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Douglas Raybeck, Ph.D.,
Professor of Anthropology Emeritus
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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.
S. Brent Plate, Ph.D.,
Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies
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splate@hamilton.edu)
S. Brent Plate joins Hamilton as visiting associate professor of religious studies. His teaching and research focus on how ways of seeing affect ways of being religious. What humans look at, the type of images created, and how humans learn to see images, are all shaped by cultural, biological and religious environments. Investigating "religious visual culture," Plate's work is interdisciplinary, moving between developments in cultural anthropology, art history, film studies, and increasingly cognitive science, along with his home discipline, religious studies. Book-length publications include
Religion and Film (Wallflower Press, 2008),
The Religion and Film Reader (2007),
Blasphemy: Art that Offends (2006),
Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics (2005),
Re-Viewing the Passion: Mel Gibson's Film and Its Critics (2004), and
Representing Religion in World Cinema (2003). Plate is also co-founder and managing editor of the journal,
Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief.
Stephen Wu, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of Economics
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swu@hamilton.edu)
Stephen Wu received his Ph.D. and master’s degree from Princeton University and his bachelor’s degree from Brown University. He has published widely in many areas of applied microeconomics. Some of the topics of his research include the relationship between health and socioeconomic status, the determinants of subjective-well being, and the economics of higher education. Wu regularly teaches courses in microeconomics, statistics, health economic and labor economics and is currently writing an introductory economics textbook.
Topics: Economics of health,Life satisfaction
