Jamon Halvaksz
Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor of Record for the PhD program, Anthropology
Honors and Awards
- Outstanding Graduate Advisor of Record, College of Liberal and Fine Arts, awarded by the Graduate School at UTSA, 2021
- President’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching Excellence, Tenured Faculty recipient, 2018
- Post-Ph.D. Research Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation, 2013
- Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation, 2001
- Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation, 2001
Presentations
- Collecting the Multiverse
- Venue: Gallary Talk
- Sponsor: San Antonio Museum of Art
- Location: San Antonio Texas
- Presentation Date: 2022
- Superheroes as Supermyths
- Venue: San Antonio Museum of Art Lecture Series
- Sponsor: San Antonio Museum of Art
- Location: San Antonio Texas
- Presentation Date: 2022
- Climate Change and Agriculture in Morobe Province
- Venue: Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania Annual Meeting
- Sponsor: Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
- Location: Portland Oregon
- Presentation Date: 2022
- More-than-human Infrastructures
- Venue: Annual Meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK
- Sponsor: Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK
- Location: On-line
- Presentation Date: 2021
- Placepersons: Places that Relate through Work and Migration in Papua New Guinea
- Venue: Va Moana: Space and Relationality in Pacific Thought and Identity
- Sponsor: University of Auckland
- Location: Auckland New Zealand, Honolulu Hawaii and virtual
- Presentation Date: 2021
- Intense Places: Affect in Biangai Photography
- Venue: Annual Meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
- Sponsor: ASAO
- Location: Hilo, Hawaii
- Presentation Date: 2020
- Discussion of "Gardens of Gold: Placemaking in Papua New Guinea"
- Venue: Cultural Anthroplogy Class
- Sponsor: Dept of Anthropology, Columbia University
- Location: Virtual, New York, New York
- Presentation Date: 2020
- Media and Anthropology
- Venue: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
- Sponsor: Galen University of Belize
- Location: Virtual
- Presentation Date: 2020
- Intense Places: Affect in Biangai Photography
- Venue: Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania Annual Meeting
- Sponsor: Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
- Location: Hilo, Hawaii
- Presentation Date: 2020
- Gardens of Relations: Mapping Belonging to the Land
- Venue: Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association
- Sponsor: American Anthropology Association
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Presentation Date: 2019
- The Anthropology of Superheroes
- Venue: Gallary Talk
- Sponsor: San Antonio Museum of Art
- Location: San Antonio, Texas
- Presentation Date: 2019
- Intense Places: Affect in Biangai Photography
- Venue: Annual Meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
- Sponsor: ASAO
- Location: New Orleans
- Presentation Date: 2018
- Mining Nature, Mining Culture
- Venue: Ecology and Culture University Seminar
- Sponsor: Columbia University
- Location: New York, New York
- Presentation Date: 2017
- Superheroes and Supermyths: Towards an Anthropology of our Multiverse
- Venue: The Carol S. Franklin Social Science Speaker Series
- Sponsor: Cuyahoga Community College
- Location: Cleveland, Ohio
- Presentation Date: 2017
- Biangai responses to the 2015 El Nino
- Venue: Association of Social Anthropology in Oceania, Annual Meeting
- Sponsor: Association of Social Anthropology in Oceania
- Location: Kauai, Hawai'i
- Presentation Date: 2017
- Knowing the Forest: Biangai Guides and Scientists
- Venue: American Anthropology Association
- Presentation Date: 2016
- Yams and Gold: Order, Entropy and Biangai Relations with Nature
- Venue: American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting
- Sponsor: American Anthropology Association
- Location: Denver
- Presentation Date: 2015
- Discussion of Jurassic Park
- Venue: Barnard Film discussion series
- Sponsor: Barnard University
- Location: New York, New York
- Presentation Date: 2015
- Agricultural Sovereignty in Morobe
- Venue: Annual Meeting of the Association Of Social Anthropology in Oceania
- Sponsor: Association of Social Anthropology in Oceania
- Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Presentation Date: 2015
- Becoming Farmers: Agriculture and Industrial Gold Mining in Papua New Guinea
- Venue: Guest Lecture Series
- Sponsor: Department of Anthropology, UT-Austin
- Location: Austin, Texas
- Presentation Date: 2014
- The Wau Ecology Institute and the Knowledge Economy
- Venue: Annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
- Sponsor: ASAO
- Location: Kona Hawai'i
- Presentation Date: 2014
- Naturalist Histories, Making Nature in Oceania
- Venue: Annual Meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
- Location: San Antonio
- Presentation Date: 2013
- People, Places and Time in Biangai photography. Symposium
- Venue: Annual Meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
- Sponsor: ASAO
- Location: San Antonio
- Presentation Date: 2013
- ‘’We Practice What We Preach’: The Rise and Fall of the Wau Ecology Institute.’ Workshop
- Venue: Annual Meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
- Sponsor: ASAO
- Location: San Antonio
- Presentation Date: 2013
Publications
- 2010 ‘The Photographic Assemblage: Duration, history and photography in Papua New Guinea.’ Anthropology and History 21(4): 411-429.
- 2009 Lipset, David and Jamon Halvaksz. ‘Smoke as Mirror: Marijuana and Representations of the Nation in Pacific Newspapers.’ Ethnology 48(2): 119-138 [issue delayed by journal, published in August 2010]
- 2008 ‘Photographing Spirits: Indigenous Photography, Ancestors and the Environment in Papua New Guinea.’ As part of a special issue, Haunting Images: The affective power of photography. Ben Smith and Richard Vokes, Guest Editors. Visual Anthropology 21(4): 310-326.
- 2008 Halvaksz, Jamon and Heather Young-Leslie. ‘Thinking Ecographically: Places, Ecographers and Environmentalism.’ Nature+Culture 3(2): 183-205.
- 2008 ‘Whose Closure?: Appearances, Temporality and Mineral Extraction along the Upper Bulolo River, Papua New Guinea.’ Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 14: 21-37.
- 2007 ‘Cannabis and Fantasies of Development: Revaluing Relations through Land in Rural Papua New Guinea.’ The Australian Journal of Anthropology 18(1): 56-71.
- 2006 ‘Another Kind of Gold: An Introduction to Marijuana in Papua New Guinea.’ As part of a special issue, Marijuana in Papua New Guinea, David Lipset and Jamon Halvaksz, Guest Editors. Oceania 76(3): 209-219.
- 2006 ‘Drug Bodies: Relations with Substances.’ As part of a special issue, Marijuana in Papua New Guinea, David Lipset and Jamon Halvaksz, Guest Editors. Oceania 76(3): 235-244.
- 2006 ‘Becoming ‘local tourists’: Travel, landscapes and identity in Papua New Guinea.’ Tourist Studies 6(2): 99-117.
- 2006 ‘Cannibalistic Imaginaries: Mining the Natural and Social Body in Papua New Guinea.’ As part of a special issue: Melanesian Mining Modernities, Paige West, and Martha Macintyre, Guest Editors. The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs 18(2): 335-359.
- 2003 ‘Singing about the Land among the Biangai.’ Oceania 7(3): 153-169.
- 1997 Halvaksz, Jamon and Elizabeth Hochberg. ‘Logging the Southwestern Pacific: Bibliographic Review Essay.’ As part of a special issue: Logging in the Southwestern Pacific, Kathleen Barlow and Steven Winduo, Guest Editors. The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs 9(1): 167-193.
