Dr Thomas Strong

Biography
Research Interests
Book Chapters
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2018 | 'Mary Douglas'
Strong, Thomas (2018) 'Mary Douglas' In: Hilary Callan (eds). International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons. [Details] |
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2017 | 'Becoming Witches: Sight, Sin, and Social Change in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea'
Strong, Thomas (2017) 'Becoming Witches: Sight, Sin, and Social Change in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea' In: Knut Rio, Michelle MacCarthy and Ruy Blanes (eds). Pentecostalism and Witchcraft in Melanesia and Africa. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave. [IR Link] [Details] |
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2013 | 'Judith Butler'
Strong, Thomas (2013) 'Judith Butler' In: Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. [Details] |
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2008 | 'Kinship between Judith Butler and Anthropology'
Strong, Thomas (2008) 'Kinship between Judith Butler and Anthropology' In: Gender and Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. [Details] |
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2006 | '’Dying Culture’ and Decaying Bodies'
Strong, Thomas (2006) '’Dying Culture’ and Decaying Bodies' In: Embodying Modernity and Postmodernity: Ritual, Praxis, and Social Change in the South Pacific. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
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2009 | 'Vital Publics of Pure Blood'
Strong, Thomas (2009) 'Vital Publics of Pure Blood'. BODY AND SOCIETY, 15 :169-191 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details] |
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2007 | 'Romantic relationships and their social context among gay/bisexual male youth in
the Castro District of San Francisco'
S.L. Eyre, E. Arnold, E. Peterson and T. Strong (2007) 'Romantic relationships and their social context among gay/bisexual male youth in the Castro District of San Francisco'. JOURNAL OF HOMOSEXUALITY, 53 :1-29 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details] |
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2006 | 'Land and Life: Some Terrains of Sovereignty in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea'
Strong, Thomas (2006) 'Land and Life: Some Terrains of Sovereignty in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea'. SUOMEN ANTROPOLOGI, 31 :37-52 [IR Link] [Details] |
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2002 | 'Kinship Between Judith Butler and Anthropology?'
Strong, Thomas (2002) 'Kinship Between Judith Butler and Anthropology?'. ETHNOS, 67 :401-418 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details] |
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1997 | 'Blood/Money'
Strong, Thomas (1997) 'Blood/Money'. CRITICAL MATRIX, 6 :20-37 [IR Link] [Details] |
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1996 | 'Plastic Heart, Black Box, Iron Cage: Instrumental Reason and the Artificial Heart Experiment'
Strong, Thomas (1996) 'Plastic Heart, Black Box, Iron Cage: Instrumental Reason and the Artificial Heart Experiment'. DISCLOSURE, 5 :25-53 [IR Link] [Details] |
Other Journals
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2013 | 'Ethical Currents: The Place of Ethics in Ireland and Elsewhere''
Gray, Patty and Thomas Strong (2013) 'Ethical Currents: The Place of Ethics in Ireland and Elsewhere'' Anthropology News, 52 . [IR Link] [Details] |
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2002 | 'Deceptive Faces'
Strong, Thomas (2002) 'Deceptive Faces' Letter to The New Yorker, 2002 . [Details] |
Published Reports
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2019 | KUSWA: A case-study of indigenous participatory film-making in addressing gender violence and sorcery accusations, Papua New Guinea.
Crook, Fufurefa, Hukula, MacLeod, Munau, Sar, Strong (2019) KUSWA: A case-study of indigenous participatory film-making in addressing gender violence and sorcery accusations, Papua New Guinea. Centre for Pacific Studies, St. Andrews. [Details] |
Blog
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2018 | Dispossession as historical allegory: Observing Dublin’s housing crisis.
Strong, Thomas (2018) Dispossession as historical allegory: Observing Dublin’s housing crisis. New York: Blog [Details] |
Conference Contributions
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2019 | Culture and Sexual Risk: An Ethnography of Gay Male Sexual Worlds Today.
Thomas Strong (2019) Culture and Sexual Risk: An Ethnography of Gay Male Sexual Worlds Today. [Invited Oral Presentation], Irish Research Council COALESCE Launch, Dublin [Details] |
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2019 | Unmet Needs: HIV.
Thomas Strong (2019) Unmet Needs: HIV. [Plenary Lecture], Ireland’s Unfinished Business Civil Society Dialogue: Achieving sexual and reproductive health and rights for all, Dublin [Details] |
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2019 | Cambridge Social Anthropology.
Thomas Strong (2019) Cambridge Social Anthropology. [Invited Oral Presentation], Do Witches Have Human Rights?, Cambridge University [Details] |
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2019 | Pacific Interest Group, Cambridge.
Thomas Strong (2019) Pacific Interest Group, Cambridge. [Invited Oral Presentation], Michael Somare is a Snake: Ideas and Images of Occult Government in Papua New Guinea, Cambridge University [Details] |
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2019 | Do Witches Have Human Rights?.
Thomas Strong (2019) Do Witches Have Human Rights?. [Oral Presentation], Social Anthropology Senior Seminar, Cambridge University [Details] |
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2019 | Extra Virgin: The Madonna Symposium.
Thomas Strong (2019) Extra Virgin: The Madonna Symposium. [Invited Lecture], Is Madonna a White Woman?, Sutton House, London [Details] |
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2019 | American Anthropological Association.
Thomas Strong (2019) American Anthropological Association. [Chaired Session], Making the Occult Public, Vancouver [Details] |
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2019 | Irish Sexual Practices Symposium.
Thomas Strong (2019) Irish Sexual Practices Symposium. [Oral Presentation], The Trouble with Men who Have Sex with Men, University College Dublin [Details] |
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2018 | European Society of Oceanists.
Thomas Strong (2018) European Society of Oceanists. [Invited Oral Presentation], Life's Errors: Witches, For Example, Cambridge [Details] |
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2018 | University of Helsinki.
Thomas Strong (2018) University of Helsinki. [Oral Presentation], Errors in Kinship: Witches, For Example, Helsinki [Details] |
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2016 | American Anthropological Association.
Thomas Strong (2016) American Anthropological Association. [Oral Presentation], The Axiom of Enmity: A Papua New Guinea Example, Minneapolis [Details] |
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2012 | European Association for Socail Anthropology Conference.
(2012) European Association for Socail Anthropology Conference. [Oral Presentation], Who's Responsible, Paris [Details] |
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2010 | Nordic Africa Days.
(2010) Nordic Africa Days. [Oral Presentation], Translation as Domination/Translating Domination: Problems in the Grammar and Vocabulary of Same-Sex, Turku, Finland [Details] |
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2010 | European Science Foundation Workshop.
(2010) European Science Foundation Workshop. [Oral Presentation], The Subject of Sex in Melanesia: Notes on Comparisons Here and There, Philadelphia [Details] |
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2008 | Washington and Lee University.
Strong, Thomas (2008) Washington and Lee University. [Oral Presentation], Why are Men in the Papua New Guinea Highlands Shrinking?, Virgina [Details] |
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2007 | Melancholic States.
(2007) Melancholic States. [Oral Presentation], Structural Loss: Some Papua New Guinea Examples, Lancaster University [Details] |
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2007 | Memory from Transdisciplinary.
(2007) Memory from Transdisciplinary. [Oral Presentation], “Colonial Nostalgia: A Papua New Guinea Example, University of Tartu, Estonia [Details] |
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2006 | American Anthropological Association.
(2006) American Anthropological Association. [Oral Presentation], Modernity’s Mood: Sorrow and Social Life in Melane, San Jose [Details] |
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2006 | Society for Cultural Anthropology.
(2006) Society for Cultural Anthropology. [Oral Presentation], Celebrity Interpellation and the Qualities of Bran, Milwaukee [Details] |
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2005 | Reed College, “Fashioning Anthropology.
(2005) Reed College, “Fashioning Anthropology. [Oral Presentation], Some Muddles in the (Super) Models: Brands In Betw, Portland, Oregon [Details] |
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2004 | Association for the Social Anthropology of Oceania.
(2004) Association for the Social Anthropology of Oceania. [Oral Presentation], Negative Connections: Town Life Haunted by the Vil, Salem, MA [Details] |
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2015 | American Anthropological Association.
Thomas Strong (2015) American Anthropological Association. [Oral Presentation], Policing Witchcraft: Quandaries of Law and Justice in Papua New Guinea Today, Denver [Details] |
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2013 | State, Society, and Governance Program, Australian National University.
(2013) State, Society, and Governance Program, Australian National University. [Oral Presentation], Disagreeing with Witchcraft: Steps Toward Making Local Criticisms Heard, Canberra, Australia [Details] |
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2012 | European Association for Socail Anthropology Conference.
(2012) European Association for Socail Anthropology Conference. [Oral Presentation], Criminal Meanings: Infection, Intimacy, and the Law, Paris [Details] |
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2012 | American Anthropological Association Annual Conference.
(2012) American Anthropological Association Annual Conference. [Oral Presentation], Gay Sex Now, San Francisco, California [Details] |
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2012 | American Anthropological Association Annual Conference.
(2012) American Anthropological Association Annual Conference. [Oral Presentation], Size and Sociality: The Genders of Social Change in Papua New Guinea, San Francisco, California [Details] |
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2012 | Department of Anthropology, St. Andrews University.
(2012) Department of Anthropology, St. Andrews University. [Oral Presentation], Size and Sociality: The Genders of Social Change in Papua New Guinea, St. Andrews Scotland [Details] |
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2011 | Finnish Anthropological Society.
(2011) Finnish Anthropological Society. [Oral Presentation], Everybody's Mad, Everbody's Sad: Epidemic Affect in Culture and Cultural Theory, Helsinki [Details] |
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2011 | American Anthropological Association Annual Conference.
(2011) American Anthropological Association Annual Conference. [Oral Presentation], On Mrs. Robinson, Montreal [Details] |
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2010 | Lecture at Abo Academy.
(2010) Lecture at Abo Academy. [Oral Presentation], Beyond Europe: Social science research in Non-Western settings, Turku, Finland [Details] |
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2008 | American Anthropological Association Annual Conference.
(2008) American Anthropological Association Annual Conference. [Oral Presentation], Infection as a Social Relation, San Francisco, California [Details] |
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2008 | American Anthropological Association.
(2008) American Anthropological Association. [Oral Presentation], Infection as a Social Relation, San Francisco [Details] |
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2008 | American Anthropological Association Annual Conference.
(2008) American Anthropological Association Annual Conference. [Oral Presentation], Privates and Counterprivates, San Francisco, California [Details] |
Book Review
Year | Publication | |
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2009 | Mika Aaltola, Western Spectacle of Governance and the Emergence of Humanitarian World Politics
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Strong, Thomas (2009) Mika Aaltola, Western Spectacle of Governance and the Emergence of Humanitarian World Politics . Book Review [Details] |
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2008 | Sandra Bamford, Biology Unmoored: Melanesian Reflections on Life and Biotechnology.
Strong, Thomas (2008) Sandra Bamford, Biology Unmoored: Melanesian Reflections on Life and Biotechnology. Book Review [Details] |
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2005 | Adam Reed, Papua New Guinea’s Last Place.
Strong, Thomas (2005) Adam Reed, Papua New Guinea’s Last Place. Book Review [Details] |
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2004 | Gilbert Herdt, Secrecy and Cultural Reality: Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men’s House.
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Strong, Thomas (2004) Gilbert Herdt, Secrecy and Cultural Reality: Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men’s House. . Book Review [Details] |
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2002 | Eric Silverman, Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery: Psychoanalyzing Culture and the Iatmul Naven Rite in New Guinea.
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Strong, Thomas (2002) Eric Silverman, Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery: Psychoanalyzing Culture and the Iatmul Naven Rite in New Guinea. . Book Review [Details] |
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2002 | Paul Sillitoe, An Introduction to the Anthropology of Melanesia, Social Change in Melanesia
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Strong, Thomas (2002) Paul Sillitoe, An Introduction to the Anthropology of Melanesia, Social Change in Melanesia . Book Review [Details] |
Gov. Report or Document
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2010 | Living with HIV: All-Ireland findings from the 2010 European MSM Internet Survey (EMIS).
McCartney, D.; Quinlan, M.; Donlon, S.; Strong, T.; McAnulty, H. (2010) Living with HIV: All-Ireland findings from the 2010 European MSM Internet Survey (EMIS). Gov. Report or Document [Details] |
Conference Hosted
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2012 | Ethnography Margin to Center: Celebrating 25 Years of the AAI.
Department of Anthropology (2012) Ethnography Margin to Center: Celebrating 25 Years of the AAI. Conference Hosted [Details] |
Professional Associations
Association | Function | From / To | |
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European Society of Oceanists | Member | 12-DEC-18 / | |
Anthropological Association of Ireland | Member | / | |
American Anthropological Association | Member | / | |
Finnish Anthropological Society | Member | / | |
Association for Social Anthropology of Oceania | Member | / |
Education
Year | Institution | Qualification | Subject | |
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2004 | Princeton University | Ph.D. | ||
1994 | Reed College | B.A. |