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Department of Anthropology Self Study 2004-2012 Department of Anthropology Self Study 2004-2012 College of Liberal Arts Texas A&M University 18 January 2013 2 Department of Anthropology Self-Study 2004-2012 Acknowledgments 2 Executive Summary 3 Charge to the Peer-Review Team 7 Additional Questions Submitted by Department to Re- 11 view Team Chapter 1. Department of Anthropology Overview 13 Chapter 2. 2011 Strategic Plan 55 Chapter 3. Anthropology Faculty Profile 67 Chapter 4. Graduate Program 101 Chapter 5. Undergraduate Program 143 Chapter 6. Student Assessment Procedures and Results 161 Chapter 7. Contributions to Vision 2020 and Action 2015 169 Appendices A. Faculty Biographies and Brief CVs 177 B. Program Requirements for Graduate Degrees 255 C. Course Enrollments 269 D. MA and PhD Graduate Placement 275 E. Comments from Graduate Student Survey 285 3 Acknowledgments This Self-Study Report was prepared by Cynthia Werner and Ted Goebel, with contributions from Vaughn Bryant and Alston Thoms. Jessica Dangott, In Huck Choi, Cynthia Hurt, Rebekah Luza, and Marco Valadez helped collect and organize the data presented. A draft of the self-study was circulated to the faculty for comments in December 2012. This final version incorporates numerous suggestions provided by faculty members. 2 Executive Summary The Department of Anthropology at Texas A&M University was established as a department in 1980, after existing for one decade as a program within a joint sociology/anthropology department. The department offers BA, MA and PhD degrees in Anthropology. The department is situated in the heart of the campus, in the Anthropology Building, a 46,000 square foot building that is currently in the midst of a major renovation project which will provide a new heating and cooling (HVAC) system, electrical power system, phone lines, and flooring. The faculty currently consists of in 2005. The department is also 23 tenured/tenure-track faculty closely affiliated with the Institute members, including 10 professors, of Nautical Archaeology (INA), an 12 associate professors, and two as- independent non-profit organiza- sistant professors. The department tion which arrived on the Texas also has three additional faculty A&M campus in 1976. Although members: one half-time senior the department’s strengths have professor, one half-time research as- always been in archaeology (both sistant professor, and one full-time prehistoric and nautical), the bio- visiting assistant professor. logical and cultural anthropology Currently, the department is programs are emerging as equally administratively divided into four robust programs with several inter- programs (representing three of the nationally recognized scholars. subfields of anthropology): archae- The study period (2004-2012) ology, biological anthropology, covers the eight year period since cultural anthropology, and nautical the department was last reviewed archaeology. The department has in January 2004. A number of sig- two research centers: the Center for nificant changes have taken place the Study of the First Americans during this period, including a few (CSFA), which was brought to Texas changes that were initiated before A&M in 2002, and the Center for this period, as outlined below. Maritime Archaeology and Conser- Administrative Structure. The vation (CMAC), which was founded department has completed the 3 transition from a department that continue to serve as a guide for the contained a semi-autonomous unit university and the College of Liberal (the nautical archaeology program) Arts. In 2007, the College of Liberal to a department with four distinct Arts prepared a report for an exter- programs with equal representation. nal review (which assesses progress Faculty participation in the gover- towards Vision 2020), and in 2008, nance of the department remains the university developed a new strong. During the study period, an Academic Master Plan 2015 (which increasing amount of work (includ- incorporates and refines the Vision ing the selection of graduate stu- 2010 goals). dents and graduate assistantships) In 2010, the new dean of the has shifted from department-wide College of Liberal Arts initiated a meetings to program committees, strategic planning process in each departmental committees (which department. The Department of typically include at least one repre- Anthropology prepared a new sentative from each program) and Strategic Plan in May 2011, which faculty administrative positions. outlines a number of steps the In addition to four program com- department is taking to strengthen mittees, the department has four its undergraduate and graduate standing committees: the Executive programs. The strategic plan identi- Committee, the Curriculum Com- fies two primary areas of strength: mittee, the Diversity Committee, Nautical Archaeology and First and the Assessment Committee. Americans (or Paleoamerican) Ar- Since the last review, the depart- chaeology. The plan also identifies a ment has added the following number of metrics that can be used service roles: Director of Graduate to benchmark the department’s Studies, Departmental Curator, As- progress in improving its overall sessment Coordinator, and Place- reputation relative to several peer ment Coordinator. The department institutions that have been identi- has also appointed an Associate fied in the university’s Vision 2020 Head, after a long period of not hav- Strategic Planning process. The ing such a position. department has identified five goals: Strategic Plan. In 1997, the uni- improving the funding situation for versity developed a strategic plan, graduate students, improving the “Vision 2020: Creating a Culture of placement record for PhD gradu- Excellence,” with the ultimate goal ates; strengthening the national of having Texas A&M University profile in archaeology; maintain- be recognized as one of the top ten ing and strengthening programs in public universities by 2020. The biological anthropology and cul- goals put forward in Vision 2020 tural anthropology; and increasing 4 the diversity of faculty and graduate Graduate Program. The depart- students. ment had 131 registered students in Undergraduate Program. The the Fall of 2012, including 32 MA department has a vibrant under- students and 99 PhD students. Prior graduate anthropology program. to the last review, the department The department is one of the had started to shift its emphasis fastest-growing departments in the from the MA program to the PhD College of Liberal Arts, with an 85% program. Between 2004 and 2012, increase in the number of majors the number of PhD students in- since 2004. There are currently 211 creased by 135%, while the number undergraduate majors. The under- of MA students decreased by 52%. graduate student body in anthropol- Most of the MA students are in the ogy is more diverse in terms of race/ Nautical Archaeology Program, ethnicity and sex than the university where students acquire conserva- and the college student body as a tion skills and fieldwork experience whole. The four-year and six-year that can be marketed to a variety graduation rates for anthropology of jobs. In general, the number of majors is 29.4% and 57.9% respec- applicants to the department has tively, which are higher than the increased 28% during the study pe- university level rates but slightly riod, while the admissions process lower than the college level rates. has become more competitive (with Beginning in 2011, majors have the only 26% of applicants accepted option of completing an archaeol- last year). An increasing number of ogy track (instead of a general track graduate students in the program with equal coursework in each are receiving competitive external of the subfields). Approximately grants, presenting their research at half of our undergraduate majors national and international confer- complete a high-impact learning ences, and publishing their work in experience before graduation, such peer-reviewed journals. The depart- as participating in an archaeological ment has awarded 105 MA degrees excavation, working in a lab, com- and 41 PhD degrees since 2003. Of pleting an internship, or complet- those PhD graduates, 13 students ing an independent study. In the earned tenure-track appointments, past few years, the department nine earned non-tenure track has introduced a new scholarship academic appointments, and 13 program for undergraduates and obtained professional positions (as an undergraduate research award contract archaeologists, museum competition. curators, etc.). 5 6 Charge to Peer-Review Team The charge below was presented to our site-visit team during the Fall of 2012. It is reproduced here to provide a context for the remainder of the document. Thank you for assisting us with will have for this assessment are a continuous quality improvement of self-study to be completed by the academic programs in the Depart- department, other materials that ment of Anthropology (ANTH) may be provided by the department at Texas A&M University. The and our office, information you gain Academic Program Review (APR) through personal interactions while to which you are contributing is visiting Texas A&M University, and part of a periodic review of all any additional information that you Texas A&M University academic request. Within the broad charge of programs. APR affords opportu- informing continuous quality im- nity to assess the standards of our provement are the following specific programs and to learn from review questions that we would like you to team members’ experiences with address: similar
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