Jamie Sherman 116 Aaron Burr Hall

Princeton, NJ 08544
jsone@princeton.edu
Curriculum Vitae
609 558-5354

Education

January 2011 PhD (defended 12/13/2010)

Princeton University, Department of Anthropology
Dissertation: Beyond the Humanly Possible: Self-Transformation,
Superheroes, and Social Realities in a Hard Core Bodybuilding Gym
Readers: Rena Lederman, Carolyn M. Rouse, Carol Greenhouse,
John L. Jackson, Jr.

2003 MA New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study (Gender,

Religion, Performance)
Thesis: Roadside Attractions: Emanations and Implications of Sacred
Prostitution as Evoked in Genesis 38

1992 BA Tel Aviv University, Theatre Arts, Stage Directing

Teaching/ Assistantships

Spring 2011 Lecturer, Princeton University, Anthropology Department

2009-2010 Lecturer, Rutgers University Expository Writing Program: Freshman

Expository Writing 101, Gaming and Sports, Body/Image/Power

Fall 2009 PUPP Program, Teaching Fellow

After-School After School College Preparatory Program for Inner City High
School Students

2005-2009 Assistant Instructor, Princeton University, Anthropology Department:

Introduction to Anthropology, History of Anthropological Theory, Myth Ritual
and Religion, Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of Law, Ethnographic
Fieldwork Methods

2000-2002 Research Assistant, Creative Arts Team, NYU

Fellowships/ Grants/ Prizes

2009 American Studies Summer Research Prize

2004 and 2005 Princeton University PIIRS Summer Pre-Dissertation Grants

2003-2004 Walter and David Guyer Graduate Fellowship, Princeton University

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Academic Affiliations

2008/2009 Center for African American Studies Faculty Graduate Seminar, Princeton
University
Graduate Coordinator, Spring 2009

2009-2010 American Studies Program, Princeton University

Articles/ Chapters/ Book Reviews

2009 “The Color of Muscle: Multiculturalism at a Brooklyn Bodybuilding Gym” in

Everyday Multiculturalism. Amanda Wise and Selvaraj Velayutham, editors.
London:Palgrave Macmillan.

2009 Review of Chang, Ya-hui Irenna. How What You Eat Defines Who You Are:
The Food Theme in Four American Women Writers. Journal of International
Women’s Studies 11(2), 213-217.

2008 Review of Goodwin, Marjorie Harness. The Hidden Life of Girls: Games of
Stance, Status and Exclusion. Association for Feminist Anthropology
(http://sscl.berkeley.edu/~afaweb/reviews/ShermanReview.htm)

In progress Power, Play, Pleasure, Pain: Performing Masculinity, Race, and Power in an
Urban Bodybuilding Gym. In progress for submission to The American Journal
of Play.

Panels/ Papers

2009 Panel Co-Organizer with Frances Mascia-Lees. Aesthetics and Embodiment

Anti-aesthetics of Space and the Embodiment of Body Beautiful. Paper
presented at Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association

2008 Conference: Panel Co-Organizer with Christopher Garces. Humor Within and
Out of Bounds: Ethnographic Perspective on Ludic Limits
Playing with the Play Frame: Brinksmanship, Status, and Humor in a
Brooklyn Bodybuilding Gym. Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the
American Anthropological Association.

2007 The Color of Muscle: Bodybuilding, Resistance, Performance. Paper presented

at Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association.

2006 Panel Co-Organizer with Richard Martin. Grotesque Bodies: Critical

Intersections at the Boundaries of the Normal
Caricature or Captain America? Excess and Ideal in the Building of
Hyperbolic Bodies. Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association.
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Panels/ Papers (cont’d)

2006 Pain and the Body Perfect: Transactions in the Construction of Pain and
Health in a “Hardcore” Brooklyn Gym. Paper presented at Annual Meeting of
the Society for the Anthropology of North America

2003 In a Secular Light: An application and assessment of Durkheim's Theory of

Religion in Relation to Israel's Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzmaut. Paper
presented at Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association

2003 Roadside Attractions: Reflections on Genesis 38, Sacred Prostitution, and

Contemporary Scholarship. Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the
American Academy of Religion/ Society for Biblical Literature

Other Points of Interest and Experience

1992-2003 Stage Directing

Over fifteen productions, off-off Broadway, NYC venues. Training with Anne
Bogart’s SITI Company, Joseph Chaikin summer workshop, Grotowski
training, Bill Irwin Maskwork, and Linklater Voice work. Participation in
Women’s Project and Productions Director’s Workshop, Richard Foreman
Ontological/Hysteric (internship), New York Theater Workshop (script
reading), and San Francisco Mime Troupe productions. More details on
request

1995-2003 Graphic Design and pre-press graphics production

Graphic design, style sheets, instruction and oversight, print production, film
editing, web site management, 4 color separation, printing, proofing, scanning,
troubleshooting

1998-2000 Office manager, NYU School of Continuing Education General Studies

Program, Academic Advisement office

Referees

Rena Lederman Carolyn Rouse John L. Jackson Jr.

Dept. of Anthropology
116 Aaron Burr Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
lederman@princeton.edu
609-258-5534
Dept. of Anthropology
116 Aaron Burr Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
crouse@princeton.edu
609-258-4556
University of Pennsylvania
Dept. of Anthropology
3260 South Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6398
jackson5@asc.upenn.edu
(215) 746 0440

Carol Greenhouse James Boon

Dept. of Anthropology
116 Aaron Burr Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
cgreenho@princeton.edu
609-258-7368
Dept. of Anthropology
116 Aaron Burr Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
jaboon@princeton.edu
609-258-2896