SMU ANTHROPOLOGY NEWS
VOLUME 10, AUGUST 2005
A LETTER FROM THE CHAIR
This has been a busy twelve months for our departmental community. New faculty, staff, and students have joined us, while others have departed through retirement, promotions to other positions, and graduation. Even our leadership has witnessed changes. After a decade as Chair of the department, Caroline Brettell decided not to continue in this role that she always filled with excellence. Much to my surprise, I was asked to serve once again in the role of departmental Chair, beginning in August 2004. Another important leadership position underwent a change when David Wilson stepped down as Director of Undergraduate Studies. All of us are grateful to Caroline and David for their years of service to the department. We also appreciate the willingness of Vickie Lockwood to assume the role of Director of Undergraduate Studies, effective August 2005.
Four other significant changes have taken place among the faculty during this year. In August 2004, Torben C. (“Torrey”) Rick arrived as Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Abigail (“Abby”) Bartoshesky assumed a dual position as Visiting Assistant Professor in Anthropology and Education. In May 2005, Professor Anthony E. Marks retired. He and his wife Kay will continue to reside in Santa Fe, NM, when they aren’t traveling to Europe, where Tony sustains a busy research agenda with colleagues in Portugal and Germany. In August 2005, R. Alan Covey joined the department as Assistant Professor of Anthropology.
Another significant change in our community was reflected in the comings and goings of our staff members. In June 2004, Stephanie Carroll, then a Secretary in our department, took a position in the Perkins School of Theology as Administrative Assistant to the Dean. Her replacement, Jill Herod, departed in June 2005 to become an Assistant Financial officer in Dedman College. Recently, Elaine Sarmiento, a December 2004 graduate of Texas A&M University, became our new departmental Administrative Assistant. During this year of transitions, we have been fortunate to have Pamela Hogan providing excellent leadership as our senior staff person.
A highlight of this academic year was establishing the Fred Wendorf Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology on October 14, 2004. Professor Patrick V. Kirch of the University of California at Berkeley delivered the inaugural lecture titled “From Chiefdom to Archaic State: Social Evolution in Ancient Hawai’i.” We are very grateful to Edward O. Boshell and to the Boshell Family Foundation Endowment Fund for supporting the establishment of this lecture series.
Van Kemper,
Professor and Chair
ACTIVITIES DURING THE YEAR
Hon. William P. Clements, SMU President R. Gerald Turner,
and Professor emeritus Fred Wendorf
Dedication of the Fred Wendorf Information Commons at
SMU Fort Burgwin Campus, New Mexico, July 24, 2004
First Annual Fred Wendorf Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology
Patrick Vinton Kirch
Professor of Anthropology
University of California at Berkeley
“From Chiefdom to Archaic State: Social Evolution in Ancient Hawai’i”
October 14, 2004
(supported by the Boshell Family Foundation Endowment Fund)
“Día de los Muertos” celebration in Heroy 153 – November 1, 2004
Antonieta Jerardino (Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town) presented the SMU Visiting Scholar Lecture on “Diversity and Antiquity of Coastal Archaeological Sites in South Africa” on April 6, 2005.
Carolyn Sargent and Carolyn Smith-Morris presented a joint lecture entitled “Is There a Cultural Contextualized Alternative to the Four-Principles Approach in Bioethics? Anthropological Contributions to Ethics Dilemmas in Clinical Practice” on April 12, 2005.
The Sixth Annual George and Mary Foster Distinguished Lecture in Cultural Anthropology was presented by Jill Korbin (Associate Dean and Professor of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University) on April 18, 2005. Her topic was “When the Bough Breaks: Parents Who Kill Their Children.” The Dallas Morning News published her Op-Ed piece “To keep moms from killing, act on warning signs” on April 17, 2005.
The Annual Pig Roast Lecture was delivered by archaeologist Barbara Mills (Ph.D. from University of Arizona) on April 29, 2005. That same day, Dr. T. J. Ferguson (Adjunct Professor at the University of Arizona) gave the Pig Roast Brown Bag presentation.
FACULTY NEWS
Collectively, we taught more students – more than 2,200 – during the AY 2004-2005 than in any year in our department’s history. During calendar year 2004, the full-time faculty published four edited books, fifteen book chapters, five journal articles, and one book review. During the past ten years, 1995-2004, the faculty authored ten books, edited 22 books, wrote 133 book chapters, contributed 106 articles to journals, and did 25 book reviews.
Mike Adler continues as director of the SMU Summer Field School in Archaeology at Fort Burgwin, located southeast of Ranchos de Taos, NM. In 2005, research focused on the Clements Site, a large Middle to Late Archaic base camp nearly a kilometer in length. This site was discovered during a survey by field school students during the 2004 season. His on-going N.S.F. grant “Who is the Past? Collaborative Research on Ancestral American Cultural Affiliation” was supplemented by an SMU University Research Council grant for AY 2005-2006. Mike maintains his role as the campus interviewer for Fulbright fellowship applicants.
Abigail Ann Bartoshesky began a two-year joint appointment as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Visiting Assistant Professor of Education in August 2004. Abby earned her Ed.D. in 2004 from The George Washington University. With H. Hamilton and C. Crane, she published, Doing Foreign Language: Adapting the Best Practice of Concordia Language Villages to the Foreign Language Classroom (Prentice Hall, 2004). In the Education program, Abby offers courses on multicultural education and second language acquisition. For Anthropology, she has taken responsibility for ANTH 3361 “Language in Culture and Society.” Her innovative use of team projects was featured in a front-page story in The Daily Campus newspaper on April 28, 2005.
Caroline Brettell, Dedman Family Distinguished Professor, co-edited with Carolyn Sargent the fourth edition of Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005). They co-organized a session on “Migrant Identities: Processes of Transformations and Negotiation” at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meetings in Santa Fe, NM, in April 2005. Caroline continued work on her N.S.F. grant on immigrant groups in the Dallas area and also traveled to India to gather background data on Asia Indians and to investigate the prospects for studies on the Portuguese diaspora. In May, she was Moderator of a honorary degree seminar about the work of Elizabeth (Liza) Lee, former headmistress at The Hockaday School, Dallas, TX. In summer 2005, through a University Research Council grant, she traveled to Portugal.
R. Alan Covey joined the faculty in August 2005 as an Assistant Professor. With a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Alan comes to us after a post-doctoral fellowship at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. He co-authored (with Brian S. Bauer) a chapter on “The Development of the Inca State (AD 1000-1400) in Bauer’s volume Ancient Cuzco: Heartland of an Empire (University of Texas Press, 2004). With the support of a grant from the National Science Foundation, he spent the spring and summer doing field research in the Cuzco Valley region of highland Peru.
David Freidel, University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, was featured in the 2005 volume of SMU Research magazine in an article titled “Mysteries of the Maya.” His Op-Ed piece, “In A Haze,” in The Dallas Morning News (February 19, 2005) raised questions about environmental issues here in Dallas and in developing nations. On June 14, 2005, The New York Times featured his research team’s discoveries of a royal tomb. In the June 27, 2005 issue of U.S. News & World Report, David was featured in a four-page profile titled, “Danger in the Ruins,” written by Kim Clark.
Robert Van Kemper served as President Elect of the SMU Faculty Senate during AY 2004-05, and assumed the position of President in May 2005.. Following David Freidel (1989-90), Ron Wetherington (1994-95), and Caroline Brettell (2001-02), Van is the fourth member of the Anthropology faculty to serve in this capacity. In addition to serving as departmental Chair, Van also served as Chair of the Institutional Review Board (Human Subjects Research) Committee during AY 2004-05. As an Invited Keynote Speaker, he discussed “Whose Heritage? Interpreters and Evaluators as Stewards in a Multicultural World,” at the annual conference of the Visitors Studies Association in Albuquerque, NM (August 6, 2004). He co-authored (with Julie Adkins) an invited article titled “De la ‘moderna área tarasca’ a la ‘tierra natal p’urhépecha’: Cambiantes conceptos de identidad étnica y regional,” Relaciones 25(4):227-278 (2004). Van served on the review panel of the Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship program in March 2005. For more information, please consult http://faculty.smu.edu/rkemper/
Victoria Lockwood edited a book on Globalization and Culture change in the Pacific Islands (Prentice-Hall, 2004). She participated in a session on “Gender Violence in Oceania” at the 2005 annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. She presented a paper on “Marital Power Dynamics in Rural Tahitian Domestic Violence” at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting in Santa Fe (April 2005). During summer 2005, she used funds from a University Research Council grant to travel to French Polynesia to do fieldwork. Effective August 2005, Vickie assumed the position of Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Anthropology Department.
Anthony E. Marks retired as Professor emeritus of Anthropology in May 2005. Tony came to SMU in 1964 as a member of the Combined Prehistoric Expedition, with a focus on the archaeology of the Nile River Valley in Sudan. He became an Assistant Professor in the new Department of Anthropology in 1967 and was promoted to Professor in 1973, later serving as Chair of the Department from 1977-1981. Between 1969 and 2003, he had fourteen National Science Foundation grants to support his fieldwork and research in Israel, the Sudan, Portugal, and the Crimea (Ukraine), in addition to directing seven NSF Dissertation Improvement Grants. He also received support for his research from the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and has been honored with the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Research Award in Germany. Prof. Marks is widely recognized as an expert in systematic stone artifact classification, and his varied field discoveries are landmarks in the record of Palaeolithic prehistory.
David Meltzer, Henderson-Morrison Professor of Prehistory, is Director of the Quest Archaeological Research Program. For more information, please consult smu.edu/anthro/QUEST/HOME.htm. Among the many publications generated by members of his research team, David co-authored (with D. H. Mann and J. M. LaBelle) “A Bison antiquus from Archuleta Creek, Folsom, New Mexico” in Current Research in the Pleistocene 21:107-109 (2004); (with M. Cannon) “Early Paleoindian foraging: examining the faunal evidence for large mammal specialization and regional variability in prey choice,” Quaternary Science Reviews 23:1955–1987 (2004); (with M. Balakrishnana, C. J. Yappa, and J. L. Theler), “Paleoenvironment of the Folsom archaeological site, New Mexico, USA, approximately 10,500 14C yr B.P. …” Quaternary Research 63:31– 44 (2005).
Torben C. “Torrey” Rick joined our faculty in August 2004 as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology. At the University of Oregon, he earned his Ph.D. in 2004 for a dissertation titled Daily Activities, Community Dynamics, and Historical Ecology on California's Northern Channel Islands. He received a University Research Council grant for AY 2005-06 and has begun looking at research sites in Baja California. On his faculty webpage, Torrey declares, “I am an archaeologist specializing in coastal and environmental issues. My research centers on the archaeology of the Pacific Coast of North America, ranging from Baja California to the Pacific Northwest. Most of my recent field projects have been on California's Northern Channel Islands, where I have excavated and analyzed shell middens dated from the terminal Pleistocene through the Historic period. I am interested in a wide range of anthropological issues, including historical ecology and human impacts on the environment, zooarchaeology and taphonomy, and coastal and island adaptations. For more information, please consult http://faculty.smu.edu/trick/index.htm
Garth Sampson continues his long-term research project on the archaeology and ethnohistory of South Africa, particularly the upper Seacow [Zeekoe] River Valley. The project is designed to detect changes in habitat, diet, material culture, and social organization of late prehistoric and post-Contact (Bushmen) hunter-gatherers.
Carolyn Sargent completed her tenth year as Director of the SMU Women’s Studies Program in AY 2004-05. She also continues as the senior professor in the Medical Anthropology program. She is in the final phase of her multi-year N.S.F.-sponsored research project entitled “Reproduction and Representations of Family among Malian Migrants in Paris.” Twice she has obtained N.S.F/R.E.G.. funding for graduate student Stephanie Lachanché-Kim. Carolyn’s high level of scholarship and teaching earned her a prestigious SMU Ford Fellowship, which she used in the summer 2005 to extend her research into Mali, the country of origin of the immigrants she has been studying in France. Carolyn co-organized with Caroline Brettell a session on “Migrant Identities: Processes of Transformations and Negotiation” at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meetings in Santa Fe, M, in April 2005.
Carolyn Smith Morris
published an article on “Reducing Diabetes in Indian Country: Lessons from the
Three Domains Influencing Pima Diabetes,” in Human Organization 63(1):34-46
(2004). In spring-summer 2005, Carolyn received a research grant from the
Institute for Faith Health Research of Dallas to study health care issues in the
region. Graduate student Matt Turner is working on the project.. Her
new course, ANTH 3350/CF3350 “Good Eats” has become a great success. In
addition to her teaching and research, Carolyn also serves on the Faculty Senate
Academic Policies Committee.
For more information about the “Good Eats and Forbidden Flesh” course, see
http://www.smu.edu/anthro/faculty/cSmith-Morris/CSM%20images/CSM%20Syllabus/3350fall04.pdf
Ben Wallace continues as Director of the SMU Study Abroad Program, at the same time that he carries out environmental and economic research in southeast Asia. He is the author of a forthcoming book on applied anthropology, scheduled for publication in late 2005, with the title The Changing Village Environment In Southeast Asia: Applied Anthropology And Environmental Reclamation In The Northern Philippines
Ronald Wetherington continues as the Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence. In addition to his weekly workshops and programs at the C.T.E., Ron also is the coordinator of the recently created Proseminar on Teaching (ANTH 6034), a non-credit required course for all graduate students in the Department of Anthropology. In Spring 2005, Ron introduced a very popular new course, ANTH 3351/CFB3351 “Forensic Anthropology.” This course, already being called “CSI: SMU” by the students, , this course is an introduction to the identification of human remains, including conditions of preservation and decay. It entails estimating sex, stature, age, and ethnicity as well as identifying pathology, trauma, and other causes of death. For more information, please consult
smu.edu/anthro/forensic_anthropology.htm
GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS
Julie Adkins co-authored (with Robert V. Kemper) an invited article titled “De la ‘moderna área tarasca’ a la ‘tierra natal p’urhépecha’: Cambiantes conceptos de identidad étnica y regional,” Relaciones 25(4):227-278 (2004). She gave a paper entitled “Doing Well by Doing Good? When 'First-World' Volunteers Encounter the 'Two-Thirds World'” at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting in Santa Fe, NM (April 2005).
Kris Alstatt received a prize for his poster on “The Impact of Global Forces on National identity in Laos” at the Graduate Research Day on March 11, 2005. He was awarded a grant for field work in Laos from the Lambda Alpha National Anthropology Honors Society in May 2005. In the summer, Kris taught ANTH 2301 “Introd. Cultural Anthropology,” and then departed for Laos in the fall.
Susan Bruning received an award from the School of American Research to enable her to spend summer 2005 in residence in their facilities in Santa Fe, NM. In the spring, Susan gave papers at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Santa Fe, NM, and at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Salt Lake City, UT.
Ryan Byerly received funds from the Paul Steed Travel Award Fund to present his poster in a session on “Current Perspectives on Bison Paleoecology and Archaeology,” at the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting in Salt Lake City, UT (March 30 - April 3, 2005). He and Judy Cooper received a grant from the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies to travel to Austin for research on the Bonfire Shelter site.
Hilary Chester presented a paper entitled “The Changing Face of Child Migrants to the US” at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Santa Fe, NM (April 2005).
Judy Cooper received a Paul Steed Travel Award to present “Predicting Bison Drive Lanes at Bonfire Shelter: a GIS Approach to Understanding Prehistoric Landscape Use” at the Fall 2004 meeting of the Texas Archaeological Society. She received a travel grant from the Dean of Graduate Studies to present “Solving Puzzles Using GIS? A Model for Stone Tool Refitting” at the spring SAA meeting in Salt Lake City.
Cheryl T. Crichley presented a poster on “Differences in Nutritional Concerns of Cancer Patients, Family Members, and Healthcare Providers” at the second annual conference of The American Psychosocial Oncology Society in Phoenix, AZ (January 28, 2005); she also presented a poster on “Our Anthropological Heritage in Changing Environments: The Trouble With Qualitative Responses in a Clinical Research Setting” at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Santa Fe, NM (April 8, 2005).
Keith Eppich received the Social Science History Association (SSHA)-Rockefeller Travel Award to attend the Social Science History Association in Chicago (November 18-21, 2004), where he delivered a paper titled, “Detecting Market Phenomenon in a Ruined City: The Case of Native American Markets among the Classic Maya (A.D. 250-900).”
Olivia Navarro Farr presented a paper entitled: Killing Spaces: Ritual Termination at the Southeast Acropolis at El Perú-Waka’ at the 103rd Annual American Anthropological Association Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia (December 16, 2004). She also presented a paper at the Annual Guatemala Symposio on Maya Archaeology: "La Arquitectura Monumental en el Este de las Plazas 1 y 2 de El Peru-Waka"
Ryan Fisher received funding from the departmental N.S.F. ethnographic training grant to carry out fieldwork during summer 2005 among Tibetan refugees living in western China.
Robert Graff co-authored several papers related to his research on HIV/AIDS: (with M. K. Rawlings, R. Calderon, S. Casey-Bailey, and M. Pasley) “Differences in Perceptions of What Constitutes Having ‘Had Sex’ in a Population of People Living With HIV/AIDS” presented at the National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA-US) “Staying Alive” National Conference, Atlanta, GA.(September 10-12, 2004); (with M. K. Rawlings, R. Calderon, M. Pasley, V. Stone) “Patient and Provider Differences in What They Perceive as Constituting Having “Had Sex”: Implications for HIV/AIDS Prevention (poster) - Infectious Disease Society of America annual meeting, Boston, MA (Sept. 30-Oct. 3, 2004); (with O. Gonzalez) “Usando Etnografía; Alcanzando la Communidad de VIH en las Calles” (workshop), Department of State Health Services, 14th annual Texas HIV/STD Conference, Austin, TX (Dec. 13-17, 2004) and in English at the 2005 National HIV Prevention Conference, Atlanta, GA (June 12-15, 2005).
Lauren Gulbas spoke on the topic “Thin Junkies: Searching for Purity through Anorexia” at the 30th Annual SMU Literary Festival on April 3, 2005. An article about her talk appeared in The Daily Campus newspaper.
Susan Harper-Bisso received an award from the Paul Steed Travel Fund to deliver a paper titled “All Cool Women Should Be Bisexual: Female Bisexual Identity in an American NeoPagan Community Paper” at the Third International Conference on Arts & Humanities in Hawaii in January 2005. Susan gave another paper, “Anthropology in a Dangerous Place: The Liminality of Fieldwork and the Fieldwork of Liminality,” at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Santa Fe, NM, (April 2005). She talked on the topic of “Wiccan Feminism” at the 30th Annual SMU Literary Festival in April 2005.
Anna Kaydor, a Liberian student in the CMM program in SMU’s Perkins School Theology, served her year-long internship in the SMU Women’s Studies Program, where her field supervisor was Professor Carolyn Sargent and Stephanie Larchanché served as a member of the Lay Teaching Committee. Van Kemper served as Anna’s Mentor Pastor. It was a great blessing having Anna in our midst.
Stephanie Larchanché-Kim presented a paper (co-authored with Carolyn Sargent) entitled “Liminal Lives: Immigration Status, Gender and the Construction of Identities among Malians in Paris” at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Santa Fe, NM, (April 2005). Stephanie received the Mary Moore Free Award for Summer Research for 2005. With these funds and a second R.E.G. supplemental. grant, she traveled to France and onward to Mali to carry out additional fieldwork.
Samantha Martin passed her doctoral qualifying exams in March 2005, and departed soon after for Arizona, where she will be doing fieldwork on Native American health issues (with funding from a SAMHSA grant) for the coming two years.
Kevin Pemberton received an award from the Paul Steed Travel Fund to deliver a paper at the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting in Salt Lake City in April 2005.
Jeffrey Rose presented a paper entitled “The role of the Sahara-Arabian arid belt in the modern human expansion” at the IV Iberian Archaeological Conference at a session in honor of Dr. Anthony Marks.
Jose Santos received funding from the departmental N.S.F. ethnographic training grant to carry out fieldwork during summer 2005 among rural populations in El Salvador. He plans to return in January 2006 to do his dissertation research on gender and Protestantism.
Lia Tsesmeli participated in the SAA on April 1, 2005 with her paper titled: The El Perú-Waka' Survey at Petén, Guatemala: Settlement Patterns and Management of Archaeological Resources. Lisa also published two papers in the Informe de la segunda temporada de campo 2004, en el sitio arqueológico El Perú-Waka' with the following titles: Reconociendo y Levantando el Mapa de El Perú: Temporada del 2004, and El diseño de la base de datos integrados de El Perú y el Proyecto GIS (WIDP).
Matthew Turner gave a paper titled “Differences in Hispanic and Caucasian Health along the Texas Border” at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Santa Fe, NM (April 2005).
Peggy Varghese received an award from the Paul Steed Travel Fund to deliver a paper entitled “Purity and Pollution of Caste in the Context of HIV/AIDS: Challenges of Theory and Method” at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting in Santa Fe, NM, in April 2005.
Catrina Whitley attended the Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Association (BARFAA) meeting in Norman, Oklahoma (October 2004). She presented two papers: Possible Eosinophilic Granuloma in a Child From the American Southwest and Multiple Myeloma, Treponematosis, and Possible Tuberculosis at Pot Creek Pueblo. Catrina also presented a poster titled: “Disease, Occupation, and Sexual Division of Labor at Pot Creek Pueblo: A Case Study from the Northern Rio Grande” at the Society for American Archaeology meeting in Salt Lake City (April 2005).
Christopher Wolff chaired a general Arctic/Subarctic session at the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting in Salt Lake City, UT (March 30-April 5, 2005). He also presented a paper at the SAA meeting titled “The Colonization of Northern Labrador.” At the California Archaeological Association meeting he gave a poster on “Coastal Subsistence and Landscape Evolution on Eastern Santa Rosa Island, California: Perspectives from CA-SRI-667.”
Sharon Young gave a paper entitled “Micro-Macro Linkages: Political Economy, Environment, and Children’s Health in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands” at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Santa Fe, NM in April 2005.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT NEWS
Lambda Alpha is the National undergraduate honor society for Anthropology. The new SMU chapter members for 2004-2005 are: Stephanie Bowling, Kirsten Green, Susan Hamilton, Jaclyn Herfarth, April Sunshine Prior, and Robin Reed.
Jared Dovers received the Edward I. And Peggy Fry Award for Academic Excellence.
Robin Marie Reed received Departmental Distinction at May graduation.
Jaclyn Ailine Herfarth received the Outstanding Senior in Anthropology Award.
Sarah Sage, an undergraduate Art major, was featured in an article titled “She’s Mixing Art, Maya Culture” in The Dallas Morning News (January 20, 2005). Sarah went to Guatemala to work on David. Freidel’s project at El Perú, where her assignments included taking photographs and documenting artifacts and architectural objects.
The Undergraduate Research Assistant pilot program was launched in Spring semester 2005. Thanks to the initiative of Caroline Brettell and her fund-raising efforts, we are inaugurating the Anthropology component of the new SMU initiative for involving undergraduate students in faculty research projects. Caroline and Torrey Rick were the first two faculty members to fund students – Ivana Corsale and Deborah Currie – through this new program. As Ms. Corsale wrote in her evaluation letter, “During the undergraduate research program with Dr. Caroline Brettell, I have seen an improvement of my research and analytical skills. . . . I think [the URA program] helps students to develop research skills and employ those skills in class assignments.” During the AY 2005-2006, Anthropology will continue to participate in the beta-test phase of the URA program, with an expansion of students from two to four and with the possibility that students will be able to work during the summer as well as during the fall and spring semesters.
ALUMNI NEWS
Kathryn (Kat) Brown (Ph.D., 2003), Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Arlington, was a speaker at the Dallas Archeological Society (May 13, 2005) on the topic “The Role of Public Architecture and Ritual in the Rise of Complexity in the Maya Lowlands: A Diachronic View from Blackman Eddy, Belize.”
Katherine Browne (Ph.D., 1993), Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colorado State University, published Creole Economics: Caribbean Cunning Under the French Flag (University of Texas Press, 2004). Its call number in the SMU Fondren Library is: HD2346.M37 B76 2004.
James Bruseth (Ph.D., 19xx), Director of the Archaeology Division at the Texas Historical Commission, co-authored (with Toni Turner) From a Watery Grave: The Discovery and Excavation of La Salle’s Shipwreck, La Belle (Texas A & M University Press, 2005).
Thomas H. Guderjan (Ph.D., 1988), Executive Director of the Maya Research Program and Assistant Professor at St. Mary's University, San Antonio, TX, has published “Public Architecture, Ritual, and Temporal Dynamics at the Maya Center of Blue Creek, Belize,” in Ancient Mesoamerica 15(2):235-250 (2004). He also recently wrote “Lessons Learned from a Volunteer Based Research Project in Central America.” SAA Archaeological Record 5(1):33-35 (2005).
Donald O. Henry (Ph.D., 1973), Professor of Anthropology at The University of Tulsa, reviewed Mediterranean Archaeological Landscapes: Current Issues, Effie Athanassopoulos and LuAnn Wandsnider, eds., in the Journal of Anthropological Research 61(1), 2005.
Jeff Jordan (MA in Medical Anthropology, 1996) is now working as a Public Health Analyst with Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA), an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services. In Dec. 2004, Jeff earned a Masters in Public Health from the University of Texas Houston School of Public Health, with a thesis on the impact of diabetes mortality on the Texas-Mexico border.
Katherine Monigal (Ph.D., 2002), Adjunct Lecturer SMU, co-edited with Victor. P. Chabai and Anthony E. Marks The Middle Paleolithic and Early Upper Paleolithic of Eastern Crimea. (Etudes et Recherches Archéologiques de l’Université de Liège, 2004).
Lance Rasbridge (Ph.D., 1991), Coordinator of the Refugee Outreach Program at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, recently co-edited with Charles Kemp Refugee and Immigrant Health A Handbook for Health Professionals (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Its call number in the SMU Fondren Library is: RA418.5.T73 K45 2004.
Frédéric Sellet (Ph.D., 1999), University of Wisconsin at Madison, published “Beyond the point: projectile manufacture and behavioral inference,” in the Journal of Archaeological Science 31:1553-1566 (2004).
Joe Watkins (Ph.D., 1994), Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, wrote “Becoming American or Becoming Indian? NAGPRA, Kennewick and Cultural Affiliation” in Journal of Social Archaeology 4(1):60-80 (2004). Joe also reviewed Our Collective Responsibility: The Ethics and Practice of Archaeological Collections Stewardship, S. Terry Childs, ed., in the Journal of Anthropological Research 61(1), 2005.
John Williams (Ph.D., 2003) finished his second year as an Adjunct Lecturer in the department in summer 2005. In August 2005, John departed for Colorado where he has accepted a new position in Cultural Resource Management.
DEGREES AWARDED IN AY 2004-2005
GRADUATES WITH ANTHROPOLOGY BA/BS DEGREES – MAY 2005
Crystal Ann Brashears, Justin Currin, Sean Patrick Condon, Rachel Susan Geddes, David Clay Glockzin, Jaclyn Ailine Herfarth, Jacob Windfield Huntley, Shannon Lynn McClean, Matthew W. McKinney, and Robin Marie Reed (summa cum laude, with Departmental Distinction).
GRADUATES WITH AN MA IN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Kyra Cornelius Kramer
GRADUATES WITH AN MA IN ANTHROPOLOGY
Kristoffer Edward Alstatt, Portia Julieta Belo, Samantha Kay Martin, Eric Michael Ness, and Jose Leonardo Santos.
GRADUATES WITH A PH.D. IN ANTHROPOLOGY
Grace Lloyd Bascopé [dissertation title: “The Household Ecology of Disease Transmission: Childhood Illness in a Yucatan Maya Community, ”May 2005; adviser: Carolyn Sargent] is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Anthropology at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.
Shengqian Chen [dissertation title: “Adaptive changes of prehistoric hunter-gatherers during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in China,” August 2004; adviser, Fred Wendorf] has returned to China.
Hilary Lynn Chester [dissertation title: “Early Agriculture in the Mongollon (AD 200 – 1200): Material Manifestations of Labor Organization and Agricultural Intensification,” May 2005; adviser: Michael Adler] is employed in San Antonio as Regional Field Coordinator for the Unaccompanied Alien Minor Program of the International Catholic Migration Commission, affiliated with the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
Jeremy Richard Kulisheck [dissertation title: “The Archaeology of Pueblo Population Change on the Jemez Plateau, A.D. 1200 to 1700: The Effects of Spanish Contact and Conquest,” May 2005; adviser: Michael Adler] is working with Santa Fe National Forest, as an Assistant to Resource Area Archaeologist.
Jason Michael LaBelle [dissertation title: “Hunter-Gatherer Foraging Variability During the Early Holocene of the Central Plains of North America,” adviser: David Meltzer] has just accepted a tenure track position with Colorado State University.
IN MEMORIAM
Shirley C. Achor died on January 29, 2005, from acute leukemia. She earned her Ph.D. in 1974 for a dissertation based on fieldwork carried out in West Dallas. Published as a study of Mexican Americans in a Dallas Barrio (University of Arizona Press, 1978), this was a pioneering ethnographic case study of Hispanics in American cities Shirley taught at Richland College and for more than 20 years at East Texas State University (now known as Texas A&M-Commerce). She is survived by her husband, Hubert Achor, a daughter and son-in-law (Tracy and Van Hayes), and other relatives.
John Richard Carter, father to Administrative Assistant Pamela Hogan, died on April 14,, 2005.
Marcia Lynn Jones, a 1975 B.A. graduate (with Departmental Distinction), who wrote her SMU doctoral dissertation on “The Qalkhan and Hamran: Two Epipaleolithic Industries from Southern Jordan” (1983), passed away at age 51 of colon cancer on July 21, 2005. She was a successful entrepreneur, an expert on human resources, and co-author (with Theresa Eichenwald) of the book Menopause for Dummies (2002). Marcia was survived by her partner, Jeannie Caldwell of Dallas, and by her two daughters, Anna Jones and Ally Jones, both of Dallas.
BIRTHS
Portia Belo had a baby in September 2004;
Lana Coggeshall, a former departmental Administrative Assistant, had a baby in November 2004;
Kyra Kramer had a baby in March 2005.
THANKS TO OUR PATRONS AND SUPPORTERS
Every year, the department benefits from the generosity of its patrons and supporters. The faculty and students are able to carry out more and larger-scale research projects, attend more conferences where we deliver more papers, and fulfillour teaching responsibilities with superior technical support because of the support that comes from beyond the regular University allocation. With confidence, we depend on the individuals and the Foundations that support our work in archaeology and cultural anthropology.
This year we are pleased to thank the following persons and Foundations for their assistance:
Claude Albritton, The Boeckman Family Foundation, Edward Boshell and The Boshell Family Foundation, Caroline Brettell, Ellen S. Brettell, George M. Foster, Dr. Mary Moore Free, Nancy Hamon, S. Roger Horchow, Van and Sandra Kemper, Margaret McDermott and The Eugene McDermott Foundation, Pierre Morenon, Paul Steed, Don and Norma Stone, and Jim Zurn.
COMING DEPARTMENTAL DEVELOPMENT
This coming academic year (2005-2006) promises to be full of even more exciting developments in teaching, research, and professional/community service. New grants and contracts, new books and articles, and participation in numerous national and international conferences are on the horizon. We especially invite you to visit our departmental web site (or individual faculty or graduate student web pages) on the Interet at http://www.smu.edu/anthro/. We provide updates on current events on a regular basis on the departmental web site. We also send out news of coming events via an email distribution list. If you wish to subscribe to the email distribution list, please let us know.
CONTACTING THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
If you are interested in supporting these endeavors, or simply want to be kept informed of new developments, please contact us:
by email (to the Department Chair) at rkemper@smu.edu.
by mail at the Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX 75275.
by phone at 214-768-2684 (214-SMU-ANTH).
by FAX at 214-768-2906.
Department of Anthropology
Southern Methodist University
3225 Daniel Avenue
Heroy Bldg. 408
Dallas TX 75275