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Anthropology
Faculty
Currently the Department
is staffed by five full-time, one part-time, and one adjunct faculty member
as well as a joint appointment with the History Department.
Additional staff are occasionally added to teach individual
courses or to replace one of the continuing faculty who go
on sabbatical leave.
Lisa Anderson-Levy received a B.A. in anthropology from Washington State University and a Ph.D. in anthropology with a minor in feminist studies from the University of Minnesota. Her areas of interest are feminist theory and methodologies, ethnographic methods, critical race theory, citizenship and nationalism, the production and theorization of difference, postcolonial theory, sexuality and the state, color/race, gender, and class in the Caribbean and United States. Lisa conducted research in Jamaica where she explored the production of difference by examining how whitenesses and citizenships are produced through everyday practices. In addition to introductory classes in anthropology Lisa also teaches classes on Race and Culture, Whitenesses, Gender and Society, Citizenship, and area studies in the Caribbean. In addition to this, Lisa enjoys walking/running and spends a great deal of her time with her family which consists of two feisty felines, two precocious little-heads, and a patient partner.
Jennifer
S. Esperanza received a B.A. in Anthropology and Linguistics
from the University of Southern California and her M.A. and Ph.D.
in Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her
dissertation research was a multi-sited study of global handicrafts
market in which she followed woodcarvings from sites of production
in Bali, Indonesia to sites of consumption in various parts of the
United States (Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Atlanta). Her
teaching and research interests include consumerism, globalization,
handicrafts production, representations of race/ethnicity in popular
culture, and the politics of food. In her spare time, Jennifer enjoys
traveling, cooking, and spending time with her husband and son.
Shannon
M. Fie joined the Department in January of 2002.
She received her B.A. in anthropology from Moorhead State
University (MN), and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University
at Buffalo (NY). She is a North American archaeologist specializing
in the prehistory of the Midwest, particularly the Middle
Woodland period (ca. 100 BC-AD 400). Her primary research
interests involve the role of exchange interaction in the
development and adoption of social practices. Shannon offers
courses in North American archaeology, theoretical approaches
to archaeological data, prehistoric technologies, methods
of material analysis, and archaeological fieldwork.
Nancy
A. Krusko earned
her B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of California,
Berkeley. While her Ph.D. research focused on reproductive
and social interaction patterns of captive female langur monkeys,
her study in biological anthropology is not limited to primatology.
She joined the faculty at Beloit in 1989. Her teaching interests
include introduction to biological anthropology, primate behavior
and ecology, lab methods in behavioral observation, human
osteology, and medical anthropology. She occasionally teaches
women, feminism, and science and women’s health for
the women’s studies program. In terms of research, Nancy
has progressed from monkeys to humans on the phylogenetic
scale. Currently, she focuses on various local public health
issues, including the study of the cultural factors associated
with over prescription of antibiotics, Beloit residents' attitudes
and perceptions of bioterrorism as a public health threat,
and the association of neighborhood quality to low birth weight.
Nancy enjoys a variety of outdoor activities, especially if
they involve her three rambunctious canine companions, Molly,
Flurry and Tioga.
Rob
LaFleur, who has a joint appointment with the
History Department, received his PhD from the Committee on
Social Thought at the University of Chicago, where he specialized
in Chinese history and anthropology. He has written on Chinese
historiography and the manner in which Chinese writers in
the Song dynasty (AD 960-1270) portrayed other peoples, including
Koreans, Japanese, and neighboring groups to the north. His
current interests focus upon textual analysis and fieldwork
dealing with the Chinese calendar and cultural practices linked
to it from approximately 1500 to the present. Calendars can
be found in almanacs that are printed throughout the world
and sold to Chinese speakers and readers in Hong Kong, Shanghai,
Taipei, Singapore…and Madison, Wisconsin. The connections
between text, tradition, and daily life provide insights that
are fascinating to historians and anthropologists in China
and beyond. Rob is living in Japan as Director of the Japan
Study Program at Waseda University in 2002-2003 (where he
is studying Japanese calendars and popular culture). He has
two cats, enjoys opera and country music (draw your own conclusions)
and loves old movies, poetry, chess, baseball, sashimi, and
dimsum, in no particular order.
Nancy
A. McDowell received
her PhD in cultural anthropology from Cornell University in
1975 after completing fieldwork in Papua New Guinea. She has
returned there several times to do additional research; the
last trip was in the summer of 2001. Her particular interests
are in the anthropology of religion, conceptions of gender,
and the history of theory, especially American cultural anthropology.
Her acquaintance with Melanesian cargo cults led her to an
investigation of other kinds of millenarian movements in the
contemporary world, such as flying saucer cults and apocalyptic
Christian sects. She lives on the west side of Beloit with
her four cats and three (large!) dogs during the academic
year, but removes the entire menagerie to her cabin in the
northwoods during summers.
Robert
J. Salzer (professor emeritus) earned a B.S. and
M.S. in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin and
his Ph.D. in anthropology from Southern Illinois University.
He has long-standing research interests in the prehistoric
and contact-period archaeology of the Great Lakes area, as
well as the modern Indian peoples who live there. He teaches
courses on North American archaeology, North American Indian
cultures, cultural resource management, and field training
in archaeological research methods.
Daniel
Shea, who
received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in1969,
was born in Oshkosh Wisconsin and has been a life long resident
of Wisconsin. He has field experience in Wisconsin, New Mexico,
Arizona, Costa Rica, Peru, and Chile. His primary interest
is in Latin American Archaeology, with minor interests in
Latin American Geography and History. He speaks Spanish, reads
Portuguese, and has some knowledge of Quechua. He regularly
teaches courses in Mesoamerica, South America, Probability
Statistics, History of Anthropology, and Ancient Civilization.
His hobbies involve motorcycles, hunting, and short wave.
He and his wife, Jennifer, like dogs and have four, three
of them Chihuahuas.
Adjunct:
William
Green is Director of the Logan Museum of Anthropology,
Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, and director of the Museum
Studies Program. He arrived at Beloit in 2001 after serving
as Director of the Office of the State Archaeologist at the
University of Iowa. Bill received his B.A. in anthropology
from Grinnell College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At Beloit, he teaches
Environmental Archaeology, Midwestern Archaeology, and Introduction
to Museum Studies. His major professional interests include
North American archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnology; paleoethnobotany
and early agriculture; conservation archaeology and curation;
frontier societies and protohistoric cultures; historical
cartography; and ceramic style and chronology.
Mario
Rivera, adjunct associate professor, earned a B.A.
from the Universidad de Chile, Santiago, and his M.A. and
Ph.D. in archaeology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
After teaching in Chilean universities and museums for 20
years, Rivera now participates in the Chilean Field School,
leading courses in archaeological excavation field methods.
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