WEIX, G. G.

Dr. Weix is a social anthropologist who has conducted fieldwork in Indonesia, particularly on Java and Bali. She earned a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1990, with minors in Southeast Asian Studies and Women's Studies. Her research interests include ethnography, oral history, and cultural studies on women, language politics, industry and Islam. From 1997 to 2003 she directed the Women's Studies Program, and the Montana Feminist History Project, on ongoing archival collection of oral histories and materials for the K. Ross Toole Archives at the Mansfield Library. Currently she teaches courses on comparative social organization, ethics, ethnographic methods, human sexuality and gender, religion, Southeast Asia and North Africa. She is a member of numerous professional organizations--American Anthropological Association, Association of Asian Studies, National Women's Studies Association, and is board member of the Indonesian and East Timorese Studies Committee for AAS, and the American Association of University Women-Montana.

Classes Taught

  • Comparative Social Organization (ANTH 220S)
  • Religious Belief Systems (ANTH 326)
  • Anthropology of Gender (ANTH 327)
  • Peoples and Cultures of the World: North Africa/Middle East (ANTH 330H)
  • Peoples and Cultures of the World: Mainland Southeast Asia (ANTH 330H)
  • Peoples and Cultures of the World: Insular Southeast Asia (ANTH 330H)
  • Contemporary Issues of Southeast Asia (ANTH 340H)
  • Anthropology and Ethics (ANTH 403E)
  • Ethnographic Field Methods (ANTH 431)
  • Psychological Anthropology (ANTH 442)