Abigail A. Dumes Mailing Address: Email: aadumes@umich.edu Department of Anthropology Phone: 734.764.7274 University of Michigan 1085 S. University Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109 EDUCATION Yale University, Doctor of Philosophy in Sociocultural Anthropology, December 2014 Yale University, Masters of Philosophy in Sociocultural Anthropology, December 2007 Washington University in St. Louis, B.A. in Anthropology and English Literature, May 2004 Summa cum laude ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Lecturer I, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, January 2016-present Research Affiliate, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, January 2015-January 2016 FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND PRIZES Mellon-ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2013-2014 Yale U. Dissertation Fellowship (funded in part by the Kent T. Healy Fellowship Fund), 2011-2012 National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2009-2011 Wenner-Gren Foundation, Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, 2010-2011 SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, 2007 The MacMillan Center at Yale University Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, 2007 Yale Graduate School Conference Travel Fund Award, 2006 Yale University Fellowship, 2005-2007 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention 2005 Fulbright Fellowship for France, 2004-2005 National Lambda Alpha Scholarship Award, 2004 John W. Bennett Prize for the Outstanding Graduating Senior in Anthropology at Wash. U., 2004 Phi Beta Kappa, 2004 PUBLICATIONS Books Under contract Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine in the United States. Duke University Press. 1
Journal Articles In preparation Lyme Disease and the Politics of Medically Unexplained Illnesses. To be submitted to Medical Anthropology. In preparation Alternative Facts: Lyme Disease and the Rise of Evidence-Based Medicine in the United States. To be submitted to American Ethnologist. 2006 The Rotating Savings and Credit Association as a Coping Strategy and Forum for Resistance for Cameroonian Women in France. Connections: European Studies Annual Review 2:21-25. Book Chapters 2016 Paradise Poisoned: Nature, Environmental Risk, and the Practice of Lyme Disease Prevention in the United States. In A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health, Merrill Singer, ed. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell. 2007 Your Money is Mine: Mutual Trust and Gift Exchange within Cameroonian Women s Rotating Savings and Credit Associations in France. In Crossing Places: New Research in African Studies, C. Baker and Z. Norridge, eds. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2010-2011 Eighteen months of dissertation fieldwork on the U.S. Lyme disease controversy at the intersection of biomedicine, politics, and the environment. 2007 Three months of pre-dissertation fieldwork on African American gospel music performance among west and central African and Antillean immigrants in Paris, France. 2006 Three months of pre-dissertation fieldwork on African American gospel music performance among west and central African and Antillean immigrants in Paris, France. 2004-2005 Twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork on issues of race, gender, and religion among Cameroonian immigrants in Paris, France while on a Fulbright Fellowship. 2004 Three weeks of ethnographic fieldwork on the use of rotating savings and credit associations among Cameroonian immigrant women in France for undergraduate honors thesis. 2003 One month of undergraduate ethnographic fieldwork on the use of rotating savings and credit associations among Cameroonian women in Dschang, Cameroon while studying abroad with the School for International Training. 2
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS 2016 November 18 Lyme Disease, Nature, and an Epidemiology of Affect, American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis, MN. April 2 Biome-Subjectivity: Ticks, Lyme Disease, and Prevention Practices in the United States, American Ethnological Association, Washington, D.C. 2011 November 20 Knowing the Back of the Other s Hand: Tick-Borne Diseases and Nature s New Regime of Bodily Practices, American Anthropological Association, Montreal, Canada. 2007 November 29 Race, Religion, and the Politics of Belonging among African and Antillean Gospel Performers in France, American Anthropological Association, Washington DC. 2006 January 27 April 1 Your Money is Mine: Mutual Trust and Gift Exchange within Cameroonian Women s Rotating Savings and Credit Associations in France, Crossing Places Graduate Conference, Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK. Your Money is Mine: Mutual Trust and Gift Exchange within Cameroonian Women s Rotating Savings and Credit Associations in France, Council for European Studies at Columbia University, Chicago, Illinois. 2005 October 7 The Economic and Social Roles of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations for Cameroonian Women in France, 2 nd Annual European Scholars Consortium, Provo, UT. COURSES TAUGHT At The University of Michigan: Introduction to Anthropology (Winter 2017; 225 person undergraduate lecture course) The Anthropology of Infectious Disease (Fall 2016; upper-level undergraduate seminar) Contested Illness and Anthropological Theories of the Body (Winter 2016; upper-level undergraduate seminar) 3
At Yale University as a Teaching Fellow: Introduction to Medical Anthropology (Fall 2009) Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Spring 2008) The State in Africa (Fall 2007) PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING Certificate of College Teaching Preparation, Graduate Teaching Center, Yale University, 2007-2015 A training program in college teaching that includes completion of one Fundamentals in Teaching course, participation in eight Advanced Teaching workshops, observing others teaching, being observed while teaching, and the creation of a teaching portfolio. PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE Crossovers: Conversations in Celebration of John F. Szwed Head Organizer (May 9, 2008) Organized conference in honor of Yale Department of Anthropology faculty member, John F. Szwed; developed conference theme; coordinated speaker presentations and travel arrangements; planned meals; oversaw day s activities. Ethnography and Social Theory Colloquium, Department of Anthropology, Yale University Co-organizer (Fall 2006-Spring 2008) Planned and organized speaker schedule; prepared speaker introductions; facilitated discussion; designed and distributed posters and flyers; coordinated lunch provisions. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP American Anthropological Association Anthropology and Environment Society Society for Medical Anthropology Society for the Anthropology of North America LANGUAGES English, French 4
REFERENCES Marcia C. Inhorn Department of Anthropology Yale University 10 Sachem Street, Room 202 P.O. Box 208277 New Haven, CT 06511 Phone: 203-432-4510 Email: marcia.inhorn@yale.edu Didier Fassin Princeton University Institute for Advanced Study School of Social Science Einstein Drive Princeton, NJ 08540 USA Email: dfassin@ias.edu M. Kamari Clarke Global and International Studies Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive 2408R River Building, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada Phone: 613.520.2600 x4170 Email: kamariclarke1@gmail.com P. Sean Brotherton Department of Anthropology University of Chicago 1126 East 59th Street Chicago, Il 60637 Phone: (773) 702-7724 Email: sbrotherton@uchicago.edu 5