Kathleen M. Adams

Kathleen M. Adams is a cultural anthropologist, Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London,[1] and Professor Emerita at Loyola University Chicago.

Her award-winning books include Art as Politics: Re-crafting Identities, Tourism and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia and The Ethnography of Tourism: Edward Bruner and Beyond (coedited with N. Leite and Q. Casteneda) among others.

She held the Mouat Family Endowed Chair for Junior Faculty [3] at Beloit College and was a professor of Cultural Anthropology and Asian Studies at Loyola University Chicago (1993-2020).

[4] She was also a Isaac Manasseh Meyer Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore's Centre for Advanced Study (1999),and taught on several University of Virginia Semester at Sea voyages.

[5] In addition to research grants from the Fulbright,[6] the American Philosophical Society, the Henry R. Luce Foundation, Adams has received several book prizes, Loyola University's Sujack Master Researcher Award (2016, 2020),[7] Loyola University Chicago's 2007 Sujack Award for Teaching Excellence, and recognition by Princeton Review as one of the "300 best professors" in the US and Canada in 2012.