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Agogino, George Allen (1921-2000)
Advisor:
1958 PhD, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
Recent Archaeological Developments Involving Pre-Ceramic Cultures in the Middle Rio Grande.
Dr. George Agogino graduated from Syracuse University in 1958 with a PhD in Anthropology. Dr. Agogino has been extremely influential within Paleo-Indian Archaeology, associated with significant sites at Blackwater Draw, New Mexico, as principal investigator and the founding director of the Blackwater Draw Museum, and Hell Gap, Wyoming. He founded the anthropology department at Eastern New Mexico University, retiring as Distinguished Research Professor in 1991. Dr. Agogino’s publications include over six hundred articles and site reports focusing on archaeology, ethnology and history of the Southwest United States and Mexico.
Becker, Ernest (1924-1974)
Advisor: Douglas G. Haring
1960 PhD, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
Zen Buddhism, “Thought Reform” (Brain Washing) And Various Psychotherapies: A Theoretical Study In Induced Regression And Cultural Values
1998
MA, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
Dr. Ernest Becker graduated with a PhD in Anthropology from Syracuse University in 1960. Dr. Becker’s work attracted national attention after the publication of The Denial of Death (1973), which won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, and the posthumously published companion volume Escape from Evil (1975). In those works, he explored the universality of the fear of death using arguments from biology, psychoanalytic theory and existential philosophy. While Becker’s academic career may have suffered as a result of his intellectual courage and interdisciplinary approach, his work continues to influence educational and theoretical work examining the impact of fear of death in individual and social behavior, inspiring a psychological theory of social motivation known as terror management theory that has been supported by extensive empirical research.
Significant Publications:
Zen: A Rational Critique, 1961
Birth and Death of Meaning, 1971
Denial of Death, 1973, Won the Pulitzer Prize
Escape from Evil, 1975
Carr, Edward R.
Advisor: Christopher DeCorse
2002 PhD, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky
Human Ecological Security in Coastal Ghana, West Africa: The Social Implications of Economic and Environmental Change in Development Contexts
2001 PhD, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
“They Were Looking For White Jobs” The Archeology Of Postcolonial Capitalist Expansion In Coastal Ghana
1998
MA, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
Edward R. Carr is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina. He is interested in how development and the environment influence one another, and the opportunities and limitations that arise from this interaction. His research examines how those living at the social and spatial margins of globalization manage economic and environmental change. Since 1997 he has focused this interest primarily on the study of economic and environmental change in Ghana’s Central Region.
Dr. Carr's broad interest in development/environment interactions finds its expression in publications and presentations in a number of conceptual areas, ranging from the relationship between development and security to environmental migration to innovative methods for exploring these changing strategies in sociospatially marginal contexts.
Significant Publications:
2006
Carr, Edward R. “Postmodern Conceptualizations, Modernist Applications: Rethinking the Role of Society in Food Security.” Food Policy 31(1):14-29.
2005
Carr, Edward R. “Development and the Household: Missing the Point?” Geojournal 62(1): 71-83.
2005
Carr, Edward R. “Placing the Environment in Migration: Environment, Economy and Power in Ghana’s Central Region.” Environment and Planning A 37(5):925-946.
Cromwell, Robert
Advisor - Douglas V. Armstrong
2006 PhD, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
Where Ornament and Function are so Agreeably Combined": Consumer Choice Studies of English Ceramic Wares at Hudson's Bay Company Fort Vancouver
1996 MA, Applied Anthropology, Oregon State University
Robert Cromwell is an archaeologist with research interests in culture contact and culture change, material culture studies, and consumer choice behavior. Bob has excavated sites in the United States and participated in excavations in the Caribbean, but his research emphasis is in the historical archaeology of the Pacific Northwest, specifically dealing with the fur trade and military settlements. His material culture emphases are on 18th and 19th century Euro-American ceramics, bottles, and iron work.
Robert has worked for the National Park Service (NPS) for the past six years, and has recently been promoted as the Archaeologist and a Cultural Resources Division Chief for Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, where he oversees all Sec. 106 review activities for the Vancouver National Historic Reserve. Robert is also a member of the newly created North West Cultural Resources Institute (NCRI), a consortium of the NPS, Portland State University, and Washington State University-Vancouver.
DeCorse, Elizabeth Kellar
Advisor - Douglas Armstrong
2004 PhD, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
The Construction And Expression Of Identity: An Archaeological Investigation Of The Laborer Villages At Adrian Estate, St. John, USVI
1996 MA, , Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
The Public Trust: Educational responsibilities and Objectives Beyond "
Dr. Elizabeth Kellar DeCorse joined the Archaeological Research Laboratory (ARL), Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN in March 2006 as a Research Assistant Professor. She is a historical archaeologist with experience in slavery and plantation archaeology, free black sites, Erie Canal sites, and New England colonial sites. Interests include public archaeology and education in the Caribbean, Southeast. Current work relates to early frontier and transportation route sites as well as working with the Eastern Band of the Cherokee in locating historic Cherokee sites, also in cooperation with the NPS.
Elizabeth was previously the Director of Archaeology and Public Programs at the Hermitage, the Home of President Andrew Jackson; a position she held for five years.
Elizabeth had a prior thirteen year career in the Banking industry, starting in Corporate Auditing and ending that career as a Corporate Finance Vice President.
Significant Publications:
2006 Phase I Archaeological Survey of Fort Anderson, Militia Hill, Anderson County. Report submitted to Coal Creek Watershed Foundation, Inc.
2006
Subsurface Reconnaissance of the Proposed Reconstruction of the Barn at the Netherland Inn, Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee. Report submitted to The City of Kingsport and TN SHPO.
2001 The Summer of Cotton: Excavation of the Cotton Gin House and Press. Report on file at The Hermitage, Nashville, Tennessee.
2000 with D. Armstrong and L. Wurst, Archaeological Sites and Preservation Planning in Central New York. New York State Historic Preservation Office. Peebles Island, New York. ISBN 1-929436-06-8 (pp. 434).
Ettenger, Kreg
Advisor - Peter Castro
2004 PhD, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
Siipii, Uuchii, Minishtikw, Istchii (River, Mountain, Island, Land): Development, Conflict and Local Knowledge in Eeyou Istchee, Northern Quebec
Dr. Ettenger is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern Maine. He is a cultural/applied anthropologist with interests in environmental and resource management issues, indigenous and northern peoples, cultural heritage, and multimedia ethnography. Before coming to USM he was a consulting anthropologist working mainly for the Cree (Iyiyuuch) Nation of northern Quebec on various environmental, land use and cultural heritage projects.
Ferraro, Gary Paul
Advisor - William Mangin
1971 PhD, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
Kikuyu Kinship Interaction: A Rural Urban Comparison
1971
MA, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
Gary P. Ferraro is a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, received his BA in history from Hamilton College and his MA and PhD degrees from Syracuse University. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Swaziland in Southern Africa (1979-80) and again at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic (2003), and has served twice as a visiting professor of anthropology in the University of Pittsburgh's Semester at Sea Program, a floating university that travels around the world. He has conducted research for extended periods of time in Kenya and Swaziland and has traveled widely throughout many other parts of the world. He has served as a consultant/trainer for such organizations as USAID, the Peace Corps, the World Bank, IBM, Georgia Pacific, Duke Energy, and J.M. Huber, among others. From 1996 to 2000 Dr. Ferraro served as the Director of the Intercultural Training Institute at UNC-Charlotte, a consortium of cross cultural trainers/educators from academia and business, designed to help regional organizations cope with cultural differences at home and abroad. In 2000 he became the president of Intercultural Associates, a private firm specializing in cross cultural training, consulting, and coaching. In addition to a number of articles in professional journals, he is the author of:
Significant Publications:
2006
The Cultural Dimension of International Business (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2006.
2006
Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective (6th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 2006.
2004
Editor, Classic Readings in Cultural Anthropology. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 2004.
2002
Global Brains: Knowledge and Competencies for the 21st Century. Charlotte, NC: Intercultural Associates, Inc., 2002.
1998
Applying Cultural Anthropology: Readings (1998)
1978
The Two Worlds of Kamau. Thompson, CT: Interculture Associates, 1978.
Harrison, Anthony Kwame
Advisor - Deborah Pellow
2003 PhD, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
Every Emcee's A Fan, Every Fan's An Emcee: Authenticity, Identity, And Power Within Bay Area Underground Hip Hop
1999
MA, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
The Mortalization of Okomfo Anokye: Negotiating Ideologies Through Historical Stories of a State Architect's Death
Anthony Kwame Harrison is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His research interests include the construction of authenticity within music scenes, politics of identity, globalization, and issues surrounding qualitative research and ethnographic representations. Dr. Harrison’s current projects include a chapter for an edited volume put out by the Harvard Civil Rights Project and a book manuscript both examining race and ethnicity within the Bay Area underground hip hop scene. He is also involved in several diversity initiatives taking place on the Virginia Tech University campus. He has also recorded and released three CDs as a member of the underground hip hop groups the Forest Fires Collective (San Francisco) and the Acorns (Washington DC). When he’s not doing any of this Dr. Harrison can be found skiing down the mountain!
Kankpeyeng, Benjamin Warinsie
Advisor - Christopher DeCorse
2003 PhD, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
The Archaeology Of Kpaliworgu: A Case Study Of Culture Continuity And Change In Northern Ghana Before 1900
1999
MA, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
Archaeological Resources Management In Ghana
Benjamin Kankpeyeng is a senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana in Accra. His research interest include historical archaeology with a focus on culture contact in Northern Ghana, West African terracotta traditions, public policy and archaeology and museum and heritage studies. Ben's ongoing research projects include Kpaliworgu Archaeological Research which began in 1997, Tongo-Tengzug Archaeological Research, Upper East Region, Ghana that began in 1998, Slave Route Project with a focus on sites in northern Ghana, which began in 1999 and Komaland Archaeological Research Project - the preliminary reconnaissance survey was conducted in June 2006.
Karam, John Tofik
Advisor - John Burdick
2004 PhD, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
Distinguishing Arabesques: The Politics And Pleasures Of Being Arab In Neoliberal Brazil
John Tofik Karam is an assistant professor in the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at DePaul University, Chicago, IL. His research and teaching interests include ethnicity, nationalism, globalization, Brazil, and the Arab Americas. His research has been funded by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley; the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville; the Institute of International Education; as well as the U.S. Department of Education. Karam is currently working on a comparative study of Arabs in Brazil, Argentina, and the United States
Significant Publications:
2007 Another Arabesque: Syrian-Lebanese Ethnicity in Neoliberal Brazil. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
2006
“Margins of Memory on the Rua 25 de Março: Constructing the Syrian-Lebanese Past in São Paulo, Brazil.” In Arabs in the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays on the Arabian Diaspora. Pp. 29 – 44. Zabel, Darcy. ed. New York: Peter Lang Publishers.
2004 “A Cultural Politics of Entrepreneurship in Nation-Making: Phoenicians, Turks, and the Arab Commercial Essence in Brazil.” The Journal of Latin American Anthropology. 9: 2 (Fall). Pp. 319 – 351.
LaDousa, Chaise
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
2000 PhD, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
Saraswati And Seacrest: Schools And Languages Medium Politics In North India
Chaise LaDousa, assistant professor of anthropology at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY attended the college of the University of Chicago and received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University. He has spent two years in North India studying languages and the role they play in education and India’s rapidly changing political economy. LaDousa taught most recently at Southern Connecticut State University. He has published professional articles in American Ethnologist, Journal of Pragmatics and Language in Society.
Lee, Christopher
Advisor - Susan S. Wadley
2002 PhD, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
Banaras, Urdu, Poetry, Poets
1994 MA, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
Sathya Sai Baba and 'Protestant' Hinduism
Christopher Lee’s is an Associate Professor at Canisius College, Buffalo, NY. His research focuses on the lives and poetic work of Muslim weavers in the Hindu pilgrimage center of Varanasi, India. Previous work has investigated how working-class Muslim weavers utilize centuries-old classical Perso-Arabic poetic forms and tropes to illustrate their lives and personal, economic and political situations.
He is currently writing grant proposals for a year-long research project which will focus on the impact of Islamic revivalism (sometimes called Islamic fundamentalism) on the Urdu poetry performed by the poets with whom he works. Research questions driving this work include: How has the continued and growing impact of Islamic revivalism and activism in South Asia and the Muslim world in general impacted what has become a poetry of popular protest?Has the poetry become more ‘religious’ in tone, manner and form? Has the rise in a stricter interpretation of Islam blunted the power of the poetry as dissent, or is the poetry being used as a vehicle of dissent against these stricter interpretations? How do the audience members, who traditionally number in the tens of thousands, respond? All of this research, while groundbreaking and original, fits into the scholastic literature on the impact of Islamic revivalism on non-elite Muslims.
Reeves, Matthew Bruce
Advisor – Douglas Armstrong
1997 PhD, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
“By Their Own Labor” Enslaved Africans’ Survival Strategies On Two Jamaican Plantations
Dr. Matthew Reeves, is the Director of Archaeology at James Madison’s Montpelier, Montpelier Station, Virginia. He received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 1997 and prior to his work at Montpelier held positions with the University of Maryland and National Park Service. For the Earthwatch project, he will serve as the Principal Investigator and participate in daily operations at the site. His main focus will be interpreting site finds, coordinating the long-range field methodology with research objectives of the project, and ensuring that Earthwatch volunteers have an understanding of the larger research issues. Matt has directed well over a dozen archaeological field schools and is adept at ensuring efficiency of work in the field. His research focus is on the archaeology of plantation life, African-Americans (both enslaved and freed), and the Civil War. His background includes over 15 years of directing research projects on plantations and period sites in Jamaica, Maryland, and Virginia. He has published several articles and monographs on his research on African-American and Civil War sites and presented numerous conference papers on these subjects. He is currently completing a book on the archaeology of Montpelier through the University Press of Florida.
Ricciardi, Christopher
Advisor – Christopher DeCorse
2004 PhD, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
Changing Through The Century: Life At The Lott Family Farm In The Nineteenth Century Town Of Flatlands, Kings County, New York
1997 MA, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
From Private to Public: The Changing Landscape of Van Cortlandt Park; Bronx, New York in the Nineteenth Century
Christopher Ricciardi is a Project Archaeologist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York, NY. His research focus is in historical archaeology, concentrating on the development of New York City from the Dutch period through the turn of the 20th century. He has participated in over thirty archaeological excavations in Eastern Europe, Bulgaria, the Caribbean, upstate New York, Long Island, and the New York City area. However, he feels that the City of New York is the greatest place in the world to "do" archaeology.
Significant Publications:
in press Bankoff, H. Arthur, Frederick A. Winter and Christopher Ricciardi “The History and Archaeology of Van Cortlandt Park”. in Gilbert (ed.), The Archaeology of The Bronx, Bronx Historical Society, Bronx, NY.
2001
Bankoff, H. Arthur, Christopher Ricciardi and Alyssa Loorya. “Remember African Under The Eaves: A forgotten room in a Brooklyn farmhouse yields evidence of religious ritual among slaves.” Archaeology Magazine, 54(3):36-40, May-June.
2004 “The Secret Room”. Seaport, 39(1)Winter-Spring: 32-35.
Smith, Michael A
1975 PhD, Department of Social Science, Syracuse University
A shift Towards 'Grass Roots' Politics in the Soviet Union, 1917-1971
1975 MA, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
1974 Masters of Social Science, Syracuse University
Michael Smith is a Professional Hockey Management Consultant
Tuck, James Alexander
Advisor – William Mangin
1969 PhD, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
Iroquois Cultural Development In Central New York
Born in St. John’s, Newfoundland Canada, Dr. James Tuck received both his B.A. and PhD from Syracuse University. Dr. Tuck was awarded the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2004 for his work in archeology and is most closely associated with the ongoing archaeological project at the Colony of Avalon at Ferryland with Memorial University of Newfoundland. Over two million artifacts have been recovered from the four acre site established by Lord Baltimore. During his time on the project, Dr. Tuck has been responsible for training and supervising archaeological workers at the Colony of Avalon as well as creating business plans to promote the project. His research interests include the prehistory and early European settlement of Easter and Northern North America. He is a Professor Emeritus & Henrietta Harvey Professor of Archaeology (1999-to present) Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL Canada
Significant Publications:
Contributed to Avalon Chronicles, Volumes One-Eight (1996-2003). Colony of Avalon Foundation, Ferryland NF.
Warms, Richard L.
Advisor – Deborah Pellow
1987 PhD, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
"Continuity And Changes In Patterns Of Trade In Southern Mali"
Richard Warms is a Professor of Anthropology at Texas State University. His research interest focus on West African economies, merchants, and veterans of colonial armies.
Wood, Margaret C.
Advisor – Douglas Armstrong
2002 PhD, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
“Fighting For Our Homes:” An Archaeology Of Women’s Domestic Labor And Social Change In A Working-Class, Coal Mining Community, 1900-1930
Margaret Wood is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Washburn University, Topeka, KS. Her research interest focus on Historical Archaeology, Landscape Analysis, Labor History, Social Inequality, Ethicity, Gender, Nationalism, Class