EDUCATION:

EMPLOYMENT:

PUBLICATIONS: Books

PUBLICATIONS: Journal Articles and Book Chapters

REPORTS:

INVITED LECTURES AND COLLOQUIA:

Papers have been presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, the American Culture Association, the Eastern Sociological Society, the Midwest American Culture Association, the International Visual Sociology Associaltion.

Invited lectures have been given at Teachers College, Columbia University; Anthropology and Communications Departments, Ohio State University; Visual Scholars Program, University of Iowa; Anthropology Colloquium, College of Santa Fe, New Mexico; Anthropology Clubs, West Chester State College, Pennsylvania and Burlington County College, New~Jersey; International Center for Photography, New York; Japanese American Culture and Community Center, Los Angeles, California; Lowie Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, California; Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania; Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania; Department of Sociology, University of Bologna; Department of Sociology, University of Padowa; Deparment of Photography, Maryland Institue of Art; Department of Sociology, Boston University; Harvard Graduate School of Education

Invited papers have been read during the Conference on Visual Anthropology, Philadelphia; the Conference on Film as Ethnography, Manchester, U.K.; the Conference on Visual Sociology and Visual Anthropology, Amsterdam; Conference on Culture and Communication, Philadelphia; the Conference on Native American Interaction Patterns, University of Alberta; the Conference on American Indian Images on Film, University of New Mexico; Symposium on Child-Made Films, New Paltz, N.Y., Oberlin Film Conference, Oberlin, Ohio, the Japanese Popular Culture Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, CA.

GRANTS RECEIVED AND FIELDWORK:

1996 Principal Investigator, Summer Research Fellowship, Temple University-- "Japanese Family Photography as Visual  Communication."
1996 Recipient, Faculty Grant-in-Aid of Research, Temple University -- "Japanese Family Photography as Visual Communication."
1993, 94 Principal Investigator, Center for East Asian Studies, Temple University "Japanese Family Photography as Visual Communication" ($4,300).

1992 Principal Investigator, Eastman Kodak Company -- "The Impact of Electronics on Youth Segments" ($36,000).

1989 Principal Investigator, Summer Research Fellowship, Temple University-- "A Critical Examination of Film Reviews Published in the American Anthropologist, 1965-85."

1988 Recipient, Faculty Grant-in-Aid of Research, Temple University -- "Completion of Monograph on Japanese American Photography."

1985 Recipient, Mellon Grant, Center for Development of the Liberal Arts, Temple University -- "Video Exchange Handbook."

1984a Recipient, Faculty Grant-in-Aid of Research, Temple University -- "Tourist Development Interviews."

1984b Recipient, Course Development Grant, Media Learning Center, Temple University -- "Anthropological Problems in Visual Production."

1983 Principal Investigator, Summer Research Fellowship, Temple University--"The Development of a Tourist Community: An Ethnohistorical Reconstruction."

1981a Recipient, National Science Foundation Science Faculty Professional Development Grant, SPI-8165005 -- "Social Science Film Production" ($29,600).

1981b Principal Investigator, Research Incentive Fund, Temple University-- "Pilot Study for an Ethnography of Navajo Film Communication" ($1,278).

1979a Recipient, Course Development Grant, Temple University-- "Sociovidistics."

1979b Principal Investigator, Polaroid Corporation. "A Study of Polavision and Home Moviemaking" ($7,200).

1978a Principal Investigator, Summer Research Fellowship, Temple University -- "Completion of a Research Documentary entitled: Context Film: The Navajo Film Themselves."

1978b Recipient, Faculty Grant-in-Aid of Research, Temple University -- "Completion of Research Film" ($1,550).

1978c Co-Principal Investigator, Research Incentive Fund Grant, Temple University -- "Pilot Study of an Ethnography of Visual Communication" (with Jay Ruby).

1975 Principal Investigator, Summer Research Fellowship, Temple University -- "Towards Ethnographies of Visual Communication."

1970-73 Principal Investigator, National Institute of Mental Health grant no. S-R01-MH17521-01,02,03 ($55,583.00). "Exploring Social Perception with Film" administrated by the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic.

1966-67 Research Assistant, National Science Foundation grant nos. GS 1038 and GS 1759. "The Use of Film in Cross-Cultural Communication."

VISUAL PRODUCTION:

Filmmaking:

1973 Produced and edited First Footage: Four Female Groups (40 min) and First Footage: Two Male Groups (21 min) -- two 16mm black and white films that illustrate comparative findings of socio-documentary film research with Philadelphia teenagers.

1967-72 Organized and directed groups of Philadelphia teenagers in their production of 16mm black and white sound films: What We Do On Saturdays On Our Spare Time, The Robberv, Don't Make A Good Girl Go Bad, WPFG-MI, God and The Life of Man.

1966 Wrote, directed and photographed a 16mm black and white sound film entitled For Ages 10 to Adult (with Ben Achtenberg).

Photoserigraphy:

1967,68 One man show, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Fall.

1968 Group show, Cheltenham Art Centre, Spring.

Photography:

1966 Group Show, West Philadelphia Free Library.

1965 One man show, Dennis Playhouse, Dennis, Mass.

1998 “Traditional Views.” One man show, Richard Cross Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia, Penna.

MEDIA PARTICIPATION:

Magazines, newspapers:

"Memories -- Visual Anthropology: 'the upside of life"' by Robert Brothers' Temple Times, December 18, 1986.

"Smile, Yankee, and wave your hamburger" by Dick Pothier, The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 1, 1981.

"Snapshots Provide Study of Culture" by Debra Voisin, Albuquerque Journal (North), March 6, 1982.

"Home Movies: Biased Glimpses of Life" by Lewis Beale, Temple University Alumni Review 29(1):19-22, Summer, 1978.

"Home Movies Show More Than You See" by Paul Jablow, Philadelphia Inquirer, March 12, 1976.

"Story of American Culture Found in Family Pictures" by Robert Salgado, The Sundav Bulletin (Philadelphia), May 12, 1974.

Radio Interviews:

"Kodak Culture as Popular Culture" on Charlie Hardy's Popular Culture Show (funded by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council), WUHY, June 3, 1981.

"The First Philadelphia Home Movie Festival" on Fresh Air, UUHY, December 16, 1975.

Video Interviews:

"Anthropology and Home Media: The U.S. and Japan" at the National Institute of Media Education, Chiba, Japan, April 11, 1995.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:

Founder, Editor of Sensei: Temple Unversity Japan Faculty Publication, 1994-95.

President, Society for Visual Anthropology, 1989-91 (President-Elect, 1988-89).

Member, Board of Directors, American Anthropological Association, 1989-91.

Member, Commission on Visual Anthropology, IUAES, 1986 present.

Contributing Editor for the Society for Visual Anthropology (monthly column), Anthropology Newsletter, August, 1988-90.

Jury Member, Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Video Festival, American Anthropology Association, 1988-89, 1991-92.

Member, Board of Directors, Society for Visual Anthropology, March, 1986-92.

Staff Anthropologist, The Japanese American Family Album Project, National Endowment for the Humanities, Museum Exhibitions Project, 1985-87.

Jury Member, Fiction Films, American Film Festival, 1985.

Panelist, Media Grants, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1984, 1985.

Staff Anthropologist, The Japanese American Family Album Project, The Japanese American Culture and Community Center, Los Angeles, 1982-1983.

Advisory Board, Society for the Anthropology of Visual Communication, 1982-1986.

Research Associate, Anthropology Film Center, 1981-83.

Director and Coordinator, Master of Arts Program in Visual Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Temple University, 1980-91; Co-Director, 1992-5.

Editor, Working Papers in Culture and Communication, 1976-82.

Book Review Editor, Studies in the Anthropologv of Visual Communication, January 1977-October 1979.

Consulting Editor, Studies in Visual Communication, September 1979-1985.

Director, The First Philadelphia Home Movie Festival, Temple University, March 11, 1976.

Co-Director, Conference on Culture and Mass Communication, Temple University, Philadelphia, March 22-24, 1979.

Director, Conference on Culture and Communication, Temple University, Philadelphia, March 13-15, 1975.

Secretary-Treasurer, Society for the Anthropology of Visual Communication, 1972-74.

Assistant Editor, Program in Ethnographic Film Newsletter, 1973-74.

Assistant Director, Conference on Visual Anthropology, Temple University, Philadelphia, March 1974.

ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS:

American Anthropological Association

Society for Visual Anthropology

American Film Research Institute

International Visual Sociology Association

American Culture Association

Japan Society of Boston

January, 1998

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COURSES PREPARED TO TEACH:

American Culture
World Cultures
Human Images: An Approach from Communication
Introduction to Visual Anthropology
Anthropology Through Feature Films
Pictorial Lives: A Personal Anthropology
Visual Anthropology of Modern Japan
Indigenous Media
Anthropology of Mass Media
American Culture in Japan
Anthropological Problems in Visual Production
Methods in Culture and Visual Communication Fieldwork
Teaching of Anthropology
Anthropology of Home Media