law • Cultural Studies of Law • Contemporary Cultural Anthropology • Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Family • History and Ethnography of the Yanomami and the Kaliai  PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE Elected Board Member, Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) (2010-1012) Hampshire College Representative, Search Committee, Five College Feminist Science Studies Position (2010-2011) Director, Law Program, Hampshire College (2008-Present) Pre-Law Advisor, Hampshire College (2007-Present) Co-Coordinator, Five College Undergraduate Anthropology Conference, Hampshire College (2009-2010) Policy Committee, Hampshire College School of Science (2009-2010) Steering Committee, Culture, Brain, and Development Program, Hampshire College (2008-2010) Faculty Advisor, Hampshire College Pre-Law Society (2008-2009) Search Committee, African-American Studies Position, Hampshire College School of Social Science (2008-2009) Hampshire Representative, Five College Native American Indian Studies Program (2008-2011) Listserv Editor, H-MedAnthro (medical anthropology listserv through H-Net) (2006-2009) Graduate Student Representative, President’s Council on Minority Affairs, Rice University (2001-2003) Anthropology Representative, Graduate Student Association, Rice University (2001-2003) Administrative Assistant, “MSA 3,” Annual Meeting of the Modernist Studies Association, Houston (2001) Steering Committee Member, Feminist Reading Group, Rice University (1997-1999)

Manuscript Reviews: Cultural Anthropology, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, American Anthropologist, Current Anthropology, American Indian Quarterly, Body &amp; Society

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS • American Anthropological Association (Sections: Society for Medical Anthropology, Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, Society for Cultural Anthropology, American Ethnological Society) • Law and Society Association (Member of Law and Indigeneity CRN) • Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities • Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)