CAPSTRANS RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Professor Linda Connor
President of Academic Senate, University
of Newcastle
Qualifications
BA (Hons) University of Sydney
PhD (Anthropology) University of Sydney
Research Programs
Mobility and Exclusion
Globalisation and International Development
Culture and Representation
Research Specialisation
Linda has strong research interests and commitments in the area of health social
science (medical anthropology) and in the anthropological study of social transformation of Indonesian
cultures and society (including health systems). She has been undertaking fieldwork in Bali, Indonesia,
for more than twenty years.
Languages
Indonesian, Balinese
Current Research Projects
Recent Publications
- *In press with Glenn Albrecht, Nick Higginbotham and Sonya Freeman, ‘Human Health and Ecosystem health: A Social Perspective’. In Heggenhougen, K. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Public Health, San Diego CA, Elsevier. (5,600 words, accepted 30 November, 2006).
- (2006) with Nick Higginbotham, Glenn Albrecht, Sonya Freeman, and Kingsley Agho, ‘Validation of an Environmental Distress Scale’ EcoHealth, Volume 3, Number 4, pp. 245-54.
- (2006) with Christine Everingham, Gaynor Heading, ‘‘Couples’ Experiences of postnatal depression: A framing analysis of cultural identity, gender and communication’, Social Science and Medicine, Volume 62, Number 7 pp. 1745-1756.
- (2004) with Glenn Albrecht, Nick Higginbotham, Sonia Freeman, Wayne Smith, ‘Environmental change and human health in Upper Hunter communities of New South Wales’, EcoHealth, Volume 1 (Suppl. 2), pp. 47-58.
- (2004) “Relief, risk and renewal: Mixed therapy regimens in an Australian
suburb”, Social Science and Medicine.
- (2004) with Gillian Harris and Nick
Higginbotham, “Seeing the baby: Pleasures and dilemmas of ultrasound technology for
primiparous Australian women”, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 18(1).
- (2003) with Glenn Albrecht, Nick Higginbotham, Sonia Freeman and Wayne Smith “Environmental
Change and Human Health: A Pilot Study in Upper Hunter Valley Communities”, in Glenn Albrecht
(ed.) Proceedings of the Airs, Waters, Places Transdisciplinary Conference on Ecosystem
Health in Australia, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, The University of Newcastle,
pp. 33-42.
- (2003) with Patsy Asch “Subjects, Images, Voices: Representing Gender in the Ethnographic
Film”, in E. Douglas Lewis (ed.), Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film, Routledge,
London and New York, pp. 163-184.
- (2003) “Crisis, cosmopolitanism and citizenship: Living in a local and global risk society
in Bali”, Indonesia, Vol. 75, April, pp. 153-180.
- (2001) with Geoffrey Samuel (eds.) Healing
Powers and Modernity: Shamanism, Science and Traditional Medicine in Asian Societies,
Bergin and Garvey, Westport, CT.
- (2001) with N. Higginbotham and G. Albrecht (eds.) Health
Social Science: A Trandisciplinary and Complexity Perspective, Oxford University
Press, Melbourne, 382pp.
- (1999) with R. Rubenstein (eds.) Staying
Local in the Global Village: Bali in the 20th Century, University of Hawaii Press,
Honolulu.
Current Research Students
- Caroline Campbell, PhD, “Illness, Sorcery, Violence and Modernity in East Java”. Expected submission 2006.
- Gillian Harris, PhD, “Health and Well-Being During Pregnancy and Early Motherhood”. (N. Higginbotham co-supervisor). Expected submission 2010.
- Hedda Askland, PhD, “East Timorese Expatriates: Negotiating Diasponic Identities in the Shadow of Sociopolitical Change”. Expected submission 2010.
Past Research Students
- Mary Ida Bagus, PhD, “From the Margins of History: A Long Babad of Jembrana, Bali”. Completed studies December 2006.
- Hedda Askland, Masters, “Young East Timorese in Australia: Conceptions of Cultural Identity”. Completed studies 2005.
- Megan Jennaway, PhD, “Sweet Breath and Bitter Honey: HIV/AIDS and the Embodiment of Desire among North Balinese Women”. Graduated 1998, Queensland University. (Linda was an associate supervisor but took the major role in the academic supervision of the thesis.)
- Kylie Monro, PhD, “Tibetan Mothers in India: Medical Pluralism and Cultural Identity”. Graduated 2000.
- Patricia Brennan, PhD, “The Gender Anomaly, Women: Sick, Sickened or Sickening?” Graduated September 2002.
Organisational Affiliations
- Member, Editorial Collective (3 persons), Review of Malaysian and Indonesian Affairs
- Editorial Committee, Medical Anthropology
- Editorial Board, Oceania
- Member, Australian Anthropological Society
- Member, Asian Studies Association of Australia
- Member, American Anthropological Society
- Associate, The Royal Anthropological Institute (KITLV), Leiden, The Netherlands
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