Visiting Lecturers and Scholars

Matt Anderson (Ph.D.) San Diego Zoo

Lecturer (Fall'07)

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Steven G. Carlisle (Ph.D. UCSD, 2003)

Lecturer (Fall '07, Spr '08)

Dr. Carlisle will teach in the Sixth College sequence "Culture, Art, and Technology" and the Roosevelt College sequence "Making of the Modern World" in Fall, 2006.

Interests: Psychological Anthropology

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Jana Fortier (Ph.D. Wisconsin, 1996)

Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Department of Social Sciences, Southwest State University, Marshall, Minnesota

Interests: Archaeological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology; Economic Anth; Hunter-Gatherer Studies; Farmer-Forager Relations; Nepal Himalayas; Sociolinguistics; Gender.

Dr. Fortier is currently on an NEH Fellowship, writing a book based on Hunter-Gatherer and Farmer Social Relations in Nepal.

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Samantha Hurst (Ph.D. U of Tennessee at Knoxville, 1997)

Lecturer (Fall '08, Spr '08)

Interests: Biological anthropology, human evolution, osteology and forensic anthropology, medical anthropology, historical trauma, post traumatic stress disorder; American Indian and Pacific Rim indigenous communities.

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Mohammad Najjar (Ph.D. Institute of Archaeology, USSR Academy of Science, Moscow,1981)

Department of Antiquities of Jordan and Jordan Applied University

Visiting Scholar (October 2007 - October 2008)
Interests: Cultural Resources Management, Early settlements and land-use, Domestication of animals and plants, Copper production and its socio-political and economic impacts on social complexity, Edomites and biblical Archaeology.

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Arlene Rosen (Ph.D. University of Chicago,1985) Institute of Archaeology, University College London, U.K.

Visiting Scholar (September 2007 - September 2008)

Interests: Archaeology of early complex societies in semi-arid lands; Climate change and its impact on past societies; Early agricultural societies of the Near East and China ; Geoarchaeology; Phytolith analyses.

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Steven Rosen (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1983) Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Visiting Scholar (September 2007 - September 2008)

Interests: Archaeology of pastoral nomadism. Levantine prehistory and protohistory. Archaeology of the Negev and arid lands. Analysis of chipped stone tool assemblages.

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Erica Cusi Wortham (Ph.D. NYU, 2002)

Visiting Scholar (March 2005 - March 2008)

Research Project: Dr. Wortham's current research involves the role of various televisual media forms in production of "Latino" immigrant identities.

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