Don Kulick

Professor of Anthropology
Director, Center for the Study of Gender and
Sexuality (CSGS)
Director, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Program (GSS)
B.A. 1983, University of Lund; Ph.D. 1990, Stockholm University.

I do research in the areas of linguistic anthropology, and gender and sexuality. I have published on topics such as language socialization, language death, language and gender/sexuality, ethnographic fieldwork and epistemology, transgenderism, queer theory, and prostitution. I have conducted fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Italy and Sweden. My current work explores human-animal interaction and the species boundary. A separate project explores the topic of sexuality and citizenship by focusing on the experiences of people with disabilities.

Selected Publications

The Language and Sexuality Reader (co-edited with Deborah Cameron). London, Routledge, 2006.

Fat: the Anthropology of an Obsession (co-edited with Anne Meneley). New York: Tarcher/Penguin, 2005.

Queersverige [Queer Sweden], ed. Stockholm: Natur och Kultur, 2005.

Language and Sexuality (co-authored with Deborah Cameron) Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003.

Travesti: Sex, Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 1998.

Taboo: Sex, Identity and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological
Fieldwork (co-edited with Margaret Willson). London: Routledge. 1995

Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction: Socialization, Self, and Syncretism in a Papua New Guinea Village. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 1992.

dk34@nyu.edu