Faculty
- Regular Faculty
- Dorothy K. Billings
- Donald J. Blakeslee
- Angela Demovic
- David T. Hughes
- Jens Kreinath
- Robert Lawless
- Peer H. Moore-Jansen
- Holley Moyes
- Museum Director
- Jerry Martin
- Adjunct Faculty
- Tina L. Bennett-Kastor
- Frederick Hemans
- Schuyler Jones
- Emeritus Faculty
- Lowell D. Holmes
- Clayton A. Robarchek
- City Archaeologist
- Carol Shallue
Regular Faculty:
Professor Dorothy K. Billings(316) 978-7194
Ph.D. (1972) University of Sydney Dr. Billings' doctoral research compared the styles of culture in New Hanover and New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. Recently she has worked to develop curriculums relating anthropology to peace studies and international understanding. Her teaching interests include art, cross-cultural psychology, theory and method, millenarian movements, and the Pacific. |
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Professor Donald J. Blakeslee(316)-978-7199
Ph.D. (1975) University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee During his sophomore year of college at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, Dr. Blakeslee had the opportunity to spend a summer in Montana and Wyoming working with a surveying and digging crew for a River Basin Project. Ever since, "I knew I didn't want to do anything else." Since his arrival at Wichita state 1976, Dr. Blakeslee has been hard at work recruiting students into the field of Archaeology, just as he was in his sophomore year. Specializing in the archaeology of the Great Plains and Midwest, his research interests include exchange systems, dating techniques, ethnohistory, assemblage formation processes and cognitive archaeology. A current project is finding and researching the trail Coronado took during his exploration of what is now the United States. Blakeslee does contract archaeology on a routine basis, helping to fund archaeological field schools providing work and the opportunity for students to gain laboratory and field experience. Currently, he maintains a contract with the Kansas Department of Transportation. He believes that a good MA program must include the hands-on experience for the student. He takes pride in providing students with field experience and gives students a chance to work outdoors once a year during his wilderness field trip to Yellowstone National Park. Further Biographical Information. |
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 Assistant Professor Angela Demovic(316) 978-7192
Dr. Demovic is a sociocultural anthropologist who has conducted fieldwork in Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous island chain that is a part of the east African country of Tanzania. Geographically, her main focus is on the peoples and cultures of sub-Saharan Africa, with a theoretical focus on the intersection of household economics, gender, political change, and the global economy. Angela has also done extensive interview research with sex workers in New Orleans, which has led her to an interest in feminist jurisprudence and the rights of sex workers globally. She has also worked as an applied anthropologist, focusing on the ethical collection of oral histories for National Parks in Hawai'i. |
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 Associate Professor David T. Hughes(316) 978-7081Ph.D. (1988) University of Oklahoma M.A. (1976) University of Arkansas B.S. (1973) West Texas State University Dr. Hughes has been active in anthropology since 1968 and has traveled over much of North America in the interim. During most of his career, he has done contract archaeology, but his interests include matters of socialization and education and all facets of Native American culture and adaptation. His recent projects have included almost ten years of excavation and research at the Buried City sites in the Texas Panhandle and an ethnographic overview of the Pipestone National Monument in Minnesota, including original ethnographic fieldwork and review of historic, ethnographic, and ethnohistoric records about the sacred and profane uses of the pipestone and quarry area by Native Americans. |
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 Assistant Professor Jens Kreinath(316) 978-7193Dr. Phil. in Social and Cultural Anthropology (2006)University of Heidelberg, summa cum laude Post-graduate Student in Religious Studies (1998) University of Heidelberg Fakultätsexamen in Theology,Diploma in Theology (1997) University of Heidelberg Zwischenprüfung in Philosophy (1995) University of Heidelberg Dr. Kreinath focuses upon theoretical and methodological issues in social and cultural anthropology. As a member of a junior research group on ritual theory and the history of religions, he carried out research on a filmed performance of the Yasna, a daily performed ritual of Zoroastrian high-priests. Together with Refika Sariönder, he conducted fieldwork in Istanbul among the Alevi on the reflexive dynamics of the cem, a weekly observed community ritual. His research interests also include theoretical issues in visual and media anthropology and the aesthetics of ritual performances. His regional focus is on North Africa, Middle East, New Guinea and Central Australia. He is the editor of the volume Ritual and Reflection: Tropes in Transformation and Transgression. |
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 Professor Robert Lawless(316) 978-6185Ph.D. (1975) New School for Social Research M.A. (1968) University of the Philippines B.S.J. (1959) Northwestern University. Dr. Lawless worked in Southeast Asia for seven years studying urban scavengers in Manila, peasants on the Central Plain of Luzon, and headhunters in the North Luzon Highlands. He has also worked for eight years in New York City researching the social organization of hospitals and the survival strategies of street people. His main teaching and research interests focus on an integration of cognitive and ecological aspects of culture. More recently Dr. Lawless has served as undergraduate coordinator for the Wichita State University Department of Anthropology helping students in the beginnings of their anthropological careers. His most recent fieldwork includes studies of Haitians in Haiti and Florida. |
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 Professor Peer Moore-Jansen(316) 978-7195Ph.D. (1989) University of Tennessee, Knoxville M.A. (1982) University of Arkansas, Fayetteville B.A. (1977) Texas Tech University Currently chair of the department, Dr. Moore-Jansen was a student magister in prehistoric archaeology at the University of Copenhagen from 1972 to 1975. His teaching and research interests include skeletal biology, human variability, the history of evolutionary thought, and general paleoanthropology. Dr. Moore-Jansen conducts research in quantitative variation, microevolution and secular change in the human skeleton, especially as it applies to forensic anthropology and the study of historic and prehistoric population dynamics. For several years he studied dental pathology and microwear, and he participated in the development of the National Forensic Data Bank. He is the current editor-in-chief of the Lambda Alpha Journal. |
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 Assistant Professor Holley Moyes(316) 978-7078Ph.D. (2006) State University of New York at Buffalo M.A. (2001) Anthropology, Florida Atlantic University A.S. (1994) Dental Hygiene, Palm Beach Community College B.A. (1978) Theatre, Florida State Universityty Dr. Moyes is a Mesoamerican archaeologist who conducts field research in Belize. She is interested in sacred landscapes and in evaluating the use of space for understanding human behavior. She also focuses on field methods and has pioneered new techniques for understanding ritual behavior in the archaeological record using Geographic Information Systems. Her current investigation of ancient Maya ritual caves looks at the role of ideology and religion in the development and collapse of political authority and social complexity. |
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Jerry Martin(316)978-7068Director of the Lowell D. Holmes Museum of Anthropology at Wichita State University, Mr. Martin teaches museum related courses. A collector of native art from various areas of the world, he has traveled extensively in the third world. With a donation from Barry and Paula Downing, he has recently acquired for the museum the largest collection of Asmat art in the United States. Holmes Museum of Anthropology Website and Holmes Museum of Anthropology News at WSU |
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 Professor Emeritus Lowell D. Holmes
Ph.D. (1957) In 1967 Dr. Holmes negotiated the split of the department from sociology and then served as the first department chair. He established the Museum of Anthropology (now named the Lowell D. Holmes Museum of Anthropology) and founded Lambda Alpha, the international honors society for anthropology students. His doctoral research consisted of a methodological restudy of Margaret Mead's Samoan work. Dr. Holmes did research in American and Western Samoa in 1954, 1962-1963, 1974, 1976-1977, and 1988. He has worked with Samoan migrants in California in 1977 and 1992-1993. In 1990 he received the National Distinguished Teaching Award from the National Association of Student Anthropology, and in 1968 he received the Kansas Regents Excellence in Teaching Award. His research and teaching interests include methodology, peoples of the Pacific, cultures of the United States, the history of anthropological theory, and cross-cultural gerontology. |
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Professor Emeritus Clayton Robarchek
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