Anthropological Niche

Douglas William Hume, Ph.D.

Northern Kentucky University
Department of Sociology/Anthropology/Philosophy
228 Landrum Academic Center
Highland Heights, KY 41099

Phone: (859) 572-5702
FAX: (859) 572-6086

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Education

• Ph.D. University of Connecticut, Anthropology. Dissertation: Agriculture in Madagascar: Conservation and Cultural Meanings of Rice. Committee: James Boster (Chair), Roy D'Andrade, Robert Dewar and Richard Sosis. 2005.
• M.A. California State University, Fullerton, Anthropology. Thesis: Towards a Synthesis of Ethnoscience and Symbolic Anthropology: An Ethnography of Surgical Culture. Committee: Susan Parman (Chair), Jacob Pandian and Lorie Sheeran. 1999.
• B.A. California State University, Fullerton, Anthropology. 1994.
• A.A. Orange Coast College, General Education. 1992.

Research Interests

• Cultural anthropology; applied anthropology; ethnoecology; analysis of inter- and intracultural variation; cultural models; ritual; conservation; agriculture; linguistics; Internet culture; Belize; Madagascar; North America.

Teaching Positions

• 2007-date Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Northern Kentucky University.
• 2007 Lecturer, Southern Connecticut State University.
• 2006 Lecturer, Quinebaug Valley Community College.
• 2006-2007 Lecturer, University of Connecticut.

Graduate Assistant/Teaching Positions at the University of Connecticut

• 2001-2005 Instructor (Graduate Assistant).
• 2001 Graduate Assistant - Integration of Audio/Video for Teaching Anthropology.
• 2000-2003 Anthropology Computer Lab Technician/Webmaster.
• 1999-2001 Teaching Assistant (Graduate Assistant).

Research Experience

• 2008-date Transmission of Ecological Knowledge in Rural and Urban Kentucky.
• 2007-date Student Identification of "Racial Types", Kentucky.
• 2004 Dissertation Research, Madagascar.
• 2004 Risk Taking and Environmental Beliefs, Connecticut.
• 2003-2007 Student Identification of "Racial Types", Connecticut.
• 2003 Age and Environmental Beliefs, Connecticut and Internet.
• 2003 Dissertation Research, Madagascar.
• 2002 Cultural Models of the Environment, Connecticut and Internet.
• 2001 Pre-Dissertation Research, Madagascar.
• 1999-2000 The Internet and Birders, Internet.
• 1998-1999 Master's Thesis Research, Hospital Operating Room, California.
• 1995-1997 Assistant Archæology Laboratory Director, California.
• 1994-1997 Assistant Archæology Field Director, California.
• 1994 Groundstone/Inversion Analysis, California.
• 1993-1994 Hospital Operating Room Ethnography, California.
• 1993 Projectile Point Analysis, California.

Applied Anthropology Projects

• 2009-date Invasive Plant Education, Boone, Campbell and Kenton Counties, Kentucky.
• 2009-date Disaster Recovery, San Joaquin Valley, California.
• 2009-date Big Bone Lick State Park Ecotourism Project, Union, Kentucky.
• 2008-date Hawthorne Crossing Conservation Area Project, Alexandria, Kentucky.

Publications

• Articles in Refereed Journals
  • In Press Vary Gasy: Meanings of Rice and Implications for Agricultural Development in Eastern Madagascar. Plantes et sociétés dans l’océan Indien occidental [Plants and People in the Western Indian Ocean]. Etudes Océan Indien 42/43.
  • 2009 Belief Systems and Stakeholders in Madagascar's Swidden Farming. Current Conservation 2(4):14.
  • 2006 Swidden Agriculture and Conservation in Eastern Madagascar: Stakeholder Perspectives and Cultural Belief Systems. Conservation and Society 4(2):287-303.
• Articles in Non-Refereed Journals
  • 2006 Tanim-Bary Rituals Among the Betsimisaraka in Andasibe. Taloha 16-17.
  • 2006 Rituels des Tanim-bary Chez Les Bestsimisaraka D'Andasibe. Translated by L. Modeste Rakotondrasoa. Taloha 16-17.
• Articles or Chapters in Books
  • 2008 Madagascar. In Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change. George Philander, ed. Pp. 611-2. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
  • 2008 Geographic Overviews, Africa (East): Madagascar and Surrounding Islands. In Encyclopedia of Archaeology. Deborah M. Pearsall, ed. Pp. 17-19. Elsevier.
  • 2007 Mode of Production. In Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, Volume 3. Paul Robbins, ed. Pp. 1154-5. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
  • 2007 Game Theory. In Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, Volume 2. Paul Robbins, ed. Pp. 721-2. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
  • 2007 Prisoner’s Dilemma. In Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, Volume 4. Paul Robbins, ed. Pp. 1427-9. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
• Brief Communications
  • 2008 Political Ecology Society (PESO) Panel on Plants and People in Madagascar. Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter 19(3):57-58.
  • 2007 with Sharlotte Neely. Public and Applied Anthropology at Northern Kentucky University. Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter 18(4):34-37.
• Dissertation/Thesis
  • 2005 Agriculture in Madagascar: Conservation and Cultural Meanings of Rice. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut.
  • 1999 Towards a Synthesis of Ethnoscience and Symbolic Anthropology: An Ethnography of Surgical Culture. M.A. thesis, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Fullerton.
• Reports/Student Journals/Museum Brochures
  • 1995 Um Hapi Qaa'öniwti (You Really Have Become Corn): The Hopi Concept of Self. Anthropological Perspectives 3:15-20.
  • 1994 Projectile Points. In Glimpses of Prehistoric America. Constance Cameron, ed. Pp. 18-9. Fullerton: Museum of Anthropology, California State University, Fullerton.
  • 1994 Picking a Case: An Ethnography of a Surgical Nurse. Anthropological Perspectives 2:42-46.
  • 1994 Inversion Method: Groundstone Analysis of CA-ORA-35, The Los Piños Site. California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention.
  • 1993 Beringia: Controversies Arise. in Anthropological Perspectives 1:35-51.
  • 1993 Projectile Point Analysis: CA-ORA-35, The Los Piños Site. California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention.
• Works in Progress
  • ---- Malagasy Swidden Agriculture: The Influence of Conservation Organizations on Indigenous Knowledge (previously submitted to American Anthropologist, now revising for submission to Human Organization).
  • ---- Medicinal Plants as Conservation Capital in Andasibe, Madagascar (poster presented at the American Anthropological Association meetings, now being written for either the Journal of Ethnobotany or Ethos).

Papers and Posters Presented

• Submitted Teaching Applied Anthropology Through Service-Learning: Successes and Failures of Three Community Projects. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Mérida, México, March 24-27, 2010.
• Accepted Cultural Models of Farming, Rice and Nature: Guiding Policy using Cognitive Anthropology in Eastern Madagascar and Northern Kentucky. in Making Cognitive Approaches in Environmental Anthropology Count: Bridging Findings to Policy. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 5, 2009.
• Submitted Cultural Models of Nature and Conservation in Northern Kentucky. Kentucky Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Highland Heights, Kentucky, November 13-14 2009.
• Accepted Oral History and Conservation Attitudes at Hawthorne Crossing, Kentucky. With Lindsey Barley, Timothy Carpenter, and Laura Burford. Anthropologists and Sociologists of Kentucky Annual Meeting in Murray, Kentucky.  November 7, 2009.
• 2009 Plant Discourses: Cultural Implications of Plants on Development in Madagascar. Chair and Organizer. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 20, 2009.
• 2009 Vary Gasy: Meanings of Rice and Implications for Agricultural Development in Eastern Madagascar. in Plant Discourses: Cultural Implications of Plants on Development in Madagascar. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 20, 2009.
• 2009 Cultural Consensus and the Transmission of Knowledge. in Scientific Methods in Cognitive Anthropology Research. Society for Anthropological Sciences Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, February 20, 2009.
• 2008 "My father said it was so": The Transmission of Ecological Knowledge in Rural and Urban Kentucky. Poster Session Chair. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, November 21, 2008.
• 2008 Farmer’s Categories of "Wet" and "Dry": Implications for Agricultural Development in Madagascar. Meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Memphis, Tennessee, March 28.
• 2007 Medicinal Plants as Conservation Capital in Andasibe, Madagascar. Poster. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., November 29.
• 2007 Malagasy Healers as Conservationists. Session Chair. Anthropologists and Sociologists of Kentucky Annual Meeting at Northern Kentucky University, September 22.
• 2007 Rice Preferences in Madagascar: Obstacles in the Sustainable Development of Agriculture. Meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Tampa, Florida, March 30.
• 2006 Obstacles in the Agricultural Development of Eastern Madagascar: Variation in Cultural Models of Rice Types by Scientists, Consumers and Farmers. Poster Session Chair. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in San Jose, California, November 18.
• 2006 Agriculture in Madagascar: Comparison of the Rituals of Swidden and Irrigated Farming. Meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Vancouver, British Columbia, April 1.
• 2005 Swidden and Irrigated Farming Rituals in Andasibe, Madagascar. Poster. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., December 2.
• 2005 Malagasy Swidden Agriculture: The Influence of Conservation Organizations on Indigenous Knowledge. Poster. Meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 9.
• 2004 Swidden Agriculture: The Influence of Conservation Organizations on Indigenous Knowledge. Roy Rappaport Panel. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, November 17-21 (Atlanta, December 18).
• 2004 Agricultural Change in Eastern Madagascar. Session Chair. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas, April 3.
• 2003 Swidden Farming in Madagascar: Cultural Models versus Actual Behavior. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, November 20.
• 2002 Discounting, Human Effects and Place: Relationships Between Cultural Models of the Environment. Poster Session Chair. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, November 22.
• 2002 Conservation and Cultural Models in Madagascar. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, March 9.
• 2001 Community as 'Place': The Tragedy of the Commons, Cooperation and Community-Based Conservation in Madagascar. Part of organized panel, Ecology, Culture and the Transformation of Values: Place-based Analyses and Globalization, to the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., November 28.
• 2000 Birder Identity and Environmental Conservation: Is Knowledge Enough? American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, November 19.
• 1998 North American Culture Areas: Uses and Limitations of Population Patterning. Poster. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 5.
• 1996 Projectile Points and Groundstone Artifacts from CA-ORA-35: A Preliminary Analysis. Southern California Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting at Loyola Marymount University, California, May 4.
• 1996 Investigations at the Nichols Institute Site (CA-ORA-840a): An Early Occupation at the "Milling Stone Culture". with L. Joesink-Mandeville and C. Cameron. Southern California Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting at Loyola Marymount University, California, May 4.
• 1995 Using the Inversion Method in a California Archæological Site. Poster Session Chair. Archæological Institute of America Annual Meeting at San Diego, California, December 27.
• 1995 Environmental Archæology: The Use of Biology, Geology, and Geography in Archæological Interpretation. Southern California Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting at California State University, Fullerton, California, May 6.
• 1995 The Inversion Method: Understanding Vertical Distribution Within Archæological Sites. Southwestern Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California, April 8.
• 1995 Environmental Archæology: The Use of Biology, Geology, and Geography in Archæological Interpretation. Sacramento Anthropological Society Symposium "Anthropology at Work: Show and Tell in the Four Fields." Sacramento, California, March 18.

Consulting Presentations

• 2009 Human Communities. Proctor and Gamble, Clay Street Project. Cincinnati, Ohio, February 10.

Grants and Fellowships

• 2009 University-community Partnership Mini-Grant, University of Northern Kentucky.
• 2008 Faculty Summer Fellowship, University of Northern Kentucky.
• 2004 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Connecticut.
• 2004 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation (BCS-0349981, James Boster PI).
• 2004 Extraordinary Expense Award, Graduate School, University of Connecticut.
• 2002 Travel Grant, University of Connecticut, Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
• 2001 Summer Research Grant, University of Connecticut Anthropology Department, Preliminary Dissertation Research, Madagascar.
• 2001 Summer Research Fellowship, University of Connecticut Anthropology Department, Preliminary Dissertation Research, Madagascar.
• 2000 Travel Grant, University of Connecticut, American Anthropological Association Meeting, San Francisco, California.
• 2000 Summer Research Grant, University of Connecticut Anthropology Department, Intensive French Language Course, Paris, France.
• 1994 Departmental Associations Council, CSU Fullerton, publication grant for program of 1st Annual Anthropology Student Symposium, Anthropological Perspectives, Volume 3, and 1st Annual Anthropology Students Symposium.

Honors and Awards

• 2009 Master Advisor, Northern Kentucky University.
• 2004 Sixth Annual Rappaport Panel, Anthropology and Environment Section, American Anthropological Association.
• 2002 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Connecticut.
• 1999 Professional Achievement Award, Anthropology Department, CSU Fullerton.
• 1995 Special Project Award, Anthropology Department, CSU, Fullerton.
• 1995 Organizational Excellence Award, Anthropology Department, CSU, Fullerton.
• 1994 Lambda Alpha, Eta Chapter, Honors, Anthropology Department, CSU, Fullerton.
• 1994 Distinguished Service Award, Anthropology Department, CSU, Fullerton.
• 1994 Organizational Excellence Award, Anthropology Department, CSU, Fullerton.

Professional Memberships

• 2007-date Anthropologists and Sociologists of Kentucky.
• 2007-date Kentucky Academy of Science.
• 2000-date Society for Applied Anthropology (Fellow).
• 1993-date American Anthropological Association (Anthropological Sciences/Society for Anthropological Sciences, Environmental Anthropology Section, Evolutionary Anthropology Section, and National Association for the Practice of Anthropology).

Professional Activities

• 2009 Manuscript Review, Madagascar Conservation & Development.
• 2009 Book Review, Culture Counts: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology.
• 2009 Book Review, This Book is Not Required: An Emotional Survival Manual for Students, Third Edition.
• 2008 Manuscript Review, Human Organization.
• 2002 Manuscript Review, Journal of Ecological Anthropology.
• 1994-1995 Editor, Anthropological Perspectives, CSU, Fullerton.
• 1993-1994 Associate Editor, Anthropological Perspectives, CSU, Fullerton.

Professional Training

• Short Course on Behavior Measurement in Naturalistic Settings. Instructors: Raymond Hames and Michael Paolisso. Supported by the National Science Foundation. Duke Marine Labs, Beaufort, North Carolina, July 13–17, 2009.
• Short Course on Social Network Analysis. Instructors: Jeffrey C. Johnson and Christopher McCarty. Supported by the National Science Foundation. Duke Marine Labs, Beaufort, North Carolina, July 20–24, 2009.
  

Service Activities

• Anthropology Program
  • 2008-date Anthropology Freshmen and Sophomore Student Advisor, NKU.
  • 2008-date Black & Gold Day/Northern Exposure Anthropology Representative, NKU.
  • 2008-date Anthropology Listserv Manager, NKU.
  • 2007-date Web Manager, Anthropology Program, NKU.
  • 2007-date Anthropology Major, Computer Competency Examiner, NKU.
  • 2007-date Applied Anthropology Information and Job Board Maintainer, NKU.
• Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy Department
  • 2007-date Web Manager, Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy Department, NKU.
  • 2007-2008 College Champions (NKU Web Site Redesign Committee) Member, NKU.
• College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • 2008-date Arts and Sciences Web Rebuild Committee Member, NKU.
• Northern Kentucky University
  • 2009-date Institutional Review Board Member, NKU.
  • 2009 Quality Enhancement Program Learning Community, NKU.
  • 2007-2008 Sustainability Committee Member, NKU.
• Discipline of Anthropology
  • 2008-date Listserv Manager, Anthropologists and Sociologists of Kentucky.
  • 2007-date Web Manager, Anthropologists and Sociologists of Kentucky.
• Public/Community
  • 2008-date Applied Environmental Anthropology Research Group, NKU.