Kathleen M. Adams

Kathleen M. Adams in 2023

Kathleen M. Adams is a cultural anthropologist, Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London,[1] and professor emerita at Loyola University Chicago.[2] Her scholarship addresses cultural changes in island Southeast Asia, especially the Toraja people of Indonesia, critical tourism studies, heritage studies, arts, and museums.

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. For advanced Indonesian studies, she attended Cornell University and Satya Wacana University in Indonesia. Before assuming a faculty position at Loyola University Chicago, she was an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Beloit College, where she held the Mouat Family Endowed Chair.[3] She also served as an Adjunct Curator at the Field Museum of Natural History from 1997 to 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),[4] 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 [5])), 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.[6]). Her articles have been published in a wide range of venues, including the leading journals in her field.

Awards and honors

Adams is currently a Fulbright Specialist Awardee (2024-2026). In 2026, she received the Roy Wolfe Award for outstanding contributions to the field of recreation, tourism, and sports geography by the American Association of Geographers Recreation, Tourism and Sports Specialty Group. Adams' research has been funded by foundations such as the Fulbright,[7] the American Philosophical Society, and the Henry R. Luce Foundation. She received Loyola University's Sujack Master Researcher Award (2016, 2020),[8] 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.[9] In 2023, the American Anthropological Association's Council on Heritage and Tourism established an annual Kathleen M. Adams Student Paper Award.[10] In 2024, she was inducted into Redwood High School's Avenue of Giants.[11]

Adams 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).[12] She was an Isaac Manasseh Meyer Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore's Centre for Advanced Study (1999). She taught on University of Virginia Semester at Sea voyages.[13]

Books

Selected key articles

References

  1. ↑ "Professor Kathleen M Adams | SOAS". www.soas.ac.uk.
  2. ↑ "Dr. Kathleen M. Adams". Loyola University Chicago. Retrieved 2019-10-24.
  3. ↑ "Author Biography". Amazon. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  4. ↑ "Alpha Sigma Nu Newsletter - Winter 2009". Retrieved 19 February 2025.
  5. ↑ "Book Prize – ATIG". Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  6. ↑ "Book Prize". 8 February 2025.
  7. ↑ "Fulbright in Indonesia" (PDF). Aminex. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  8. ↑ "Past Recipients Loyola University Chicago Sujack Award". Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  9. ↑ The Princeton Review (2012). "Best Professors Name" (PDF). The Princeton Review Best 300 Professors. Princeton Review. p. 1. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  10. ↑ "Student Paper Award". Retrieved 15 September 2025.
  11. ↑ "AOG Inductee Bios". Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  12. ↑ "CTR Visiting Fellows | 和歌山大学". Archived from the original on 2021-06-02. Retrieved 2021-07-24.
  13. ↑ "Faculty and Staff – Kathleen Adams". Semester at Sea. Archived from the original on 2017-11-10. Retrieved 2013-11-13.

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