Jamison Announces Retirement Letter from the Chair Professor Paul Jamison Is Notable for His Research Acumen, Collegiality, and Student Guidance

Summer 2008

Jamison announces retirement Letter from the chair Professor Paul Jamison is notable for his research acumen, collegiality, and student guidance. His research is based on a keen A memorable insight bound to an untiring commitment that has led to numerous successful projects. anniversary year Jamison is highly respected by colleagues for his willingness and energy to take on a mul- I hope you titude of tasks that, over these 37 years, have enjoy this issue greatly benefited the Anthropology Depart- of Process. After a ment and Indiana University. Likewise, he year’s hiatus, you is held in highest esteem by students, many will find that the hundreds who enrolled in his classes and department has an equal number who eagerly sought out no shortage of good news. During his acclaimed advising and mentoring skills. this time we received an outstanding Dedication, openness, friendship: these are group of new faculty, staff, and stu- attributes that highlight the personal side of dents, and honored the distinguished Jamison’s distinguished academic career. career of Professor Paul Jamison. The professor’s life journey to this point How exhilarating that IU Anthro- has had a proximate southern bearing. He pology turned 60 this academic year! was born in Sioux Falls, S.D., and com- Our yearlong celebration included a “Dedication, openness, friendship ... high- pleted his advanced degrees at the Univer- superb Skomp Distinguished Lecture light the personal side of Jamison’s career.” sity of Wisconsin-Madison. From there he given by the University of Chicago’s Jean Comaroff and culminated with migrated to the most southern of Big Ten and statistical applications and data analyses the recent “Rethinking Race in the universities, where he has been a member of pertaining to anthropometry, that is, body Americas: Anthropology, Policy, the IU Anthropology Department faculty measurements such as height and weight. and Politics” symposium. The latter since 1971. These were large, important areas to fill, drew attendance of more than 1,200 Jamison filled a keenly perceived void in and, in one word, Jamison did so admirably. participants for the eight lectures the anthropology subfield of bioanthropol- However far south he had settled, he was and discussion panel. In addition, ogy. The program lacked an individual to not immune to a distant call of the north. our graduate student association cover childhood growth, biometric and He initiated several research projects among population variation in living adult groups, repeated its success from 2006–07 in (continued on page 8) organizing an excellent symposium and several graduate students un- dertook educational outreach activi- ‘Rethinking Race’ a success ties. The 2007–08 year bespeaks the department’s strong commitment In celebration of the IU Anthropology Berkeley), and Charles Briggs (University to integrating research and public 60th Anniversary, the department was of California, Berkeley). A faculty and education. proud to organize the “Rethinking Race student organizing committee worked with Also during this year, we created a in the Americas: Anthropology, Politics a long list of co-sponsors to make the event new PhD concentration and under- and Policy” Symposium, held April 17–18, a great success. For more information, vist graduate minor on the anthropology 2008. Our distinguished group of speak- www.indiana.edu/~anthro/rethinkingrace. of food, which was featured promi- ers included Yolanda Moses (University nently in the winter 2008 issue of of California, Riverside), Jeffrey C. Long For symposium rationale, The College magazine. A new three- (University of Michigan), Lee Baker (Duke year departmental enhancement plan presentation abstracts, speaker University), Jane Hill (University of Ari- was also developed. Our grants office zona), Ricardo Santos (National Museum, bios, and video podcasts, go to has seen an unprecedented number Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Deb- www.indiana.edu/~anthro/ of awards to faculty and students, yet orah Poole (Johns Hopkins University), Laurie Wilkie (University of California, rethinkingrace. (continued on page 8) Around the Department

Introducing new Anthropology of Food PhD The anthropology department at Indiana University will offer a PhD concentration in the anthropology of food, beginning this fall. While food studies of all kinds are increasing in popularity and specialized degrees in nutrition and food marketing are available, we believe ours is the first program — nationally and internationally — that leads to a PhD in the social science of food. In this program, food is a vehicle for making connections among people, places, and cultures, as well as across the ages. The program also links the sciences and the humanities, and will contribute to the new health-sciences and human-biology initia- tives poised to boost the national visibility of Indiana University. Each student will choose a major subfield specific to his or her interest in archaeology, social/cultural, or biological anthropology. The anthropology of food will then constitute an inside major or minor, depending on the struc- ture of the major subfield. The program capitalizes on the expertise of 20 faculty The innovative anthropology of food program members in anthropology as well as faculty featured prominently in the winter 2008 issue in history, political science, health sciences, of The College magazine, left. environmental sciences, folklore, biology, and comparative literature. More information is available online at Graduate student applications for the www.indiana.edu/~anthro/food_anthro. upcoming academic year are welcome. html. AGSA offers Culture Bites AGSA explores human journey The Anthropology Graduate Student Association is proud to support the with ‘Womb to Tomb’ symposium launch of IU’s new Anthropology of Food PhD Program with Culture In January, the Anthropology Graduate The AGSA symposium was made pos- Bites: Recipes from the Department of Students Association hosted “Womb to sible by generous sponsorship of the IU Anthropology. Tomb: Understanding Daily Life and Its Student Association, IU African Studies The cookbook contains more Processes,” the organization’s second an- Program, IU Anthropology Department, than 60 recipes, compiled from the nual AGSA Symposium. and Horizons of Knowledge. department’s faculty and students Thirty papers were presented from across Thanks are in order for the hard work and enhanced by full-color photos the anthropology subfields as well as from and dedication of the 2008 AGSA sym- from around the globe. For informa- other disciplines. Presentations focused posium committee: Heidi Bludau, Sarah tion on ordering the book, please on the daily life trajectory as a whole Dillard, Rachel Eyerman, Christine Fik, call the department at (812) 855- or any part of the human journey from Kellie Hogue, Polly Husmann, Sarah 1041. womb to tomb. Topics included ritual and Marion, and Mintzi Martinez-Rivera, spirituality, women’s roles, identity, death, lead by co-chairs, Samuel Buelow and enculturation, technology, and trade and Audrey Ricke. All proved to be most community ties. Katherine Dettwyler, of excellent hosts and organizers of this University of Delaware and Texas A&M, seamlessly executed event. To learn more delivered a keynote address on “Breastfeed- about the program, visit www.indiana. ing and the Media.” edu/~anthgrad/symposium.html.

2 Laboratory and research center spotlight Welcoming three Spotlight on the American new staff members Kim Hinton joined Indian Studies Research Institute the department as un- Research centers play a special role in dergraduate academic our students’ education. These research advisor in January centers serve as important resources for 2007. Originally from Indiana University and the field of study, Pennsylvania, Hinton facilitating key national and worldwide moved to Bloom- networking opportunities and research ington to pursue her discussions. master’s degree in Hinton The American Indian Studies Research Russian literature. Institute was founded at IU in 1985 to After receiving her MA, she moved to serve as an interdisciplinary research base the Department of Theatre and Drama for projects concerning the native peoples and is now working on her Theatre of the Americas. PhD. Prior to becoming an advisor in Co-directed by professors Raymond the College of Arts and Sciences, Hinton DeMallie and Douglas Parks, the insti- taught in IU’s Slavic and theatre depart- tute’s work typically involves educational, ments and worked for more than four editorial, and research projects, with years in the Office of Student Financial activities focusing on language documen- Assistance. tation, culture history, music documenta- tion, and material culture. Within these Jena Hanes came on topical areas, specific projects deal with board as the depart- languages and cultures throughout North ment’s grant admin- America, although the concentration is istrator in November primarily on central and northern Plains 2007. She also works peoples. part-time for the AISRI opened the Center for the Doc- School of Education. umentation of Endangered Languages In her spare time, in 1992 on the premise that oral records Hanes is a travel Hanes are essential for language documenta- agent specializing in tion, preservation, and dissemination. “green” travel. She taught high school The American Indian Studies Research Opened in 1985, the American Indian science and math for four years, and Institute is also the headquarters of the Studies Research Institute is also home of during that time, she was awarded three renowned international journal, Anthropo- renowned international journal, Anthropo- out of four grants to which she applied. logical Linguistics. logical Linguistics. Jena was born and raised in Blooming- Seven current graduate students who ton, Ind., and she holds a bachelor’s and have developed an academic relation- Sage went on to present at the Central master’s degree from IUB. She says she ship with the institute presented papers States Anthropology Society Conference is happy to be in the department because on American Indian topics in two panel in Indianapolis, and then at the CIC she enjoys both the work and the people. sessions at the Anthropology Graduate American Indian Studies Symposium in Students Association Symposium in Janu- April at Purdue University. Cheryl Oldfield is ary 2008. the department’s In March, Nicky Belle, Kelly Branam, For more information about AISRI, newest member, beginning as office Darlynn Dietrich, Kellie Hogue, Brad visit www.indiana.edu/~aisri. Kroupa, David Posthumus, and Clark services assistant in April. She worked for the School of Educa- tion for four years and, after a three-year Oldfield hiatus, has rejoined 2007 Skomp Lecture IU. “I’m very happy and very excited to be back and look forward to being Comaroff presents ‘Ethnicity Inc.’ able to help faculty, staff, and students,” Jean Comaroff, Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Pro- Oldfield said. She is especially pleased to fessor of Anthropology and Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, be back on campus, as she enjoys “the presented the 2007 Skomp Distinguished Lecture. Over 200 students and people, the atmosphere, and especially faculty members attended “Ethnicity Inc.” — a talk on the politics of cultural those [she works] with in the Depart- identity about which a publication will follow. ment. They’ve been very helpful and welcoming.”

3 Student News

Undergraduate news Congratulations are in order for six anthropology undergraduates, inducted to the Anthropology student earns Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society in Decem- ber 2007: Margaret Hathaway, Alissa $34,000 Beinecke award Jordan, Jocelyn Miller, Claire Morton, Mark Stother, and Matthew Yuknis. Paula Dias, an Indiana University Bloomington junior, has been selected as a 2008 Beinecke Scholar. Graduate student news Dias, of Bloomington, Ind., is one Grants, publishing, & awards of only 22 students nationwide to receive the $34,000 award, which sup- Sociocultural PhD candidate WooJeong ports graduate study in the arts, hu- Cho is the recipient of a Wenner-Gren manities or social sciences. She is the Foundation dissertation fieldwork grant fifth IU student to receive the award. award An anthropology major, Dias is Alicia Ebbitt was invited by Marcia Be- currently studying abroad in Aix-en- zerra (Society of Brazilian Archaeology) to Provence, France. She was born and participate in a session on heritage educa- grew up in Brazil, South America. tion at the International Meeting for Ama- Her research interests include women, zon Archaeology in Belem, Brazil. Ebbitt contraception and urbanization in the will present a paper based on her research Brazilian Amazon. on heritage education in Belize at the con- Dias has worked at the Anthropo- ference in September 2008. logical Center for Training and Re- Current PhD candidate Dru McGill search on Global Environmental Change since her junior year of high school. She co-authored a book with IU Anthropology spent two months in the Amazon conducting fieldwork and has spent the last two Department PhD alumni Chip Colwell- years analyzing the data from her research there.Dias hopes to continue studying the Chanthaphonh and Julie Hollowell. Brazilian Amazon and to earn her doctorate degree. The book, Ethics in Action: Case Studies in The Beinecke Scholarship Program was established in 1971 by the Sperry and Archaeological Dilemmas, is loosely based Hutchinson Company to honor Edwin, Frederick, and Walter Beinecke. The three on the Society for American Archaeology brothers shared a strong belief that businesses should support educational institu- Ethics Bowl, a yearly debate-style event at tions. The endowment was created to assist students who display strong motivation the SAA meetings that the three authors and exceptional potential. Since 1975, the program has selected more than 410 have organized since 2004. The book is college juniors from 97 different schools. available now from the SAA Press. McGill Congratulations, Paula! and Colwell-Chanthaphonh were also invited to participate in a “lunch with an author” series at the Annual Association for Professional and Practical Ethics in San Hensley-Marschand, Polly Husmann, and Glenn Black Laboratory as well as Antonio in February. Dave Sampson, and Mary Camozzi or- having participated in a series of hands-on Rodrigo Pedrosa won a doctoral fel- ganized three stations of activities related archaeology lab activities. Also in February, lowship award from the Inter-American to Human Origins and Evolution for Ebbitt, McGill, and Rebecca Riall visited Foundation for his project, “Commodifica- the Bloomington Montessori School in several classes at Jasper High School to talk tion of Poverty: Quilombolas and Nature November 2007. Some 50 local students about contemporary and pre-contact Na- Conservation in Brazil.” benefited from educational stations about tive American cultures and anthropological Activities and outreach Hominid evolution, comparative locomo- ethics. This outreach education program tion, archaeological site formation, and was a collaborative effort between the First Center for Archaeology in the Public In- hominid lifeways. The Montessori School Nations Educational and Culture Center terest members Alicia Ebbitt and Dru outreach is truly a tradition in the depart- and the Center for Archaeology in the McGill organized archaeology education ment, as faculty and students have worked Public Interest. activities and an archaeological exhibit in with teachers there to help students learn southwest Indiana for Indiana Archaeology about Human Origins for more than10 Month (September 2007). The two worked years. with Assistant Scientist in Anthropology In February 2008, Munson worked Update us! Cheryl Munson at the archaeological site with Ebbitt, and McGill to organize an of Hovey Lake. At the end of September, outreach program at IU for a high school Send in the class note more than 400 people attended an excava- archaeology class from Decatur Discovery coupon on the back page. tion open-house exhibit, “A Day in the Academy. The students visited in two trips We’ll publish your news in Lives of Hovey Lake Villagers.” and took tours of the Mathers Museum the next issue of Process. Eli Konwest, Allison Foley, Blair

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August 2008. She also received three grant early 2008. Phillips has also been awarded 2007-08 highlights awards: one from the National Science a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from Foundation for “Citizenship as Official and the SSRC Eurasia Program, a Fellowship in Eduardo Bronizio’s book, The Amazo- Everyday Practice: Chinese Marital Immi- Residence award from CAHI, and Horizons nian Caboclo and the Açaí Palm: Forest grants in Taiwan;” a Wenner-Gren award of Knowledge funding from IU. Farmers in the Global Market, will be from the Foundation for Anthropological Anne Pyburn received a Leverhulme officially released on June 5, 2008 at the Research; and Chiang Ching-Kuo from Fellowship for spring 2008 from the Uni- Smithsonian Museum of the American In- the Foundation for International Scholarly versity College in London as well as a grant dian in New York City where the book will Exchange. from the U.S. State Department for “Part- be introduced as one of the events in com- Shane Greene has a manuscript currently nerships.” memoration of the International Amazônia under review at Stanford University Press Anya Royce has two new books in press, Brasil 2008 Exhibition, April 17 to July 13. and School of Advanced Research Press Becoming an Ancestor: The Isthmus Zapo- Joëlle Bahloul recently submitted The for “Customizing Indigeneity: Paths to a tec Way of Death (University of Nebraska Peripatetic Set Table: Sephardic Migrants’ Visionary Politics” in Peru. He served as Press) and The Anthropology of Dance, Food Across the Mediterranean, for publi- an IU OVPR Summer Faculty Fellow for Chinese translation byWang Jian-min in cation by Indiana University Press. “Afro-Indigenous Multiculturalism in Latin process. The latter will be one of four books Gracia Clark has also submitted a book America.” Greene is also a semi-finalist for in a series on the anthropology of the arts; manuscript to Indiana University Press; a Social Sciences Research Council “Book four are already translated and published). Little By Little: Life Stories from Women Improvement Fellowship” and has been Royce also received two major grants, both Traders in a West African City in addition awarded a College Arts and Humanities focusing on “Bringing Worlds Together to publishing a collaborative “writeshop” Institute Fellowship for “Beyond Inca Uto- Around the Genome” and funded by New volume with African traders in Nairobi, pias: Cultural Politics and Performance in Perspectives and New Frontiers on Arts and Kenya called Traders Talk. Clark was elected Contemporary Peru.” Humanities. Royce was the 2007 Phi Beta 2007–2009 co-chair for the Society for Kevin Hunt received the 2007 Trustees Kappa Couper Scholar and is a member of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology, in addition Teaching Award as well as a Leakey Foun- the International Board of Timescapes, a to receiving a funding renewal for work on dation grant. five-year study funded by the Economic and “Diversity and Tolerance in the Islam of Stacie King is co-editor for an under-re- Social Research Council of Great Britain, West Africa,” and two travel grants. view publication entitled, Residential Burial: based at the University of Leeds. She direct- Geoffrey Conrad is in his second year of A Multi-regional Exploration, Archeological ed, scripted, and filmed Homenaje a Hebert a grant for the “Wanamaker Traveling Ex- Papers of the American Anthropological Rasgado, a documentary of a Zapotec musi- hibit Program,” funded by the Indiana Uni- Association. King has also been awarded a cian as well as The Art of Being Zapotec, a versity Moveable Feasts of the Arts, in addi- New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities documentary film set in Juchitán, Oaxaca. tion to having received seed funding from Exploration Traveling Fellowship for “Doc- Royce also served as one of two official pho- the IU Foundation for a Regional Campus umenting Lives in 16th to 20th Century tographers during the Dalali Lama’s 2007 Traveling Exhibit Program. Conrad was also Nejapa, Oaxaca, Mexico.” Interfaith Service in Bloomington, Ind. awarded funding from the IU Office of the Philip LeSourd published a new book, In May 2007, Laura Scheiber received Vice Provost for Research Faculty Research Tales from Maliseet Country: The Maliseet the Trustee’s Teaching Award. She recently Support Program for “Latin American Texts of Karl V. Teeter (University of Ne- co-edited Archaeological Landscapes of Genesis: Cultural Contact and Conflict at braska Press). the High Plains (University Press of Colo- La Isabela, Hispaniola;” a Howard Heinz In March 2007, Emilio Moran was rado, Boulder), a book manuscript in press. Endowment for a “Feasibility Study for the appointed as distinguished professor of Scheiber has a major grant funded by the Analysis of Ancient DNA from Sites near La anthropology at IU. He published Human National Science Foundation for “Culture Isabela, Dominican Republic;” and funding Adaptability: An Introduction to Envi- Contact and Culture Change in The Rocky from the Indiana Humanities Council’s Life ronmental Anthropology (Third Edition. Mountain Frontier: Late Period Shoshone Cycle Series for a “Community and Per- Boulder: Westview Publishers) as well as co- Responses to Colonization,” in addition sonal History Project.” authoring five published papers in as many to two other funding awards from Rocky Raymond DeMallie received grants venues. Moran is the recipient of four major Mountain Cooperative Studies Ecosystem from the Dakota Indian Foundation as well grant awards, the most recent of which are Unit (CESU) research grants. She also as from the College of Arts and Humanities from the National Science Foundation on co-organized “Across the Great Divide: Institute for the “Ella Deloria Digitization “Human and Social Dynamics” and from Continuity and Change in Native American Project” and served as a Phi Beta Kappa NASA on “Towards Sustainability.” He Societies, A.D. 1400-1800,” a symposium Visiting Scholar for the 2007–08 academic presented two keynote lectures, “Dynam- for 2007 Society for American Archaeology year. ics and Trajectories of Land Use and Land meetings. The symposium was selected as John Erikson was awarded a significant Cover Change” and “Global Environmen- the winner of the Amerind-SAA Symposium grant from the U.S. Department of Educa- tal Changes and Its Human Dimensions: grant competition. tion, Title VI, International Research and Impacts of Human Interaction with Land Nazif Shahrani has two book manu- Studies Program for a “Web-based Multi- Cover,” in Brazil in fall 2007. scripts under review, Post-Taliban Afghani- media Uzbek Dialect Dictionary Project.” Sarah Phillips completed Women’s So- stan: The Challenges of State-Building, Sara Friedman is now serving as visit- cial Activism in the New Ukraine: Develop- Governance, and Security, and Family Lives ing scholar for the Institute of Ethnology, ment and the Politics of Differentiation (IU and Public Careers in Soviet and Post- Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, through Press). The book is scheduled for release in (continued on page 6) 5 Highlights the U.S. and in the (continued from page 5) New faculty Middle East. Soviet Uzbekistan: Dynamics of a Muslim introductions Her research has Tradition in a Political Culture of ‘Scientific two primary aspects: The IU Anthropology Department extends Atheism.’ He is the recipient of a 2007– the first relates to in- a hearty and warm welcome to the fol- 2008 IU College Arts and Humanities digenous archaeology lowing seven new faculty members, each Institute Fellowship. Shahrani continues to —particularly the use of whom bring abundant expertise and serve as a member of the board of trustees of community-based, additional multiplicity to our dynamic for the newly established American Univer- participatory research Atalay and diverse academic unit. Find more sity of Afghanistan in Kabul, Afghanistan, designs, indigenous faculty profiles online, at www.indiana. and has been elected as member of the forms of heritage management and edu/~anthro/people/faculty/. executive committee of the board. He also stewardship, and the ethics of com- serves as chairman of the academic affairs munity and public collaboration. The Susan Alt joined and student policy committee of the AUAf second involves clay and ceramic analysis the faculty team in board of trustees. and an interest in foodways and cooking August 2006. She April Sievert received an Arts and Hu- technologies. Atalay’s current research received a BA in manities Exploration Traveling Fellowship involves analysis of several thousand clay anthropology at the for “Traces Left Behind: An Invitation to objects excavated at the 9,000 year-old University of Okla- Archaeology: A Documentary Film Proj- Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, Turkey. She homa, and earned ect,” as well as having won a 2008 College has published several book chapters and her MA and PhD Trustees Teaching Award. articles, in venues such as American An- in anthropology at Catherine Tucker’s book, Changing Alt tiquity and American Indian Quarterly. the University of Forests: Collective Action, Common Prop- Atalay is a co-applicant and recipient of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Alt is erty and Coffee in Honduras (Dordrecht: a $2.5 million grant from the Canadian an archaeologist studying Mississippian Springer Academic Press), is forthcoming Social Science and Humanities Research societies with a particular focus on the this spring. She was the recipient of a CAHI Council for a study on intellectual-prop- central Mississippi and lower Ohio river Research Fellowship for “Cultural Resil- erty issues in Cultural Heritage. She valleys to better understand how histori- ience and Transformation: Lenca Culture also received a sizeable award to fund cal events and social process combine to Change, Coffee Production and Market “(Re)examining Archaeological Ethics” shape human society. Integration” in 2007–08. For her work from IU’s New Frontiers in the Arts and Alt has directed large-scale excavations on the Latin American Studies Association Humanities Program: New Perspectives, of villages in the Cahokia region of the meeting panel, “Natural resource manage- a program funded by the Lilly Endow- United States. She is currently plan- ment, science and spirituality: Intersections ment and sponsored by the IU Office of ning research that involves multiple-site shaping Latin America’s environment,” the Vice Provost for Research. excavation as well as evaluation of exist- Tucker was also awarded the School for Beth Buggenha- ing collections from southern Indiana Advanced Research and the Latin American gen joined the faculty west to southern Illinois and Missouri. Studies Association Session Prize, presented in August 2006. She Her goal is to determine not only the in Montreal, Canada, in September 2007. earned a BA in African origins of Cahokian immigrants, but also Tucker has had several grants funded, the American and African how these origins contributed to what most recent of which is from the Wenner- studies and political became Mississippian society. Alt has Gren Foundation for the project, “Cultural, science at the Univer- published papers such as “The Power of Institutional and Environmental Dimen- sity of Michigan and Diversity: The Roles of Migration and sions of Conservation in Honduran Lenca completed a PhD in Bruggenhagen Hybridity in Culture Change” (2006) Communities: The Montaña Camapara socio-cultural anthro- and has authored and co-authored book Reserve.” pology at the University of Chicago. chapters and contributed articles to such Richard Wilk has co-edited, with Buggenhagen’s research considers circu- venues as the Journal of Archaeological Elizabeth Shove and Frank Trentmann, lation — new and old — in relation to Method and Theory, the Midcontinental the forthcoming Time and the Rhythms of commodities, Islam, gender, translocal- Journal of Archaeology, and Southeastern Everyday Life: New Agendas and Direc- ism, and recently, visual culture in Sene- Archaeology. “Confounding Categories tions (Berg Publishers). With Anne Pyburn, gal and North America. Her book man- and Conceptualizing Complexities,” a Daniel Miller, and Elizabeth Graham, Wilk uscript in progress, Prophets and Profits: session she organized for the 72nd an- received an award from the Leverhulme Gender and Islam in Global Senegal, nual Society for American Archaeologists Trust in the United Kingdom for “Teaching relates the global circuits of Senegalese Conference, was selected as an Amerind Collaboration: Archaeology and Material Muslims in urban Dakar, rural Tuba/ Foundation finalist. Culture.” He has presented several papers Mbacke and the North American cities Sonya Atalay came on board Au- throughout Europe as well as in Canada, of New York and Chicago to the politics gust 2007. Atalay completed a BA in in addition to appearing in the radio shows of social production in Senegal. Bug- anthropology and classical archaeology Money 101 with Bob McCormick on CBS genhagen also addresses topics gaining at the University of Michigan and both Radio’s Los Angeles affiliate KNX1070 and attention within and beyond academia an MA and PhD in anthropology at the the Anthony Mazzarelli Show withWPHT such as Islam, civil liberties and immi- University of California, Berkeley. She radio in Philadelphia. Wilk was interviewed gration reform, and debates concerning is an archaeologist with active fieldwork for several recent articles in the Chronicle new media technologies, unregulated projects in the Great Lakes region of the of Higher Education, 21st Century/China economic networks, and Daily, Columbia Tribune, and others. (continued on next page) 6 New faculty Anthropological late reproductive investment. She is equally linguist Francis Trix concerned with the appropriate application (continued from page 6) became a member of the of rigorously conducted scientific research Department in August towards the improvement of human health. “terrorist” financing in the U.S. She has 2006. Trix received a BA Vitzthum has conducted field research in recently been involved in fieldwork in New and MA in Near Eastern Peru, Bolivia, Mongolia, and Germany, and York City on the predicaments of Senega- languages and literature, provided technical assistance on reproduc- lese Muslim traders who truck in reproduc- and an MA and PhD in tive and child health to USAID and the tions of CDs and DVDs. Buggenhagen linguistics, all at the Uni- Trix World Health Organization. Her current co-edited Creativity Beyond Crisis? Per- versity of Michigan. Her research projects include a comparative spectives on the Politics of Agency in Africa research topics include gender, history and study of the influence of childhood dietary (with Anne Maria Makhulu and Stephen change, and identity, primarily in Kosova, patterns on adult ovarian steroid levels. She Jackson), a book currently under review for Albania, and Turkey. Trix’s main research is has published in Proceedings of the National publication. Last but not least, she is recipi- on discourse analysis of face-to-face interac- Academy of Science, Fertility & Sterility, ent of an IU College Arts and Humanities tion, with special interests in transmission Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, Human Institute Fellowship for her project “Gen- of spiritual knowledge, ritual, and gender Reproduction, Studies in Family Planning, der and Islam in Global Senegal.” studies. Her book, Spiritual Discourse: and in the upcoming volume of Annual New faculty member Learning with an Islamic Master, focuses Review of Anthropology. She is a 2007–08 Michael Muehlenbein on the dynamics of transmission of spiritual senior Fulbright fellow at the Max Planck joined the department in knowledge in a Muslim community. She has Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in August 2007. He serves published on cultural change in blessing, Leipzig, Germany. as assistant professor scripted environments, and non-violence Andrea Wiley is a of anthropology and as as well as application of discourse analysis professor of anthropol- adjunct assistant profes- to Muslim-Christian relations. In gender ogy and director of the sor for the IU School of studies, she and Andrea Sankar published Human Biology Lab, Public and Environmen- Muehelenbein “Going Beyond the Polls: Women’s Voice having joined the IU tal Affairs and acts as di- in the Hill-Thomas Hearings” (American faculty team in August rector for the Evolutionary Physiology and Anthropologist, 1998). She has also written 2007. Wiley received her Ecology Laboratory. Muehlenbein serves on repair in conversational analysis, Turk- BA. in biological bases of as faculty associate for the Anthropological ish script reform, Islamic calligraphy, and behavior from the Uni- Wiley Center for Training and Research on Global alphabet conflict in the Balkans. Her articles versity of Pennsylvania, Environmental Change and the Center for have appeared in The International Journal an MA in demography and anthropology the Study of Institutions, Population, and of the Sociology of Language, Ritual Studies, from the University of California, Berkeley, Environmental Change, a faculty member and Discourse and Society, among others. and a PhD in medical anthropology from of the Center for the Integrative Study of Besides research in ethnic communities in the University of California, Berkeley. Animal Behavior and the IUPUI Center for the United States, Trix has held IREX fel- Her approach to anthropological ques- Environmental Health, as well as an Indiana lowships for research in the former Yugo- tions is distinctly biocultural: she is inter- Molecular Biology Institute Fellow. He slavia and Albania. She has ongoing interest ested in how biology affects culture, how received a BA in biological anthropology in discourse research in Turkish, Arabic, culturally patterned behavior affects biol- and environmental science at Northwestern and Albanian. Her recent awards include ogy, and how these forces interact over University, a MSPH in tropical medicine the President’s Award for Excellence in time. Wiley’s two primary areas of research and biostatistics from Tulane University, Teaching and the Distinguished Faculty are reproductive health and diet and and a MPhil and PhD in biological anthro- Honors Convocation Award at Wayne State nutrition. She has conducted long-term re- pology, both at Yale University. Muehlen- University, a Fulbright Award for the study search on maternal-child health issues with- bein’s specialty area is Borneo, where his of “Muslim Refugees from the Balkans and in the ecological and cultural context of the research focuses on the biology and ecology their Assimilationin Turkey,” and from the Tibetan plateau of the high-altitude Hima- of infectious diseases, including the human IU College Arts and Humanities Institute. laya in India. This work is summarized and and non-human primate physiological adap- While she has been detailed in her book, An Ecology of High tations to these diseases as well as the im- affiliated with the depart- Altitude Infancy: A Biocultural Perspec- pact of environmental change on zoonotic ment as a research as- tive (Cambridge University Press, 2004). disease-transmission potential, specifically sociate since 2003, Bio- In terms of diet and nutrition, her current between human and non-human primate anthropologist Virginia work is on the relationship between milk populations. Vitzthum joined the consumption and child health in the United Muehlenbein is editor of the forthcom- department in January States and in India, with a focus on testing ing Human Evolutionary Biology, to be 2008 as full professor. widespread claims that milk enhances child published by Cambridge University Press. She received a BS/BA in Vizthum growth, particularly in height. How milk He is author and co-author of several ar- biology and anthropolo- has become a globalized food and how this ticles in major scholarly publications such as gy from Queens College, a MA in biological relates to population variation in milk diges- American Journal of Physical Anthropology, anthropology at the University of Michigan, tion capacity is one aspect of this complex American Journal of Primatology, and the and a PhD in anthropology from the Uni- topic. Wiley’s work has appeared in several Journal of Medical Primatology. He received versity of Michigan. renowned academic venues, a sampling of a grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wild- Vitzthum’s research concerns the proxi- which include American Anthropologist, life Service to assess “Disease Ecology and mate and evolutionary determinants of American Journal of Human Biology, and the Impacts of Ecotourism on Wild Orang- variation in life history traits, and on the Ecology of Food and Nutrition. utans.” endocrinological mechanisms that modu-

7 programs. Officially, Jamison chaired the From the chair Jamison committees of ten completed PhDs, and (continued from page 1) (continued from page 1) he directs three dissertation committees in we continue to face the challenge of sup- native communities along the arctic coast- progress. However, it is more appropriate to porting our graduate students with fellow- line of Alaska. Much of this research was say that just about anyone in the department ships, an issue which will continue to be a done under the auspices of the Interna- needing guidance using statistical applica- priority for the coming years. tional Biological Program. This multidisci- tions or computer-based analysis sought out This newsletter edition also includes a plinary, National Science Foundation-fund- and received Jamison’s knowledgeable assis- new column titled “Laboratory and Re- ed program dealt with human adaptability tance and advice. search Center Spotlight” to highlight the to environmental stressors such as high More formally, Jamison offered courses central importance of our laboratories and altitude and cold temperatures. in anthropometry and data analysis, both of associate research centers not only to the His modus operandi was to take anthro- which were essential to establishing a solid department’s mission but to many other pometric measurements of the children and training program in bioanthropology. His units on campus and elsewhere. adults living in these small, relatively isolated classroom approach was very much hands- As I finish my term as chair, I would Inupiaq Eskimo villages. Data were analyzed on, in these and in his other courses. His like to take this opportunity to extend to ascertain growth patterns among the encouragement of student participation and heartfelt appreciation for your support and children and biometric variation among the involvement in their education are hallmarks trust during these past years and welcome adults. He compared Alaskan groups to chil- of Jamison’s teaching presence. Not surpris- Professor Kevin Hunt as interim chair. Let dren and adults in other northern communi- ingly, he has been honored with teaching me finish by “raising a toast” to all alumni, ties as well as other parts of the world. His awards, and in 1994 he was elected to the faculty, staff, and students who, as a part many years of fieldwork yielded significant Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teach- of our 60-year history, have contributed findings that were published in numerous ing. to make IU Anthropology a distinguished articles and books, most notably in his edited Jamison’s teaching was not narrowly entity in the United States and abroad. volume, Eskimos of Northwestern Alaska: A defined. In fact, he offered courses over a — Eduardo S. Brondizio Biological Perspective. diverse range. One recent favorite was “Dar- Probably as a result of his strong research winian Medicine.” He also taught a series of performance, Jamison was selected to be topical seminars including “Bigfoot, Yeti & scientific coordinator at the Human Adapt- Sasquatch: Anthropological Perspective.” ability Office of the U.S./International The smooth functioning of a department Biological Program. He spent 1973–74 at depends in large part on the willingness of Pennsylvania State University engaged in its faculty to take on a myriad of committee these duties. Following his solid success in and administrative tasks as assigned by the that office, he became a consultant to the chair. Jamison’s service record stands out in a US/IBP and was soon named a consultant particular assignment. He has been director to the United Nation’s Educational Scien- of graduate studies for more than a dozen tific and Cultural Organization Man and the years. In brief, this has meant that he spends Biosphere Project. Some time later, in 1989, a tremendous investment of his time and he was appointed for a two-year term to talent orienting entering students and there- the High Latitude Directorate of the MAB after being on-call to resolve any difficulties Project, which was charged with evaluation that might arise throughout the duration of and sponsorship of Arctic research involving their graduate programs. Such a commit- interactions between humans and their envi- ment to student well-being should not go Membership ronments. Jamison was given a challenging unrecognized, and indeed, Jamison was duly series of administrative assignments, and in honored with the university-wide Wilbur handling these so effectively, he clearly dem- Hites Mentoring Award in 2004. It should Matters onstrated his leadership and organizational be added here that a number of his former skills. students, most of whom now hold faculty Beyond his sustained Alaskan research positions, continue to seek out his guidance interests, Jamison has utilized anthropometry as they advance in their academic careers. It’s the best way to to study the remarkable similarities between It is anticipated that Jamison will continue stay connected to pairs of adult identical twins, and he is cur- to regularly interact with colleagues beyond and support IU. rently analyzing craniofacial measurements of retirement; after all, there are ongoing re- children who have congenital syndromes. By search projects and dissertation committees. now you probably realize that a mainstay of He will have more open time to visit his chil- Join or renew today! Jamison’s research has been data collection dren and grandchildren. And a travel plan is and statistical analysis. This is territory that evolving in which he and his wife Cher (who (800) 824-3044 demands technical accuracy and numerical also happens to be his research collaborator) precision, and in this regard Jamison has ramble throughout North America in an RV. www.alumni.indiana.edu gained a considerable reputation for his pub- We wish happy travels to Paul and Cher, lished studies of measurement error and how and we extend our heartiest thanks to Paul do deal with it. for his many years of dedicated and dis- Not only research has benefited from tinguished service, and most of all for his Jamison’s mastery of anthropometry. There cherished friendship. — Robert J. Meier and are, of course, the many students who have Kevin D. Hunt trained with him during their doctoral 8 Alumni Notebook

Army Reserve since being commissioned partment of State in Washington, D.C. He 1960s on June 8, 1970. I retired as a major gen- is co-author of the article “Sacred Sites, Thomas J. Maxwell, PhD’62, is the au- eral.” Also an author, Peterson has written Profane Ideologies, Religious Pilgrimage, thor of Army Stories. He received a “Most five books in the past four years. His fifth and the Uzbek State,” which appeared in Valuable Volunteer 1975–2006” plaque book, Crossroads to Life and Living, was Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and from the California Park & Recreation So- published in July 2006 by AuthorHouse in Present, published by Indiana University ciety. He and his wife, Ruth, live in Thou- Bloomington, Ind. Press. Abramson lives in Washington, D.C. sand Oaks, Calif. Anthony J. Perzigian, PhD’71, is senior Aline C. Gubrium, BA’95, writes, “I Jonathan E. Reyman, BA’65, is the vice president and provost at the University graduated with my PhD in anthropology curator of anthropology at the Illinois of Cincinnati. His wife, Donna I. (Bowen), from the University of Florida in May 2005. State Museum in Springfield, Ill. With a BS’66, MS’68, has retired as principal of This past year, I served as an assistant pro- $297,000 grant from the Environmental Aiken University High School, after serving fessor in comparative women’s studies at Protection Agency, he and a team created 36 years for Cincinnati Public Schools. Spelman College. This fall [2006], I will an educational Web site, Of Time and the Jeffrey A. Maudlin, BA’75, has joined move to western Massachusetts and begin River: 12,000 Years of Human Use of the Centra Credit Union in Columbus, Ind., as a tenure-track assistant professorship [at Illinois River at www.oftimeandtheriver.org. chief lending officer. the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Reyman is also the founder of the Feather Department] of Public Health, focusing Distribution Project. Since 1982 the proj- 1980s on women’s health and community health ect has distributed 7.5 million wild turkey, Brian G. Bardy, BA’82, of Glen Ellyn, Ill., education.” macaw, parrot, and other feathers to 29 of is an adjunct professor of curriculum and Lorena M. Havill, MA’98, PhD’02, is the 31 Pueblo villages in New Mexico and instruction in the graduate program of the a geneticist at the Southwest Foundation Arizona and another 175,000 feathers to College of Education at Concordia Uni- for Biomedical Research in San Antonio. members of the Native American Church versity Chicago. He is the author of two She writes that she spent the last five years throughout the United States. Reyman and books and 12 articles about Illinois history studying genes that contribute to the risk his wife, Laura, live in Springfield, Ill. and archaeology. Bardy’s current research of a person developing osteoporosis. Havill John Kenneth Smail, MA’65, is profes- focuses on the effects of acculturation on lives in San Antonio. sor emeritus of anthropology at Kenyon Afghanistan refugees entering American Katherine R. Metzo, MA’99, PhD’03, College in Gambier, Ohio. He started his secondary schools. He received a master’s is an assistant professor of anthropology at teaching career at Georgia State University degree in teaching in 2006 from National- the University of North Carolina at Char- in Atlanta, where he worked from1966 to Louis University. lotte. In January 2007, she began a one- 1969. He continued his graduate study at “A short review of my recent National year research fellowship at the Max Planck Yale University, receiving his doctorate in Geographic grant, exploring how people Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, 1976 in an interdisciplinary program in eat and use grasshoppers (chapulines) in Germany. She works with an international primate and human paleobiology. In 1973, Oaxaca, Mexico, appeared in [the] culture group of faculty in the Siberian Studies Smail became founder and initial chair of column of several regional editions of the Center on their current research theme, the then newly formed Department of June 2007 National Geographic magazine,” which focuses on how Siberian populations Anthropology at Kenyon College. Upon writes Jeffrey H. Cohen, BA’84, PhD’94. relate to their land and landscape, including his retirement from Kenyon in 2004, Smail Cohen, of Bexley, Ohio, is an associate political, religious, ecological, and ethnic received an honorary doctor of science professor of anthropology at Ohio State orientations. degree from the university, and a permanent University in Columbus. endowed chair in anthropology has been es- Sarilda “Sara” Schneider Tackett, 2000s tablished in his name. Now, Smail’s anthro- BA’82, is the youth-services coordinator Lisa Dorneker Moffatt, BA’00, has been pology position is filled by two IU alumni, for the Jackson (Mich.) District Library. accepted into the U.S. Army’s Judge Advo- Bruce L. Hardy, MA’91, PhD’94, and Her husband, Michael, BS’80, is a market- cate General’s Corps. She received her JD Kimmarie A. Murphy, MA’92, PhD’96. ing representative in employee retirement- from Thomas Jefferson School of Law in Smail and his wife, Jane (Erdmann), BA’65, services in Lansing. The Tacketts live in San Diego. She had a son, Kyle Alexander, live in Gambier. Jackson. on Jan. 14. Marjorie B. Stein, BA’68, MAT’70, Susan J. Rasmussen, PhD’86, is the Mary C. Sullivan, BA’01, is in her sec- writes, “I continue to pursue my love of author of Those Who Touch: Tuareg Medicine ond-year of her master’s program at the cultural anthropology by working within Women in Anthropological Perspective, pub- University of Mississippi. this Appalachian community in Chillicothe, lished by Northern Illinois University Press. Margaret Dorsey, PhD’02, is the author of Ohio. My husband and I also look forward She is a professor of anthropology at the Pachangas: Borderlands Music, U.S. Politics, to more trips to rural Mexico — a place we University of Houston. and Transnational Marketing, published by also love and appreciate.” University of Texas Press in 2006. 1970s 1990s Amanda J. Robbins, BA’02, MAT’04, is Frederick D. Barnhart, BA’90, a government and law teacher at Seminole Stephen A. Peterson, BA’70, MS’71, MLS’94, is associate director of Loyola Ridge High School in Loxahatchee, Fla., of Shawnee, Okla., writes, “On April 17, University’s School of Law Library. He lives where she also coaches girls’ junior-varsity I retired from active military service as a and works in Chicago. volleyball and girls’ varsity soccer. In Octo- member of the U.S. Army Reserve. I have David M. Abramson, MA’94, PhD’98, ber 2007 she married Ernesto Rosenfried. been a member of the U.S. Army and U.S. is a foreign affairs analyst for the U.S. De- (continued from page 5) 9 Nonprofit Org. Alumni notebook Postage (continued from page 9) PAID Indiana University Robbins writes that she and her husband Alumni Association have one cat named Yo-Yo. She lives in Boca Raton, Fla. Tabitha B. Humphries, BA’03, is enrolled in the doctor of jurisprudence/master of laws program at Duke University in Durham, N.C. She has worked at PS Inter- national, which specializes in the trade of agricultural commodities. Humphries lives in Chapel Hill. Loni M. Coleman, BA’04, writes, “After graduating from IU, I joined AmeriCorps for a year, where I supervised an after- school program for 135 at-risk students in California. I am currently pursuing a master’s degree in museum studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in Eng- Printed on recycled paper in U.S.A. land. My husband, Mike Rocchio, BA’03, is also studying for a master’s degree at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is Anthropology Alumni: What’s new with you? currently excavating in Pompeii, Italy, and doing research for his master’s degree in The IU Alumni Association is charged with maintaining records for all IU alumni. Greek and Roman archaeology.” Please print as much of the following information as you wish. Its purpose, in addition to Jesse G. 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