- Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901, Philadelphia - November 15, 1978, New York City) was an American cultural anthropologist.
- Carlos Castaneda
Carlos Castaneda was a Peruvian-born American author. He wrote a series of books that purport to describe his training in traditional Mesoamerican shamanism, which he referred to as a form of sorcery. The books and Castaneda, who rarely spoke in public about his work, have been controversial for many years. Supporters claim the books are either true or at least valuable works of philosophy and descriptions of practices which enable an increased awareness.
- Paul Rabinow
Paul Rabinow is a Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at Berkely since 1978.
- Scott Atran
Scott Atran is an American anthropologist. He was born in New York City in 1952 and received his PhD in anthropology from Columbia University. While a student he became assistant to anthropologist Margaret Mead at the American Museum of Natural History. In 1974 he organized a debate at the Abbaye de Royaumont in France on the nature of universals in human thought and society, with the participation of linguist Noam Chomsky, psychologist Jean Piaget, …
- Orin Starn
Orin Starn is the Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Starn is the author of "Ishi's Brain: In Search of America's Last Wild Indian"; his other books include "Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes" and he is a co-editor of "Indigenous Experience Today", "The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics" and "Between Resistance and Revolution: Cultural Politics and Social Protest".
- Jay Ruby
Jay Ruby (1935-) is an American scholar who was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Temple University until his recent retirement. He received his B.A. in History (1960) and Ph.D. in Anthropology (1969) from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a leader in the field of visual anthropology.
- Saba Mahmood
Saba Mahmood is an anthropologist at UC Berkeley and the author of "Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject" (2005). In this book she theorizes the concept of habitus from a genealogy that begins with Aristotle and extends into the Islamic tradition. She thinks of ethics as a type of armature that a female subject forms by submitting to body practices. Through these body practices, such as weeping, praying five times a day, attending mosque, …
- H. James Birx
H. James Birx (born June 1, 1941) is an American anthropologist. Birx took his M.A. in anthropology and his Ph.D. in philosophy from the State University of New York (SUNY) University at Buffalo, and is now professor of anthropology at Canisius College, as well as Distinguished research Scholar in the SUNY Geneseo's Department of Anthropology. He has been a visiting professor at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, twice a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, …
- Marcel Danesi
Marcel Danesi has a PhD in Italian linguistics, and taught Italian for twenty-five years at the University of Toronto, where he is now the director of the Semiotics and Communication Theory program and a professor of anthropology, specializing in youth culture. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1999. Danesi is published extensively in English and Italian. He lives in Toronto.
- Roy D'Andrade
Roy Goodwin D'Andrade is one of the founders of the subdiscipline of cognitive anthropology. Born in New Jersey, D'Andrade matriculated at Rutgers University but left to fulfill his military service. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Connecticut. He then studied in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard, from which he received his PhD in Social Anthropology. He taught at Stanford University from 1962-1969.
- Hendrik Poinar
Hendrik N. Poinar (born 1969 in Utrecht, The Netherlands) is an evolutionary biologist. He is best known for successfully extracting DNA sequences from ground sloth coprolites. The son of noted entomologist George Poinar, Jr. and Eva Poinar, Poinar received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 1992 and 1999 respectively before earning a Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of Munich, …
- Lina Fruzzetti
Lina Fruzetti is an American anthropologist and documentary film director. She is a professor of Anthropology at Brown University. Her films, co-directed with Ákos Östör, include "Seed and Earth" (1994), "Fishers of Dar" (2002) and "Singing Pictures" (2005). "Singing Pictures" is distributed by Documentary Educational Resources. It won an award at the XV International Festival of Ethnological Film (Belgarde November 1 - November 5, 2006)
- Elizabeth Brumfiel
Elizabeth Brumfiel is an American archaeologist who teaches at Northwestern University. She is a former president of the American Anthropological Association. Brumfiel has conducted an archaeological project at the site of Xaltocan in Mexico since 1987. Her publications focus on gender, political economy, and the relationship between these areas of scholarship. She also works to show how archaeology, as an academic discipline, …
- Anne Zeller
Anne Zeller is a physical anthropologist who specializes in the study of primates. She received her M.A.(1971) and Ph.D (1978) from the University of Toronto. During her graduate studies she worked on chromosome analysis, comparing chimpanzee and human chromosomes. Anne has undertaken primate field research in Morocco, Gibraltar, Texas, Borneo and Africa. These two types of research combine interests in the physical development of humans from their primate ancestors, …
- Margaret B. Blackman
Margaret B. Blackman (1944-) is an anthropologist known for her work with the Haida First Nation of the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia, Canada, beginning in the 1970s. She is, and has been for many years, a professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Brockport. Her best known work is a collaborative biography of the Haida artist Florence Davidson, published in 1982
- James M. Adovasio
James Adovasio, Ph.D. (b. 17 February 1944) is a Mercyhurst College professor who excavated the Meadowcroft Rockshelter dig. Dr. Adovasio, founder and director of the Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute, an internationally known archaeologist, has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: "Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there?"
- Dia Cha
Dia Cha (1962? -) is currently (2006) Associate Professor of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies at St. Cloud State University, in St. Cloud, Minnesota, where she teaches courses in cultural anthropology, ethnic studies, Southeast Asian communities, Asian American studies, and Hmong studies. A Hmong American and a prolific author, she has written widely-acclaimed books for children and adults, …
- Arnold Perey
Arnold Perey , Ph.D. , teaches the course "Aesthetic Realism and Anthropology" and is an instructor of "The Aesthetic Realism of Eli Siegel As Teaching Method." He received his B.A. in anthropology from the University of Chicago and his doctorate from Columbia University. His dissertation, based on Aesthetic Realism, describes research conducted in Papua New Guinea, supported by the National Science Foundation.
- Maria Echaveste
Maria Echaveste , J.D. '80, was deputy chief of staff for the Clinton Administration from April 1998 until Dec. 2001, making her the highest-ranking Latino ever to have served in the White House. The oldest of seven children of farm workers, she was an accomplished bankruptcy litigator before joining Clinton's 1992 Presidential campaign, later heading the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division.
- Michael Crichton
Crichton, born in Chicago, is best known as the author of several books that have gone onto become famous films, most notably "Jurassic Park" and its sequel, "The Lost World". He is also the author of "The Andromeda Strain", "Rising Sun", "The Great Train Robbery", "Congo", "Sphere", "Eaters Of The Dead, and "Timeline" among others, all of which have been adapted for the big screen and TV. He was also the creator of the award-winning TV series [... ]
- Mizuko Ito
Mizuko Ito is a cultural anthropologist at the University of Southern California and Keio University, specializing in studies of media technology use. Currently, her work focuses on Japanese technoculture, including children's media mixes and youth mobile phone use. She is co-editing a book on Japanese mobile phone use entitled "Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life."
- Johnnetta B. Cole
Known to many of Spelman College's extended family as Sister President, Johnnetta Cole is the first black woman to lead the nation's oldest college for black women. Cole's presidency began in 1987. Under her guidance, the school has reenforced its reputation for academic excellence, strengthened its partnerships with the business and corporate community, and integrated volunteer work into the Spelman experience.
- Liza Dalby
Liza Dalby is an anthropologist and a novelist. She is the only westerner to have become a geisha, which she did in the course of researching her book, Geisha . She has also written Kimono A Fashioning Culture, a view of Japanese culture through dress. Her first novel, The Tale of Murasaki , was published in Spring 2000.
- Philleo Nash
Philleo Nash (October 25, 1909-October 12, 1987) was a government official, educator, anthropolologist, and Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1959-1961 as a Democrat. Philleo Nash was born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1932. In 1935, he received his Ph.D in anthropology from the University of Chicago. On November 2, 1935, he married Edith Nash, who was the second director of the Georgetown Day School, …
- Terrence Deacon
Terrence Deacon is Associate Professor at Boston University and a Harvard University Ph.D. He teaches courses in Biological Anthropology and in the Neurosciences at Boston University. He taught at Harvard University from 1984 to 1992, at Boston University from 1992 to present, and was a research associate at Harvard Medical School from 1992 to 1999. Professor Deacon's research focuses on the evolution of the brain.
- Jason Brown
Born in St. Louis, living in Seattle. I've spent my life trying to shed my midwestern inhibitions, eat everything in sight and figure out what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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- Mark Davey
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- Stephanie Skoler
Stephanie has been tutoring students for the SAT and the Math Subject Tests for six years. Born and raised in New York City, Stephanie earned a BA in Anthropology from Binghamton University and a Masters in Public Health from Boston University. In addition to tutoring, Stephanie conducts HIV prevention research for an international non-profit based on the Upper East Side. In 2001, Skoler began tutoring for the SAT's in West Harlem on a volunteer basis through NY Cares.
- Lisa Wells
Lisa Wells , a native of Denver, Colorado, first encountered Montessori education when her family helped start a school in Schenectady, New York. After graduating from The University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in Anthropology, Lisa designed programs for children at the historical museum in a small West Texas college, and followed her love of astronomy to become a trained planetarium operator.
- Sara Busdiecker