NEIU Anthropology
FACULTY
LESA C.
DAVIS
JON
HAGEMAN D.
TRACY J. LUEDKE
RUSSELL
ZANCA
LECTURERS
CATHRYN
BULICEK
MARTIN
GIESSO
DAVID
GOLDSTEIN
ANN
HOFFMAN
NICK
KILZER
LANCE
LINDQUIST
JOHN LOW
KELLEY MCFARLAND
EILEEN C. OFF
ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN
OTHER DEPARTMENTS
EMERITUS FACULTY
JAYNE KAMAU
JIM MACDONALD
MARGO SMITH
NANCY SPENCER
LESA C. DAVIS,
Assistant Professor, Program Coordinator
Ph.D. 2002
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale (Anthropology)
M.A. 1987
Arizona State University (Anthropology)
Email:
lcdavis@neiu.edu
AREAS OF
SPECIALIZATION: Biological
Anthropology; Primate biology, evolution, anatomy, and locomotion with a focus
on Platyrrhini (New World Monkeys) and especially tamarin and marmoset
functional morphology.
COURSES:
ANTH 215 Introduction to
Biological Anthropology
ANTH 215 Human Origins
(Honors)
ANTH 261 The Biology of
Behavior
ANTH 338 Primate
Evolution (in development)
ANTH 356 Human Variation
ANTH 373 Disease in
Human Prehistory (in development)
ANTH 376 Primate
Behavior
CURRENT RESEARCH
INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES:
Foraging adaptations of
the golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia); marmoset postcranial
anatomy; phylogenetic relationships of new marmoset species; use of the
intermembral index as an analytical tool in primate studies; gut morphology of
Callimico goeldii; an examination of the perceptions of ‘race’ in two
urban universities; examination of approaches to teaching biological
anthropology in US higher education; Co-PI of the Northeastern Campus
Documentary Archaeology Research Community; Co-organizer of 2005 AAPA
Symposium: “Advances in Marmoset and Goeldi's Monkey (Callimico)
Research: Anatomy, Behavioral Ecology, Phylogeny, and Conservation”.
RECENT
PUBLICATIONS:
Davis LC. 2002. Functional Anatomy of the
Callitrichid Forelimb and Long Bones. Neotropical Primates Vol. 10
(2):98.
Davis LC. 1996. Functional and phylogenetic implications of ankle morphology in Callimico goeldii. In
M.A. Norconk, A.L. Rosenberger, and P.A. Garber (Eds.): Adaptive Radiations of
Neotropical Primates, New York: Plenum Press, pp. 133-156.
Davis LC, Ford SM. 2003. Comparative
postcranial morphology of the marmosets. Am J Phys Anthrop Sup 36: 84.
Walker SE, Davis LC, Ford SM. 2003. The
pitheciine postcranium: functional morphology and phylogeny of Pithecia
pithecia, P. monachus, and Chiropotes satanas. Am J Phys
Anthrop Sup. 36: 218.
JON HAGEMAN DE LA PLAZA,
Assistant Professor
Ph.D.
2004 Southern Illinois University-Carbondale (Anthropology)
M.A. 1992
University of Texas at Austin (Anthropology)
OFFICE:
CLS 3079; phone (includes voice mail): 773.442.5863
Email:
jhageman@neiu.edu
AREAS OF
SPECIALIZATION:
Archaeology,
method and theory, settlement and
landscape, complex societies, social organization, GIS, Mesoamerica.
COURSES:
ANTH 212 Introduction to
Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 213 Introduction to
Archaeology
ANTH 250 Latin American
Archaeology
ANTH 355 History of Anthropology
ANTH 366 Mesoamerican
Continuity and Change
ANTH 374 The Maya
ANTH 380 Archaeological Field School
ANTH 396 Senior Seminar in Archaeology
CURRENT RESEARCH
INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES:
My
primary interest is the social organization of the Late Classic (AD 600-900)
Maya, and I conduct my field research in northwestern Belize.
This research explores the ways in
which the common Maya modified the landscape and left certain types of
artifact deposits that correlate with cross-culturally identified forms of
social organization. Most recently, I have focused on how practices of
consumption made elites distinct from commoners. As part of this
research, I collected botanical and
faunal remains associated with ancient feasting contexts in northwestern
Belize as part of the 2005 and 2006 NEIU Archaeological Field School in order to
identify plant and animal species used for commoner feasts. The initial
results of this fieldwork have been invited to be presented at the Fryxell
Interdisciplinary Symposium, held at the 2006 Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and at the 2006 Annual Meeting
of the American Anthropological Association in San Jose, California. I am also co-authoring a
book chapter (just accepted for publication) on ancient abandonment of Maya
structures and am co-organizing and co-chairing a symposium (with Erica
Hill) entitled, "Ancient Ancestors in Global Perspective," for the 2007
Meeting of the SAA in Austin, Texas.
RECENT
PUBLICATIONS:
Hageman, Jon B.
2004
The Lineage Model and Archaeological Data in Northwestern Belize. Ancient
Mesoamerica
15:63-74.
William R.
Fowler and Jon B. Hageman
2004
New Perspectives on Ancient Maya Social Organization. Ancient
Mesoamerica
15:61-62.
Hageman, Jon B.,
and Jon C. Lohse
2003
Heterarchy, Corporate Groups, and Late Classic Resource Management in
Northwestern Belize. In Heterarchy, Political Economy, and the Ancient Maya,
edited by V.L. Scarborough, F. Valdez, Jr., and N.P. Dunning, pp. 109-121.
University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Beach, Timothy,
Sheryl Luzzader-Beach, Nicholas Dunning, Jon Hageman, and Jon Lohse
2003
Upland Agriculture in the Maya Lowlands: Ancient Maya Soil Conservation in
Northwestern Belize. The Geographical Review 92 (3):372-397.
TRACY J. LUEDKE,
Assistant Professor
Ph.D.
2005
Indiana University (Anthropology)
M.A.
1999 Indiana University (Anthropology)
OFFICE:
CLS 3086; phone (includes voice mail): 773.442.5331
Email:
tluedke@neiu.edu
AREAS OF
SPECIALIZATION:
Cultural anthropology;
medical anthropology; intersections between healing, religion, and politics;
gender and the body; Mozambique
COURSES:
ANTH 212
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 224
Contemporary African Culture
ANTH
307 Anthropology of Gender, Sexuality, and the Body
ANTH 317 Medical
Anthropology
ANTH 320 Religion
and Healing in Africa and the African Diaspora
ANTH
395 Senior Seminar in Cultural Anthropology
CURRENT
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES:
My
dissertation concerns the Christianized healing
practices of the aneneri or prophets of central
Mozambique, a network of
people possessed by biblical spirits who work to heal individual bodies
afflicted with illness as well as social bodies recovering from the effects of
warfare and dislocation. I recently collaborated on an edited volume about
healing in southeastern Africa. The book addresses the important relationship
between African healing practices and borders of various sorts, which healers
both transgress and reify in the course of their work.
Luedke, Tracy J.
2006. Presidents, Bishops, and Mothers: The Construction of
Authority in Mozambican Healing. In Borders and Healers: Brokering
Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa, edited by Tracy J. Luedke and
Harry G. West. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
West, Harry G.
and Tracy J. Luedke. 2006. Healing Divides: Therapeutic
Border Work in Southeast Africa. In Borders and Healers: Brokering
Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa, edited by Tracy J. Luedke and
Harry G. West. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
RUSSELL ZANCA,
Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1999
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Cultural Anthropology)
A.M. 1997
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
OFFICE:
CLS 3078; phone (includes voice mail): 773.442.5866
Email:
rzanca@neiu.edu
AREAS OF
SPECIALIZATION: Formerly Soviet
Central Asia, especially Uzbekistan; Political economy of collective farming;
Gender; post-Soviet identity; nationalism; culinary traditions; and religion.
COURSES:
ANTH 212 Introduction to
Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 238 Peoples of
Central Asia
ANTH 355 History of
Anthropology
ANTH 357 Shells, Pigs, and
Gold: Anthropology and Economy
ANTH 365 Anthropology of
Islam
ANTH 378 Anthropology of
Power
ANTH 395 Senior Seminar in
Cultural Anthropology
CURRENT RESEARCH
INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES:
Dissertation and subsequent
fieldwork have focused on formerly Soviet Central Asia, especially Uzbekistan.
For the past eleven years have conducted research in all five Central Asian
states, both as a scholar and as a UNHCR advisor. Substance of work has been in
political economy of collective farming. In addition, has researched and
written on several other topics relating to gender, post-Soviet identity,
nationalism, culinary traditions, and religion. Presently finishing a four-year
project on oral and archival collectivization history of Uzbekistan in concert
with an American historian and Uzbek social scientists. This should result in
the first English-language book on Stalinist collectivization in Central Asia.
In the future, hope to initiate oral history projects in other parts of Central
Asia, possibly Kyrgyzstan.
In the beginning stages of
offering a course in Culinary Anthropology, which will be available in
Spring, 2006. During the Spring 2005 semester, together with colleagues from
History and Political Science, hope to bring students to Central Asia through
NEIU Learning Communities and International Programs.
CATHRYN BULICEK,
Lecturer
M.A. 1999 University
of Illinois – Chicago (Anthropology)
B.F.A. 1977 University
of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign (Fine Arts)
OFFICE:
CLS-3083 phone (includes voice mail): 1.773.442.5798
Email:
c-bulicek@neiu.edu
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Evolution, osteology, primates,
human growth and development, electron
microscopy
COURSES:
ANTH 212 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 215 Introduction to Biological Anthropology
ANTH
332 Human Growth and Development
from an Evolutionary Perspective
CURRENT ACTIVITIES:
Sponsor of
Anthropos, the Anthropology club, open to all NEIU students (not just
anthropology majors and minors!) who are interested in biological or cultural
anthropology, or archaeology. The club holds workshops; hosts speakers; takes
trips to places of interest, such as sites, conferences, lectures, musuems, zoos
and research facilities.
MARTIN GIESSO,
Lecturer
PhD 2000 University of Chicago
(Anthropology)
M.A. 1990 University of Chicago
(Anthropology)
OFFICE:
phone (includes voice mail): 1.773.442.4705
Email:
m-giesso@neiu.edu
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Archaeology, complex societies of the Andes, long distance exchange, lithic
analysis.
COURSES:
ANTH 221 Peoples of South America
ANTH 350J South American
Archaeology
ANTH 378 Anthropology of
Power
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES:
Circulation of goods in and among Andean
societies. Chemical analysis of archaeological materials (lithics and ceramics)
provides ground for anthropological questions on the emergence of elites and
public ceremonialism, redistribution, tribute, and the nature of complex
societies in general. Projects with the national universities of Cuyo and
Cordoba (Argentina), and San Andres (Bolivia), and the Missouri University
Research Reactor, focus on these issues in the south-central and southern Andes
from 8000 BP to the Colonial period.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
2004 Estudio de fuentes de
aprovisionamiento y redes de distribución de obsidiana durante el Holoceno
Tardío en el sur de Mendoza (Argentina). (coauthored). Estudios Atacameñios 28,
pp. 25-43. Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile.
2003 Stone Tool
Production in the Tiwanaku Heartland. In: Tiwanaku and Its Hinterland:
Archaeological and Paleoecological Investigations in the Lake Titicaca Basin of
Bolivia, vol. 2, p. 363-383, ed. by Alan L. Kolata. Smithsonian Series in
Archaeological Inquiry.
2003 Las industrias
líticas expeditivas en sitios urbanos Tiwanaku. Textos Antropológicos, vol 14
nr.2:31-46, Section of Anthropology and Archaeology, Universidad Mayor de San
Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia.
DAVID GOLDSTEIN,
Lecturer
ABD 2001
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale (Anthropology)
M.A. 1999
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale (Anthropology)
OFFICES:
CLS 3080, SCI-125 (Anthropology Laboratory)
AREAS OF
SPECIALIZATION:
Paleoethnobotany, Cultural Anthropology, Museum Studies, Artifact Preservation
and Conservation, Ethnobotany, History of Technology
COURSES:
CURRENT
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES:
David spent 2005-2006 in Perú
working on three different archaeological and ethnobotanical projects, as well
as with the NEIU field school project in Belize. Of the three Peruvian projects
one is in Southern Perú with the Cerro Baul Archaeological Project, the second
is in Central Perú with the Pachacamac Archaeological Project, and the third is
in the Chuquibamba Valley in the Department of Arequipa in the Andes Mountains.
The Cerro Baul Archaeological Project, under the direction of Dr. P. R. Williams
(FMNH) and Dr. M. Moseley (U. of Florida), is sponsored by the National Science
Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Field Museum of
Natural History. The Pachacamac Archaeological Project, under the direction of
Dr. Izumi Shimada (SIUC), is funded by the National Science Foundation and the
National Geographic Society. The Chuquibamba project is funded by the National
Science Foundation and is the doctoral research of David’s wife, Robin Coleman,
a candidate at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. In all instances, David
is supervising and carrying out the investigation of archaeobotanical finds
associated with the archaeological sites. In the instance of the Cerro Baul
Project, David works with a Peruvian Botanist, Yenny Ihue, to collect a
reference collection and carry out an ethnobotanical survey between 1500 and
3500 meters above sea level. Their reconnaissance will aid the ongoing
identification and interpretation of the ancient plant remains, as well as the
cataloging and recording of indigenous knowledge of plant use. A field guide
was published in Perú at the end of 2006 that incorporated the findings of this
research. David is planning and conducting similar reconnaissance and
archaeological field work in 2007 in both Perú and in Belize associated with the
NEIU field school project run by Dr. Hageman. David continues to work on his
dissertation with logistical support supplied from the Field Museum of Natural
History.
RECENT
PUBLICATIONS:
Umire, Y. I. and D. J. Goldstein
2006 Plants Utiles de la Primavera Eterna:
La Etnobotánica de los Valles Torata-Carumas, Moquegua/ Useful Plants of
the Eternal Springtime: The Ethnobotany of the Torata-Carumas Valleys,
Moquegua, Perú. University José
Mariategui, Moquegua, Peru.
Goldstein, D.J. and R. C. Coleman
2004
Schinus molle
L. (ANACARDIACEAE) Chicha
Production in the Central Andes. Economic Botany 58(4).
Wagner,
U, I. Shimada, D. Goldstein, and W. Häusler
2001
Sicán Kilns and Furnaces: Field Firings and Archaeometric Studies Hyperfine
Interaction C: 1-4.
ANN HOFFMAN,
Lecturer
Ph.D. 1988 University of
Chicago (History of Religions)
M.A. 1972 University
of Chicago (History of Religions)
OFFICE: SCI-225H
phone (includes voice mail): 773.442.5868
Email:
acarvprest@aol.com
AREAS
OF SPECIALIZATION:
Indo-Germanic religions; violence and religion (blood feud cultures)
COURSES:
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES:
Role of the
aesthetic dimension in religion.
NICHOLAS V.
KILZER,
Lecturer
M.S. 1987 University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign (Anthropology)
OFFICE:
CLS 3078 Phone:
773-442-5866
Email:
n-kilzer@neiu.edu
COURSES:
ANTH 215 Introduction to Biological
Anthropology
ANTH 339 Paleoanthropology: Fossil Record of
Human Evolution
ANTH 350L Prehistory of Africa
AREAS OF INTEREST:
Paleoanthropology; Paleoecology and anatomy of Miocene Hominoid Primates;
Archaeology of Africa; Archaeology of the Pacific.
LANCE
LINDQUIST,
Lecturer
M.A.
1985
Northern Illinois University (Anthropology)
OFFICE:
SCI-225 Phone (includes voice mail): 773.442.5860
Email:
l-lindquist@neiu.edu
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Cultural Anthropology
COURSES:
ANTH 212 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
EILEEN C. OFF,
Lecturer
ABD 2003
University of Cape Town, South Africa (Anthropology)
M.A.
2003
Northern Illinois University (Anthropology)
OFFICE:
CLS 3079
AREAS OF
SPECIALIZATION:
Primate variation and speciation,
(specifically, nocturnal prosimian behavioral ecology) & craniofacial morphology
and quantitative methods
COURSES:
RECENT
PUBLICATIONS:
Off, EC & Honess, PE
(Submitted) Habitat Preference of Galagos (Galagoides thomasi and
Galago matschiei) in Kibale National Park, Uganda. African Journal of
Ecology.
Off, EC & Gebo, DL (2005)
Galago Locomotion in Kibale National Park, Uganda. American
Journal of Primatology.
66(2):189-195.
Off, EC (1997) Museum as
the Medium and the Message: The Impact of Media Difference in/on
Re-presentation. Variations: Loyola Anthropology Studies. 1:34-39.
DONALD J. TERRAS,
Lecturer
M.S. 1985 University of
Wisconsin (Anthropology)
OFFICE:
CLS 3080; phone (includes voice mail): 1.773.442.5864
Email:
d-terras@neiu.edu
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Local and national cultural resource
issues; Special interest groups; Maritime anthropology,
Applied Anthropology; Museum Studies
COURSES:
ANTH 212 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 305 Peoples of
South America
ANTH 350E Museology
ANTH 355 History of Anthropological Theory
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES:
Applied anthropology,
with an interest in the management of cultural resources such as museums,
historic sites, and landmark properties; also, the study of special interest
groups. Mr. Terras is a recipient of the Professional of the Year Award from the
Illinois Association of Museums (1998) and has been further recognized for his
research with awards from the American Association for State and Local History
(1997 & 2003) and Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois (1998). At
Northeastern, Mr. Terras been presented with an Award of Merit in 1993 and a
Faculty Excellence Award in 2005.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Terras, Donald J.
2006
Lighthouses of Chicago Harbor: Their History Architecture and Lore.
Windy City Press, Chicago.
2003
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
and Sherlock Holmes: Commemorating the Establishment of the Kittle
Collection of
Doyleana at the Newberry Library.
Northeastern Illinois University Press,
Chicago.
VICTOR ORTIZ,
Assistant Professor and Director, Latino and Latin American Studies Program
Ph.D.
1993 Stanford University
(Anthropology)
M.A. 1986
University of Texas at Austin (Latin American Studies)
OFFICE: CLS 2083; phone:
1.773.442.4794
Email:
v-ortiz@neiu.edu
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Globalization, U.S. Mexican Border, Latinos, Mexican Americans
COURSES:
LLAS
312 Introduction to the Barrio
LLAS
224 The Chicano Movement
LLAS
350 Indigenous Ways of Knowing
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES:
My latest research
is a comparative exploration of Mexican and Polish Immigrants in Chicago.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Ortiz, Victor
2004
El Paso: Local Frontiers at
a Global Crossroads.
Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
2003 “El Paso as an Eternal Yet Not Last Frontier”. In: Ethnography
at the Border.
Pablo Vila,
Ed. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
2002 “Latinas on the border: the
common ground of economic displacements and breakthroughs”.
In: Gender’s Place: Feminist
Anthropologies of Latin America.
Rosario Montoya, Leslie Jo
Frazier, and Janise Hurtig, Eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.