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  Joe R. Harding, January 26,…

  Harding served the Society as its treasurer. During his career he did applied research projects largely as an independent contractor.
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  Art Gallaher, Jr., February …

  Gallaher served the Society in a number of roles, including as president, 1977-1978. He was the first recipient of the Sol Tax Distinguished Service award of…
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  Wilton S. Dillon, February 15,…

  Dillon?s work career was primarily at the Smithsonian Institution and started in the late 1960s. He is now retired.
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  Muriel Crespi, September 8,…

  Muriel "Miki" Crespi is an anthropologist noted for her efforts to establish applied anthropology in the National Park Service. In the interview, Crespi…
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  Muriel Crespi, September 21,…

  Crespi discusses the creation of a ethnographic resource inventory and database for the National Park Service. She tells Fiske about the importance of the…
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  Muriel Crespi, October 12,…

  Crespi discusses the difficulties of completing ethnographic research at the National Parks Service, as many regions only have one ethnographer and have to…
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  Muriel Crespi, October 14,…

  Through Crespi's efforts, applied anthropology practice became established at the National Park Service.
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  Murray L. Wax, October 26,…

  Wax served as the Society?s president, 1975-1976. He died in 2012 after a long career at Washington University (St. Louis).
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  Thayer Scudder, May 20, 2003

  Scudder was the 1999 Bronislaw Malinowski award winner. He is now retired from the California Institute of Technology. He is best known for his research on the…
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  Thayer Scudder, May 21, 2003

  Scudder was the 1999 Bronislaw Malinowski awardee. He is now retired from the California Institute of Technology. He is best known for his research on the…
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  Michael Cernea, June 30, 2003

  Cernea did work on the impacts of dam construction at the World Bank. He was the 1995 Bronislaw Malinowski award winner.
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  Art Hansen, May 22, 2003

  Art Hansen's career focus is on forced migration and resettlement. He served on the faculty of the University of Florida and Clark Atlanta University. In the…
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  Peter Little, October 23, 2003

  Little worked in development anthropology in Africa. The interview was done while he was on the faculty of the University of Kentucky.
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  Carol Bryant, October 24, 2003

  Bryant made a significant contribution to the practice of anthropology through the adaptation of social marketing techniques to health and nutrition issues. …
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  Ruth Landman, March 13, 1982

  Landman, based in an academic department, was involved to a great extent in applied anthropology. As a child she fled Nazi persecution on one of the kinder…
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  Murray L. Wax, March 14, 1982

  Wax served as the Society?s president, 1975-1976. He died in 2012 after a long career at Washington University (St. Louis). This interview was done for the…
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  Margaret Clark, December 6,…

  Clark, known for her work with Mexican-Americans and gerontology, was the 1992 Bronislaw Malinowski awardee. This interview that was done for the Society in…
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  Marion Pearsall, March 14,…

  Pearsall served the Society in various ways, but is perhaps best known as an editor of the Society?s journal, Human Organization. This interview was done for…
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  Philleo Nash, March 13, 1982

  Nash was the 1971-1972 president Society and the 1882 Bronislaw Malinowski awardee. He also served as both the Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin and the…
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  George Foster, March 12, 1982

  Foster was a pioneer applied medical anthropologist. This interview was done for the Society in 1982. It was not obtained for the SFAA collection until 2004.
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  Walter Goldschmidt, March 13,…

  Goldschmidt was an important agricultural anthropologist. This interview was done for the Society in 1982. It was not obtained for the SFAA collection until…
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  P. C. Joshi, February 27, 2003

  Joshi has taken various leadership roles in medical anthropology in India. He is a faculty member in anthropology at the University of Delhi.
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  Katherine Spencer Halpern,…

  Spencer Halpern worked as an applied anthropologist in a number of Native American communities. She held an academic position at American University in…
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  Katherine Spencer Halpern,…

  Spencer Halpern worked as an applied anthropologist in a number of Native American communities. She held an academic position at American University in…
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  John Van Willigen, December…

  Van Willigen began his career in applied anthropology as the Director of Community Development for the Papago Tribe of Arizona (now the Tohono O?odham Nation).…
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  John Van Willigen, October 19,…

  Van Willigen began his career in applied anthropology as the Director of Community Development for the Papago Tribe of Arizona (now the Tohono O?odham Nation).…
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  Carol Bryant, February 14,…

  Bryant made a significant contribution to the practice of anthropology through the adaptation of social marketing techniques to health and nutrition issues. …
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  Phil Stafford, February 11,…

  Stafford?s anthropological practice is focused on building communities of older people. His primary work is in Bloomington, Indiana.
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  Douglas Feldman, April 9,…

  Feldman did early work with the HIV-AIDS epidemic in both the United States and Africa. He is on the faculty of the College at Brockport of the State University…
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  Stephen L. Schensul, March 30,…

  Schensul contributed to the development of anthropological practice through community advocacy. This was done in the United States and India. He is on the…
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  David Fetterman, September 6,…

  Fetterman made important contributions to the use of ethnographic research practices and community action practices in evaluation studies. He is on the faculty…
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  Pam Puntenney, Art Campa,…

  A group of key members of the High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology are interviewed about their organization, which was founded in 1981 in Boulder,…
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  Donald D. Stull, November 4,…

  Stull, an anthropologist from the University of Kansas, served the Society as president 2005-2007. He was the 2009 recipient of the Sol Tax Award for…
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  Amy Gautam, May 2, 2005

  Gautam was employed as a social scientist by the National Marine Fisheries Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency. In this interview, Gautam…
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  James Acheson, February 13,…

  Known for community based management of common property, Acheson was an early anthropologist in the National Marine Fisheries Service. He is now on the faculty…
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  Peter Fricke, April 27, 2005

  Fricke was an early fisheries social scientist/anthropologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association and the National Marine Fisheries Service. In…
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  Ward Goodenough, May 14, 1996

  Goodenough was president of the Society for the 1963-1964 term and received the Bronislaw Malinowski award in 1997.
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  Ward Goodenough, May 28, 1996

  Goodenough was president of the Society for the 1963-1964 term and received the Bronislaw Malinowski award in 1997.
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  Ward Goodenough, June 11, 1996

  Goodenough was president of the Society for the 1963-1964 term and received the Bronislaw Malinowski award in 1997.
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  Ward Goodenough, May 20, 2005

  Goodenough was president of the Society for the 1963-1964 term and received the Bronislaw Malinowski award in 1997.
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  Gretchen Schafft, August 26,…

  Gretchen E. Schafft, an anthropologist based in the Washington, D.C. area, is interviewed by Willis Sibley about her career in anthropology and her involvement…
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  Robert Wulff, October 28, 2006

  Wulff was an early member of the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists.
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  Marietta Baba, May 23, 2007

  Marietta Baba is an anthropologist whose extensive work in revitalizing business anthropology in the 1980s has earned her the nickname "mother of business…
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  David Brokensha, March 18,…

  Brokensha served in British colonial administration early in his career. Prior to his retirement he was on the faculty of University of California-Santa…
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  Stanley E. Hyland, March 30,…

  Hyland made contributions to community development in the Mississippi Delta and urban Memphis.
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  Charles Williams, May 22, 2008

  Williams was, until his retirement, a faculty member at the University of Memphis. His research work focused on alcohol abuse.
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  Orlando Fals Borda, March 28,…

  Fals Borda, an important Colombian sociologist and a primary innovator of participatory action research, received the Bronislaw Malinowski award in 2008. He…
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  Kerry D. Feldman, February 12,…

  Feldman, now retired, was a faculty member at the University of Alaska-Anchorage. He is an advocate for applied anthropology through training students, …
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  Tim Bolding, December 20, 2007

  Bolding is a practitioner in Memphis, Tennessee employed as director of a not-for-profit affordable housing organization.
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  Merrill Singer, March 29, 2007

  Singer is a practitioner working primarily in Hartford, Connecticut. He is important in the development of critical medical anthropology.
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  William Kelso, July 29, 2008

  Kelso is an historical archaeologist specializing in the American colonial period and is best known for his work at colonial Jamestown. For this work Kelso, an…
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  Bill Roberts, July 31, 2008

  Roberts, now on the faculty of St. Mary?s College, has done research in The Gambia and teaches in the realm of cross-cultural education and exchange.
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  Madeleine Hall-Arber, August…

  Madeleine Hall-Arber is employed at the Sea Grant Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In this interview, she relates how she came to the field…
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  John P. Mason, April 21, 2008

  Mason?s practice has been in the context of international development, working with consulting firms on U.S. Agency for International Development projects.
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  John P. Mason, May 5, 2008

  Mason?s practice has been in the context of international development, working with consulting firms on U.S. Agency for International Development projects.
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  John P. Mason, September 19,…

  Mason?s practice has been in the context of international development, working with consulting firms on U.S. Agency for International Development projects.
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  Lucy Cohen, March 19, 2009

  Cohen is an applied medical anthropologist. Much of her applied work involves efforts to improve access to medical care for the Hispanic population in…
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  Emilia Gonzalez-Clements,…

  Gonzalez-Clements directs an Non-governmental community development organization headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
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  William Stein, August 18, 2009

  Stein, recently deceased, had a long career as an Andeanist. He did considerable analysis and writing concerning the Cornell Peru Project (Vicos).
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  Salomon Nahmad, July 3, 2010

  Nahmad, a Mexican applied anthropologist, was the recipient of the 2011 Bronislaw Malinowski Award. The two interviews were done in Spanish. The interviewer,…
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  Salomon Nahmad, July 11, 2010

  Nahmad, a Mexican applied anthropologist, was the recipient of the 2011 Bronislaw Malinowski Award. The two interviews were done in Spanish. The interviewer,…
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  Felix Moos, July 15, 2002

  Moos served as a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. He is now retired.
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  Jean Wiese, November 14, 2003

  A medical anthropologist, Wiese is on the faculty of behavioral science at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.
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  Cara E. Richards, November 13,…

  Richards served on the faculty of anthropology at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.
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  Nettie Adams, William Y.…

  Nettie Adams is best known for her studies of archaic textiles from archaeological sites of the Nile River Valley. She was closely associated with the…
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  William Y. Adams, December 5,…

  Now retired from the University of Kentucky, Adams' early career focused what was called, at the time, "salvage archaeology" relating to dam construction in the…
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  Michael English, November 15,…

  English was an early student in the M.A. program in applied anthropology at the University of South Florida. His training and subsequent career was focused on…
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  Jini Hanjian, November 2,…

  Hanjian was an early student in the M.A. program in applied anthropology at the University of South Florida. Her work there resulted in an evaluation of…
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  Marion Almy, Joan Deming,…

  Both participants in this joint interview were early students in the M.A. program at the University of South Florida. Both Almy and Deming specialized in…
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  Susan D. Greenbaum, October…

  Greenbaum was a faculty member in anthropology at the University of South Florida where she served as department chair and director of graduate studies. Her…
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  J. Jerome Smith, November 28,…

  Smith, an anthropological linguist, was one of the founding faculty of the applied anthropology M.A. program at the University of South Florida.
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  Alvin W. Wolfe, November 8,…

  Wolfe served as president of the Society for Applied Anthropology and was a faculty member at the University of South Florida. He played a major role in the…
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  Gilbert Kushner, November 5,…

  Kushner, a cultural anthropologist, was the founding chair of both the M.A. and Ph.D. programs at the University of South Florida. He received the Society's Sol…
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  Cheryl Rodriquez, November 9,…

  Rodriguez serves as the director the Institute on Black Life at the University of South Florida. She also is on the anthropology faculty and was a Ph.D.…
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  Noel Chrisman, January 4,…

  Chrisman, on the nursing faculty of the University of Washington, was the Society for Applied Anthropology's president in 2002 and 2003. In this interview, he…
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  Rosemarie Lamm, November 8,…

  Lamm is a Ph.D. graduate of the department and is an instructor at University of South Florida-Lakeland.
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  Erve Chambers, November 1,…

  Chambers was president of the Society for Applied Anthropology and the founding editor of the journal "Practicing Anthropology." Until retirement, he was on the…
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  Mary Elmendorf, April 14, 2002

  Elmendorf, now retired, was an applied anthropologist with various international agencies.
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  Paul Doughty, March 8, 2002

  Doughty was the Society's Bronislaw Malinowski Award winner. He was a faculty member at the University of Florida and an important contributor to the Vicos…
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  Robert Rhoades, March 7, 2002

  Rhoades worked as an agricultural anthropologist. The interview is focused on his role in the development of the "farmer back to farmer" approach for…
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  John W. Bennett, July 18, 2002

  John W. Bennett made important contributions to the development of agricultural and ecological anthropology. He served as president of the Society,…
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  Virginia (Carter) Smith, May …

  Carter was the director of the Kentucky Humanities Council from 1989 to 2013.
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  Ted Downing, February 4, 2011

  Downing serves on the faculty of the University of Arizona and was president of the Society from 1985 to 1987. He has been elected to the Arizona state…
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  Linda Whiteford, March 31,…

  Barbara Rylko-Bauer interviews Linda Whiteford, an applied anthropologist who was president of the Society for Applied Anthropology from 2003-2005. Whiteford…
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  Nancie Gonzalez, April 15,…

  Gonzalez served as president of the Society, 1974-1975. Much of her applied work was in Central America.
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  Thomas Weaver, February 8,…

  Weaver served the Society in various roles, he was president 1976 - 1977. He was recipient of the Bronislaw Malinowski Award in 2009.
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  Robert Wulff, March 31, 2011

  Wulff was an early member of the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists. This interview is focused on the development of WAPA?s Praxis award.
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  Neil Tashima, Cathleen Crain,…

  They are the principals of LTG Associates, an anthropological consulting firm based in Washington, D. C. and Turlock, CA.
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  Anthony Oliver-Smith, February…

  Oliver-Smith was the 2013 Bronislaw Malinowski Awardee. His practice is focused on the anthropology of disasters. Now retired, he was a faculty member at the…
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  Linda A. Bennett, July 19,…

  On the faculty of the University of Memphis, Bennett served as President of the Society, 1999-2001.
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  J. Anthony Paredes, January…

  Paredes served the Society for Applied Anthropology as President from 1993-1995. Much of his career was with the National Park Service. In this interview,…
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  Fred L. W. Richardson, August…

  Richardson was one of the founders of the Society and served as its first treasurer in the early 40s and as president in 1951-1952. He is regarded as a pioneer…
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  Charles P. Loomis, December …

  Loomis was one of the Founders of the Society and served as its president, 1948-1949. He was a rural sociologist.
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  Linda A. Bennett, November 18,…

  Linda A. Bennett, an applied anthropologist and faculty member at the University of Memphis, talks about her career in anthropology. She discusses her…
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  Richard N. Adams, July 29,…

  Adams was president of the Society for Applied Anthropology from 1962-1963. He served on the faculty of the University of Texas until his retirement to…
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  Susan Abbott-Jamieson, March…

  Now retired, Susan Abbott Jamieson's applied practice was with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). Prior to this she was on the faculty of the…
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  Ronald Maldonado, October 25,…

  This is one of a series of interviews focused on the applications of archaeology in the Southwest. These were organized for the collection by George Gumerman IV…
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  Elizabeth Morris, March 14,…

  This is one of a series of interviews focused on the applications of archaeology in the Southwest. These were organized for the collection by George Gumerman IV…
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  Margaret Lyneis, March 30,…

  This is one of a series of interviews focused on the applications of archaeology in the Southwest. These were organized for the collection by George Gumerman IV…
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  Jeff Dean, April 17, 2009

  This is one of a series of interviews focused on the applications of archaeology in the Southwest. These were organized for the collection by George Gumerman IV…
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  David Stephen, March 28, 2009

  This is one of a series of interviews focused on the applications of archaeology in the Southwest. These were organized for the collection by George Gumerman IV…
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  Suzanne Fish, March 27, 2009

  This is one of a series of interviews focused on the applications of archaeology in the Southwest. These were organized for the collection by George Gumerman IV…
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  George Gumerman,

  This is one of a series of interviews focused on the applications of archaeology in the Southwest. These were organized for the collection by George Gumerman IV…
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  Art Gallaher, Jr., October 15,…

  Gallaher served the Society in a number of roles, including as president, 1977-1978. He was the first recipient of the Sol Tax Distinguished Service Award of…
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  Art Gallaher, Jr., October 29,…

  Gallaher served the Society in a number of roles, including as president, 1977-1978. He was the first recipient of the Sol Tax Distinguished Service award of…
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  Art Gallaher, Jr., November …

  Gallaher served the Society in a number of roles, including as president, 1977-1978. He was the first recipient of the Sol Tax Distinguished Service award of…
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  Philleo Nash,

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  Ruth Landman, [n.d.]

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  Cara E. Richards, April 12,…

  Dr. Cara Richards discusses the nature of research and development anthropology as it was developed and implemented in the Vicos Project. Dr. Richards was…
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  Carole E. Hill, March 13, 2014

  Hill begins the interview by discussing her childhood and developing an interest in anthropology while in high school. Hill shares her experiences in education,…
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  Carole E. Hill, March 14, 2014

  Susan Abbott-Jamieson conducts an interview with anthropologist Carole E. Hill, focused on her career at various universities and her research conducted…
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  Carole E. Hill, March 15, 2014

  Carole E. Hill discusses her involvement with various anthropological groups and societies throughout her career. She talks about her experience as the…
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  Art Gallaher, Jr., November…

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  Thomas Garrity, January 8,…

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  Alvin W. Wolfe, November 9,…

  Wolfe details his introduction to anthropology through his experience in World War II, joining the military and needing to learn the Japanese language and…
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  Brad Trainor, May 22, 2015

  Trainor talks about how his interest in foreign cultures led him to teach English in China for several years. Trainor discusses returning to the United States…
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  Mike Orbach, July 10, 2015

  Orbach gives a brief personal history and discusses how he came to enter the study of anthropology, noting the fledgling status of the social sciences…
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  Stanley E. Hyland, November…

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  Barbara Rose Johnston,…

  For this interview, Johnston discusses her academic journey and the most important research she has conducted over the years. She talks about her undergraduate,…
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  Ann P. McElroy, January 5,…

  Ann McElroy, a medical anthropologist and published textbook author, discusses her family history, her anthropological education, and her accomplishments within…
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  Jean J. "Jay" Schensul,…

  Jean Schensul talks about her life and career as an anthropologist. She talks about growing up in a Jewish community and how it played a role in her interest…
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  Barbara Rose Johnston, April…

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  Sara Quandt, June 27, 2016

  Quandt talks about her life and career as an anthropologist. She starts about by explaining how her childhood and especially her father played a formative role…
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  Thomas Arcury, June 27, 2016

  Arcury talks about his childhood and his family.
  Arcury notes his decision to choose Duquesne University over the University of Scranton. He describes…
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  Pertti "Bert" Pelto, April 1,…

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  Pertti "Bert" Pelto, July 27,…

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  Pertti "Bert" Pelto, August 1,…

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  Pertti "Bert" Pelto, August 6,…

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  Paul E. Farmer, April 2, 2016

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  Sue Ellen Jacobs, January 11,…

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  William Dressler, October 5,…

  Dressler talks about his life and career as an anthropologist starting with his childhood in a small town. Dressler explains the many twists and turns he took…
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  Julia Gluesing, July 17, 2017

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  Erve Chambers, August 1, 2017

  This interview focuses on the professional experience of anthropologist Erve Chambers, founding editor of the SfAA journal "Practicing Anthropology." Van…
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  Ann T. Jordan

  Jordan developed largest business anthropology program.
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  Courtland L. Smith, March 3,…

  Smith is a water resources anthropologist.
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  Riall W. Nolan, March 23, 2017

  Nolan is a prominent development anthropologist.
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  Elizabeth K. Briody, March 23,…

  Direct hire as anthropologist at General Motors.
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  Jean J. "Jay" Schensul,…

  Co-authors of widely used methods text
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  John A. Young, March 29, 2017

  Donald Stull, former president of SfAA, interviews another former president of SfAA, John A. Young. In the interview, Stull and Young discuss Young's shift of…
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  Robert J. Morais, August 21,…

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  Timothy de Waal Malefyt,…

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  Harlan Padfield, Larry Kelly,…

  This is a recording of the Society for Applied Anthropology's (SFAA) annual meeting of 1986. It was conducted in the MGM Grand Hotel's Century Room in Reno,…
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  J. Thomas "Tom" May, September…

  In this interview, J. Thomas "Tom" May discusses his childhood and educational experience. He talks about how he became a research assistant to Peter Kong-ming…
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  Interveiw with J. Thomas "Tom" May, September…

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  Doraine F. C. Bailey, January…

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  Robert B. Tincher, January 26,…

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  Christine Miller, May 7, 2018

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  Rita Denny, May 7, 2018

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  Lambros Comitas, June 28, 2018

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  Susan Andreatta, March 22,…

  Susan Andreatta is an applied anthropologist interested in agriculture and community outreach. Andreatta is a past president of the Society for Applied…
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  James P. "Jim" Stansbury,…

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  William F. Schweri, II,…

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  Barbara J. Little, January 11,…

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  Paul A. Shackel, January 11,…

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  Antonella Fabri, February 29,…

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  Barbara Olsen, February 29,…

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  Maryann McCabe, February 29,…

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  Patricia Sunderland, March 10,…

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  Gwynn Henderson, February 10,…

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  Ralph D. Grillo, June 2, 2018

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  Gretchen Schafft, August 27,…

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  Patricia K. Townsend, Ann P.…

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  Alexander “Sandy” Ervin, June…