Nancy Sullivan & Associates - curriculum vitae

Nancy Sullivan
P.O. Box 404
Madang 511, Papua New Guinea
Ph: 675 422 3800
Digicel 71660282
nsullivan@online.net.pg
www.nancysullivan.net
www.nancysullivan.typepad.com

EDUCATION

PhD abd New York University; BA Princeton University; MFA Hunter College, CUNY; St. John’s and Churchill Colleges, Cambridge 1979

EMPLOYMENT

1998-present
Director, Nancy Sullivan and Associates, Ltd.
Anthropological consulting, qualitative research, survey design, report writing, training and workshop design for a range of private and public entities.

2011
Principal Investigator, Evaluation of the Volunteer Services Overseas Tokaut AIDS project in the Jimi Valley, Western Highlands Province, and Rai Coast, Madang.

[TBA: Principal Investigator, Tuna canneries in PNG: an update, for EUROTHON, the European Union].

Consultant, PNG Sustainable Development Corporation Towers Documentary Project.

Consultant, PNF Energy Development Corporation, for Purari Dam project.

2010
Principal Investigator, Social Mapping for the Purari Dam project proposed by PNG Energy Developments Limited in Gulf Province.

Principal Investigator, Evaluation of the Rainforest Norway programs within Partners With Melanesians’ long-term conservation program within the Managalas Plateau, Oro Province.

Principal Investigator, Social Assessment for Department of Communications Rural Communications Project with the World Bank.

Principal Investigator, Social Assessment for the World Bank’s Urban Youth Employment Project in Port Moresby.

Principal Investigator, Department for Community Development, Street Children in Papua New Guinea 7 Province study and report.

2009
Principal Investigator, Situational Analysis and Monitoring and Evaluation Facilitator, for Kundiawa Diocese Most Vulnerable Children Programme, for UNICEF.

Principal Investigator, Perceptions of Corruption Survey (5 provinces) for Eco Forestry Forum.

Principal Investigator, Ramu River food security/income survey of riverside communities impacted by Ramu Nickel, for Bismark Ramu Group.

Presenter, 2009 Sorcery Conference for the Public Prosecutors and Police, Madang.

Guest Lecturer, MV The World, from Micronesia through PNG.

Consultant, BeMobile, for marketing and ethnographic research.

2008
Project Manager, Needs Assessment for Children at Risk in Papua New Guinea, The Asia Foundation.

Researcher/Ethnographer, LaTrobe University Linkage Project: Impact on Human Rights of Asylum Seekers and Host Communities of Australia’s Border Control Cooperation with Indonesia and Papua New Guinea

2007-present
Project Manager, Karawari cave arts research and exploration into the caves of the upper Karawari and Arafundi Rivers of the East Sepik Project, with 8 PNG ethnographers (funded by John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Geographic Society).

2007
Lead Consultant, DevFish Study on Gender Issues in the Tuna Fisheries (for PNG, Fiji and Kiribati) for Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Fishtech Management Consultants.

Facilitator, CUSO AIDS Committees Capacity Building Project Partner Preparation Workshop, 27-30 August.

Principal Investigator, Pathfinders International, Community Health Research for Madang Province. Data collection and reporting on 13 villages in the Province.

2006
Principal Investigator, social impact assessment of the Higaturu Oil Palm Project in Oro Province, for Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights, Port Moresby.

2005
Principal Investigator, a Social Impact Assessment of South Seas Tuna factory, Wewak, for HELP Resources.

Principal Investigator, a Social Impact Assessment of vanilla in the Maprik, Drekikir and Wosera Districts of the ESP, for HELP Resources.

2004
Principal Investigator, the European Union’s Rural Coastal Fisheries Development Project Baseline Study, Madang: The European Union Rural Coastal Fisheries Development Project.

Guest Lecturer, Department of PNG Studies, Divine Word University, lecturing in Anthropology and Ethnographic Research Methods.

Principal Investigator, Social Impact Assessment of the Biliau-Ramu Road Project in the Rai Coast and Nahu-Rawa Census Divisions of Madang Province, Madang Provincial Government, Joint District Budget Planning and Priorities Committee.

2003
Principal Investigator, Ethnographic Survey/Social Mapping of the Kenege, Araka, Yagovat and Ivorab people within The Nature Conservancy’s project zone of the Almami Local Level Government, Bogia District, Madang Province

Principal Investigator, Social Impact Study of RD Tuna for the Kananam Landowners Association, Madang.

Principal Investigator, Social Mapping of the 13 villages that constitute the Tenkile Conservation Alliance Project Area, West Sepik Province: The Wape, after the Devil Fish: Culture and conservation of Scott’s Tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus Scottae).

Consultant anthropologist, fixer, National Geographic Television

On-screen interviewee, logistical ‘fixer’, location scout, translator, and anthropological consultant for five segments of the Taboo series: Pig Hunting in Rai Kos; Skincut in Kaningara; Bena reeds ceremony; Fly fox hunt in Yimas; and Tufi women’s facial tattoo ceremony.

2002-3
Lecturer, Divine Word University, Department of Papua New Guinea Studies

Lecturer, Papua New Guinea Maritime College

RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS

2011
Forthcoming, Karawari sago palm paintings, in Barry Craig and Ross Bowden, eds., Pacific Arts Journal special issue.

Madang: an update. Paper presented at the 2011 ASAO Meetings, Honolulu, Hawaii.

2010
Cave arts of Karawari, Paradise Magazine Vol 6, pp26-30.

With Kritoe Keleba, Street Children of Papua New Guinea: A public policy challenge, Department for Community Development, Port Moresby.

2009
Editor, Introduction, The Prospects for Sustainable Development in Papua New Guinea, Nancy Sullivan (ed.), Madang: Divine Word University Press.

With Robert D. Craig, Oceania, in Joyce E. Salisbury, General Ed., The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Global Medeival Life and Culture, Vol 3 Asia and Oceania. Westport Conn: Greenwood Press.

With Kritoe Keleba, Middle to Lower Ramu subsistence, household and culture study, for Bismark Ramu Group, Madang.

2007
God’s brideprice: Laissez faire religion, and the fear of being left behind in Papua New Guinea, Contemporary PNG Studies, DWU Research Journal, Vol 6, May 2007, pp. 63-100.

2005
Fishy Business, the social impact of South Seas Tuna in Wewak, ESP, Papua New Guinea, HELP Resources, Wewak..

Vanilla aftertaste: the social impact of vanilla’s boom and bust in the Maprik, Drekikir and Wosera Districts of the ESP, Papua New Guinea, HELP Resources, Wewak.

Editor, Governance Challenges for PNG and Melanesia, papers from the Governance Challenges for PNG and the Pacific Islands, Papers from the Conference ‘Foreign Policy, Governance and Development: Challenges for Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands’, Divine Word University in association with the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project, ANU.

Editor, Leadership in Papua New Guinea, by Bernard Narokobi; Divine Word University.

Tinpis Maror: A Social Impact Study of the Proposed RD Tuna Cannery at 2004 Vidar Wharf, Madang, Catalyst;: The Melanesian Institute; Goroka.

2004
European Union’s Rural Coastal Fisheries Development Project Baseline Study Follow-up Report; The European Union Rural Coastal Fisheries Development Project; Madan.

2003
An ethnographic survey of the Kenege, Araka, Yagovat and Ivorab people within The Nature Conservancy’s project zone of the Almami Local Level Government, Bogia District, Madang Province. The Nature Conservancy.Port Moresby..

The Wape, after the Devil Fish: Culture and the conservation of Scott’s Tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus Scottae), An ethnographic survey of the 13 villages that constitute the Tenkile Conservation Alliance Project area; Tenkile Conservation Alliance, Lae; 2003.

Television and video production in Papua New Guinea: How media become the message, in Toby Miller, ed., Television: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, Vol 1, Part 3, Chapter 19; Routledge; London.

How media become the message, a coda, in Spectator, Oceania in the Age of Global Media, Vol 23, No1: 27-32.

2002
Editor, Culture and Progress: Papers from the Melanesian Philosophy of Land Symposium; Divine Word Publications; Madang; Introduction: The Issue of Land Tenure, in N. Sullivan (Ed.), Culture and Progress.

1996
Inside trading: Postmodernism and the social drama of Sunflowers in the 1980’s art world, The Traffic in Culture: Refiguring Art and Anthropology, eds. George Marcus and Fred Myers; University of California Press; Berkeley; pp. 256-301; 1996.