Jamon Halvaksz

Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor of Record for the PhD program, Anthropology

Jamon Halvaksz

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 GrantWenner-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.