This has been a banner year for the faculty in the Department of Anthropology at SMU. In September of 2002 the Dean of Dedman College announced that Professor David Meltzer was being named to the Henderson-Morrison Chair in Prehistory, a chair previously held by Professor Fred Wendorf. At the same time the Provost of the University announced that Professor David Freidel had been named as a University Distinguished Professor by the Provost of the University. In the spring of 2003 the University announced that Professor Emeritus Fred Wendorf would be receiving an honorary degree at the May graduation ceremonies. In connection with that event the Department sponsored (with the help of several co-sponsors) a symposium honoring Professor Wendorf that focused on the "The Origins and Dispersal of Modern Humans." John Yellen (Archaeology Program, NSF), Alison Brooks (George Washington University), and Ofer Bar-Yosef (Harvard University) came to Dallas to participate in the symposium. Finally, at the close of the academic year 2002-03, at the annual Dedman College dinner, Caroline Brettell was named as the Dedman Family Distinguished Professor for 2003. The year has also brought, sadly, some retirements. Professor Lewis Binford officially retired from the university in May of 2003 and Professor Harold Hietala will officially retire in July of 2003.

This year’s George and Mary Foster Lecture in Cultural Anthropology was delivered by Professor Leo Chavez (UC-Irvine). The title of the talk was "Cultural Beliefs and Cancer Risk Factors; Hispanic and Anglo Women's and Physicians Perceptions". Chavez also spent some time with the graduate students talking about his new book, Covering Immigration: Popular Images and the Politics of Nation.

The Department also received a 5-year renewal of the NSF Ethnographic Training Grant--$50,000 that helps to send graduate students into the field for pre-dissertation field research. The graduate program itself underwent a major overhaul. There have been major changes in requirements and focus. Most of these can be found at the revamped website (thank you Professor Meltzer) at www.smu.edu/anthro. The department also began a search for a new archaeologist in New World archaeology and paleodietary studies. This position will be filled by August 2004.

Finally, I cannot close this letter without noting that the beneficence of the Dean of Dedman College (Jasper Neel) brought us new furniture in January. Out went the old 1970s metal desks, bookshelves, and beat-up filing cabinets; in came nice new wooden desks and shelves, carpeting, and state of the art lateral files. Most faculty took this as an opportunity to do extensive housecleaning and redecorating! Come visit us!

Caroline Brettell

Ben Wallace continues as the Director of International Programs. He has been struggling with the impact of 9/11, the War, and most recently SARS! Carolyn Sargent started her work on the senior NSF panel for the Cultural Anthropology Program—an appointment that takes her to Washington twice a year. She also received a supplemental grant from the NSF to continue with her research on reproduction among Malian immigrant women in France. In addition she secured a REG (Research Experience for Graduate Students) grant for one of our students, Stephanie Larchanche, who will accompany her to Paris in the summer of 2003. In her capacity as Director of Women's Studies she has created a new graduate certificate in Women's Studies and developed a new course in feminist theory. Van Kemper received an Instructional Technology grant to create a web-based package called Sim-tzuntzan to simulate community life in Mexico. Professor Kemper also received recognition in the Dallas Morning News (November 22, 2003) for the Dallas field trips he sends his students on as part of his class "Culture and Diversity in American Life" (ANTH 3346). Tony Marks has been working hard on his cumulated archaeological collections--readying them for shipping to Britain and to Israel. He continues to publish numerous papers on the research in Portugal.

Garth Sampson has developed two new courses --"Paleolithic Archaeology" and "Neolithic Archaeology" -- as the Old World component of the redesigned graduate program in archaeology. He has been spearheading this initiative in the department. Professor Sampson has continued to publish broadly on his archaeological work in South Africa.

Mike Adler continues his research at the Chavez site in New Mexico. He recently received an NSF grant for this project. He was quoted in a March 17, 2003 Dallas Morning News article about a conference in Denver focused on untangling the mystery of the Anasazi.

David Freidel was on leave during the spring semester of 2003. He began field research at the El Peru (Waka’) site in Peten, Guatemala together with five of our graduate students. They are joined by a team of Guatemalan researchers. Waka’ is believed to have been inhabited as early as 500 B.C. but reached its peak between A.D. 400 and A.D. 800.

Caroline Brettell was named to a three-year position on the Selection Panel of the International Dissertation Fellowship Program of the Social Science Research Council. She also continued her tenure on a Scientific Review Panel for the NIH. Her research on the NSF-funded DFW immigration project proceeds as well. She also designed two new graduate courses for the new graduate track on "Globalization and International Development": "Migration, Ethnicity and Nationalism" and "Global Population Processes."

David Meltzer developed a new course for the Cultural Formations program titled "Ice Age Americans". It filled up the first semester it was offered. He had nine papers published in 2002 and there are many more in press. He continues his work on the Quest Archaeological project.

Ron Wetherington had a very active year as the Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence. He was keeping eight Altshuler Fellows busy with a range of programs. He also taught a "Human Osteology" graduate seminar and continued his work on the manuscript on the excavations at Cantonment Burgwin.

Bill Pulte’s received two $1.5 million grants from the Department of Education to continue the bilingual education program. The first grant will be used to offer scholarships to teachers in the DISD to receive certification in bilingual education. The second will be used to offer scholarships to teachers who want to receive certification in bilingual education with a focus on talented and gifted children. He is also working to complete his book on the Cherokee. David Wilson developed a new course on "Warfare and Violence" which will be cross-listed with the Cultural Formations program and taught for the first time in spring of 2004. He is working on the 2^nd edition of his book Indigenous South Americans.

Victoria Lockwood designed a new undergraduate course "Gender and Globalization" that will be cross-listed with Cultural Formations; and a new graduate course "Gendered Lives and Global Change" for the new graduate track "Globalization and International Development". She is working to complete her book Renegotiating Patriarchy. Her edited book Globalization and Culture Change in the Pacific Islands is in production.

Carolyn Smith-Morris, our newest faculty member, took on teaching "Introductory Cultural Anthropology" as well as several graduate-level classes. She has become an active member of the Clements Center for Southwest Studies and will be teaching at Fort Burgwin in the summer of 2003. She served on the Health Professions Recommendations Committee at SMU and lectured on "Culture and Medicine" to UT Southwestern medical students. Her article "Reducing Diabetes in Indian Country: Lessons from the Three Domains Influencing Pima Diabetes" has been accepted by the journal Human Organization and she is working on several other articles. Dr. Smith-Morris will return to Gila River for summer research. She has the office with the red walls thanks to husband Kelly!

Professor Emeritus Fred Wendorf delivered the Kirwan Memorial Lecture at the British Museum on October 10, 2002. The title of the lecture was "The Prehistory of Nubia: The Lessons of 40 Years of Research."

The Website for the Department (http://www.smu.edu/anthro) has been redesigned. Thanks to Professor David Meltzer for managing this project. We invite everyone to check it out.

We have a terrific group of undergraduate majors who are graduating this year. We will miss them all! Christina Akins will be going on to graduate study at Yale University—with a full scholarship! Daniel Murphy is entering the graduate program at the University of Kentucky, also with scholarship support. Lindsay Young, who is the recipient of an Outstanding Senior Award in the Department and the Avella Winn Hay Award given by the Office of Student Affairs, will be entering Southwestern Medical School. Lindsay worked closely all year with Professor Brettell completing a research project (funded by a REU grant from the NSF) on immigrant access to health care.

The winner of the 2003 Edward I. and Peggy C. Fry Award is Amanda Klasing. Amanda will be starting graduate school at the University of Chicago next year. Amanda not only completed her work for departmental distinction exam (under Dr. Lockwood) but also an internship (under the supervision of Professor Brettell) in the offices of Mark Jacobs, a local immigration attorney. Daniel Murphy and Lindsay Young also took departmental distinction this year. Tom Jennings is going to be joining David Meltzer's field research team this summer. He will be applying to graduate programs in the future.

The following students completed dissertations in AY02-03:

• Mary Clark Baloian, "Archaeological Investigations at the Jenne- Jeno Settlement Complex, Inland Niger Delta, Mali, West Africa" (Hietala)

• Elisabet Bordt, "La Delicia: A Late Formative Ceramic Production Site in Southwest Coastal Ecuador" (Freidel)

• Mary Kathryn (Kat) Brown, "Emerging Complexity in the Maya Lowlands: A View from Blackman Eddy, Belize" (Freidel)

• Katherine Monigal, " The Levantine Leptolithic: Blade Production from the Lower Paleolithic to the Dawn of the Upper Paleolithic" (Marks)

• Sidney Perutz, "Women’s Work in Tepotzlan (Mexico) In the Time of Globalization" (Lockwood)

• Arushi Sinha, "Telemedicine: The Virtual Gaze of Healthcare" (Brettell)

• John Williams, " Examining the Boundaries of the Levantine Aurignacian" (Marks)

• Dawn Youngblood, "Late LSA Economic Strategies And System Stability In The Upper Karoo, South Africa" (Sampson)

We are very proud of one of our currently enrolled Ph.D. students, Susan Bruning, who received a three-year research fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Susan is working with Professor Michael Adler on cultural property and repatriation issues in the American Southwest. These fellowships carry full tuition and a generous stipend. This brings the total number of NSF graduate fellowships in the Department currently held to four—an all-time record! Ryan Byerly and Olivia Farr received honorable mention in this competition—something that should improve their chances next year.

Jeffrey Rose received a NSF dissertation improvement grant to carry out archaeological research in Oman. He is waiting until early 2004 to leave—hoping that the situation in the Middle East will have improved by then. The Paul Steed Travel Awards for 2002-03 went to Julie Adkins for a paper co-written with Professor Kemper and presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology meetings titled "Discerning the Fit between Community Need and Organizational Capability: A Case Study of Oasis Housing Corporation"; and to Sharon Young for a paper titled "Geographic Information Systems: Bridging the Boundaries of anthropology, Environmental Science, and Geography with GIS", also delivered at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Sharon also published an essay on Ciudad Juarez in the Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures. Sharon won first place in the Student Poster Competition at the 62^nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (2002)—news that came in too late last year to make our 2002 newsletter. Sharon is also the recipient of a NSF dissertation improvement grant to help her complete her research in El Paso.

The winners of the 2003 NSF Training Grant Awards for Pre-dissertation research are: Lisa Greenman—to work on the use of the internet by people in El Salvador and among Salvadoran immigrants—and Kyra Kramer for work on male infertility in Ireland. Samantha Martin received the Mary Moore Free award to continue her research on HIV/AIDS among Native American populations in the Tucson area. She also received a Maguire Center grant to fund a summer internship at a Yaqui health center. Portia Belo and Peggy Varghese received additional NSF summer research awards to return to Ecuador and Kerala, India respectively. Portia is working on disability and Peggy on HIV/AIDS.

Portia Belo won an award for her poster on Disability in Ecuador at the annual Graduate Research Day sponsored by Dean Bhat.

Melissa Nibungco will be returning for a year of research in the Philippines. Her research was supported by the National Science Foundation and by a Fulbright grant. Melissa will be teaching "Introductory Cultural Anthropology" in the Department in the fall and begin writing her dissertation.

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Clarissa Huang (BA 1994) has become a Mary Kay Independent beauty consultant, something she can do at home while she takes care of her baby. Susan Quadrini (MA, 1996) had a baby girl and continues her work as a midwife. She was on a show "Maternity Ward" on The Learning Channel. It aired as this newsletter was going to press a year ago. Arushi Sinha (new Ph.D 2003) was written up, complete with picture, in the Job section of the Dallas Morning News on February 9. Although she has recently taken a position as a content developer at a local internet marketing company (IMC²) at the time she was working as an assistant editor for Cure, a Dallas-based cancer magazine. Arushi is also co-author of a cookbook Quickies for Couples: Fast, Fresh Recipes for Two" that will be published in 2003.

Risa Diemond (Ph.D. 2001) is currently employed as an archaeologist in the Repatriation Office of the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History.

Graciela de Lugo Lauro (MBE, 1996) is a Professor at the College of the Canyons in Valencia California where she teaches English as a Second Language. Laurie Weinstein (Ph.D. 1983) took a leave of absence from Western Connecticut State University to teach at Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado. She continues to serve as General Editor for the series, Native Peoples of the Americas. Her most recent book is a volume in that series, Native Peoples of the Southwest: Negotiating Land, Water and Ethnicities (Bergin and Garvey, 2002). She recently received an American Philosophical Society grant to continue her ethnohistorical research on the Weantinock Indians of Connecticut.

Adler, Michael, "The Ancestral Pueblo Community Center Place" in Archaeology and Ancient Communities in the Mesa Verde Region, edited by Mark Varien and Richard Wilshusen, University of Utah Press, 2002, pp. 25-40.

We would like to acknowledge the following generous gifts to the Department: Lynn Chapman; Ned Boshell; Mr. and Mrs. Marlan Downey; Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Miercort; H. Michael Howell; Dr. Mary Moore Free; Dr. and Mrs. Robert Van Kemper.