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Curriculum Vitae, October 2009

Peter F. Collings Department of Anthropology 1112 Turlington Hall PO Box 117305 University of Florida Gainesville, FL, 32611-7305

10917 NW 33rd PL Gainesville, FL, 32606 Phone: (352) 331-0325

Phone: (352) 392-2253 x 239 Fax: (352) 392-6929 Email: [email protected] Website: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/pcollings/collings_website/Welcome.html

Education: Ph.D., Anthropology. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 1999. M.A., Anthropology. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 1994. B.A., Anthropology. Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, 1990.

Professional Employment History: 2006-

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida.

2003-2006

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology & Center for Gerontological Studies, University of Florida.

2001-2003

Lecturer, Department of Anthropology & Institute for Ethnic Studies, University of Nebraska.

2000-2001

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Grants and Awards National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs. The Influence of Aging, Social Structure, and Money on Subsistence Among Adult Inuit in Two Canadian Communities. With George Wenzel. Current. $462,386. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs. Supplemental Funding: The Influence of Aging, Social Structure, and Money on Subsistence Among Adult Inuit in Two Canadian Communities. With George Wenzel. Current. $18,900. Alpha-One Foundation. Quantifying Empowerment in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency. With Symma Finn. 2008. $39,750. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs (grant #0431376). Community Consultation on Economic Security, Aging, and Subsistence in Holman, NT, Canada. 2005. $10,501. CLAS Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund: Adult Development, Ihuma, and Inuit Identity in the Central Canadian Arctic. 2004. $8000.

Curriculum Vita – Peter Collings

UCARE Grant: A Comparison of Health and Aging among Inuit and !Kung Foragers. Peter Collings and Patricia Draper, co-PIs. UCARE is a UNL program designed to provide funding to support undergraduate involvement in faculty research. $2000 Canadian Embassy Faculty Research Grant. A Longitudinal Examination of Young Men’s Subsistence Involvement in an Inuit Community, 2001. $6000 Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS) Award for Arctic Research Excellence in the Social Sciences, 2000. $500 National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs (grant # OPP 9618271). Doctoral Dissertation Research: Aging and Intergenerational Family Dynamics in a Copper Inuit Community, 1997. $10,000 Canadian Embassy Graduate Student Fellowship, 1996. $5100 Hill Dissertation Research Fellowship, Pennsylvania State University, 1996. $2200

Publications Collings, Peter n.d. Adaptability, Community, and Food Networks in Ulukhaktok, NT, Canada. Arctic. Submitted. in press Food Sharing Networks and Subsistence in Ulukhaktok, NT, Canada. In Proceedings of the 14th Inuit Studies Meetings. B. Collingnon and M. Thierren, eds. 2009a Birth Order, Age, and Hunting Success in the Canadian Arctic. Human Nature 21(4). doi: 10.1007/s12110-009-9071-7. 2009b Participant Observation, Phased Assertion, and Fieldwork with Inuit. Field Methods 21(2):133-153. 2005a Housing Policy, Aging, and Life Course Construction in a Canadian Inuit Community. Arctic Anthropology 42(2):50-65. 2001a “If You Got Everything, It’s Good Enough:” Inuit Perspectives on Successful Aging. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 16:127-155. 2000 Aging and Life Course Development in an Inuit Community. Arctic Anthropology 37(2):111-125. 1997a The Cultural Context of Wildlife Management in the Canadian North. Pp. 13-40 in Contested Arctic: Indigenous Peoples, Industrial States, and the Circumpolar Environment. Eric A. Smith and Joan McCarter, eds. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 1997b Wildlife Management and Subsistence Hunting in a Canadian Arctic Community. Arctic Anthropology 34(1):41-56. Collings, Peter, and Richard G. Condon 1996

Blood on the Ice: Status, Violence, and Ritual Injury among Inuit Hockey Players. Human Organization 55(3):253-262.

Collings, Peter, George Wenzel, and Richard G. Condon 1998

Modern Food Sharing Networks and Community Integration in the Central Canadian Arctic. Arctic 51(4):301-314.

Condon, Richard G., Peter Collings, and George Wenzel 1995

The Best Part of Life: Subsistence Hunting, Ethnic Identity, and Economic Adaptation among Young Adult Inuit Males. Arctic 48:31-46.

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Other Publications: Collings, Peter. 2009 Study Explores Inuit Hunting and Economic Strategies. Witness the Arctic 13(2). 2005b

Inuit. In Encyclopedia of Anthropology,( vol. 3), H. James Birx, ed. Pp. 1317-1319. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

2005c

Ecology and Anthropology. In Encyclopedia of Anthropology (vol. 2), H. James Birx, ed. Pp. 769-770. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

2005d

Cultural Anthropology. In Encyclopedia of Anthropology (vol. 1), H. James Birx, ed. Pp.150-157. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

2005e

Cross-Cultural Research. In Encyclopedia of Anthropology (vol. 2), H. James Birx, ed. Pp. 613-614. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

2005f

Book Review: Across Time and Tundra: The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic, by Ishmael Alunik, Eddie Kolausok, and David Morrison. American Review of Canadian Studies 35(2):187-189.

2004

Book Reviews: Arctic Migrants, Arctic Villagers: the transformation of Inuit Settlement in the Central Arctic, by David Damas; Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923, by Shelagh Grant; The Yukon Relief Expedition and the Journal of Carl Johan Sakariassen, edited by V.R. Rausch & D.L . Baldwin. Canadian Historical Review 85(2):367-371.

2001b

Inuit Perceptions of Aging Withstand the Test of Time. Witness the Arctic 9(1):12.

1997c

Book Review: The Northern Copper Inuit: A History. By Richard G. Condon, with Julia Ogina and the Holman Elders. Ethnohistory 44(4):754-755.

Sabo, Deborah, and Peter Collings 1996

Richard G. Condon. Obituary in Arctic Anthropology 33(1):149-151.

Field Experience: 2007

Aging, Social Structure, Money, and Subsistence Hunting in Ulukhaktok (Holman) NT, Canada, March-November, 2007.

2005

Community Consultation on Economic Security, Aging, and Subsistence in Holman, NT, Canada. June-July 2005.

2004

Research on the Inuit concept of ihuma as a governing attribute in life course transitions in Holman, NT, Canada, June-August, 2004.

2001-2002

Research on young men’s subsistence hunting involvement in Holman, NT, Canada. Summer, 2001, & Summer, 2002.

1997

Doctoral dissertation research on aging, family dynamics, health and functionality of aged, and elderhood among Copper Inuit, Holman, NWT, Canada.

1992-1993

Research on subsistence involvement, economic adaptation, acculturative stress, and ethnic identity among young adult Inuit in the community of Holman, NWT, Canada. Research supported by NSF Division of Polar Programs grant #9110708, awarded to Dr. Richard Condon.

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1989

School for International Training, Brattleboro, VT, September-December. Student in Tibetan Studies semester abroad program based in Dharamsala, India.

1989

Field Assistant for the Kodiak Area Native Association, Kodiak Alaska, June-August.

Research Interests Circumpolar Northern Cultures, Hunters and Gatherers, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Human Ecology, Cross-Cultural Study of Human Development and Aging, Quantitative and Qualitative Techniques in Ethnographic Field Methods, Social Network Analysis.

Professional Activities Member, American Anthropological Association, Society for Anthropological Sciences, Evolutionary Anthropology Society, Arctic Institute of North America, International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA). Secretary-elect, Society for Anthropological Sciences. Will assume office at 2009 AAA meetings.

Graduate Supervision Ph.D. Candidates: Principal advisor for Symma Finn. Graduated December 2008. Currently serving as principal advisor for Marcus Hepburn and Joseph Wilson. Serving on committees of fourteen other graduate students.

Recent Papers Presented: Social Networks, Food Networks, and Social Change in Ulukhaktok, NT, Canada. Paper presented at ICASS VI, the Sixth International Conference of Arctic Social Sciences, Nuuk, Greenland, Aug. 22, 2008. Food Sharing Networks of Inuit hunters in Ulukhaktok, NT, Canada. Paper Presented at Sunbelt XXVIII, the International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Tradewinds Island Resort, St Pete Beach, Florida, January 2008. “Birth Order, Age, and the Economics of Subsistence Hunting in the Canadian Arctic. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, San Jose, CA, November 2006. “Subsistence and Food Sharing in Ulukhaktok, NT, Canada.” Paper presented at the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Paris, France, October 28, 2006. “Food Sharing Networks of Young Adult Inuit Hunters in Holman, NT, Canada.” Paper presented at the Society for Anthropological Sciences Meeting, Savannah, GA, February 2006. Aging, Inuit Life Stages, and Rethinking Culture Change in the Canadian Arctic.” Paper presented at the 14th Inuit Studies Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, August 12, 2004 “Aging, Government Housing Policy, and Inuit Subsistence Hunting in the Central Canadian Arctic.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Portland, OR, March 20, 2003. "Surviving in the Modern World: Social & Environmental Challenges Facing Inuit in the 21st Century." Invited Lecture for the Lecture Series Our Children's Future: Global Environmental Issues of the 21st Century. Delivered at the Unitarian Church, Lincoln, NE, February 17, 2002.

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“If You Got Everything, It’s Good Enough:” Perspectives on Successful Aging in a Canadian Inuit Community. P. Collings, presenter. Paper presented at the Arctic Forum, the annual meeting of the Artic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS), Washington, D.C., May 17, 2000. “Aging, Life Course Transitions, and Inuit Identity in an Inuit Community.” P. Collings, presenter. Paper presented at the meetings of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, Pittsburgh, PA, November 19, 1999. “Discourses on Aging and the Life Course in an Inuit Community.” P. Collings, presenter. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA, December 2, 1998. “Subsistence Hunting and Wildlife Management in the Central Canadian Arctic.” P. Collings, presenter. Paper presented at a Symposium on Environmental Problems and Indigenous Peoples of the Circumpolar North, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, May 18, 1996 Aging and Social Change in the Canadian Arctic. P. Collings, presenter. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, Savannah, Georgia, February 19, 1995. Blood on the Ice: Status, Violence, and Ritual Injury among Inuit Hockey Players. P. Collings, presenter. Paper presented at the annual Inuit Studies Conference, Iqaluit, NWT, Canada, June, 1994.

References: Dr. Brenda Chalfin, Associate Professor Department of Anthropology PO Box 117305 1112 Turlington Hall Gainesville, FL, 32611-7305 Phone: (352) 392-2427 x306 Fax: 352-392-6929 Email: [email protected]

Dr. George Wenzel, Professor Deprtment of Geography McGill University Room 623, Burnside Hall 805 Sherbrooke St. W. Montreal, QC, H3A 2K6 Phone: (514) 398-4346 Fax: (514) 398-7437 Email: [email protected]

Dr. Ken Sassaman, Associate Professor Department of Anthropology PO Box 117305 1112 Turlington Hall Gainesville, FL, 32611-7305 Phone: (352) 392-2253 x236 Fax: (352) 392-6929 Email: [email protected]

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