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Ryan Thomas Adams Ryan Adams is a doctoral
candidate in cultural
anthropology at Indiana
University. His primary
areas of research interest
include farmers and
ranchers in the Brazilian
Amazon, economic
anthropology, agricultural
decision-making, food,
ethnography, and the use of
Remote Sensing/Geographic
Information Systems in
anthropology. He
is currently finishing his
dissertation on landowning
elites in the Lower Amazon.
Past projects include an
analysis of El Niño
related drought events, a
study of organic farming in
Bloomington, and two seasons
of coordination of fieldwork
related to research
being conducted at the
Anthropological Center for
Training and Research in
Global Environmental Change
(ACT).
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Jeanette Dickerson-Putman
(Associate
Professor, Adjunct Associate
Professor of Women's Studies):
Dr. Dickerson-Putman's
research examines economic
development, gender and
development, aging, life
course transitions, and
applied anthropology in
Oceania and Western Europe.
She is co-author of The
Aging Experience: Diversity
and Commonality Across
Cultures (Thousand Oaks
1994); Co-editor/editor of
special issues of Urban
Anthropology,
Studies of Cultural Systems
and World Economy,
Journal of Cross-Cultural
Gerontology, and
Pacific Studies;
and
co-editor of Women Among
Women: Anthropological
Perspectives on Female Age
Hierarchies (University
of Illinois Press,1998).
Cavanaugh 434 (phone
274-2995)
(B.A. Eisenhower College
1974; M.A. Arizona State
University 1981; Ph.D. Bryn
Mawr College 1986) |
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Gina Sanchez Gibau
(Associate Professor,
University College Faculty):
Dr. Gibau's academic
interests are in diasporas,
race and ethnicity,
migration, women's studies,
and Cape Verde. Her recent
work examines the dynamics
of Cape Verdean diasporic
identity formation as
occurring in cyberspace.
Concurrent with her research
interests on people of
African ancestry, Dr. Gibau
has contributed to campus
conversations on matters
pertaining to the
recruitment, retention and
graduation of traditionally
underrepresented students.
She currently serves as the
chair of the SLA African and
African American Studies
Committee and is an
executive board member of
the Black Faculty Staff
Council. She has received a
Trustee's Teaching Award,
FACET Award, Joseph T.
Taylor Award for Excellence
in Diversity, a Minority
Faculty Development Grant,
and a Commitment to
Excellence IUPUI-Community
Partners Course Development
Grant.
Cavanaugh 413C, 274-4926
(A.B. Rollins College 1991;
M.A. University of
California, Los Angeles
1993; Ph.D. University of
Texas at Austin 1999) |
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Katherine Christine Glidden
(Lecturer in Anthropology,
Archaeology Lab Director):
Ms. Glidden's research
examines Historical
Archaeology, Bioarchaeology,
Osteology, and
Archaeological and Physical
Anthropology Laboratory
Methods. She directs
the Archaeology Lab.
Cavanaugh 431,
274-8207
(BA, Anthropology, Indiana
University Purdue University
Indianapolis, 2000; MA,
Anthropology, Ball State
University, 2002)
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Susan
Brin Hyatt
(Associate Professor):
Susan Brin Hyatt (Associate
Professor): Dr. Hyatt has
worked extensively on issues
of urban poverty, grassroots
movements and social policy
in both the US and the UK.
After teaching at Temple
University in Philadelphia
for 8 years, Hyatt joined
the Anthropology Department
at IUPUI in January 2005.
Here she is working on a
research project with the
participation of
anthropology students
entitled, "Community
Organizing and Civic
Participation on the Near
Eastside: An
Interdisciplinary Community
Partnership." The research
has received
funding from the Center for
Service and Learning at
IUPUI. Hyatt and
her students are devoting
special attention to the
problems of predatory
lending and housing
foreclosure in Central
Indiana.
Cavanaugh 413D, 278-4548
(B.A. Grinnell College 1976;
M.A. University of Michigan
1980; Ph.D. University of
Massachusetts-Amherst 1996) |
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Elizabeth Kryder-Reid
(Associate Professor,
Director
Museum Studies):
With a background in
Anthropology, Art History,
and Public History, Dr. Kryder-Reid teaches
Introduction to Museum
Studies and Museum Methods,
as well as courses in
archaeology. She directs the
Museum Studies undergraduate
and graduate programs and
supervises the internship
program. Dr. Kryder-Reid
serves on the Eiteljorg
Museum Indian Market Task
Force, the Indianapolis
Museum of Art Oldfields Task
Force, and the Morris Butler
House Advisory Committee.
Her research interests are
in landscape archaeology and
history, and the public
presentation of the past at
historic sites. Her current
work is on the California
Missions and their
landscapes. She is also the
principal investigator of
the
Shaping Outcomes project sponsored by the
Institute of Museum and
Library Services to develop
an on-line course in
outcomes-based planning and
evaluation for museum and
library professionals. Dr. Kryder-Reid will be on
sabbatical January-December,
2008.
Cavanaugh 419, 274-1406
(A.B. Harvard University
1984; M.A. Brown University
1987;Ph.D. Brown University
1991) |
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Dr. Ian S. McIntosh
(Office
of International Affairs):
Dr. McIntosh (shown on left
with the Moi University
Chief Academic Officer) is
Director of International
Partnerships at IUPUI and
Associate Director of the
IUPUI-Sun Yat-Sen University
Confucius Institute. His
research interests include
indigenous rights, with a
focus on Aboriginal
Australia and Armenia, and
the vehicles for 'truth and
reconciliation' including
treaties, peace accords,
apologies, reparations and
apologies. Dr. McIntosh is
the senior editorial advisor
for the
Cultural Survival Quarterly,
the premier scholarly
journal promoting the
rights, voices, and visions,
of the world's indigenous
peoples. He also sits on the
editorial board of the
journal Diaspora,
Indigenous, and Minority
Education, and is an
international editorial
advisor for MAARIFA,
the Moi University (Kenya)
journal of social sciences
and humanities. Visit
Dr. McIntosh's web page
for more information on his
scholarship.
ES 2129, 274-3776
(Bachelor of Applied
Science, Built Environment,
Queensland University of
Technology, 1981; Doctor of
Philosophy, Anthropology,
Charles Darwin University,
1996; Master of Letters in
Aboriginal Studies,
University of New England,
1992; Graduate Diploma in
Intercultural Communication,
Edith Cowan University,
1990; Graduate Diploma in
Education, Charles Darwin
University, 1996) |
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Paul
R. Mullins
(Associate Professor, Chair):
Dr. Mullins' research
examines the relationship
between race and material
culture. He is the author
of Race and Affluence: An
Archaeology of African
America and Consumer Culture
(1999), which received the
2000
John
L. Cotter Award from the
Society for Historical
Archaeology. He directs the
Ransom
Place Archaeology project.
He is also the author of
Glazed America: A History of
the Doughnut (in press).
Cavanaugh 413B, 274-9847
(B.S. James Madison
University 1984; M.A.A.
University of Maryland,
College Park 1990; Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts,
Amherst 1996) |
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Susan
Buck Sutton
(Associate
Dean for International
Affairs, IUPUI;
Chancellor's Professor of
Anthropology; Adjunct
Professor of Women's Studies
IUPUI, and Anthropology
[Bloomington]): Dr.
Sutton examines
International education and
programs; modern Greece; and
migration, settlement, and
the construction of
community in contemporary
life. She is the author of
The Landscape and People
of the Franchthi Region
(1987); Constructed
Meanings: Form and Process
in Greek Architecture
(1995); and A Contingent
Countryside: Settlement,
Economy, and Land Use in the
Southern Argolid Since 1700
(in press). Dr. Sutton is
President-Elect of the
General Anthropology
Division of the American
Anthropological Association,
2004-7.
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(B.A. Byrn Mawr College
1969; M.A. University of
North Carolina 1973; Ph.D.
University of North Carolina
1978)
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Richard E. Ward
(Associate
Dean for Student Affairs,
Professor of Anthropology
and Dentistry, Faculty of
University College): Dr.
Ward's teaching and research
focus on human variation,
growth and development,
human nature and human
adaptability from the
biocultural perspective, and
the study of facial
variation in congenital
syndromes. He has received
the Frederic Bachman Lieber
Award for Outstanding
Teaching and the Glenn W.
Irwin Experience Excellence
Award, and he has been named
the Outstanding Academic
Advisor in Liberal Arts and
received the Outstanding
Liberal Arts Resident
Faculty Award.
Cavanaugh 401, 274-0419
(B.A. University of Northern
Colorado 1972; M.A. 1976,
Ph.D. 1980, University of
Colorado; Medical Genetics
Certificate Indiana
University 1985) |
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Peg
(Marjorie) Williams
(Trustees Lecturer): Ms.
Williams' teaching and
scholarship examine
cultural discourse on the
web,
narratives of childbirth,
gender, Delaware Indians,
Acoma Pueblo, popular
culture, and Lebanon.
For information on her
project at Moi University,
Kenya visit
Global Visits.
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(B.A.,University of
Wisconsin – Stevens Point,
1983; M.A., Indiana
University, 2001) |
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Larry J. Zimmerman
(Professor
of Anthropology, and Museum
Studies;
Public Scholar, Native
American Representation):
Dr. Zimmerman's
scholarship focuses on North
American archaeology, ethics
in anthropology, indigenous
and community archaeology,
Native American issues, and
cultural and intellectual
property. His publications
include A North American
Archaeologist’s Field
Handbook, co-authored
with Claire Smith and
Heather Burke (in press);Native
North American/First
Nations: Myth, Life, and Art
(2003); Ethical Issues in
Archaeology, co-edited
with Karen D. Vitelli and
Julie Hollowell-Zimmer
(2003); and Presenting
the Past (2003). Dr.
Zimmerman is Vice-President
of the World Archaeological
Congress.
Cavanaugh 433, 274-2383
(B.A. (Honors) Anthropology,
University of Iowa 1969;
M.A. Anthropology,
University of Iowa-Iowa City
1971; M. Phil. Anthropology,
University of Kansas 1973;
Ph.D. Anthropology,
University of
Kansas-Lawrence 1976 ). |
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Mark
James Shemanski,
Departmental Secretary:
Mark has been our
Departmental Secretary since
Spring 2005. In addition to
fielding all sorts of
departmental queries, Mark
is also an opera collector
and a tenor at
Broadway United Methodist
Church.
Cavanaugh 410, 274-8207
(BA, Bachelor of General
Studies, Indiana University
1988; UW-Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Music/Theatre 1973-1976) |
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Indianapolis, IN 46202
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