Kathleen M. Adams

Kathleen Adams is a cultural anthropologist who writes about tourism, heritage and identity, the arts, museums, and Indonesia. She attributes her interest in tourism studies to growing up in San Francisco, where she spent her childhood jotting observations in her "Spy Notebook" about the visitors at her local neighborhood landmarks. She is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, Univ. of London, and Professor Emerita of cultural anthropology at Loyola University Chicago. Her first book, _Art as Politics_, won a National Book Award from the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and her 2019 coedited book _The Ethnography of Tourism_ won the Bruner Prize from the Amer. Anthropological Association's Anth. of Tourism Interest Group. Adams is on the current roster of Fulbright Specialists and was recently in residence at Indonesia's Univ. of Gadjah Mada lecturing on "lassoing tourism for good" (to benefit local communities), research methods and tourist arts. She has also taught at Loyola University's Rome Center, Al Farabi Kazakh National University, Ateneo de Manila University, Semester at Sea, and Beloit College (where she held the Moat Family Junior Endowed Chair in International Studies).