Faculty Research in Anthropology

Richard E. W. Adams

Revision of Adams, Prehistoric Mesoamerica, 3rd ed.; "A Reevaluation of Classic Maya Militarism, edited volume in press; research reports on excavations at Kinal, Guatemala (all research with outside funding, various private sources). Newest publication: Adams, Richard E. W. and William Ferguson. Mesoamerica's Ancient Cities. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002.

Thad Bartlett

"Supra-Annual Patterns of Feeding and Ranging Behavior in White-Handed Gibbons." (conducted in Thailand; currently funded with Faculty Research Award).

Daniel J. Gelo

"Comanche Ethnogeography" (partially funded through City of Abilene/Taylor County Historical Association consultancy). Newest publication: Gelo, Daniel J. "'Comanche Land and Ever has Been': A Native Geography of the Nineteenth-Century Comancheria." Southwestern Historical Quarterly 103:3 (January 2000), pp. 273-308.

Robert Hard

"First Farmers of the North American Southwest" (excavation and interpretation of Cerro Juanquena, Chihuahua; NSF and NEH funding).

Laura Levi

"Programme for Belize Regional Site Survey" (Maya settlement patterns; supported by Programme for Belize).

James McDonald

"The Milk Pearl: The Rise and Fall of Commercial Family Farmers in Central Mexico" (funded by NEH). Newest publication: McDonald, James H. The Applied Anthropology Reader. Boston, Allyn and Bacon, 2002.

Maria Luisa Urdaneta

"Reducing Cultural Barriers to the Provision of Genetic Services on the Border"; various other medical anthropology research projects (funded by US Public Health Service and Sociomedical Resource Associates, Inc.).

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