Regular Faculty  | 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 |  | 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 | | 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" |  | 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 |
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 | Mary Fechner (courtesy appointment) | | | Amy Harper (courtesy appointment) teaches in Bend. Her research interests are multicultural Europe, Muslim Europe, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality. | | | 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 | | | Heather McClure (courtesy appointment) | | | Marcela Mendoza | |  | 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. | | | 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. | |  | 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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