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Helen Safa, Ph.D.

Title : Professor Emerita Interests : Gender, labor, Caribbean and Latin America Programs : Cultural Anthropology Affiliated Department/Center : Center for Latin American Studies December 4th,  1930- November 4th, 2013 Personal Statement As her title implies, she specializes in Latin America, and more specifically the Caribbean, where she has worked for over 50 years. Her publications in this area include hundreds […]

Marianne Schmink, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology  Office: Phone:352-392-0375 Email: schmink@ufl.edu Grinter Hall, Room 301 Education Ph.D., University of Texas B.A., University of Michigan Research Interests Tropical conservation and development, gender and development Personal Statement She has authored (with Charles H. Wood) Contested Frontiers in Amazonia (Columbia University Press, 1992),in addition to four edited books, and dozens of […]

Anita Spring, Ph.D.

            Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology Fellow, National Explorers Club Affiliate Professor, Center for the Arts, Migration, & Entrepreneurship  Affiliate Faculty, Center for African Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, and Center for Women’s Studies & Gender Research UF Mailing Address: 1112 Turlington, PO Box 117305, Gainesville FL 32611-7305 Phone: (352) 376-4833 […]

John H. Moore, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus Interests : Kinship, Demography, Marxism, N. Amer Indians . Programs : Cultural Anthropology Personal Statement  He specializes in North American Indian ethnology, kinship, demography, and social evolution. He is particularly interested in the Great Plains, the Southeast, and the Canadian Sub-Arctic. Office Turlington Hall, Room B360 PO 117305 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611-7305 Lab Walker […]

Chuan-kang Shih, PhD

Associate Professor Office: Turlington Hall, Room B125 Phone: (352) 294-7587 Email: ckshih@ufl.edu Website Education Ph.D. M.A. B.A. Research Interests Personal Statement My research interests have evolved around ethnography, historical anthropology, and anthropological demography. I have conducted extensive fieldwork among the Moso, Pumi, Naxi, and Han in Southwest China. I have published in forms of books, […]