Western Michigan University

Anthropology Department Faculty

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Robert L. Anemone

Office: Moore 1024 / (269) 387-4133
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D. 1988 University of Washington

Research interests: Vertebrate paleontology, primate evolution, functional morphology, primate locomotion, primate & human growth and development

Regional focus: Western North America

Selected publication: Morphometrics, functional anatomy, and the biomechanics of locomotion among tarsiers. IN: Tarsiers: Past, Present, and Future. PC Wright, EL Simons and S Gursky, eds. pp. 97-120, Rutgers University Press, 2003.

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Janet Gardner

Office: Moore 1020 / (269) 387-3979
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
ABD, University of Western Ontario

Research interests: Neandertal and early modern human behavior, trauma and disease, biomedical imaging of archaeological materials

Regional focus: Central and Western Europe

Selected publication: The paleopathology of the Krapina Neandertals. Periodicum Biologorum, 108: 471-484 (2006)

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Office: Moore 1025 / (269) 387-3974
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D. 2003 Boston University

Research interests: Prehistoric economies and technology, rise of social complexity, craft specialization, organization of production, household studies

Regional focus: Near East

Selected publication: Organization of Flint Sickle Blade Production at an Early Bronze Age Workshop in Anatolia. IN: Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology VI. P.B. Vandiver, M. Goodway, J.R. Druzik, and J.L. Mass, eds. Materials Research Society Symposia Proceedings 712:185-191 (2002).

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Office: Moore 1012 / (269) 387-4150
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies
Ph.D. 2001 The Johns Hopkins University

Research interests: Political economy, feminist theory, transnationalism, environmentalism

Regional focus: Mexico

Selected publication: The environmental divide: Neoliberal incommensurability at the US-Mexico border. Urban Anthropology, 30: 157-188, 2001.

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Research interests: Food, commodities and consumption, history and memory, globalization and transnational migration

Regional focus: East Africa, US

Selected publication: In a cup of tea: Commodities and history among Samuru pastoralists in northern Kenya. American Ethnologist, 30:136-155, 2003.

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Office: Moore 1022 / (269) 387-3964
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Graduate Advisor
Ph.D. 1998 University of Massachusetts

Research interests: Inequality and resistance, political economy, homelessness, poststructuralism

Regional focus: United States

Selected publication: Medicalizing homelessness: the production of self-blame and self-governing within homeless shelters. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 14:1-18, 2000.

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Office: Moore 1013 / (269) 387-3983
Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D. 1991 Syracuse University

Research interests: Medical anthropology, gender and family, transnational migration

Regional focus: Ecuador

Selected publication: From Cuenca to Queens: An Anthropological Story of Transnational Migration. University of Texas Press, 2004.

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Office: Moore 1014 / (269) 387-3981
Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D. 1992 University of Massachusetts

Research interests: Ethnohistory, social archaeology, material analysis, political economy

Regional focus: Eastern North America

Selected publication: Interpretations of Native North American Life: Material Contributions to Ethnohistory. University Press of Florida and the Society for Historical Archaeology. (co-editor with Eric S. Johnson), 2000.

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Office: Moore 1021 / (269) 387-4140
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D. 1998 Yale University
On Sabattical 2007-2008

Research interests: Gender and the body, sport and leisure, identity

Regional focus: Japan

Selected publication: Working Out in Japan: Shaping the Female Body in Tokyo Fitness Clubs. Duke University Press, 2003.

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Research interests: Consciousness, historical consciousness. gender, narrative, material culture

Regional focus: Africa and U.S.

Selected publication: From Samburu heirlooms to New Age artifact: The cross cultural consumption of Mporo marriage beads. American Anthropologist 104: 7-21, 2002.

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Office: Moore 1005 / (269) 387-2753
Professor of Anthropology and Chair
Ph.D. 1979 New School for Social Research

Research interests: Anthropology of Europe, social and cultural theory, political economy, ethnohistory, globalization, nationalism, wine growing, commodities, France, Germany.

Regional focus: France

Selected publication: Understanding Cultures: Perspectives in Anthropology and Social Theory. 2nd edition, Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

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Office: Moore 1016 / (269) 387-0408
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D. 2003 University of Pennsylvania

Research interests: Language and culture, religion, ritual, semiotics, discourse analysis, race and
nation, language ideologies, historical consciousness, religious community

Regional focus: Cuba, Caribbean, Latin America, African diaspora

Selected publication: Santería in Cuban national consciousness: A religious case of the ‘doble
moral’. Journal of Latin American Anthropology 9: 409-438, 2004.

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Office: Moore 1023 / (269) 387-3978
Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D. 1978 Freie Universität, West Berlin

Research interests: Social inequality, ethnohistory, political economy, computer-based applications in archaeology

Regional focus: South Asia

Selected publication: Tradition, Community, and Nilgiri Rock Art. IN: Material Symbols: Culture and Economy in Prehistory. J.E. Robb, ed. Carbondale, Center for Archaeological Investigations, 1999.

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