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FACULTYAll members of the department are active scholars as well as experienced and enthusiastic teachers. Their research interests include the following: Paleoindian archaeology, paleoenvironments, evolutionary theory; cultural, political, economic, psychological and linguistic anthropology; nonverbal communication, language contact and variation; nationalism and state formation, race and class issues, gender issues and future studies. Charlotte Beck, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology(cbeck@hamilton.edu) Beck received her Ph.D. in 1984 from the University of Washington in
Seattle. Since coming to Hamilton in 1985 her work has focused on
the earliest human occupation of the Great Basin (called
Paleoindian). She has spent the past 15 summers in eastern and
central Nevada, together with her husband Tom Jones, teaching an
archaeological field school and involving her undergraduates in field
and lab research. She has published extensively, in such journals
as American Antiquity, the Journal of World Prehistory, and Quaternary Research. In addition she has edited two books, Dating in Surface and Exposed Contexts (1994) and more recently, Models for the Millennium: Great Basin Anthropology Today
(1999), which presents a set of papers on all aspects of current
anthropological and archaeological research in the Great Basin.
Haeng-ja Chung, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Anthropology(hschung@hamilton.edu) Haeng-ja Chung, assistant professor of anthropology, joined the Hamilton faculty in 2006 after serving as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and Colorado College. She earned her Ph.D. from UCLA. She has published an article on the Korean diaspora in The Human Rights and Life (Japanese) based upon her postdoctoral research and another article in The Journal of Human Rights on Korean nightclub hostesses in Japan. Her book reviews have appeared in War and Peace (Japanese) and American Anthropologist. Chung has been awarded a fellowship from the Social Science Research Council and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. While being affiliated at the department of cultural anthropology at the University of Tokyo in 2008-2009, she will conduct research on performative, emotional and affective labor of Korean nightclub hostesses in Japan. Based on this research, Chung plans to work on two book projects in English and Japanese. She is also a recipient of Hamilton’s John R. Hatch Class of 1925 Excellence in Teaching Award. Nathan Goodale, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Anthropology(ngoodale@hamilton.edu) Nathan Goodale, assistant professor of anthropology, earned his B.A. in geology and anthropology from Western State College, his M.A. in anthropology from the University of Montana, and his Ph.D. in anthropology from Washington State University. Goodale’s current research is focused on evolutionary approaches to understanding lithic technological organization, the transition to agriculture / resource intensification, and the Neolithic Demographic Transition. Goodale conducts research in the interior Northwest of North America, western coastal Ireland, and the Near East. Research emphases include modeling human behavior with quantitative methods, lithic technological organization, and evolutionary approaches to understanding variation in material culture as a byproduct of human behavior and knowledge transmission. George Jones, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology(tjones@hamilton.edu) G. Tom Jones, who chairs the anthropology department, has conducted archaeology fieldwork in Nevada's Great Basin for the past 16 summers, in addition to time spent studying the prehistorical archaeological record of San Juan Island, Washington. Jones earned his Ph.D. in 1984 from the University of Washington. He co-edited Quantifying Diversity in Archaeology for the Cambridge University Press. He was recently awarded the Samuel and Helen Lang Prize for excellence in teaching and received a Sabbatical Fellowship from the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia.
Chaise LaDousa, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Anthropology(cladousa@hamilton.edu) Chaise LaDousa, assistant professor of anthropology, attended the college of the University of Chicago and received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University. He has spent two years in North India studying languages and the role they play in education and India’s rapidly changing political economy. LaDousa taught most recently at Southern Connecticut State University. He has published professional articles in American Ethnologist, Journal of Pragmatics and Language in Society.
Bonnie Urciuoli, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology(burciuol@hamilton.edu) Urciuoli came to Hamilton in 1988. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Her areas of interests are linguistic and cultural anthropology, specializing in public discourses of race, class, and language, and particularly the discursive construction of "diversity" in U.S. higher education. Urciuoli's book, Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class, was published in 1996; it was awarded the 1997 Gustavus Myers Center Award for the study of human rights in North America. She has published in American Ethnologist, Language and Communication, and the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. Urciuoli is a member of the American Anthropological Association, the Society for Cultural Anthropology, the American Ethnological Society, and the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.
Nona Moskowitz , Visiting Instructor of Anthropology(nmoskowi@hamilton.edu) Nona Moskowitz is completing her doctoral work at the University of Virginia and plans to defend her dissertation in December. She received a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research on island-mainland relations in the local middle school on a small Japanese island 600 miles from the mainland. Her research examines the ways the middle school fashions a particular identity or value system while incorporating local practices and perspectives into the everyday life and structure of the school. Moskowitz teaches courses in linguistic anthropology and on the culture and society of Japan. Most recently she has taught at Kenyon College.
Douglas Raybeck, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology Emeritus(draybeck@hamilton.edu) Psychological anthropologist Douglas Raybeck focuses his research on topics ranging from nonverbal communication and psycholinguistics to physiological correlates of behavioral dispositions. Most recently he has been working and writing in the area of deviance (behavior that is outside social norms). Raybeck earned his Ph.D. from Cornell. He is an expert in future studies and has written a book, Looking Down the Road: A Systems Approach to Future Studies (2000), on the topic. He studies Malaysian culture and published Mad Dogs, Englishmen and the Errant Anthropologist, a book summarizing his fieldwork in Kelantan, Malaysia. He has been a fellow at the National Institutes of Health and is past-president of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research. Henry Rutz, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropolgy, Emeritus(hrutz@hamilton.edu) Henry Rutz is an economic anthropologist with research interests in the cultural nationalism of Pacific Island States, with special reference to Fiji. He also haso research interest in changing culture of the middle class in an era of globalization, with special reference to issues of class and education in Istanbul. He is co-author, with Erol Balkan, of Reproducing Class: Education, Neoliberalism and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul (2009). Rutz's other publications include Cultural Preservation, in World at Risk: A Global Issues Sourcebook (2002), The Rise and Demise of Islamic Religious Schools: Discourses of Belonging and Denial in the Construction of Turkish Civil Society and Culture, Political and Legal Anthropology Review (1999), and Evaluating the Discourse of Tradition, Pacific Studies (2000). Christopher Vasantkumar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Anthropology(cvasantk@hamilton.edu) Christopher Vasantkumar, assistant professor of anthropology, earned his bachelor's degree from Princeton and master's and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is an anthropologist of China, specializing in the study of ethnic diversity in the People’s Republic.
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