Biography:

Bradford W. Andrews is an anthropological archaeologist with Mesoamerican and North American research interests. He received his Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University in 1999. As an anthropological archaeologist, his specific research interests include the comparative investigation of societal complexity, political economy, craft production, migration, and cultural ecology. His primary methodological specialty is the study of flaked stone tool production; this approach provides a useful means for reconstructing ancient economic systems, which provide a basis for making inferences about other aspects of society including social organization and ideology. He has published an edited volume with Kenneth Hirth (Pathways to Prismatic Blades) and contributed various chapters to other edited volumes on his research relating to Mesoamerican blade production. He has also published peer-reviewed journal articles on the prehistory of peoples who lived in Colorado, Utah, and Pennsylvania, and an article on reconstructing the pre-Hispanic population at the Mayan site of Sayil on the Yucatan Peninsula.

Education:

• B.A., Anthropology, Ft. Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, 1986
• M.A., Anthropology, Penn State University, 1995
• Ph.D., Anthropology, Penn State University, 1999

Areas of Emphasis:

• Craft Production
• Lithic Technology
• Cultural Ecology
• New World Complex Societies
• Great Basin and Montane Foragers & Semi-Sedentary Farmers

Biography:

Elizabeth Brusco decided to become a cultural anthropologist at the age of 15 after hearing the late great Margaret Mead speak at a small library in rural Connecticut. She went on to receive her B.A. in anthropology from Boston University, and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the City University of New York. She has conducted field research in Colombia, and published a book on the evangelical movement there entitled _The Reformation of Machismo_ (Univ. of Texas Press 1995). She has also written on gender roles in Colombia and religious persecution in that country. She joined the faculty at Pacific Lutheran University in 1988, and teaches courses on Latin America, the Pacific Islands, Anthropology of Religion, Kinship and Family, Linguistics, and Anthropological Methods. She was also the founding Chair of the Women's Studies Program at PLU in the early 1990s. Her current research interests include religion and culture in the Pacific Islands, and the experiences of new immigrants in the Pacific Northwest.

Education:

• B.A., Anthropology, Boston University, 1974
• M.A., Anthropology, Hunter College/City University of New York, 1982
• Ph.D., Anthropology, City University of New York, Graduate Center, 1986

Areas of Emphasis:

• Transitionalism and Globalization
• Kinship and Social Organization
• Anthropological Approaches to Gender
• Religion and Social Change
• Feminist Theory
• Ethnography-Ethnology of Latin America and the Caribbean

Biography:

Greg Guldin is a cultural anthropologist, trained at the University of Wisconsin in anthropology and East Asian Studies (Ph.D., 1978), who specializes in international development issues including ethnicity, urbanization, and social assessment. He has undertaken academic research and consulting assignments in China, Russia, and many countries in Asia and has written widely on such topics.

Education:

• Ph.D., Anthroplogy and East Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, 1978

Biography:

Huelsbeck started doing prehistoric archaeology in Wisconsin. After moving to Washington, he developed a research specialty in identifying animal bones seeking to understand socio-economic complexity among Northwest Coast Native American cultures, especially at the Ozette site. (Ozette is a Makah village partially destroyed by a mudslide, where baskets, boxes and other vegetal artifacts were preserved and is sometimes called a North American Pompeii). Huelsbeck began teaching at Santa Clara University and branched into historical archaeology (California Missions and late 19th and early 20th century American culture). He came to PLU in 1989 and developed an applied archaeology program with the US Forest Service. Annual research projects involving students and volunteers have ranged from focusing on prehistoric Native American sites to historic mining and logging camps. Huelsbeck maintains an ongoing relationship with the Makah Tribe, including a J-term course that takes students to the Makah Reservation in Neah Bay. In the last 10 years Huelsbeck has published 15 articles on subjects ranging from “The Surplus Economy of the Central Northwest Coast,” to “Native American Cultural Continuity at California’s Missions. Also, he has authored or co-authored more than 20 reports on subjects ranging from the nature of prehistoric use of alpine meadows in the Washington Cascades to socio-economic indicators among the faunal remains from a restaurant in gold-rush era Skagway, Alaska. He has directed archaeology projects large and small, chaired a variety of committees and commissions on and off of campus and chaired the Anthropology Department from 1993-95 and 1998-2000 and has been Dean of Social Sciences 2000-2006.

Education:

• B.A., Anthropology, Universityof Wisconsin-Madison, 1974
• M.A., Anthropology, Washington State University, 1981
• Ph.D., Anthropology, Washington State University, 1983

Areas of Emphasis:

• Prehistoric Archaeology
• Northwest Coast Native American cultures

Biography:

Laura Klein joined the faculty at PLU in 1979. She earned a PhD in anthropology from New York University with a dissertation topic on women and local level politics in a Tlingit community. She has continued to write about gender and Tlingit issues and has increasingly focused on ethnohistory and medicine. She is currently working with a Jamestown S’Klallam elder videotaping stories and important cultural events. She currently chairs the department at PLU. She is the author of Global Perspectives: A Handbook for Understanding Global Issues (Prentice-Hall) with Ann Kelleher, Native American Women and Power (Oklahoma) with Lillian A Ackerman, and Women and Men in World Cultures (McGraw-Hill).

Education:

• Ph.D., Anthropology, New York University

Biography:

Akiko Nosaka received her Ph.D. in anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University in 1997. She conducted fieldwork research on female fertility behavior in relation to their socio-cultural values and norms in rural Bangladesh. Her study results have been published in the Journal of Comparative Family Studies (2000) and the Journal of International Women’s Studies (2004). She also conducted research on the inter-generational family relationships of Germans and Turkish immigrants living in Germany. Some of the conclusions from this research have been published in the book Grandmotherhood: The Evolutionary Significance of the Second Half of Female Life (2005, Rutgers University Press). Her core study interests are family and inter-generational relationships, which she approaches by looking at issues such as aging, gender, fertility, migration, and ethnicity.

Education:

• Ph.D., Anthropology, Penn State University, 1997

Education:

• B.A., African Studies, Beloit College, 1993
• M.A., Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Boston University, 1998
• Ph.D., Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Boston University, 2006

Areas of Emphasis:

• Ethnicity and local diversity
• International development
• West African history
• Anthropology of gender (esp. masculinities)
• Political economy
• Citizenship and transnationalism/globalization