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Dr. Jean Hudson, an archaeologist on the anthropology faculty at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, will be giving a talk Tuesday afternoon at 4:00 pm, 18 January, in HSSB 2001A. The title and abstract of her talk are as follows: "An Ethnoarchaeological Look at Peruvian Reed Boats." Reed boats are simple, yet sturdy watercraft, well-suited to family-level subsistence and independence. Perhaps it is this self-sufficiency that contributes to their continued use in the 21st century. The same qualities of autonomy raise some interesting questions for their role in political dynamics of prehistoric fishing societies, such as the Chumash of California and various cultures of Peru's north coast. Ethnoarchaeological work with modern Peruvian fishermen provides some insights into--and raises some questions about--both the practical aspects of reed boat fishing, and the social and political independence they provide.
| By Admin on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - 04:32 pm: |
Congratulations to Wanapa Veeraprasit, Anthropology Graduate Assistant, and Jennifer May Bosso, Anthropology Financial Assistant, as $500 Award Recipients of the 2004-05 Dilling Yang Staff Scholarship Awards Program. This scholarship will be used towards their continuing education goals.
| By Dennis on Friday, December 03, 2004 - 09:57 am: |
Associate Professor Shankar Aswani is the recipient of a $400,000 Global Conservation Fund Grant from Conservation International?s Global Conservation Fund (GCF) for a project entitled "Creating and Consolidating a Marine Protected Area Network in the Western Solomon Islands." (2004-2006). Launched in 2001, the GCF finances the creation, expansion, and long-term management of protected areas in the world?s biodiversity hotspots, high-biodiversity wilderness areas, and important marine regions.
| By Admin on Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 10:57 am: |
Lambda Alpha, the Undergraduate Honors Society here in the department, has been very busy organizing this year's many student activities. Click here to learn more about our very impressive group of undergraduates!
| By Admin on Monday, November 08, 2004 - 11:36 am: |
Michael Gurven, assistant professor in the department, has just been announced as the recipient of the 2004-2005 Harold J. Plous Award.
Michael is the second Anthropology faculty member to receive this distinguished award?Mary Hancock was named the Plous Award recipient for 1999-2000.
| By Admin on Tuesday, October 12, 2004 - 10:26 am: |
The department's Anthropology of Technology Prize for 2004 has been awarded to Jim Cassidy, Ph.D. student and Anastasia Panagakos, recent Ph.D.
The first award went to Jim for his paper, ?Boats, Bones, and Biface Bias: the Early Holocene Mariners of Eel Point, San Clemente Island, California,? coauthored with L. Mark Raab and Nina A. Kononenko and published in 2004 in American Antiquity, vol. 69. (This paper grew out of Jim?s ?data? paper for doctoral candidacy.)
The second award went to Anastasia for her paper ?Downloading New Identities: Ethnicity, Technology, and media in the Global Greek Village,? published in 2003 in Identities, Global Studies in Culture and Power, vol. 10. (This paper grew out of Anastasia?s doctoral dissertation research.)
| By Dennis on Tuesday, September 28, 2004 - 04:03 pm: |
The Department welcomes Visiting Associate Professor Magdalena Barros and five students: Norma Condeso, Alfonso Cruz, Anabella Cruz, Daniel Diaz, Manuel Hernández, and Yuribi Ibarra. The students are participating in the Interinstitutional Program for Academic Collaboration and Exchange in Anthropology which is a special program with a focus on migration studies. This program is in collaboration with the UCSB Department of Anthropology, UC MEXUS, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropolgia Social (CIESAS) and Mexico?s National Council on Science and Technology (CONACYT). It prepares students for fieldwork to be undertaken in Winter 2005 in the California Central Valley under the supervision of UCSB Professor Juan-Vicente Palerm and Visiting Associate Professor Magdalena Barros. The program covers development of student research proposals and various approaches to data gathering and data recording procedures, including the use of genealogies and life histories, situational analysis, networks, interviewing techniques, and professional ethics (human subjects protection and informed consent).
| By Admin on Friday, September 24, 2004 - 11:33 am: |
The Department of Anthropology proudly announces the appointment of Anthropology Professor Emerita Barbara Voorhies as the 2004-2005 recipient of the UCSB Dickson Emeriti Professorship.
The gift endowment was established in 1955 by Edward A. Dickson in part to support and maintain special annual professorships to be awarded to retired faculty members. Mr. Dickson served as a Regent of the University from 1913 to 1946, the longest tenure of any Regent. His vision is credited with helping to make the Los Angeles campus a reality.
Professor Emerita Voorhies is an archaeologist whose education includes a B.S. in Geology from Tufts University (1961) and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale (1969). Her professional interest is the archaeology of Mesoamerica with an emphasis on early prehistoric peoples living in tropical lowland environments. She initially joined the UCSB faculty in 1970 as a Visiting Assistant Professor and became an Assistant Professor the following year.
Since retiring in July 1994, Professor Emerita Voorhies continues to be active in field research, mentors graduate students and teaches when the opportunity arises. As well as publishing numerous articles, she has recently completed two books, both of which are currently in press: Postclassic Soconusco Society: The Late Prehistory of Coastal Chiapas, Mexico, which is coauthored with Janine Gasco (Ph.D., UCSB, 1987) and Coastal Collectors of the Holocene: The Chantuto People of Southwest Mexico.
Professor Emerita Voorhies was enthusiastically nominated by the Department of Anthropology because of her intensive involvement in research upon retirement and her continual participation in departmental affairs. She plans to use her award to conduct an ethnoarchaeological study of modern day clam procurement and processing at a field site in Costa Rica.
| By Dennis on Monday, June 07, 2004 - 10:35 am: |
Sociocultural anthropologist Mary Hancock is one of 23 distinguished scholars named fellows of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. As a resident fellow, Hancock will spend the next academic year at the center for advanced study where she plans to complete a book, "Remembered Futures, Everyday Histories: Politics, Culture and the Past in Urban South India." For more details see the UCSB press release at http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/release/Display.aspx?PKey=1145.
| By Dennis on Monday, May 10, 2004 - 10:47 am: |
The speaker for the 3:00 pm, Thursday, May 13, 2004, UCSB QMSS (Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences ) Colloquium is UCSB Dept. of Anthropology Professor Michael Gurven. The title of his talk is "Human Behavioral Ecology: Methods, Models, and Examples." Place: UCSB North Hall Rm 2208 (ISBER Conference Room). All are welcome to attend. Abstract: Human behavioral ecology (HBE) refers to the study of adaptive design in ecological context. It attempts to explain how ecological and social factors affect behavioral variation both within and across cultures, employing evolutionary principles and methods. For its framework, theoretical foundation, and methodology, it borrows heavily from evolutionary biology, animal behavior, micro-economics, demography, human ecology, and decision theory. I will first briefly summarize the assumptions, history, methods, and limitations of the discipline (linking HBE to its overlapping complement Evolutionary Psychology). I will then illustrate the way HBE has been applied to several key problems, using examples from my own research. I address three questions which highlight three different research methods: A) Why do individuals give valuable resources away to other individuals? B) How can we understand cross-cultural differences in other-regarding social preferences? C) What shapes individual decisions about the allocation of time to different activities across the lifespan?
| By Dennis on Monday, May 10, 2004 - 10:36 am: |
The Mexican Graduate Student Association at UCSB (MGSA-UCSB) invites you to the following lecture by UCSB Dept. of Anthropology Visiting Associate Professor Dr. Magdalena Villarreal: "REINVENTING THE FUTURE FOR WOMEN-SUBJECT-TO DEVELOPMENT." Development is about engineering the future but our conceptions of the future are crucial in forging the present. The lecture will address commonly used scripts concerning Mexican rural women's future, highlighting processes of control, regulation and power that are often involved. Dr. Villarreal's lecture will be at 5:00 p.m., on Thursday, May 13, 2004, at the UCSB Multicultural Center Meeting Room; refreshments will be served.
| By Dennis on Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 08:58 am: |
4:00 PM, Friday, May 7, 2004, North Hall 1006, UCSB. You are invited to the Third Annual UCSB/Worldwatch Institute Event, ?Farming in the Public Interest: Why We Should All Care About Sustainable Agriculture.? Keynote Presentation by: Brian Halweil, Senior Researcher, Worldwatch Institute. Discussants: Richard Sanford, Sanford Winery; Chris Flavin, President, Worldwatch Institute; David Cleveland, UCSB Professor, Environmental Studies Program and Department of Anthropology; Robert Wilkinson, UCSB Lecturer, Environmental Studies Program and Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. Sponsored by the Worldwatch Institute, UCSB Environmental Studies Program, UCSB Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, Community Environmental Council, and Fairview Gardens Farms. There is no charge for this event.
| By Dennis on Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 08:48 am: |
The First Prize Winner of the UCSB Emeriti Association's Undergraduate Research Competition went to our Katheryne M. Young with "Encounters with the Woven World: Textiles and Life ways in Chiapas" under the supervision of our Visiting Associate Professor Magdalena Villarreal. The award was made on Saturday April 17, 2004, at a lunch served at the UCSB Faculty Club.
| By Admin on Tuesday, April 06, 2004 - 03:37 pm: |
The inaugural California Undergraduate Anthropology Conference entitled "The Future of Anthropology" will be held here at UCSB on May 15-16, 2004 For more information go to http://www.cuac.us
| By Dennis on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - 10:17 am: |
The department welcomes Juliet Bedford, a doctoral student in social anthropology at Oxford, as a Visiting Researcher in the UCSB Department of Anthropology March 29?April 26, 2004. Ms. Bedford?s research focuses on the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia and examines the influence of biomedicine on their indigenous healing traditions, with specific reference to the status of women in society and issues concerning their choices of childbirth method and location. Professor Francesca Bray is her faculty sponsor.
| By Dennis on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 02:25 pm: |
Professor Stuart Tyson Smith will be appearing on the History Channel in a program about artifacts and archaeological site looting. The two-hour program is titled "Tomb Raiders: Robbing the Dead" and is scheduled to air in the United States on Monday, Feb. 16 at 9 pm ET/PT. It will repeat two hours later, repeating on Tuesday Feb. 17 at 1 am.
| By Admin on Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 11:27 am: |
The UCSB Department of Anthropology invites submissions by graduate students in the department for its Anthropology of Technology prize for 2002-2004. For details go to http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/AnthTechPrize/
| By Dennis on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 03:20 pm: |
Talk and book signing: Professor Emeritus Brian Fagan will discuss his latest book "The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization," from 3:30-5:00 pm, on Wednesday, January 21, at UCSB in the McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020). Co-Sponsored by the IHC and the University Bookstore. Everyone is invited.
| By Dennis on Thursday, October 30, 2003 - 09:06 am: |
The Complex Societies Interest Group conference will be held at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA on November 7-8, 2003. Professor Katharina J. Schreiber will be one of the speakers presenting "Inca Infrastructure: Construction and Maintenance," 10:30 - 11:00 am, Saturday, Novemember 8. For the complete program and registration materials, please check the web site: http://www.ioa.ucla.edu/complex/index.html.
| By Dennis on Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 01:36 pm: |
We are pleased to announce the appointment to our faculty, effective July 1, 2003, of Dr. Steven J. C. Gaulin. Dr. Gaulin received his PhD from Harvard University in 1978, and his last appointment was as professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. As a member of our department's biosocial wing, he will enhance the program in evolutionary psychology and will do much to maintain its prominence. Dr. Gaulin is co-author with D. H. McBurney of the groundbreaking and widely-used textbook Psychology: An Evolutionary Approach (a second edition will be titled Evolutionary Psychology). His research concerns the evolution of behavioral adaptations, particularly with respect to sexual differences, and it draws upon evolutionary theory, behavioral ecology, and psychology. He has carried out fieldwork in the US, Panama, and Colombia.
| By Dennis on Tuesday, May 27, 2003 - 10:44 am: |
Professor Aswani (with IGPMS student Carla Gunther) has been awarded a 2003 UCSB Academic Senate Grant for a project entitled "Pre-historic Human Impact on the Marine Environment in Anaho Valley, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia." [$4,000].
| By Dennis on Thursday, May 01, 2003 - 09:08 am: |
Jonathan Hass, MacArthur Curator of the Americas from the Field Museum in Chicago, will be here Friday, May 2, to give a talk on his exciting research in Peru. The talk will be from 1-2 PM in 2001a HSSB. Talk title: "The Emergence of an Andean Civilization: The Norte Chico Preceramic." Abstract: The 3rd millennium B.C. witnessed a florescence of cultural development on the Peruvian coast. The Proyecto Arqueológico Norte Chico (PANC) is investigating the emergence and development of a complex regional system in the adjoining valleys of Huaura, Supe, Pativilca and Fortaleza--an area known locally as the "Norte Chico." Within this area, more than 20 major urban/ceremonial centers have been identified, all built and occupied between 3000 and 2200 B.C. These sites all contain large scale monumental architecture, ceremonial structures, and extended areas of residential architecture. The first season of PANC tested seven of these centers in the Pativilca Valley along with two preceramic cemeteries to obtain information on dating, diet, and monument construction.
| By Dennis on Friday, March 21, 2003 - 02:29 pm: |
"Egyptomania in Film: The Good, The Bad, and the Ridiculous," 7:30 PM, Monday, April 7, 2003, Fleischman Auditorium, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol Rd., Santa Barbara. Join Dr. Stuart Tyson Smith, Associate Professor of Anthropology at UCSB, as he examines the good, bad, and simply ridiculous ways Hollywood has represented ancient Egypt, spicing his talk with anecdotes from his participation as Egyptological Consultant on "Stargate," "The Mummy," and "The Mummy Returns." Dr. Smith will chronicle the ups and downs of ancient Egypt in film citing from early silent flicks, Biblical epics, and the latest special effect spectaculars. Co-sponsored with the Santa Barbara County Archaeological Society. Admission is free.The SBMNH is near the SB Mission in the Mission Canyon area.
Directions to the SBMNH: From the North: Take U.S. Hwy 101 south to the Mission St. exit. Turn left (towards the hills) at the offramp stop light.
From the South: Take U.S. Hwy 101 north to the Mission St. exit. Turn right (towards the hills) at the offramp stop light. Proceed on Mission St. to Santa Barbara St. Turn left on Santa Barbara St., proceed two blocks to the first stop sign at Los Olivos. Turn right on Los Olivos St., stay to the left at the "Y"--you will cross a stone bridge. Turn left at the second street after the bridge; this is Las Encinas Rd. Turn left at the stop sign (Puesta del Sol Rd.) and proceed to the first parking lot driveway and turn right.
| By Dennis on Thursday, February 27, 2003 - 04:07 pm: |
Professor Mark Aldenderfer is the recipient of $24,961 from the National Science
Foundation, for "High Risk Exploratory Research: Confirming an Upper Paleolithic Occupation of the Central Tibetan Plateau." It will be administered through UCSB's Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research. (November 2002).
| By Admin on Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - 04:25 pm: |
Professor Shankar Aswani is recipient of a $411,109 grant from the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for a project entitled "Human Dimensions to Marine Resource Utilization in the Solomon Islands: Fostering Pacific Island Student Participation in Research and Educational Activities." According to NSF the "CAREER Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards for new faculty members. The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century." For more information, click on http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/aswani/Career.htm.
| By Dennis on Friday, January 24, 2003 - 04:48 pm: |
Professor Michael Gurven is the recipient of $72,088 from the University of New Mexico for the project entitled "Growth, Development, Aging, and Sociality Among the Tsimane of Bolivia." It will be administered through UCSB's Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research (September 2002).
| By Dennis on Friday, January 24, 2003 - 04:36 pm: |
Professor Mark Aldenderfer is the recipient of $6,090 from the UC Digital Media Innovation Program, for "In-Field Digital Methods for the Recording of Archaeological Excavation: a Conference." It will be administered through UCSB's Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research. (October 2002).
| By Dennis on Friday, January 24, 2003 - 04:31 pm: |
Professor Susan Stonich and graduate student Pam Weiant and are the recipients of $38,101 from the UC Pacific Rim Research Project for "The Role of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in Providing Livelihoods and Food Security in Coastal Communities of the Pacific Rim Region." It will be administered through UCSB's Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research (October 2002).
| By Dennis on Friday, January 17, 2003 - 10:11 am: |
One of the pioneers of Korean Paleolithic Studies invites you to the world of Korean Paleolithic Archaeology. Visiting Professor Yung-jo Lee is a Professor at Chungbuk National University in Korea and is Chairman of the Korean Paleolithic Society. His first talk January 22nd is on "The Turubong Cave Site: A Korean Zhukoutien Site of the Lower Paleolithic." His second talk January 29th is on "The Suyanggae Man: A Magnificent Tool-Maker and Explorer 18,000 years ago." His third talk February 5th is on "The Oldest Sorori Rice 15,000 BP: Its Findings and Significance." All lectures are on Wednesday at 5:00 PM in 1021 HSSB.
| By Dennis on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 03:35 pm: |
As part of the Culture Analysis Colloquia Series co-sponsored by the Dept of Anthropology, Carol Delaney, Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Stanford University, will talk on "Abraham On Trial: A Feminist Critique of Interpretations of Abraham's Sacrifice," from 12:00 - 2:00 pm, Wednesday, 22 January 2003,in the McCune Conference Room, IHC, 6th Floor, Humanities and Social Sciences Building.
| By Dennis on Monday, January 06, 2003 - 11:16 am: |
Dr. Gillian Wallace, of the University of Durham, England, will be giving a talk in our department on WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, AT 1 PM in HSSB 2001A. It should interest anyone interested in montane archaeology and/or European prehistory. Her title is: "Inter-disciplinary approaches and interpretative implications of montane research: The Tyrol Project."
| By Dennis on Monday, January 06, 2003 - 11:13 am: |
TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 3:30 PM, ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CONFERENCE ROOM, GIRVETZ, UCSB. "Indigenous knowledge, conservation and conflict regarding the Saimaa Ringed Seal in Finland: The visibility of the invisible,"
a talk by Gillian Wallace (Ph.D. Science-Based Archaeology, U. of Cambridge), Department of Anthropology, University of Durham, and International Management of European Wetlands Project (co-authors: Sandra Bell, Kate Hampshire and Mika Tonder). The EC-funded IMEW project carries out research to learn what sorts of policies local stakeholders living within biologically diverse areas would support. Currently, most policies governing these reserves are based on ecological models which do not integrate the views of local inhabitants. This often leads to conflicts between conservation principles and indigenous livelihoods. IMEW's team of social scientists are co-ordinating interdisciplinary research across Europe in internationally recognised wetland conservation areas in Finland, Greece, Lithuania and Romania.
| By Dennis on Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 01:30 pm: |
Graduate student Nina Brown and Professor Francesca Bray are the recipients of $19,973 from the UC Institute for Labor and Employment for "An Ethnographic Investigation of International Migration in the Irish Information Technology Industry." It will be administered through UCSB's Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research (ISBER).
| By Dennis on Monday, October 28, 2002 - 01:19 pm: |
Dr. Michael Glassow will be a guest speaker at a Distinguished Speakers Program at California State University Long Beach (CSULB) on Wednesday October 30th. His talk, "Prehistory and Mystery on Santa Cruz Island," will be held from 2:00-3:30 in Student Union Room 306 at CSULB, 1250 Bellflower Boulevard, Long Beach, CA 90840-1003. Anyone interested is invited to his presentation. UCSB Grad student Sachiko Sakai reports that you will also be able to meet four CSULB archaeologists (three of them are from UCSB, Dr. Dan Larson, Dr. Hector Neff, and Dr. Jelmer Eerkens). Dr. Neff and Sakai will give a short tour of the ICP-MS lab (chemical compositional analysis of archaeological materials). For further information please contact Sakai.
| By Dennis on Friday, October 25, 2002 - 09:47 am: |
As part of Tibet week, Professor Mark Aldenderfer will be giving a talk on "The Archaelology of Tibet" at 7PM, Friday, October 25, in the Girvetz Theater at UCSB.
| By Dennis on Friday, October 11, 2002 - 10:23 am: |
The Dept of Religious Studies and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center present a talk by Professor Mayfair Yang, "Goddess Across the Taiwan Straits: Matrifocal Ritual Space, Nation-State, and Satellite Television Footprints," 3:00 pm, Thursday, Oct 17, 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg.
| By Dennis on Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 04:58 pm: |
Brian Fagan will read from and talk about his work in the College of Creative Studies Literature Symposium tomorrow, Wed., Oct. 2nd, at 4:00 p.m. in the Old Little Theatre at the College of Creative Studies Bldg.
| By Dennis on Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 06:05 pm: |
All UCSB Dept of Anthropology grad students, faculty, visitors, and your families--please join us at the Dept's annual Picnic at the Beach from 4PM 'til dusk on Friday, October 4th. Everyone is welcome especially new graduate students and Dept visitors! The place: Goleta Beach Park Area B (take Sandspit Exit from Ward Blvd-Hwy 217). Sign up on the Dept mailroom bulletin board to bring a side dish to share. BYO meat and drinks. The Department will provide the coals for the barbecue, as well as table service and the standard condiments. We will also give our official best wishes to our former grad program assistant, Julie Velarde, who retired last year. If you don't want to miss your chance to visit with Julie try to be there at the beginning of the picnic. See you there and don't forget to wear your Anthropology t-shirt!
| By Dennis on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 11:15 am: |
The following faculty and visitors are recipients of UCSB research awards:
Professor Mary Hancock and visiting researcher Nadine Wanono are the recipients of a UCSB Office of Research 2001-2002 $5,000 Research Across Disciplines award for "Digital Dcience, Art, and Culture."
Professor Mark Aldenderfer is the recipient of a $4,510 02-03 Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant for the project entitled, "Three Dimensional Visualization of Ancient Maya Caves."
Professor Francesca Bray is the recipient of a $6,300 02-03 Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant for the project entitled, "Tourism and the New Technologies: UNESCO Heritage Sites and The Internet."
Professor Michael Gurven is the recipient of a $10,000 02-03 Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant for the project entitled, "Growth, Development, Aging, and Sociality Among the Tsimane of Bolivia."
Professor Michael Jochim is the recipient of a $4,356 02-03 Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant for the project entitled, "Archaeological Survey of Saulgau-West, Germany."
Professor Stuart Tyson Smith is the recipient of a $7,250 02-03 Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant for the project entitled, "Askut Fort: Empire and Interaction on Ancient Egypt's Southern Frontier."
Professor John Tooby is the recipient of a $3,460 02-03 Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant for the project entitled, "Triggers of Us vs Them Perception: Racial Awareness as Coalitional Categorization."
Professor Mayfair Yang is the recipient of a $5,180 02-03 Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant for the project entitled, "Mapping Rural Wenzhou's Sacred Sites."
| By Dennis on Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 02:59 pm: |
Professor Shankar Aswani is the co-recipient of a $22,000 grant from the National Geographic Society for a project entitled "Human Palaeoecology in the Marqueses Isands, French Polynesia." Aswani is one of three co-PIs for the project along with Dr. Melinda Allen and Dr. John Flenley. The grant period is 12/1/02-11/1/2003. Professor Aswani (with graduate student Nadia Talhouk) is also the recipient of a Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant of $5,919 for the project entitled "Assessing Environmental Success or Failure of Sea-Tenure Regime in the Solomon Islands."
| By Dennis on Wednesday, August 21, 2002 - 02:11 pm: |
The Department welcomes Dr. Srivathsan, a Fulbright Visiting Scholar from Anna University in Chennai, India, where he is a professor of architecture. Professor Mary Hancock, with whom he has collaborated in India, is his faculty sponsor for his Fulbright visit at UCSB. Dr. Srivathsan will conduct a study of south Indian temple construction in the U.S., entitled "Building the Hindu Temple in America: Authenticity, Identity, Architecture." His research will focus on the ways that south Indian architectural knowledge is transferred to and deployed in the U.S., with special consideration of Non-Resident Indians concerns with the reproduction of authenticity in the realms of ethnic, linguistic, and sectarian identity. Dr. Srivathsan will be here from mid-August through mid-April 2003. His office is in HSSB 2075; his department telephone number is (805) 893-2672.
| By Dennis on Friday, August 02, 2002 - 01:55 pm: |
UCSB Summer Sessions 2002 Session II runs August 5-September 13 and includes AN 121, AN 130B, AN 133, AN 143F and AN 165. (Session I ran June 24-August 2 and included AN 2, AN 3SS, AN 5, AN 103, AN 134, AN 142, AN 143, and AN 164.)
| By Dennis on Friday, August 02, 2002 - 01:52 pm: |
Professor Mark Aldenderfer is the recipient of $8,000 from the H. John Heinz III Charitable Trust, for "Excavations at a Ceremonial Locus at Jiskairumoko, a Late Archaic - Early Formative Site in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru." It will be administered through UCSB's Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research.
| By Dennis on Friday, August 02, 2002 - 11:55 am: |
Dr. Christina Conlee, former Department of Anthropology Faculty Fellow, and Professor Katharina J. Schreiber, are the recipients of $8,000 from the H. John Heinz III Charitable Trust, for "Intra -Site Variability and Social Differentiation at the Late Prehispanic Center of La Tiza, Nasca, Peru." It will be administered through UCSB's Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research.
| By Dennis on Friday, August 02, 2002 - 11:20 am: |
Professor Michael Jochim is the recipient of an NSF Grant of $14,868 for "High Risk Exploratory Research: Hunter-Gatherers of the Southern French Alps." The grant will be administered through UCSB's Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research.
| By Dennis on Wednesday, July 03, 2002 - 11:50 am: |
Graduate student Nina Brown has been awarded a year's Dissertation Fellowship for 2002-03 by the UC Institute for Labor and Employment, to write up her current research on international employment in the Dublin high-tech industry.
| By Dennis on Friday, June 28, 2002 - 10:32 am: |
Professor Katharina J. Schreiber is quoted several times in an article entitled "Empires Across the Andes" in the June 2002 issue of National Geographic magazine.
| By Dennis on Friday, May 31, 2002 - 01:22 pm: |
Todd Sanders, Visiting Asst Professor, UCSB, and Research Fellow at the Gender Institute & Dept of Anthropology, LSE, will present "Selling Human Skins: the IMF, World Bank, & the Occult in Neoliberal Tanzania," at 4:00 pm, Thursday, June 6, in HSSB 2001A.
| By Dennis on Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 08:50 am: |
Professor Brian Fagan presents on "Younger Dryas, Los Ninos, the Little Ice Age, and Cariaco: An Archaeologist Looks at the Cultural Impacts of Short Term Climate Change" as part of a Department of Geography Colloquium, 3:30-5:00 pm, Thursday, May 23, Engineering I, Rm 1104.
| By Dennis on Monday, May 13, 2002 - 09:59 am: |
The Dept is offering a Pro-seminar Spring Quarter 2002. The pro-seminar is organized around the theme of "The Anthropology of Knowledge and Practice". The speakers' public presentations are scheduled on Thursday afternoons at 4:00pm in HSSB 1173. Each speaker will also lead a roundtable discussion on the Friday following the talk, from 3:00pm-4:50pm*(EXCEPT for Dr. Nader) in HSSB 2001A. Copies of papers for these roundtable discussions will be made available in advance. Detailed information on speakers and topics is available at http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/discus/html/messages/3/3.html?1018289791.
| By Dennis on Monday, May 13, 2002 - 09:57 am: |
Graduation Tea on the Patio--Graduating Anthropology B.A., M.A., & PhD. Students, friends, family, and faculty are cordially invited to the department's pre-commencement ceremony held on the 2nd floor outdoor patio of the Humanities & Social Sciences Building from 1:30 to 3:00 pm, on Saturday, June 15. Anthropology awards will be presented at 2:00 pm.
| By Dennis on Friday, May 03, 2002 - 09:17 am: |
Professor Leda Cosmides presents a lecture and discussion "Can Race be Erased? People's Perceptions of Coalitions and Race" 6:30 pm, Thursday, May 9, UCSB Multicultural Center Theater. Professor Cosmides is in the UCSB Psychology Dept and she holds an Affiliated Faculty position in the Anthropology Dept. She is Co-Director of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology.
| By Dennis on Monday, April 29, 2002 - 10:51 am: |
The Center for Middle East Studies presents a lecture by Esra Ozyurek on "Minaturizing Ataturk: Secularism, Islamism & Comodification of State Iconography in Turkey," at 3:00 pm, Wednesday, May 1, in HSSB 2001A.
| By Dennis on Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 01:22 pm: |
Chief Makungula (Tione Mwera), of Zomba District, Malawi, will speak on "The Challenge of Democracy in Southern Africa: A Chief's Perspective," from 3:30-4:30 pm, Friday, April 26, in HSSB 1021. Malawian Chief Makungula (a.k.a. Tione Mwera) is a renowned musical performer and painter who has worked for years to preserve disappearing artistic traditions in southern Africa. Chief Makungula has used his art and his position as a traditional leader to work for the revival of African democratic traditions in a region that has suffered from more than a century of autocratic misrule. In his first visit to the United States, he will speak on the prospects for a revitalization of democracy in Malawi and southern Africa.
| By Dennis on Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 11:10 am: |
Professor Phillip L. Walker and graduate student Christina Torres-Rouff are recipients of an NSF Grant of $7,172 for "Doctoral Dissertation Research: Cranial Vault Modification in the Pre-Columbian Andes." It will be administered through UCSB's Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research.
Professor Mary Hancock will be presenting "Subjects of Heritage in Urban South India" as part of UCSB's Department of History Spring 2002 Brown Bag Series on Race Ethnicity, and Nationhood, held at 12:00 pm, Monday, April 29, in HSSB 4020.
| By Dennis on Thursday, January 31, 2002 - 03:22 pm: |
The "Evolution, Mind and Behavior Conference," a joint UCLA-UCSB conference held by UCSB's Evolution, Mind, and Behavior Program (EMB) and UCLA's Human Nature and Society Program (HNAS), is scheduled for Saturday, February 2, 2002, at the UCSB University Center, Flying A Studio. Professor Don Symons will talk at 3:30 PM. At present, the coordinators for the EMB Program and the intercampus UCSB-UCLA EMB/HNAS initiative are Professors John Tooby and Leda Cosmides. Detailed information about the conference is at http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/febwebpage.htm.
| By Dennis on Thursday, January 24, 2002 - 11:15 am: |
At 7:00 PM, Thursday, February 28, 2002, in the McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020), the Department is presenting the Albert and Charlotte Spaulding Memorial Lecture "Symbols of Power in Early Civilizations: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" by Professor Bruce G. Trigger from McGill University. Trigger is McGill University's James McGill Professor in recognition of his distinguished scholarship. For more than three decades he has produced a series of thoughtful, sometimes provocative, and always valuable articles and books on the history of archaeology. Trigger has made a significant contributioon to the critical consideration of the nature and importance of archaeology. He also remains interested in the prehistory of the eastern woodlands of Canada and especially of the Iroquoian-speaking peoples. Trigger recently co-edited the North America volume of the definitive Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas.
| By Dennis on Friday, January 11, 2002 - 08:38 am: |
Professor A. F. (Sandy) Robertson will discuss and sign copies of his new book "Greed: Gut Feelings, Growth, and History" at 4:00 PM, Wednesday, January 30, 2002, in the McCune Conference Room of UCSB's Humanities and Social Science Building. For more information go to http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/robertsa/.
| By Dennis on Friday, January 11, 2002 - 08:34 am: |
UCSB's Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management presents "The Politics of Genetically Modified Foods: an Anthropological Perspective," a lecture by Professor Francesca Bray at 2:00 PM, Friday, January 11, 2002, in the University Center Harbor Room.
| By Dennis on Thursday, January 10, 2002 - 04:02 pm: |
Assistant Professor Michael Gurven was awarded a UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research Junior Faculty Research Incentive Award of $5,000 on December 2001.
| By Admin on Friday, November 09, 2001 - 11:22 am: |
The 2001 Anthropology of Technology Prize has been awarded to Robert Fletcher for his paper "What are we fighting for? Rethinking resistance in a Pewenche community in Chile," and Justin Jennings and Nathan Craig for their paper "Polity wide analysis and imperial political economy: the relationship between valley political complexity and administrative centers in the Wari empire of the Central Andes." For more information about the Award and the prize-winners please go to http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/sociocultural/A_of_T_PRIZE.html
| By Admin on Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 11:32 am: |
Professor Mary Hancock was named a faculty fellow of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center for her work on a project entitled, "Local Pasts in a Global City." She is completing a book on new public representations of and debates on local/regional history in urban south India, with particular attention to ways memory and historical consciousness affect the negotiation of citizenship, class and ethnicity in postcolonial India. Professor Hancock also received a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad grant and a Humanistic Social Science Research award from UCSB's Institute for Social, Behavioral and Economic Research for her work on this project.
Professors Mary Hancock and Susan Koshy (Asian American Studies) have initiated a Research Focus Group on Transnational Cultural Studies. The group is sponsored by UCSB's Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the Institute for Social, Behavioral and Economic Research.
Professor Mary Hancock has been named Reviews Editor for The Public Historian, a peer-reviewed journal of the public history profession.
| By Admin on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 09:12 pm: |
Dr. Francesca Bray and graduate student Nina Brown are recipients of an NSF Grant of $11,006 from 1/1/02-12/31/02 for "SDEST: Doctoral Research: An Ethnographic Investigation of International Migration in the Irish Information Technology Industry."
Dr. Shankar Aswani is the recipient of a three-year grant of $297,225 from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation for the establishment of community-based marine protected areas and no-take zones in the Solomon Islands. The grant will end 6/30/04.
Dr. Shankar Aswani is the recipient of a UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research Faculty General Research Grant of $7,653. Dr. Aswani will be working with graduate student Mat Lauer.
Dr. Michael D. Gurven accepted the Department's tenure-track biocultural anthropologist Assistant Professor position advertised in Fall 2000; his appointment was effective July 1, 2001. Dr. Gurven received his PhD from the University of New Mexico in November 2000 and his last position was Adjunct Assistant Professor at that institution. He has conducted field research among the Ache and the Tsimane of lowland South America, and his dissertation offers a comparative evaluation of models of foodsharing and cooperation in small-scale societies. His work is both theoretically and analytically sophisticated, and draws broadly and critically on the theories of behavioral ecology. He has active plans to develop research on several key issues in behavioral ecology, including exploring how kinship, friendship and emotional bonds give structure to the social partnerships that influence reciprocity. His current research interests are human behavioral ecology, cooperation, hunter-gatherers, signaling theory, and conservation.
Dr. Shankar Aswani is the recipient of a $5,000 UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research Junior Faculty Research Incentive Award.
Two of the Department's faculty persons are recipients of the UCSB Office of Research 2001-2002 Research Across Disciplines' awards. Dr. Michael Glassow for "Archaeology and Soil Sciences on Santa Cruz Island" with Oliver Chadwick from the Geography department, and Dr. Stuart Tyson Smith for "Laser Mass Spectrometry of Archeological Artifacts" with M. de Vries from the Chemistry and Biochemistry department.
Dr. Stuart Tyson Smith is the recipient of a UCSB ISBER award for "Egypt's New Kingdom Empire and the Rise of the Nubian Napatan State: Imperial Strategies and the Dynamics of Culture Contact at Tombos and Hannek."
Dr. Michael Glassow is the recipient of a research grant from the Executive Committee for the Pacific Rim Research Program for "Ecological Adaptation of Indigenous Peoples to the Marine Coastal Zone of the North Pacific Rim."
Dr. Michael Glassow is the recipient of a UCSB ISBER award for "Ecological Adaptation of Early Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the Santa Barbara Channel."
Dr. Mark Aldenderfer has been appointed Director of the UCSB Office of Information Technology effective January 3, 2001.
Dr. Shankar Aswani received funding from the University Research Expeditions Program for his project on Marine Resource Management in the Solomon Islands. The UREP grant allowed 16 students to participate in 2-week-long expeditions during the Summer of 2001. More information is available on Dr. Aswani's web site.
Dr. Susan Stonich's newest book: Endangered Peoples of Latin America: Struggles to Survive and Thrive has been published by Greenwood Press.
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