Anthropology Department

Katherine Miller

Visiting Assistant Professor

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Education

Ph.D. 2014 University of California, San Diego
M.A.  2004 University of California, San Diego
B.A.  2001 Reed College

Research interests

Islam, International Development, Ethics & Morality, Isma’ilism, Cultural Change, Values, Volunteerism, Transnational Religious Communities, Pakistan

Research Experience

Dissertation Fieldwork: December 2006-March 2008, July-August 2008. Hunza Valley, Pakistan. Ethnographic research on local development institutions, volunteerism and an Isma’ili ‘ethics of community’ in Central Hunza, Northern Areas, Pakistan. 

Academic Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2010-11 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. 

2010 Summer Graduate Teaching Fellowship. University of California, San Diego. 

2002-2006 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. U. S. Department of Education, Jacob K. Javits Fellowships Program. 

2005 Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship. South Asia Summer Language Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 

2002 Dean’s Fellowship. Division of Social Sciences, University of California, San Diego. 

2000 McGill-Lawrence Internship Award. Reed College, Portland, Oregon. 

Professional Presentations

American Anthropological Association Meetings, Montreal, QC, Canada. November 2011. “Development is Our Jihad:” Collective Action and Ethical Community in Hunza, Northern Pakistan.

Society for the Anthropology of Religion Biennial Meetings, Santa Fe, New Mexico. April 2011. Cultivating the Community: Volunteerism as Ethical Practice.                                  

American Anthropological Association Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana. November 2010. Volunteers and Entrepreneurs: Development and the Moral Self in Northern Pakistan.

American Anthropological Association Meetings, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. December 2009. Volunteering for Development: Collective Action and the Meanings of Community in Northern Pakistan. 

Publications

2009. Review of Morality: An anthropological perspective by Jarrett Zigon. Ethos 37(4).

Teaching Experience

July-August 2010. Instructor. Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego. Course: Debating Multiculturalism.

Teaching Assistantships and Readerships

Spring 2012. Teaching Assist. Human Development Program, University of California, San Diego. Course: Social Development. Professor Monica Sweet. 

Fall 2008-Spring 2010; Winter 2012. Teaching Assist. Human Development Program, University of California, San Diego. Course: Field Research in Human Development. Professor Clarissa Reese.

Fall 2008; Fall 2009. Teaching Assist. Human Development Program, University of California, San Diego. Course: Experimental Projects in Human Development Research. Professors Marissa Westerfield and Clarissa Reese. 

Spring 2008. Teaching Assist. Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego. Course: Evolution of the Human Brain. Professor Katerina Semendeferi.

Spring 2008. Reader. Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego. Course: Gender and Work. Associate Professor Liberty Walther.

Spring 2004. Teaching Assist. Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego. Course: Language, Identity and Community. Professor Kathryn Woolard.

Winter 2004. Teaching Assist. Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego. Course: Social Anthropology. Professor Don Tuzin. 

Fall 2003. Teaching Assist. Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego. Course: Cultural Anthropology. Professor Suzanne Brenner.

Professional Activities

2011. Panel Co-organizer. AAA Annual Meetings, Montreal, QC, Canada. Panel: Politics of the Good: On Ethics and Community.

2009. Graduate Student Liaison & Data Analyst. 2009 AAA Ethics Survey. American Anthropological Association Ethics Task Force.

2009. Panel Co-organizer. AAA Annual Meetings, San Francisco, California. Panel: Religion and Development in Neoliberal Globalization.