Arnoldi
|
Billeck
|
Bishop
|
Blackman
|
Fitzhugh
|
Frohlich
|
Goddard
|
Hollinger
|
Hunt
|
Kaeppler
|
Laughlin
|
Loring
|
Merrill
|
Ortner
|
Ousley
|
Owsley
|
Piperno
|
Potts
|
Rogers
|
Smith
|
Stanford
|
Taylor
|
Ubelaker
|
Van Beek
|
Zeder
About
the Department of Anthropology
REFERENCE
Each
project advisor entry includes the following information:
| Advisor
Name |
Telephone
number
|
E-mail
address
|
Position
title. Education history. Brief description of
current research specialties.
Where
appropriate, entries also include a sample RTP
research project description, the number and name(s)
of prior RTP participants hosted by the advisor,
and the publication(s) co-authored by the RTP
student/advisor team.
If
known, the annual availability is listed.
| Mary
Jo Arnoldi |
(202)
633-1937
|
arnoldim@si.edu
|
Curator,
African Art and Ethnology. B.F.A. (1970) Bowling
Green State University; M.A. (1975) Michigan State
University; Ph.D. (1983) Indiana University. Research
specialties: African ethnography with emphasis
on visual and performing arts; identity formation;
ideology and social organization; and ethnohistory;
African
Voices Exhibit. Science Unit: Department
of Anthropology.
Sample
project:
Dr.
Arnoldi has hosted 2 participants in the RTP:
Dalia
Palchik (2003)
- project
summary
Toccarra Thomas (2003)
- project
summary
There
have been no scientific publications resulting
from their collaborations.
| William
Billeck |
(202)
633-0865
|
billeckb@si.edu
|
Archaeologist.
B.A. (1976) Queens College; M.S. (1980) University
of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Ph.D. (1993) University
of Missouri. Research specialties: North American
Archaeology, plains repatriation. Science Unit:
Department
of Anthropology, Repatriation.
Sample
project:
Dr.
Billeck has hosted 1participant in the RTP:
Digna
Ortiz (2004)
- project
summary
There
have been no scientific publications resulting
from their collaborations.
| Ronald
Bishop |
(202)
633-1898
|
bishopr@si.edu
|
Research
Archaeologist. B.A. (1965) San Francisco State
University; Ph.D. (1975) Southern Illinois University.
Research specialties: Archaeology of Meso- and
Central America; ancient materials characterization;
exchange systems; quantitative methods. Science
Unit: Department
of Anthropology.
Sample
project:
| James
Blackman |
(202)
633-1900
|
blackmanj@si.edu
|
Senior
Research Chemist. B.A. (1965), M.S. (1971) Miami
University (Ohio); Ph.D. (1975) Ohio State University.
Research specialties: Archaeological materials
characterization; exchange systems; production
technology and organization, Old World, Middle
East. Science
Unit: Department
of Anthropology.
Sample
project:
| William
Fitzhugh |
(202)
633-1887
|
fitzhugh@si.edu
|
Curator,
North American Archaeology; Director, Arctic
Studies Center. B.A. (1964) Dartmouth College;
M.A. (1967), Ph.D. (1970) Harvard University.
Arctic Studies Center. Research specialties: prehistory
of eastern Canada and northeastern Sectioned States;
circumpolar ethnology and archaeology; Arctic
material culture; Arctic social science policy;
cultural ecology of the North; ethnographic and
prehistoric maritime adaptations; culture and
climatology. European-Native contacts and transformations.
Science Unit: Department
of Anthropology.
Sample
project: Study in Labrador and Baffin
Island archaeology; projects in museum science
and exhibition on Viking and the Aina culture
of northern Japan, northern Russia and North Pacific
studies.
Dr.
Fitzhugh has hosted 2 participants in the RTP:
Erica
Guyer (1996)
- project
summary
Jennifer Quincey (1999)
- project
summary
There
have been no scientific publications resulting
from their collaborations.
| Bruno
Frohlich |
(202)
633-1976
|
frohlich@si.edu
|
Statistician,
Physical Anthropology. B.A. (1973) University
of Copenhagen; M.S. (1976), Ph.D. (1979) University
of Connecticut. Research specialties: Middle Eastern
skeletal biology; Arctic and Sub-Arctic skeletal
biology; forensic anthropology; remote sensing;
geophysical methods;and computed temography. Science
Unit: Department
of Anthropology.
Sample
project: Hellenistic mortuary
practices in northern Syria.
| Ives
Goddard |
(202)
633-1963
|
goddardi@si.edu
|
Senior
Linguist, Anthropology (Linguistics). B.A. (1963)
Harvard College; Ph.D. (1969) Harvard University.
Research specialties: linguistics and North America;
general linguistics including descriptive, historical,
and theoretical; textual analysis, discourse,
philology; Algonquian linguistics, and ethnohistory;
Identity
of Red Thunder Cloud. Science Unit: Department
of Anthropology.
Sample
project: Linguistic analysis using
manuscript and printed materials on Native North
American languages.
Dr.
Goddard has hosted 1 participant in the RTP:
Sudha
Arunachalam (2000)
- project
summary
There
have been no scientific publications resulting
from their collaborations.
| Eric
Hollinger |
(202)
633-0872
|
hollinge@si.edu
|
Archaeologist.
Research specialties: Late prehistoric Midwest,
Great Lakes, and Eastern Sectioned States, Repatriation,
Archaeology. Science Unit: Department
of Anthropology, Repatriation.
Sample
project:
Mr.
Hollinger has hosted 2 RTP and 1 RET participants:
Jayme
Job (2006)
- project
summary
Alisa
O'Connor (2006)
- project
summary
Donna
Stewart (2002 RET) - project
summary
There
have been no scientific publications resulting
from their collaborations.
| David
Hunt |
(202)
633-1971
|
huntd@si.edu
|
Museum
Specialist/Physical Anthropology Collections Management.
B.A. (1980) University of Illinois; M.A. (1983),
Ph.D. (1989) University of Tennessee. Research
specialties: human variation, skeletal biology,
forensic anthropology, human mummies of the world,
dermatoglyphics. Science Unit: Department
of Anthropology.
Sample
project:
Dr.
Hunt has hosted 2 RTP participants:
Paige
Hamilton (2006)
- project
summary
Andrea
Runyan (2002)
- project
summary
One
(1) scientific publication and one (1) presentation
resulted from their collaboration:
- Runyan,
A.M. and D. Hunt. Dental disease: the root
of all evil? Skeletal analysis of the relationship
between periodontal and systemic disease. 72nd
Annual Meeting of the American Association of
Physical Anthropology. Tempe, Arizona. 2003.
Poster. Abstract with Program. -
- ABSTRACT
- Runyan,
A.M. and D. Hunt. In press. Dental disease:
the root of all evil? Skeletal analysis of the
relationship between periodontal and systemic
disease. International Journal of Dental Anthropology.
-
- ABSTRACT
| Adrienne
Kaeppler |
(202)
633-1930
|
kaepplea@si.edu
|
Curator,
Oceanic Ethnology. B.A. (1959), M.A. (1961), Ph.D.
(1967) University of Hawaii. Research specialties:
social anthropology, material culture, art, ethnohistory,
ethnoscience of Polynesia and Micronesia, and
aesthetics and systems of knowledge. Science Unit:
Department
of Anthropology.
Sample
project:
| Robert
Laughlin |
|
laughlir@si.edu
|
Curator,
Middle American Ethnology. B.A. (1956) Princet
on University; M.A. (1959), Ph.D. (1963) Harvard
University. Research specialties: ethnology of
Mesoamerica, particularly of the Mayan groups,
with special interest in mythology, religion,
world view, ethnobotany, and linguistics; continuing
research on the ethnography and linguistics of
the Tzotzil of Zinacantan, Chiapas, Mexico. Science
Unit: Department
of Anthropology.
Sample
project:
Museum
Anthropologist, Arctic
Studies Center. B.A. (1973) Goddard College;
M.A. (1984), Ph.D. (1991) University of Massachusetts,
Amherst. Research specialties: Arctic and sub-Arctic
ethnohistory and archaeology; Labrador; public
policy in the circumpolar north. Science Unit:
Department
of Anthropology.
Sample
project: Conduct analysis of archaeological
materials from Labrador and the Aleutian Islands,
conduct research in visual anthropology pertaining
to Innu (Indian) and Inuit cultures in the Eastern
Arctic and Labrador.
| William
Merrill |
(202)
633-1938
|
merrillw@si.edu
|
Curator,
North American Ethnology. B.A. (1972) University
of North Carolina; M.A. (1975), Ph.D. (1981) University
of Michigan. Research specialties: ethnology with
an emphasis on world view, religion, ethnobiology
and ethnohistory of North American Indians, particularly
Indian groups of western North America and the
relationships between material and nonmaterial
aspects of culture; Mexico-North
/ Mexico-Norte Project. Science Unit: Department
of Anthropology.
Sample
project:
| Donald
Ortner |
(202)
633-1979
|
ortner@si.edu
|
Curator,
Physical Anthropology. B.A. (1960) Columbia Union
College; M.A. (1967) Syracuse University; Ph.D.
(1970) University of Kansas; D.Sc. (Honorary)
(1995) University of Bradford, U.K.. Research
specialties: physical anthropology; human biocultural
adaptation; paleopathology; microevolution; health
and disease in Medieval England; calcified tissue
biology; Middle Eastern skeletal biology. Science
Unit: Department
of Anthropology.
Sample
project:
Dr.
Ortner has hosted 5 participants in the RTP:
Carlos
Bustamante (1995)
project summary
Jessica Cafarella (1997)
- project
summary
Jamie Hodgkins (2002)
- project
summary
Tristan Kimbrell (1998)
- project
summary
Sara
Marsteller (2006)
- project
summary
There
have been no scientific publications resulting
from their collaborations.
| Douglas
Owsley |
(202)
633-1989
|
owsleyd@si.edu
|
Curator,
Physical Anthropology. B.A. (1973) University
of Wyoming; M.A. (1975), Ph.D. (1978) University
of Tennessee. Research specialties: skeletal biology;
forensic anthropology; historic populations in
North America; North American Plains Indians;
Polynesia. Science Unit: Department
of Anthropology.
Dr.
Owsley has hosted 3 participants in the RTP:
Skye
Chang (2003)
- project
summary
Wanda Lewis (1998)
- project
summary
Maureen Shea (1992)
- project
summary
One
(1) publication resulted from their collaboration:
- Owsley,
D., K. Bruwelheide, S. Foote, and S. Chang.
2004. Lost and found: analysis of an 1862 cast
iron coffin. Tennessee Anthropologist.
-
-
ABSTRACT
| Delores
Piperno |
(202)
633-1912
|
pipernod@si.edu
|
Research
Scientist and Curator of Archaeobotany, Department
of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History,
and Staff Scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research
Institute. B.A. (1971) Rutgers University; M.A.
(1979), PhD (1983) Temple University. Research
specialties: Tropical archaeology, archaeobotany,
and paleoecology; agricultural origins; prehistoric
human ecology.Science Unit: Department
of Anthropology.
Sample
project:
| Richard
Potts |
(202)
633-1984
|
pottsr@si.edu
|
Curator,
Physical Anthropology; Director, Human
Origins Program. B.A. (1975) Temple University;
Ph.D. (1982) Harvard University. Research specialties:
paleoecology and evolution of early hominids;
excavation and analysis of hominid sites (late
Miocene through Pleistocene). Science Unit: Department
of Anthropology.
Dr.
Potts has hosted 2 participants in the RTP:
Lynn Copes (2004)
- project
summary
Danielle Royer (2003)
- project
summary
One
(1) presentation resulted from their collaboration:
- Royer,
D. and R. Potts. The spatial distribution
of early human tool-making activities one million
years ago in the southern Rift Valley of Kenya.
Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Annual
Meeting, Montreal, Canada. March 2004. Poster.
Abstract with Program. -
- ABSTRACT
| J.
Daniel Rogers |
(202)
633-1895
|
rogersd@si.edu
|
Curator,
North American Archaeology. B.A. (1976); M.A.
(1982) University of Oklahoma; Ph.D. (1987) University
of Chicago. Research specialties: Great Plains,
Southeastern U.S., Mexico archaeology and ethnohistory,
development of social complexity, culture contact.
Science Unit: Department
of Anthropology.
Sample
project:
Dr.
Rogers has hosted 2 participants in the RTP:
Leslie
Castellanos (1996)
- project summary
Courtney Porreca (2001)
- project
summary
There
have been no scientific publications resulting
from their collaborations.
| Bruce
Smith |
(202)
633-1882
|
smithb@si.edu
|
Curator,
North American Archaeology; Senior Scientist;
Director, Archaeobiology
Program. B.A. (1968), M.A. (1971), Ph.D. (1973)
University of Michigan. Research specialties:
The origins of agriculture; plant and animal domestication;
archaeology of North America; and the development
of ranked societies. Science Unit: Department
of Anthropology.
Sample
project:
Dr.
Smith has hosted 1 participant in the RTP:
Adam
Freeburg (2002)
- project
summary
There
have been no scientific publications resulting
from their collaborations.
| Dennis
Stanford |
(202)
633-1884
|
stanford@si.edu
|
Curator,
Paleo-Indian Archaeology. B.A. (1965) University
of Wyoming; Ph.D. (1972) University of New Mexico.
Paleo-Indian Program. Research specialties: archaeology
of Paleo-Indians, especially in Western Sectioned
States; Alaska paleontology. Science Unit: Department
of Anthropology.
Sample
project:
| Paul
Taylor |
(202)
633-4730
|
taylorp@si.edu
|
Director,
Asian Cultural History Program (and) Curator,
Asia European Near Eastern Ethnology. B.A. (1975)
University of California; M.Phil. (1977), Ph.D.
(1980) Yale University. Research specialties:
cultural anthropology and linguistics of Southeast
Asia; ethnobiology; kinship and social organization;
art and material culture; ecological anthropology;
ethnography and languages of Indonesia, especially
Maluku and Irian Jaya; virtual museums. Science
Unit: Department
of Anthropology.
Sample
project:
Dr.
Taylor has hosted 1 participant in the RTP:
Maksim
Yegorov (1998)
- project
summary
There
have been no scientific publications resulting
from their collaborations.
| Douglas
Ubelaker |
(202)
633-1980
|
ubelaked@si.edu
|
Curator,
Physical Anthropology. B.A. (1968), Ph.D. (1973)
University of Kansas. Research specialties: New
World human skeletal biology; and forensic anthropology.
Science Unit: Department
of Anthropology.
Sample
project:
Dr.
Ubelaker has hosted 1 participant in the RTP:
Cassady
Yoder (1998)
- project
summary
One
publication resulted from their collaboration:
- Yoder,
C., D. Ubelaker, and J.F. Powell. 2001.
Examination of variation in sternal rib end
morphology relevant to age assessment. Journal
of Forensic Science 46(2):223-227. - - ABSTRACT
| Gus
W. Van Beek |
(202)
633-1890
|
vanbeekg@si.edu
|
Curator,
Old World Archaeology. B.A. (1943) University
of Tulsa; B.D. (1945) McCormick Theological Seminary;
Ph.D. (1953) Johns Hopkins University. Research
specialties: Near Eastern archaeology of the historical
periods (ca. 3000 B.C. - A.D. 200), chiefly in
Arabia, the Levant; methodology, demography, all
cultural artifacts; ancient and contemporary vernacular
earthen architecture. Science Unit: Department
of Anthropology.
Sample
project:
| Melinda
Zeder |
(202)
633-1886
|
zederm@nmnh.si.edu
|
Curator.
B.A. (1975), M.A. (1978), Ph.D. (1985) University
of Michigan. Research specialties: Animal domestication;
origins of food production, environmental impact
of early agro-pastoral economies in the Near East,
subsistence resources in emerging complex societies,
Near Eastern archaeology, zooarchaeology; Archaeobiology
Program. Science Unit: Department
of Anthropology.
Sample
project: Analysis of faunal remains
from three third millennium B.C. sites.
Dr.
Zeder has hosted 6 participants in the RTP:
Lesley
Gregoricka (2003)
- project
summary
Colleen McLinn
(1998)
- project
summary
Suzanne
Pilaar (2007)
- project
summary
Anastasia Poulos (2001)
- project
summary
Scott Rufolo (1995)
- project
summary & (1996)
- project
summary
Shanon Stackhouse (1998)
- project
summary
One
(1) publication resulted from their collaboration:
- Gregoricka,
L. and M.
Zeder. In prep. CSI sheep: skeletal reconstruction
and demographic analysis. Proposed for publication:
Fall 2004. - - ABSTRACT
Anthropology
Advisor
Archive
The
following have previously hosted students in
the Research Training Program, but are either
no longer in residence at the Museum or are
otherwise unavailable to host new students.
Dr.
Molloy hosted 1 participant in the RTP:
Nicole
Campos (1999)
- project
summary
| Stephen
Ousley |
(202)
633-0878
|
ousleys@si.edu
|
Anthropologist.
BA (1985) University of Maryland, College Park;
MA (1993), PhD (1997) University of Tennessee,
Knoxville. Research specialties: skeletal biology,
metric and non-metric skeletal variation, forensic
anthropology, three-dimensional morphometrics,
computer programming. Science Unit: Department
of Anthropology.
Sample
project:
Dr.
Ousley has hosted 3 participants in the RTP:
Andrea
Berger (2000)
- project
summary
Melanie Mann (2000)
- project
summary
Jessica Seebauer (2002)
- project
summary
There
have been no scientific publications resulting
from their collaborations.
