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Professor Gilley

Brian Gilley

Associate Professor of Anthropology

(812) 855-2689
(812) 855-4814 (FNECC)
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  • PhD Socio-Cultural Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, 2002
  • Master of Arts, University of Oklahoma, 1997
  • Bachelor of Arts, University of Oklahoma, 1994
  • Associates of Science, St. Gregory’s University, 1992
  • Scuola Italiana, Middlebury College

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Native North America, Contemporary Italy and Belgium

Topical Interests: Gender, Sexuality, the body, power and difference, HIV/AIDS, the nature of the subject, Institutional logics in late liberalism, body movement in sport

Profile:

Dr. Gilley’s research engages the logic of late liberalism with a focus on the relationship between ‘tradition,’ power, and cultural practice.  These theoretical topics are explored in two primary areas of research, gender, sexuality and HIV/AIDS among American Indians (specifically GLBTQ:2-Spirit) and in the use of performance enhancing drugs in professional road cycling.  Both research areas seek to understand the ways in which micro-local notions of tradition position bodies, bodily movements and bodily desires within customary practice and modern knowledge production.


Selected Publications


 

Books
2011 Queer Indigenous Studies, University of Arizona Press,
Edited volume with S. Morgenson, Q. Driscoll and C. Finley.
2006 Becoming Two-Spirit: The Search for Self and Social Acceptance in
Indian Country, University of Nebraska Press.


Articles and Chapters

2010 Gilley, B.J. "A Balance of Authority: Ponca Women's Cultural Autonomy through the Appropriation of the Ethnographic Interview" INTERTEXTS: a Journal of Comparative and Theoretical Reflection 14(2): 43-52.
2010 Gilley, B.J. Native Sexual Inequalities: American Indian Cultural Conservative Homophobia and the Problem of Tradition, Sexualities, 13 (1): 47-68.
2009 Gilley, B.J. Sherry Ortner In Fifty Key Anthropologists, R. Gordon, A. Lyons and H. Lyons, Eds. New York: Routledge Press.
2007 Gilley, B.J. & M. Keesee. Linking „White Oppression‟ and HIV/AIDS in American Indian etiology: Conspiracy Beliefs among AI MSMs and their peers, American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center 14(1): 34 - 51.
2006 Gilley, B.J. “Snag Bags”: Adapting Condoms to Community Values in American Indian Communities, Culture, Health and Sexuality: An International Journal for Research, Intervention and Care 8(6): 1-12.
2006 Gilley, B.J. Cyclist Subjectivity: Corporeal Management and the Inscription of Suffering, Anthropological Notebooks: Društvo antropologov Slovenije, 12 (2): 53 - 64.
2005 Gilley, B.J.; Co-cke, J. H. Cultural Investment: Providing Opportunities to reduce Risky Behavior among Gay American Indian Males. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, Special Issue: “Faces of HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse in Native American Communities” 37(3), 293 - 8.
2005 Gilley, B.J. Two-Spirit Powwows and the Search for Social Acceptance in Indian Country, In Powwow: Origins, Significance, and Meaning, Eric Lassiter, ed., University of Nebraska Press, 224-240.
2004 Gilley, B.J. Making Traditional Spaces: Cultural Compromise at Two-Spirit Gatherings in Oklahoma, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 28 (2): 81-95.
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