Don Kulick is professor of Anthropology

Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...

 at the University of Chicago. Kulick received his B.A. in Anthropology

Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...

 and Linguistics

Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....

 from Lund University

Lund University

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 in Sweden in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Anthropology

Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...

 from Stockholm University

Stockholm University

Stockholm University is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. It has over 28,000 students at four faculties, making it one of the largest universities in Scandinavia. The institution is also frequently regarded as one of the top 100 universities in the world...

 in 1990. Previous academic positions include both Stockholm and Linköping Universities

Linköping University

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. He was previously a Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University

New York University

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. He has been considered one of Sweden's foremost queer theorists and was influential in introducing queer theory

Queer theory

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 to Sweden.

Kulick works within the frameworks of both cultural

Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans, collecting data about the impact of global economic and political processes on local cultural realities. Anthropologists use a variety of methods, including participant observation,...

 and linguistic anthropology

Linguistic anthropology

Linguistic anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life. It is a branch of anthropology that originated from the endeavor to document endangered languages, and has grown over the past 100 years to encompass almost any aspect of language structure and...

, and has carried out field work in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

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, Brazil

Brazil

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, Italy

Italy

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 and Sweden

Sweden

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.

Selected publications

• Cameron, Deborah and Don Kulick, 2003. Language and Sexuality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Cameron, Deborah and Don Kulick, eds. 2006. The Language and Sexuality Reader. London: Routledge.
• Kulick, Don and Anne Meneley, eds. 2005. Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin.
• Kulick, Don and Margaret Willson, eds. 1995. Taboo: Sex, Identity, and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork. London: Routledge.
• Kulick, Don. 1992. Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction: Socialization, Self, and Syncretism in a Papua New Guinean Village. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Kulick, Don. 1998. Travesti: Sex, Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Kulick, Don. 2005. Queersverige [Queer Sweden]. Stockholm: Natur och Kultur.

External links

• Faculty Profile - University of Chicago, Department of Comparative Human Development