Kathleen M. Adams

Kathleen M. Adams is a cultural anthropologist, Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London, and Professor Emerita at Loyola University Chicago,. Adams is known for her research on cultural transformations in island Southeast Asia, (especially Toraja society in Indonesia), and her contributions to critical tourism studies, heritage studies, Indonesian art, and museum studies. Her award-winning books include ''[http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-4431-9780824830724.aspx Art as Politics: Re-crafting Identities, Tourism and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia]'' and ''[https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498516334/The-Ethnography-of-Tourism-Edward-Bruner-and-Beyond The Ethnography of Tourism: Edward Bruner and Beyond]'' (coedited with N. Leite and Q. Casteneda). She has written four other books, co-edited special journal issues and published articles on topics ranging from tourism research ethics to globalization and the politics of Indonesian arts.

Adams received her B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Washington. Prior to joining the faculty at Loyola University Chicago, Adams held the Mouat Family Endowed Chair for Junior Faculty at Beloit College. In Chicago, she was also an Adjunct Curator at the Field Museum of Natural History. She has held fellowships and visiting appointments at various universities. She was the [http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/visit/vss.html Isaac Manasseh Meyer Senior Fellow] at the National University of Singapore's Centre for Advanced Study (1999), a visiting professor at Loyola University Chicago's John Felice Rome Center (2008-2009), Ateneo de Manila University (2016), and Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (2016), and a Visiting Fellow at The Center for Tourism Research at Wakayama University (2020-2023). She has also taught on several University of Virginia Semester at Sea voyages.

Adams' research has been supported by the Fulbright, the American Philosophical Society, the Henry R. Luce Foundation and other foundations. She has received several book prizes and was awarded Loyola University's Sujack Master Researcher Award twice (2016, 2020), 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. In 2024 she was listed on Redwood High School's Avenue of Giants. Provided by Wikipedia