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Kimberly A. Christen

Associate Professor

Department of Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies

Director of Digital Projects, Plateau Center for American Indian Studies

Washington State University

PO Box 644010

Pullman, WA 99164-4010

509-***-**** (office)

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EDUCATION

2004 PhD, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

1996 MA, Religious Studies, University of Colorado

1993 BA, Religious Studies, Arizona State University

RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS

Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Digital Media and Technology, Digital

Humanities, Museum Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Australian Aboriginal Studies,

focusing on: contemporary indigeneity, indigenous use of new technologies and media

production, social media in practice, open access movements, digital technology and global

access, intellectual property rights and indigenous traditional knowledge, digital

repatriation and curation, archive standards and new technologies, indigenous cultural

production, indigenous cultural heritage and international policy, indigenous knowledge

and the public domain, indigenous-state relations, and articulations of law, culture, and

technology.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2011-presentAssociate Professor, Department of Critical Culture, Gender and Race

Studies. Washington State University

2011-presentDirector of Digital Projects, Plateau Center for American Indian Studies,

Washington State University

2005- 2011Assistant Professor, Department of Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies,

Washington State University

2004-2005Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Indiana University

1999-2004Graduate Teaching Assistant, Departments of Film and Digital Media, History of

Consciousness, and Women Studies,

University of California,

Santa Cruz

FIELDWORK

Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia

Plateau Tribes: Washington, Oregon and Idaho, USA

May 2008-present (monthly trips to each reservation during the academic year) Including:

the Yakama Indian Nation, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation, the

Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, the Coeur d Alene Tribe, the Confederated

Tribes of the Colville Reservation and the Spokane Tribe of Indians

PUBLICATIONS

Multimedia & Software Projects

2010-present Mukurtu: an open-source, content management and digital archive platform

aimed at the specific curatorial, content

management and intellectual property rights needs of indigenous peoples globally. Grant-

funded: NEH, ongoing.

(http://www.mukurtu.org/)

2008-present Plateau Peoples Web Portal: grant-funded (NWACC and ACLS), interactive,

online digital archive providing access to

Plateau peoples cultural materials at Washington State University through tribal

curation. (http://plateauportal.wsulibs.edu/)

2007 Mukurtu Wumpurrarni-kari Digital Archive: grant-funded stand-lone community digital

archive produced collaboratively

with Warumungu community members in Tennant Creek, N.T., Australia

(http://www.mukurtuarchive.org/history)

2006 Digital Dynamics Across Cultures: an interactive website developed with USC s

Institute for Multimedia Literacy; Vectors

Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular vol. 2 (1).

(http://www.vectorsjournal.org/issues

/3/digitaldynamics/)

2006 Anyinginyi Manuku Apparr: Stories From Our Country: a multi-layered oral history DVD

produced with Warumungu

people from Tennant Creek, NT, Australia

Under Consideration

Anyinginyi Manuku Apparr: Stories From Our Country: Warumungu People of Tennant Creek.

Compiled in conjunction with Warumungu people from Tennant Creek. Book manuscript reviewed

by Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, Australia. Revisions in progress.

In Progress

2012 Does Information Really Want to Be Free?: Indigenous Knowledge and the Politics of

Open Access submitted to the International Journal of Communication.

CONFERENCES and INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Remix This: Indigenous Knowledge, Social Media and the Public Domain Invited

Presentation at the GWS / Center for New Media Lecture Series: Digital Media, Feminist

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS:

Grants Awarded

National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Collections and Reference Resources

Grant, $339,000, 2012-2014

Institute for Museum and Library Services, National Leadership Grant, Advancing Digital

Resources, 496,000, 2011-2014

Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities $49,660, 2010-11

Northwest Academic Computing Consortium Proof-of-Concept Grant $10,000, 2008-2009

Washington State University, College of Liberal Arts, Faculty Travel Grant $1200, 2007

Washington State University, College of Liberal Arts, Myer Development Grant $5,0002007

Washington State University, College of Liberal Arts, Faculty Travel Grant $950, 2006

Washington State University New Faculty Seed Grant $17,000, 2006-2007

Washington State University College of Liberal Arts Initiation and Completion Grant

$1200, 2006

WSU Junior Faculty Nomination for the NEH Summer Stipend, 2005

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Research Grant

$12,500 2002

University of California, Pacific Rim Research Program Research Grant $15,000, 2001-2002

Institute for Humanities Research, Graduate Student Research and Travel Grant $3,500,

2000-2001

University of California, Pacific Rim Research Program Mini-Grant $5,000, 2000

Fellowships Awarded

American Council of Learned Societies, Digital Innovation Fellowship $80,600, 2009-2010

American Association of University Women, Summer Publication Fellowship $6,000, 2007

Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Summer Fellowship, School of Advanced Research, 2006

Vectors Fellowship, Annenberg Center for Communication, Institute for Multimedia

Literacy, University of Southern California, 2005

Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Digital Cultural Institutions Summer Fellowship,

May-October 2004

Women s Studies Dissertation Fellowship, University of California at Santa Cruz, 2004

History of Consciousness Dissertation Fellowship, University of California at Santa Cruz,

2004

University of California at Santa Cruz Regent s Fellowship 1999-2000 and 2003

TEACHING AND CURRICULUM:

Washington State University Courses Taught

--CES 240 Global Indigenous Issues

--CES 493 TOPIC: Exhibiting Culture

--CES 405 Cultural Theory and Criticism

--CES 244 Critical Globalizations

--CES 404 Stereotypes and the Media

--CES 440 Social Justice in a Global Context

--AMST 590 Digital Culture, Digital Divides

--AMST 475 Digital Diversity

Courses Created at Washington State University

--Global Indigenous Issues (adopted 2007)

--Critical Globalizations (adopted 2007)

--Digital Cultures Digital Divides (adopted 2009)

--Exhibiting Culture (special topics)

Indiana University

--Transnational Feminisms and the Politics of Globalization

--Sexual Politics

University of California, Santa Cruz

Teaching Assistant 1999-2004

--Travel and Tourism in the Modern World

--Myth and Ritual

--Writing Women s Lives

--Technothrillers

--Intro to Digital Media

--Television, Culture and Society

Professional Activities/Memberships

Member American Anthropological Association

Council for Museum Anthropology

Cultural Studies Association

Society of American Archivists

Editor/Board Associate Editor, Museum Anthropology Review 2008-present

Elected Board Member, Council for Museum Anthropology 2007-2010

Editorial Board Member, Museum Anthropology Journal 2006-2009

Ad-hoc Reviewer Museum Anthropology

Cultural Anthropology

People and Culture in Oceania

National Science Foundation

National Endowment for the Humanities

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

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