Naomi Leite
leite [*at*] berkeley [*.*] edu

Visiting Pre-Doctoral Scholar, 2009-10
Department of Anthropology
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2S2


EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology

Dissertation title: Global Affinities: Articulations of Marrano Identity and Relatedness in an Interconnected Age
Dissertation committee: Nelson Graburn (chair), Stanley Brandes, Margaret W. Conkey, George Lakoff
Languages: Portuguese (fluent reading, speaking, and writing); Spanish (fluent reading; conversational); French (proficient reading)

University of California, Berkeley
M.A. Anthropology, 1996

University of California, Berkeley
B.A. History of Art and Religious Studies, 1994
Thesis: Orate Pro Eo [Pray for Him]: A Pilgrim’s Offering to Santiago de Compostela, a study of the visual culture of surrogate pilgrimage in medieval Europe.
Honors: Finalist, University Medal ("Most Distinguished Graduate"); Phi Beta Kappa; BA summa cum laude


APPOINTMENTS

Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Visiting Research Associate, Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, 2008-

University of California, Los Angeles
Visiting Scholar in the Humanities, 2004-05

Lehrhaus Judaica (an independent Center for Jewish Studies), Berkeley, CA
Associate Director, 2000-03


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2009   “Anthropological Interventions in Tourism Studies,” The Sage Handbook of Tourism Studies, pp. 35-64. Mike Robinson and Tazim Jamal, eds. London: Sage. (with N. Graburn)

2007  “Materializing Absence: Tourists, Surrogates, and the Making of Jewish Portugal,” Things That Move: The Material Worlds of Tourism and Travel. Mike Robinson, ed. Leeds, UK: Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change. (Digital publication, on CD)

2006  Review of Contemporary Tourism: Diversity and Change, by Erik Cohen. (with N. Graburn) Annals of Tourism Research 33(1):269-71.

2006  Review of Turismo contemporaneo: Diversidad y cambio, por Eric Cohen. (with N. Graburn) Annals of Tourism Research en Español, 8(1): 195-97.

2005  “Travels to an Ancestral Past: On Diasporic Tourism, Embodied Memory, and Identity.” Antropológicas 9:273-302.

2004  Comment on James Clifford, “Looking Several Ways: Anthropology and Native Heritage in Alaska.” (with N. Graburn) Current Anthropology 45(1):24-25.


SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

2008  “Local Identity, Global Identification: Portugal’s New Marranos and Their Ashkenazi Jewish ‘Kin’ Abroad.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

2008  “Blurring the Researcher - Research Subject Distinction: ‘The Field’ as a State of Mind.” Introduction to panel, “Embodied Engagements: Shifting Subjectivities in Ethnographic Practice.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.

2008  “From Portuguese Ancestral Identity to Global Ethnic Identification: Marranos and/as Jews.” Presented at the conference Anthropologies of Identity in the Portuguese-Speaking World, UC Berkeley.

2008  “Thinking Through Space.” Invited presentation in the colloquium on Heritage, Space, and Place. Tourism Studies Working Group, UC Berkeley.

2007  “Materializing Absence: Tourists, Surrogates, and the Making of ‘Jewish Portugal.’” Paper presented at the conference Things That Move: The Material Worlds of Tourism and Travel, Leeds Metropolitan University, U.K.

2007  “Bodies, Spaces, Memories: Historical Tourism, Imagination, and the Materialization of Absence.” Invited lecture in the Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Colloquium Series, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley.

2006  “Understanding European Identities.” Invited lecture in Anthropology of Mediterranean Europe, UC Berkeley.

2006  “Marranos/Anusim: The Making of a Portuguese Ethnic Group.” Invited lecture in Anthropology of Mediterranean Europe, UC Berkeley.

2006  “Heritage Tourism: History, Ancestry, Emotion.” Invited lecture in Anthropology of Tourism, UC Santa Cruz.

2005  “Rethinking Heritage Tourism: Reflections on ‘Heritage’, Experience, and Identity.” Invited presentation at New Theoretical Paradigms in Tourism Research, Biennial Seminar of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Tourism (RC-50), Wageningen, Holland.

2004  “Anusim (Crypto-Jews) in Porto, Portugal: A Report from the Field.” Annual Meeting of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies, Portland, Oregon.

2003  “‘The Most Jewish Country in the World’: Hidden Heritage, Tourism, and the Re-Creation of Portuguese Jewishness.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 2003.

2003  “Heritage Tourism and Portuguese-Jewish Ethnic Revival.” Paper presented in the Tourism Studies Working Group Colloquium Series, UC Berkeley. 

2002  “Ethics and the Ethnographer’s Identity.” Invited lecture in Research Methods in Social/Cultural Anthropology, UC Berkeley.

1998  “Museum Money for Academic Anthropology, 1860–1920: Locating the Origins of a Disciplinary Divide.” Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Anthropological Association, Sacramento. 

1997  “Situational Obscenity: Methodological and Theoretical Issues in the Study of ‘Obscene’ Folklore.” Annual Meeting of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, San Jose, CA.

1997  “Marking the Boundaries of Obscenity: The Performance of Collective Identity Through ‘Obscene’ Folklore.” Annual Meeting of the California Folklore Society, Santa Barbara, CA.


PANELS and CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

Panels Organized and Chaired

2008  Chair and panel co-organizer (with Alexis Bunten, Humboldt State University, Anthropology) for “Embodied Engagements: Shifting Subjectivities in Ethnographic Practice.” Annual Meeting of the Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA. 

2006  Panel co-organizer (with Kevin Meethan, University of Plymouth, UK, Sociology) for “Tourism, Globalization, and Destination Society.” XVI ISA World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa. 

2003  Chair and panel co-organizer (with Erica Lehrer, Concordia University, History) for “Choosing Jewish: Ethnicity, Performance, and the Cultural Politics of Jewishness.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago.

1998  Chair and panel co-organizer (with Rachael Stryker, Mills College, Anthropology) for “Towards a Reintegration of Theory and Application: Lessons from the History and Ethnography of Anthropology.” Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Anthropological Association, Sacramento, CA. 

Conferences Organized

2008  Co-organizer of Anthropologies of Identity in the Portuguese-Speaking World (with Paula Mota Santos, Anthropology, Univ Fernando Pessoa, Portugal). 

2008  Co-organizer of Celebrity, Politics, and Conservation: Tourism in Southern Africa (with Robin Turner, Political Science, UC Berkeley). 

2007  Co-organizer of States of Tourism: Mexico and Cuba (with Alex Saragoza, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley).

2005  Conference Planning Committee, On Voyage: New Directions in Tourism Theory.


SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, and AWARDS

Multi-Year Fellowships
Fialon Fellowship, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley, 2003-2008
National Science Foundation - Graduate Research Fellowship, 1995-1998           

Research Fellowships and Grants        
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2005-2006
Amado Research Fellowship in Sephardic Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA, 2004-2005
Institute for European Studies - Dissertation Field Research Grant, UC Berkeley, 2005
Portuguese Studies Program - Field Research Grants, UC Berkeley, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2004           
Lowie Research Awards, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, 1997, 1998, 2003                       
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 1998-1999
National Science Foundation-Berkeley Fund, Grants for Pre-Dissertation Research in Portugal, 1996, 1997, 1998      
     
Awards for Scholarly Writing
Maybelle Toombs Award in History of Art, UC Berkeley, for outstanding honors thesis: Orate Pro Eo [Pray for Him]: A Pilgrim’s Offering to Santiago de Compostela, 1994
Jean P. Steager Memorial Prize in Folklore Studies, UC Berkeley, for outstanding ethnographic and archival research paper: “Taming the Threat: Obscene Folklore in a Liberal Religious Youth Group,” 1993

Teaching Awards
Teaching Effectiveness Award, UC Berkeley, 2008
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley, 2007


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor, Dept of Anthropology, UC Berkeley

2009  "Museum Anthropology" (summer: Undergraduate lecture) 
2009  "Anthropologies of the Global" (spring: Undergraduate seminar)
2008  "Tourism and Modernity" (spring: co-instructor, Graduate seminar)
2008  "Senior Honors Thesis Seminar" (fall: Undergraduate seminar)
2006  "Ethnographic Methods and Data Analysis" (spring & fall: instructor/supervisor, Undergraduate research internship)

Teaching Assistant, Dept of Anthropology, UC Berkeley

2007  "Introduction to Social/Cultural Anthropology" (spring & fall: TA)
2006  "Introduction to Social/Cultural Anthropology" (spring: Head TA)
2003  "Anthropology of Art" (fall: TA)
2002  "Anthropology of Tourism" (fall: TA)
1997  "Anthropology of Europe" (spring: TA)
1996  "Forms of Folklore" (fall: Reader)


MUSEUM WORK

2003  Contributing Guest Curator, Brought to Light: The Storied Collections of the Magnes Museum, exhibition segment on Spanish Inquisition documents. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA.

2002  Curator, The Sephardic Book - From the Fourteenth Century to the Twentieth Century. In collaboration with Dr. Moshe Lazar,  Comparative Literature, University of Southern California. Reutlinger Center, Berkeley, CA.

1998  Research Consultant, Souvenirs from Israel: 1948–1998. Exhibition on American tourists’ varied relationships with Israel, as reflected in practices of souvenir purchase and display. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA.

1991-1997  Various positions in museum education and administration: Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA; Jewish Museum, San Francisco; UC Berkeley Art Museum; Museum Management Institute.


SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Peer Reviewing
Cultural Anthropology, Annals of Tourism Research  

University
2008  Workshop Leader, “Creating Effective Lesson Plans,” UC Berkeley Teaching Conference for New Graduate Student Instructors.
2008  Focus-group participant, project to develop a Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education, UC Berkeley Graduate Teaching and Resource Center.
2008  Workshop Panelist, "Preparing for PhD Qualifying Exams," Anthropology, UC Berkeley.
2007  Workshop Leader, “Teaching in the Social Sciences,” UC Berkeley Teaching Conference for New Graduate Student Instructors.
2007 Moderator, “Undergraduate Perspectives on Instruction in the Social Sciences.” UC Berkeley Teaching Conference for New Graduate Student Instructors.
2007  Workshop Panelist, "Practical Aspects of Dissertation Fieldwork," Anthropology, UC Berkeley.
2003-04, 2006-08  Co-Chair, Tourism Studies Working Group, UC Berkeley.
2003  Co-Founder, Tourism Studies Working Group, UC Berkeley.
2001  Workshop Panelist, “Working in Academic Administration with a Graduate Degree in the  Social Sciences.” Cal Career Week, UC Berkeley.


PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Anthropological Association
Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (Portugal)
Council for the Anthropology of Jews and Judaism
Society for Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology
Society for Humanistic Anthropology