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William R. Coe PhD University of Pennsylvania 1958  
  Professor Emeritus 1958-1987 Anthropology Department Faculty
  Appointments Curator Emeritus, American Section, University Museum
  Research Interests Archaeology; Mesoamerica (Maya)
                 
William H. Davenport PhD Yale University 1956  
  Professor Emeritus 1963-1992 Anthropology Department Faculty
  Appointments Curator Emeritus, Oceanian Section, University Museum
  Research Interests Cultural anthropology, Oceania; comparative social organization; ethnography and ethnology of Oceania; primitive/tribal art and iconography; ethnology of sexual behavior.
                 
Robert H. Dyson PhD Harvard University 1966  
   
  Professor Emeritus 1954-1995 Anthropology Department Faculty
  Appointments Curator Emeritus, Near East Section, University Museum.
  Research Interests Archaeology and prehistory; Near East and Iran; paleoecology, technology, architecture, cultural change, history of Near Eastern archaeology; chronology and urbanization. 1957-1977--study results of Hasanlu Project (6000-300 BC) in Iran. Aimed at data retrieval for reconstruction of cultural development functionally and historically.
                 
Ward H. Goodenough PhD Yale University 1949  
   
  University Professor Emeritus 1949-1989 Anthropology Department Faculty
  Appointments Consulting Curator Emeritus, Oceania Section, University Museum
  Research Interests Cultural and linguistic anthropology; Oceania, Micronesia; social organization; anthropology of law; culture theory; semantics.
                 
Robert S. O. Harding PhD University of California, Berkeley 1973  
   
  Associate Professor Emeritus 1973-1997 Anthropology Department Faculty
  Appointments Consulting Curator Emeritus, Physical Anthropology Section, University Museum
  Research Interests Physical anthropology; primary interests in the evolution of behavior, specifically the behavior of the nonhuman primates. Special interests in ecology, primate conservation, and the evolution of sexual strategies. Research includes fieldwork with free-ranging olive baboons (Papio anubis) near Gilgil, Kenya, between 1970 and 1980, a nine-month survey of large mammals (including eight primate species) in the proposed Outamba-Kilimi National Park in Sierra Leone, West Africa in 1981-1982, and a study of mating strategies in a free-ranging troop of patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) on the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya. Studied wedge-capped capuchin monkeys (Cebus olivaceus) at Hato Pinero , in the Venezuelan llanos, between 1988 and 1995.
                 
Francis E. Johnston PhD University of Pennsylvania 1962  
   
  Professor Emeritus 1960-1963 and 1973-2000 Anthropology Department Faculty
  Appointments Curator Emeritus, Physical Anthropology Section, University Museum; Fellow, Population Studies Center; Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute
  Research Interests Biomedical anthropology; participatory action research; contemporary USA, Latin America; human biology; child development; nutrition; urban health; nutritional ecosystems; nutritional surveillance.
                 
Alan E. Mann PhD University of California at Berkeley 1968  
   
  Professor Emeritus began teaching at Penn in 1969
  Appointments Anthropology Department Faculty; Curator in Charge, Physical Anthropology Section, University Museum; Geology Graduate Group
  Research Interests Physical anthropology; Africa, Middle East, Europe; human evolution, focussing on the behavioral/environmental contexts in which human evolution took place; histological investigation of fossil hard tissues; preservation of the fossil evidence for human evolution.
                 
Ruben E. Reina PhD University of North Carolina 1957  
   
  Professor Emeritus 1957-1990 Anthropology Department Faculty
  Appointments Consulting Curator Emeritus, American Section, University Museum
  Research Interests Cultural anthropology; Central and South America, Spain; culture change; ethnographic and ethnohistorical studies; contemporary and traditional Maya Indians, modern Latin American peoples, peasants, urban communities; research in contemporary Mayan communities.
                 
Bernard Wailes PhD Cambridge University 1964  
   
  Associate Professor Emeritus 1961-1999 Anthropology Department Faculty
  Appointments Curator Emeritus, European Archaeology Section, University Museum
  Research Interests Archaeology; later prehistoric and early historic Europe, especially Ireland; cultural evolution, especially 'chiefdom' societies; interrelationship of textual and archaeological evidence; Old World archaeology generally; farming systems.
                 
Anthony F. C. Wallace PhD University of Pennsylvania 1950  
  University Professor Emeritus 1950-1988 Anthropology Department Faculty
  Appointments Consulting Curator Emeritus, American Section, University Museum
  Research Interests Cultural anthropology, US; processes of social and cultural change and particularly those associated with the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; cognitive process involved in technological creativity and the transfer of technological information.