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Fran Barg |
PhD |
University of Pennsylvania |
2000 |
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Assistant Professor |
began teaching at Penn in 2000 |
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Appointments |
Faculty, Dept. of Family Practice
and Community Medicine, School of Medicine; Anthropology Graduate
Group |
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Research Interests |
Medical anthropology,
urban US, ethnic differences in disease, anthropology of aging. |
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Philip Chase |
PhD |
University of Arizona |
1983 |
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Adjunct Associate
Professor |
began teaching at Penn in 1987 |
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Appointments |
Anthropology Adjunct Faculty; Senior
Research Scientist, University Museum |
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Research Interests |
Paleolithic archaeology, evolution
of culture, evolution of symbolism and symbolic behavior, zooarchaeology,
European prehistory, taphonomy, site formation processes. |
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Dorothy L. Cheney |
PhD |
University of Cambridge |
1977 |
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Professor |
began teaching at Penn in 1986 |
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Appointments |
Biology Department Faculty; Anthropology,
and Psychology Graduate Groups |
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Research Interests |
Behavior and ecology of non-human
primates; vocal communication and social cognition of nonhuman primates;
behavioral ecology of birds and mammals. Field work in Kenya, Rwanda,
and Botswana on free-ranging vervet monkeys, gorillas, and baboons. |
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Nancy Farriss |
PhD |
University of London |
1965 |
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Annenberg Professor |
began teaching at Penn in 1971 |
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Appointments |
History Department Faculty; Chairman,
Executive Committee, Latin American Cultures Program; Director, Ethnohistory
program; Anthropology Graduate Group. |
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Research Interests |
Cultural change; Mesoamerica;
religion and symbolic systems; colonization and colonialism; intercultural
communication; ritual; narrative. |
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Kathleen Hall |
PhD |
University of Chicago |
1993 |
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Assistant Professor |
began teaching at Penn in 1995 |
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Appointments |
Graduate School of Education; Anthropology
Graduate Group; South Asia Regional Studies Graduate Group |
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Research Interests |
Sociocultural anthropology; Great
Britain, US, and South Asia; education and social stratification;
ethnicity, race relations and nationalism; the politics of identity
and difference; civil society and public policy discourse; immigration
and globalization; media studies and youth culture; urban ethnography;
social theory. |
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Morrie Kricun |
MD |
Thomas Jefferson Medical College |
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Professor |
joined Radiology Department at HUP
1981 |
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Appointments |
Department of Radiology, HUP; Anthropology
Graduate Group |
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Research Interests |
Skeletal disorders: bone
tumors, spinal disorders, arthritis, metabolic diseases, congenital
anomalies, trauma; paleopathology; prehistoric Australian Aborigines;
Neandertals; radiology of skeletal specimens; health status of prehistoric
populations. |
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Ritty A. Lukose |
PhD |
University of Chicago |
2001 |
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Assistant Professor |
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began teaching at Penn in 2001 |
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Appointments |
Graduate School of Education Faculty;
Anthropology Graduate Group; South Asia Regional Studies Graduate
Group |
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Research Interests |
Sociocultural anthropology;
South Asia, US; modernity, transnationalism and globalization, gender;
education, youth, migration, feminism, nationalism, (post) colonialism;
feminist, political and cultural theory. |
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Patrick E. McGovern |
PhD |
University of Pennsylvania |
1980 |
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Adjunct Associate
Professor |
began teaching at Penn in 1979 |
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Appointments |
Senior Research Scientist, MASCA and
Near East Section, Director of Baq'ah Valley (Jordan) Project, University
Museum; Anthropology Adjunct Faculty |
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Research Interests |
Archaeology; Near East and Egypt;
Bronze and Iron Ages; applications of the physical and biological
sciences in archaeology; directing archaeological projects in Jordan;
head of the Archaeochemistry and Archaeoceramics Laboratory; organic
contents analysis; pottery provenancing; technological innovation
and cultural change. |
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Naomi F. Miller |
PhD |
University of Michigan |
1982 |
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Adjunct Associate
Professor |
began working at Penn in 1987 |
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Appointments |
Senior Research Scientist, MASCA and
Near East Section, University Museum; Anthropology Adjunct Faculty |
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Research Interests |
Archaeology; ancient Near East and
Central Asia; paleoethnobotany; research at Gordion and Hacinebi (Turkey),
Tell es-Sweyhat (Syria), Anau (Turkmenistan), et al.; long-term human
impact on the land; ancient agriculture and land use. |
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Janet M. Monge |
PhD |
University of Pennsylvania |
1991 |
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Adjunct Assistant
Professor |
began teaching at Penn in 1996 |
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Appointments |
Bryn Mawr College Adjunct Faculty;
Anthropology Adjunct Faculty; Keeper of Collections, Physical Anthropology
Section, University Museum |
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Research Interests |
Paleoanthropology; Europe;
comparative vertebrate and human osteology; dental histology; skeletal
biology. |
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Marilyn Norcini |
PhD |
University of Arizona |
1995 |
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Adjunct Associate
Professor |
began teaching at Penn in 1998 |
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Appointments |
Senior Research Scientist, American
Section, University Museum; Anthropology Adjunct Faculty |
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Research Interests |
Museology; anthropological archives;
history of American anthropology; Southwestern ethnography; American
Indians of the Southwest, particularly Pueblo societies; tribal museums
and indigenous cultural centers; indigenous scholars. |
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Paula L. W. Sabloff |
PhD |
Brandeis University |
1977 |
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Adjunct Associate
Professor |
began teaching at Penn in 1996 |
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Appointments |
Senior Research Scientist, Asian Section,
University Museum; Anthropology Adjunct Faculty; Penn's representative
to Human Relations Area Files (HRAF); Associate Fellow, Asian &
Middle Eastern Studies Department |
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Research Interests |
Cultural anthropology; political anthropology;
methodology; applied anthropology; Mongolia, US, Latin America; anthropology
of complex societies. |
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Gillian Sankoff |
PhD |
McGill University |
1968 |
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Professor |
began teaching at Penn in 1979 |
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Appointments |
Linguistics Department Faculty; Anthropology
Graduate Group |
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Research Interests |
Socio- and ethnolinguistics; Oceania
(especially Papua New Guinea), French Canada; pidgins and creoles;
languages in contact; creolization of New Guinea Tok Pisin; Buang
(Morobe Province, PNG) language and society, especially cognitive
anthropology, bilingualism, ethnopoetics; language change and social
stratification of Montreal French; acquisition of French by English
Canadians. |
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Robert Seyfarth |
PhD |
University of Cambridge |
1977 |
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Professor |
began teaching at Penn in 1985 |
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Appointments |
Psychology Department Faculty; Anthropology
and Biology Graduate Groups |
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Research Interests |
Social organization, communication,
and cognition in nonhuman primates; vocal communication in animals
and its relation to language. |
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Josef W. Wegner |
PhD |
University of Pennsylvania |
1996 |
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Assistant Professor |
began teaching at Penn in 1996 |
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Appointments |
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department
Faculty; Assistant Curator, Egyptian Section, University Museum; Anthropology
Graduate Group |
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Research Interests |
Egyptian Archaeology; excavations
at Abydos (southern Egypt); archaeology of religion; settlement archaeology;
structure/evolution of administrative systems; specializing in Egypt's
Middle Kingdom-Second Intermediate Period. |
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Joyce White |
PhD |
University of Pennsylvania |
1986 |
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Adjunct Associate
Professor |
began teaching at Penn in 1987 |
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Appointments |
Senior Research Scientist, Asian Section,
University Museum; Director Ban Chiang Project; Anthropology Adjunct
Faculty |
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Research Interests |
Archaeology; mainland Southeast Asia;
ethnoecology; palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in Thailand; development
of prehistoric agriculture; heterarchy; methodology of site analysis. |
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Stanton Wortham |
PhD |
University of Chicago |
1992 |
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Associate Professor |
began teaching at Penn in 1998 |
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Appointments |
Graduate School of Education Faculty;
Chair, Educational Leadership Division; Anthropology Graduate Group;
Folklore & Folklife Graduate Group |
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Research Interests |
Linguistic anthropology, social theory,
semiotics, indexicality, social identity, narrative, discourse analysis,
interactional functions of speech, narrative self-construction, situated
cognition, classroom discourse, media discourse. |
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Babette Zemel |
PhD |
University of Pennsylvania |
1989 |
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Adjunct Associate
Professor |
began teaching at Penn in 1996 |
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Appointments |
Scientific Director, Nutrition Growth
Lab, CHOP; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania
Medical School; Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Nursing; Anthropology Adjunct Faculty |
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Research Interests |
Nutritional anthropology; human adaptation;
energetics; growth & development; body composition and bone mineralization;
biomedical anthropology; Papua New Guinea; genetic epidemiology; living
with chronic disease. |
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Michael R. Zimmerman |
PhD |
University of Pennsylvania |
1976 |
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MD |
New York University |
1963 |
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Adjunct Professor |
teaching at Penn, 1972-1977 and since
1980 |
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Appointments |
Anthropology Adjunct Faculty |
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Research Interests |
Medical anthropology; paleopathology
of Egyptian and Alaskan mummies and early hominid skeletal remains;
Egyptology; Alaskan prehistory; hominid evolution. |