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Faculty (top)
| Lohse, "Skip" |
Professor and Chair. (Curriculum Vitae) |
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Dr. Lohse is Curator of Anthropology at the Idaho Museum of Natural History. Dr. Lohse specializes in the analysis of material culture of traditional non-industrial societies. He has worked on archaeological projects in California, the Great Basin, the Southwest, Columbia Plateau and Western Samoa, and on Native American collections from the Great Basin, Plains, Columbia Plateau, and Pacific Northwest.
Skip Lohse performs research in archaeoinformatics. His recent projects focus on building smart user interfaces, and the application of artificial intelligence to archaeological classification. His long term goal is development of authenticated heritage databases that will fuel archaeological research. Dr. Lohse also directs the department fieldschool. Over the past few years, he has conducted excavations on Paleoindian sites, including ongoing work at the Gault site in Texas.
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Graveley Hall 153 Stop 8005
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| Holmer, Richard |
Professor. |
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Interests include stone tool technology and taxonomy, computer applications, Geographic Information Systems, Cultural Resource Management, Great Basin and Mesoamerican archaeology. |
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| Loether, Chris |
Professor. |
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Dr. Loether is the Director of the American Indian Studies Program, Director of the Linguistics Program, and Co-Director of the Shoshoni Language Project. Dr. Loether specializes in Uto-Aztecan, Celtic, Germanic and Semitic languages. He has worked specifically with the Western Mono, Owens Valley Paiute, Shoshoni and Welsh languages. His other specialties include sociolinguistics, ethnopoetics, lexicography, language revitalization, and the ethnology of California and Great Basin Indians. |
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| Maschner, Herb |
Anthropology Research Professor. |
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Dr. Herbert Maschner is Anthropology Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology, a Senior Scientist and Affiliate Faculty at the Idaho Accelerator Center (IAC), and Director of the newly formed Idaho State University Center for Archaeology, Materials, and Applied Spectroscopy (CAMAS). His research interests include regional analysis, global systems, complex systems analysis, quantitative methods, analytical laboratory techniques (stable isotopes and elemental analyses), Darwinian theory, historical and marine ecology, and computer-based methods of analysis including GIS. |
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| Cartwright, Elizabeth |
Associate Professor. |
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Interests include medical anthropology, visual anthropology, ethnomedicine, migrant farmworkers and environmental health, and women's health. Links: Hispanic Health Projects, Visual Anthropology |
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| Dudgeon, John |
Assistant Professor. |
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| Glowacka, Maria |
Assistant Professor. |
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Dr. Glowacka is a cultural anthropologist specializing in American Indian cultures of the Southwest. Her current research interests focus on Hopi culture, philosophy, and language revitalization |
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| Reedy-Maschner, Katherine |
Assistant Professor. |
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Reedy-Maschner is a socio-ecological and applied anthropologist who works with the Aleut of Alaska on issues of identity and cultural development, economic development, fisheries policy, their relationships to endangered species, and the Aleut role with the volatile commercial fishing industry. She has also worked with the Yupiit and Iñupiat of Alaska on their roles in the creation of fisheries policy |
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| Gould, Drusilla |
Native Language Instructor. |
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Ms. Gould is an Instctor of American Indian Studies. She is a native Shoshoni speaker who teaches a two-year Shoshoni language curriculum |
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| Bybee, Rita |
Adjunct Instructor. |
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| Dean, Patricia |
Research Assistant Professor. |
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Interests include artifact taxonomy, petroglyphic analysis of pottery in western North America, and Numic prehistory |
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| Peterson, Christian |
Adjunct Instructor. |
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| Thomas, Lewis |
Adjunct Instructor. |
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| Wolfley, Jeanette |
Adjunct Assistant Professor. |
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| Woods, James |
Affiliate Faculty. |
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Woods teaches evening courses at the ISU Residence Center in Twin Falls. He is also the Director of the Herrett Center for Arts & Science and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the College of Southern Idaho. His current interests include exerimental replication and use studies of stone tools of the Great Basin and Mesoamerica. Woods is also on the Idaho Humanities Council Speakers Bureau.
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| Hansen, Richard |
Affiliate Faculty. |
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| Stocks, Anthony |
Professor Emeritus. |
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Interests include ecological anthropology, applications of anthropology, anthropological theory, community conservation, cultural survival, and community forestry. Dr. Stocks provides technical assistance to indigenous groups in the neotropics interested in vindicating their historical land rights - especially in areas where forest conservation is concerned - through mapping, self-studies, and the development of institutions of stewardship |
Staff (top)
| Clover, Rebecca |
Department Secretary. |
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Graduate Students (top)
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