FACULTY
Katherine E. Browne - WEB SITE
BA, MA, Ph D - Southern Methodist University
Kate.Browne@ColoState.Edu
PHONE: 970-491-5813
OFFCIE: Clark B204
SUBFIELD: Cultural Anthropology
RESEARCH: New Orleans, French Caribbean, economics, morality, race, gender, sense of place, bureaucracy
CLASSES: social theory, research methods, cultural linguistics, globalization, and New Orleans and the Caribbean.
Dr. Katherine Browne is professor of anthropology. Her research has been inspired by an effort to understand how economic life, moral frameworks, and social identities intersect, particularly in situations of cultural stress and change. These concerns have animated all of Dr. Browne’s major research projects, books, and films. Her most recent research has shifted her longtime work in the French Caribbean to New Orleans, drawn by the area’s remarkable cultural vitality, its uniquely Latin Caribbean history and social environment, and by a desire to contribute to the understanding of the human impacts of the Katrina tragedy. Browne’s study of an African American kin network of 155 people who evacuated together, and her two-year collaboration with Emmy-winning filmmaker Ginny Martin, resulted in Still Waiting: Life After Katrina, a one-hour documentary that aired on PBS in 2007 in more than 300 US cities. Since the film, Browne has continued working with the large, African American family featured in the film to understand the shifting difficulties and opportunities that are part of the legacy of Katrina. She is working on a book manuscript about her findings.
Browne’s concern with economics and morality is also mapped out in her new book, edited with Lynne Milgram, Economics and Morality: Anthropological Approaches (2009). Similar concerns as well as her interest in race, class, and gender-based identities animate the heart of her earlier book, Creole Economics: Caribbean Cunning Under the French Flag (2004), published by University of Texas Press and used in classrooms. Browne’s newest film explores Afro-Creole women entrepreneurs in Martinique: Lifting the Weight of History(to be released in English in August 2009) was broadcast in its original French language (Au Tournant de l’Histoire) nationally on French TV, and internationally on TV5, the francophone satellite channel in 2008.
Chris Fisher - WEB SITE
Ph D - Wisconsin - Madison
Chris.Fisher@colostate.edu
PHONE: 970-491-1866
OFFCIE: Clark B224
SUBFIELD: Archaeology
CLASSES: Introduction to Prehistory; Archaeology of Mesoamerica; Demography and Settlement
Dr. Fisher’s research is focused on unraveling the complex relationship that links humans to their past and present environments. This focus of anthropological archaeology is often called landscape archaeology or human ecodynamics. In the past decade attention drawn to global warming has created an immediacy to modern environmental problems, many of which have antecedents and parallels in the deep past. Ancient societies faced many of the same environmental problems we are confronting today and constructed both successful and disastrous responses. By studying this record of landscape change, which can be reconstructed through both earth-science and archaeological techniques, Prehistory can inform modern-based conceptions of land degradation, sustainability, development, and human and natural ecological change. Dr. Fisher has active research projects in two areas of Mesoamerica including the Malpaso Valley, Zacatecas, and the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Michoacán. He has published articles in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Antiquity, and the American Anthropologist, chapters in several books, and is the co-editor of a recent volume on archaeological approaches to intensification.
Kathleen A. Galvin
BA, MA - Colorado State University
Ph D - SUNY - Binghamton
Kathleen.Galvin@ColoState.Edu
PHONE: 970-491-5784
OFFCIE: Clark B219C
SUBFIELD: Cultural and Biological Anthropology
RESEARCH: Africa, U.S. Great Plains; human ecology, human dimensions of global change, conservation and development, pastoralism, diet and nutrition
CLASSES: Human Ecology, Cultural Change, Humans in Ecosystems, Anthropology and Development
Dr. Galvin is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory. She is also an Advising Faculty member for the Department of Sociology and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at CSU. Trained as a biological anthropologist she has conducted interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa for the past 20 years. She is interested in issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of these populations. Her current research explores looking at the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem. She is also looking at the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Finally, she is currently leading a group to investigate household decision-making under uncertainty across sites around the world with NSF funding. Dr. Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group to assess Research Needs and Modes of Support for the Human Dimensions of Global Change. She was also a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. More information about her research can be found at http://www.nrel.ColoState.Edu/people/kathy.html
Michelle M. Glantz
B.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Mica.Glantz@ColoState.Edu
PHONE: 970-491-7540
OFFCIE: Clark B227
SUBFIELD: Biological Anthropology
RESEARCH: Human evolution, the prehistory of Israel and Central Asia, Neandertal morphology and evolutionary history, dental anthropology, evolutionary theory
CLASSES: Human Origins and Variation; Human Evolution; Advanced Human Evolution; Evolution of the Human Adaptation; the Evolution of Primate Behavior; Methods of Analysis in Paleoanthropology.
Dr. Glantz’s research and teaching focus on the origins of modern humans with an emphasis on deciphering the relationship of the Neandertals to modern human evolutionary history. Broadly, her research is interested in the dialectic between culture and biology and its impact on hominan morphology. In this regard, she has examined aspects of the craniofacial skeleton and dentition in order to determine the degree to which they reflect the evolution of subsistence strategies. She has been a member of Paleolithic excavations in France and Israel and is presently conducting fieldwork in Uzbekistan, and other neighboring Central Asian republics, with the goal of further documenting hominan colonization of these areas. She has authored articles in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Antiquity, and the Geographical Review.
Lynn Kwiatkowski
BA - Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
MA, PhD - Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Lynn.Kwiatkowski@ColoState.Edu
PHONE: 970-491-0282
OFFCIE: Clark B232
SUBFIELD: Cultural Anthropology
RESEARCH: Southeast Asia, medical, international health and development, hunger, gender, political and interpersonal violence
CLASSES: Medical Anthropology, Southeast Asian Cultures and Societies, Gender and Anthropology, Women and Health
Dr. Kwiatkowski’s research and teaching interests include medical anthropology, international health and development, gender, political and interpersonal violence, hunger, Southeast Asia and the U.S. Her current research in Vietnam and among Vietnamese Americans focuses on understanding historical and contemporary cultural interpretations of wife battering, its emotional and physical health consequences, and the cultural and social forces that influence this form of violence in local communities. Her research also involves analyzing responses to the violence at a number of different levels, including individual, family, state, and international. Kwiatkowski has also conducted research in the Philippines, which examined ways that hunger is influenced by gender inequality, international women in development programs, international and local health programs, religious proselytization, political violence, and the state. She is the author of Struggling with Development: The Politics of Hunger and Gender in the Philippines. She has also published journal articles in Research in Economic Anthropology, Urban Anthropology, and Cultural Survival Quarterly; and contributed chapters in edited volumes and the Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender.
Jason M. LaBelle
B.A.: Colorado State University
M.A., Ph.D.: Southern Methodist University
Jason.LaBelle@ColoState.Edu
PHONE: 970-491-7360
OFFCIE: Clark B203
SUBFIELD: Archaeology
RESEARCH: Environmental and Landscape Archaeology, Peopling of the Americas, Contact Era, Foragers, Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, Lithic Technology, Public Archaeology
CLASSES: Introduction to World Prehistory, North American Archaeology, Great Plains Archaeology, Lithic Technology, Archaeology and the Public, Pleistocene Peopling of North America
Dr. LaBelle is an archaeologist interested in Native American foragers inhabiting the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of North America, with research spanning several periods over the last 12,000 years. His current work involves landscape level survey and testing of prehistoric and protohistoric sites surrounding the Lindenmeier Folsom site, a National Historic Landmark. This project will serve as home to the CSU Archaeology Summer Field School beginning in 2009. His research interests include grassland/foothills/mountain ecology, playa lakes, hunter-gatherer site structure, hearth cooking technology, lithic technology, and the history of archaeology. Past fieldwork has taken him across the Plains of Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Montana, New Mexico, Texas, and Wyoming. In addition to teaching and research, he is also the Director of the Laboratory of Public Archaeology (LOPA), which houses archaeological collections and associated data from academic and contract projects located within the Platte and Colorado River Basins. Dr. LaBelle is currently President of the Colorado Archaeological Society (1000+ members) and has actively worked with avocational archaeologists throughout the Plains in documenting their collections. He has published articles in American Antiquity, Archaeometry, Current Research in the Pleistocene, Geoarchaeology, Plains Anthropologist, in addition to book chapters and technical reports in the academic and contract realms.
Stephen J. Leisz
BA – Georgetown University
MSc – University of Wisconsin – Madison
Ph.D. – University of Copenhagen
Steve.Leisz@colostate.edu
PHONE: 970-491-3960
OFFCIE: Clark B202
SUBFIELD: Geography Anthropology
RESEARCH: Human dimensions of land use / land cover change in Southeast Asia and Africa; GIS and remote sensing tools for investigating land use / land cover changes; Land tenure, natural resource tenure, and land use/cover changes in Southeast Asia and Madagascar; Potential impacts of climate change on biodiversity, farming systems, and human societies in Melanesia and Southeast Asia.
CLASSES: Introduction to Geography; Cultural Geography; Introduction to GIS; Geospatial Applications and Tools for the Social Sciences
Since 1993 Dr. Leisz’s research has focused on the human dimensions of land use / land cover changes in parts of Africa and Southeast Asia and on the use of spatial information tools (GIS, remote sensing, and GPS) to better understand the complexities of these changes. During this time he has carried out fieldwork investigating the trajectories of land use/cover changes in parts of northern Vietnam, Laos, and on the Islands of Flores and Sumba in Indonesia, and on the interplay of land and natural resource tenure systems and land use/cover in Madagascar. Growing out his interest in land use/cover changes, in 2007 he started to investigate the potential impacts of climate changes on biodiversity and human societies in Melanesia, with the intent of expanding this investigation to include parts of Southeast Asia. He has published articles in Regional Environmental Change, Agricultural Systems, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Mountain Research and Development, and Danish Journal of Geography, in addition to book chapters and technical reports.
Ann L. Magennis
BA - Michigan State University
MA - University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Ph D - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Ann.Magennis@ColoState.Edu
PHONE: 970-491-5966
OFFCIE: Clark B201
SUBFIELD: Biological Anthropology
RESEARCH: Human adaptability; skeletal biology; bioarchaeology; Africa Mesoamerica
CLASSES: Human Origins and Variation; Human Osteology; Human Biological Variation; Bioanthropology of Human Populations; Contemporary Issues in Biological Anthropology; Anthropology and International Health
Dr. Magennis’ teaching and research interests include human adaptation to disease and nutrition, human skeletal biology, bioarchaeology, and global health. Her current research involves the late 19th Century Colorado Insane Asylum, focusing on the skeletal remains as well as relevant historical documents. She has also carried out fieldwork in North America, Morocco, Belize, and Tanzania. She has published a monograph, The Indian Neck Ossuary, is co-author of a book, Black Mesa Anasazi Health: Reconstructing Life from Patterns of Death and Disease, has published articles in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Northeast Anthropology, and Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Growth and Development, and chapters in books.
Kathleen A. Pickering- CHAIR
BA - College of William and Mary
JD - New York University School of Law
MA, Ph D - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kathleen.Pickering@ColoState.Edu
PHONE: 970-491-5962
OFFCIE: Clark B217
SUBFIELD: Cultural Anthropology
RESEARCH: North American Indians; political economy; economic development; economic anthropology; globalization; indigenous knowledge; legal anthropology; Lakota culture and history
CLASSES: Cultures and the Global System; Indians of North America; Indians Today; Development in Indian Country; Comparative Legal Systems; Economic Anthropology
Dr. Pickering’s research interests focus on political economy and the effects of globalization, the socially embedded nature of the economy, and the role of local institutions in the construction of the world-system, both currently and throughout history. Her research on the Pine Ridge, Cheyenne River and Rosebud Indian Reservations in South Dakota involves issues of economic development, time allocation, social network analysis, native entrepreneurship, access to credit, and welfare reform. She worked as a legal services attorney in Pine Ridge and is interested in comparative legal systems, alternative dispute resolution, and the economic effects of legal structures. She has published three books, Lakota Culture, World Economy, and Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty. Dr. Pickering also has published work in American Anthropologist, Rural Sociology, Journal of Economic Issues, Research in Human Capital and Development, Human Ecology and American Indian Culture and Research Journal. She is the President of the High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology, and the Associate Director of Educational Programs for the School for Global Environmental Sustainability.
Jason S. Sibold
BA, MA, Ph D - University of Colorado
jason.sibold@colostate.edu
PHONE: 970-491-4801
OFFCIE: Clark B226
SUBFIELD: Geography
RESEARCH: Biogeography; disturbance ecology; fire history; human land use; climate variability and change; conservation; forest ecosystems of the American West and southern South America
CLASSES: Introduction to Geography, Cultural Geography, Geographic Information Science
Dr. Sibold is a geographer with research focused on elucidating the natural and anthropogenic drivers of forest ecosystem dynamics and change, with the goal of aiding forest ecosystem management, restoration and conservation. More specifically, he is interested in the influences of physical landscapes, biological characteristics, climate variability, and human land-use history on spatiotemporal patterns of fire and insect outbreaks and resulting forest landscape characteristics. His research is centered in the temperate forest ecosystems of the western U.S., and south-central Chile and spans spatial scales from forest stands and landscapes to mountain ranges and regions, and temporal scales from interannual to multimillennial. In his research he uses a combination of dendroecological (tree ring), Geographic Information System (GIS), and spatial analysis techniques. Current research projects include fire-insect interactions in the Colorado Rockies, fire history in the Great Basin, and fire history and regeneration in the Valdivian temperate rainforests of Chile. Dr. Sibold’s research has been published in Ecological Applications, Journal of Biogeography, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, and Landscape Ecology.
Jeffrey G. Snodgrass
BS - Vanderbilt University
MA, Ph D - University of California-San Diego
Jeffrey.Snodgrass@ColoState.Edu
PHONE: 970-491-5894
OFFCIE: Clark B219A
SUBFIELD: Cultural Anthropology
RESEARCH: Medical and psychological anthropology; Cognitive science; Culture and subjective well-being; Psychosocial stress and health disparities; Environment and health; Cross-cultural psychiatry and mind-body medicine; New media and virtual communities; Narrative; Religion and morality; Indigenous knowledge; Subaltern identity in India; Qualitative and quantitative research methods
CLASSES:Undergraduate: ANTH 100: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; ANTH 322: Religion, Culture, and Mind; ANTH 334: Narrative Traditions & Social Experience; ANTH 441: Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology; ANTH 444: Cultures of Virtual Worlds: Research Methods; ANTH 445: Psychological Anthropology; Graduate: ANTH 545: Culture and Mental Health; ANTH 643: Advanced Ethnographic Field Preparation
Presently, I build integrative and interdisciplinary theoretical models – based on original research conducted with mixed qualitative and quantitative methods – related to the psychocultural dimensions of stress and mind-body health and healing. This expresses itself in two current projects. First, I am investigating the addictive and therapeutic dimensions of World of Warcraft – a “massively multiuser online role-playing game” (MMORPG) and internet community. I am most interested to understand how this online environment facilitates altered “dissociative” experiences, which, by promoting or relieving stress, are linked to both positive and negative health outcomes. My research has begun with primarily U.S. gamers with plans to extend the project to France and India. Second, I am working to understand how loss of access to forest spaces and resources – for example, through deforestation and displacement from a newly established wildlife preserve in central India – impact indigenous peoples’ health and systems of healing. I am especially interested to clarify how the ethnopsychiatric and potentially stress-relieving dimensions of indigenous therapies – for example, the healing power of spiritual states of consciousness – continue to function in these compromised environments. I hope work on both of these projects will contribute anthropological perspectives on psychocultural stress and the so-called “placebo” and “nocebo” effects.
My recent research on indigenous peoples and the environment appears in journals such as American Anthropologist and Human Dimensions of Wildlife; I also co-edited the March 2008 issue of the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (Special issue: Indigenous Nature Reverence and Environmental Degradation: Exploring Critical Intersections of Animism and Conservation). I have a published a book with Oxford University Press (2006): Casting Kings: Bards and Indian Modernity. Past research also appears in journals such as American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Culture and Religion, Ethnos, and several issues of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society (JRAI, erstwhile Man). I have received grants from the American Institute of Indian Studies, the National Endowment of the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Killam Foundation, and the National Geographic Society.
I am especially interested to take in graduate students ready to employ mixed qualitative-quantitative methods to understand questions at the intersection of the social and cognitive sciences, and especially how culture-specific virtual and natural spaces impact human mental health and well-being.
Do you play World of Warcraft? If yes, take Dr. Snodgrass's well-being survey now (or pass the survey link on to your player friends)! This link will direct you to the survey: http://wowsurvey.chaostar.org/
Mary Van Buren
BA - University of Oregon
MA, Ph D - University of Arizona
Mary.VanBuren@ColoState.Edu
PHONE: 970-491-3781
OFFCIE: Clark B219B
SUBFIELD: Archaeology
RESEARCH: Andean South America; prehistoric and historic archaeology, complex societies, Spanish colonialism
CLASSES: Introduction to Prehistory, Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Historical Archaeology, History of Anthropological Theory
Dr. Van Buren’s research focuses on the development of empires and the relationship between expansive states and the societies conquered by them, with a particular focus on Inka and Spanish imperialism in the Andes. She has conducted fieldwork in Peru and Bolivia, and currently is investigating the social and technological organization of Inka and Spanish colonial silver mining at a complex of sites in southern Bolivia with the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Van Buren has published work in American Anthropologist, Historical Archaeology, Latin American Antiquity, and the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, as well as contributed chapters in edited volumes, Domestic Architecture, Ethnicity, and Complementarity in the South-Central Andes and Approaches to the Historical Archaeology of Mexico, Central and South America. She is also co-editor of the book Order, Legitimacy, and Wealth in Ancient States.