Updated August 24, 2022 Erik Arthur Aasland, Ph.D., M.P.H. Curriculum Vitae Altadena, CA. (626) 340-8722. e_aasland@fuller.edu https://fuller.academia.edu/ErikAasland Education— Fuller Theological Seminary 2013 Ph.D. Intercultural Studies Dissertation Title: The Narrativization of Kazakh Proverbs: College Students’ Language Ideologies Concerning ‘Community’ Bethel University 2001 M.Div. Intercultural Studies Summa cum laude University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 1991 M.P.H. Public Health Administration St. Olaf College 1988 B.A., German Cultural History, Philosophy, German Professional Appointments— Affiliate Assistant Professor of Anthropology March 2018 -Present Adjunct Assistant Professor June 2016 – March 2018 Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Intercultural Studies Adjunct Professor Azusa Pacific University. September 2015 – December 2017 Senior Lecturer Suleyman Demirel University. 2010-2011 (Almaty, Kazakhstan) Courses Designed and Taught Academic Writing Anthropology for Global Engagement Doctoral Seminar in Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods Symbolic Anthropology Writing II: Ethnography in the Social Sciences Other Courses Taught Anthropology for Everyday Life First Year Seminar: Poverty in the United States Intercultural Communication Publications— Edited Volumes 2022 Gulnara Omarbekova and Erik Aasland. Contemporary Kazakh Proverb Research: Digital, Cognitive, Literary, and Ecological Approaches. International Folkloristics Series. Ed. Wolfgang Mieder. New York City: Peter Lang (in press). Peer Reviewed Articles 2018 “Contrasting Two Kazakh Proverbial Calls to Action: Using Discourse Ecology to Understand Proverb Meaning-making”. Proverbium: Yearbook International Proverb Scholarship. (35): 1-14. 2016 “Lifestyle Instruction or Innocuous Image: Islamic Branding Using Kazakh Proverbs on YouTube”. Folklore. (63):107-119. dx.doi.org/10.7592/FEJF2016.63.aasland 2014 “Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: Proverbial Empowerment Through Deictic Projection”. Western Folklore 73(1): 38-68. 2010. “Kazakh-Speaking University Students Proverbial Perspectives on Community: Circulation Studies and Frame Analysis in Tandem”. Student Anthropologist: E-Journal of the National Association of Student Anthropologists 2 (1): 30-38. 2009. “Two Heads are Better than One: Using Conceptual Mapping to Analyze Proverb Meaning”. Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship. (26): 1-18. Book Reviews 2020 Storytelling in Siberia: The Olonkho Epic in a Changing World. Robin P. Harris. Western Folklore. In press. 2017 Love Stories: Language, Private Lore, and Public Romance in Georgia. Paul Manning. Journal of American Folklore. 130(517):358-359 2016 Behold the Proverbs of a People: Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics. Wolfgang Mieder. Western Folklore. 75(2): 245. 2015 Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia. Martin Demant Frederiksen. American Ethnologist. 42(3): 544. doi: 10.1111/amet.8_12146. 2014 The Rhetorical Emergence of Culture. Ed. Christian Meyer and Felix Girke. Studies in Rhetoric and Culture. Vol. 4. Anthropology & Humanism. 39(1): 104-105. 2014 Language in Late Capitalism: Pride and Profit. Eds. Alexandre Duchêne and Monica Heller. Language in Society. 43(1): 123-124. 2014 Hidden Rituals and Public Performances: Tradition and Belonging among the Post-Soviet Khanty, Komi, and Udmurts by Anna-Leena Siikala and Oleg Ulyashev. Folklore. 125(1): 133-135. 2012 Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe: Gender, Ethnicity, & the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria. Student Anthropologist. Vol 3(1): 98-100. http://studentanthropologist.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/aasland-2012.pdf. 2012 The Function of Proverbs in Discourse: The Case of a Mexican Transnational Social Network by Elías Domínguez Barajas. ed. Joshua A. Fishman . Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 22: 273–275. doi: 10.1111/j.1548-1395.2012.01131.x 2011 Yes We Can: Barack Obama's Proverbial Rhetoric by Wolfgang Mieder. Western Folklore. Vol. 70(3/4): 405-6. Summer/Fall, 2011. Other articles 2019 “High Tech/High Touch: Sharing, Expressing, and Crafting Wisdom for Our Age” Fuller Magazine. Issue #15 Technology. Fall, 2019. pp. 52-54. 2016 “Black Lives Matter Through the Lens of Discourse Modalities” Global Reflections Blog. Fuller Theological Seminary. November 28, 2016. http://fuller.edu/Blogs/GlobalReflections/Posts/Black-Lives-Matter-Through-the-Lens-of-Discourse-Modalities/. 2013 “Exploring the Links Between Kazakh Proverbs and Kazakhstani Societal Movements”. Anthropology News. April 15, 2013. 2010 Qazaq Maqal-Mätelderindegi “Qoġam” Taqırıbı [the topic of “community” in kazakh proverbs and sayings]. Collected Writings of the 13th International Scietific-Theoretical Conference “LanguageSociety-Time” Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty. Kazakhstan. 20-21 May, 2010.p. 111. 2010 Two Heads are Better than One: Using Conceptual Mapping to Analyze Proverb Meaning. (reprint) Cognitive Linguistics: Cognition, Language, Gesture eJournal. Mark Turner Ed. Vol. 2, No. 10. May 17, 2010. Conference Presentations, Invited Talks, and Workshops — Invited Presentations 2019 “A Discourse Modes Approach to Understanding Memes in Our Multi-Religious World”. Fuller Missiological Lectures. Pasadena, CA. October 31, 2019. 2019 “A Call for a Digital Turn in Kazakh Proverb Research”. International Conference of Instructors of Kazakh Language. Nazarbayev University. Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. June 16, 2019. 2014 “Betwixt and Between: Kazakhstani Youth Language Ideologies in a Globalized World”. Youth in Kazakhstan: Societal Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities. Central Asia Program Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. George Washington University. April 21, 2014. 2011 “A Stitch in Time Saves Nine? : Gauging the Outworking of Mandatory Proverb Instruction on Current Kazakhstani College Students”. Invited New Scholars Poster Session, Council on Anthropology and Education, American Anthropological Association Conference, November 17, 2011, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Volunteered Presentations (Refereed) 2022 “Three Presidential Examples of Discourse in the War in Ukraine” Western States Folklore Society Conference. Los Angeles, California. April 7, 2022. 2021 “Proverbial Perlocutions in the Pandemic” American Anthropological Association, Baltimore, Maryland, November 21, 2021. 2021 “Kazakh Proverbs: Exploring Iconization, Fractal Discursivity, and Erasure” American Folklore Society Conference, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, October 22, 2021. 2021 “Developing a Plan for a Corpus of Kazakh Proverbs” Western States Folklore Society Conference, April 16, 2021. 2020 “How Black Lives Matter Gained Traction During the Pandemic”. American Anthropological Association Raising Our Voices Conference. November 7, 2020. 2020 “Proverbiality Revisited” American Folklore Society Conference. October 15, 2020. 2019 “Changes to Bridewealth among Kazakhs in Kazakhstan”. American Anthropological Association and Canadian Anthropology Society Joint Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. November 24, 2019. 2019 “New Directions Forum: The Ethics of Digital Fieldwork”. American Folklore Society Conference. Baltimore, MD. October 19, 2019. 2019 “The Promise of Discourse Ecologies for Research of Kazakh Proverbs” Western States Folklore Society Conference. Provo, Utah. April 13, 2019. 2017 “Looking to Kazakh Proverbs to Situate the Nation” American Folklore Society Conference. Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 19, 2017. 2017 “A Relative Revisited: Proposition, Story, and Wisdom as Discourse Modalities” Western States Folklore Society Conference. Eugene, Oregon. April 21, 2017. 2016 “Native American Narrative Ontology and Kazakh Proverbial Wisdom Compared” American Folklore Society and International Society for Narrative Research Joint Conference. Miami, Florida. October 21, 2016. 2016 “Revisiting Proverbial Indirectness” Western States Folklore Society Conference. Berkeley, California. April 9, 2016. 2015 “Hospitality is Not Sociality: Focus Group Follow Up on Facebook” American Anthropological Association Conference. Denver, Colorado. November 20, 2015. 2015 “Proverb Enactment: Research Method and Praxis in Relationship to Tradition”. American Folklore Society Conference. Long Beach, California. October 15, 2015. 2015 “Rolling Stones and Rusting Out: Proverbs Multi-valence and Semantic Mapping”. Western States Folklore Society Conference. UCLA. April 18, 2015. 2014 “A Horse a Person’s Wings: Reevaluation of the Kazakh Nomadic Ideal on the Internet”. American Folklore Society Conference. Santa Fe, NM. November 7, 2014. 2013 “Commemoration of a Distant Socialist Past: Chronotopic Aspects of Kazakhstani Victory Day Billboards”. American Anthropological Association Conference. Chicago, Ill. November 23, 2013. 2013 “The Angel and the Path: Dissonance with Hyperbolic Sections of Kazakh Proverbs”. American Folklore Society Conference. Providence, Rhode Island. October 19, 2013. 2013 “Use of Kazakh Proverbs on YouTube by an Islamic Broadcasting Company to Express Language Ideologies”. Western States Folklore Society Conference. University of California San Diego. La Jolla, California. April 19, 2013. 2012 “Students Performing Kazakh Proverbs: Fault Lines Between Voicings Concerning ‘Community’”. American Anthropological Association Conference. San Francisco. November 14, 2012. 2012 “The Appropriation of Aldar Köse in a Kazakh Folktale to Represent the New Kazakh“. American Folklore Society Conference. New Orleans. October 27, 2012. 2012 “The Narrativization of Kazakh Proverbs: Kazakh-Speaking College Students Language Ideologies Concerning “Community’”. UCLA Conference at Language and Identity in Central Asia. May 4, 2012. 2012 “Don’t Kick a Guy When he is Flying: Getting Beyond the Metaphor in Metaphorical Proverbs”. Western States Folklore Conference. California State University Sacramento. April 20, 2012. 2011 “How Kazakh College Students Wage Peace through Kazakh Proverbs”. American Folklore Society Annual Conference. Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. October 13, 2011. 2011 “Gauging the Outworking of Mandatory Proverb Instruction on Current Kazakhstani College Students”. 12th Central Eurasian Studies Society Conference. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. September 17, 2011. 2011 “Use of Proverb Comparisons in Language Teaching”. Suleyman Demeril University. ELT Seminar 2011. Almaty, Kazakhstan. February 19, 2011. 2010 “The Fatherland Begins at Home: Exploring the Lay Knowledge of Patriotism”. American Folklore Society Annual Conference. Nashville, Tennessee. October 14-16, 2010. 2010 “Qazaq Maqal-Mätelderindegi ‘Qoġam’ Taqırıbı” [The Topic of “Community” in Kazakh Proverbs and Sayings]. 13th International Scientific-Theoretical Conference “Language-SocietyTime” Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan. May 20-21 2010. 2010 “Land-People-Leader in Kazakh Proverbs and Literature: A Frame Analysis”. Environment, Identities, and Space in Europe and Central Asia. University of Pittsburgh Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia & Center for Russian and East European Studies. Seventh Annual Graduate Student Conference. February 27, 2010. 2009 “Dynamics of the Kazakh Understanding of Place as Expressed in Kazakh Proverbs”. American Folklore Society Annual Conference. Boise, Idaho. October 23, 2009. 2008 “Now You See Me, Now You Don't: Proverbial Empowerment in the Shadow of Deictic Projection”. 107th American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings Paper. San Francisco, California. November 21, 2008. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1316469 2008 “Two Heads are Better Than One: Using Conceptual Mapping to Analyze Proverb Meaning”. American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Louisville, Kentucky. October 23, 2008. 2008 “Indexing Islam: Esenberlin’s Presentation of Islam in The Nomads”. Central Eurasian Study Society Annual Meeting. George Washington University. Washington, D.C. September 19, 2008. Invited Talks and Workshops 2018 “Discourse Modalities as a Rhetorically-based Epistemology”. CMR Salon. Fuller Theological Seminary. December 5, 2018. 2017 “Utilizing Social Media for Ethnographic Research” American Anthropological Association Conference. Washington, D.C., December 2, 2017. 2017 “Intercultural Communication in the Central Asian Context” Intercultural Leadership in Middle East Contexts (ML535) Fuller Theological Seminary, February 16, 2017. 2017 “Potential of Problem-Based Learning Approach in Intercultural Studies” School of Intercultural Studies Faculty Luncheon, Fuller Theological Seminary, February 7, 2017. 2016 and 2014 “Utilizing Facebook for Ethnographic Research” American Anthropological Association Conference, Washington D.C. December 5, 2014. 2014 “Betwixt and Between: Kazakhstani Youth Language Ideologies in a Globalized World”. Anthropology Guild at Biola University. May 12, 2014. 2013 “The Vitality of Tradition: Appropriation of Aldar Köse (the trickster) in a Kazakh Folktale to Represent 'The New Kazakh'”. The Silk Road House. Berkeley, California. June 8, 2013. 2012 “Kazakh-speaking Students' Refractions of ‘Community’ by Means of Kazakh Proverbs”. University of California at San Diego. Linguistic Anthropology Workshop. November 26, 2012. 2012 “Proverbs: How I got Hooked and What I have Done About It.” Forms of Folklore (Anthropology 333). University of Southern California. February 2, 2012. 2009 “Translation Issues in Working with Proverbs”. Sülleyman Demirel University. Almaty, Kazakhstan. October 11, 2009. 2009 “Cultural Linguistic Paradigms Expressed in Kazakh Proverbs” Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research. Almaty, Kazakhstan. November 11, 2009. Service— To the Profession President-Elect Society of Humanistic Anthropology (2020-) Organized and chaired the panel “Memory, Mythology, and Ontology in Post-Soviet Societies” American Folklore Society and International Society for Folk Narrative Research Joint Conference. Miami, Florida. October 21, 2016. Organized and chaired the panel “Alterity, Transformation, and Narrative: Ethnographic Research Utilizing Facebook” American Anthropological Association Conference. Denver, Colorado. November 20, 2015. Organized and chaired the panel “Vernacular Power in Weddings, Islamic Reading Circles, and Proverb Performances”. American Folklore Society Conference. Long Beach, California. October 15, 2015. Treasurer and member of the Executive Committee of the Western States Folklore Society 20152020. Member of the Editorial Board for Społeczeństwo I Rodzina [society and family] 2015-. Program Co-chair of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology for the 2015-2017 and 2021 American Anthropological Association Conferences. Chair of the Victor Turner Book Prize Committee for Ethnographic Writing 2015. Proposal Review Committee Co-chair American Folklore Society 2015 Annual Conference. Organized and chaired the panel “Enactment in Socialist and Post-Socialist Contexts” American Folklore Society Conference. Santa Fe, NM. November 7, 2014. Organized and chaired the panel “Commemoration, Erasure, and Transformation in Late PostSocialist Societies” American Anthropological Association Conference. Chicago. November 23, 2013. Member-at-Large on the Executive Board of the Society of Humanistic Anthropology (2014-2020). Organized and chaired the panel “Folkloric Responses to the Post-Soviet World” American Folklore Society Conference. New Orleans. October 27, 2012. Co-facilitated the inaugural Southern California Christian Anthropology and Related Disciplines Conference. Pasadena, CA. April 12, 2012. Co-founder and Co-convener for Socialist and Post-Socialist Area Studies Section of the American Folklore Society (2011 to present). Peer reviewer for African Journal of AIDS Research, Folklorica, Journal of Folklore Research, Sage Open, Społeczeństwo I Rodzina [society and family], Western Folklore, Student Anthropologist. To the Institution Pandemic Planning Committee. Member of the Planning Sub-committee. 2020-. Human Subjects Research Consultant on Sensitive Contexts for Doctor in Intercultural Studies Program. 2018 – present. Organized and Chaired “Exploring Resources and Vistas for Peacemaking and Interfaith Dialogue”. American Anthropological Association Conference. San Jose, California. November 15, 2018. Human Subjects Review Committee 2018 – present. APU Task Force to Revise the First Year Seminar. 2017. Graduate Students Mentored Th.M 1 Ph.D. 4 Grants and Scholarships 2019 Nazarbayev University Small Grant #19 2012 Administrator in Training Scholarship 2012 Robert E. Fuller Scholarship 2010 University of Central Asia Travel Grant 2006 Yankton College Graduate Student Scholarship Awards 2021 Marquis Who’s Who in America 2013 Folk Religion Award, Fuller Theological Seminary 2000 Eta Beta Rho (Hebrew Culture and Language) Honor Society 1999 Leighton Ford Leadership Scholarship 1988 Phi Beta Kappa 1984 Ringstad Prize for Best Essay on a Philosophical Topic Languages German, Kazakh: fluent Russian: conversational French, Ancient Hebrew, Koine Greek: reading Certifications NIH Human Subjects Research for the Social Sciences. November 10, 2021. Affiliations American Anthropological Association Society for Humanistic Anthropology American Folklore Society Society for Applied Anthropology Western States Folklore Society References Wolfgang Mieder Professor of German and Folklore Department of German and Russian University of Vermont 194 South Prospect Street Burlington, VT 05405 E-mail: wmieder@uvm.edu (802) 656-1475 Richard Robison Department Chair Global Studies, Sociology, and TESOL Azusa Pacific University 901 E. Alosta Ave., PO Box 7000 Azusa, CA 91702-7000 E-mail: rrobison@apu.edu (626) 815-3871 Amos Yong Dean of the School of Mission and Theology Fuller Theological Seminary 135 North Oakland Avenue Pasadena, CA 91182 E-mail: amosyong@fuller.edu (626) 584-5206