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Faculty & Staff - Spring 2012
| Name | Phone Number | Office | Email Address | Office Hours |
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Dr. Sandra Faiman-Silva Chairperson |
508-531-2369 | Burrill Office
Complex Room 100E |
sfaimansilva@bridgew.edu | WR 10:00-12:00 & by appointment |
| Dr. Louise Badiane | 508-531-2166 | Burrill Office
Complex Room 100D |
louise.badiane@bridgew.edu |
TR 12:30-1:45 & by appointment |
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Dr. Diana Fox |
508-531-2847 | Burrill Office
Complex Room 100B |
d1fox@bridgew.edu | ON SABBATICAL Contact by e-mail. |
| Dr. Curtiss Hoffman | 508-531-2249 | Burrill Office
Complex Room 100A |
c1hoffman@bridgew.edu |
M 3:15-4:00; TR 12:30-1:45 & by appointment |
| Dr. Ellen Ingmanson | 508-531-2799 | Burrill Office
Complex Room 100C |
eingmanson@bridgew.edu | MWF 11:00-12:00 & by appointment |
| Dr. Justin Armstrong* | Contact by e-mail. | Burrill Office
Complex Room 100F |
justin.armstrong@bridgew.edu | By appointment |
| Dr. Elise Brenner* | Contact by e-mail. |
Burrill Office
Complex Room 100F |
ebrenner@bridgew.edu | 7:30-8:00 in Burnell 123B & at 11:00 by appointment |
| Dr. Stephen Cabral* | Contact by e-mail. | Burrill Office
Complex Room 100F |
stephen.cabral@bridgew.edu | By appointment |
| Prof. Linnea Carlson* | Contact by e-mail. | Burrill Office
Complex Room 100F |
linnea.carlson@bridgew.edu | By appointment |
| Dr. Joshua Irizarry* | Contact by e-mail. | Burrill Office
Complex Room 100F |
joshua.irizarry@bridgew.edu | MW 2:00-3:00 & by appointment |
| Dr. Jessica Levai* | Contact by e-mail. | Burrill Office
Complex Room 100F |
jessica.levai@bridgew.edu | By appointment |
| Dr. Justin Patch* | Contact by e-mail. | Burrill Office
Complex Room 100F |
justin.patch@bridgew.edu | By appointment |
| Prof. Yasar Ozan Say* | Contact by e-mail. | Burrill Office
Complex Room 100F |
yasar.say@bridgew.edu | By appointment |
| Dr. Frank Spaulding* | Contact by e-mail. | Burrill Office
Complex Room 100F |
frank.spaulding@bridgew.edu |
By appointment |
| Dr. Tracy Thorpe* | Contact by e-mail. | Burrill Office
Complex Room 100F |
tracy.thorpe@bridgew.edu |
TR 11:45-12:15 & by appointment |
| Dr. Lara Watkins* | Contact by e-mail. | Burrill Office
Complex Room 100F |
lara.watkins@bridgew.edu | By appointment |
| Dr. Michael Zimmerman* | Contact by e-mail. | Burrill Office
Complex Room 100F |
michael.zimmerman@bridgew.edu | By appointment |
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Patricia Dyer Administrative Assistant |
508-531-1799 | Burrill Office
Complex Room 100 |
pdyer@bridgew.edu |
* Visiting Lecturers may not always be available at the office listed. Please contact them by e-mail to make an appointment.
Full Time Faculty
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I am a Professor of Anthropology at Bridgewater State University, where I have taught since 1985. As a cultural anthropology generalist, among my favorite courses are Anthropology of Women, Gender, Folklore, Native North America and Latin America, and the Anthropology of Education. My book Choctaws at the Crossroads: The Political Economy of Class and Culture in the Oklahoma Timber Region (U Nebraska 1997) was named in 1997 as a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award by the Society for the Study of Social Problems. My most recent book, "The Courage to Connect: Sexuality, Citizenship, and Community in Provincetown" (U Illinois 2004), analyzes the relationship between gays and straights in that resort community. I have published articles on Indian gaming, youth and culture, and my Provincetown research in the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and The Gay and Lesbian Review. I received Bridgewater State University's Jordan D. Fiore Prize in World Justice in 1997 and the Class of 1950 Distinguished Faculty Research Award in 2003 for this research. I am a campus and community activist and serve as Grievance Officer and Secretary of the BSU-Massachusetts State College Association (MSCA) Chapter, an NEA affiliate. I live in Falmouth, Massachusetts, where I am active in the town's "No Place for Hate" campaign and in other peace and justice causes.
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Dr. Louise Badiane
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Dr. Diana Fox
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I am a cultural anthropologist with a geographic focus on
the Anglophone Caribbean, particularly Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. My
research and teaching interests are many, and include: ifeminist ethnography,
gender studies, women's human rights, the anthropology of human rights;
transnational feminism, anthropology of development, ecological anthropology;
anthropology of activism, race and ethnicity, HIV/AIDS stigma and education. I
have also conducted some fieldwork in Eritrea, leading to the book "The
Challenges of Women's Activism and Human Rights in Africa" edited with Somali
anthropologist, Naima Hasci. (1999. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press.) My
most recent book "Cultural DNA: Gender at the Root of Everyday Life in Rural
Jamaica" (2010 Kingston: UWI Press) is the culmination of fieldwork I have
pursued in Jamaica since 1991. I have also written a number of articles and
delivered many papers on my work in the Caribbean. Since 2004 I have received
three Fulbright Fellowships to continue research in Jamaica and Trinidad and
numerous CART grants from BSU to pursue my work. My current research focuses on
biocultural diversity and issues surrounding gender roles and water
sustainability in Trinidad. I love to travel to the Caribbean with students to
expose them to fieldwork and the application of classroom learning to new
cultural environments.
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Dr. Curtiss Hoffman
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I earned my
B.A. in Mediterranean Studies at Brandeis University (1967) and my Ph.D. in Near
Eastern Languages and Literatures at Yale University (1974). My doctoral
dissertation, The Lion, the Eagle, the Man, and the Bull in Mesopotamian
Glyptic, explored the paleoethnozoological symbol-systems of the ancient
peoples of southern Iraq. Shortly before obtaining my Ph.D., I undertook a
program of retraining in the archaeology of Northeastern North America, which
has since become my major field of research. I have published numerous
articles, site reports, and a monograph on the subject, People of the Fresh
Water Lake: A Prehistory of Westborough, Massachusetts (Peter Lang, 1991).
I have also published an introductory text on mythology, The Seven Story
Tower: A Mythic Journey through Space and Time (Perseus, 1999). On the
faculty at Bridgewater since 1978, I regularly teach introductory and upper
division courses in archaeology, mythology, culture and consciousness, and
survey courses in the indigenous peoples and cultures of North America and the
Middle East. I conduct an annual summer archaeological field school at
pre-European sites in eastern Massachusetts. I am a long-time member of the
Massachusetts Archaeological Society, and currently serve as its Membership
Chair and Corresponding Secretary. I am also serving as the Vice President for
the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and hosted their 2006
Annual Conference at Bridgewater State College.
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Dr. Ellen Ingmanson
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As a biological anthropologist my primary research focuses on questions regarding the evolution of intelligence and the nature and origins of cultural behavior. A particular emphasis of my work is the contribution of primate studies to understanding human behavioral patterns and what it means to be human. Much of my research has been with the apes, including chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and gibbons. I have conducted observations of object manipulation, tool use, communication, social skills, behavioral variation, ecology, and nonhuman culture. I address a wide range of issues in my courses that often cross traditional boundaries between natural and social science perspectives.
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