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New Faculty Members (update 1/3/2008) Mary K. Shenk Dr. Christine VanPool COURSES: Graduate: Dr. Mary Shenk: Teaching: Selected Publications: <CV> Shenk, Mary. 2005. “Kin Networks in Wage-Labor Economies: Effects on Child and Marriage Market Outcomes.” Human Nature 16:81-114. Shenk, Mary. 2005. “How Much Gold Will You Put on Your Daughter? A Behavioral Ecology Perspective on Dowry Marriage.” University of Washington Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE) Working Paper Series, Publication 2005-07. Shenk, Mary. 2004. “Embodied Capital and Heritable Wealth in Complex Cultures: A Class-Based Analysis of Parental Investment in Urban South India.” Research in Economic Anthropology 23:307-333 (special issue on Socioeconomic Aspects of Human Behavioral Ecology ). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wa-jée-pa-na FROM THE CHAIR: More hallmarks that I am getting old—both sons are married and I became a grandparent in August this year. My wife Barbara and I are thrilled. The MU Department of Anthropology family, too, continues to grow. We hired an archaeologist who works in South America , Dr. Frances Hayashida (see elsewhere in this issue). And, we are recruiting for a biological anthropologist and a cultural anthropologist this year. Dr. Carol Ward transferred full-time into the Department of Pathology and Anatomy, but Dr. Mark Flinn is back prowling the corridors of Swallow Hall. Dr. Mike O'Brien is the new Dean of the College of Arts and Science. And Dr. Alex Barker (from the Milwaukee Public Museum ) is the new Director of the Museum of Art and Archaeology, but he is tenured in Anthropology and will teach a class for us once in a while. Our population of undergraduate majors, and our population of in-residence graduate students both remain steady. Our chosen program focus on "Human Ecology, Evolution, and Adaptation" continues to mature and evolve (no pun intended). It has spawned new collaborative efforts among various faculty, including a project in Newfoundland by Craig Palmer and Lisa Sattenspiel; and on on religion involving Craig Palmer and Todd and Christine VanPool. Hopefully, our recruiting efforts will be successful and by this time in 2007 we will have at least two new faculty who complement our program focus. This issue of Wa-jée-pa-na was put together by myself and Dr. Christine VanPool (see elsewhere in this issue for an introduction to Christine). If you have a news item that you wish to share with faculty, staff, alumni, and friends of the department, please email it to Gail Lawrence ( gail@missouri.edu ) or I ( lymanr@missouri.edu ) . We will include it in the next issue. We extend our sincere hope that all is well with you and yours. R. Lee Lyman Department History: The Department of Anthropology at the University of Missouri-Columbia was created as a separate department in the summer of 1966. Prior to that summer, there was a Department of Sociology and Anthropology, similar to many other campuses across the United States . The history of staffing the anthropology program is intriguing. Dr. Carl Chapman was hired in 1946, Dr. Robert Spier in 1949, Mr. Robert Bray in 1959, Dr. H. Clyde Wilson in 1961, and Dr. Raymond W. Wood in 1963. Other faculty were hired as follows: 1965—Dr. James Hamilton, Dr. Dale Henning, and Dr. Ralph Rowlett. 1966—Dr. Duane D Quiatt (later went to Univ. Colorado ). 1967—Dr. Marvin D. Loflin, Dr. Ramaswami (later went to Univ. Calgary) Radhakrishnan, and Dr. James Gavan. 1968—Dr. Imtiaz Ahmad, Dr. Richard Diehl, Dr. Michael Robbins. 1969—Dr. Robert Benfer. Many of these names should sound familiar, even if you were a student in the 1980s, two decades after these individuals were hired. Some individuals left the program, some retired, and some have passed away. The department they built is thriving, though the program(s) they designed have evolved over time. We here take the opportunity to acknowledge these founders of MU Anthropology. THANK YOU! Books recently published by faculty: — R. L. Lyman and M. J. O'Brien . 2006. Measuring Time with Artifacts: A History of Methods in American Archaeology. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln. —Lipo, C. P., M. J. O'Brien , M. Collard, and S. Shennan (editors). 2006. Mapping Our Ancestors: Phylogenetic Approaches in Anthropology and Archaeology. Aldine Transaction, New Brunswick , NJ . — Horstmann, A. and R. L. Wadley (editors). 2006. Centering the Margin: Agency and Narrative in Southeast Asian Borderlands . Berghahn Press, Oxford . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >FACULTY ACTIVITIES ----------------------------------------------------------- Mark V. Flinn rejoined the MU Department of Anthropology after two years in MU's Department of Psychological Sciences. The past two years were an exciting and productive time for him. He taught new courses on child development and evolutionary psychology. Observing a different department was a great learning opportunity. Flinn reports that although it was a wonderful experience, he is happy to be back home in anthropology! In his view, there is a renewed energy level in Swallow Hall, fueled in part by the outstanding new faculty hires, and a hardworking cohort of graduate students. Flinn's research group continued its long-term study of childhood stress in Dominica , funded by the National Science Foundation. The group published papers on a wide range of topics, including the evolution of intelligence, culture, stress response, and grandmothers. There is a nice write-up of the project in the Fall 2006 Mizzou Magic magazine that goes out to public schools. Dr. Flinn's former graduate students have had great success in the job market: David Leone accepted a tenure track position in biomedical anthropology at the University of North Carolina , Greensboro . Seamus Decker went to the McGill University School of Medicine on a post-doc. Rob Quinlan is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Washington State University . Dr. Flinn's three sons – Rick, Warren, and Jack – are quite a handful. They all spent a few weeks with him in Dominica this year, which was great fun. Recent publications include: — Flinn, M. V. 2006. Evolution and Ontogeny of Stress Response to Social Challenges in the Human Child. Developmental Review 26:138–174. — Flinn, M. V. 2006. Cross-Cultural Universals and Variations: The Evolutionary Paradox of Informational Novelty. Psychological Inquiry 17:118–123. ----------------------------------------------------------- Frances Hayashida (Univ. of Michigan Ph.D. 1995) joins us as Assistant Professor of Archaeology. She works in Peru and has done fieldwork in the central highlands, the Cuzco and Nazca areas, and the north coast. Most of her research has been in the Lambayeque area of the north coast where she studies the ecologies and economies of late prehispanic states and empires. Her most recent archaeological project investigated the technology and organization of water management and agriculture under three political regimes (Sicán, Chimú, and Inka). Some of the results of this study have just been published in Latin American Antiquity (see below). Over the past two summers, Dr. Hayashida completed an ethnoarchaeological study of traditional maize beer (chicha) brewing on the north coast. Chicha was essential to social, political, and ritual exchanges in the pre-Columbian Andes . Through observation of modern brewing and its material correlates, Dr. Hayashida hopes to provide archaeologists with the tools necessary to identify and interpret brewing in the past. One question is whether chicha production (a messy process with lots of spills) leaves a distinctive microbotanical (phytoliths, starch) or chemical “signature” in the dirt floors of breweries. To answer this question, she collected sediment samples scraped from the floor of one of the breweries in the study. These samples are currently being analyzed, with support from the MU Research Council, in the department's Paleoethobotany Laboratory (Dr. Deborah Pearsall, director) and through the Archaeometry Program of the Missouri University Research Reactor (Dr. Michael Glascock, director). Recent publications include: — Hayashida, F. 2005. Archaeology, Ecological History, and Conservation. Annual Review of Anthropology 34:43–65. — Hayashida, F. 2006. The Pampa de Chaparrí: Water, Land, and Politics on the North Coast of Peru. Latin American Antiquity 17:243–263. ----------------------------------------------------------- R. Lee Lyman has two pieces of exciting (nonanthropological) news: His older son (John) got married in August 2006; and his younger son provided his first grandchild in August 2006. Not only that, Lee and his wife Barbara moved into a new house in June. It was a busy summer. Lyman's research on two late prehistoric collections of mammal remains recovered from near Portland , Oregon , by Dr. Kenneth Ames of Portland State University and his students is nearly complete. Experimental breakage of deer bones by several MU graduate students awaits his attention, as do several research questions that will be answered with the data generated. Recent publications include: — Lyman, R. L. 2006. Paleozoology in the Service of Conservation Biology. Evolutionary Anthropology 15:11–19. — Lyman, R. L. 2006. Identifying Bilateral Pairs of Deer ( Odocoileus sp.) Bones: How Symmetrical is Symmetrical Enough? Journal of Archaeological Science 33:1237–1255. — Lyman, R. L. 2006. Archaeological Evidence of Anthropogenically Induced Twentieth-Century Diminution of North American Wapiti ( Cervus elaphus ). American Midland Naturalist 156:88–98. —Gompper, M. E., A. E. Petrites, & R. L. Lyman. 2006. Cozumel Island Fox ( Urocyon sp.) Dwarfism and Possible Divergence History based on Subfossil Bones. Journal of Zoology 270:72–77. — Lyman, R. L. 2006. Late Prehistoric and Early Historic Abundance of Columbian White-Tailed Deer, Portland Basin, Washington and Oregon, U.S.A. Journal of Wildlife Management 70:278–282. — Lyman, R. L. 2006. Presentist History as a Means to Overturn Qualified Authority: A (False) Warrant for a New Archaeology in the 1960s and 1970s. Histories of Anthropology Annual Vol. 2, edited by R. Darnell and F. W. Gleach, pp. 103–122. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln. ----------------------------------------------------------- Michael J. O'Brien became the new Dean of MU's College of Arts and Science in July 2006. Mike continues to oversee the operation of the Museum of Anthropology . ----------------------------------------------------------- Craig T. Palmer performed fieldwork in Newfoundland , Canada , during the summer of 2006, with Chris Cassidy, a graduate student in the PHD program. Fieldwork involved archival research and ethnohistorical interviewing on the spread of the 1918 Spanish Influenza in Newfoundland . The research was funded by a Summer Research Fellowship and Research Council Grant from the University of Missouri-Columbia, a Research Board Grant from the University of Missouri , and a Research Grant from the Canadian Embassy in Chicago , IL . Dr. Palmer accompanied three PhD graduate students (Christina Pomianek, Chet Savage, Chris Cassidy) to the Human Behavior and Evolution Society meetings at the University of Pennsylvania in June 2006, where they presented papers and posters. Recent publications include: — Palmer, C. T ., Wright, J., Wright, S. A., Cassidy, C., VanPool, T. & K. Coe. 2006. The Many Manipulations of Morty Mouse: Children's Stories and the Parental Encouragement of Altruism. Journal of Anthropological Research 62:235–257. — Palmer, C. T., Steadman, L. B., & C. Cassidy. 2006. Traditional Religious Ritual Sacrifice: Cultural Materialism, Costly Signaling, or Descendant-Leaving Strategy? Journal of Ritual Studies 20(2):33–42. — Palmer, C. T., Steadman, L. B., & K. Coe. 2006. More Kin: An Effect of the Tradition of Marriage. Structure and Dynamics 1(2), article 4:1–16. —Coe, K., Aiken, N., & C. T. Palmer . 2006. Once Upon a Time: Ancestors and the Evolutionary Significance of Stories. Anthropological Forum 16(1):21–40. —Wadley, R., Pashia, A., & C. T. Palmer . 2006. Religious Scepticism and its Social Context: An Analysis of Iban Shamanism. Anthropological Forum 16(1):41–54. —Coe, K., & C. T. Palmer. 2006. The Words of Our Ancestors: Kinship, Tradition, and Moral Codes. World Cultures 16 (1):2–27. — Palmer, C. T. 2006. The Peacemaking Primate? Review of "The Human Potential for Peace: An Anthropological Challenge to Assumptions about War and Violence" by Douglas P. Fry. Evolutionary Psychology 4:138–141. — Palmer, C. T ., Coe, K. & R. L. Wadley. 2006. In Belief We Trust: Why Anthropologists Abandon Skepticism When They Hear Claims About Supernatural Beliefs. Skeptic Magazine, in press. ----------------------------------------------------------- Deborah Pearsall began the first year of a two-year project (P.I. Michael Love, CalState-Northridge) focused on using phytoliths, starch grains, and charred plant remains to identify foodways of elites and commoners at two Formative-period sites in coastal Guatemala. It was the second year for both Pearsall's Phytoliths in the Flora of Ecuador project, an NSF-Archaeometry project focused on characterizing phytolith production in major floristic zones of Ecuador for application in archaeological and paleoenvironmental research, and for her Ecuador Coring project, an NSF-Archaeology project to core swamps near early agricultural sites to investigate prehistoric landscape modification. In addition to these major projects, Pearsall collaborated with archaeologists working in the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Belize, and Ecuador on studying starch and phytolith residues preserved on stone tools and ceramic sherds; initiated an ethnobotany ethnoarchaeology project (creating food residues in ceramic cooking vessels); and completed author selections for Academic Press's Encyclopedia of Archaeology , for which she is Editor-in-Chief. Recent publications include: — Pearsall, D. M. 2006. From foraging to planting. Review of Kennett, D. J. and B. Winterhalder, eds, “Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Agriculture.” Science 313:173–174. —Neff, H., D. M. Pearsall , J. G. Jones, B. Arroyo de Pieters, S. K. Collins, & D. E. Freidel. 2006. Early Maya adaptive patterns: Mid-Late Holocene paleoenvironmental evidence from Pacific Guatemala. Latin American Antiquity 17:287–315. —Neff, H., D. M. Pearsall , J. G. Jones, B. Arroyo de Pieters, and D. E. Freidel. 2006. Climate change and population history in the Pacific lowlands of Southern Mesoamerica . Quaternary Research 65:390–400. —Chandler-Ezell, K., D. M. Pearsall , and J. A. Zeidler. 2006. Root and tuber phytoliths and starch grains document manioc (Manihot esculenta) , arrowroot (Maranta arundinacea) , and llerén (Calathea sp.) at the Real Alto site, Ecuador . Economic Botany 60:103–120. ----------------------------------------------------------- Lisa Sattenspiel (with the abundant and much appreciated help of her husband, Steve Tanner and youngest daughter, Stephanie) spent the 2006 summer collecting archival data on the island of Newfoundland as part of her joint project with Craig Palmer. This project is a study of the impact of local social structure and interaction on the spread of the 1918 flu and other early 20th century epidemics in Newfoundland . Lisa spent about 10 days in the Northern Peninsula community of St. Anthony collecting hospital records related to cases of influenza, pneumonia, bronchitis, tuberculosis, and measles occurring between 1915 and 1918. While there, she also collected information on the International Grenfell Association's health-related activities in Northern Labrador and the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland. She also spent one month in St. John's, Newfoundland, collecting data from the Provincial Archives (“The Rooms”), including substantial information on deaths from influenza, pneumonia, bronchitis, and related diseases from 1918-1920. In addition, she recorded deaths occurring during a 1916 and a 1930 measles epidemic. These various records included information on more than 3000 individuals from throughout the province. Other information collected in St. John's included assorted government correspondence, lists of ships that visited the island in the spring and early fall of 1918, 1921 census figures from all communities on the island, assorted maps dating to the time of the flu epidemic, and various other manuscripts and documents relating to the Spanish flu in Newfoundland. Now comes the fun part as she begins to sort through the mountains of data in her quest to understand the patterns of spread and impact of these diseases on the island's population. On the way to Newfoundland Lisa had the pleasure of stopping to visit Joe Parish (PhD 2004) and Demmarest Haney (BA 2003) and their newly acquired wonderful old farmhouse outside Sydney , Nova Scotia . Joe is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cape Breton in Sydney and Demmarest, a graduate student (nonresident) at New Mexico State University , is conducting medical anthropological research in Cape Breton . Joe, Demmarest and their cats and rambunctious dogs are doing very well. ----------------------------------------------------------- Christine S. VanPool joins us as an Assistant Professor. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico in December 2003. Her research focused on ceramic analysis, the archaeological analysis of symbolism, Southwestern archaeology, the anthropology of religion and gender, and archaeological method and theory. She has taught a graduate seminar on archaeological method and theory in Winter 2006. During Fall 2006, she is teaching Introduction of Linguistic Anthropology, Indian Cultures of North America, and in Winter 2007 she will teach Mesoamerican Archaeology, and ceramic analysis. Her book discussing shamanism in the Casas Grandes region is being published by the University of Utah Press . Her edited volume addressing religion in the Pre-Hispanic Southwest is being published by AltaMira Press. She is the mother of two boys: Basil (4 years old) and Roy (1 year old). Recent publications include: — VanPool, C. S., and T. L. VanPool. 2006. Gender in Middle Range Societies: A Case Study in Casas Grandes Iconography. American Antiquity 71:53–75. ----------------------------------------------------------- Todd L. VanPool and Christine S. VanPool initiated a collaborative field project with Gordon F.M. Rakita of the University of North Florida to study the archaeology of northern Chihuahua and the American Southwest during the summer of 2006. The project focuses on the prehistoric Casas Grandes culture of northern Chihuahua and southern New Mexico . The Medio period Casas Grandes occupation (AD 1200 to 1450) arguably represents the most politically complex system during the prehistoric occupation of the North American Southwest, but little is known about it. Mexican scholars have focused their research on the large ruins of the Aztec, Maya, and their ancestors, while the international border has been an impediment for American scholars who would otherwise be interested in the region. What is known is largely the result of excavations conducted by Charles C. Di Peso and Eduardo Contreras at the large site of Paquimé, in the modern town of Casas Grandes . MU students have been integral to the fieldwork and post-field artifact analyses and report preparation. Our field crew comprised 4 undergraduate and 2 graduate students from MU, 4 undergraduate students from UNF, and 2 Mexican students. This was the first field project for most students, and it gave them a chance to apply the skills they learned during their training in a field situation. The collaboration between Mexican and American students also exposed each group to different archaeological practices, thereby enhancing the quality of work and the students' education, while also furthering the international collaboration that we hope to build in the future. We are organizing a poster session for the upcoming 2007 Society for American Archaeology meeting that includes six posters authored by students; posters focus on debitage analysis, projectile point morphology and use, rock art, bed rock mortars, architecture, and various other aspects of the material culture. Doctoral student Candace Sall and Masters student T. J. Royall are using information and artifacts gathered during the project as part of their degree research. Our next goal is to initiate a three-year excavation project that will focus primarily on a Medio period site that shows the presence of a pre-Medio period occupation and strong interaction with the Mimbres people, who are famous for their black and white pottery with naturalistic design from southern New Mexico . Excavating this site will allow us to better understand the changes in settlement organization and culture associated with the increased political complexity during the Medio period. It will also shed light on the relationship between Casas Grandes and Mimbres archaeology, which has been of interest to Southwestern archaeologists for 80 years. Recent publications include: — VanPool, T. L. 2006. The Survival of Archaic Technology in an Agricultural World: How the Atlatl and Dart Endured in the North American Southwest. The Kiva 71:429–452. ----------------------------------------------------------- Reed Wadley conducted fieldwork on tra ditional ecological knowledge and climate variation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, during February-March 2006. Immediately after leaving the field, he presented some preliminary findings in a talk entitled “Ethnometeorology, or what people say they know about the weather” at the Center for International Forestry Research in Bogor , Indonesia . Recent publications include: — Wadley, R. L., O. Mertz, & A. E. Christensen, eds. 2006. Local Land Use Strategies in a Globalizing World: Managing Social and Environmental Dynamics . Special Issue of Land Degradation & Development 17(2). — Wadley, R. L., and M. Eilenberg. 2006. Vigilantes and gangsters in the borderland of West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia 7. — Wadley, R. L. 2006. The complex agroforests of the Iban in West Kalimantan , and their possible role in fallow management and forest regeneration. In Voices from the Forest : Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Sustainable Farming . M. Cairns , ed., pp. 497-508. Washington , D.C. : Resources for the Future Press. — Wadley, R. L. 2006. Community co-operatives, illegal logging and regional autonomy in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. In State, Communities and Forests in Contemporary Borneo . F. Cooke, ed., pp. 111-132. Canberra , Australia : ANU e-Press. ----------------------------------------------------------- Danny Wescott has continued research in skeletal biology and assisting law enforcement agencies in forensic cases. He won a University of Missouri Research Council grant to investigate secular change in femur diaphyseal size and shape over the past 150 years in the United States . His research (in collaboration with Deborah Cunningham) on Arikara long bone morphology was profiled in Science (2006, 315:507) as well as in several local newspapers, and Mizzou Magic Magazine . He assisted law enforcement in several murder cases which also received coverage by the Columbia Tribune and KRCG 13 News . On a personal note, Danny and Deborah Cunningham had a beautiful baby girl (Hannah) on April 2, 2006. Recent publications include: — Wescott, D. J. 2006. Ontogeny of femur subtrochanteric shape in Native Americans and American Blacks and Whites. Journal of Forensic Sciences 51:1-6. — Wescott, D. J. 2006. Effects of mobility on femur midshaft shape and robusticity. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 130:201-213. ----------------------------------------------------------- STUDENT NEWS : —April Bass is conducting research on Missouri dialects, and on Russian linguistics and ethnology. Her article “Sexual Selection and Fitness: The Role of Baba Yaga in Russian and Slavic Wondertales” explores the social importance of children's folktales and is being published by the International Academy of Linguistics and Behavioral and Social Sciences. She received a Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship from the University of Indiana to attend their summer workshop on Slavic and East European Languages in 2006. — Tom Hart worked on his Masters thesis project on the usefulness of studying plant residues on “field-walking” artifacts from Anglo-Saxon sites. He served as an RA on Dr. Pearsall's Guatemala project. — Amanda Logan completed her Masters thesis, The Application of Phytolith and Starch Grain Analysis to Understanding Formative Period Subsistence, Ritual, and Trade on the Taraco Peninsula , Highland Bolivia . It was nominated by the Department for the 2007 MU Graduate School Distinguished Master's Thesis Award. Amanda was accepted into the Ph.D. program at the University of Michigan in Fall 2006 with full financial support. — Meghann O'Brien presented a paper on her Masters thesis project, an agent-based model of swidden agriculture, at the Chacmool conference in Calgary , Canada . Meghann also assisted with environmental coring in Ecuador in summer 2006 and served as an RA on Dr. Pearsall's Phytoliths in the Flora of Ecuador project. — Christina Pomianek (MA 2006) was accepted into the PhD program. Christina won a Parent's Association Award, a Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, and a Graduate Professional Council and Graduate Student Association Travel Scholarship in May 2006. She presented “Is Iban Hunting a Costly Signal?” at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society meeting at the University of Pennsylvania in June. She is coauthor (with Dr. Craig Palmer) of the paper “Costly Signaling Theory and the Ritual—Communication of Trust in Newfoundland Mumming” that will be published in Human Nature. — Candace A. Sall is the Director of Archaeological Collections of the MU Museum of Archaeology . She presented “Food and Ritual at Casas Grandes , Chihuahua , Mexico ” at the 2006 Society for American Archaeology meetings. She published the chapter “A Preliminary Analysis of Pigments used in Redware Pottery Production at Point of Pines , Arizona ,” in Laser Ablation ICP-MS in Archaeological Research , edited by R. J. Speakman and H. Neff. During summer 2006, she worked in northern Mexico on a project organized by Todd and Christine VanPool. — Matthew Shaw served as the Assistant Director of the Czech-American Archaeological Field School in May–June 2006, teaching students excavation techniques at Pohansko, a ninth-century AD fortified enclosure of the Great Moravian Empire, near the modern town of Breclav in the southeastern Czech Republic . The paper he co-presented with Ralph Rowlett in Romania in October 2004, "Shell Tempered Pottery in the Cucuteni-Tripolye Areal Culture," was published in December 2005 as a chapter in the colloquium's collected works, Cucuteni: 120 Years of Reaseach, Time to Sum Up , edited by Gheorghie Dumitroaia et al. --------------------------------------------------------- ALUMNI NEWS: — James Michael (Mike) Elam (Ph.D. 1993) passed away in November 2005. The Department faculty and staff extend our deep condolences to his wife Karla and family. — Kirsten Fuld (BA 2006) presented the results of her Honors thesis research—“Changing Morphology of Missouri Projectile Points through Time: A Performance Analysis from the Verkamp Shelter (23PH21)”—at the Society for American Archaeology meeting in Puerto Rico . She is now enrolled in the graduate program at Portland State University and holds an RA appointment with Dr. Kenneth M. Ames (SAA President). — Earl H. Lubensky (Ph.D. 1991) published The Excavation of Structures P-12 and P-20 at Cihuatán, El Salvador as San Francisco State University 's Treganza Anthropology Museum Paper No. 22. — Steve Wolverton (Ph.D. 2001) will complete a doctoral degree in Environmental Science in 2007 at the University of North Texas . A synopsis of his MU dissertation was published in the January 2005 issue of American Antiquity. Steve and his wife Lisa Nagaoka welcomed a son into their home in September 2006. ----------------------------------------------------------- DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES: The Department has recently adopted the goal of increasing the departmental support of graduate student research. Ever since about 1990, support of Anthropology graduate students has been woefully inadequate. Some seek extramural research grants, and a number of those applications have been funded. But many have not, and sometimes a small amount of money (for an airplane ticket to a field site, for some trace element analysis, for a radiocarbon date) is all that a student requires. The existing Raymond Wood Opportunities for Excellence in Archaeology fund has over the years provided financial support to a number of graduate students pursuing advanced training in archaeology. Several archaeology faculty (Lyman, T. VanPool) have recently contributed to that fund to increase our ability to provide support to students. As reported in the 2005 issue of Wa-jée-pa-na, the Department is working to initiate the Dorothy (Dot) Gelvin Fund for Physical and Biological Anthropology . Our plans are to create a fund that will provide financial support to deserving graduate students pursuing advanced training in this subfield of anthropology. Because it will be a new fund, it has not yet grown to a size sufficient to provide support to students, but it is our hope that, with your help, it will. Several faculty gave it a significant boost to get it off the ground. The James A. and Margaret S. Gavan Lectures in Anthropology recognizes outstanding contributions to all four subfields. Every other year or so, the Department invites an internationally known speaker in one of the four subfields to deliver a lecture. We have various development funds to which you may contribute. For details, contact the main office (573-882-4731), or email the Chair, lymanr@missouri.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------- The University of Missouri , Department of Anthropology, maintains a web site at (http://anthropology.missouri.edu). If you would like to put your information on our site or make suggestions, contact Gail Lawrence at Gail@missouri.edu . Dola Haessig created our web site and we are very proud of her work. Make plans to come visit the Anthropology Department soon. The Anthropology Museum is open during most regular business hours. We would love to see you! If you can't make the trip, then email us with news. ----------------------------------------------------------- A Tribute to our Lost Friend Dorothy Gelvin |
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Dot died May 28, 2004 , in Northridge Hospital after a lengthy illness. She is survived by her husband Bruce, Northridge , CA , her mother Ethel Tompkins, Southwest City , brother G.W. Tompkins, Southwest City , along with two nieces, Tobey and Casey, as well as great nephews and a great niece. Memorial services were held June 8, 2004 , at the Southwest City United Methodist Church . A “Celebration of Life” memorial service was held at the Upper Bel-Air Bay Club in Pacific Palisades on June 16, 2004 . A Santa Monica College student scholarship, the “Dot Gelvin Memorial Scholarship,” has been established in her honor.
While they were anthropology graduate students at the University of Missouri-Columbia , Dorothy and Bruce Gelvin were married on June 7, 1969 . They moved to Northridge , California , in 1972 where Dot was an anthropology lecturer for three years at California State University at Northridge. She moved to a full time position in anthropology at Santa Monica College in 1975 which she held for five years. While serving on the SMC faculty bargaining team, she was offered her first administrative position as Dean of Mathematics and Science in 1980. This promotion was followed in succession by several other administrative positions including Dean of Arts and Sciences, Dean of Curriculum, and Dean of Human Resources. In addition, Dot was a college representative to the Santa Monica College Associates. As a part of the Classroom Abroad program, she co-led, along with Hari Gill, three college-sponsored trips to Kenya between 1989 and 1992. Following these stimulating and enriching experiences, Dot and her husband Bruce traveled to a number of other African countries including Tanzania in East Africa and Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe in southern Africa They also traveled to Madagascar to view lemurs. Interspersed among these safaris were trips to Iceland , Costa Rica , and New Zealand . These travels provided the bases for numerous lively presentations given to Santa Monica community and civic groups as part of the college community speaker series.