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Cultural anthropologists study the traditions, religion, shared beliefs, values, and institutions of cultures and societies from a holistic perspective.

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• Wiegele, Katharine L. - Current research interests include new religious movements and religious change, mass media, global and popular culture, community in cities, and colonialism. Northern Illinois University.
  
• Kenyon, Susan - Associate professor of anthropology and director of the anthropology program at Butler University. Professor Kenyon's research expertise includes gender studies, religion and healing, in Africa.
  
• Wilk, Richard - Cultural anthropologist and professor at Indiana University. Biographical information and various projects, including software reviews and the Global Consumer Culture Project.
  
• Judd, Ellen R. - Professor of social anthropology at the University of Manitoba whose research interests includes gender and kinship in China.
  
• Turnbull, Colin - A short biography from Science News of the celebrated anthropologist who launched the study of African pygmies in the 1950's.
  
• Salovesh, Michael - Research focused on social organization (both kinship and politics) and inter-group relations. Northern Illinois University.
  
• Dentan, Robert K. - Anthropology professor at the University of Buffalo who studies social organization, ecology and ritual in Southeast Asia and Africa.
  
• David L. Crawford - Features links to courses in cultural anthropology and Islamic societies and cultures. Also offers publications on Berber society, Morocco, labor relations, migration and the Amazigh identity movement. Fairfield University.
  
• English-Lueck, J.A. - Professor at San Jose State University in California, currently working on an ethnography of Silicon Valley cultures and their connection to centers of high technology worldwide.
  
• Spier, Robert - Research interests focus on tools, tool use, and the material culture of non-industrial peoples, including Euro-Americans of the 19th century and before. University of Missouri.
  
• Pradip Kumar Singh - Features contact details, academic achievements and summary of research for this Indian anthropologist.
  
• Brown, Margaret L. - Anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis whose research interests are on examining the connection between social norms and the development of beliefs about the social world.
  
• Bernard, H. Russell - Cultural anthropologist at the University of Florida. Includes curriculum vitae, class materials, and a list of his academic papers available online.
  
• Loker, William - Web site of the CSU Chico professor that discusses his research in applied anthropology in Honduras.
  
• Stone, Glenn Davis - Professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis whose research focuses on social, spatial, and political aspects of agriculture, sustainability, and biotechnology.
  
• Dow, James Winslow - Anthropology professor at Oakland University. Includes collection of online papers and articles.
  
• Gardner, Peter M. - Research interests include: ecology, social organization and cognition of foragers in Canadian subarctic and India; cultural transmission in Hindu India and among South Indian sculptors; problems in the study of cognition; and anthropological perspectives
  
• Thorn, David L. - Offers articles, photos, crafts, artwork, and professional qualifications.
  
• Jauregui, Carlos - Provides personal academic information and contact details. Features a collection of essays that address identity in Latin America.
  
• Wiedman, Dennis - Anthropologist and director of the Program Review Office of Planning and Institutional Effectiveness at the Florida International University.
  
• Ilahiane, Hsain - Professor at Iowa State University whose primary research focuses on natural and cultural resource management, ethnicity and social mobility, and technological and agricultural change.
  
• Gundaker, Grey - Research and teaching interests include the ethnography of expressive and material practices, and learning environments, particularly involving African Americans in the U.S. and West Indies, and European Americans in the Appalachian corridor. College of
  
• Heider, Karl - Research activity is in the area of exploring the cultural shaping of emotions with field work in Indonesia. University of South Carolina.
  
• Stoner, Bradley P. - Professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis whose research focuses on issues at the interface of anthropology, medicine and public health.
  
• Rubenstein, Joe - Professor of Anthropology at Stockton College.
  
• Sperber, Dan - Site of the French anthropologist and cognitive scientist, with brief biography and online texts.
  
• Moretti-Langholtz, Danielle - Currently studying the political resurgence of Virginia Indians during the twentieth century. College of William and Mary.
  
• Provencher, Ronald - Specializes broadly in the study of complex societies. Northern Illinois University.
  
• Boyd, Robert - Professor of anthropology at UCLA whose research interests focuses on mathematical models of human behavior.
  
• Smith, Court - Researches domestic society, contemporary issues, and future-oriented. Interests focused on how human well-being changes as a result of resource use and economic development. Oregon State University.
  
• Kasakoff, Alice - Research interests include gender, ethnography, and the individual in modern Egypt. University of South Carolina.
  
• Fiona Jordan - University College London PhD student interested in cultural evolution and diversity in the Pacific, especially the Austronesian world. Uses phylogenetic comparative methods to understand and examine cultural change and adaptation.
  
• Wright-Parsons, Ann - Director of Northern Illinois University's Anthropology Museum with special research interests in Southeast Asia.
  
• Small, Cathy - Anthropology professor at Northern Arizona University researching culture change, gender issues, applied, and development in Polynesia.
  
• Molnar, Andrea - Research interests in religion, symbolism, social organization, language, ecological anthropology, and culture change. Northern Illinois University.
  
• Bacigalupo, Ana Mariella - Professor at the University of Buffalo who researches religion, ritual, gender, in indigenous highland South America
  
• Sanger, David - Anthropology professor at the University of Maine with expertise in the ecology of maritime hunter gatherers and the causes and effects of climatic events on small scale societies.
  
• Ridinger, Robert - Research interests in cultural ecology, the archaeology of Mesoamerica, North America, Africa and South Asia and in the field of gay and lesbian studies. Northern Illinois University.
  
• Calkowski, Marcia - Ethnographic research on the Tibetan exile community. University of Regina.
  
• Fiske, Alan Page - Associate Professor of Anthropology at UCLA whose research and teaching explores the ways in which culture, psychology, and natural selection operate together to shape human sociality.
  
• Allen, Mark - Pomona College anthropology instructor whose interests include cultural resource management in New Zealand.
  
• Smeltzoff, Sarah K. - University of Miami researcher who studies industrial and small-scale fisheries analyses in the Indo-Pacific and Spanish West Africa.
  
• Whiteford, Michael B. - Professor at Iowa State University whose research interests focus on alternative curing practices and health-care decision-making processes in Latin America.
  
• Munson, Henry - University of Maine anthropology professor whose interests include the comparative study of religion, and religion and politics.
  
• Ledgerwood, Judy - Research interests include gender, refugee and diaspora communities, and the transnational movements of people and ideas. Northern Illinois University.
  
• Robbins, Michael - Research and teaching interests reside in mathematics, methods, and psychological anthropology. University of Missouri.
  
• Frake, Charles O. - Professor at the University of Buffalo who researches cultural ecology and cognitive anthropology in Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Europe.
  
• Eggertsson, Sveinn - Research areas include knowledge, perception, phenomenology, medical anthropology, Melanesia, and Papua New Guinea. University of Iceland.
  
• Sattenspiel, Lisa - Research interests are in biological effects of disease, the spread of disease along social networks and in prehistoric populations, and a study of the spread of the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic among aboriginal peoples in the Norway House District of Man
  
• Pandey, Shanta - Professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis whose research focuses on factors that affect women's pursuit of economic opportunities and rural development in Nepal.
  
• Weisner, Thomas S. - Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Psychiatry at UCLA whose research explores the relationships between culture and human development. Contains contact information, research interests, and full bibliography.
  
• White, Douglas R. - University of California Irvine researcher interested in the dynamics and organizational theory of social networks and in complex adaptive systems.
  
• Banks, David J. - Professor at the University of Buffalo researching kinship, culture, historical methods, and contemporary social change in Southeast Asia.
  
• Cushing, Frank Hamilton - Biographical sketch of the 19th Century ethnologist who lived among the Zuni.
  
• Montague, Susan P. - Research interests focused on the Trobriand Islands and American culture. Northern Illinois University.
  
• Graves, Theodore D. - Features a short biography, list of publications, contact details and information on his new books.
  
• Leacock, Eleanor Burke - Eminent American cultural anthropologist recognized primarily for her enthohistorical studies of the subarctic Innu and her contributions to feminist anthropology.
  
• Sosis, Richard - Research interests in human behavioral ecology, the evolution of cooperation, foraging theory, costly signaling, and the evolution of religion and morality. University of Connecticut.›
  
• Colson, Elizabeth - Biographical overview of the University of California, Berkeley Emeritus Professor that details her contributions to the field of Cultural Anthropology.
  
• Wadley, Reed - Research interests include agricultural and economic anthropology, demography, conservation, and indigenous management of natural resources. University of Missouri.
  
• Kingsolver, Ann - Her research is focused on contributing to a broader social project of recognizing and addressing inequalities; with long-term ethnographic research concerns situated interpretations of transnational capitalism. University of South Carolina.
  
• Anderson, Kermyt G. - Lecturer at the University of Oklahoma with research interests in anthropological demography, behavioral ecology, parental care, fertility, education and schooling outcomes and evolutionary theory.
  
• Jackson, Jason Baird - Assistant Professor of Folklore, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University and researcher at the American Indian Research Institute.
  
• Trujillo, Michael - Specializes in the ongoing negotiation of social relations in the US Southwest. Colorado College.
  
• Russell, Susan D. - Research interests in economic anthropology and the Philippines. Northern Illinois University.
  
• Roufs, Tim - Research interests focus on Middle America, culture and personality, and the sociocultural change of prehistoric cultures. University of Minnesota, Duluth.
  
• Wilson, H. Clyde - Interests include the economic and political organizations of modern societies, as well as the interaction between biological and cultural factors. University of Missouri.
  
• Jason Danely - Psychological anthropology graduate student at UCSD. Features short biography, CV and links to related sites.
  
• Feinberg, Richard - Professor at Kent State University who researches kinship and social organization, political development, indigenous seafaring techniques in Oceana and Native North America. Features recent publications and a photo gallery.
  
• Prufer, Olaf H. - Professor at Kent State University who teaches psychological anthropology, culture conflict, North American and Old World prehistory.
  
• Hoffer, Cor - Sociologist and anthropologist conducting research at the University in Leiden (The Netherlands). His research interests include studying Muslim religion and health care.
  
• Koolage, William W. - Associate professor of cultural and medical anthropology at the University of Manitoba who studies indigenous societies of northern North America.
  
• Packwood, Nicholas - Research interests include mapping inter-organizational relationships through the flow of material assemblages. York University, Toronto, Canada.
  
• Wissler, Clark - A biographical sketch of the anthropologist associated with the Culture Area concept.
  
• Bateson, Gregory - Features a biography, a bibliography, a forum, and articles focusing on Bateson's epistemological work.
  
• Welland, Sasha Su-Ling - Research interests include contemporary Chinese art worlds, gender, and visual culture. Features links to publications, and information on the "Cruel/Loving Bodies" exhibition project. University of California, Santa Cruz.
  
• Kroeber, Alfred L. - A biography of Kroeber's life and catalog of his contributions to the field of anthropology.
  
• Linke, Uli - Research focuses on historic and modern Europe, with an emphasis on Germany. Rochester Institute of Technology.
  
• Pradip K Singh - Features professional memberships, CV, publications and contacts. Ranchi University, Ranchi, India.
  
• Beck, Lois C. - Professor of sociocultural anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.
  
• Thu, Kendall M. - Research in applied anthropology, food systems, public and environmental health, the anthropology of sports, North America, and Northern Europe. Northern Illinois University.
  
• Mitchell, Winifred - Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department of Minnesota State University, Mankato.
  
• DeBernardi, Jean - University of Alberta, Canada researcher whose interests include China, Southeast Asia, religion, language in society. Provides contacts, curriculum vitae and essays.
  
• Riner, Reed D. - Professor at Northern Arizona University who studied applied anthropology as it relates to the enculturation Native American Indians.
  
• Otterbein, Keith F. - Research specialist at the University of Buffalo who studies warfare, social structure and cultural ecology of peoples of the Caribbean and West Africa.
  
• Sulkin, Carlos Londono - Research among the Muinane, an indigenous people of the Colombian Amazon. University of Regina.
  
  

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