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Melissa Baird
Adjunct Instructor & Courtesy Research Associate
Areas of Interest: Dr. Baird’s research has spanned the globe, but her focus is rooted in cultural heritage. She is a broadly trained anthropologist with experience along the full cultural heritage continuum. Her teaching and research responds to some of the most urgent concerns among anthropologists over the political and social implications of the practices of heritage by examining the nature and use of institutional and expert knowledge. Her work is grounded in extensive research experiences as an anthropologist, archaeologist, ethnographer, international cultural heritage expert for UNESCOs International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), and as a Post-Doctoral Scholar for the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH). She is the newest Post-Doctoral IPinCh Associate—an international research group that works to facilitate fair and equitable exchanges of knowledge and protection of intellectual property relating to anthropology and archaeology. In December 2009, she completed her dissertation research, funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Oregon Humanities Center, The Politics of Place: Heritage, Identity and the Epistemologies of Cultural Landscapes. Her ethnographic and archival project examined heritage experts at UNESCO and ICOMOS and analyzed two UNESCO cultural landscapes: Tongariro National Park, New Zealand and Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia. She asked: How is knowledge about indigenous groups (i.e., traditional owners) produced and evaluated by heritage experts within international cultural heritage discourses, policies and practices? How do designations affect identities and indigenous claims to traditional homelands, resources, and subsistence and resource management practices? This work was directly informed by her teaching in Ethnic Studies, especially using a comparative and interdisciplinary framework to examine the intersections of race and ethnicity to power, inequality, and indigeneity. Dr. Baird is working on new avenues that have emerged from this work and continues her analysis of international cultural heritage and cultural landscapes, especially the intersections of cultural and intangible heritages. This work will take her back to the UNESCO archives in Paris and to New Zealand to investigate the archival materials related to land claims and heritage in the Waitangi Tribunal Archives. The archives include ‘traditional’ and ‘historical’ tribal narratives as well as Máori songs, testimonies, tribal histories, stories and other materials. She is working with an acquiring editor to transform her dissertation into a book.
Office Location: Condon 268
Office Phone: (541) 346-5019
E-mail: mbaird@uoregon.edu
Kelly Cannon-Miller
Courtesy Research Associate
E-mail: Kelly@deschuteshistory.org
Melanie Chang
Adjunct Instructor & Courtesy Research Associate
Education: B.A., University of Pennsylvania (1994); Ph.D. Physical Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania (2005); Ph.D. Ecology/Evolutionary Biology, University of Pennsylvania (2005)
Areas of Interest: Dr. Chang is a physical anthropologist and evolutionary biologist with primary interests in systematics, and the identification of biological groups in the human fossil record and modern populations. Dr. Chang’s research has focused on the systematics of Middle Pleistocene Homo, the application of phylogenetic methods, and the role of the scientific method in interpretations of the Paleolithic fossil and archaeological record. Dr. Chang also maintains interests in molecular anthropology and the domestication of the dog, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the genetics of complex behavior at UCSF in 2008, investigating the genetic basis of noise phobia and population substructure between and within dog breeds. She has participated in archaeological fieldwork in France and Morocco, spanning the Lower, Middle, and Upper Paleolithic, and has been part of the Druze Marsh Archaeological Project since 2009.
E-mail: melaniec@uoregon.edu
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/canissoloensis/
Stephen Dueppen
Postdoctoral Fellow/ACLS New Faculty Fellow
Education: B.A., University of California-San Diego (1999); M.A., University of Michigan (2004); Ph.D., University of Michigan (2008)
Areas of Interest: Dr. Dueppen is spending two years (2010-2012) in the Department of Anthropology as an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) New Faculty Fellow. Dr. Dueppen studies the origins and development of complex non-centralized political systems in West Africa. His research, currently centered around the Iron Age archaeological site of Kirikongo in western Burkina Faso, addresses the development and rejection of social ranking, concepts of power in egalitarian societies, and collective action against elites. His research has been funded by amongst others, the National Science Foundation, Smithsonian Institution, ACLS (Mellon Foundation), and National Geographic Society. He has a variety of articles published and in press on Kirikongo and other research projects, and his book “Egalitarian Revolution in the Savanna: The Origins of a West African Political System” will be published in March 2012 by Equinox Press.
Curriculum Vitae
Office Location: Condon 252
E-mail: dueppen@uoregon.edu
Website: http://pages.uoregon.edu/anthro/people/faculty/affiliated-faculty/stephen-a-dueppen-research/
Daphne Gallagher
Adjunct Instructor & Courtesy Research Associate
Education: B.A., Rice University (1999); M.A., University of Michigan (2004); Ph.D., University of Michigan (2010)
Areas of Interest: Dr. Gallagher studies the relationship between socio-economic systems and agricultural practices over the past two millennia in West Africa. In particular, her archaeological research addresses colonial and post-colonial narratives on traditional agriculture through the study of long-term trajectories of land use and settlement patterns. In addition to directing a regional survey near the Gobnangou escarpment in southeastern Burkina Faso, Dr. Gallagher addresses these topics through collaboration as a paleoethnobotanist on projects throughout the West African savanna/sahel (Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso and Nubia).
Curriculum Vitae
Office Location: Condon 374
Email: daphne@uoregon.edu
Darcy Hannibal
Adjunct Instructor & Courtesy Research Associate
Areas of Interest: Dr. Hannibal is broadly trained in behavior and ecology, with research interests in primatology as a comparative framework for understanding human evolution. Her research interests within primatology focus on behavioral and morphological adaptations associated with dietary strategies. Her dissertation research investigated the relationships between feeding competition, access to food resources, cheek pouch use and female reproductive success among the rhesus macaques of Cayo Santiago. Dr. Hannibal is currently collaborating with Dr. White on a metadata project investigating group size trends among primates. They are also planning a project on female affiliation and feeding competition among Japanese macaques.
E-mail: dlhannnibal@ucdavis.edu
Amy Harper
Courtesy Research Associate
Amy Harper teaches in Bend. Her research interests are multicultural Europe, Muslim Europe, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality.
Eric Jones
Courtesy Research Associate
Areas of Interest: Environmental anthropology, political ecology theory, and contemporary gathering. Presently, he is a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Culture and Ecology in Portland, OR.
Felicia Madimenos
Adjunct Instructor
Education: B.A., New York University (2002); M.A., Louisiana State University (2005); Ph.D., University of Oregon (2011)
Areas of Interest:Felicia Madimenos is an adjunct instructor at the University of Oregon. Her research applies a biocultural approach and life history theory to examine the biological and behavioral strategies females and males adopt to satisfy the high costs of reproduction. Specifically her research focuses on how reproductive ecology shapes skeletal health and activity patterns. Other research interests include examining the effects of subsistence strategy transitions on human health and disease in both living and skeletal populations. Since 2007, she has conducted fieldwork in Amazonian Ecuador and currently, serves as project manager on the Shuar Health and Life History Project.
Office Location: Condon 316
E-mail: fmadimen@uoregon.edu
Website: http://www.bonesandbehavior.org/madimenos.html
Nick Malone
Courtesy Research Associate
Education: B.A., University of Colorado (1997); M.S., Central Washington University (2001); Ph.D., University of Oregon (2007)
Areas of Interest: Hominoid evolution; nonhuman primate biology and socioecology; conservation; ecological communities; human relationships to nonhuman animals and the environment; Hylobatidae; Javan gibbons (Hylobates moloch); West Java, Indonesia; pygmy chimpanzees or bonobos (Pan paniscus); Democratic Republic of Congo.
E-mail: nmalone@uoregon.edu
Website: http://pages.uoregon.edu/nwpcs/Nicholas%20Malone.html
Heather McClure
Courtesy Research Associate
Areas of Interest: Heather McClure is a Research Associate with the Oregon Social Learning Center’s Latino Research Team (LRT) and with the Anthropology Department at the University of Oregon (courtesy appointment). She received her doctorate from Northwestern University in 1999. For more than a decade she has been involved with community-based and policy research focused on health, human rights, and social networks in Guatemala and within Latino communities in the U.S. Her current work with the LRT focuses on behavioral, emotional, and physical health outcomes for Latino parents and youth in Oregon in two longitudinal studies (Charles Martinez, PI). Dr. McClure also investigates links among processes of adjustment to life in the U.S., discrimination, gender, and health, and she has led the team’s work to integrate stress biomarkers (e.g., cortisol and immunological markers), and anthropometric (e.g., height, weight) and health measures (e.g., blood pressure, glucose, cholesterol) into LRT research studies.
E-mail: HeatherM@oslc.org
Website: http://pages.uoregon.edu/anthro/mcclure/
Marcela Mendoza
Adjunct Instructor & Courtesy Research Associate
Areas of Interest: Marcela Mendoza is a sociocultural anthropologist with expertise on hunter-gatherer societies of the South American Gran Chaco, and also Mexican immigration in the United States. Her book on Mexicanos in Oregon, co-authored with Erlinda Gonzales-Berry was published by Oregon State University Press in 2010. She serves as Executive Director of Centro LatinoAmericano in Eugene, Oregon.
E-mail: mmendoza@uoregon.edu, mmendoza@centrolatinoamericano.org
Anne Mertl Millhollen
Courtesy Research Associate
Education: B.A. and M.A.T., University of Chicago; Ph.D. University of Oregon
Areas of Interest: Anne Millhollen studied ringtailed lemur visual and olfactory communication as a graduate student at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. After discovering that lemurs could discriminate between the scents from different individuals, she went to Berenty Reserve, Madagascar, as a Duke University post-doctoral student. Anne found that both the ringtailed lemur and sifaka troops in Berenty’s rich gallery forest used scent marks to demarcate territorial boundaries. That research evolved into continuing studies about how food resources influence ringtailed lemur ranging, territorial behavior and population, how lemur foraging behavior affects the health of the forest, and how this interaction may determine the survival of gallery forest ecosystems in the south of Madagascar.
E-mail: hplam_1998@yahoo.com
Greg Nelson
Adjunct Instructor & Courtesy Research Associate
Education: B.A., UC Berkeley (1981); M.A., University of Montana (1989); Ph.D., University of Oregon (1998)
Areas of Interest: Dr. Nelson is an adjunct/courtesy assistant professor at UO. Greg C. Nelson studies dental anthropology, skeletal biology, and bioarchaeology. Currently his research centers on prehistoric skeletal series from New Mexico and Palau. The New Mexico research involves material from the Pueblo III Gallina phase dating from 1100 to 1275 AD. Currently excavating the site of Cañada Simon I (with Tony Largaespada) his research focuses on questions surrounding Gallina origins and fate as well as their adaptation to fluctuating environments. Chelechol ra Orrak in the Republic of Palau is a cemetery site dating to approximately 3000 BP, one of the earliest in Oceania. Collaborating with Scott Fitzpatrick of North Carolina State University the research focuses on trying to determine the affinities of the earliest inhabitants of the archipelago and their relationship to other early peoples of Oceania. Other areas of major interest are paleoanthropology, evolutionary biology, and evolutionary theory.
Office Phone: (541) 206-7633
E-mail: gcnelson@uoregon.edu
Robert Pastor
Adjunct Instructor & Courtesy Research Associate
Education: B.S., Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University (1973); M.S., University of Oregon (1984); Ph.D., University of Oregon (1993)
Dr. Pastor currently holds an appointment as a Courtesy Research Associate in Anthropology. He conducts research in skeletal biology and helps teach human anatomy labs.
Academic Background: In 8 ½ years (1998-2006) at the University of Bradford (UK), Dr. Pastor held the post of Lecturer in Biological and Forensic Anthropology at the Department of Archaeological Sciences. From 1993 to 1995, he held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Physical Anthropology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Pastor has more than nine years experience in the field of forensic anthropology and an additional eight years of experience in osteology. Between 1995 and 1998, he worked for the United States Army Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILHI) on archaeological search and recovery, and the anthropological analysis, identification and repatriation of remains of military personnel from past conflicts in Southeast Asia, China, the Pacific and other international locations. Dr. Pastor has also worked for the United Nations (UN-ICTY) as a forensic anthropologist in Kosovo (2000), and routinely consulted for medico-legal agencies, pathologists, and police departments in the United Kingdom and occasionally abroad. He was one of two Specialty Assessors in forensic anthropology for the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners (CRFP), and founding and council member for the British Association for Human Identification (BAHID). While in the UK, Dr. Pastor also held an appointment (2003-2006) on the Panel of Examiners for the Diploma in Forensic Human Identification, with The Society of Apothecaries of London.
Research Interests: Dr. Pastor’s research interests in biological anthropology extend to the biocultural interface between nutritional anthropology and dental anthropology, especially to the application of dental microwear analyses to the reconstruction of prehistoric diets, with a focus on South Asian (Pakistani and India) and New World cemetery sites. His forensic anthropology research interests include: the development of new methods of morphometric and histological age estimation and sex determination; dental morphology and population variation; histological methods for distinguishing human and non-human fragmentary bone; antemortem and perimortem skeletal trauma in contemporary and archaeological populations; and taphonomy and preservation of the skeleton and soft tissue. He was awarded a Research Grant in 2003 from the British Academy to collect metric data on vertebral sexual dimorphism from several international documented skeletal collections. In addition, Dr. Pastor has been awarded a research grant from the University of Bradford Research Fund, and several Overseas Conference Travel Grants from The British Academy and The Royal Society.
Curriculum Vitae
E-mail: rfpastor@uoregon.edu
Moshe Rapaport
Courtesy Research Associate
E-mail: rapaport@uoregon.edu
Michelle Scalise Sugiyama
Courtesy Research Associate
Areas of Interest: Dr. Scalise Sugiyama received her PhD from UC Santa Barbara, where she combined literary study with training at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology. Her work examines narrative as behavior; she is particularly interested in why and when humans began telling and listening to stories. To this end, her work examines the oral traditions of small-scale societies against the exigencies of hunter-gatherer life. She has published numerous articles on the origin, function, and design of narrative, in both literary (e.g., Philosophy and Literature, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies Mosaic and social science (Human Nature, Evolution and Human Behavior) journals. Currently affiliated with the Institute for Cognitive and Decision Sciences and the Anthropology Department at the University of Oregon, Eugene, she teaches classes on the prehistory of narrative and art behavior.
E-mail: mscalise@uoregon.edu
Website: http://pages.uoregon.edu/mscalise/index.html
Ann Simonds
Courtesy Research Associate
Education: Ph.D., UC Berkeley (1964)
Areas of Interest: Ann Simonds is currently working on the professional correspondence of Franz Boas for two projects: one on the development of his understanding of the social organization of the Kwakiutl, and the other on Boas’ 1895 work on myth and cultural interrelationships on the Northwest Coast.
Joan Wozniak
Courtesy Research Associate
Areas of Interest: Dr. Wozniak earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Oregon Department of Anthropology. Her dissertation, based on an archaeological survey and series of excavations, discussed the environmental changes that resulted from the colonization of Easter Island by Polynesian peoples. She conducted a geoarchaeological study of agricultural soils— with a special interest in the structural and chemical characteristics of soils and the microfossils contained within the archaeological sediments. She continues to research the general subsistence practices on Rapanui—food production and foraging. She also is involved in research on Micronesian and Western Pacific ceramics, a continuation of her MA interests.
E-mail: joanw@uoregon.edu