- Director, Center for Applied Anthropology
- Director, Native American Studies Program
Contact Information
Research & Teaching Interests
Applied cultural (cognitive/environmental) anthropology; anthropological methods and theory; agriculture, conservation, and ritual; behavior and folk knowledge; technology and pedagogy; Belize, Internet, Madagascar, and the United States.
Current Research
My current research is focused upon community development in Belize and Kentucky through the lenses of applied cognitive and environmental anthropology using mixed research methods (qualitative and quantitative approaches). In directing the Center for Applied Anthropology (CfAA), I engage students in applying anthropology to real world problems to prepare them for careers and graduate school. In addition to local projects in Kentucky, my international research has now found a home in Northern Belize with sugar cane farming families, where I lead an ethnographic field school each summer. For more information about my research, please visit my web site.
Academic Degrees
- Ph.D. University of Connecticut
- M.A. California State University, Fullerton
- B.A. California State University, Fullerton
- A.A. Orange Coast College
Courses
- ANT 100 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
- ANT 201 World Cultures
- ANT 245 Peoples of Latin American and the Caribbean
- ANT 275 Language and Culture
- ANT 309 Peoples of Africa
- ANT 325 Applied Anthropology
- ANT 342 Quantitative Research in Anthropology
- ANT 345 Environmental Anthropology
- ANT 365/565 Belize Ethnographic Field School
- ANT 401 Anthropological Theory
Accolades
- Executive Board Member, Society for Anthropological Sciences, American Anthropological Association (2016-2020).
- Graduate Faculty Scholar, Northern Illinois University (2017-19).
- Outstanding Advisor Award, Northern Kentucky University (2011).
Selected Publications
- Neely, Sharlotte and Douglas W. Hume, eds. 2020. Native Nations: The Survival of Indigenous Peoples. 3rd ed. Vernon: JCharlton Publishing Ltd.
- Hume, Douglas W. 2020. “Transmission of Swidden Farming Ritual Knowledge among Households in Eastern Madagascar.” Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science 4 (1): 45–57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41809-019-00041-5.
- Murrell, Laura Bronte, and Douglas W. Hume. 2018. “A Comparison of Farmers’ Perceived Impacts on the Environment in Belize and Kentucky.” Contemporary Journal of Anthropology and Sociology 8 (1): 19-33.
- Hume, Douglas W. 2016. “Darkness in Academia: Cultural Models of How Anthropologists and Journalists Write About Controversy.” World Cultures eJournal 21 (1). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/75j9q56x.
- Zach, Stephanie, and Douglas W. Hume. 2014. “Changing Mortuary Rites: An Ethnohistory of 19th Century and Contemporary Religion in Northern Belize.” Contemporary Journal of Anthropology and Sociology 4 (2): 149-161.
- Hume, Douglas W. 2013. “Anthropology: Tribal Warfare.” Nature 494 (7437): 310. https://doi.org/10.1038/494310a.
- Hume, Douglas W. 2012. “Malagasy Swidden Agriculture: The Influence of Conservation Organizations on Indigenous Knowledge.” Kentucky Journal of Anthropology and Sociology 2 (1): 37-54.
- Hume, Douglas W. 2009. “Vary Gasy: Meanings of Rice and Implications for Agricultural Development in Eastern Madagascar.” Etudes Océan Indien, Plantes et Sociétés dans L’Océan Indien Occidental, 42/43: 243–56. https://doi.org/10.4000/oceanindien.812.
- Hume, Douglas W. 2006. “Swidden Agriculture and Conservation in Eastern Madagascar: Stakeholder Perspectives and Cultural Belief Systems.” Conservation and Society 4 (2): 287-303.
- Hume, Douglas W. 2006. “Tanim-Bary Rituals Among the Betsimisaraka in Andasibe.” Taloha: Revue Scientifique Internationale Des Civilisations 16-17.
- For additional publications, please see his Curriculum Vitae.
