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2012 Summer Institute
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Faculty are listed in alphabetical order under one of the following
designations.
Full-Time Faculty
Research Faculty
Emeritus Faculty
Part-Time Faculty and Lecturers
Adjunct Faculty
Affiliate Faculty
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Full Time Faculty
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Dr. Stephen Brighton,
Associate Professor
Interests: diaspora studies, social identity, heritage formation,
contemporary archaeological theory; Northeastern USA, rural Ireland,
trans-Atlantic region |
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Dr. Erve Chambers,
Professor
Interests: tourism and travel; heritage resource studies; applied anthropology; ethnographic writing; SE Asia; US estuarine communities and places |
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Dr. Janet Chernela,
Professor
Interests: cultural anthropology, ethnography of the Amazon basin,
socio-linguistics, environment, NGOs, Latin American studies
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Dr. Sean Downey, Assistant Professor
Interests: Agent-based modeling (ABM) and GIS: specifically the analysis of the relationship between subsistence farming and social institutions, non-linear spatial modeling, phylogenetic analysis of drift processes, Mayan Archaeology, Ecological Anthropology
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Dr. Judith Freidenberg,
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Interests: urban health and community development, immigrant
health and social supports, aging and Latino culture, ethnicity
and health care
Current research: Anthropology
of the Immigrant Life Course Research Program |
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Dr. George Hambrecht, Assistant Professor
Interests: zooarchaeology, with a focus on historical archaeology, medieval era,dynamics between humans and natural systems |
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Dr. Mark Leone, Professor
Director, Archaeology in Annapolis
Interests: historical archaeology and interpretation, critical
theory, outdoor history museums, African-American archaeology |
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Dr. Michael Paolisso,
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Interests: environmental anthropology, economic anthropology, research
methods |
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Dr. Thurka Sangaramoorthy, Assistant Professor (August 2012)
Interests: HIV/AIDS, social and medical constructions of risk, health
disparities, global public health; transnationalism, immigration,
citizenship, governmentality, structural violence, race and ethnicity;
science and technology studies.
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Dr. Paul Shackel,
Professor
Department Chair
Director, Center for Heritage Resource Studies
Interests: historical archaeology, labor history, public history, civic engagement
Current research:
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Dr. L. Jen Shaffer, Assistant Professor
Interests: human-environment interactions, historical ecology, indigenous knowledge, rural livelihoods, conservation, climate change adaptation and resilience, Southern and Eastern Africa
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Dr. William Stuart, Assistant
Professor
Director, Undergraduate Honors Program
Interests: social anthropology, history and philosophy of anthropological
theory, comparative religion, cultural ecology |
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Dr. Tony Whitehead,
Professor
Director, Cultural Systems Analysis Group
Interests: medical anthropology, community ethnography, multidisciplinary
health research, community health development and education,
AIDS,
substance abuse
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Research Faculty
Dr. Shirley Fiske, Research Professor
Interests: Applied and practicing anthropology, environmental and natural resource anthropology, sustainability, climate change, public policy.
Professor Fiske spent the majority of her career in the executive branch (National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), followed by legislative work in the
US Senate on ocean, marine and coastal issues.
Link to MA Survey report:
http://www.aaanet.org/resources/departments/Surveys.cfm.
Dr. Jo Anne Schneider, Research Associate Professor
Director, Faith and Organizations Project
See Dr. Schneider's BIO or CV
Emeritus Faculty
Dr. Michael Agar, Professor
Emeritus
Interests: Anthropology of communication, ethnographic methods,
discourse analysis / theory, language and politics, drug research,
transportation.
Dr. Suheil Bushrui, Professor
Emeritus
Professor Suheil Bushrui is a distinguished author, poet, critic, translator, and media personality who is well known in the United States, the Middle East, India, Africa, and the Arab world. He is an active participant in many international organizations dedicated to the promulgation of peace and conflict resolution. Go here for the George and Lisa Zakhem Kahlil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace Annual Report.
Dr. Nancie Gonzalez,
Professor Emerita
Interests: Social anthropology, urbanization, agricultural development,
complex societies, conflict management, Latin America, Caribbean,
Guatemala, Middle East.
Dr. Fatimah Jackson, Professor Emerita
Interests: experimental bioanthropology, human parasitology, population
genetics, human-plant co-evolution, biohistory of African peoples,
biocultural approaches to disease
Part-Time Faculty and Lecturers
Dr. Mitchell Allen
Publisher, Left Coast Press, Inc.
Dr. Michael D. Buonanno
State College of Florida at Sarasota
Interests: Folklore, mythology, legend, worl literature, epic, narrative theory, cultural studies, ethnicity, identity, anthropology of religion.
Mr. Donald Craib
Interests: Archaeology & Preservation Law.
Dr. Anne W. H. Garland
Interests: Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology
Ms. Marilyn London
Interests: Skeletal biology, growth and development, forensic anthropology,
paleopathology.
Dr. Jacqueline Messing
Associate Prof, University of South Florida
Interests: Linguistic, sociocultural, ethnography, and bilingualism/ multilingualism.
Dr. Matthew Palus
Interests: Historical archaeology, public utilities and infrastructure,
modernization, planning, critical theory, labor history.
Adjunct Professors
Dr. Susan Abbott-Jamieson
(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Interests: Fisheries anthropology and environmental policy, psychological
anthropology, medical anthropology, adolescent behavior, gender,
African development, Appalachia and rural USA.
Dr. Mary Odell Butler
Interests: Applied anthropology, evaluation anthropology, theory and method in anthropological practice, Latin America, cultural ecology, reproductive health,
anthropological demography.
Dr. Thoric Cederstrom
Interests: Development anthropology.
Ms. Cathleen Crain
(LTG Associates)
Interests: Sociocultural anthropology, medical anthropology, community
health and development, health care, Asia, North America.
Dr. Alain Froment
(Curator at the Museum of Man in Paris)
Interests: Epidemiology of tropical diseases and the biology
of human variation.
Dr. John Grayzel
Interests: applied anthropology, international development as a positive process for creating peacefully societies (esp. with agriculture development, resource management, local governance and civil society, institutional development and human capacity building), Africa and Asia.
Dr. Suzanne Huertin-Roberts
(National Institutes of Health)
Dr. Linda Kaljee
Interests: HIV prevention, adolescent health issues, international
health, VietNam
Office telephone : 410-706-0204
Edgardo Krebs
(Smithsonian Institution)
Dr. Barbara J. Little
(National Park Service)
Interests: Public archaeology and public history, historical archaeology,
method and theory, feminist archaeology, North America, other parts
of the British colonial world
Dr. Francis McManamon
(Executive Director, Digital Antiquity, Arizona State University)
Interests: CRM, lithic technology, quantitative analysis, eastern
US, Pacific.
Ms. Magdalena Mieri
(Sr. Fellow, Smithsonian Institution)
Interests: Interpretation, presentation of Latino cultures and
immigrant communities; Latin America.
Ms. Cristina Puentes-Markides
Interests: Sociocultural anthropology, community health and development,
health care, women in developing nations, Latin America, Caribbean,
North America.
Dr. Torben Charles Rick
(Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution)
Dr. Julie Schablitsky
(Maryland State Highway Administration)
Dr. Diego Soares da Silveira
(Kayapo Project, Professor Adjunto do Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia)
Dr. Rebekah Sobel
(Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Interests: Languages, museums.
Dr. Nathaniel Tashima
(LTG Associates)
Interests: Sociocultural anthropology, medical anthropology, psychological
anthropology, community health and development, health care, AIDS,
Asia, North America.
Dr. Robert Winthrop
(U.S. Dept. Interior, Bureau of Land Management)
Interests: ecological anthropology, economic anthropology, social impact
assessment, human/cultural rights, environmental and resource policy,
conflict resolution, applied anthropology.
Dr. Laura C. Zanotti
(Department of Anthropology, Purdue University)
Affiliate Faculty
Dr. A. Lynn Bolles
(Prof., Womens Studies, Univ. of Maryland)
Interests: Economic / sustainable development, gender issues,
women's studies; the Caribbean.
Office telephone : 301-405-6879
Dr. John Caughey
(Prof., Chair American Studies, Univ. of Maryland)
Interests: Life history research, cognitive and psychological
anthropology, culture theory, culture and mental health.
Office telephone : 301-405-1358
Dr. Laurie Frederik Meer
(Asst. Prof in the School of Theatre, Dance, & Performance Studies )
Interests: Cuba, Latin America, African Diaspora, anthropology of performance and performance studies (ritual, theatre, storytelling, spoken word, music, dance), ethnography, cultural politics, nationalism, subversive culture, law and courtroom testimony.
Office telephone: 301-405-6682
Dr. Judith Hanna
(Senior Research Scholar, UMD - Depts. of Dance & Anthropology)
Interests: Anthropology/sociology/theater of dance, arts and society, education, health, gender, movement behavior, nonverbal communication, politics, urban dynamics; Africa and United States
Office telephone: 301-365-5683
Dr. Regina Harrison
(Prof., Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Univ. of Maryland)
Interests: Latin American cultural studies, eco-tourism, colonial
and contemporary literature; the Andes.
Office telephone : 301-405-0497
Dr. Seung-Kyung Kim
(Associate Prof., Women's Studies, Univ. of Maryland)
Interests: Political economy, gender, women and development,
East Asia.
Office telephone : 301-405-7293
Dr. Donald Linebaugh
(Assoc. Prof., Director, Historic Preservation, Univ. of Maryland)
Interests: Historical archaeology, public interpretation.
Office telephone : 301-405-6309
Dr. Carol Robertson
(Prof., Ethnomusicology)
Interests: Ethnomusicology, cognitive anthropology, music.
Office telephone : 301-405-5502
Dr. Katherine Russell
(Honors College Associate Director, University of Maryland)
Interests: Hominoid evolutionary anatomy, bioarchaeology, skeletal biology
Office telephone : 301-405-1220
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