Anthropology at PSU
People

Full-time Faculty
Associated Faculty
Retired Faculty Emeriti
Office Coordinator
Graduate Students

Full-time Faculty
	Kenneth M. Ames PhD Washington S 1976; Professor and Chair Archaeology, method and theory, cultural ecology, complex hunter-gatherers, social archaeology; northeast Asia, North America			Virginia L. Butler PhD U Washington 1990; Professor Archaeology, zooarchaeology, taphonomy, site formation processes; western North America, Oceania
amesk@pdx.edu Home Page: http://web.pdx.edu/~amesk Office Hours			butlerv@pdx.edu Home Page: http://web.pdx.edu/~virginia Office Hours
	Sharon A. Carstens PhD Cornell 1980; Professor Cultural anthropology, symbolic anthropology, identity, gender, ethnohistory, education; China, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asian Americans			Michele R. Gamburd PhD University of Michigan 1995; Professor Cultural Anthropology, transnationalism, globalization, migration, alcohol consumption, disaster studies, violence, gender, aging, political economy, Sri Lanka, West Asia, South Asia
carstenss@pdx.edu Office Hours			gamburdm@pdx.edu Home Page: http://web.pdx.edu/~b5mg Office Hours
	Jeremy Spoon PhD University of Hawai'i 2008; Assistant Professor Local ecological knowledge, political economy, environmental sustainability, mountainous protected areas, place-based spirituality, applied anthropology, ethics, linked quantitative and qualitative methods; South Asia, Native North America, East Africa			Thomas F. Thornton PhD University of Washington 1995; Associate Professor Indigenous peoples, cultural survival, human ecology, political ecology, environmental anthropology, landscape, space and place, subsistence, development, globalization; Native North America, Alaska, Circumpolar
jspoon@pdx.edu Office Hours			tthornto@pdx.edu Home Page: http://web.pdx.edu/~tthornto Office Hours
	Natalie Vasey PhD Washington University 1997; Associate Professor Biological Anthropology, primate behavioral ecology, life history adaptations, primate evolution, endangered and recently extinct primates of Madagascar.			Douglas Wilson PhD University of Arizona 1991; Adjunct Associate Professor Historical archaeology, method and theory, public archaeology, cultural resource management; North America
nvasey@pdx.edu Office Hours			doug_wilson@nps.gov Office Hours
Associated Faculty
	Robert Boyd PhD, U Washington 1985; Adjunct Associate Professor Pacific Northwest Native American ethnohistory, culture contact and change, medical anthropology, cultural ecology			Douglas Deur PhD Louisiana State University (Geography and Anthropology); Associate Research Professor Cultural and political ecology, cultural landscapes, indigenous peoples, ethnobiology, applied research, cultural perspectives on natural resource management and restoration, ethnohistory, Northwestern North America
pdx01537@pdx.edu Home Page:https://www.disted.pdx.edu/profiles/viewpage.php?u=pdx01537			deur@pdx.edu deur@u.washington.edu
	Cameron McPherson Smith PhD, Simon Fraser University 2004; Adjunct Assistant Professor Evolution, Northwest Coast prehistory, usewear analysis, quantitative methods, spatial analysis, teaching, landscape archaeology, public outreach			Sarah Sterling PhD, U Washington 2004; Adjunct Faculty, School of Extended Studies, Affiliate Faculty Middle Eastern Studies Center Predynastic and Old Kingdom Egypt, North American prehistory, geoarchaeology, general method and theory, evolutionary theory, ceramic analysis, quantitative analysis
smithcm@pdx.edu Home Page: http://www.cameronmsmith.com			sster@pdx.edu Office Hours
Retired Faculty Emeriti
	Marc R. Feldsman PhD U Oregon 1974; Professor, Chair emeritus Physical anthropology, primate and human evolution, primate anatomy, evolutionary theory, morphometrics, computer applications, forensic osteology			Jacob Fried PhD Yale; Professor Emeritus Culture change and acculturation, psychological anthropology, adaptation to specialized and severe physical settings; Latin America, Arctic, and Subarctic America
feldesmanm@pdx.edu Home Page: http://web.pdx.edu/~h1mf/
Office Coordinator
	Connie Cash cashc@pdx.edu
Graduate Students' interests and email links
Teressa Barsotti			Jane Blair
Cortni Borgerson			Francoise Bourdonnec
Amanda Cannon studies biological anthropology, with interests in primatology and osteology.			Mariellen Carter is examining prehistoric sturgeon remains from the Portland Basin to understand how human use affected local sturgeon populations. This research will provide important demographic information regarding prehistoric sturgeon populations that may shed new light on contemporary fisheries' management practices.
Sara Davis is interested in Projectile Point Analysis of the Meier and Cathlapotle Sites in the Portland Basin.			Elaine Dorset
Heather Drought			Krey Easton is analyzing faunal remains from historical refuse features associated with households dating from the 1870s to 1919 located in Vancouver, WA. The goal of his study is to better understand how household subsistence pattterns were affected by increased urbanization and mechanization, and how socioeconomics and consumer choice can be seen through the faunal assemblages.
James Elder			Kristen Fuld is studying prehistoric archaeology, with interests in tool technologies. Kristen's thesis work includes analysis of bone tools at Cathapotle.
William Gardner-O'Kearny is looking at prehistoric exchange networks and household archaeology on the Columbia Basin and on the Northwest Coast.			Daniel Gilmour
Britt Godchaux is looking at naturopathic and holistic mental health care, specifically in terms of methods of support, cultural sensitivity, access, and power. Britt is pursuing her MA via the applied anthropology track.			Jennifer Haynes-Clark is focusing on cultural anthropology with interests in women's issues, gender identity, the politics of women's dance, agency, Orientalism, postmodernity and globalization.
Jamie Hebert is studying the political ecology of herring fisheries in Southeast Alaska with emphasis on the multivocal discourse surrounding the Kah Shakes/Revilla Channel herring managment stock. Additional interests include GIS software and web design.			Dana Holschuh
Cassandra Manning is interested in zooarchaeology and the Pacific Northwest.			Jesse Morphet-Brown is studying the issues of identity as they pertain to mixed and multi-racial individuals in the US and the French Caribbean.
Meris Mullaley is studying historical archaeology, focusing on the Pacific Northwest region. Her main interests are sites where cross-cultural interactions took place, Fort Vancouver, Chinese immigrant communities and 19th century medical practices in the Pacific Northwest.			Angela Paolucci
Susan Rosenkranz is studying applied urban and medical anthropology.			Michael Schurke is investigating prehistoric hunter-gatherer use of high-altitude environments on Mount Rainier through lithic analysis on samples from rockshelter and open-air sites.
Emily Shepard is interested in landscape archaeology, cultural transmission theory, human response to environmental change and Mesoamerica.			Stephanie Simmons is studying historical archaeology, focusing on the Western United States. Her main interests are in refuse behavior, consumerism, and bottle-glass technology.
Mary Soots is studying political anthropology and the role of civil society in the age of globalization, with a focus on social movements in Latin America. Her thesis examines the culture of resistance and the role of the internet in mobilizations against the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTTA).			Philip Sweeney
Alexander E. Stevenson is studying applications of zooarchaeology within the Great Basin. His interests include: shifting subsistence strategies and environmental change.			Janna Tuck is studying historical archaeology and is specifically interested in the dynamics of the early 20th century and the New Deal era. Her thesis work will emerge from the research she is currently doing, involving a CCC camp in Zig Zag, Oregon.
Katie Wynia is interested in historical and public archaeology.			Eric Wynkoop is focusing on cultural anthropology with interests in India, food, indentity, transnationalism, and globalization. Eric's fieldwork in Mumbai will look at individual and group orientation mediated by food and various social relationships. Using the dabbawallas as an entry point, Eric will consider the significance of home-cooked meals and the influences of caste, religion, socio-economics, health, and global factors on food choice and food access in urban India.
Juan Esteban Zea has a focus in cultural anthropology and is interested in the anthropology of violence, with research looking at the displacement of persons in Colombia and the resultant reactions and social treatment of individuals forced out of thier land and homes. He will examine displacement in the context of practice theory. Additional interests include globalization and neo-liberalism questions. He has done fieldwork in Colombia and will continue with this research in the spring and summer of 2009.