Kathleen M. Adams is a cultural anthropologist and Professor at Loyola University Chicago, and an Adjunct Curator at the Field Museum of Natural History. Her books include Art as Politics: Re-crafting Identities, Tourism and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia, Everyday Life in Southeast Asia (With K. Gillogly), Indonesia: History, Heritage, Culture, Home and Hegemony: Domestic Service and Identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia (with S. Dickey), and The Ethnography of Tourism: Edward Bruner and Beyond (with N. Leite and Q. Casteneda). Adams is best known for her research on cultural transformations in island Southeast Asia, especially Toraja society in Indonesia), and her contributions to critical tourism studies, heritage studies, and museum studies.