Regular Faculty  | William Ayres (B.A. 1966 Wyoming, PhD Tulane 1973) has been a professor at UO since 1976. His research interests include the development of chiefdoms and early food production, especially in the Pacific Islands (Micronesia, Polynesia) and in Southeast
Asia. He is continuing archaeological investigations at Pohnpei’s Nan Madol site, known for its massive stone architecture. Ayres uses computer graphics to facilitate architectural reconstruction and is engaged in provenance
studies of archaeological materials, especially stone building resources and ceramics through geochemical analysis. Contact information: (541) 34541-346-5119 | Curriculum vitae
Web Site |  | Diane Baxter (B.A.. 1976, UCLA; M.A., 1982, UC-Northridge; Ph.D., 1991, UCLA) is an adjunct assistant professor at UO since 1992. Diane Baxter's research focuses on the politics of identity among displaced persons, women, and indigenous peoples in colonial and postcolonial societies. Her area focus continues to be the Middle East, in particular Israel/Palestine. Currently she is studying Palestinian refugees in the U.S. She is vice-Chair of the AAA'S Committee on Refugees and Immigrants (CORI) and co-editor of CORI'S 24 Selected Papers in Refugee and Immigrant Studies. Her article "Idealized and Devalued: Images of Identity among Palestinians in West Bank Refugee Camps" is included in the CORI volume. | Curriculum Vitae |  | Aletta Biersack (BA, U of Michigan, 1965; MA, History, U of Michigan, 1968; MA, Anthropology, U of Michigan, 1970; Ph.D., U of Michigan, 1980) has been a professor at the University of Oregon since 1982. She is a cultural anthropologist who focuses on the culture and history of Pacific peoples, with an emphasis on New Guinea, historical anthropology, political ecology, and gender. She has published widely on the Ipili speakers of Papua New Guinea. She is co-editor of Imagining Political Ecology (Duke University Press, 2006) and editor of "Ecologies for Tomorrow" (published in American Anthropologist, 1999), Papuan Borderlands (University of Michigan Press, 1995), and Clio in Oceania (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991).Her research has been supported by Fulbright-Hays, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, American Philosophical Society, the Universityof Oregon, and the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon. Contact information: (541) 34541-346-5110. | Curriculum vitae |  | Jon Erlandson (B.A., 1980;M.A.,1983, Ph.D., 1988, UC-Santa Barbara) has been a professor at UO since 1990. Jon Erlandson is an archaeologist who specializes in western North America, with a focus on the archaeology of maritime societies of the Pacific Coast of North America, the Pacific Rim region, and the world. Actively engaged in fieldwork in coastal California, Oregon, Alaska, and Iceland, he has written or edited nine books and published over 100 scholarly articles. Research and teaching interests include the development of maritime societies, historical ecology in coastal environments, human evolution and migrations, the peopling of the Americas, the history of seafaring, traditional technologies, dating methods in archaeology, geoarchaeology, cultural resource management, and collaborative research with indigenous communities. In 2005, Erlandson was appointed director of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History and the Oregon State Museum of Anthropology at the UO. He also serves as co-editor of the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, published by
Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
Contact information: Office: (541) 34541-346-5115 Lab: (541) 34541-346-0662 | Curriculum Vitae |  | Stephen Frost (B.A. 1994, CSU-Long Beach; Ph.D. 2001, City University of New York) has been an assistant professor at the University of Oregon since 2004. Stephen Frost is a paleontologist and morphometrician interested in evolutionary theory as well as human and primate evolution. His research on late Miocene to Pleistocene East African cercopithecids (the Old World monkeys) has focused on describing the material from the Middle Awash, Gona, and Hadar, including several new taxa, as well as the relationship between African cercopithecid evolution and global climatic change. He is also interested in the quantitative analysis of biological shape, particularly using the techniques of geometric morphometrics. He has been involved in morphometric analysis involving modern baboons, the Eurasian Pliocene fossil Paradolichopithecus as well as comparing modern humans and Neanderthals. He has been to the field with the Gona Research Project in the Afar region of Northern Ethiopia (directed by Sileshi Semaw) and is involved with a paleontological research project in the Aliakmon river valley in Northern Greece (directed by Katerina Harvati). | Web site |  | Lamia Karim (B.A 1984 Brandies University; M.A. 1993 University of Michigan; PhD 2002 Rice University) is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Her research interests are in globalization, gender, human rights, and social movements. She has published numerous scholarly articles in anthropology journals (Cultural Dynamics, Political and Legal Anthropology, Contemporary South Asia) on gender and globalization, and chapters in edited volumes. Her research has been supported with two postdoctoral fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and grants from the National Science Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Dr. Karim's forthcoming book is entitled "Microfinance and Its Discontents: NGOs and Gender in Bangladesh," and is being published through the University of California Press (circa 2009). | Curriculum vitae |  | Doug Kennett (B.A., 1990; M.A., 1994: Ph.D. 1998, University of California at Santa Barbara) has been a professor at UO since 2001. Douglas J. Kennett is an archaeologist studying prehistoric maritime societies of the Pacific and Pacific Rim. He has done field research in California, Mexico, Oceania, and Peru and currently has active field projects in Chiapas, Mexico and Rapa, French Polynesia. Theoretical interests include evolutionary and ecological approaches to hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists, particularly the behavioral ecology of prehistoric coastal foragers and farmers. Methodological specializations include archaeometry, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and quantitative analysis. He has authored or co-authored 20 peer-reviewed papers and has received grants from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society and the National Park Service to conduct his research. A revised version of his dissertation "Behavioral Ecology and the Evolution of Hunter-Gatherer Societies on the Northern Channel Islands, California" is currently under consideration by UC Press and he is in the process of editing a volume entitled "Foraging Theory and the Transition to Agriculture" with Bruce Winterhalder from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Contact Information: (541) 34541-346-5237. | Web Site
Curriculum Vitae |  | Gyoung-Ah Lee (B.A. 1992, Seoul National University; M.S. 1997, Ph.D. 2003, University of Toronto) became an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon in fall, 2007. Her topical interests are paleoethnobotany, paleoenvironment, social complexity in early states, transition from foraging to food production, traditional farming technologies, phylogenetics of crops, labor organization, ideology of food, gendered archaeology, and quantitative archaeology. Her chronological and geographic interests include Neolithic, Bronze, and early historical periods in Korea; the Neolithic to Shang periods in China; Jomon-Yayoi periods and Ainu history in Hokkaido; and Late Woodland & Iroquoian tradition in the eastern North America. Her recent publications include "Contextual analysis of plant remains at the Erlitou-period Huizui site, Henan, China" (with S. Bestel), Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (BIPPA) 27:49-60 (2007);
"Plants and People from the Early Neolithic to Shang periods in North China" (with G. W. Crawford, L. Liu, and X. Chen.). PNAS 104(3):1087-1092 (2007); and "Review of new data on rice domestication in China" (in Korean with the English abstract). Journal of the Korean Archaeological Society 61:42-69 (2006). | Curriculum Vitae
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Arch. Of East Asia (399) |  | Sarah B. McClure (B.A., 1997, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet (Freiburg, Germany); M.A., 1999, Ph.D. 2004, UC Santa Barbara) is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department and Assistant Director of Public Programs at the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History. Her research interests include historical and evolutionary ecology, political economy, origins of agriculture and animal husbandry, transition to sedentism, faunal and ceramic analysis, transmission of technology, hunter-gatherers, European prehistory, and Western Mediterranean prehistory. | Web Page |  | Madonna Moss (B.A., 1976, William and Mary; M.A., 1982, Ph.D., 1989, University of California Santa Barbara) studies the Northwest Coast of North America. She recently completed the monograph, "Archaeological Investigation of Cape Addington Rockshelter: Human Occupation of the Rugged Seacoast on the Outer Prince of Wales Archipelago" (University of Oregon Anthropological Paper No. 63). A review of the status of archaeology in southeast Alaska has appeared (Arctic Anthropology 2004), and other work on southeast Alaskan caves and rockshelters has been published in the Journal of Ethnobiology (2003), American Antiquity (2001), Arctic Anthropology (2001), and Canadian Journal of Archaeology (2000). Work on the Oregon Coast has appeared in American Antiquity (1999), World Archaeology (1998), Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology (1998) and publications of the Coquille Indan Tribe. To illuminate anthropological problems, Professor Moss tries to incorporate ecological, ethnographic, and ethnohistorical sources to bear on archaeological questions as illustrated in articles in Ethnohistory (1999) and American Anthropologist (1993). She and other archaeologists in the department are strongly committed to training Native American scholars. Some of her work with Tlingit community scholars is now available in "Haa Atxaayí Haa Kusteeyíx Sitee, Our Food is Our Tlingit Way of Life," published by the USDA Forest Service, Alaska Region. For more about Professor Moss' work with the Tlingit community, click here. She serves on the Executive Board of the Society for American Archaeology. | Curriculum Vitae
Web Site | | Terry O'Nell (B.A., 1981, Notre Dame; M.A., 1985, Ph.D., 1992, Harvard) has been an associate professor at UO since 1998. Theresa O'Nell is a medical and psychological anthropologist who has worked with Native American peoples for fifteen years. Her findings on culture and depression among the Flathead people of Montana appear in her book Disciplined Hearts: History, Identity, and Depression in an American Community (U of California Press 1996). Currently she is midway through a 5-year project on history, colonialism, and mental health among the people of a Northern Plains tribe. Dr. O'Nell's teaching and research interests include medical anthropology, postcolonial psychology, and contemporary Native American life. Contact information: (541) 34541-346-5100. | |  | Phil Scher (B.A. 1987, Brown University; M.A. 1991, Ph.D. 1997 University of Pennsylvania) Associate Professor. Philip W. Scher has been at the University of Oregon since 2002. His area of focus is the Caribbean, with primary research interests in the politics of heritage and cultural identity, popular and public culture, Folklore, cultural studies and political economy. His publications include two edited volumes: Perspectives on the Caribbean: A Reader in Culture and Representation from Blackwell Publishers (2008) and Trinidad Carnival:The Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival from Indiana University Press (2007). Other recent publications include his book Carnival and the Formation of a Caribbean Transnation (University Press of Florida, 2003) and "Copyright Heritage: Preservation, Carnival and the State in Trinidad" (Anthropological Quarterly, Summer 2002), and "The Devil and the Bedwetter" (Western Folklore, Summer 2007) His latest work concerns the implications for anthropology of the copyright and legal protection of expressive culture and folklore as well as a study of World Heritage sites in the Caribbean. He is a 2008-2009 recipient of a Fulbright Senior Scholar award and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. | Curriculum vitae |  | Carol Silverman (Professor) (B.A., 1972, CUNY-City College; M.A.,1974, Ph.D., 1979, University of Pennsylvania) is a cultural anthropologist and folklorist who has been involved with Balkan music and culture for over 20 years as a researcher, teacher, activist, and performer. Focusing on Bulgaria and Macedonia, she has investigated the relationship among politics, ethnicity, ritual, and gender. She is now investigating the phenomenon of "Gypsy" music in relation to the negotiation of identities in the world music market. Her book Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora will be released in 2010 with Oxford University Press with an accompanying website. Among her many articles and book chapters about Balkan folklore and Romani (Gypsy) communities in the U.S. and abroad are Trafficking in the Exotic with "Gypsy" Music: Balkan Roma, Cosmopolitanism, and "World Music" Festivals, in Donna Buchanan (ed.), Balkan Popular Culture and the Ottoman Ecumene: Music, Image, and Regional Political Discourse (Scarecrow Press 2007); Researcher, Advocate, Friend: An American Fieldworker among Balkan Roma in H. De Soto and N. Dudwick (eds.); Fieldwork Dilemmas: Anthropologists in Postsocialist Societies (University of Wisconsin Press 2000); The Gender of the Profession: Music, Dance, and Reputation Among Balkan Muslim Romani Women in Tullia Magrini (ed.), Gender and Music in the Mediterranean (University of Chicago Press 2003). In 1996, Dr. Silverman was the recipient of a university award for Distinguished Teaching. She teaches courses on the Balkans, Jewish folklore, postmodernism, ethnography, feminism, and performative theories of culture. Contact information: (541) 34541-346-5114. | Curriculum
Vitae (PDF file) Research Projects: "Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora"
"Gender, Race, and Family: Issues of Education and Sexuality among Balkan Romani Migrants in New York City"
"Balkan Romani Music in Film" |  | Josh Snodgrass (BA 1995, UC Santa Cruz; MA 1998, Florida; PhD 2004, Northwestern; Postdoctoral fellow 2004-2005, U Chicago) joined UO as an assistant professor in 2005. Josh Snodgrass is a biological anthropologist who specializes in human evolutionary biology. His research focuses on human adaptation to environmental stressors, the influence of economic and cultural change on health, and the evolution of human and primate nutritional requirements. He has active field projects in northeastern Siberia, the Amazon region of Ecuador, and several locations within the United States. He also directs a research laboratory that focuses on the development and application of minimally invasive techniques (e.g., dried blood spots and saliva) for assessing health and physiology in population-based research. Recent publications have appeared in the American Journal of Human Biology, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation, Sigma Xi, and the Forensic Science Foundation. Contact information: (541) 34541-346-4823. | Web Site
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Lab Web Site |  | Lynn Stephen (B.A., 1979, Carleton College; Ph.D., 1987, Brandeis) is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon and director of the emerging Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS). Her work has centered on the intersection of culture and politics. Born in Chicago, Illinois she has a particular interest in the ways that political identities articulate with ethnicity, gender, class, and nationalism in relation to local, regional, and national histories, cultural politics, and systems of governance in Latin America. During the past ten years she has added the dimension of migration to her research. She has conducted research in Mexico, El Salvador, Chile, Brazil, and the U.S. Her newest book is titled Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon (March, 2007, Duke University Press). Other recent books include Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas (co-edited with Shannon Speed and Aída Hérnandez Castillo (University of Texas Press, 2006), and Zapotec Women: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca (Duke University Press, 2005), She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for Humanities, The Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University and research grants from the National Science Foundation, The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, The Ford Foundation, and the Inter-American Foundation. In 2007 she received the “Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America” from the Society for the Anthropology of North America. She has a strong commitment to collaborative research and to projects that produce findings that are accessible to the wider public. She has recently conducted research on identity formation and the political and civic participation among Mexican immigrant youth that is ongoing and has two new research projects.
“Latino Roots in Lane County,” done in collaboration with the Lane County Historical Museum, Latino community consultants, and several of her graduate students, focuses on the oral histories of the diverse group of Latino immigrants and migrants found in Lane County. The project will result in a museum exhibit, oral history texts, and a video.
"Making Rights a Reality: The Oaxaca Social Movement, 2006 to the present,” is a digital and textual ethnography project which explores acts of testimony and their links to global discourses of human, women’s, and Indigenous rights in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. The testimonials here are urgent oral accounts of bearing witness to wrongs committed against the speakers. Broadcast on the radio, television, at public demonstrations, and in the street, testimonial rights claiming in Oaxaca repositions previously excluded speakers as active citizens. This project centers on a recent and ongoing social movement in Oaxaca, Mexico and the emergence in June, 2006 of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO), a coalition of over 300 organizations that effectively ran the city for six months until the Mexican federal police force intervened. This project will result in a book and a public access website featuring video-testimonials of movement participants and observers. The website also includes documents, photographs, posters, and other visual media. Contact information: (541) 34541-346-5168. | Curriculum Vitae |  | Larry Sugiyama (B.A., 1985, M.A., 1991, Ph.D., 1996, UC-Santa Barbara) is Associate Professor of Anthropology, and Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences. He is a cultural anthropologist, evolutionary psychologist and human behavioral ecologist who works at the intersection of cultural and physical anthropology, evolutionary biology, behavioral ecology, and cognitive psychology, asking questions about the nature and evolution of the human mind and the effects of this evolution upon behavior and culture. Since 1993, Dr. Sugiyama has conducted fieldwork among the Achuar, Shiwiar, Shuar and Zaparo forager-horticulturalist groups of Ecuadorian Amazonia. Previously he worked with the Yora of Peru and the Yanomamö of Venezuela. He is founder and co-Director of the U.O. Shuar Health and Life History Project, and is Field Research Director for the Human Universals Project at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at University of California at Santa Barbara. Larry's work has been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Evolution and Human Behavior, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Human Nature, Human biology, and The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. For papers and more on Larry's work, click on the website link above.
Prospective graduate students with background and interests in Evolutionary Psychology, Human Behavioral Ecology, or Human Biology who are interested in working with us on the Shuar Health and Life History Project, are strongly encouraged to contact me. | Web site |  | Frances White (B.A., 1980; M.A., 1981, Cambridge, U.K.; Ph.D., 1986, SUNY-Stony Brook) is an Associate Professor and Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences. Her interests include primatology, primate behavior, primate social evolution, quantitative methods and statistics. Contact information (541) 34541-346-5278. | Web Site |
Joint-Appointment | Stephen Wooten (B.A., 1986, Massacusetts-Amherst; M.A., 1993, Ph.D., 1997, Illinois) has been an assistant professor at UO since 2001 (joint with International Studies). Stephen R. Wooten is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research interests include: local-global dynamics, agrarian change, political economy and ecology, and expressive culture. Dr. Wooten conducts ethnographic field research in West Africa (Mali and Cote d'Ivoire). His research publications include: "Colonial Administration and the Ethnography of the Family in the French Soudan" in Cahiers d'etudes africaines, "Antelope Headdresses and Champion Farmers: Negotiating Meaning and Identity through the Bamana Ciwara Complex" in African Arts and "Losing Ground: Gender Relations, Commercial Horticulture and Threats to Local Plant Diversity in Rural Mali" in a forthcoming edited volume entitled: Women and Plants: Gender Relations in Biodiversity Management and Conservation. Dr. Wooten holds a joint appointment in Anthropology and International Studies. Contact information: (541) 34541-346-5299. | |
Associated, Part Time or Emeritus (Retired) Faculty  | C. Melvin Aikens (B.A., 1960, Utah; M.A., 1962, Ph.D., 1966, Chicago) is an emeritus professor at UO, originally hired in 1968. C. Melvin Aikens' research focuses on the archaeology of the Great Basin of North America and of Japan, with collateral interests in the archaeology of their encompassing regions. Recently published book chapters are "Adaptive Strategies and Environmental Change in the Great Basin and Its Peripheries as Determinants in the Migrations of Numic-Speaking Peoples," "First in the World: The Jomon Pottery of Early Japan," and (co-authored with Takeru Akazawa) "The Pleistocene/Holocene Transition in Japan and Adjacent Northeast Asia: Climatic and Biotic Change, Broad-Spectrum Diet, Pottery and Sedentism." He is author or editor of 15 books and many book chapters and journal articles. After nine years of service, Aikens recently retired as director of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History and the Oregon State Museum of Anthropology. | Curriculum Vitae |  | Melanie Chang (BA 1994, University of Pennsylvania; PhD Physical Anthropology, 2005, University of Pennsylvania; PhD Ecology/Evolutionary Biology, 2005, University of Pennsylvania) is a physical anthropologist and evolutionary biologist with primary interests in systematics, and the identification of biological groups in the human fossil record and modern populations. Dr. Chang's paleoanthropological research has focused on the systematics of Middle Pleistocene Homo in Europe, the application of phylogenetic systematics to the identification of human paleontological taxa, and cladistic tests of adaptational hypotheses. Dr. Chang also maintains interests in molecular anthropology and the domestication of the dog, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the genetics of complex behavior at UCSF in 2008, investigating the genetic basis of noise phobia and population substructure between and within dog breeds. She has participated in archaeological fieldwork in France and Morocco, spanning the Lower, Middle, and Upper Paleolithic, and will be joining the project at Druze Marsh, Jordan in 2009. | Web site |  | Tom Connolly (Museum of Natural History, UO) is Director of Research for the State Museum of Anthropology, an administrative division of the Museum of Natural History at the University of Oregon. The research division conducts archaeological research throughout the state of Oregon, much of it in the context of a long-standing cultural resource management program operated in cooperation with the Oregon Department of Transportation and other state agencies. This program offers lab and fieldwork opportunities to students in the Department of Anthropology. Relating to Oregon's unique geographic position, Connolly's research reaches into all major cultural areas of the North American Far West, including the Pacific Coast, mesic interior valleys, the Great Basin, and the Columbia Plateau. Topical research areas include complex hunter-gatherers, basketry technologies of the Pacific Northwest, paleoenvironmental studies, and cultural resource management. | | | Don Dumond (B.A. 1949, New Mexico; M.A. 1957, Mexico City College; Ph.D. 1962, Oregon) is a Professor Emeritus who was hired in 1962. His interests are in New World archaeology. | | | Pamela Endzweig (Museum of Natural History, UO) is collections manager and research archaeologist at the Museum of Natural History. Her research focuses on the interior Plateau section of the state of Oregon. | | | Tom Evans (courtesy appointment) | | | Mary Fechner (courtesy appointment) | | | Darcy Hannibal | | | Amy Harper (courtesy appointment) teaches in Bend. Her research interests are multicultural Europe, Muslim Europe, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality. | |  | Dennis Jenkins (B.A., 1979, M.A., 1981, Nevada; Ph.D., 1991, Oregon) is an Archaeologist/Field School Supervisor for the Oregon State Museum of Anthropology/Museum of Natural History, UO. He focuses on Early and Middle Holocene hunter-gatherer foraging strategies; archaeology of the arid and semi-arid western United States with particular emphasis on Great Basin settlement-subsistence patterns, uses of obsidian sourcing and hydration, and prehistoric bead type and distribution analyses. Contact information (541) 34541-346-3026. | Web Site
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Paisley Cave Research | | Eric Jones (courtesy appointment) areas of interests include environmental anthropology, political ecology theory, and contemporary gathering. Presently, he is a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Culture and Ecology in Portland, OR. | | | Patricia Krier is the program director at the Museum of Natural and Cultural History | |  | John Lukacs (A.B., 1969, M.A., 1970, Syracuse; Ph.D., 1977, Cornell) has been a professor at UO since 1976. John R. Lukacs is engaged in research on paleopathology and dental anthropology of South Asia. His research combines an epidemiological approach to dental enamel defects in rural villages and urban schools in western India with the laboratory analysis of skeletal and dental pathology among prehistoric human skeletons in India. Recent publications have appeared in the following journals: American Journal of Human Biology (1999), American Journal of Physical Anthropology (1999), Angle Orthodontist (1998), Current Anthropology (1996), International Journal of Osteoarchaeology (1995), Journal of Archaeological Science (1998), and Yearbook of Physical Anthropology (1999). His research has been supported by the American Institute of Indian Studies, American Philosophical Society, the LSB Leakey Foundation, National Geographic Society, National Science Foundation, and Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Contact information: (541) 34541-346-5112. | Curriculum vitae
Web Site |  | Nick Malone (B.A. 1997 UC Boulder, MS 2001 Central Washington, PhD 2007 Univ. of Oregon) Research interests: Hominoid evolution; nonhuman primate biology and socioecology; conservation; ecological communities; human relationships to nonhuman animals and the environment; Hylobatidae; Javan gibbons (Hylobates moloch); West Java, Indonesia; pygmy chimpanzees or bonobos (Pan paniscus); Democratic Republic of Congo. | Web site | | Heather McClure (courtesy appointment) | | | Marcela Mendoza | |  | Anne Mertl Millhollen (courtesy appointment) studied captive ringtailed lemurs as a graduate student at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Her research there focused on lemur olfactory communication. After discovering that lemurs could discriminate between the scents from different individuals, she went to Berenty Reserve in 1975 as a Duke University post-doctoral student. Anne found in her research that both the ringtailed lemur and sifaka troops in Berenty's rich gallery forest used scent marks to demarcate territorial boundaries. Amazingly, when she returned 23 years later, one of the ringtailed lemur troops was still using and demarcating those same boundaries. That research evolved into continuing studies about how food resources, especially tamarind trees, influence ringtailed lemur ranging, territorial behavior and population, how water availability influences tamarind tree productivity and survival, and how they all interact in the Berenty ecosystem. | Web site |  | Geraldine Moreno (PhD; CNS) is a Full Professor and has been employed at the UO since 1974. Her research is located at the intersection of nutritional anthropology, human biology and medical anthropology. She is a member of a research team working on a NIH funded community based participatory project focused on childhood obesity prevention. She is also actively engaged in a Byrd Foundation study investigating the role of Vitamin B on cognitive ability in elderly Hispanics. Dr. Moreno is a consultant on a Fogarty International Training Program in AIDS & TB in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, at the University of Miami Leonard H, Miller School of Medicine. Her previous research in northeastern Thailand focused on the relationship among gender, cultural and economic transformation, and food habits, and she also has collaborated with Dr. Carla Guerron-Montero on a project exploring how women in female-headed households and dual/male-headed households cope with food insecurity and hunger. Dr. Moreno has publications in Ecology of Food and Nutrition; Qualitative Health Research; The Journal of Ethnobiology, Agriculture and Human Values.Contact information: (541) 34541-346-5113. | Web Site |  | Sandra Morgen (B.A 1972, M.A., PhD 1982 University of North Carolina) is Associate Dean of the Graduate School and a Professor of Anthropology. Her research focuses on the intersection of gender, race, class and public policy in the U.S., with a particular focus on health, social welfare and the cultural politics of taxes. Her most recent books are Into Our Own Hands: The Women's Health Movement in the U.S. 1969-1990 (Rutgers University Press, 2002), winner of the Eileen Basker Prize from the Society for Medical Anthropology, 2004); Taxes are a Woman's Issue (Feminist Press, 2006); and a forthcoming book, The Lessons of Welfare Restructuring: Client, Caseworker, and Administrator's Perspectives, coauthored with Joan Acker and Jill Weigt, forthcoming from Cornell University Press. She is also a co-editor of recent edited books, including Work, Welfare and Politics (with Joan Acker, Frances Fox Piven and Margaret Hallock (2002) and Rethinking Security: Gender, Race, and Militarization (with Barbara Sutton and Julie Novkov, 2007). She has received the Career Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Anthropology of the U.S from the Society for the Anthropology of North America, the Squeaky Wheel Award for Dedication to Achieving Greater Gender Parity for Women in Anthropology from the American Anthropological Association, and the Martin Luther King and Charles Johnson awards from the University of Oregon. She is currently President of the Society for the Anthropology of North America, former President of the Association for Feminist Anthropology, and an appointed member of the American Anthropological Association Commission on Race and Racism. | |  | Greg Nelson (B.A., 1981, UC-Berkeley; M.A., 1989, Montana; Ph.D., 1998, Oregon) is an adjunct/courtesy assistant professor at UO. Greg C. Nelson studies dental anthropology, skeletal biology, and bioarchaeology. Currently his research centers on prehistoric skeletal series from New Mexico and Palau. The New Mexico research involves material from the Pueblo III Gallina phase dating from 1100 to 1275 AD. Currently excavating the site of Cañada Simon I (with Tony Largaespada) his research focuses on questions surrounding Gallina origins and fate as well as their adaptation to fluctuating environments. Chelechol ra Orrak in the Republic of Palau is a cemetery site dating to approximately 3000 BP, one of the earliest in Oceania. Collaborating with Scott Fitzpatrick of North Carolina State University the research focuses on trying to determine the affinities of the earliest inhabitants of the archipelago and their relationship to other early peoples of Oceania. Other areas of major interest are paleoanthropology, evolutionary biology, and evolutionary theory. Contact information (541) 20541-346-7633. | | | Brian L. O'Neill (B.S. 1972, M.A. 1978 Kansas State; Ph.D. 1989, Oregon) (Museum of Natural History, UO) is senior research associate for the State Museum of Anthropology. While his work for the Museum takes him statewide, his research focus is the western interior valleys of Oregon. Topical interests include complex hunter-fisher-gatherers, obsidian and residue studies, and the use of GIS in predictive modeling. Contact information (541) 34541-346-3033. | |  | Robert Pastor (BS, Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, 1973; MS, 1984, Ph.D. 1993, Physical Anthropology, University of Oregon) currently holds an appointment as a courtesy Research Associate in Anthropology. He conducts research in skeletal biology and helps teach human anatomy labs.
Academic Background: In 8 ½ years (1998-2006) at the University of Bradford (UK), Dr. Pastor held the post of Lecturer in Biological and Forensic Anthropology at the Department of Archaeological Sciences. From 1993 to 1995, he held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Physical Anthropology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Pastor has more than nine years experience in the field of forensic anthropology and an additional eight years of experience in osteology. Between 1995 and 1998, he worked for the United States Army Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILHI) on archaeological search and recovery, and the anthropological analysis, identification and repatriation of remains of military personnel from past conflicts in Southeast Asia, China, the Pacific and other international locations. Dr. Pastor has also worked for the United Nations (UN-ICTY) as a forensic anthropologist in Kosovo (2000), and routinely consulted for medico-legal agencies, pathologists, and police departments in the United Kingdom and occasionally abroad. He was one of two Specialty Assessors in forensic anthropology for the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners (CRFP), and founding and council member for the British Association for Human Identification (BAHID). While in the UK, Dr. Pastor also held an appointment (2003-2006) on the Panel of Examiners for the Diploma in Forensic Human Identification, with The Society of Apothecaries of London.
Research Interests: Dr. Pastor's research interests in biological anthropology extend to the biocultural interface between nutritional anthropology and dental anthropology, especially to the application of dental microwear analyses to the reconstruction of prehistoric diets, with a focus on South Asian (Pakistani and India) and New World cemetery sites. His forensic anthropology research interests include: the development of new methods of morphometric and histological age estimation and sex determination; dental morphology and population variation; histological methods for distinguishing human and non-human fragmentary bone; antemortem and perimortem skeletal trauma in contemporary and archaeological populations; and taphonomy and preservation of the skeleton and soft tissue. He was awarded a Research Grant in 2003 from the British Academy to collect metric data on vertebral sexual dimorphism from several international documented skeletal collections. In addition, Dr. Pastor has been awarded a research grant from the University of Bradford Research Fund, and several Overseas Conference Travel Grants from The British Academy and The Royal Society. | Curriculum Vitae | | Ann Simonds (Ph.D., 1964, UC-Berkeley) has a courtesy appointment at UO. Ann G. Simonds is currently working on the professional correspondence of Franz Boas for two projects: one on the development of his understanding of the social organization of the Kwakiutl, and the other on Boas' 1895 work on myth and cultural interrelationships on the Northwest Coast. | | | Paul Simonds (Ph.D., 1963, UC-Berkeley) is a professor emeritus at UO. Paul E. Simonds' research interests focus on the networks of social interaction of primates. The database for this analysis rests on his field research on Macaca radiata in south India but is extended to other species as well. Current interest is in the evolution of human patterns of reproductive and other behavior out of a primate base. Contact information (541) 34541-346-5104. | | | Ronald Spores (courtesy appointment) is involved with Lynn Stephen in a long term archaeological research project in San Pedro y San Pablo Teposcolula, Oaxaca. He is a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History. | |  | Michelle Scalise Sugiyama (Research Associate, Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, courtesy appointment in anthropology, and an affiliate of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at UC Santa Barbara) received her PhD from UC Santa Barbara, where she combined literary study with training at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology. Her work examines narrative as behavior; she is particularly interested in why and when humans began telling and listening to stories. To this end, her work examines the oral traditions of small-scale societies against the exigencies of hunter-gatherer life. She has published numerous articles on the origin, function, and design of narrative, in both literary (e.g., Philosophy and Literature, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies Mosaic and social science (Human Nature, Evolution and Human Behavior) journals. Currently affiliated with the Institute for Cognitive and Decision Sciences and the Anthropology Department at the University of Oregon, Eugene, she teaches classes on the prehistory of narrative and art behavior. | Web site | | Bahram Tavakolian earned his A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles; he also attended the University of California at Berkeley. | |  | Harry Wolcott (B.A., 1951, UC Berkeley; MA, 1959, San Francisco State College; Ph.D., 1964, Stanford) is a professor emeritus at UO, originally hired in 1964. Harry F. Wolcott focuses his research on anthropology and education, cultural acquisition and the nature of ethnographic research. Some of his recent publications are: Transforming Qualitative Data (Sage 1994); Art of Fieldwork (2nd ed., Altamira Press 2005); Ethnography: A Way of Seeing (AltaMira Press 1999); Writing Up Qualitative Research, 2nd ed. (Sage 2001); and Sneaky Kid and Its Aftermath: Ethics and Intimacy in Fieldwork (AltaMira 2002). | |  | Phil Young (B.A., 1961, Ph.D., 1968, Illinois at Urbana) is a professor emeritus, originally hired in 1966. PhilYoung focuses his current research on the impact of national development on indigenous peoples, particularly in Central and South America, and on strategies for long-term adaptation and sustainability of cultures and environments under development. Among his other interests are linguistic anthropology, cognitive and functional linguistics, and golf. Contact information (541) 34541-346-5117. | Web Site |
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