Summer 2011 Wilk named Provost Shahrani receives TASAM Professor Strategic Vision Award Richard Wilk is one of the most rofessor Nazif Shahrani has been named the recipient of a important, prolific, and widely recog- Strategic Vision Award Offered for Scientist by the Turk- nized anthropologists of his genera- ish Asian Center for Strategic Studies (TASAM), a Turk- tion. Among the highest distinctions P ish think tank. The awards ceremony took place in December in at IU, the title of Provost Professor Istanbul, Turkey. Shahrani is professor of Anthropology, professor recognizes Wilk’s groundbreaking of Central Eurasian Studies, and professor and finishing a term research and commitment to teaching as chair of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. His geographi- and mentoring. He has contributed in cal areas of specialization are Afghanistan, former Soviet Central major ways to the fields of economic Asian Republics (Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan anthropology, environment and sus- and Turkmenistan), Iran, and Turkey. Wilk tainability, consumer culture, and Now in its fifth year, the TASAM Strategic Vision Awards are food studies, nationally and internationally. given each year in honor of statesmen, scientists, public institu- Wilk’s book, Economies and Cultures, is in its third edition, has tions, businessmen, artists and journalists – writers who share a been translated into seven languages, and is considered today the strategic vision with their ideas, works and scientific approaches in most important textbook for graduate and undergraduate courses in order to continuously improve Turkey’s respectable position in its economic anthropology. region and the world on the basis of power and justice, and who According to Michael Jackson, professor of anthropology at Har- make serious endeavors for bringing a vision of contemporaneous vard University, Wilk is “one of the world’s leading anthropological issues to Turkey. Congratulations, Professor Shahrani! authorities on the economic anthropology of households, the eth- nography of consumerism, the anthropology of the Caribbean (espe- cially Belize), the anthropology of food, fashion, and globalization.” Wilk is a “a leader in our local food and sustainability community and is involved in local planning for the development of a Blooming- ton Food Policy Council,” says Jeanne Sept, professor, IU Depart- ment of Anthropology. Not least, and perhaps most importantly, Wilk’s work has had an enormous impact in Belize. Last year, the Supreme Court of Belize relied on Wilk’s research to grant land rights to indigenous commu- nities which have been confronting energy and mining corporations for decades. Wilk said, “Throughout my career, I have often won- dered if my academic research really mattered, if it was ever going to make a real positive contribution to the world. People in Belize have hosted me, taught me, and helped me throughout my career, and I am proud that I have been able to pay back some of that debt.” Nazif Shahrani accepts a Strategic Vision Award Offered for Congratulations, Professor Wilk! Scientist at the TASAM Awards Ceremony in Istanbul, Turkey.

Undergraduate discovers unique primate skull on archaeological dive Dominican Republic dive reveals only 15 feet under water in the Padre Nuestro peoples to contact Europeans, but during the third primate cranium from any cavern in the Dominican Republic, gather- one dive, Keller recognized the distinctive of the Caribbean Islands ing archaeology material as part of a team cranial features of a primate. Primates are under the supervision of Charles Beeker extinct in the Dominican Republic, so the In July 2009, IU student Jessica Keller was and Geoffrey Conrad. The IU team’s discovery was completely unexpected. The engaged in what passes for “normal” in the main mission was to learn more about the skull is only the third primate cranium life of an underwater archaeologist. She was Taino people, the first Native American continued on page 3

INSIDE: LETTER FROM THE CHAIR, PAGE 2 • FOOD STUDIES PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS, PAGE 7 Around the Department continued on page 7

Letter from the chair Recent faculty publications Rising above adversity to The Anthropology Department faculty is prolific. Here is just a small sampling of recently published books and volumes. grow our program • Teaching Environmental Literacy: Across Campus and Across the Curriculum, edited by Heather L. Reynolds, Eduardo S. This has been a rewarding yet challenging Brondízio, and Jennifer Meta Robinson with Doug Karpa and year for the Department. Despite difficult Briana L. Gross. Indiana University Press. budget cuts, the department continued to • The Human Brain Evolving: Paleoneurological move forward on all fronts with renewed Studies in Honor of Ralph L. Holloway, Douglas strength. Faculty and graduate student pro- Broadfield, Michael Yuan,Kathy Schick, and ductivity in terms of research grants, publica- Nicholas Toth. The Stone Age Institute Press. tions, and fieldwork show the department at • African Market Women: Seven Life Stories from the forefront of established and new research Ghana, Gracia Clark, Indiana University Press. areas. Every week new proposals are submit- Brondizio ted, and publications are produced. • Coffee Culture: Local Experiences, Global Not least of our accomplishments, our attention to soci- Connections, by Catherine Tucker. Routledge etal issues has helped to highlight the commitment of the IU Press. anthropology community and the importance of anthropology • Babylon East: Performing Dancehall, Roots to topics of direct interest to the populations and places to which Reggae, and Rastafari in Japan by Marvin D. we dedicate our careers, including Bloomington and Indiana Uni- Sterling. Duke University Press. versity. This ranges from issues of cultural heritage, sustainability, and health, to education, community outreach and land rights. • The Portuguese translation of Emilio Moran’s Perhaps this helps to explain, among other things, the continuous book, Environmental Social Science: Human- growth in enrollment and majors, now over 300. This is twice as Environment Interactions and Sustainability, was much as just few years ago. Students realize that anthropology published in February (originally published in the makes a difference! UK in Jan. 2010 by Wiley/Blackwell). We received with enthusiasm the 2006 National Research • Human Evolutionary Biology, edited by Michael Council (NRC) assessment of graduate programs, published dur- Muehlenbein. Cambridge University Press. continued on page 7 • Anya Royce’s The Anthropology of Performing Arts: Virtuosity, Artistry, and Interpretation in a Cross-Cultural Context (first published in 2004) Congratulations to newly tenured was translated into Polish by Warsaw University and promoted faculty! Press. • Re-Imagining Milk: Cultural and Biological Perspective, by Andrea Wiley. Routledge Press. Tenure: Shane Greene, Laura Scheiber, Marvin Sterling, and Daniel Suslak • Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocial- ist Ukraine by Sarah Phillips. Indiana University Promotion: Gracia Clark and Frances Trix Press.

ADJUNCT FACULTY NEWS Timothy Baumann received the 75th Anni- Longing and the Lament of the Raccoon ference, organized by Apple Computer to versary Achievement Award from Missouri Dog,” sponsored by the Center for Folk- explore open access issues in higher educa- Archaeological Society. lore Studies and the Institute for Japanese tion. He is finishing work on a book about Ilena Gershon’s Break Up 2.0 was Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, the history of the Yuchi Nation and editing published from Cornell University Press Ohio, Nov. 19. the journal Museum Anthropology Review. in July 2010. Gershon also gave a keynote Mary Gray accepted a six-month Vis- Stephanie Kane received funding from address at a conference at Cambridge iting Researcher position at Microsoft Indiana University Office of the Vice Pro- University called “Reconsidering Detach- Research in New England. She is working vost Research Boundaries for her project, ment: The Ethics and Analytics of Discon- on a comparative ethnography that looks “In Water: An Ethnographic Exploration nection.” She was the guest editor for a at different groups of socially marginalized of Art, Law, and Engineering in Kerala’s special issue of the Journal of Linguistic urban and rural young people and their ac- Waterways,” conducted in Travancore Anthropology, 20(2), the issue called “Me- cess to and use of social mobile media. Malabar Coast, Southwest India, in sum- dia Ideologies.” Jason Baird Jackson (Folklore and mer 2010. Michael Foster was awarded an IUB Ethnomusicology) was elected to the A Blackwell Companion to Anthropology Outstanding Junior Faculty Award this Executive Board of the American Folklore of Education, co-edited by Bradley Levin- year. Foster also gave an invited lecture Society and spoke at a number of confer- son and Mica Pollock, was published from titled “Haunting Modernity: Legends, ences, including the Academix 2010 con- Wiley-Blackwell in May. 2 FACULTY & RESEARCH NEWS In February, Joëlle Bahloul gave the On Sept. 28, keynote lecture, “The Social and Cul- Anya Royce Welcome new tural Meaning of Reading and Books was awarded in the 21st Century,” at the Interna- an Honorary faculty, staff tional Conference on “La Lectura en Doctorate, We are pleased to el Mundo de los Jovenes,” Universi- D.Litt, honoris welcome Professor dad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, causa, from Mexico City. Brian Gilley and fam- the University ily to the department Eduardo S. Brondizio was named Royce of Limerick, and Bloomington. a member of the Science Commit- Ireland for her tee of the International Geosphere- His research focuses work in the Anthropology of Dance Biosphere Programme (IGBP) of the on the theoretical and and Performance. International Council for Science cultural logic of social (CIUS). acceptance, particularly Gilley Sara Friedman has received sup- as it relates to issues port from the Rockefeller Foundation a document to define the priorities for of identity, health, and to hold the conference, “Rethinking the social sciences into 2020. the body. His most recent research program Intimate Labor through Inter-Asian Michael Muehlenbein organized concerning HIV/AIDS among Native Amer- Migrations,” at the Foundation’s Bella- the global health breakout session of ican communities examines the ways Native gio Center in Italy. The conference will the First Annual Retreat of the Indi- peoples incorporate HIV/AIDS into cultural bring together scholars and NGO activ- ana Clinical and Translational Sciences constructions of illness, causality, and disease ists working on intimate labor migra- Institute, Bloomington, Oct. 18. He theories. He is the first director of the First tions across Asia for a three-day meeting also organized the symposium “Balanc- Nations Educational and Cultural Center at in June 2011. ing the Costs and Benefits of Primate IUB. Shane Greene is on an External Tourism” at the 23rd Congress of Please join us to welcome new staff mem- Residential Fellowship at the Newhouse the International Primatological Soci- ber, Rachel Kirby. She received a B.A. in Humanities Center (affiliated with ety, Kyoto, Japan, Sept. 12-18. He also anthropology from the University of Florida Wellesley College) for the 2010-11 received a grant from the Office of the and has served on the Peace Corps in Niger, academic year. Vice Provost for International Affairs, West Africa. Stacie King received a National Overseas Research Study Program, Science Foundation (NSF) Grant to Indiana University, to conduct his work support two field seasons of archaeo- on “Determining the Risks of Human- Trix receives logical survey and excavation in Oaxaca, Wildlife Pathogen Transmission in Mexico from 2011 to 2013. Two IU Gibraltar.” Albanian award anthropology graduate students (Eliza- Andrea Wiley took two field research beth Konwest and Alex Badillo) will trips to Pune, India to work on her Frances Trix received work with her in the field from March project, “Milk Consumption and Child the Lifetime Achieve- to August 2011, starting their disserta- Growth: A Biocultural Perspective,” ment Award from the tion field research. funded by Wenner-Gren Foundation. Albanian-American Emilio Moran co-chaired an NSF- She will work on it during her sabbati- National Organization sponsored workshop in Washington, cal next fall at the School for Oriental at its national meeting D.C. on “The Future of Observatories and African Studies Food Studies Cen- in August 2010. She is in the Social Sciences,” Dec. 16-17, tre. Also she recently became Associate the first non-Albanian 2010, with the intent of making recom- Editor of Ecology of Food and Nutrition. to receive this honor. Trix mendations to NSF on future invest- Richard Wilk delivered the keynote A linguistic anthro- ments in infrastructure for the social, speech titled “Water Magic: Belize and pologist, Professor Trix has focused a major behavioral and economic sciences. He Beyond” for the “People at the Well” part of her work on Islam and the Balkans. also continues his participation on the Workshop organized by Wissenschafts- She has studied Albanian Muslims, both in Advisory Committee to NSF’s Social, zentrum Umwelt (University of Augs- diaspora communities in America and Turkey, Behavioral and Economic Sciences burg) and Goethe-University Frankfurt, and in their main Balkan homelands of Alba- Directorate and worked with them on Frankfurt am Main, Sept. 23-24. nia, Kosova, and Macedonia.

Primate skull continued from page 1 from any Caribbean Island, and it is the best preserved of the small its skull shape resembles that of a howler monkey most closely, the sample. The skull is extraordinary! Some biologists speculate that resemblance is purely superficial. The skull is less rugged and small- mammals immigrated to the area as long as 34 million years ago. er, and its teeth are dramatically different from a howler’s. It was a This would mean that the Padre Nuestro primate was part of a primate unlike any living today – one of nature’s wonderful experi- lineage with an evolutionary trajectory separate from that of the ments, sadly now extinct. Beeker, Conrad, Keller, Kevin Hunt, rest of the South American primates for an immense period of and colleagues, with Rich Kay from Duke University, published a time. The skull shows nothing to contest this remarkable history. description of the fossil in the Journal of Human Evolution. They It vaguely resembles a variety of New World monkeys, and while have assigned it to the genus Antillothrix. 3 Student News Graduate students present, earn grants and awards

AGSA participated in the Brownie Girl balization of Life Cycle, Oct. 15, 2010, Allison Foley was awarded BAS Stu- Scout Science Day in November on campus in Prague, Czech Republic. This is part of dent Paper Prize for her presented pa- with activities on archaeology. Organized her dissertation research that is based in per, “Disability and Disease in the Ancient by Claire Quimby, AGSA Community Prague. Bladau was also selected for and at- Midwest: A Paleopathological Analysis of Outreach Officer, AGSA also did activi- tended the 2010 Junior Scholars’ Training the Morton Site, IL,” at the AAA Meeting ties at a science night at Arlington North Seminar, co-sponsored by the Woodrow in New Orleans. Foley is currently teaching Elementary in October and have another Wilson International Center for Scholars anthropology courses at IU South Bend as upcoming science night at Summit El- and the National Council for Eurasian and a Future Faculty Teaching Fellow. ementary School in February. East European Research. Shingo Hamada was accepted into and Audrey Ricke will teach a course on Larissa Collier won a Cockburn Prize attended the NSF Summer Institute for Brazil and Introduction to Socio-Cultural award for her poster at the 18th European Research Designs in Cultural Anthropology Anthropology at IU South Bend in fall Meetings of the Paleopathology Associa- in Beaufort, N.C. in summer 2010. 2011 as a Future Faculty Teaching Fellow. tion in Vienna on Aug. 26. Her poster is Suncem Koser received the College Leigh Bush’s article was published in a titled “Morphometric Assessment of Shape Of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Writing magazine called Meatpaper. She also ap- Variation in Spinal Osteoarthritis.” Grant for the year 2010-11. He also pre- peared on NPR’s On Point with Tom Ash- At the 2010 AAA, Zohra Ismail and sented a paper at the AAA in New Orleans brook. Heidi Bludau organized the panel ses- titled “An Ambivalent Relationship to Mo- Heidi Bludau was invited to present sion titled “Brokers of Dreams, Bearers dernity: Transnational Screening Contexts “Producing Transnational Nurses: Agency of Change: Production, Circulation, and of a Kurdish Documentary.” and Subjectivity in Global Health Care Consumption of Knowledge through Cul- Erika Kuever’s paper, “Performance Labour Migration Recruitment Practices” tural Brokerage,” including papers pre- and Spectacle in the 60th Anniversary Na- at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung conference sented by Ismail, Bludau, and IU students, tional Day Parade in the People’s Republic on Transnational Care Practices and Glo- Jessica Chelekis and Kathleen Costello. of China,” was accepted by The Associa- tion for the Study of Ethnicity and Nation- alism to be presented at its annual confer- ence at the London School of Economics in April. Anthony Krus’ articles, “Bridging History and Prehistory: the Possible An- tiquity of a Native American Ballgame” and “Refortifying Cahokia: More Efficient Palisade Construction Through Redesign- ing Bastions,” are in press for Native South and Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, respectively. Charla Marshall won the William S. Pollitzer student essay competition and was awarded a scholarship to attend the next American Association of Physical Anthro- pology meeting. Elizabeth Pfeiffer received an Aca- demic Year Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Award through the IUB African Studies Program to study Fourth Year Swahili. Pfeiffer also presented her paper titled “Changing the Lives of Women in Western Kenya: HIV/AIDS and Public Health Discourses” at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Seattle at the end of March. Rebecca Riall was awarded the John H. Edwards Fellowship for 2010-11. She is using it to conduct field research with state-recognized tribes. Katherine Wiley has been awarded an IUB College of Arts and Sciences Disserta- The Anthropology Department, represented by Dru McGill and Alicia Ebbit McGill, tion Year Research Fellowship for 2011-12. exhibited a booth at the Hoosier Association of Science Teachers Conference in The fellowship will support her dissertation Indianapolis on Feb. 10-11 as part of the IU College of Arts and Sciences exhibit. research and writing over the next year.

4 CONFERENCE NEWS IU hosts Symposium in honor of Claude Levi-Strauss American, French, Israeli, and Brazilian scholars gather for conversation inspired by the late French social thinker and anthropologist’s work During a 2009-10 sabbatical leave, Profes- sor Joëlle Bahloul worked in collabora- tion with Professor Ray DeMallie on the organization of the Symposium in honor of Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French social thinker and anthropologist who passed away in October 2009 at age 100. The symposium took place on the IU Bloomington campus in late October and gathered scholars from American, French, Israeli, and Brazilian academic institutions for a convivial and intellectually inspiring conversation on “The Legacy of Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Work in 21st Century Arts and Humanities.” The symposium was funded by the IU Office of the Vice President for Research, the College Arts and Humanities Institute, and the Office of the Vice President for International Affairs.

Right: Professor Ray DeMallie speaks at the Levi-Strauss Symposium on the IU Bloomington campus.

Faculty organize national, local events Fifth annual AGSA symposium a success Richard Wilk was the conference chair and organizer The annual of Food in Bloom, a combined annual meeting for the On Feb. 25-27, The Anthropology Gradu- Association for the Study of Food and Society; The Food in Bloom ate Student Association held the fifth annual Agriculture, Food and Human Values Association; and meeting is he symposium, “Technologies of Culture: Tech- the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutri- “T niques and Theory.” tion. Bloomington, June 2-6, 2010. cross pollination The AGSA Symposium strives to provide Timothy Baumann and William Mongahan served a space in which graduate and undergraduate as co-organizers for the 56th Annual Midwest Archaeo- and cultuvation students can present their work in a scholarly logical Conference, Bloomington, Oct. 20-23, 2010. of food, systems, environment, share their academic interests, Michael Foster is chairing the local planning com- and prepare for future conferences. mittee for the American Folklore Society Annual cultures, and In addition to paper presentations by the Meeting to be held in Bloomington, October 12-15, methods. ” IU Department of Anthropology students 2011. For more information, visit http://www.afsnet. and students from other IU departments and org/?page=2011AM. foodconference10.indiana.edu other universities, the line-up of the three-day symposium included student and faculty-mod- erated panel discussions with topics ranging from Research Proposal Development, Field Congratulations to Anthropology majors Technologies, Technology in the Classroom, elected to Phi Beta Kappa this academic year! and Community-Based Research Methods in American Indian Studies, to the recent con- Jaycee Bigham, Jennifer Burch, Kristin Emge, Lauren Falk, troversy on Science and the American Anthro- pology Association. Mikael Greenwood-Hickman, Caitlin Keusch, Benjamin IU alumnus Mark A. Schurr (University Linder, Jessica Meyer, Phoebe Pritchett, Stephanie Revere, of Notre Dame) delivered a keynote address, Lauren Santiesteban, Kelley Scanlon, Jake Spitznagle, “A History of Stable Isotopes in Anthropol- ogy: How We Respond to New Technolo- Aleece Weade, and Christopher Williams. gies.” Congratulations, AGSA, for successful symposium! 5 Alumni Notebook

Honors College at the University of Texas tions team at Baxter International Inc. The 1960s at Arlington, where he has taught since Lopez family is in the process of relocating , MA’61, is an emeritus Anthony T. Layng 1990. He has excavated and done archaeo- from Chicago to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. professor of anthropology at Elmira Col- logical field research in Greece, Egypt, Por- lege in Elmira, N.Y. He writes that he has tugal, Cyprus, and most recently, Albania. published eleven articles in USA Today, on 2000s Petruso’s wife, Nancy (Sanneman), BA’72, a variety of subjects from religion to nudity. Ryan Adams’, PhD’10, dissertation was MA’77, whom he met at IU, is associate Layng lives in Winston-Salem, N.C. selected for the Top 40 North American vice chancellor at Texas Christian Universi- , PhD’62, is a re- Dissertations in Cultural Anthropology Thomas J. Maxwell ty in Fort Worth. The couple lives in Ar- tired educator who lives in Thousand Oaks, 2010 by “Anthropology Works.” His dis- lington, and their two daughters, Stephanie Calif. sertation, “Elite Landowners in Santarem: and Alexis, live nearby in north Texas. Jonathan E. Reyman, BA’65, is the Ranchers, Gauchos and the Arrival of Soy- author of Prophet, Pariah, and Pioneer: beans in the Amazon,” was defended last Walter W. Taylor and Dissension in Ameri- 1980s spring. He has since assumed as Assistant can Archaeology, published in 2010 by the Lois V. Kuter, PhD’81, is volunteer pro- Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at University Press of Colorado. Reyman is gram director at the Academy of Natural Lycoming College in Pennsylvania. curator of anthropology at the Illinois State Sciences in Philadelphia, America’s oldest Angela R. Bratton, MA’00, PhD’04, Museum in Springfield, where he lives. natural history museum and a world leader has been awarded tenure and promoted in biodiversity and environmental research. to associate professor of anthropology at She is also president of the American As- Augusta (Ga.) State University. She lives in 1970s sociation for Museum Volunteers, an or- Augusta. , BA’70, MS’71, a Stephen A. Peterson ganization to network museum volunteers Linda A. Cumberland, MA’00, MA’02, former Indianapolis resident, has received and staff who manage them. Kuter lives in PhD’05, has been promoted to director the 2010 Military Writers Society of Amer- Ambler, Pa. of the Language Department at Kaw Na- ica Medal for his book America’s Finest, Since 2007 Madonna M. Ledford, tion in Kaw City, Okla. She writes, “I will published by AuthorHouse. The book, BA’82, has worked as technical services take the position part-time until September which took top honors in the category of manager at Gray & Pape Inc., a consulting 2011 because I am on an NEH (grant) creative non-fiction, is a collection of 60 firm specializing in cultural resources man- through IU’s American Indian Studies short stories focusing on the experiences agement and historic preservation services. Research Institute till then.” Cumberland of American military personnel who are She lives in Aurora, Ind., and works in lives in Ponca City, Okla. helping improve the lives of others. Peter- Cincinnati. Mary Sullivan Allen, BA’01, recently son retired from the U.S. Army and Army Mary Ciaccio Tweedy, MA’84, MA’88, co-authored A Case Study in Archaeology: Reserve as a major general after nearly 37 is the author of Captive Daughter, Enemy A Student’s Perspective, published by Ken- years of military service. He was commis- Wife, the story of a young woman who is dall Hunt in 2009. The book is an archae- sioned through the IU ROTC program. captured and adopted by the Onondaga, an ology workbook for entry-level anthropol- Peterson lives in Shawnee, Okla. Iroquois tribe. After studying art history, ogy students. Allen is an adjunct professor Viewpoints: Visual Anthropologists at classical archaeology, classical languages, at Palm Beach State College in Boca Raton, Work, edited by , BA’70, Mary C. Strong and anthropology at Pomona College and Fla. She lives in West Palm Beach, Fla. was published in 2009 by the University IU, Tweedy attended archaeological field Heather Lockett House, BA’01, relo- of Texas Press. The book presents visual school at Native American sites in Illinois, cated with her husband, Jon House, BS’97, anthropology as a work-in-progress, open where she developed a great respect and MD’02, and 22-month-old son from to the innovations that new audiovisual love for Native American cultures. She lives Cleveland to Carmel, Ind., last September. communications technologies bring to the in San Diego. She is working as a certified registered field. Concentrating on documentary pho- Melanie A. Ebdon, BA’89, received a nurse anesthetist in Danville, Ind., and is tography and ethnographic film, as well as master’s degree in biomedical engineering expecting her second child in August. lesser-known areas of study and presenta- in 1993 from the Ohio State University Justin M. Otten, BA’02, MA’07, is tion including dance, painting, architecture, and worked in IT/IS-related fields in Cali- conducting PhD fieldwork in the Tikvesh archaeology, and primate research, the fornia for several years. She returned to wine region of Macedonia, studying the book’s fifteen contributors feature popula- Bloomington, Ind., in 2009 to work for effects of privatization on grape owners. tions living on all of the world’s continents the IU Cyclotron and the IU Health Pro- He received American Councils Title VIII as well as within the United States. Now ton Therapy Center as software engineering Research funding for his research. Otten is retired, Strong taught for many years at the group leader. Ebdon writes, “I am happy a student and teaching assistant at the Uni- City University of New York and served as to be back at my alma mater!” She has a versity of Kent at Canterbury, England, and review editor for the journal Visual Anthro- 9-year-old son, Collin. his daughter, Vera, was born in May 2010. pology. She is past-president of the Ameri- In May 2010, Julienne Rutherford can Anthropological Association’s Society Goehl, MA’04, PhD’07, joined the faculty for Visual Anthropology. Strong’s research 1990s Alix Miczulski Lopez, BA’97, and her of the University of Illinois at Chicago Col- involves collaborations with painters and lege of Dentistry. An evolutionary biologist craftspeople in Latin America and the Unit- husband, Tarsis, BAJ’96, welcomed the birth of their son, Dylan Antonio Lopez, and anthropologist, Goehl is director of the ed States. She lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. comparative primate biology laboratory and Karl M. Petruso, MA’75, PhD’78, is in November. Tarsis is regional senior professor of anthropology and dean of the manager for the Latin America communica- continued on page 7 6 Around the Department continued from page 2

Letter from Chair Food Studies flourishes continued from page 2 Internship, conference, presentation and research ing the fall of 2010. The assessment placed the department within a news from Anthopology’s newest academic program group of top-tier departments in the United States. The assessment does not offer a clear-cut ranking, but different ways to compare de- Established in fall 2008, the Food Studies Program at the De- partments. Based on the “R” 5th rank, IU Anthropology was given partment of Anthropology continues to grow. The 2010-11 year a rank of 11th, tied with Columbia, Yale, and Pittsburgh, and 17th in of the Food Studies Program opened with the great success of a running count including every individual program tied for ranks “Food in Bloom,” a major joint conference of three food studies above us. In a running count, IU was sixth among CIC institutions, associations, organized by professor Richard Wilk. and was tied for 11th among public universities. Two brave PhD students, Adrianne Bryant and Leigh Bush, In addition to the NRC, an American Anthropological Associa- worked as interns in alternative meat production at Moody Farm tion survey of doctoral programs places IU Anthropology as 7th for in Indiana during summer 2010. Bush put together the first the number of Ph.D.s nationwide in faculty positions, a good mea- issue of the online journal Indiana Food Review (indianafoodre- sure of long term doctoral degree success rates. We know we could view.com), to which food studies students contributed articles be in an even better position if the NRC assessment was carried out showcasing their enthusiasms and diverse research focuses. today. Since 2005-06 we have strengthened faculty across sub-fields PhD student Sara Minard received funding for the fall 2010 and programs, expanded research and teaching to new areas, and semester from the Department of Sustainability to conduct food demonstrated sustained productivity in terms of publications and waste research in sororities and fraternities at the IUB campus. grants. Graduate students have demonstrated incredible success in Shingo Hamada presented his paper titled “Follow the Her- receiving competitive research funds, such as NSF, Wenner-Gren, ring: Gift Giving, Seafood Industry, and Japan in the Pacific” at and Fulbright. the AAA Meeting in New Orleans. The Anthropology and Food The challenges ahead will demand continuing commitment and Studies Colloquium, organized by professor Andrea Wiley, dedication of the IU anthropology community. Budget cuts have continues to offer faculty and students opportunities to share made it difficult to translate expanded teaching and growing enroll- their research with colleagues in an interdisciplinary environ- ment, research productivity, and grant applications into graduate ment. student support and recruitment fellowships. The latter is the area Wilk and PhD student Lyra Spang will direct a new seven- we ranked among the lowest in comparison with our peer depart- week ethnographic food studies field school in southern Belize ments as well as with other departments at IU. This remains an during summer 2011. important goal for the department during the next few years. Finally, for developing more research and training collabora- Our great strength is on the collegiality, energy and dedica- tions among Food Studies faculty and students in Indiana, IUB tion of our faculty, staff, students, IU administration, and broader Food Studies will host a one-day conference, “Food, Society, alumni community. The NRC assessment gives us much to celebrate Sustainability: a Workshop for Indiana Researchers” during the and offers a good basis for future planning. In no small measure, fall 2011 semester. the success of the department is the result of the commitment and dedication, over our long history and in different ways and degrees, of each member of this community. — Eduardo S. Brondizio

Alumni Notebook continued from page 6 was an amazing experience that I cherished, assistant professor of histology within the Tenaya I. Hurst, BA’05, has been very excavating Mayan remains, finding pottery, Department of Oral Biology in the Col- busy since graduating from IU with degrees bone, jade, conch shells, turtle shells, chert lege of Dentistry. She also has an adjunct in anthropology, geology, and theatre and arrowheads, obsidian blades, and living in appointment in the Department of Anthro- drama. She writes, “I traveled in Europe for the jungle! Hurst has also produced and pology. Rutherford Goehl is the founder a year-and-a-half, exploring Roman ruins performed “Tenaya Rocks!” — a one- of BANDIT, the Biological Anthropology in Italy and Sicily, and visiting any major woman show she describes as a “sexy geo- Developing Investigators Troop, which geological site, national park, and outcrop logical cabaret” that educates adults about brings together biological anthropologists I could find! My three areas of study came the basics of geology — and teaches special in the post-PhD, pre-tenure phase of their together when I visited the awe-inspiring classes in geology to elementary school careers. She received a New Investigator site of Tivoli, Sicily. [There were] archaeo- children. She lives in San Jose, Calif. Award from the Perinatal Research Society logical remains of a theatre, made from in 2009 and a Professional Development volcanic stone, with a view of Mount Etna Award from the American Association of through the now crumbled proscenium. I Physical Anthropologists in 2010. Outside [have also] self-produced and performed UPDATE US! of work she is an “avid fan of midcentury my one-woman show, “You Betta Belize architecture, design, and fashion, and en- It!,” a cabaret about love and archaeol- Send in the class note joys driving, biking, and walking around ogy. I wrote the show about my experience coupon on the back page. Chicago, exploring different neighbor- with the IU field school in Crooked Tree, We’ll publish your news in hoods and restaurants.” Belize with Anne Pyburn at Chau Hiix. It the next issue of Process. 7 Nonprofit Org. Postage PAID Free Bridge Indiana University Membership Alumni Association for unemployed alumni

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The IU Alumni Association is charged with maintaining records for all IU alumni. Please print as much of the following information as you wish. Updates are used as class notes and help keep IU’s alumni records accurate and up to date. Attach additional pages if nec- essary. Mail to the address above, or fax to (812) 855-8266. To update online, visit alumni. indiana.edu/directory. Name______Date______Preferred name______Last name while at IU______IU Degree(s)/Yr(s)______Univ. ID # (PeopleSoft) or last four digits of SS #______This newsletter is published by the Indiana Home address______University Alumni Association, in coop- Home phone______eration with the Department of Anthro- pology and the College of Arts and Sci- City______State______Zip______ences Alumni Association, to encourage Business title______alumni interest in and support for Indiana Company/Institution______University. For activities and membership information, call (800) 824-3044 or send Company address______e-mail to [email protected]. Work phone______Department of Anthropology City______State______Zip______Chair...... Eduardo S. Brondizio * E-mail______Newsletter editor...... Shingo Hamada * Home page URL______College of Arts & Sciences * Please indicate clearly upper and lower case. Interim Dean...... David Zaret Mailing address preference: ❍ Home ❍ Business Assistant Dean for Advancement ...... Tom Recker Spouse name______Director of Last name while at IU______AlumniPROCESS Programs...... Marsha Minton IU Degree(s)/Yr(s)______IU Alumni Association Your news: ______Executive Director...... J Thomas Forbes ______Senior Director of Constituent & Alumni Programs...... Nicki Bland ______Editor for Constituent ______Periodicals...... Sarah Preuschl Anderson Intern for Constituent o Please send me information about IU Alumni Association membership. Periodicals...... Tara Bender IUAA membership is now 80 percent tax deductible. It includes membership in the Class Notes...... Bill Elliott IU College of Arts & Sciences Alumni Association and in your local alumni chapter. To join: Go to www.alumni.indiana.edu or call (800) 824-3044.

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