1 The College at Brockport, State University of New York Department of Anthropology 350 New Campus Drive Brockport, New York 14420 O: (585) 395-5708 E: iketonen@brockport.edu Dr. Irene Ketonen Visiting Assistant Professor EDUCATION Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology 02/2017 EU Agricultural Policy and the Morality of Land: Encounters between Farmers and Bureaucracy in Northern Ireland (dissertation) M.A. Cultural Anthropology 08/2008 University of Houston Finnish-Sri Lankan Marriages: An Anthropological Examination (thesis) B.A. Anthropology 08/2005 Graduated Magna Cum Laude FIELDWORK Northern Ireland TEACHING EXPERIENCE Adjunct/Lecturer/Visiting Assistant Professor Culture and AIDS Culture and Health Language and Culture The Anthropology of Sex Anthropology of the Celtic Countries Anthropological Perspectives on Global Issues The Human Condition: Introduction to Anthropology 2012-2014 (total of 9 months) Fall 2011-present
2 Adjunct Instructor Summer 2011 Course: Teaching Assistant 2010-2011 Anthropology and Education Teaching Assistant 2007-2008 University of Houston Theories of Anthropology Introduction to Linguistics Belize Ethnographic Fieldschool Peoples and Cultures of Latin America RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Graduate Assistant, Center for European Studies (CEUS) 2010-2011, 2014-2015 Research Associate, Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA) 01/2012-12/2013 Research Assistant, Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy 2009-2010 RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS Visiting Research Associate 2013-2015 Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice Queen s University Belfast Visiting Research Associate 2012-2013 School of History and Anthropology Queen s University Belfast LINGUISTIC CONSULTING Trans-Atlantic Translations 2016-present
3 PUBLICATIONS [submitted for review] Feldman, Douglas A. and Irene Ketonen. HIV Risk among MSM in Hungary. 2015 Feldman, Douglas A. and Irene Ketonen. Street and Community Outreach to African Americans for HIV Vaccine Trials Recruitment: What Went Wrong? Curare: Journal of Medical Anthropology 37(2):113-120. HONORS, GRANTS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS United University Professions (UUP) Individual Development Award 2016 $950 Finlandia Foundation Scholarship 2010, 2012, 2015 $1,000-$2,000 Mark Diamond Research Fund Grant (University at Buffalo) 2013 $2,000 Michael Matsumunyane Travel Grant (University at Buffalo) 2013 $500 Pass with Distinction on Ph.D. Advanced Exams, University at Buffalo 05/2011 Graduate Fellowship (Tuition Scholarship and Teaching Assistant Position) 2010-2011 Department of Anthropology, University at Buffalo Graduate Fellowship (Tuition Scholarship and Teaching Assistant Position) 2007-2008 Department of Anthropology, University of Houston Houston Junior Chamber of Commerce and International Education Fee 2006 Scholarships for Belize Field School PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Member, Douglas A. Feldman LGBT Paper Award Committee 2013-present Member, Faculty Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure Committee 2016 for Sabbatical Application Member, Faculty Discretionary Salary Award Committee 2016
4 Chair, Editorial Committee for Reviews & Critical Commentary (CritCom) 2014-2015 Council for European Studies (CES) Reviewer, Fellowship Committee 2014 Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) Member, Editorial Committee for Reviews & Critical Commentary (CritCom) 2013-2014 Council for European Studies (CES) CONFERENCE SESSION ORGANIZING Protest and Resistance in an Era of Austerity: Ethnographic Perspectives from Europe, session organized by Gerard Weber and Irene Ketonen. American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Washington DC, 2014. INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION [accepted for presentation] Imagining Brexit: Views from the Northern Ireland Farming Community, Re-Examining Minority Nationalism: Renewing Anthropological Interest in the Celtic Fringe, organized by Nory Kaplan-Kelly and Kimberly Berg, American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Washington, DC, 2017. Herbs and Charms: Cultural Intimacy in the Northern Ireland Farming Community, Presentation for the Marjorie Helen Stewart Speaker Series, College at Brockport, SUNY, November 15, 2016. Resisting Policies of Governmentality through Shared Morality: Farm Inspections in Northern Ireland, Moralities of Sociopolitical Change in Contemporary Europe, organized by Jaime Palomera, American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Minneapolis, 2016. Cursing, Curing, and Charming: Cultural Intimacy in the Northern Ireland Farming Community, Health, Intimacy and Care in Times of Crisis, organized by Jaume Franquesa, delivered at American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Denver, 2015. Moralities, Farm Subsidies, and Resistance in Northern Ireland, Protest and Resistance in an Era of Austerity: Ethnographic Perspectives from Europe, organized by Gerard Weber and Irene Ketonen, delivered at American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Washington DC, 2014. Imagining Europe in Northern Ireland: Farmers, Sectarian Politics, and the Euro Crisis, Re- Imagining Europeaness: Within and Without Limits, organized by Michael Bobick and Karolina Follis, delivered at American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, 2013.
5 We know farming in the North of Ireland better than the European Commission : negotiating identities in the Northern Ireland Assembly, Culture, Power and Policy in the New Europe II: Refocusing the Anthropological Purview on the Politics of Gender, Agriculture and Finance, organized by Bilge Firat, William Pavlovich, and James Verinis, delivered at American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, 2012. Immigration and Hybridity in Finland: Sri Lankan-Finnish Marriages, delivered at Gender Across Borders, SUNY University at Buffalo April 2, 2010. Negotiating Hybrid Identities: Sri Lankan-Finnish Marriages, delivered at Northeastern Anthropological Association Conference, SUNY University at Buffalo March 6, 2010. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Nordic Irish Studies Network Council for European Studies The Finnish Anthropological Society Society for the Anthropology of Europe American Anthropological Association 2013-present 2012- present 2010- present 2009- present 2009- present LANGUAGES English (native); Finnish (native); Spanish (near-fluent); French (full reading comprehension)