ANTHROPOLOGY NEWS
Emily Dean is currently co-authoring a book (with Bill Sillar) titled Mountains, Myths, and Monuments: An Andean Landscape Biography as well as contributing three chapters to two edited volumes, Recent Archaeology at Formative Chiripa and Tenahaha (ed. by C. Hastorf, M. Bandy, and W. Whitehead) and The Wari State: A View of the Middle Horizon from the Cotahuasi Valley (ed. by J. Jennings and W. Yépez Álvarez). All three books have projected publication dates of 2009.
Dr. Dean actively participated in several academic conferences in the 2007-8 year. She organized the programs, co-wrote a paper (“The Many Levels of Ceremonialism at Chiripa”), and chaired a session at the 2007 and 2008 Institute of Andean Studies meeting in Berkeley, CA. She also presented a paper (“Deconstructing the ‘Collcas’: re-evaluating the evidence for Inca state storage at Cacha,” with Bill Sillar), chaired a session (“New Horizons in Inca Archaeology”), and participated in a working group on “Inka Imperial Expansion” at the 2007 Society for American Archaeology Meetings in Austin, TX.
This summer she is attending the World Archaeological Congress in Dublin, Ireland where she will give a paper titled: “Tinkuy: Critical encounters between ethnography, ethnohistory, oral tradition and archaeology in the Andes.” Following her Ireland trip, she will travel to the Vilcabamba region of Peru where she is initiating a new archaeological project with her Peruvian colleague, Amelia Perez Trujillo.
HISTORY DEPARTMENT NEWS
Mark Miller recently secured a contract with the University of Oklahoma Press to publish a book tentatively entitled “Blood Brothers and Others: The Five Tribes of Oklahoma and Unrecognized Tribes of the Southeast.” He has an article, “The Death Valley Timbisha Shoshone and the National Park Idea” scheduled for publication in The Journal of the Southwest (2008). In the spring of 2008 he also presented a paper, “An Outsider’s Experience Teaching Mormon History in Utah,” at the Annual Conference of the Mormon History Association in Sacramento, California.
SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT NEWS
Dr. Michael Ostrowsky's book entitled, "Self-Medication and Violent Behavior" will be published in early 2009 by LFB Scholarly Publishing Co.
Sociology Professors Gurung, Kingston, and Ostrowsky attended and presented papers at the Pacific Sociological Association Conference in Portland, OR in April, 2008. Two sociology major students also attended and presented a poster.
GENERAL DEPARTMENT NEWS
Emily Dean and Mark Miller were among the six finalists for the T-Bird “Professor of the Year” award.
If you are interested in the History or Sociology Honor Societies, please stop by our Department in Centrum 225 for more information.
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