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TATE LEFEVRE Franklin & Marshall College Lancaster, PA 17604-3003 tlefevre@fandm.edu (845) 807-7112

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Indigeneity, settler colonialism and race. Melanesia and the anthropology of Oceania. Representation and differential sovereignties. Post-colonial France, citizenship and secularism. Youth, personhood and social change. Media and visual ethnography. EDUCATION

2013 Ph.D., Anthropology, New York University 2009 Graduate Certificate in Culture and Media, New York University 2008 M.A., Anthropology, New York University 2004 B.A. (Honors), Anthropology, Dartmouth College, cum laude Ph.D. Thesis (2013): Creating Kanaky: Indigeneity, Youth and the Cultural Politics of the Possible in New Caledonia Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Nouma between Oct 2009 and Nov 2010. Advisors: Fred Myers, Bambi Scheiffelin, Haidy Geismar, Faye Ginsburg, Susan Carol Rogers ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2013- Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Franklin and Marshall College 2012 2013 Adjunct Instructor, New York University 2011 - 2012 Adjunct Instructor, Department of Anthropology, Fordham University AWARDS, HONORS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

National and Internat ional Compet i t ion

2014 CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award (nominee) 2012 AAUW Dissertation Fellowship (selected as an alternate) 2009 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

Univers i ty -wide Compet i t ion

2014 Office of College Grants Faculty Resource Fund Award, Franklin & Marshall College 2014 Academic Innovation Grant, Franklin & Marshall College 2004 Deans Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences, New York University 2012 Deans Dissertation Fellowship, New York University 2009 Annette B. Weiner Fellowship in Cultural Anthropology, New York University 2008 School of Arts & Sciences Summer Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, New York University 2005 Henry Mitchell McCracken Fellowship, New York University 2004 Mary E. Westbrook Prize for best honors thesis in Anthropology, Dartmouth College 2003 Claire Garber Goodman Award for Undergraduate Field Research in Anthropology

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REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

n.d. In prep. Creating Kanaky: Indigeneity, Youth and the Cultural Politics of the Possible (Book manuscript).

n.d. In prep. Culture, Coutume, Kastom: On Having and Performing Culture in New

Caledonia. 2015 Nous ne sommes pas des dlinquants! Lautorit coutumire et la marginalization de

la jeunesse urbain kanak in Emancipations Kanak, edited by Christine Demmer & Christine Salomon. Paris: EthniesDroits de lhomme et peuples autochtones en association avec Survival International. Pp. 254-267.

2015 Settler Colonialism. in Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology, edited by John Jackson. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013a Turning Niches Into Handles: Kanak Youth, Associations and the Construction of an

Indigenous Counter-public Sphere Settler Colonial Studies 3(2):214-219. 2013b Introduction: Difference, Representation, Resistance Settler Colonial Studies 3(2):136-140. EDITED COLLECTIONS

2013 Difference, Representation, Resistance: Indigenous Culture as Political Resource in the Settler-state. Special Issue 3(2), Settler Colonial Studies. BOOK CHAPTERS, REVIEWS, ONLINE PUBLICATIONS

n.d. Forthcoming. Reclaiming Hope in Oceania, Online curated collection, co-edited with Eben Kirksey. Cultural Anthropology, http://www.cultanth.org n.d. Forthcoming. La tribu dans la ville : Lespace urbain, lautorit coutumire et la marginalisation de la jeunesse kanak in La coutume en question: Politiques de lidentit en Nouvelle-Caldonie edited by Benot Trpied et Christine Demmer. Paris: LHarmattan. 2013 Fibre Skirts and Dance Battles in Melanesia: Art and Encounter, edited by Nicholas Thomas & Lissant Bolton. London: British Museum Press. Pp. 326-329. 2013b Review of Images et Pouvoirs dans le Pacifique, Jean-Marc Regnault and Viviane Fayaud, eds. European Review of History. (5)1:1-3. 2013c Review of Le paradis autour de Paul Gaugin, by Viviane Fayaud. The Contemporary Pacific 25(1):203-205. 2008 Review Essay: Indigenous Motivations: Recent Acquisitions from the National Museum of the American Indian. Museum Anthropology Review 1(2):93-99. (with A. Strickland, S. Thorner, S. Rozenthal, et al.) 2007 Tourism and Indigenous Curation of Culture in Lifou, New Caledonia in The Future of Indigenous Museums: Perspectives from the Southwest Pacific edited by Nick Stanley. Pp. 78-93. New York: Berghahn Books.

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VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY/DOCUMENTARY FILM

2008 No Such Thing as a Free Lunch (18 min). Ethnographic short documentary on media activism, visual representation and the anti-capitalist Freegan movement in New York City. 2015. Broadcast rights acquired by Community Channel (UK free-to-air television

channel for community groups and social justice organizations). 2009. Screened in the RAI series Exploring Food, Connecting Communities, at the

British Museum. 2008. Winner of the Anthropology as a Service Award, International Student

Ethnographic Film Festival (ISEFF), Goldsmiths, University of London. INVITED LECTURES

2014a Representations and Repossession: Indigenous Youth in a Settler Colonial City." Lafayette College Department of Anthropology and Sociology. April 29.

2014b Tactical Subjects: Indigenous Youth, Feminism and the Settler State in New Caledonia. Locations of Learning: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices, Barnard Scholar and Feminist Conference. Barnard College. February 22.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

2015a Apocalypse Now? Youth, Temporality & Moral Panic in Nouma. Panel: Urban Melanesia, Meeting of the European Society for Oceanists (ESfO), Brussels, Belgium.

2015b Backwards Hope: Indigenous Youth & Settler Colonial Teleologies in New Caledonia. Panel: Survivals, Meeting of the American Ethnological Association, San Diego, CA.

2015c Schizophrenic Youth. Panel: Order in Melanesia, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Anthropology of Oceania (ASAO), Santa Fe, NM.

2014 Constructing Cases, Creating Kanaky. Panel: Pacific Spaces and Sacred Buildings, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Anthropology of Oceania (ASAO), Kona, Hawaii.

2013a Panel Organizer (with Barbara Andersen), The Spatial Politics of Enclosure. Session at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago.

2013b La Tribu Dans la Ville: Indigenous Sovereignty in a Settler City. Panel: The Spatial Politics of Enclosure. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago.

2012a Dispossession and Double Jeopardy: Kanak Youth In the Settler Colonial City. Panel: New Dispossessions: Imagining Non-Material Origins for Accumulation, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

2012b Panel Organizer (with Barbara Andersen), Perils and Pleasures: Melanesian Youth Cultures, Moral Panics, and Imagined Futures, Annual Meeting of the European Society for Oceanists (ESfO), Bergen, Norway. Presenter, What does it mean to be a city Kanak?: The political stakes of New Caledonias youth crisis.

2012c Kanak Youth Cultures: Figuring (and Reconfiguring) the Possible in New Caledonia, Power in Oceania: Closing Conference of the Bergen Pacific Alternatives Research Group, Os, Norway.

2012d Panel Organizer (with Eben Kirksey), Reclaiming Hope: Sovereignty, Freedom, and the Political Dimensions of Imagination in Oceania, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Anthropology of Oceania (ASAO), Portland.

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Presenter, Captivity and Lines of Flight: Imagining the Future in New Caledonia Presenter, Breakdancing for the Clan: Kanak Youth and the Re-framing of Tradition in Nouma, New Caledonia, Panel: Mimesis and Transcultural Encounters.

2012e Kanak Youth and French Associations, Transforming Colonial Categories? Customary Law, Legal Pluralism and the Cultural Heritage of Indigenous Peoples, organized by the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage Project, York University, Toronto.

2011a Panel Organizer (with Eugenia Kisin), Unsettled States: Indigenous Cultural Activism, Sovereignty, and The Unfinished Legacies of Settler Colonialism, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting; Montral, Canada. Presenter, Refusing/Reformulating Citoyennet: Kanak Youth and Cultural Production within Associations.

2011b Mtissage and the Disavowal of Difference : The Struggle for Kanak Sovereignty, 5th Annual Critical Race Studies Symposium, UCLA Law School, Los Angeles.

2011c Raising Issues: Indigenous Youth and the Legitimization of the Kanak Flag in New Caledonia, Panel: Cultural Heritage and Political Innovation in Oceania, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Anthropology of Oceania (ASAO), Honolulu.

2010 Il faut quon bouge!: Kanak Youth, Cultural Production and Possible Futures in Kanaky/New Caledonia, Annual Meeting of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies (AAAPS), Melbourne.

2009 Cultural Politics and Cultural Production Among Youth in Nouma, New Caledonia, AGORA 2: Social Science Research in the Francophone Pacific, Centre IRD, Nouma.

2008 Tourism in New Caledonia: Indigenous Performances of Identity in a Pluri-Ethnic, Not-Yet State, Cultural Tourism Movements: Articulating and Problematizing Indigeneity, UC Berkeley Symposium on Indigenous Tourism, Berkeley.

2006 Performing Identity, Fighting Assimilation: Tourism and the Troupe de Wetr in Lifou, New Caledonia, Panel: Self-Conscious Self-Commodification in Late Capitalism, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose.

COURSES TAUGHT

Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology Anthropological Methods Anthropology of Media Peoples & Cultures of the Oceania Indigenous & Fourth World Peoples Anthropology of Personhood Global Youth & Media Anthropology of the Lifecycle FIELDWORK

Summer 2014 Nouma, New Caledonia, research on Kanak youth and customary authority. December 2014 Paris, France, fieldwork and interviews for project on Kanak: Lart est une parole

(first major exhibition of Kanak art ever held in metropolitan France, at Muse du Quai Branly).

2009-2010 Dissertation fieldwork, Nouma, New Caledonia. Summer 2008 Pre-dissertation field research, Nouma, New Caledonia Summer 2003 Fieldwork for undergraduate honors thesis on cultural tourism & Kanak identity,

Lifou Island and Nouma, New Caledonia.

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LANGUAGES

English (native), French (near-native), Drehu (basic speaking) AFFILATIONS & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Peer Reviewer (journal articles):

City & Society American Indian Quarterly Dialectical Anthropology RAQ (Recherches amrindiennes au Qubec) Positions Held:

2015- Board Member, Association for the Social Anthropology of Oceania (ASAO) 2010-2012 Convener, Melanesian Interest Group (MIG), American Anthropological Association Member:

American Anthropological Association American Ethnological Society Association for the Social Anthropology of Oceania (ASAO) Melanesian Interest Group (MIG) of the AAA European Society for Oceanists (ESfO)