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Like many anthropologists, Dr. Crapo began his university studies in another field. He originally planned to major in mathmatics, but became enamored with anthropology after taking a course about native North Americans. As a graduate student, Dr. Crapo chose to specialize in linguistics and cultural anthropology - focusing his efforts in the Great Basin and Mesoamerica. Since joining the USU faculty, Dr. Crapo has taught a variety of courses, including ones on religion, asthetics, personality and gender.

Dr. Crapo's Vita

Dr. Crapo's classes include:

Bonnie Glass-Coffin
Ph.D. University of
California - Los Angeles 1992

Old Main 245 E
(435) 797-4064
bonnie.glasscoffin@usu.edu

Patricia M. Lambert
Ph.D. University of
California - Santa Barbara 1994

Old Main 245 F
(435) 797-2603
patricia.lambert@usu.edu

David F. Lancy
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh 1975
RM 245 D
Office Hours:
By appointment

(435) 797-1322
david.lancy@.usu.edu

Jon R. Moris
Ph.D. Northwestern University 1970

University Extension- Blanding

jonm@ext.usu.edu

Bonnie Pitblado
Ph.D. University of Arizona 1999

Old Main 245 A
(435) 797-1496
bonnie.pitblado@usu.edu

Dr. Pitblado joined the Utah State University anthropology faculty as an assistant professor in 2002. She is now an associate professor of anthropology and serves as director of the USU Museum of Anthropology. She teaches courses in archaeology and museum studies and serves as the advisor for USU's "Museum Studies" certification program. Dr. Pitblado specializes in the earliest human occupations of the Rocky Mountains, and she has an active research program aimed at trying to better understand how people used the mountains and adjacent landscapes, 10,000-7,500 years ago. Currently, Dr. Pitblado has grants from the National Science Foundation and the Bureau of Land Management to conduct field research in the Gunnison Basin of southwest Colorado, and she is initiating a new, long-term research program based in northern Utah and southeast Idaho. In 2003, Dr. Pitblado published a book with University Press of Colorado, Paleoindian Occupation of the Southern Rocky Mountains. In October 2007, the same press released a volume co-edited by Dr. Pitblado, Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology. Dr. Pitblado teaches archaeological field school in odd-numbered years, and she offers many other vehicles for her students to gain hands-on experience in both archaeology and museum studies.

Dr. Pitblado's Vita

Dr. Pitblado's: Southeastern Idaho Northern Utah Paleoindian Research Program Short Report, Volume 1

Steven R. Simms
Ph.D. Univeristy of Utah 1984

Old Main 245 G
(435) 797-1277
s.simms@usu.edu



		Richley H. Crapo Ph.D. University of Utah 1970 Old Main 245 B (435) 797-1080 richley.crapo@usu.edu Dr. Crapo's Website!
	Like many anthropologists, Dr. Crapo began his university studies in another field. He originally planned to major in mathmatics, but became enamored with anthropology after taking a course about native North Americans. As a graduate student, Dr. Crapo chose to specialize in linguistics and cultural anthropology - focusing his efforts in the Great Basin and Mesoamerica. Since joining the USU faculty, Dr. Crapo has taught a variety of courses, including ones on religion, asthetics, personality and gender. Dr. Crapo's Vita

	Dr. Crapo's classes include: Cultural Anthropology Anthropology of Religion History and Theories of Anthropology Anthropology of Sex and Gender Problems in Cultural Anthropology TOP
		Bonnie Glass-Coffin Ph.D. University of California - Los Angeles 1992 Old Main 245 E (435) 797-4064 bonnie.glasscoffin@usu.edu
	Dr. Glass-Coffin's interests include both historical transformations and contemporary dynamics in Peruvian shamanism (including the role played by gender in symbolic constructions of illness, and the emergence and impacts of mystical of spiritual tourism on cultural traditions). Since the Fall of 2000 she has also been engaged in participatory and action research with local Latino groups in Cache Valley. Selected publications include "Anthropology, Shamanism and the New Age", in the Chronicle of Higher Education, (1994); The Gift of Life: Female Shamanism in Northern Peru, published by the University of New Mexico Press (1998); "Engendering Peruvian Shamanism through Time: Insights from Ethnohistory and Ethnography', in Ethnohistory (1999) and "Reflections on the Experience of Healing: Whose Logic, Whose Experience?", in Healing Logics: Culture and Medicine in Modern Health Belief Systems (2001, edited by Erika Brady). Since Summer 2002, she has also led an Ethnographic Field School in Peru (for more information see www.usu.edu/anthro/peru). For a look at her CV click here.
	Dr. Glass-Coffin's classes include: Cultural Anthropology Methods and Careers Medical Anthropology: Matter, Culture, Spirit and Health Contemporary Anthropological Theory and Method Ethnographic Field School Peoples of Latin America Contemporary Issues in Anthropology TOP
		Emily L. Jones Ph.D. University of Washington 2004 Brigham City Campus (435) 734-9958, ext. 283 emily.jones@usu.edu
	Dr. Jones is a zooarchaeologist whose interests focus on human-environment interactions in the "two southwests": the Paleolithic of Southwestern France, and the late prehistoric and early historic of the American Southwest. She has worked in New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona as well as in southwestern France, and Chihuahua, Mexico. She has also been active in indigenous archaeology, and has worked at Diné College and with the Navajo Nation Archaeology Department to develop programs for Navajo students. Dr. Jones' current research projects concern Athabaskan origins in the Four Corners region, and the development of broad spectrum diets in Paleolithic France and Spain. Her work has been funded by the Embassy of France, the National Institute of Health, and Sigma Xi, and has been published in a number of academic journals and edited volumes, including the Journal of Archaeological Science and the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. Dr. Jones' Vita
	Dr. Jones' Classes Include: World Archaeology Biological Anthropology Zooarchaeology Lab at Brigham City TOP
		Patricia M. Lambert Ph.D. University of California - Santa Barbara 1994 Old Main 245 F (435) 797-2603 patricia.lambert@usu.edu
	Dr. Lambert is currently the Anthropology Program Director at USU. Despite her professed love of warm weather, Dr. Lambert continues to find herself working in some pretty cold places, most recently on a Viking Age excavation in the Mosfell Valley of southwestern Iceland. Dr. Lambert is a specialist in New World bioarchaeology with research interests in prehistoric warfare, ancient disease, the biological impacts of gender roles, and the health consequences of social and economic transitions. She has conducted research in California, the Great Basin, the Southeast, the Southwest, and north coastal Peru. Her work has been published in a number of academic journals, including American Antiquity, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Antiquity, Journal of Forensic Sciences, and Nature. She currently serves as an associate editor for the American Journal of Physical Anthropology and is nearing completion on a book about her research on prehistoric warfare in California and elsewhere in ancient North America. Dr. Lambert's Vita
	Dr. Lambert's classes include Biological Anthropology Perspectives on Race Osteology Problems in Bioarchaeology Anthropology of War Resources in Anthropology at USU TOP
		David F. Lancy Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh 1975 RM 245 D Office Hours: By appointment (435) 797-1322 david.lancy@.usu.edu
	Dr. Lancy's first experience with a different culture occurred when he was a high school exchange student in the Bavarian Alps. After graduating from college, he did research on the Kpelle people of West Africa, eventually completing a Ph.D. dissertation on them in 1974. From 1976 to 1980, Dr. Lancy conducted a major comparative study, The Indigenous Mathematics Project, in Papua New Guinea. He has published 6 books and more than fifty articles and chapters. He is currently at work on Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings: The Anthropology of Children treatment of the topic. Dr. David Lancy's CV
	Dr. Lancy's classes include: USU 1320: Civilizations/Humanities (focus on Egypt) Anthropology of Childhood Archaeology of Ancient Civilizations Peoples of the Contemporary World (Schooling and Culture) TOP
		Chris Morgan Ph.D. University of California - Davis 2006 Old Main 245 C (435) 797-1178 chris.morgan@usu.edu
	Dr. Morgan’s research focuses on the archaeology of hunter-gatherers and the way climate change, migration, and population dynamics affect behavior. He uses GIS and models derived from behavioral ecology to analyze foraging economies and the way these interact with and inform social and political structure, particularly for groups living in marginal environments like mountains and deserts. Most of his fieldwork is in the American west, especially California’s Sierra Nevada, where he’s modeled how late Holocene settlement patterns were used to adapt to changing climatic and environmental regimes. Most recently he’s moved to looking at the spread of modern humans into East Asia and the adoption of agriculture in north China, correlating these phenomena with fundamental changes in settlement, technology, and environment. He has subsidiary interests in geoarchaeology and lithic analyses and is currently looking at the environmental and behavioral variables conditioning the success or failure of different types of foraging economies in marginal and high-altitude environmental settings worldwide. Dr. Morgan's Vita
	Dr. Morgan's classes include: World Archaeology Geoarcaeology Archaeology of North America Anth 2330 Anth 6840 TOP
		Jon R. Moris Ph.D. Northwestern University 1970 University Extension- Blanding jonm@ext.usu.edu
	Dr. Moris was born and raised in East Africa. He recieved his Ph.D. in anthropology from Northwestern in 1970, based on studies of farm innovation in central Kenya. Before coming to USU, Dr. Moris worked 17 years in East Africa, including a period as a project manager of a large range development project among the Maasai. Since 1980, his research has focused on irrigation, extension and the fate of Africa's pastoralists during recent droughts. Dr. Moris has co-authored six textbooks on African development and qualitative methods. He is currently writing texts on applied anthropology and international development.
	Dr. Moris' classes include: Peoples of the World Applied Rural Development Cities and Development North American Indian Cultures Developing Societies Southwest Indian Cultures TOP
		Bonnie Pitblado Ph.D. University of Arizona 1999 Old Main 245 A (435) 797-1496 bonnie.pitblado@usu.edu
	Dr. Pitblado joined the Utah State University anthropology faculty as an assistant professor in 2002. She is now an associate professor of anthropology and serves as director of the USU Museum of Anthropology. She teaches courses in archaeology and museum studies and serves as the advisor for USU's "Museum Studies" certification program. Dr. Pitblado specializes in the earliest human occupations of the Rocky Mountains, and she has an active research program aimed at trying to better understand how people used the mountains and adjacent landscapes, 10,000-7,500 years ago. Currently, Dr. Pitblado has grants from the National Science Foundation and the Bureau of Land Management to conduct field research in the Gunnison Basin of southwest Colorado, and she is initiating a new, long-term research program based in northern Utah and southeast Idaho. In 2003, Dr. Pitblado published a book with University Press of Colorado, Paleoindian Occupation of the Southern Rocky Mountains. In October 2007, the same press released a volume co-edited by Dr. Pitblado, Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology. Dr. Pitblado teaches archaeological field school in odd-numbered years, and she offers many other vehicles for her students to gain hands-on experience in both archaeology and museum studies. Dr. Pitblado's Vita Dr. Pitblado's: Southeastern Idaho Northern Utah Paleoindian Research Program Short Report, Volume 1
	Dr. Pitblado's classes include: World Archaeology Archaeology in North America Introduction to Museum Studies Museum Development Peopling of the New World Archaeology Lab Techniques Arch Meth/Thry & CRM TOP
		Steven R. Simms Ph.D. Univeristy of Utah 1984 Old Main 245 G (435) 797-1277 s.simms@usu.edu
	I received my Ph.D. in 1984 from the University of Utah and began working at Utah State University in 1988. My first archaeology experience was in 1972-73 under the tutelage of the legendary “Dark Lord,” Jesse D. Jennings at the University of Utah. I learned from other great field archaeologists by doing archaeology in most western states and in the southeastern United States. I also studied at the University of Nevada, Reno, the University of Pittsburgh, and then again at the University of Utah. At each of these schools I had the good fortune to learn from theoretically sophisticated scholars who showed me that the questions are more powerful than the answers. My general interests are the prehistory of the American Desert West, archaeological method and theory, paleoecology, ethnoarchaeology, and evolutionary ecology. I also enjoy the history and theory of anthropology. Between 1986 and 1997 I studied the ethnoarchaeology of Bedouin in Jordan. In recent years, my fieldwork aims to provide undergraduate students with field training and research opportunities in Utah and to prepare them for work in Cultural Resource Management, the major job track for entry-level archaeology students. Dr. Simms' vita Dr. Simms' current research activities
	Dr. Simms' classes include: World Archaeology Archaeology in North America History and Theories of Anthropology Archaeological Method, Theory and CRM CRM Policy Ancient Desert West Ancient Humans and the Environment Paleoenvironments Field Trip TOP
		Silvia E. Smith Doctoral Candidate University of Utah Lecturer Old Main 245 H silvia.anthro@gmail.com
	After graduating from USU with a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology, I became a graduate student in Biological Anthropology at the University of Utah, working under the guidance of Professors Henry Harpending, Dennis O'Rourke, and Alan Rogers. I received a Master of Science degree in Anthropology in 2005, after completing a study on ancient DNA from 50 prehistoric Aleut individuals. The goal of my MS research project was to infer information about past population migrations in the Aleutian Islands using mitochondrial DNA haplogroup data. I am currently a doctoral candidate in the same department and I am working on my dissertation project(s). My interests have shifted from ancient DNA studies to understanding the coevolutionary relationships between bacterial pathogens and their human host. More specifically, my dissertation work uses the genus /Mycobacterium/, to which the causative pathogens of tuberculosis and leprosy belong, to elucidate how an ancient human pathogen changes through time to adapt to the evolving genome of one of its host species, /H. sapiens/.
	Silvia's' classes include: Perspectives on Race TOP
	Associated Faculty Kenneth Cannon (PhD University of Nebraska 2008; Director USU Archeological Services, Assistant Adjunct Prof) Old Main RM 240 B (435) 797- 3868 kenneth.cannon@usu.edu Dr. Ken Cannon's CV Hunter-gatherers, mammal biogeography, cultural resource management; Great Plains, Intermountain West, Rocky Mountains. Affiliated Faculty: Christopher Conte, African History Ph.D. Michigan State University, 1995 Joanna Endter-wada, Forest Resources Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, 1987 John E. Lackstrom, Linguistics Ph.D. University of Washington, 1970 John E. Mclaughlin, English Ph.D. University of Kansas Ronald G. Munger, Nutrition and Food Science Ph.D. University of Washington, 1985 Steven Siporin, Folklore of Italy Ph.D. Indiana University, 1982 Barre Toelken, Navajo and Japanese Folklore Ph.D. University of Oregon, 1964
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