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  Katherine Moore PhD University of Michigan   1989  
               
  Lecturer   began teaching at Penn in 1999    
  Appointments Research Associate, American Section, University Museum; Lecturer Anthropology Department
                 
  Research Interests Archaeology; cultural ecology of forager and pastoral societies in South American, North America, and Central Asia; using a variety of research approaches in zooarcheaology and geochemistry to address these issues.
                 
Catherine Newling PhD University of Pennsylvania 2001  
           
  Postdoctoral Fellow/ Lecturer   began teaching at Penn in 1995    
           
  Research Interests Indigenous Mesoamerican cultures (focussing on Mexico) and social movements, particularly indigenous rights movements politics and movements that employ identity politics. Future research will examine constructions of citizenship
in plural nation-states and processes of democratization in Mexico.
 
Julia Offen PhD University of California, San Diego 2000
 
           
  Postdoctoral Fellow/ Lecturer   began teaching at Penn in 2002    
           
  Research Interests Social/Cultural Anthropology; cultural performance; ethnography; identity; popular culture; sex and
gender; community; media; imagination; discourse and narrative; psychological anthropology; Europe; transnationalism; circumpolar anthropology.
 
Deborah Olszewski PhD University of Arizona 1984  
   
  Lecturer began teaching at Penn in 2001
  Appointments Anthropology Adjunct Faculty; Research Associate, University Museum
  Research Interests Archaeology; Upper Paleolithic and Epipaleolithic of the Near East and Egypt; Project Director of the Eastern Hasa Late Pleistocene Project, Wadimal-Hasa, Jordan; Project Director of the Abydos Survey for Paleolithic Sites, Egypt; prehistoric hunter-gatherer adaptations; lithic technology and typology; landscape archaeology; origins of agriculture.