Evelyn Blackwood has been awarded the Ruth Benedict Prize for her co-edited anthology Women's Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia (2007), by the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists.
Lesley Daspit has been awarded a Wenner Gren dissertation fieldwork grant for her research on Market Women in Africa: Transnational Interface of Wildlife Commerce and Conservation. She is scheduled to leave for the field in January of 2008.
Brian C. Kelly has been awarded $152,500 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for his project "Emerging Trends in Tryptamine Use: Contexts & Risks".
Kevin J. Vaughn, --along with Peruvian colleagues-- discovers intact prehispanic iron ore mine in South America. Read the full press release on the discovery in Peru.
Kevin J. Vaughn, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, along with Co-PI Jelmer Eerkens, UC Davis, was awarded an H. John Heinz III Fund Grant Program for Latin American Archaeology for their project: "Innovation and Change in Nasca Polychrome Pigment Production."
Melissa Remis has been awarded an appointment as a Purdue University Faculty Scholar for 2006-2011
Recent Faculty Publications (2006 - present)
Recent Faculty Publications (2006 - present)
in press Autobiography meets biography: Semiotic expansions and contractions. In Semiotics 2005, edited by Terry Prewitt and John Deely. Ottawa: Legas Press. (Anderson, Myrdene, with Devika Chawla)
in press Rewriting lives: A collaborative mentor-mentee project. In Semiotics 2006, edited by Terry Prewitt and John Deely. Ottawa: Legas Press. (Chawla, Devika with Myrdene Anderson)
in press Exploring semiotic tensions between autobiography, biography, ethnography, and autoethnography. In Semiotics 2007, edited by Terry Prewitt and John Deely. (Anderson, Myrdene, with Devika Chawla)
2007 White on white: The spot that blinds, the spot that binds. White matters/Il bianco al centro della questione, edited by Susan Petrilli; special issue of Athanor (Semiotica, Filosofia, Arte, Letteratura) 17.10. Rome: Melterni Editions.
2007 Commentary on ethnographic analysis. Pp. 58-62 in Fine description: Ethnographic and linguistic essays by Harold C. Conklin, edited by Joel Kuipers and Ray McDermott. (Monograph 56, Yale Southeast Asia Studies). New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies.
2006 Space, time, motion, habit, and Saami “nomadism”. Koht ja Paik / Place and location: Studies in Environmental Aesthetics and Semiotics 5 : 119-129. Tartu: Tartu University Press.
2007 Regulation of sexuality in Indonesian discourse: Normative gender, criminal law and shifting strategies of control. Culture, Health and Sexuality 9(3): 293-307.
2007 Women's Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Co-edited with Saskia E. Wieringa and Abha Bhaiya.
2007 Revenue, Voice, and Public Goods in Three Pre-Modern States. Comparative Studies in Society and History 49: 848-82 (Fargher, Lane, with Richard Blanton)
2007 Collective Action in the Formation of Pre-Modern States. Springer. (Blanton, Richard, with Lane Fargher)
2007 Preface, in Seeking a Richer Harvest: The Archaeology of Subsistence Intensification, Innovation and Change, Tine L. Thurston and Christopher T. Fisher, eds., pp. vii-viii. New York: Springer.
Andrew Buckser
2008. Andrew Buckser, “Before Your Very Eyes: Illness, Agency, and the Meanings of Tourette Syndrome.” Forthcoming in Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
2007. Andrew Buckser, “The Empty Gesture: Tourette Syndrome and the Semantic Dimension of Illness.” Ethnology 45:4:255-274
2008 Andrushko VA, Buzon MR, Simonetti A, Creaser RA. “Strontium isotope evidence for prehistoric migration at Chokepukio, Valley of Cuzco, Peru”. Forthcoming in Latin American Antiquity
2008 Simonetti A, Buzon MR, Creaser RA. “In-situ elemental and Sr isotope investigation of human tooth enamel by Laser Ablation-(MC)-ICP-MS: successes and pitfalls.” Forthcoming in Archaeometry.
2007 Buzon MR, Simonetti A, Creaser RA. “Migration in the Nile Valley during the New Kingdom period: a preliminary strontium isotope study.” Journal of Archaeological Science 9:1391-1401.
2007 Buzon MR, Richman R. “Traumatic injuries and imperialism: the effects of Egyptian colonial strategies in upper Nubia.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 133:783-791.
2006 Buzon MR. “Life in New Kingdom Nubia: a bioarchaeological analysis of ethnicity, biological affinities, and health.” Acta Nubica: Proceedings of the X Conference for Nubian Studies, edited by I Caneva and A Roccati. Instituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato Spa, Rome, pp. 213-218.
2006 Buzon MR. “The relationship between biological and ethnic identity in New Kingdom Nubia.” Current Anthropology 47:683-695.
2006 Buzon MR. “Health of the non-elites at Tombos: nutritional and disease stress in New Kingdom Nubia.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 130: 26-37.
2007 Brian C Kelly and Jeffrey T Parsons. “Prescription Drug Misuse among Club Drug Using Young Adults” American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Vol. 33 (6), 875-884.
2007 Brian C Kelly “Conceptions of Risk in the Lives of Club Drug Using Youth” in James A. Inciardi and Karen McElrath (Eds.) The American Drug Scene: An Anthology, 5th Edition Roxbury Press.
2007 Jeffrey T Parsons, Brian C Kelly, and Jonathan D Weiser. “Initiation into Methamphetamine Use among Gay and Bisexual Men” Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Vol. 90 (2-3), 135-144.
2007 Brian C Kelly. “Club Drug Use and Risk Management among “Bridge and Tunnel” Youth” Journal of Drug Issues, Vol. 37 (2), 425-444.
2007 Jeffrey T Parsons, Brian C Kelly, David S Bimbi, Fredrick Muench, and Jon Morgenstern. “Accounting for the Social Triggers of Sexual Compulsivity” Journal of Addictive Diseases, Vol. 26 (3), 5-16.
2006 Brian C Kelly. “Risk and Practice in the Lives of Ecstasy Using Youth” in William Sanders (Ed.) Drugs, Clubs, and Young People: Sociological and Public Health Perspectives Ashgate Press.
2006 Brian C Kelly. “Bongs and Blunts: Notes on a Suburban Marijuana Subculture” in Andrew Golub (Ed.) The Cultural/Subcultural Contexts of Marijuana Use at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Haworth Press.
2006 Brian C Kelly, Jeffrey T Parsons, and Brooke Wells. “Patterns and Prevalence of Club Drug Use among Club-Going Young Adults” Journal of Urban Health Vol. 83 (5), 884-895.
2006 Jeffrey T Parsons, Brian C Kelly, and Brooke Wells. “Differences in Club Drug Use among Heterosexual and Lesbian/Bisexual Females” Addictive Behaviors, 31, 2344-2349.
2007 Remis, M.J. and R. Hardin. Assessment of Forest Use Patterns and Wildlife Abundance: Coupling Anthropological and Ecological Approaches. Hanna, K., Clark, D. and S. Slocombe eds “Protected Areas Management: Policy and Design”; Spon Press, Routledge UK.
2006 Hardin, R and Remis, M.J. Biological and Cultural Anthropology of a Changing Tropical Forest: A Fruitful Collaboration Across Subfields American Anthropologist v 108 (2) 273-285.
2006 Remis, M.J. The Role of Taste in Food Selection by African Apes: Implications for Niche Separation and Overlap in Tropical Forests. Primates v. 47 no. 1: 56-64.
2008 J. Eerkens, K. Vaughn, M. Linares, C. Conlee, T. Carpenter, and K. Schreiber, Obsidian Hydration Dating on the South Coast of Peru. Journal of Archaeological Science, in press.
2008, H. Van Gijseghem and K. Vaughn, Regional Integration and the Built Environment in Middle-Range Societies: Paracas and Early Nasca Houses and Communities. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 27(1):111-130.
2007 K. Vaughn, M. Linares, J. Eerkens, M. Edwards. Hematite Mining in the Ancient Americas: Mina Primavera, A 2000 Year Old Peruvian Mine. JOM 59 (December):21-25.
2006 K. Vaughn. Craft Production, Exchange, and Political Power in the Pre-Incaic Andes. Journal of Archaeological Research 14(4):313-344.
2006 K. Vaughn and M. Linares. Three Thousand Years of Occupation in Upper Valley Nasca: Excavations at Upanca. Latin American Antiquity 17(4):595-612.
2006 K. Vaughn, C. Conlee, H. Neff, and K. Schreiber. Ceramic Production in Ancient Nasca: Provenance Analysis of Pottery from the Early Nasca and Tiza Cultures through INAA. Journal of Archaeological Science 33(5):681-689.
Sharon Williams
2008 Williams SR, McDade TW. In review. “The Use of Dried Blood Spot Sampling in the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project (NSHAP).” Journals of Gerontology. Series B. Psychological and Social Sciences.
2008 Williams SR, Pham-Canter G, Leitsch SA. In review. “Measures of Chronic Conditions and Diseases Associated with Aging in the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project (NSHAP). “ Journals of Gerontology. Series B. Psychological and Social Sciences.
2008 Schumm LP, Lindau ST, McClintok M, Williams S, Leitsch S, Lundstrom J, Hummel T. In review. “Assessment of Sensory Function in the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project (NSHAP).” Journals of Gerontology. Series B. Psychological and Social Sciences.
2007 McDade TW, Williams SR and Snodgrass JJ. “What a Drop Can Do: Dried Blood Spots as a Minimally Invasive Method for Integrating Biomarkers into Population-Based Research.” Demography: 44(4): 899-925.
2006 Williams SR. "Menstrual Cycle Characteristics and Predictability of Ovulation of Bhutia Women in Sikkim, India." International Journal of Physiological Anthropology and Applied Human Science. 25(1).
2006 Williams SR. "Measuring Stress in Special Populations." CH 8. In Ice GH, and James GD eds. Measuring Stress. A Practical Guide to Measuring Stress in the Field. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2006 Pike IL and Williams SR. "Assessing Psychosocial Responses to Social Change Among Turkana Women of Kenya: Preliminary Findings." American Journal of Human Biology. 18(6): 729-740.