AUT - Sharyn Graham Davies

Associate professor Sharyn Graham Davies

Associate Professor of Social Sciences

Phone: 64 (09) 921 9999 x8467

Email: sharyn.davies@aut.ac.nz

Physical Address:
Level 14, Room WT1405, AUT Tower, corner of Wakefield and Rutland streets, Auckland Central

Qualifications:

Undergraduate

• BA University of Tasmania (1994-1996)
  
• BA First Class Honours, University of Tasmania and the Australian National University (1997)
  

Postgraduate

• University of Western Australia (1998-2002)
• PhD fully funded through an Australian Postgraduate Award.
• PhD: Tombois, Wedding Mothers, and Androgynous Priests: Conceptualising Gender Among Bugis in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
• Supervisors: Dr Lyn Parker and Dr Greg Acciaioli

Memberships and Affiliations:

• 2009- School Representative on Faculty Board
• 2009- Member of the Sub-Committee for the Review of Academic Programmes
• 2007- AUT Representative for the New Zealand Anthropology Association
• 2003- Member of the New Zealand Anthropology Association
• 2003- Member of the New Zealand Sociology Association
• 2003- Social Sciences Library Committee representative, AUT
• 2005-7 - Member of the American Anthropological Association
• 2004-5 - Member of the International Advisory Committee for the Conference Sexualities, Genders and Rights in Asia: An International Conference of Asian Queer Studies, 1-3 July, 2005 in Bangkok, Thailand
• 2002-5 - Associate Member, Transgender ASIA Research Centre, Hong Kong
• 2001 - Faculty of Arts Postgraduate Representative, University of Western Australia (UWA)
• 2001 - Postgraduate Research Student Grievance Conciliation Council Member (UWA)

Biography:

Employment history
2003-

• Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, AUT.
• Course Coordinator and Lecturer for Applied Media Ethics (First year course with 350 students).
• Course Coordinator and Lecturer for Social Research Design and Analysis (Masters level course).
• Course Coordinator and Lecturer for Qualitative Research Methods and Analysis (Masters level, on-line course).
• Course Coordinator and Lecturer for Gender and Sexuality (Masters level course).
• Course Coordinator and Lecturer for Information Retrieval (Masters level, on-line course)
• Lecturer for Approaches to Social Research (Masters level course)
• Cooperative Education Practicum supervisor (Third year course)
• Course Coordinator and Lecturer for Introduction to Anthropology (developed this first year course for AUT).
• Course Coordinator and Lecturer for Applied Ethics (Second year course).

Languages
Indonesian - Advanced
Bugis (Regional Indonesian language) - Social
Dutch - Basic
Te Reo Maori - Beginner

Publications:

Monographs, Sole Author

• 2010 - Gender Diversity in Indonesia: Sexuality, Islam, and Queer Selves, London: Routlege.
• 2007 - Challenging Gender Norms: Five Genders among Bugis in Indonesia. Boston: Thompson Wadsworth. ISBN-10: 0495092800.

Published Refereed Articles, Sole Author 

• 2007 - Les Femmes et la Politique en Indonsie: Les Dix Annes Depuis Beijing, Revue International Des Sciences Sociales: Faire le Point: Le Pouvoir des Femmes Dix Ans Aprs Beijing,184: 249-262. ISSN: 3034-3037. Reprint.
• 2005 - Women and Politics in Indonesia in the Decade Post-Beijing. International Social Science Journal, 57(184): 231-242. Translated into six languages.
• 2004 - Its Like One of Those Puzzles: Conceptualising Gender Among Bugis, Journal of Gender Studies, 13(2): 107-116. ISSN 0958-9236/ISSN 1465-3869
• 2004 - Lost in Translation: Women in Politics in Contemporary Indonesia, Asia Pacific Cultural Studies, 1, December, http://www.apcsjournal.org/  ISSN 1177-0155
• 2004 - While Diving, Drink Water: Bisexual and Transgender Intersection in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Journal of Bisexuality, 3(3/4): 231-248. ISSN 1529-9716
• 2001 - Negotiating Gender: Calalai' in Bugis Society, Intersections: Gender, History, and Culture in the Asian Context, 6, August: 1-14. http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue6/graham.html

Published Refereed Articles, Co-Author

• 2010 - Hessell, S., Hocking, C., & Davies, S. G. Boys with DCD: An Ethnographic Study of Participation in Gymnastics, Physical and Occupational Theory in Pediatrics.
• 2006 - The Don and Helen New Zealand Election 2005: A Media A-Gender, Pacific Journalism Review, 12(1): 65-85, with Heather Devere. ISSN: 1023-9499

Submissions to Refereed Journals, Sole Author

• Forthcoming - Mewujudkan Gender: Penjelajahan Isu-Isu Gender dan Sexualiti di Sulawesi (Embodied Gender: Exploring Issues of Gender and Sexuality in Sulawesi). Jurnal Antropologi Indonesia.

Refereed Book Chapters, Sole Author

• 2009 - Reprint: Hunting Down Love: Female Masculinity in Bugis Society. In E. Blackwood, S. Wieringa & A. Bhaiya (Eds.), Women's Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 139-158. ISBN: 1-4039-7768-2
• 2008 - The Contradictions of Indonesian Womens Participation in Politics. In S. Epstein (Ed.), Understanding Indonesia: Foreign Policy, Islam and Democracy (pp. 23-32). Wellington: Asian Studies Institute. ISBN: 978-877446-05-4
• 2007 - Hunting Down Love: Female Masculinity in Bugis Society. In E. Blackwood, S. Wieringa & A. Bhaiya (Eds.), Women's Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 139-158. ISBN: 1-4039-7768-2
• 2006 - Thinking of Gender in a Holistic Sense: Understandings of Gender in Sulawesi, Indonesia. In V. Demos & M. T. Segal (Eds.), Gender and the Local-Global Nexus: Theory, Research, and Action (Vol. 10, pp. 1-24). Oxford: Elsevier. ISBN: 0762313129
• 2006 - Gender and Status in Bugis Society. In S. Epstein (Ed.), Understanding Indonesia (pp. 93-106). Wellington: Asian Studies Institute. ISBN 0-473-10720-1
• 2004 - While Diving, Drink Water: Bisexual and Transgender Intersection in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. In Alexander, J. and Karen Yescavage (Eds.)Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others. Binghamton, NY: Hayworth Press, pp. 231-248. ISBN 1-56023-286-2
• 2004 - Bissu dalam I La Galigo (Bissu Shamans in I La Galigo). In Nurhayati Rahman (Ed.), La Galigo Menelusuri Jejak Warisan Sastra Dunia (La Galigo: Investigating the Legacy of World Literature). Makassar: Universitas Hasanuddin, pp. 101-135. ISBN 979-97666-0-5.

Published Articles, Sole Author

• 2005 - Reflections on the Queer Matters Conference, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 6(2):310-311. ISSN 1464-9373, Online ISSN: 1469-8447
• 2005 - A Gendered Campaign? Media Coverage of the 2005 Election, Women Talking Politics: Newsletter of the Aotearoa/New Zealand Women and Politics Network, 4: 9-11, with Heather Devere.
• 2003 - Bissu Shamans Still Letting the Spirits Move Them, The Jakarta Post, Sunday, September 21, p. 8.
• 2003 - AIDS Education from an Unexpected Corner: Government Officials and Waria in South Sulawesi, Inside Indonesia, 75:17-19. ABN 25-033-159-571.
• 2002 - Bissu Priests in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Latitudes, 14: 20-6, March.
• 2002 - Priests and Gender in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, TransgenderAsia, October, Hong Kong, pp. 13-20.
• 2002 - Sex, Gender, and Priests in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter, Leiden University, Netherlands, 29:27.
• 2001 - Sulawesis Fifth Gender, Inside Indonesia, April-June, 66:16-17. ABN 25-033-159-571.
• 2001 - Gender Transcendent Priests in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tapestry, Winter, 96.
• 2000 - The Bissu as a Spiritual Third Gender, Transceiver, 2(10):12-15.

Encyclopedia Entries, Sole Author

• 2010                Social-Political Movements: Homosexuality and Queer Identity Movements – Southeast Asia. In Joseph Saud (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers.

• 2008 - Heterosexual Marriage: 1900-2005. In J. T. Sears (Ed.), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, & Sexuality (Vol. 6). Westport, CT: Greenwood Pubilshing Group, pp. 139-143. ISBN: 0-313-33359-9
• 2005 - Women, Gender and Sexuality: Modern Discourses. In Joseph Saud (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, volume 3, pp. 393-400. ISBN 10: 90 04 13247

Published Refereed Conference Proceedings, Sole Author

• 2003 - Consuming the Global: Transgender subjectivities and the body in Indonesia, Sociological Association of Aotearoa /New Zealand Conference: Knowledge: Capitalism: Critique, Auckland University of Technology, 9-11 December, New Zealand, available on CD-ROM.

Book Reviews, Sole Author

• Forthcoming - Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experiences, by Katrina Karkazis, Durham: Duke University Press. Anthropological Forum.
• 2005 - Tana Toraja: A Social History of an Indonesian People, by Terance W. Bigalke, Singapore, Singapore University Press, 2005. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 7(2): 222-224. ISSN 1174-8915.
• 2005 - Sisters and Lovers: Women and Desire in Bali, by Megan Jennaway, Rowman and Littlefield: New York, 2002. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 36(1): 160-162. ISSN: 0022-4634
• 2004 - Authority and Enterprise among the Peoples of South Sulawesi, by Roger Tol, Kees van Dijk, and Greg Acciaioli (Eds.), Leiden: KITLV Press, 2000. Asian Studies Review, 28(4): 448. ISSN 1035-7823.
• 2004 - Re-Orient: Change in Asian Societies, by Aat Vervoorn, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003. Australian Journal of Political Science, 38(3): 580-581. ISSN 1036-1146.
• 2004 - The Mak Nyahs: Malaysian Male to Female Transsexuals, by Teh Yik Koon, Eastern Universities Press, Singapore, 2002. Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, 10(August): http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue10/graham_review.html.
• 2003 - Framing the Sexual Subject, edited by Richard Parker, Regine Barbosa and Peter Aggleton. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000. Anthropological Forum, 13(1):96-98. ISSN 0066-4677; print 1462-2902.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND ATTENDANCE
Invited Speaker:

• 2010           Keynote address: ‘Connecting Women: Respecting Differences. Women’s Studies Association of New Zealand Conference, University of Waikato, 19-21 November, Hamilton, New Zealand.

• 2009 - Keynote address: Globalisation and Identity in Indonesia, Globalization and National Identity in Asia, Victoria University, 29-30 October, Wellington, New Zealand.
• 2009 - Address given to University of Auckland Planning Department on Qualitative Research.
• 2008 - Keynote address: Regional Autonomy, Politics and Gender in Indonesia, Thinking Asia, Victoria University, 23rd May, Wellington, New Zealand.
• 2007 - Keynote address: The Salience of Silence: Production of Queer Subjects in Indonesia, Films of Desire: Sexuality and the Cinematic Imagination, Neemrana Fort Palace, 7-10 March, Rajasthan, India.
• 2006 - Women in Indonesian Politics, Invited speaker to address the Indonesian Embassy in Wellington, sponsored by the Embassy and the Asian Studies Institute, Victoria University, 1 May, Wellington, New Zealand.
• 2005 - An Interpretation of Gender in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Invited speaker to address the Indonesian Embassy in Wellington, sponsored by the Embassy and the Asian Studies Institute, Victoria University, 6 September, Wellington, New Zealand.

Speaker:

• 2008 - Queer Femininities, Joint United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand Anthropology Conference Ownership and Appropriate, 8-12 December, Auckland, New Zealand
• 2007 - Localising Globalised Male Femininities: A Queer Muslim Fashion Parade, Australian Anthropology Society Conference: Transforming Economies, Changing States, 30 October-1 November, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
• 2007 - Taboo, Sexuality, and Anthropology, Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand Annual Conference, 16-18 November, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
• 2007 - Reviewing Women and Politics in Indonesia, seminar presentation at Auckland University of Technology, 23 March, Auckland, New Zealand.
• 2006 - Women and Democracy: Womens Political Participation in Indonesia, International Conference on Security, Democracy and Human Rights, Mutah University, 10-12 July, Jordan.
• 2006 - Ritual Possession and Belief in South Sulawesi, Bracketing [Belief], 31st Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand Conference, University of Canterbury, 9-11 November, New Zealand.
• 2006 - Doing Fieldwork, Department of Anthropology, Massey University, 21 August, New Zealand.
• 2005 - Changing Religions in Indonesia: Islam and Syncretism on the Island of Sulawesi, Community, Place and Change, The Australian Sociological Association Conference, University of Tasmania, 5-8 December, Australia.
• 2005 - Bisexual and Transgender Intersections in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Sexualities, Genders, and Rights in Asia, International Conference of Asian Queer Studies, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 7-9 July, Thailand.
• 2005 - Embodied Gender: Exploring Issues of Gender and Sexuality in Sulawesi, Indonesia in the Changing Global Context: Building Cooperation and Partnership, 4th International Symposium of the Jurnal Antropologi Indonesia, University of Indonesia, Depok, 12-15 July, Indonesia.
• 2005 - Promoting Politics: Womens Participation in Politics in Indonesia, Gender Studies Conference, Muhammadiyah University, Malang, 7-9 February, Indonesia.
• 2005 - Asia-Pacific Womens Conference, Crowne Plaza, 11-12 June, Auckland, New Zealand.
• 2004 - Gender Studies in Indonesia, Gender Studies in Asia: Peoples, Politics and Power, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 23-24 September, Singapore.
• 2004 - The Trouble with Translating Transgender, 29th Annual Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists Aotearoa/New Zealand: Translations, Treaties and Testimonies: The Cultural Politics of Interpretation, Auckland University of Technology and Auckland University, 2-4 December, New Zealand.
• 2004 - Outside the Box: Contesting Female Femininity in Sulawesi, Indonesia, 15th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, 29 June-2 July, Canberra, Australia.
• 2004 - Queering Gender: The Limits of Western Theory in an Indonesian Context, Massey University Social Science Seminar Series, 5 May, Albany, New Zealand.
• 2003 - Consuming the Global: Transgender Subjectivities and the Body in Indonesia, Sociological Association of Aotearoa /New Zealand Conference: Knowledge: Capitalism: Critique, Auckland University of Technology, 9-11 December, New Zealand.
• 2003 - Playing Out Loud: Female Agency and Female Resistance in South Sulawesi, Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand: Anthropology and Expert Knowledge Celebrating the Life and Works of Sir Raymond Firth, 28-30 November, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand.
• 2003 - Female but not Woman: Agency and Resistance Among Females in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, 15th New Zealand Asian Studies Society International Conference: Asia: Images, Ideas, Identities, 21-24th November, Auckland, New Zealand.
• 2003 - Gender and the Indonesian Elections, Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang, 22-26 September, Indonesia.
• 2003 - Male Femininity: Exploring Calabai Subjectivities in Sulawesi, Indonesia, The International Convention of Asia Scholars, National University of Singapore, 19-22 August, Singapore.
• 2003 - Five Genders?: Rethinking Gender in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Department of Anthropology Seminar Series, Auckland University, 9th October, New Zealand.
• 2003 - Giving Love and Affection: Female-Female Relations in Indonesia, International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society, Witwatersrand University, 23-26th June, South Africa.
• 2002 - Past Impacts on Gender, discussion paper presented at Leiden University, 1st November, The Netherlands.
• 2002 - Contextualising Gender in Indonesia, paper presented to Girard-Liberty Rotary Club, 28th November, Ohio, USA.
• 2002 - Bissu Dalam La Galigo (Representation of Bissu Priests in La Galigo Texts), La Galigo International Conference Festival and Seminar, 20th August, Sulawesi, Indonesia.
• 2001 - Hunting Down Love: Calalai Subjectivity in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society Conference, Melbourne.
• 2001 - Gender and Sexuality in the Context of Globalisation and Localisation in Indonesia, Anthropology Symposium, Padang, Indonesia.
• 2001 - Hunters, Wedding Mothers, and Gender Transcendent Priests: Conceptualising Gender Among Bugis in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, AsiaPacific Queer Conference, Sydney University of Technology, Australia.
• 2000 - Gender Androgyny in Sulawesi, Indonesia, The International Foundation for Androgynous Studies Symposium, Perth, Australia.
• 2000 - Tombois, Transvestite Priests, and the Brides Maids: Gender in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Australian Anthropological Society Conference, Perth, Australia.
• 2000 - Doing Gender in Indonesia, Forum Kentut, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
• 2000 - Enriching our Understanding of Gender in Indonesia, South Sulawesi Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Five Genders?, Indonesian Seminar Series, Murdoch University, Australia.

Panels Chaired

• 2008 - Appropriating the (In)Appropriate: Rethinking Paegents, Contests and the Anthropology of Emblems, Joint United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand Anthropology Conference Ownership and Appropriate, 8-12 December, Auckland, New Zealand.
• 2006 - Democracy in Southeast Asia, International Conference on Security, Democracy and Human Rights, Mutah University, 10-12 July, Jordan.
• 2006 - Masculinities and Emerging Discourses, Bracketing [Belief], 31st Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand Conference, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 9-11 November.
• 2004 - Ethnographies in Southeast Asia, Queer Matters Conference, King's College London, 27-30 May, London, United Kingdom.

Panels Organised

• 2008 - Appropriating the (In)Appropriate: Rethinking Paegents, Contests and the Anthropology of Emblems, Joint United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand Anthropology Conference Ownership and Appropriate, 8-12 December, Auckland, New Zealand
• 2000 - Co-convenor of the Gender Panel at the Australian Asian Studies Conference, Perth, Australia.

Awards:

• 2011 Vice Chancellor's Teaching and Learning Award, Highly Commended, with Jeanie Benson.
  

• 2010           New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade International Development Research Fund for ‘Indonesia and its Police Force’: NZ$48,500.

• 2010           Applied Humanities Research Grant (AX10/04) for ‘Policing in Indonesia’: NZ$9,950.

• 2009           Seriously Asia Grant from the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to bring Dr Adrianus Meliala of the University of Indonesia to visit New Zealand to conduct academic seminars at AUT, Victoria University and the Royal Police College: NZ$11,500.

• 2009 - Indonesian Embassy and Victoria University, Wellington, funding to present keynote address at the Globalization and National Identity in Asia Conference, October (NZ$500).
• 2007 - AUT Contestable Conference Fund (Faculty of Applied Humanities) to attend the Australian Anthropology Society Conference: Transforming Economies, Changing States, 30 October-1 November, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (NZ$1,500).
• 2007 - AUT Contestable Local Conference Fund (Faculty of Applied Humanities) to attend the conference Taboo, Sexuality, and Anthropology, Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand Annual Conference, 16-18 November, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand (NZ$800).
• 2006 - AUT Contestable Conference Fund (Faculty of Applied Humanities) to attend the conference Understanding Islam, 10-12 July, Amman, Jordan (NZ$1,500)
• 2006 - AUT Contestable Conference Fund ( School of Social Sciences) to attend the conference Modernising Asia, Melbourne University, 29 Nov-1 Dec, Australia (NZ$1,500)
• 2006 - AUT Contestable Conference Fund (Local Conference Fund) to attend the conference Bracketing (Belief) ASAANZ at University of Canterbury, 9-11 November, New Zealand (NZ$800)
• 2005 - AUT Contestable Conference Fund (Faculty of Applied Humanities) to attend the conference Sexualities, Genders, and Rights in Asia International Conference of Asian Queer Studies, Mahidol University, Bankok, 7-9 July, Thailand (NZ$1,500).
• 2005 - AUT Contestable Conference Fund (School of Social Sciences) to attend the conference Community, Place and Change, The Australian Sociological Association Conference, University of Tasmania, 5-8 December, Australia (NZ$1,500).
• 2005 - AUT Contestable Research Fund to the Fourth International Symposium of the Journal Antropologi Indonesia, University of Indonesia, Depok, July 12-15 (NZ$1,000).
• 2005 - Postdoctoral Excellence Grant awarded by the University of Western Australia (AUS$1,500)
• 2004 - AUT Contestable Conference Fund (Faculty of Applied Humanities) to attend conference at Kings College, London (NZ$1,500).
• 2004 - AUT Contestable Conference Fund (School of Social Sciences) grant to attend Asian Studies Association of Australia Conference, Canberra (NZ$1,500).
• 2003 - AUT Contestable Conference Fund (Faculty of Applied Humanities) to attend international Asian Studies Conference, Singapore (NZ$1,500).
• 2003 - International Confederation of Asian Scholars funding to attend South East Asian Studies Seminar, Singapore (US$1,100).
• 2003 - Visiting Researchers Program, International Centre for Asian Studies, Thailand, funding to attend political workshop in Indonesia (US$500).
• 2003 - AUT Contestable Conference Fund (School of Social Sciences) grant to attend conference Considering Gender at Witwatersrand University in South Africa (NZ$1,500).
• 2002 - Huygens scholarship to undertake research in the Netherlands for six months (US$20,000).
• 2002 - Hassanudin University funding to attend conference in Sulawesi, Indonesia (US$1,000).
• 2001 - Asian Studies in Asia travel grant to attend conference in Sumatra, Indonesia (US$1,000).
• 2001 - AsiaPacifiQueer grant to attend conference in Sydney (US$500).
• 2000 - National Visiting Scholars Scholarship to undertake three months research at the Australian National University (US$5,000).