Gilbert Herdt

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Gilbert Herdt, Ph.D, a cultural anthropologist, is Professor of Human Sexuality Studies and Anthropology and Director of the Program in Human Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University. Professor Herdt is also Director of the National Sexuality Resource Center, a Ford Foundation funded project. Dr. Herdt has written about sexual cultures, and sexual and gender identity development cross-culturally and in the United States. Dr. Herdt’s studies of the Sambia people of Papua New Guinea, made famous in a series of books and papers beginning with Guardians of the Flutes (1981), is a key case study that analyzes how culture and society create sexual meanings and practices. In the U.S. Dr. Herdt has studied adolescents and their families, the emergence of HIV and gay culture, and the role that social policy plays in people’s sexual health. A Fulbright, NIMH, and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, Herdt has taught at Stanford University, the University of Chicago, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Washington. His publications include nearly 30 single and edited books, and more than 100 scientific papers. Printer Friendly Version

1 Contact Information
2 CURRENT POSITIONS
3 ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
4 SCHOLARLY APPOINTMENTS
5 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
6 TEACHING EXPERIENCE
7 SCHOLARSHIPS
8 RESEARCH GRANTS
9 HONORS AND AWARDS
10 EDITORSHIPS AND JOURNALS
11 BOOK SERIES EDITOR
12 MAJOR MEMBERSHIPS
13 CHAIR OF CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA, AND WORKSHOPS
14 PRESENTATIONS AND COLLOQUIA
15 PUBLISHED WORKS

Contact Information

Director and Professor Director Human Sexuality Studies Program National Sexuality Resource Center San Francisco State University 2017 Mission St. 1600 Holloway Avenue San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco, CA 94132 Telephone: (415) 405-3574 (415) 437-1471 Facsimile: (415) 405-0411 (415)-621-3783 Assistant: (415) 405-3570 E-mail: gherdt@sfsu.edu gilnsrc@sfsu.edu

CURRENT POSITIONS

1998-- Director, Human Sexuality Studies Program, San Francisco State University, and Professor of Sexuality & Anthropology, SFSU.
2000-- Executive Director, Institute on Sexuality, Inequality, and Health, SFSU
2001- Founder and Scientific Director, NSRC Summer Institute on Sexuality, Society and Health, SFSU
2002-- Director, National Sexuality Resource Center (nsrc.sfsu.edu) at

SFSU, a multi-year, multi-million dollar Project, with major funding provided by the Ford Foundation

PRIOR FULL-TIME POSITIONS

1979-1985 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University.
l985-1998 Associate Professor (tenure) and Professor (tenure), and Chair, Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago.

DEGREES

1979 Post-doctoral Certificate, Psychiatry, University of California – Los Angeles, Neuropsychiatry Institute.
1978 Ph.D., Anthropology, Australian National University, Institute for

Advanced Studies.

1973 M.A., Ph.C., Anthropology, University of Washington – Seattle.
1972 M.A. (Thesis), Medical Anthropology, California State University Sacramento.
1971 B.A. (Honors), Anthropology, California State University – Sacramento.

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Since 1979, I have served on more than a dozen international committees or agencies (e.g., WHO), 9 major national committees and academic committees (NIMH, SSRC), have chaired two major departments for 3 years or more, founded two research centers and a major institute, and sat on approximately 15 departmental and university-wide committees at 3 American universities.
1980-82 Member, Human Subjects Protection Committee, Stanford University
1982-83 Chair, Graduate Studies Committee in Anthropology, Stanford University
1985-87 Elected Member, Board, Society for Psychological Anthropology
1986 Founder, Center for Culture and Mental Health, University of Chicago
1986-96 Director, Scientific Coordinator, and Primary fund-raiser of the Center for Culture and Mental Health, University of Chicago
1990 Organizer and Convener, first of 7 international conferences, funded by: Wenner-Gren Foundation, and others, on AIDS and Anthropology, Sexual Theory and Culture, Beyond Boundaries: AIDS and Sexuality in International Perspectives, Amsterdam, Population and Sexual Migration, and Sexual Policy and Theory in the Time of AIDS, Bangkok, and Cheng Mai, funded by the Society for the Scientific Study of Population (Belgium).
1995 Founder, Summer Institute on Sexuality and Society, University of Amsterdam. This was the first summer intensive to be regularly organized and it remains the most significant training vehicle for international students. I recruited John Gagnon, Carole Vance, and other leading scholars to teach and staff the Institute during my leadership (5 years).
1996 Founder and President, International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Society and Culture. This is the first new international organization devoted to the scholarly social and historical study of sexuality. ISSACS has sponsored bi-annual conferences in Amsterdam, Manchester, England, and Melbourne, Australia. Its current president is Lenore Manderson, Chair of Women’s Health at Melbourne University; its next conference will be held in South Africa in 2003.
1998 First full-time Director of Human Sexuality Studies at SFSU, selected via national competition. I was invited to enhance a Program that previously had a large interdisciplinary faculty, but no infrastructure, tenure lines, or a program office. Since that time, the Program has hired 3 new tenure line people, Rafael Diaz, Amy Sueyoshi, and Niels Teunis, each of them outstanding in the fields of psychology, history, and anthropology; and we have also hired 8 full-time non-tenure staff. Deborah Tolman is currently considering a new appointment with us to create a national platform on adolescent sexuality and sexual health. I am responsible for all aspects of curriculum development, faculty assignments, committee assignments, and administrative and collegial links within the College of Social Sciences, the University, and with colleagues at other institutions.
2000 Founder and Director, Institute on Sexuality, Inequality and Health at SFSU; an interdisciplinary unit that includes: a research center (Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality, Deborah Tolman, director); a national resource center (National Sexuality Resource Center, Gilbert Herdt, director); and a Summer Institute at SFSU (Summer Institute on Sexuality, Society and Health, Joy O’Donnell, director).
2001 I chaired and oversaw the State of California approval of the Master of Arts in Human Sexuality Studies, the first such degree in California and one of the first of its kind anywhere. This process required more than 40 separate meetings, presentations, and briefings, and the cooperation of officials at 6 levels of administration.
2001 I directed the first successful Summer Institute at SFSU, which had more than 40 students and practitioners from around the U.S. in attendance for one month. I created a curriculum of 5 courses, hired the instructors, hired a coordinator, and created a unique practitioner-training program. We also obtained extramural funding from The California Endowment to provide an innovative practitioner training program with scholarships for people of color. This program will now be expanded under the Ford Foundation.
2002 I spearheaded the creation of a National Sexuality Resource Center at SFSU, and worked to secure competitive funding from the Ford Foundation, which selected SFSU as its only Resource Center in the U.S. The first phase of this center involved the leasing of a public space off campus and its outfitting for the latest IT and staffing; the hiring of 8 staff, including a scientific staff; and the creation of a high profile web site to link academics and community based organizations in a new national dialogue.

The NSRC will have critical links to David Satcher’s (former Surgeon General, now at Kaiser Foundation) initiative to create a national commission on sexuality, and Richard Parker’s (Chair of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University School of Public Health) international consortium on sexuality and policy (both funded by the Ford Foundation).

SCHOLARLY APPOINTMENTS

2004- Convener, National Leadership Forum on Sexuality Studies (US); a consortium of 15 American universities (Ford Foundation funded).
2003-- Member, SSRC Sexuality Research Fellowship Committee
2003-- Member, International Working Group on Sexuality and Policy, Chaired by Richard Parker, PhD, Columbia University
2003-- Member, National Advisory Council on Sexual Health, Chaired by David

Satcher, MD, Morehouse School of Medicine

2002-- Member, SSRC Selection Committee on Viet Nam.
2001 Blumstein-Jordan Professor of Sexuality, Department of Sociology,

University of Washington, Seattle (Spring quarter).

2000-- Adjunct Professor, Program in Medical Anthropology and History of

Science, University of California, San Francisco

1999-2001 Founding President, International Association for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, Culture, and Society.

1997-98 Sabbatical, supported by Guggenheim Fellowship, and Visiting Professor of Anthropology, supported by William S.Vaughn Visiting Fellowship, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University.

1996-98 Committee Member, Program Committee on Sexuality Research in the Social Sciences, Social Science Research Council.
1995-2000 Founder and Scientific Director, Summer Institute in Sexuality, Gender, and Culture, University of Amsterdam.
1991 Visiting Professor, Anthropology and Gay/Lesbian Studies, University of Amsterdam (Autumn quarter).
1990-98 Professor of the Committee on Human Development, Psychology, and The College, University of Chicago.
1990 Ad hoc Member, National Institute of Mental Health, AIDS Research Review Committee and Basic Behavioral Sciences Review Committee.
1990-92 Adjunct Professor, Program in AIDS Training and Research, Department of Medical Nursing, Rush University.
1989-92 Chairman, Committee on Human Develop¬ment, University of Chicago.
1989-90 Consulting Member, Technical Working Group on Quali¬tative Research, Global Program on AIDS, World Health Or¬ganization.
1987-90 Co-founder and Member, President's Task Force on AIDS and Anthropology, American Anthropological Association.
1987-90 Member, Behavioral Science Research Selection Panel, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
1986-88 Co-chair and Co-founder, Society for Lesbian and Gay Anthropology.
1985-91 Member, Faculty Executive Committee, Clinical Resea¬rc¬h Training Program in Adolescence, Department of Psychiatry, Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center (National Institute of Mental Health Training Grant for pre-doctoral and post-doctoral training).
1985-90 Associate Professor, Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago.
1983-85 Elected Member, Board of Directors of the Society for Psychological Anthropology.
1982-85 Member, Committee on Human Subjects Protection in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University.
1980-85 Visiting Research Anthropologist, Department of Psychiatry, Univer¬sity of California - Los Angeles (permanent unpaid appointment).
1980-84 Fellow, Center for the Study of Youth Development, Stanford University.
1978-79 Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California - Los Angeles.
1978-85 Member, Gender Identity Research Clinic, University of California – Los Angeles.
1979-85 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
1974-77 Research Scholar, Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University.
1972-74 Post-graduate Student and Teaching Assistant, specializing in Melanesian studies, University of Washington.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2000-02 Principal Investigator, Study of Gay-Straight-Alliances (GSA) in

California High Schools: Community Case Studies and Policy. Phase I Supported by the T. Gwinn Folis Foundation & Horizon Foundation; Phase II supported by W.T.Grant Foundation (S. Russell, P.I)

2001-02 Principal Investigator, Impact of Faith-based institutions on LGBT

Youth: A Community Based Study in Three States. Ford Foundation.

1997-98 Co-Principal Investigator, Study of the Lives of Older Lesbians and Gay Men in Metropolitan Chicago, social survey phase (with Bertram Cohler).
1996 Ten-month needs-assessment study of Older Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals in Chicago, using multiple research methods, for Horizons Community Services, Inc. and the Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust of Chicago.
1993 Anthropologist, ethnographic film project, "Guardian of the Flutes," produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation and featured as part of their “Nature” series; Sambia, Papua New Guinea.
1990 Anthropologist, ethnographic film project, produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation; Sambia, Papua New Guinea.
1989 One-month field research study among the Sambia, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.
1988 One-month field research study among the Sambia, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.
1988 Reconnaissance field trip, Vitu Island, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea.
1986-88 Principal Investigator, Project on Sexual Orientation and Cultural Competence in Chicago Teenagers.
1987 One-month field research study among the Sambia, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.
1983 Two-month field research study among the Sambia, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.
1981 Three-month field research study among the Sambia, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.
1979 Five-month field research study among the Sambia, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.
1978 Six-month observational research study of mothers and infants, Hienecke Pregnancy Project, Child Psychiatry, University of California – Los Angeles.
1974-76 Twenty-two month field research study among the Sambia, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.
1971-72 Eleven-month field research study, psychiatric wards of the Sacramento Medical Center, Psychiatric Anthropology Research Project, California State University - Sacramento and University of California - Davis.
1970-71 Six-month field research study, family interviewing and T.A.T. testing of Japanese-Americans (Sacramento and San Francisco).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1972-74 Teaching Assistant, University of Washington; Courses Assisted: Introductory Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Peoples and Cultures of the Pacific.
1979-85 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University. Courses taught: Sex and Gender; Culture and Madness; Sex Roles and Society; Psychological Anthropology; Ritual and Symbolism; Graduate Dissertation Writing Seminar. While at Stanford University, Herdt served on the dissertation committees of 8 students, and chaired 4 of these committees to the award of PhD:
1985-98 Associate Professor (l985-90) and Professor (l990-), Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago. Courses taught: Cross-cultural Human Development; Seminar on Self and Culture; Seminar on Culture and Mental Health; Seminar on Sex and Gender; Seminar on Adolescent Sexuality; Seminar on Clinical Ethnography and Field work Methods. At Chicago, Herdt served on the undergraduate Honor thesis committees of 3 students; the dissertation committees of 21 students, and I chaired or co-chaired 8 of these PhD committees:
1995-2000 Director, Summer Institute on Sexuality and Society, University of Amsterdam. I founded and taught more than 120 graduate students and professionals from around the world during these summer intensives; and also chaired the committees of M.A. student Mirjam Schieveld and the PhD committee of Jan Willem van Winjgarden, University of Amsterdam.
1998- Professor and Director, Human Sexuality Studies, SFSU. Courses taught:

Seminar in Sexual Cultures, Sexual Identities; Seminar in Sociocultural Foundations of Sexuality; Undergraduate Honors Seminar, Sexuality Studies.

SCHOLARSHIPS

1998-99 Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences Fellowship (awarded, but declined).
1997-98 William Simon Henry Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.
1997-98 William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellowship, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University.
1978 University of California – Los Angeles, Brain Research Institute, post-doctoral fellowship (awarded, but declined).
1977-80 National Institute of Mental Health, individual post-doctoral fellowship (3 years; IF32 MHO 7436-01).
1974-77 Pre-doctoral Fulbright Scholarship (4 years) to Australia.
1974-76 The Australian National University, Institute of Advanced Study, doctoral research scholarship for study of the Sambia, Papua New Guinea.
1972 Social Science Re¬search Council, Psycho physiological Research Training Conference (Summer), Harvard University.

RESEARCH GRANTS

20004-06 National Center on Sexual Resource Center at SFSU: Core funding, Phase 2, Ford Foundation ($1,400,000.00; Gilbert Herdt, Director).
2002-04 National Center on Sexual Resource Center at SFSU: Phase I, 2 year

grant, Ford Foundation ($1,100,000.00; Gilbert Herdt, Director). June 1, 2002.

2002-04 Innovative Practitioner Training in Sexuality at SFSU: Research, Education and Policy. Ford Foundation ($400,000.00; Gilbert Herdt, P.I.) August 1, 2002.
2002 Completion of Study of Charitable Choice Legislation Impact and Gay and Lesbian Adolescence ($85,000) (Caitlin Ryan, Co-PI). Ford Foundation.
2000 T. Gwinn Folis Foundation, GSA Alliance Policy Project, Phase I ($25,000) (Caitlin Ryan, Co-PI).
2000 Horizons Foundation, Gay-Straight Alliance Policy Project, Phase I ($5,000) (Caitlin Ryan, Co-PI). San Francisco.
2001 Study of Charitable Choice Legislation Impact and Gay and Lesbian Adolescence ($150,000) (Caitlin Ryan, Co-PI). Ford Foundation.
2001 Practitioner Training in Sexuality and Sexual Health (25,000); Caitlin Ryan, Project Director; California Wellness Foundation.
2000-02 Practitioner Training; Social Inequality, Sexuality, and Health: San Francisco State University Programs. Ford Foundation ($400,000; Gilbert Herdt, P.I.).
1999 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, small grant award to support San Francisco State University’s Conference on Sexuality and Disability ($10,000).
1999 Richard Nathan Trust on Anti-gay Violence, small grant award to support San Francisco State University conference ($2,500).
1999 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, small grant award to support conference on homophobia and anti-gay violence ($6000).
1996-2001 Culture and Mental Health Behavior Training Grant, 5-year renewal; two post-doctoral and four pre-doctoral dissertation fellowships ($554,000; Gilbert Herdt, PI).
1996 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, small grant award to support “Anga Tribes of New Guinea Cultural Preservation” Conference ($8,000).
1996 Elizabeth Morse Trust Foundation, needs-assessment study of Older Lesbians and Gays in Metropolitan Chicago ($10,000; Gilbert Herdt, PI).

1995-96 Rockefeller Foundation, grant award for Bellagio Conference study “Civilization and Its Continuing Discontents: Anthropological and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Aggression and Sexuality” ($22,000; Gilbert Herdt, Co-organizer).

1991-96 National Institute of Mental Health, Culture and Mental Health Training Grant, 1991-96 ($540,000) (1 T32 MH19098-O1A1; Gilbert Herdt, PI).
1988-90 University of Chicago Biomedical Research Grants ($4,000).
1989 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, field grant for study “Social Change and Gender Relations: Sambia Adolescence” ($7,000).
1988 Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, Center for the Study of Adolescence, seed grant award for study “Cultural Change in Adolescent Maturational Processes in Seven New Guinea Societies” ($8,400).
1988 National Institute of Mental Health, biomedical research grant award for study “The Adjustments of Gay and Lesbian Youth” ($1,800) (PHS 2 SO7 RR-07029-23).
1988 National Endowment for the Humanities, travel award for study “The Anthropological History of Pacification, Warfare and Ritual Cults in Highlands Papua New Guinea” ($750) (FE-22737-88).
1987-89 Spencer Foundation, grant award for study “Sexual Orientation and Cultural Adaptation in Chicago” ($95,300).
1986-1989 University of Chicago, seed grant for creation of Center for Culture and Mental Health, Gilbert Herdt, Director ($50,000).
1985 Stanford University Faculty Incentive Grant ($2,000).
1982-83 Anne Lederer Research Institute, grant award for study “Analysis and Sambia Clinical Studies” ($10,000).
1981 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, grant-in-aid for follow-up studies of the Sambia ($5,000) (#4104).
1980 Stanford University Department of Anthropology and the Boys’ Town Center for the Study of Youth Development, summer research grants ($7,000).
1978-79 University of California – Los Angeles, Neuropsychiatric Institute, biobehavioral sciences research grant for study "Ritualized Homosexuality and Gender Identity” ($20,000).
1978 National Institute of Mental Health and University of California – Los Angeles, Neuropsychiatric Institute, biomedical research grant for study "Maternal Bonding and the Roots of Gender Identity ($12,000).

HONORS AND AWARDS

2004 Invited Panelist, Pfizer Journal of Health Care, Panel on Challenges to People in Their Twenties. Nashville, TN, July 13-14, 2005.
2003 Keynote speaker, Annual LGBT Intersections Week, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, and May 6, 2004.
2004 Visiting Professor, Program in Sexuality, Gender and Health, Facultad de Salud Pública y Administración, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, March 22-26, 2004.
2004 Keynote speaker, All South America Conference on Sexual Diversity and Human Rights, Lima, Peru, March 25-26 March, 2004.
2004 Keynote speaker, 3rd Intl. IASSCS conference, Johannesberg, South Africa, June 23-25, 2003.
2003 Keynote speaker, Foundation Conference – Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures, University of California, Berkeley, March.
2001 Out-going President, Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society, BiAnnual Meetings, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia.
2001 Stice Distinguished Annual Lecture in the Social Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle.
2001 Blumstein-Jordan Distinguished Professor of Sexuality, Department of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle. Spring.
2000 Robert J. Stoller Memorial Lecture, University of California - Los Angeles.
2000 Keynote Speaker, 26th annual meeting of the International Academy of Sex Research, Paris, France.
2000 Distinguished Annual Lecture, Central Washington State University.
2000 Keynote Speaker, annual meeting of the International Academy of Sex

Research, Paris, France. 1998 Keynote Speaker, 2nd Annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Society, and Culture, Manchester, England.

1995 Co-Chair, University of Chicago Mellon Foundation Seminar Series: Sexual Identities, Identity Politics, and Cross-Cultural Investigations.
1980 Executive Member, Committee on Anthropological Demography, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Liege, Belgium.
1992-93 Sabbatical-in-Residence: Visiting Professor, Departments of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam and Nijmegen University, Netherlands.
1992 Annual Award for Research, National Association for Men's Studies, Chicago, IL.
1991 Honorary Chair, Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration and Alumni Fund- raising, Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago.
1991 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, University of Rochester.
1990 Chair and Organizer, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Conference on AIDS.
1990 Harry Hoijer Memorial Lecture, Department of Anthropology, University of California – Los Angeles.
1988-92 Open fellowship invitation, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA.
1988 Ruth Benedict Prize for “The Sambia: Ritual and Gender in New Guinea”, Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology.
1988 Honorable Mention for Ethos paper, Sterling Prize Society for Psychological Anthropology.
1986-87 Co-chair, Society for Lesbian and Gay Anthropology.
1981 National Book Award Nominee for Guardians of the Flutes.

EDITORSHIPS AND JOURNALS

2004 - Founding editor, Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of the NSRC
1998 - present Associate Editor, Journal of Culture, Sexuality, and Health.

Associate Editor, Journal of Men and Masculinities. Associate Editor, Transaction: Journal of Social Science and Modern Society.

1999-2002 Associate Editor, Journal of Gender and Sexuality.
1996-2000, 2002-present Associate Editor, Journal of the History of Sexuality.
1995-2000 Associate Editor, International Journal of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identities.
1994-97 Consulting Editor, American Anthropologist.
1993-99 Associate Editor, The Narrative Study of Lives.
1991-2001 Associate Editor, Archives of Sexual Behavior.
1990-2000 Associate Editor, Annual Review of Sex Research.

1990-93 Associate Editor and consulting founder, Journal of the History of Sexuality. 1989-present Associate Editor, Oceania.

1989-96 Associate Editor, Between Men/Between Women, a series on gay and lesbian books, Columbia University Press.
1985-1999 Associate Editor, Journal of Homosexuality.

BOOK SERIES EDITOR

1994-present General Editor, Worlds of Desire (book series on sexuality, culture, and health), University of Chicago Press. Currently 14 titles in print.
1984-92 General Editor and Founder, Studies in Melanesian Anthropology, University of California Press (Co-Editors: D. F. Tuzin and R. Lederman).

MAJOR MEMBERSHIPS

Fellow: American Anthropological Association, International Academy of Sex Research, Scientific Society for the Study of Sexuality, International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Society and Culture.
Member: Phi Kappa Beta, American Ethnological Association, Society for Medical Anthropology, Society for Psychological Anthropology, Scientific Society for the Study of Sex, Society for Applied Anthropology, and Society for Gay and Lesbian Anthropology.

CHAIR OF CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA, AND WORKSHOPS

2005 Chair and Organizer, 5th Conference, International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Society and Culture, General Theme: Sexual Rights and Moral Panics. San Francisco, SFSU/NSRC, 21-24, 2005.
2003 Sexual Inequality, Society and Health: Research Perspectives. Conference of the NSRC convened at Romberg Tiburon SFSU Center, August 6-7. 2003.
2002 Sexuality, Inequality and Health: Recent Research at SFSU. SSRC/SFSU Conference for predoc and postdoc fellows, SFSU Business Center, Oct. 25, 2002.
2001 Development, Aging and Well-Being: SFSU Conference on

Research. Convener and Chair, SFSU Business Center, Oct. 27-28.

2001 Summer Institute on Sexuality, Society, and Health (one-month intensive teaching workshop). San Francisco State University, June – July, 2001.
2000 Sexuality Education and the School: Perspectives on the New Century. San Francisco State University, October 23, 2000.
1999 Rethinking Homophobia, Anti-gay Violence and Homophobia, and Homophobia: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Research and Policy. San Francisco State University, April 7 - 10, l999.
1998 Kinsey at 50: Past and Future of Sex Research (inaugural conference). San Francisco State University, November 6 - 7, l998.
1997 Institute on Sexuality, Culture, and Society (one-month intensive teaching workshop). University of Amsterdam, July 21 - August 16, l997.
1997 Beyond the Boundaries: First International Conference on the Cross-Cultural Study of Sexuality and Gender. University of Amsterdam, July 29 - August 2, l997.
1995 Symposium on “Subjects and Objects of Desire: Toward an Anthropology of Sexual Cultures." Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, November 15-19, 1995.
1995 Cross-Cultural Study of Sexuality and Gender (one-day conference). American University in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Society, November 14, 1995.
1995 Session on "Anthropology of Sexual Cultures." Annual meeting of the International Academy for Sex Research, Provincetown, MA, September 20-24, 1995.
1994 Session on “Migration, Sexual Subcultures, AIDS and STDs." First International Conference, Committee on Demographic Anthropology, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. Institute of Population Studies, Bangkok, Thailand, February 28 - March 3, 1994.
1994 Session on "Sexual Cultures Migration and AIDS." International Union for the Scientific Study of Population Symposium, Bangkok, Thailand, February 27 - March 3, 1994.
1993 Session on "The Anthropology of Desire in a Post-Foucaultian Era: Incitement, Representation, Power." Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 18, 1993.
1992-93 Session on “Evolution, Development and Culture.” Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Conference on Approaches to Sexuality and Culture, Lisbon, Portugal, March 19-26, 1993.
1992 International Conference on Culture, Sex, and AIDS. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, July, 1992.

1990 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Conference on AIDS Research: Theory, Method and Practice in Anthropology, Estes Park, CO, June 26-July 1, 1990.

1990 Adolescence in Pacific Island Societies (one-day conference). Annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Maui, HI, March 16-21, 1990.
1984 Symposium on "New Approaches to Interpreta¬tion in Psychoanalytic Anthropology." Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Denver, CO, November 17, 1984.
1984 Working session on "Spirit Impersonation and Ritual Transvestism: Symbolic themes in Melanesia.” Annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oce¬ania. Molokai Island, HI, February 26 - March 2, 1984.

PRESENTATIONS AND COLLOQUIA

2004 NSRC Partnerhships. Presentation to Planned Parenthood Federation of

America, New York, April 22, 2003. 2002 Gilbert, and Cymene Howe. National Sexuality Resource Center: Generating Dialogues Between the Academy, Community Based Organizations, and the Public. Poster, Annual Meetings of the International Academy of Sex Research, Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, Indiana, July 18, 2003.

2003 The National Sexuality Resource Center: Conceptual Maps and Real

World Problems. Grand Rounds, HIV Center, Columbia University, New York.

2003 Herdt, G. (May 2003) Sexuality, Inequality and Health: Problems and Prospects. Chancellor’s Committee Talk, University of California, Davis.
2002 National Working Group, Ford Global Initiative, Presentation on NSRC Web System and Outreach. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 3-5, 2003.
2002 Herdt, G. (November 2002) Discussant, Session on Female Sexuality and Gender, D. Tolman, organizer, annual meetings, SSSS, Montreal, Canada.
2002 Herdt, G. (March 2002) Sexuality Research and Current Paradigms of Higher Education; Ford Foundation Staff Meeting, New York.
2002 Herdt, G. (March, 2002) Sexual Culture and Human Rights after the Cold War. Keynote; Inaugural Conference, Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures, UCB.
2001 Herdt, G. (December, 2001) Chair and Organizer, Sexuality and Social Inequality: New Perspectives on Participatory Ethnography. Annual Meetings, American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
2000 Herdt, G. (October, 2000). The magical age of 10 and the development of sexual excitement. Annual Robert J. Stoller Lecture presented at the Departments of Psychiatry and Anthropology, University of California – Los Angeles.
1998 Herdt, G. (February, 1998). The position of Sambia women in male ritual. Symposium presentation at the annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Pensacola, FL.
1998 Herdt, G. (January, 1998). Ritual rebirth: Three paradigms of masculinity and religion. Distinguished lecture presented at the Program in Sexuality and Religion, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
1997 Herdt, G. (November, 1997). Anthropology, sexuality, and gender. Address to presidential symposium on “Value-Added Anthropological Perspectives in the 21st Century” (chaired by C. Worthman), presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.
1997 Herdt, G. (August, 1997). Clinical ethnography and sexual study. Session on “The Application of Psychoanalysis to Cross-cultural Sexual Study” (chaired by L. Meyers), presented at Beyond the Boundaries: First International Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1997 Herdt, G. (April, 1997). Lecture series presented at the Sexuality Studies Center and Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
1997 Herdt, G. (April, 1996). Rethinking the role of subjectivity in sexual anthropology and participant-observation fieldwork. Guest speaker presentation at the Department of Anthropology, Emory University.
1997 Herdt, G. (February, 1997). Sexual cultures, migration, and AIDS/STDS: Implications from recent studies. Guest speaker presentation at the Department of Anthropology, Brown University.
1997 Herdt, G. (1997). Violence, psyche, and masculinity: Evidence from New Guinea. Lecture presented at the Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis, Chicago, IL.
1996 Herdt, G. (November, 1996). Revisiting boy-inseminating rites in Melanesia. Invited symposium on “Retrospective on Homosexuality and Anthropology,” presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.
1996 Herdt, G. (November, 1996). Rethinking sexual culture. Lecture series presented at the Departments of Anthropology, Concordia College and University of Montreal.
1996 Herdt, G. (October, 1996). Sexing anthropology: Rethinking participant observation in sexual study. Presented at the Kenyon College Conference on Sexuality and Anthropology.
1996 Herdt, G. (September, 1996). Gender ontologies in the men's house: Long-term study of the Sambia. Presented at the Anga Societies Conference, Pacific Research Centre, Marseilles, France.
1996 Herdt, G. (September, 1996). Ritual violence and the male psyche in New Guinea. Session on “Civilization and Its Continuing Discontents: Anthropological and Psychoanalytic Perspectives,” presented at Bellagio Conference, Bellagio, Italy.
1996 Herdt, G. (June, 1996). Keynote address at the Pennsylvania State University Conference on Gay and Lesbian Youth: Interventions and Research, presented at the Annual Gay Studies Conference, University Park, PA.
1996 Herdt, G. (April, 1996). Homosexuality and the third gender in comparative religion. Presented at the Ford Foundation Conference on Sexuality and Religion, Northwestern University.
1995 Herdt, G. (November, 1995). Subjects and objects of desire: Toward an anthropology of sexual cultures. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.
1995 Herdt, G. (November, 1995). Problems of male infertility and society. Discussion seminar presented at the International Union for the Study of Population, Oaxaca, Mexico.
1995 Herdt, G. (October, 1995). The development of desire in Sambia sexual culture. Colloquium presented at the Department of Anthropology, Princeton University.
1995 Herdt, G. (October, 1995). Transitional rituals and life events among lesbian and gay youth in the United States. Session on “Transitional Rites in Complex Societies,” presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1995 Herdt, G. (July, 1995). The question of a third sex. Presented at the Melbourne Conference on the Child of Uncertain Sex: Biomedical and Behavioral Perspectives, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
1995 Herdt, G. (April, 1995). The development of desire. Plenary talk at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex. Atlantic City, NJ.
1994 Herdt, G. (September, 1994). Rites of coming out. Colloquium presented at the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater.
1994 Herdt, G. (September, 1994). Collective fantasies and male rebirth among Sambia. Presented at the Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Heidelberg, Germany.
1994 Herdt, G. (April, 1994). The rites of coming out. Convocation presented at Grinnell College, IA.
1994 Herdt, G. (March, 1994). Commentator at the workshop on “Thai Categories of Sexuality,” Chaing Mai University, Thailand.
1994 Herdt, G. (January, 1994). Sexuality and cultural context. Plenary talk at the Ford Foundation Conference on the Cultural Context of AIDS, Chaing Mai University, Thailand.
1993 Herdt, G. (December, 1993). Commentator at the session on "Third Gender," presented at the annual Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Symposium, City University of New York, New York City, NY.
1993 Herdt, G. (November, 1993). Discussant at the session on "Revisiting the North American Indian Berdache Empirically and Theoretically" (chaired by S. E. Jacobs and W. K. Thomas), presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
1993 Herdt, G., Boxer, A., and Weiss, J. (November, 1993). The families of gays and lesbians. Session on "Contemporary Perspective on the Changing American Family," presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
1993 Herdt, G. (November, 1993). Commentary presented at the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population Conference on New Approaches to Demographic Anthropology, Barcelona, Spain.
1993 Herdt, G. (October, 1993). Reconsidering the third sex in culture and history. Invited lecture presented at the Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
1993 Herdt, G. (June, 1993). Secrecy and Pacific societies. Invited lecture presented at the Center for Pacific Studies, Nijmegen University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
1993 Herdt, G. (May, 1993). Secrecy and society: Two lectures. Invited lecture series (chaired by M. Godelier), presented at the Ecole Haute Etudes Social Sciences, Paris, France.
1993 Herdt, G. (May, 1993). Secrecy and society. Invited lecture presented at the Institute and Collections of Anthropology, University of Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany.
1993 Herdt, G. (April, 1993). Why is my child gay? Interview conducted by HBO Television and Paine-Whitney Clinic, New York Hospital, New York City, NY.
1993 Herdt, G. (April, 1993). Bisexuality and identity: A theory of comparative sexuality. Invited paper presented at the Ford Foundation Conference on Sexuality and Reproductive Health, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1993 Herdt, G. (February, 1993). Public, private, and secret. Invited lecture presented at the Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.
1993 Herdt, G. (January, 1993). Third sex, third gender. Invited lecture presented at the Anthropological Institute, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1992 Herdt, G. (November, 1992). AIDS and culture. Invited address presented at the Department of Homo-Studies, University of Utrecht, Netherlands.
1992 Herdt, G. (October, 1992). Third sex, social theory. Invited lecture presented at the Institute for Advanced Study, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
1992 Herdt, G. (1992). Grieving identity and rebellious culture, Paper presented at the Welcome Foundation Conference on "Impact of AIDS on the Gay and Lesbian Community in the United States," Rancho.
1992 Herdt, G. (March, 1992). Third sex, third gender. Session on “Dangerous Classes and Margins,” presented at the annual meeting of the American Ethnological Society, Memphis, TN.
1991 Herdt, G. (November, 1991). Discussant in the session on “Adolescence in Cross-Cultural Perspectives” (chaired by A. Schliegel), presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL.
1991 Herdt, G. (November, 1991). Recent research in sexuality. Lecture presented at the Netherlands Institute for Social Sexological Research, Utrecht, Netherlands.
1991 Herdt, G. (1991). AIDS and anthropology research. Workshop on AIDS, presented at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1991 Herdt, G. (September, 1991). Anthropology and sexuality. Presented at the Conference on the Work of Gilbert Herdt, University of Amsterdam.
1991 Herdt, G. (June, 1991). Folk theories of homosexuality and their implications for education and psychological counseling. In-service training conducted at the Department of Science, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, IL.
1991 Herdt, G. (March, 1991). Secrecy and society: Four lectures. Lecture series presented as part of Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures for 1991, University of Rochester.
1991 Herdt, G. (January, 1991). Constructions of sexuality. Invited lecture presented at the Department of Anthropology, Pomona College, Claremont, CA.
1990 Herdt, G. (November, 1990). Three lectures on anthropology and sexuality. Lecture series presented at the Dutch Sexological Society, and the Departments of Anthropology, Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1990 Herdt, G. (November, 1990). Sexual identity and risk for AIDS among gay youth in Chicago. Paper presented at the Conference on Anthropological Studies Relevant to the AIDS Epidemic, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Copenhagen, Denmark.
1990 Herdt, G. (October, 1990). Cultural representations of homosexuality. Presented at the 4th Gay and Lesbian Studies Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
1990 Herdt, G. (July, 1990). Cross-cultural perspectives on human sexuality. Paper presented at the 3rd International Congress of Sexology, Berlin, Germany.
1990 Herdt, G. (April, 1990). The causes of homosexuality. Presented as part of the Harry Hoijer Distinguished Lecture at the Department of Anthropology and Psychiatry, University of California – Los Angeles.
1989 Herdt, G. (November, 1989). Oedipus and phallus. Paper presented at the Conference on Psychoanalytic Anthropology (D. Spain, Chair), at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.
1989 Herdt, G. (November, 1989). “Coming out” processes as a rite of passage. Invited address presented at the symposium series on Gay and Lesbian Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
1989 Herdt, G. (October, 1989). Bisexuality in cultural context. Presented at the workshop on “Bisexuality and AIDS,” Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
1989 Herdt, G. (October, 1989). Oedipus and phallus. Paper presented at the 1st symposia of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, San Diego, CA.
1989 Herdt, G. (June, 1989). Reconsidering sexual orientation. Invited address presented at the International Academy on Sex Research, Rutgers University.
1989 Herdt, G. (September, 1989). Masculinity and fathering cross-culturally. Invited address presented at the conference on Psychoanalysis and Social Change, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
1989 Herdt, G. (March, 1989). Consultant to a technical working group on qualitative research at the World Health Organization Global Program on AIDS, Geneva, Switzerland.
1988 Cook, J., Boxer, A., and Herdt, G. (1988). First homosexual and heterosexual experiences reported by gay and lesbian youth in an urban community. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA.
1988 Herdt, G. (August, 1988). Coming out process among Anglos and minority youth: An anthropological rite of passage. Symposium presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, Atlanta, GA.
1988 Herdt, G. (August, 1988). Symposium on “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Homosexuality and Adolescence,” presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, Atlanta, GA.
1988 Herdt, G. (June, 1988). Culture, identity, and rites of passage: The Chicago project. Plenary address presented to the Midwest Division of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, Chicago, IL.
1988 Herdt, G. (April, 1988). Culture and gender. Invited lecture series presented at the Departments of Anthropology and Psychology, California State University.
1988 Herdt, G. (March, 1988). Symposium on "The Chicago Youth Project: Sexual Orientation and Cultural Competence,” presented at the 2nd biennial meeting of the Society for Research of Adolescence, Arlington, VA.
1988 Herdt, G. (February, 1988). Symposium on “Female Initiation Ceremonies in the Pacific," presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Savannah, GA.
1988 Herdt, G. (February, 1988). Gender in comparative perspective. Presented at the conference on Gender and Sexual Orientation, California School for Professional Psychology, San Diego, CA.
1987 Herdt, G. (November, 1987). AIDS and cultural values. Symposium on “AIDS and Public Policy,” president's invited session presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL.
1987 Herdt, G. (November, 1987). Discussant at the AIDS open round-table discussion at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL.
1987 Herdt, G. (November, 1987). Pseudo-procreative symbolism in Sambia ritual and experience. Symposium of the American Ethnological Society and the Society for Psychological Anthropology, presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL.
1987 Herdt, G. (1987). The Chicago youth project. Conference address presented to the symposium on “AIDS and Social Research", Minneapolis, MN.
1987 Herdt, G. (April, 1987). Cross-cultural forms of homosexuality and the category “gay.” Presented at the annual convention of the American Psychiatric Association, Chicago, IL.
1987 Herdt, G. (February, 1987). Gender, personality, and dialectical configurations in Southern Lowland societies. Invited address presented at the International Workshop on New Guinea, Centre for Australian and Oceanic Studies, Catholic Australian and Oceanic Studies, Catholic University, Neimegen, Holland.
1987 Herdt, G. (February, 1987). Gender dialogues: The new configuration of anthropology and gender studies. Keynote address presented at the annual conference on Women's and Men's Studies, Program for the Study of Women and Men in Society, University of Southern California - Los Angeles.
1987 Herdt, G. (January, 1987). Sexual repression, social control, and gender hierarchy in Sambia culture. Wenner-Gren Society for Anthropological Research Conference on Gender Hierarchies, Mijas, Spain.
1986 Herdt, G. (December, 1986). Impact of AIDS on sexuality. Symposium presentation at the annual meeting American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA.
1986 Herdt, G. (October, 1986). Culture and the development of gender identity. Invited lecture presented at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, Chicago, IL.
1986 Herdt, G. (May, 1986). Gender and anthropology. Invited lecture presented at the Department of Anthropology, Zhongshan University. Gwangzhou, China.
1986 Herdt, G. (February, 1986). Culture, sexuality, and the development of masculinity. Presented at the Dean's Inaugu¬ral Lecture Series in the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
1985 Herdt, G. (December, 1985). Gender hierarchies. Symposium presentation at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.
1985 Herdt G. (December, 1985). Correlates of socialization for aggression in Sambia ritual and warfare. Symposium on “Human Aggression” (chaired by P. Brown and D. Gilmore), presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.
1985 Herdt, G. (December, 1985). Interpretation. Symposium presentation at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.
1985 Herdt, G. (September, 1985). Interpreting ritual symbolism. Invited lecture presented at the Center for Research on the Southwest Pacific, LaTrobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.
1985 Herdt, G. (March, 1985). Theories of ritual and gender development. Invited lecture presented at the Committee on Human Development, Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
1984 Herdt, G. (November, 1984). The dialogic emergence of culture. Symposium presentation at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Denver, CO.
1984 Herdt, G. (November, 1984). Medical aspects of male initiation. Invited speaker presentation at the Medical Anthropol¬ogy round table discussion, annual meeting of the American Anthropology Association, Denver, CO.
1984 Herdt, G. (June, 1984). The “erotic” aspect of ritualized homosexuality in the male cults of Melanesia. Invited address presented at the session on “Bisexuality and Identity” (chaired by J. DeCecco), Pacific Division meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, CA.
1984 Herdt, G. (May, 1984). Field methods for studying dreams and states of consciousness in Melane¬sia. Invited talk presented at the Melanesian Research Seminar, Department of Anthro¬pology, University of California - San Diego.
1983 Herdt, G. (December, 1983). Discussion of the works of Professor Fitz John P. Poole, Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Psychoanalytic Methods in Anthropological Fieldwork, presented at the Winter meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, New York City, NY.
1983 Herdt, G. (December, 1983). The development of masculinity: Cross-cultural perspectives. Presented at the Department of Psychiatry, North Shore University Hospital, Cornell Medical School.
1983 Herdt, G. (November, 1983). Metaframes in anthropology. Symposium presentation (chaired by B. Mannheim and S. Feld) at the 82nd meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL.
1983 Herdt, G. (August, 1983). Historical and ethnographic perspectives in the educational development of the Marawaka district. Invited talk presented at the Education Research Unit, Univer¬sity of Papua New Guinea.
1983 Herdt, G. (1983). Sexual orientation development: New Guinea examples. Invited talk presented at the Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
1983 Herdt, G. (May, 1983). Initiation rites and homosexuality in New Guinea and elsewhere. Presented as part of the Distin¬guished Lecture series at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA.
1983 Herdt, G. (May, 1983). Ritual and masculinity in Melanesia. Invited speaker presentation given as part of the Lectures in Global Studies Program, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA.
1983 Herdt, G. (April, 1983). Aesthetics and obscenity: Melanesian perspectives. Symposium presentation on “The Aesthetics of Obscenity in Ancient Greece,” Department of Classics, University of South¬ern California, Los Angeles, CA.
1983 Herdt, G. (January, 1983). Ritualized homosexuality in Melanesia: New data and recent comparative perspectives. “Grand Rounds” invited address presented at the Topics in Medical Anthropology Program, University of California - San Francisco.
1982 Herdt, G. (December, 1982). Guardians of the flutes. Invited address presented as part of the interdisciplinary colloquium on “Psychoanalytic Methods in Anthro¬pological Fieldwork” at the Winter meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, New York City, NY.
1982 Herdt, G. (December, 1982). Homosexuality in cross-cultural and historical perspec¬tive. Panel discussion presented at the 81st meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.
1982 Herdt, G. (November, 1982). Gender development in children and adults. “Grand Rounds” invited address presented at the Children's Hospital and the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Insti¬tute, San Francisco, CA.
1982 Herdt, G. (November, 1982). Symbols and selfhood in Sambia dreams. Paper presented in the advanced seminar on “Dreams in Cross-Cultural Perspective” (chaired by B. Tedlock), School of American Research. Santa Fe, NM.
1982 Herdt, G. (May, 1982). Fieldwork in the heart of darkness. Guest speaker presentation at the 9th Western Sociology-Anthropology Undergraduate Research Conference, University of Santa Clara. Santa Clara, CA.
1982 Herdt, G. (January, 1982). Sexual behavior in a New Guinea tribe. Invited presentation at the Institute for Human Sexuality, San Francisco, CA.
1981 Herdt, G. (September, 1981). The changing context of family relationships and gender differentiation among Sambia. Symposium presentation at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
1981 Herdt, G. (April, 1981). Ritualized gender development in a New Guinea tribe. Invited address presented at the Santa Clara County Mental Health Association, Santa Clara, CA
1981 Herdt, G. (March, 1981). The uses and abuse of alcohol and the urban adjustment of Sambia male identity. Presented at the IASER Conference on Alcoholism, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
1981 Herdt, G. (January, 1981). Masculine development: A New Guinea case study in normality and pathol¬ogy. Invited address presented to the Southern California Psychiatric Association, Los Angeles, CA.
1981 Herdt, G. (January, 1981). Ritualized gender development in a New Guinea tribe. Presented at the university-wide colloquium on Biobehavioral Sciences, Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California – Los Angeles.
1980 Herdt, G. (1980). Symbolic and behavioral attachments in Sambia ritualized homosexuality. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.
1980 Herdt, G. (November, 1980). Guided imagery as an anthropological technique in the study of symbolic experience: New Guinea example. Presented at the 4th American Conference on the Fantasy and Imaging Process, San Francisco, CA.
1979 Herdt, G. (1979). Fetish and fantasy in Sambia initiation. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings, Association for Social Anthropology, Clearwater, Fl.

PUBLISHED WORKS

2003 Herdt, G., Secrecy and Cultural Reality. Ann Arbor, Mi: University of Michigan Press.
2000 Herdt, G., and Koff, B., Something to Tell You: The Road Families Travel When a Child is Gay. New York: Columbia University Press.
1999 Herdt, G., Sambia Sexual Culture: Essays from the Field. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
1997 Herdt, G. Same Sex, Different Cultures: Perspectives on Gay and Lesbian Lives. New York: Westview Press.
1993 Herdt, G., and Boxer, A. Children of Horizons: How Gay and Lesbian Teenagers are Forging a New Way Out of the Closet. Boston: Beacon Press.
1990 Herdt, G., and Stoller, R. J. Intimate Communications: Erotics and the

Study of Culture. New York: Columbia University Press.

1987 Herdt, G. The Sambia: Ritual and Gender in New Guinea. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
1981 Herdt, G. Guardians of the Flutes: Idioms of Masculinity. New York: McGraw-Hill.

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