DocPenn
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Anthropologist |
| Location | Wellington, FL, United States |
| Introduction | Who is DocPenn? I'm an anthropologist Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science whose training, research, publications and teaching cover all five fields of the discipline -- archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistics, cultural anthropology, and applied anthropology. I taught at Washington State University, Humboldt State University, and the University of Connecticut. At UConn, I supervised the Applied Medical Anthropology graduate program founded by Bert Pelto, and served as Anth Department Head. I conducted field research in West Africa (c. 3+ year's residence), the West Indies (c. 5+ years residence), the Arctic (Alaska and Russian Far East), and various regions of the United States. I developed new methods to study cultures while doing research on entrepreneurship, rice production, migration, human fertility (high fertility and fertility transition), prostitution, and -- for the last 30 years -- the origins and consequences of violence. This blog expands my teaching to a broader audience while it explores topics initially described in my book, Our Story (Left Coast Press, 2015) |