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Contact Information

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

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

NKU Email Address
GMail Email Address

Courses in Progress:

• Anthropology 100 - Cultural Anthropology Fall 2007 - This course introduces students to cultural anthropology; a sub-field of the academic discipline of anthropology that takes as its subject the study of human beliefs and behavior, in all societies, worldwide. Students learn about anthropological fieldwork methods and the theory used to interpret them by reading ethnographies and scholarly research papers. Coverage of this class includes, but is not limited to, the following: 1) the history of cultural anthropology, 2) the concept of culture; 3) the impact of language on culture and thought; 4) economic, social, political and kinship systems; and 5) the cultural constructions of identity, race, gender, religion and art. This course concludes by examining how colonialism and globalization has affected indigenous peoples in the past and what the future may hold for cultural diversity.
  • Developed Blackboard course site, which includes syllabus, reading, multimedia and grading material.
• Language and Culture (Anthropology 275) Fall 2007 - This course introduces students to linguistic anthropology; a sub-field of the academic discipline of anthropology that takes as its subject the study of human beliefs and behavior, in all societies, worldwide. Students learn linguistic anthropological methods and theory by reading ethnographies and scholarly research papers. Coverage of this class includes, but is not limited to, the following: 1) communication and speech, 2) language origin, evolution and variation; 3) comparative and historical linguists; 4) language structure (phonetics, phonology, syntax and grammar); 5) sociolinguistics and language politics; and 6) language and cognition.
  • Developed Blackboard course site, which includes syllabus, reading, multimedia and grading material. Led the students in independent ethnographic research.

Courses in Development:

• Anthropology 273 - Race, Gender, and Culture
• Anthropology 317 - Ecological Anthropology
• Anthropology 325 - Applied Anthropology
• Anthropology 342 - Quantitative Methods in Anthropology
• Anthropology 345 - Environmental Anthropology
• Anthropology 363 - Language and Thought

Teaching Workshops Attended:

• Friday Laptop Lounge (Blackboard), September 14, 2007.
• Friday Laptop Lounge (del.icio.us), September 21, 2007.
• Friday Laptop Lounge (Google Reader), September 28, 2007.
• Copyright for the Classroom (Part 1-Introduction to Fair Use), October 4, 2007.
• Copyright for the Classroom (Part 2-Advanced Teach Act), October 4, 2007.
• Friday Laptop Lounge (Zotero), October 5, 2007.
• Improve Your Web Site's Accessibility and Usability, October 9, 2007.
• Creating Classroom Community, October 11, 2007.
• Friday Laptop Lounge (Google Tools), October 12, 2007.
• Friday Laptop Lounge (Clickers in the Classroom), October 19, 2007.
• Social Interaction Software, October 23, 2007.
• Friday Laptop Lounge (Student Portfolio and Assessment Management), October 26, 2007.
• Podcast Your Lectures: iTunes U, October 30, 2007.
• Critically Reflexive Teaching, November 1, 2007.
• Friday Laptop Lounge (Blackboard), November 02, 2007.
• Digitize Your Videos, November 8, 2007.
• Friday Laptop Lounge (Blackboard Grading), November 09, 2007.
• Put Your Movies (and Music) Online, November 13, 2007.
• Friday Laptop Lounge (Blackboard and media), November 16, 2007.