PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Independent ethnographic documentary filmmaker and educator.
 

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

Lecturer,  Cultural Anthropology
California State University, Channel Islands
One University Drive
Camarillo,  California 93012
 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Visual, educational, and applied anthropology.  Using communications media to study societal values and behavior.  Ethnographic field studies involving qualitative and quantitative research techniques.  Educational practices and their informal, non-formal, and formal relationship to traditional culture patterns and modern institutions.  Recent research has focused on Micronesian indigenous knowledge systems, arts, and skills (especially traditional navigation) and the impact of climate change in the Federated States of Micronesia.
 

EDUCATION

Ph.D.  (1991)
Education, University of California, Los Angeles
Major:  Comparative and International Education
Emphasis:  Educational Anthropology
Dissertation: Traditional Education in Micronesia: A Case Study of Lamotrek Atoll with Comparative Analysis of the Literature on the Trukic Continuum

M.F.A. (1975)
Theater Arts, University of California, Los Angeles
Major:  Motion Picture and Television Production
Emphasis:  Ethnographic Film Production
Thesis Film:  Gypsies: The Other Americans

B.A.  (1970)
Theater Arts, University of California, Los Angeles
Major:  Motion Picture and Television Production
Emphasis:  Motion Picture Production
 

FILM/VIDEO PRODUCTIONS CURRENTLY IN DISTRIBUTION

Spirits of the Voyage (1996)

Gypsies: Out Takes (1994)

Lamotrek: Heritage of an Island (1988)

Rom Wedding (1985)

Lamotrek Atoll: Research Film Footage of a Traditional Carolinian Society (1983)

Met Poraus? (What's the News?) (1983)

Gypsy Wedding (1980)

Echoes of an Island (1979)

USDA Needy Family Food Program (1979)

Changes in Truk (1979)

Mwan Mwich (1979)

Early Foreign Contacts in Micronesia 1521-1885 (1978)

Nothing to Do, Nowhere to Go (1977)

Gypsies: The Other Americans (1975)

PUBLICATIONS  (Brief List)

"Carolinian Voyaging in the New Millennium"  Micronesian Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 5, No. 1-2, pp. 293-305, 2006.  Available on-line at: http://marshall.csu.edu.au/MJHSS/

"Carolinian Voyaging Reinvigorated"  Vaka Moana: Voyages of the Ancestors.  K. R. Howe (Ed.)  Auckland, New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd. in association with Auckland War Memorial Museum.  Pp. 330-331, 2006

"Sacred Space, Taboo Place: Negotiating Roang on Lamotrek Atoll"  Micronesian Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 1-2, pp. 3-18, 2004.  Available on-line at: http://marshall.csu.edu.au/MJHSS/

"Beyond the Blue Horizon:  Filming on Lamotrek Atoll"  The AnthroGlobe Journal, Feb. 26, 1998.  Available on-line at: http://www.anthroglobe.info/docs/metzgare_bluehorizon_980226.html

"Traditional Education in Micronesia:  A Case Study of Lamotrek Atoll with Comparative Analysis of the Literature on the Trukic Continuum."  Ph.D. dissertation.  University of California, Los Angeles.  Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms International.  1991.   For dissertation abstract, table of contents, etc. click here

“Getting the News to the Public in Truk:  A Telecommunications Perspective”
Telecommunications—Asia, Americas, Pacific: PTC ‘87 Proceedings.  Dan J. Wedemeyer and Mary Sue Bissell (Eds.)   Honolulu, Hawaii: Pacific Telecommunications Council.  Pp. 298-301, 1987.

Arts of Micronesia. Long Beach, California:  FHP Hippodrome Gallery. 1987.

“The Word Masters.” Pacific Islands Communication Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2,  pp. 111-115, 1983.

Review of Bold Experiment: The Story of Educational Television in American Samoa by
Wilbur Schramm, Lyle M. Nelson, and Mere T. Betham.  IN: Educational Studies
Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 86-89, 1982.

"Marespa:  Last of the Great Ghosts in Micronesia." Micronesian Reporter, Vol. XXCII, No. 4, pp. 29-33, 1979.
 

PRESENTATIONS  (Brief List)

"Islands in the Storm: Lessons from Micronesia."  UCLA Law Department Frankel Symposium: Coping with Global Warming.  March 2, 2007

“Braving the Deeps: Into the Pacific Ocean.”  BBC World Service Radio.  Roger Fendby radio broadcast February 28 and March 6, 1998.

“Spirits of the Voyage:  Traditional Oceanic Knowledge, Art, and Ritual as Cultural
Adaptation.”  Department of Art History 32ndAnnual Graduate Student Symposium, May 10, 1997, University of California, LosAngeles.

“Getting the News to the Public in Truk:  A Telecommunications Perspective.”  Annual Conference of the Pacific Telecommunications Council, January 21,
1987, Honolulu, Hawaii.

“Using Media Communications to Study Gypsy Values.”  Annual Conference of the Gypsy Lore Society North American Chapter, March 26, 1987,
University of California, Los Angeles.

“Use of Text in Truk:  The Consequences for Educational Reform.”  Annual Conference of the Comparative andInternational Education Society, April 15, 1985, Stanford University, California.
 

AFFILIATIONS

Member, International Documentary Association
Member, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania