Don Kulick is professor of Anthropology and director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University. Kulick received his B.A. in Anthropology and Linguistics from Lund University in Sweden in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stockholm University in 1990. Previous academic positions include both Stockholm and Linköping Universities. He has been considered one of Sweden's foremost queer theorists and, together with Tiina Rosenberg, was influential in introducing queer theory to Sweden. Anthropology (from Greek: ἀνθρωπος, anthropos, human being; and λόγος, logos, knowledge) is the comparative study of the physical and social characteristics of humanity through the examination of historical and present geographical distribution, cultural history, acculturation, and cultural relationships. ... New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational institution in New York City. ... Anthropology (from Greek: ἀνθρωπος, anthropos, human being; and λόγος, logos, knowledge) is the comparative study of the physical and social characteristics of humanity through the examination of historical and present geographical distribution, cultural history, acculturation, and cultural relationships. ... Linguistics is the scientific study of language, which can be theoretical or applied. ... Lund University main building, built in 1882 by Helgo Zettervall. ... Anthropology (from Greek: ἀνθρωπος, anthropos, human being; and λόγος, logos, knowledge) is the comparative study of the physical and social characteristics of humanity through the examination of historical and present geographical distribution, cultural history, acculturation, and cultural relationships. ... Stockholm University (Stockholms universitet) is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. ... Linköping University (Swedish: Linköpings universitet, LiU) is a university in Linköping, Sweden. ... Tiina Rosenberg (born 1958 in Helsingfors, Finland) is a Swedish leftish politician who is a member of the feminist party Feminist Initiative. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

Kulick works within the frameworks of both cultural and linguistic anthropology, and has carried out field work in Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Italy and Sweden. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Linguistic anthropology is that branch of anthropology that brings linguistic methods to bear on anthropological problems, linking the analysis of semiotic and particularly linguistic forms and processes (on both small and large scales) to the interpretation of sociocultural processes (again on small and large scales). ... Field work is a general descriptive term for the collection of raw data in the natural and social sciences, such as archaeology, biology, ecology, environmental science, geology,geography geophysics, paleontology, anthropology, linguistics, and sociology. ...

Selected Publications

• Cameron, Deborah and Don Kulick, eds. 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 - New York University Department of Anthropology
• Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality