G. Tomas Woodward, M.A.

International Anthropology Coordinator

Degrees

  • M.A., Anthropology, University of Texas, 1988
  • B.A., Anthropology, Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1983

Current positions

  • International Anthropology Coordinator, SIL Intl, 2007-

Other professional experience and service

  • Assistant Int’l Anthropology Coordinator, SIL Intl,  2004-2007
  • Anthropology Projects Manager 1997-2004
  • Instructor, Cultural Anthropology and Ethnographic research Methods, Oregon SIL, 2004
  • Co-instructor, Cultural Anthropology, Texas SIL, 1997-1999
  • Graduate Instructor, Linguistic Anthropology, Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand 1995-1997

Professional memberships

  • American Anthropological Association

Language proficiencies

  • English: ILR 5
  • Spanish: ILR 4
  • Thai: ILR 2

Research Interests

  • Qualitative methods
  • Social problems and moral panics
  • Anthropology of Christianity
United States
Publications:

Selected Publications:

Woodward, G. Tomas.  2008. “FieldWorks Data Notebook: Software for Writing Digital Fieldnotes”.  SfAA Newsletter 19:3:19-23.

Woodward, G. Tomas. 2000. “Column: Hunter-Gatherer Colloquium.” Notes on Anthropology 4(63–64). SIL International.

Woodward, G. Tomas. 2000. “Why Use the OCM in Fieldwork?” Notes on Anthropology 4(3–4):113–117. SIL International.

Woodward, G. Tomas. 1999. “Review: The Art of Fieldwork,” by Harry Walcott. Notes on Anthropology 3(4):14-17. SIL International.

Other

Woodward, G. Tomas. 2011. “Free Software for Writing and Managing Fieldnotes: New Release of Fieldworks Data Notebook.” NAPA Workshop given at 110th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 16-20, 2011. (Presented multiple years – 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009; Society for Applied Anthropology, March 2008.)

Woodward, G. Tomas. 2010. “Taller en Antropología y Comunicación Transcultural/Workshop in Anthropology and Cross-cultural Communication.” Workshop given at the Universidad Intercultural de la Amazonia, Yarinacocha, Peru. March 29-April 8, 2010.

Woodward, G. Tomas. 2009 “Ethnography as Translation or Visa Versa.” Paper presented at Bible Translation 2009, Dallas, Texas, October 16-20, 2009.

Woodward, G. Tomas. 1988. Gracias a Dios:  Change and Development in Honduran La Mosquitia. M.A. thesis. University of Texas, Austin.”

Works by this author in SIL Language & Culture Archives