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Dr. Shinu Abraham (Assistant Professor, Ph.D. U Pennsylvania) has done archaeological fieldwork in Egypt, Israel, India, and the US. Her research focuses on ancient Indo-Roman trade and the emergence of social complexity in Late Iron Age/Early Historic South India, the archaeology of ethnic identity, the rise of complex societies, and archaeological theory. Most recently, she directed a field survey project in the southern Indian state of Kerala designed to re-evaluate early South Indian ceramic and mortuary material culture. Her course offerings include ancient civilizations; archaeology of South Asia, archaeology and identity; and science and pseudoscience in archaeology. Email: sabraham@stlawu.edu |
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| Dr. John Barthelme (Associate Professor, Ph.D. Berkeley) has done archaeological work for many years in East Africa. His study Fisher-Hunters and Neolithic Pastoralists in East Turkana, Kenya appeared as a CambridgeMonograph in African Archaeology, and he has published numerous papers on his research. Every two to threeyears he runs an archeology summer field course in Kenya. He offers courses in human origins, environmentalarchaeology, Neanderthals, African archaeology, and zooarchaeology (faunal analysis). When he's not in his office,
he can usually be found analyzing artifacts in our new and fully-equipped Anthropology Lab (Piskor 14).
Email: jbarthelme@stlawu.edu |
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| Dr. Richard A.Gonzalez (Visiting Assistant Professor) , Ph.D. Buffalo ) is a biological anthropologist. His primary area of research specialization is skeletal biology with a focus on the evolution of contemporary human biological variation. In particular, he is interested in the medico-legal analysis of human skeletal remains; quantitative skeletal biology; skeletal pathology; human adaptation; human evolution and evolutionary theory; and history of evolutionary thought. Some of his past research has involved the study of biological distance of prehistoric skeletal remains and the medico-legal implications of osteogenesis imperfecta in cases invovling possible child abuse. Currently he is research the development of craniofacial sexual dimorphism in children and developing a method for the identification of sex differences in juvenile skeletal remains.
Email: rgonzalez@stlawu.edu |
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Dr. Ashley Kistler (Visiting Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Florida State University) has conducted ethnographic and linguistic fieldwork in several Mesoamerican communities. Her dissertation research focused on kinship, value, and memory among Q’eqchi’ market women in San Juan Chamelco, Guatemala. Dr. Kistler examined how market women generate local kinship categories through continued participation in market exchange. Currently, Dr. Kistler is researching oral narratives of Chamelco’s founder as a means through which Chamelqueños maintain longstanding notions of value and power and legitimize their position in Guatemala’s political and social landscape. Her other research interests include Maya hieroglyphic writing, language contact, and Maya resurgence and revitalization. Email: akistler@stlawu.edu |
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| Dr. Celia Nyamweru (Professor and Interim Chair, Ph.D. Cambridge) is a former Academic Dean at Kenyatta University in Kenya, where she worked for 25 years. She has an international reputation for her work in physical geography. She offers a range of courses dealing with women in East Africa and the Third World, development issues, and indigenous perceptions of the environment. Her five books include Rifts and Volcanoes and Kenya and Three Continents. Her current work involves social and cultural issues surrounding the kaya (sacred) forests of the Kenya Coast. In Fall of 2002 she directed the Kenya Semester Program.
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| Dr. Alice Pomponio (Professor, Ph.D. Bryn Mawr) has done over two years of field research in Papua New Guinea, as well as in Italy. She also recently spent a year and a half in Kenya co-directing the St. Lawrence program there. She offers courses in linguistics; Peoples of the Pacific Islands; Aboriginal Australia; peoples and belief systems of Africa; myth, ritual, and symbolism; the anthropology of sex and gender; and psychological anthropology. She is past President of the international Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Her many publications include the books Seagulls Don't Fly into the Bush: Cultural Identity and Development in Melanesia and, as senior editor, Children of Kilibob: Creation, Cosmos, and Culture in Northeast New Guinea. She is currently compiling a dictionary of Mutu, an unwritten Austronesian language from Papua New Guinea.
Email: apomponio@stlawu.edu |
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| Dr. Richard Perry (Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. Syracuse) did his field research in the Southwest among the Western Apache and has recently spent a year and a half in Kenya co-directing the St. Lawrence program there. Founding chair of the department, he offers courses in Native American cultures, Native Peoples of Canada, cultural anthropology, the situation of indigenous peoples within state systems, the anthropology of law and conflict resolution, the anthropology of race and racism, and anthropological theory. His books include Western Apache Heritage, Apache Reservation; From Time Immemorial: Indigenous Peoples and State Systems; and Five Key Concepts in Anthropological Thinking. His most recent book, 'Race' and Racism: The Development of Racism in America, is due out in December 2007. |  |
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