Dr. Alice Pomponio is Professor and Chair of Anthropology.  She received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College and began teaching at St. Lawrence in 1983.  Although her primary area of expertise is in the Southwestern Pacific, she has a graduate school "minor" in Africa.  Dr. Pomponio is a charter member of the AFSAB.  Specializing in linguistic anthropology, psychological anthropology, symbolic systems, and the anthropology of religion, she has taught courses on Peoples and Cultures of Africa, African Belief Systems, and several topical courses that emphasize material from Africa.  She co-directed the Kenya Semester Program for a year and a half from 1995 through 1996, and has served as an interviewer and the on-campus Co-ordinator for the Kenya Semester Program Selection Committee for many years.