Appalachian State University, Department of Anthropology
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Program Appalachian State University, Department of Anthropology Name
One of largest undergraduate-only department of anthropology in the United States with nearly 150 majors and 11 tenure-line faculty. Offers three General degree tracks: B.S. in Anthropology, B.A. in Anthropology, and B.S. in Multidisciplinary Anthropology; faculty work in the Czech Republic, Ecuador, Description France, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Oman, the Philippines, Senegal, the United States and Yemen (American / Special Southwest, American Southeast, Appalachia, and the Atlantic Coast); Laboratory courses in archaeology, bioarchaeology, visual ethnography, Programs experimental ethnography, experimental archaeology, human evolution, microscopy, osteology, paleopathology, zooarchaeology.
Established 1978
Country United States
State NC
City Boone
Address 224 Joyce Lawrence Lane Line 1
Address 348 Anne Belk Hall Line 2
Address Line 3
Zip
Fax (828) 262-2982
Phone1 (828) 262-2295
Phone2
Email1 [email protected]
Email2 [email protected]
Email3 [email protected]
Website http://www.anthro.appstate.edu/ Program Details
Degrees Offered B.S. in Anthropology, B.A. in Anthropology, B.S. in Multidisciplinary Anthropology
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Highest Degree Offered BA/BS
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Archaeology BA/BS Field Areas Biological Anthropology Cultural Anthropology
BA/ BS Requirements
Experience Offered Internship
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Phd Requirements
Laboratories of Archaeological Science for contract archaeological work, cultural resource management and research in Southern Appalachians and Russia; microscopy lab; primatology lab; experimental ethnography lab; archaeology visualization lab; human skeletal biology lab; 3-D printing and scanning lab. With the exception of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, we have the largest vertebrate osteological comparative collection in North Carolina. Our human skeletal collection and fossil cast collection--used for teaching and research in biological anthropology, skeletal morphology, and forensic analysis-- is the second largest in the UNC system. We house archaeological research collections from the following periods: Archaic South East, Hopewellian (Biltmore Research Facilities Estate), Late Prehistoric (North Carolina), Protohistoric (Broyhill Property), and Historic (Fort Defiance and others) The L. Jill Loucks Memorial Library contains nearly 2,500 books, in addition to hundreds of journals and magazines, on topics covering all of the sub-disciplines of anthropology. Included in the collection are numerous ethnographies that cover the history of anthropology. There are also books on artifact typologies, and articles on archaeological theory from antiquarian times through the present. The Stephen Richard Weller Memorial Student Lounge is available to all of our undergraduate majors. It offers a place for study, quiet reflection, student study sessions, lunch, and many other uses that benefit our students.
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Internships Available
Internship Info https://internships.appstate.edu/
Internship Required
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The Department offers two types of scholarships to undergraduate students pursuing a degree in anthropology. The Dr. L. Jill Loucks Memorial Scholarships are awarded each year to anthropology majors based on their academic achievement. Both financial need and scholastic achievement are considered when choosing the recipient of the Stephen Richard Weller Memorial Grants Or Funding Scholarship. Summer stipends for undergraduate research are available through the Dr. L. Jill Loucks Memorial Scholarship Fund. An Outstanding Senior is selected each year out of the graduating classes. The Department also recognizes a student with the Dr. Susan E. Keefe Practicing Anthropology Award, who has contributed in a significant way to solving problems using anthropological theories and methods.
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Geographic Geographic Areas of Expertise Name Phone Email Interest/Specialty Areas Area(s) of International Expertise
Political anthropology, anthropology of violence, borders and immigration, incarceration and Honduras, Latin Jon Carter [email protected] Western Hemisphere surveillance, media theory, America fictocriticism and ethnographic writing; Honduras, Latin America
Biological anthropology, skeletal biology and osteology, stable isotope Southeastern United States of America,Western Sophia Dent [email protected] analysis, nutrition, food North America Hemisphere security, periodontal disease and dental calculus, physiological plasticity
Landscape, kinship and political economy, pottery and West Africa, Cameron craft production, materiality [email protected] Southwestern Sub-Saharan Africa Gokee and identity, GIS and spatial United States analysis, contemporary archaeology of migration
The evolution of modern humans and the processes by which hominins became human, the evolutionary arc of Marc Kissel [email protected] human warfare, Neanderthal behavior, quantitative genetics, computer modeling, semiotics, paleoanthropological theory
Biological anthropology, Susan primate behavior, ecology, Indonesia, East Asia and the [email protected] Lappan conservation biology, small Malaysia Pacific,Indonesia,Malaysia apes
Environmental anthropology, political ecology, critical development studies, energy, Navajo/Diné Dana Powell [email protected] social movements, Nation, Native Western Hemisphere infrastructure, new America materialism, and climate change
Bioarchaeology, human- environment interactions, Gwendolyn human growth and Robbins [email protected] India India,South and Central Asia development, bone biology, Schug histology, paleodemography, South Asian Prehistory
Sociocultural anthropology, Latin American development and ethnicity, electoral politics and democracy, historical Guatemala, Ecuador,Europe / Timothy [email protected] ethnography, environmental Ecuador, Spain, Eurasia,France,Guatemala,Spain,Western Smith subjectivities, indigenous France Hemisphere languages and pedagogy (Kaqchikel Mayan and Napo Kichwa), immigration
Visual anthropology, ethnographic film, video/audio documentary, voice theory and anthropology of sound, healing and sorcery, magic Southeast Asia Christina East Asia and the [email protected] and religion, anthropology of and the Sornito Pacific,Philippines,South and Central Asia nature and the Anthropocene, Philippines indigenous studies, nationalism, transnational labor, psychoanalysis, Central European avant-gardes Geographic Geographic Areas of Expertise Name Phone Email Interest/Specialty Areas Area(s) of International Expertise
Linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, globalization, language ideology, language in the mass media and Mary-Caitlyn Argentina, Latin [email protected] popular culture, discourse Valentinsson America analysis, digital ethnography, computer mediated communication, pragmatics, lexical semantics
Archaeology, zooarchaeology, Eastern United Thomas experimental archaeology, [email protected] States, southern Western Hemisphere Whyte island and coastal Appalachia adaptations, zoogeography
Southeastern archaeology, pre-Columbian interaction, Hopewell, the built environment and Southeastern Alice Wright [email protected] monumentality, landscapes, US, southern Western Hemisphere GIS, archaeological Appalachians geophysics, community and applied archaeology, heritage management
Archaeology, physical anthropology, forensic North American Harvard anthropology, human ecology [email protected] Indians, Western Hemisphere Ayers of southern Appalachians, southwestern US energy development in Arctic Alaska and Canada
Patricia Cultural anthropology, social Appalachia, China,East Asia and the Pacific,Western [email protected] Beaver organization, gender China Hemisphere
Croatia, Brian Peasant studies, social East/Central Croatia,Europe / Eurasia Bennett change, social theory Europe, Third World
Social anthropology, peasant Honduras, Jefferson [email protected] and agrarian studies, rural Central America, Western Hemisphere Boyer and sustainable development Appalachia
Archaeology, shell, sociology Cheryl [email protected] of archaeology, gender, Eastern US Western Hemisphere Claassen Archaic, symbolism, caves
Mexican Susan Ethnicity, modernity, medical Americans, [email protected] Western Hemisphere Keefe and applied anthropology Appalachians, US
Southern Appalachian Prehistory, Middle Palaeolithic of Caucasus Larry Russia, Europe / Eurasia,Russia,Western [email protected] Mountains (Russia), Lithic Kimball Appalachia Hemisphere Technology and Microwear Analysis, Quantitative Methods
History of Anthropology, Mexico, India, Gregory magic and religion, narrative India,Mexico,Nepal,South and Central [email protected] Appalachia, Reck ethnography, neoliberalism Asia,Western Hemisphere Nepal and the global economy
Alternative economies, grassroots activism, power Colombia, and subjectivity, community- Mexico, Latin Brian Burke based development, political America, US, Colombia,Mexico,Western Hemisphere ecology, politics of Southern environmental knowledge, Appalachia climate change
Appalachia, US Folklore, ethnohistory, South, African Fred Hay Western Hemisphere bibliography/documentation America, Caribbean
Neoliberalism, globalization of agriculture, local/global food Garrett and culture, visual Latin America, East Asia and the Pacific,Japan,Western McDowell anthropology, Japan Hemisphere transnationalism, migration and identity Geographic Geographic Areas of Expertise Name Phone Email Interest/Specialty Areas Area(s) of International Expertise
Government, democracy, and civil society, globalization and William rural community development, Appalachia (US), Europe / Eurasia,United Schumann sustainable development, Wales (UK) Kingdom,Western Hemisphere community-based/applied education