Dr. Jay Crain

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His undergraduate studies were done at U.C. Berkeley (Geography) and at Sacramento State (Geography and Anthropology). He earned his B.A. (Honors) in Anthropology in 1963. His doctoral studies were done at Cornell University (Ph.D., social anthropology, 1970) as a Fellow of the Cornell Southeast Asia Program. He studied psychiatry (1966-67) at the School of Medicine, University of Washington.

Jay has done anthropological field research in a V.A. Hospital (1966-67), among the Lun Dayeh people in the interior of north-central of Borneo (1968-69, 1980, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996), in Singapore as a Senior Fulbright-Hayes Research Fellow at the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies (1979-80) and in central and east Java (1980). He has published articles or chapters on each of these periods of research and given invited papers at regional, national and international conferences.

He teaches courses on social anthropology, the cultures of southeast Asia, the anthropology of the body, the Trobriand Islands and non-western religions. Jay has received grants and fellowships from the following: Department of Defense, National Institutes of Health), Veteran's Administration, NASA (UCD), Fulbright-Hays Commission, CSU faculty research awards, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Henry Luce Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts. His current research is concentrated in two projects: 1) a collaborative dictionary and oral literature project with Vicki Pearson-Rounds (Office of Research and Graduate Studies) and 2) the Digital Ethnography Project (creation of a full-text database of the complete literature on the Trobriand Islands and related Massim ethnographies with Dr. Allan Darrah (Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology.