Faculty & Staff - Fall 2009

Name	Phone Number	Office	Email Address	Office Hours
Dr. Sandra Faiman-Silva Chairperson	508-531-2369	Burrill Office Complex Room 100E	sfaimansilva@bridgew.edu	TR 8:45-9:15 and 1:00-2:30 And by appointment
Dr. Louise Badiane	508-531-2166	Burrill Office Complex Room 100D	louise.badiane@bridgew.edu	TR 12:30-1:45 And by appointment
Dr. Diana Fox	508-531-2847	Burrill Office Complex Room 100B	d1fox@bridgew.edu	TR 10:00-11:00 And by appointment
Dr. Curtiss Hoffman	508-531-2249	Burrill Office Complex Room 100A	c1hoffman@bridgew.edu	M 12:30-1:30; TR 11:00-12:00 And by appointment
Dr. Ellen Ingmanson	508-531-2799	Burrill Office Complex Room 100C	eingmanson@bridgew.edu	TR11:00-12:30 And by appointment
Dr. Elise Brenner*	508-531-1799	Burrill Office Complex Room 100F	ebrenner@bridgew.edu	MWF 7:30-8:00, HRT 116 MWF 11:00 by appt. only
Dr. Stephen Cabral*	508-531-1799	Burrill Office Complex Room 100F	slcabral@yahoo.com	By appointment
Prof. Linnea Carlson*	508-531-1799	Burrill Office Complex Room 100F	linnea.carlson@bridgew.edu	By appointment
Dr. Jessica Levai*	508-531-1799	Burrill Office Complex Room 100F	jessica.levai@bridgew.edu	By appointment
Dr. Frank Spaulding*	508-531-6677	Burrill Office Complex Room 100F	frank.spaulding@bridgew.edu	By appointment
Dr. James Toth*	508-531-1799	Burrill Office Complex Room 100F	james.toth@bridgew.edu	MWF 10:00-11:00; 12:30-1:30 And by appointment
Patricia Dyer Administrative Assistant	508-531-1799	Burrill Office Complex Room 100	pdyer@bridgew.edu	Monday thru Friday, 9:00-3:00

*  Visiting Lecturers may not always be available at the office listed.  Please contact them by e-mail to make an appointment. 

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Dr. Sandra Faiman-Silva, Chairperson Professor of Anthropology Coordinator, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program Burrill Office Complex, Room 100E Tel:  508-531-2369 sfaimansilva@bridgew.edu

I am a Professor of Anthropology at Bridgewater State College, 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 College’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 BSC-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 Assistant Professor of Anthropology Coordinator, African Studies Program Burrill Office Complex, Room 100D Tel:  508-531-2166 louise.badiane@bridgew.edu

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Dr. Diana Fox Associate Professor of Anthropology Editor, Journal of International Women's Studies Burrill Office Complex, Room 100B Tel:  508-531-2847 d1fox@bridgew.edu

I am a cultural anthropologist with research and teaching interests in feminist 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. My ethnographic regions of specialization are the Anglophone Caribbean with a focus on Jamaica and Trinidad and I have conducted some fieldwork in Eritrea, leading to the book The Challenges of Women's Activism and Human Rights in Africa. Editors, Diana J. Fox and Naima Hasci. 1999. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press.  I have also written a number of articles and delivered many papers on my work in the Caribbean. I have recently received two Fulbright Fellowships to continue research in Jamaica and Trinidad.
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Dr. Curtiss Hoffman Professor of Anthropology Burrill Office Complex, Room 100A Tel:  508-531-2249 c1hoffman@bridgew.edu

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 Associate Professor of Anthropology Burrill Office Complex, Room 100C Tel:  508-531-2799 eingmanson@bridgew.edu

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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