Kathleen M. Adams is Professor of Anthropology at Loyola University Chicago and an Adjunct Curator at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. She is the author of Art as Politics: Re-crafting Identities, Tourism and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia (University of Hawaii Press, Southeast Asia Politics, Meaning and Memory Series, 2006) is coeditor of Home and Hegemony: Domestic Service and Identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2000).

Her articles on art., museums, tourism, cultural-displays, ethnic relations and globalization have appeared in a variety of journals, including American Ethnologist, Museum Anthropology, Ethnology, Annals of Tourism Research, and the Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science. Kathleen's most recent research on issues pertaining to cultural re-use addresses Toraja (Indonesia) artisans' re-framing of "traditional" artistic iconography to articulate new messages of peace and cultural tolerance in an era of growing inter-ethnic and inter-religious tensions. She is also currently conducting research on the re-framing of old California history and return-of-thethe-klklklk