Dr Steve Coleman
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Biography
EDUCATION:
University of Chicago - PhD Anthropology 1999
University of Chicago - MA Anthropology 1987
University of Washington, Seattle - BA Anthropology 1985
ACADEMIC WORK AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2000 - present - Lecturer in Anthropology National University of Ireland Maynooth
1993-2000 - Contract Lecturer in Anthropology National University of Ireland Maynooth
Spring 1998 - Part-Time Lecturer, Department of Anthropology LSB College, Dublin
1992-1993 - Outside Lecturer in Anthropology (part-time) ST. Patrick's College, Maynooth
1990-1992 - Instructor (Teaching English as a Second Language: Reading, Grammar, and Speech (to refugees) Harry S. Truman College, Chicago
1988-1992 - Research Assistant (Analyzing interview data for a research project in applied psychological anthropology) Erickson Institute, Chicago
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:
2002-present - Associate, Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College Dublin
2002 - present - Associate, NIRSA, NUI Maynooth
2000 - President, Anthropological Association of Ireland
1996 - present Co-editor, Irish Journal of Anthropology.
PUBLICATIONS (selected):
2003. (Co-edited with Colin Coulter) The End of Irish History? Critical Approaches to the ‘Celtic Tiger’. Manchester University Press.
2003. The Centralized Government of Liquidity: Language and Culture under the Celtic Tiger. Chapter in The End of Irish History? Critical Approaches to the ‘Celtic Tiger’, eds. C. Coulter and S. Coleman. Manchester University Press.
2000. Music and Dialogue. Published by Traditional Music Archive and The Irish Traditional Music Society, University College Cork (Ó Riada Memorial Lecture 13).
1997. Joe Heaney and Style in Sean-nós Singing. In Blas: the Local Accent in Irish Traditional Music, edited by T. M. Smith and M. Ó. Súilleabháin. Limerick: Irish World Music Centre, University of Limerick.
1996. Joe Heaney Meets the Academy. Irish Journal of Anthropology 1.
Research Interests
Research Projects
Book Chapter
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | Sally Ness and Steve Coleman (2022) 'Semiotics in Anthropology and Ethnography' In: Bloomsbury Semiotics, Volume 3. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing. [Link] [Full-Text] | |
2020 | Coleman S.; Ciosáin É. (2020) 'The Irish Gaeltacht as a trans-local phenomenon' In: Non-Territorial Autonomy and Decentralization: Ethno-Cultural Diversity Governance. [DOI] | |
2022 | Steve Coleman (2022) '“Sí Teanga na Muintire a Shlánós an Mhuintir”: Ó Cadhain, Rhetoric, and Immanence' In: Tropological Thought and Action: Essays on the Poetics of Imagination. New York : Berghahn Press. [Link] https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800732728 [Full-Text] | |
2018 | Coleman S. (2018) 'The centralised government of liquidity: Community, language and culture under the celtic tiger' In: The end of Irish history?. | |
2012 | Steve Coleman (2012) 'Nonsynchronism, traditional music, and memory in Ireland' In: Memory Ireland vol. 2: Diaspora and Memory Practices. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press. [Full-Text] | |
2012 | Steve Coleman (2012) 'Pobail Urlabhra' In: An tSochtheangeolaíocht: Feidhm agus Tuairisc. Baile Átha Cliath : Cois Life. [Full-Text] | |
2012 | Steve Coleman (2012) 'Non-synchronism, traditional music, and memory in Ireland' In: Memory Ireland: Explorations in Irish Cultural Memory, Vol. 2. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press. | |
2011 | Steve Coleman (2011) 'Archival Inscription' In: The Companion to Irish Traditional Music, 2nd Edition. Cork : Cork University Press. [Full-Text] | |
2003 | S. Coleman (2003) 'Irish Ethnography' In: Brian Lalor(Eds.). Encyclopedia of Ireland. London : Gill and Macmillan. | |
2003 | C. Coulter and S. Coleman (2003) 'The End of Irish History? An introduction to the book' In: C. Coulter and S. Coleman(Eds.). The End of Irish History? Critical Approaches to the 'Celtic Tiger'. Manchester : Manchester University Press. | |
2003 | C. Coulter and S. Coleman (2003) 'The Centralized Government of Liquidity: Language and Culture under the Celtic Tiger' In: C. Coulter and S. Coleman(Eds.). The End of Irish History? Critical Approaches to the 'Celtic Tiger'. Manchester : Manchester University Press. | |
2000 | Dr. Steve Coleman (2000) 'Music and Dialogue' In: to be added. University College Cork : Traditional Music Archive and The Irish Traditional Music Society. | |
1997 | S. Coleman (1997) 'Joe Heaney and Style in Sean-nos Singing' In: T. M. Smith and M. O. Suilleabhan(Eds.). Blas: the Local Accent in Irish Traditional Music. Limerick : Irish World Music Centre, University of Limeric. |
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2010 | Coleman, Steve (2010) 'Mobilized sound: Memory, inscription and vision in Irish traditional music'. Irish Journal of Anthropology, 13 . [Full-Text] | |
2007 | Coleman S. (2007) 'Looking back on some dead world that looks so new: the idea ofthe UN in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq'. Irish Journal of Anthropology, 10 . [Full-Text] | |
2006 | S. Coleman (2006) 'Bridget Cleary Speaks!'. Irish Journal of Anthropology, 9 :35-36. [Full-Text] | |
2004 | Coleman, S (2004) 'The nation, the state, and the neighbors: personation in Irish-language discourse'. Language and Communication, 24 :381-411. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
1996 | S. Coleman (1996) 'Joe Heaney Meets the Academy'. Irish Journal of Anthropology, 1 . [Full-Text] |
Conference Contribution
Year | Publication | |
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2020 | Steve Coleman (2020) Third Annual Joe Heaney memorial Lecture What is the “life” in “living culture”? Galway, NUIG, 22/01/2020-23/01/2020. | |
2019 | Steve Coleman (2019) 1st ENTAN conference: Non-Territorial Autonomy as a Form of Plurinational Democracy: Participation, Recognition, Reconciliation “The Irish Gaeltacht as a trans-local phenomenon” Belgrade, Serbia, 22/11/2019-23/11/2019. | |
2019 | Steve Coleman (2019) 44th Annual Conference, Semiotic Society of America Mediation and the “Life” of Signs Portland, OR, 09/10/2019-13/10/2019. | |
2018 | Steve Coleman (2018) Ó Cadhain’s “living clay” a reexamination Annual Meeting, Anthropological Association of Ireland: Eco-cosmology, Sustainability and a Spirit of Resilience Cork, . | |
2018 | Steve Coleman (2018) Ordeals of Language, yours and theirs, in ethnographic research MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY ETHNOGRAPHY WINTER SCHOOL 2018: Ethnography in/and/as Institutions Maynooth University, . | |
2018 | Steve Coleman (2018) Condensed and Insurgent Narratives CREOLE Intensive Programme: Ethnographic Narratives: Stories, Biographies, and Plots Bern, Switzerland, . | |
2017 | Steve Coleman (2017) Ethnography as Sensory Crossing Creole & SENSOTRA Summer School / Intensive Programme “SENSORY DIMENSIONS OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELDWORK” Piran, Slovenia, . | |
2017 | Steve Coleman (2017) Futures past of 1967 Annual Conference, Anthropological Association of Ireland: Predictive Texts: Imagining the Future Belfast, . | |
2017 | Steve Coleman (2017) Speaking of Finance: The discursive production of contemporaneity Maynooth Ethnographic Winter School, 2017: Ethnography in the Contemporary Maynooth University, . | |
2016 | Steve Coleman (2016) The role of poetic speech in cultural cognition: poetic ideologies in Irish performance First International Conference on Cultural Linguistics Prato, Italy, . | |
2009 | (2009) The Gaeltacht as a type of community ALTE - The Association of Language Testers of Europe, 37th Annual Meeting, Maynooth, Ireland Maynooth, . [Full-Text] | |
2009 | Dr. Michael Silverstein (2009) The elementary forms of culture in a post-cultural world:Signification–circulation–emanation NUI Maynooth, Social Sciences, Anthropology, . | |
2009 | (2009) “General intellect” and global culture World Culture and Nation-States: Erasmus Intensive Programme, Vienna Vienna, Austria, . | |
2009 | (2009) Understanding Recession: What happened to the Irish economy and what is going to happen next? Understanding Recession public forum NUI Maynooth, . | |
2009 | (2009) Mobilised sound: Memory, inscription and locality in Irish traditional music Spring Conference, Anthropological Association of Ireland Belfast, . | |
2009 | Dr. Michael Silverstein (2009) A Trinity for the Enlightened: Society, Polity, and Language Community in Anthropological Perspectiv NUI Maynooth, Social Sciences, Anthropology, . | |
2009 | (2009) Speaking to the archive: Irish tradition and archival inscription Annual Symposium, International Council for Traditional Music, Ireland Dublin, . | |
2003 | (2003) Scheps Library Friday Series Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, 14/02/2003-. | |
2002 | (2002) Seventh meeting of the European Association of Social Anthropologists Copenhagen, 20/11/2002-. | |
2002 | (2002) 101st Annual Meetings, American Anthropological Association New Orleans, 20/11/2002-. | |
2002 | (2002) Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College, Dublin, 29/11/2002-. | |
2000 | (2000) Representation and Beyond School of Anthropological Studies, Queen's University of Belfast, 28/11/2000-. | |
2000 | (2000) 99th Annual Meetings, American Anthropological Association San Francisco, 15/11/2000-. | |
1999 | (1999) 98th Annual Meetings, American Anthropological Association Chicago, 20/11/1999-. | |
1999 | (1999) Defining Colonies NUI Galway, 18/06/1999-. | |
1999 | (1999) 'Dis-ease with Post-modern Anthropology: Anthropologists facing towards the 21st century' LSB College, Dublin, 12/12/1999-. | |
1999 | (1999) Workshop in Interpretive Political Social Analysis Allihies, C. Cork, 01/09/1999-. | |
1998 | (1998) Winter Meetings of the Anthropological Association of Ireland Thurles, Co. Tipperary, 11/12/1998-. | |
1998 | (1998) Joint Anthropology-Sociology Seminar NUI Maynooth, 19/03/1998-. | |
1998 | (1998) Paper presented to Anthropology Society NUI Maynooth, 03/02/1998-. | |
1998 | (1998) 97th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association Philadelphia, 02/12/1998-. |