Minette Church
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http://web.uccs.edu/mchurch/
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Dr. Church has been a part of the University of Colorado Community since 1997 and Assistant Professor since 2002.
Education
B.A. 1987 University of Colorado, Boulder
M.A. 1991 University of Pennsylvania
1992 University of Pennsylvania Museum Curatorship Program, Department of American Civilization
[Certified] 1992 University of Pennsylvania Museum Curatorship Program, Department of American Civilization
Ph.D. 2001 University of Pennsylvania
Topical Research Areas
Historical Anthropology, 19th century material culture, creolization and resistance, landscape archaeology and ethnicity, transnational and post-colonial identity formation, and museum studies
Regional Research Areas
Plains and southwestern Borderlands, Mexico and the Caribbean
Recent Research
Dr. Church is conducting research on 19th and early 20th century settlement along what was the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail, in southeastern Colorado. In the course of this research, she is collaborating with several agencies including the Forest Service, Park Service, and Department of Defense. With Richard M. Leventhal (School of American Research) and Jason Yaeger (U. of Wisconsin, Madison), she is co-director of the San Pedro Maya Project in Belize, Central America, studying the 19th and early 20th century material culture of Caste War era Maya.
Richard Leventhal (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)
Professional Associations
American Anthropological Association, Society for American Archaeology, Society for Historical Archaeology, American Society for Ethnohistory; Western History Association, Plains Anthropological Society, Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists, Colorado Archaeological Society
If you wish to reach Dr. Church, please contact her at mchurch@uccs.edu
Seyhan Dwelis
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If you wish to reach Seyhan Dwelis, please contact her at sdwelis@uccs.edu
Roche Lindsey
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If you wish to reach Roche Lindsey, please contact him at rochelindsey@msn.com
Kimbra Smith
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Dr. Smith has been a part of the University of Colorado community since 2006. She previously taught at Oberlin College and the University of Notre Dame, after holding a Fulbright-CIES Fellowship in Ecuador in 2001.
Education
A.B. Princeton University
M.A., Ph.D. University of Chicago
Interests
Dr. Smith is a cultural anthropologist with longstanding interests in both archaeology and applied anthropology. She has been conducting research in Ecuador and Peru since 1991, and ran applied projects with Mexican/Central American immigrant communities in the Midwest from 2003-2005.
Dr. Smith’s academic research looks at the complex processes of producing collective memory and developing strategies that enable communities to negotiate around and within oppressive political and economic systems. Her primary research interests include the anthropology of (local) knowledge and the production of authority; the interrelations of history, memory, representation, and power; and the ties connecting authority, responsibility, risk, and corruption. Her theoretical research to date has considered the politics of cultural production and political uses of archaeology in the Andes; the politics of value and the concept of authenticity; and the production of racialized geographies in Ecuador.
Dr. Smith’s ongoing applied projects include a community-based initiative to produce alternative pedagogical strategies for rural indigenous schools in Ecuador, several community-guided projects in sustainable ecotourism and development, and projects increasing access to and knowledge of labor rights for immigrant workers within the U.S. She has also organized an international conference that brought together researchers, artisans, and indigenous community members from northern Peru and southern Ecuador for the first time.
Courses:
ANTH 104 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 240 Survey of Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 397 History of Anthropological Theory
ANTH 498 Senior Seminar: Cultural Memory (with Dr. Church)
If you wish to reach Kimbra Smith, please contact her at ksmith5@uccs.edu
Forrest Tierson
Department Chair
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Associate Professor of Anthropology.
Dr. Tierson has been a part of the University of Colorado
Community since 1982.
Education
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., State University of New York, Albany.
Honors and Fellowships
Dr. Tierson was on the Dean's list throughout his Undergraduate career. He was awarded the State University of New York at Albany Presidential Award for distinguished doctoral dissertation. He was the recipient of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award in 1988
Interests
Primatology; Human Population Genetics/Genetic Structure of Populations; Population Growth and Structure/Demographic Applications/Computer Simulations; Maternal Nutrition during Pregnancy/Fetal Development/Influences of Environmental Factors on Pregnancy Outcome.
Professional Societies
American Association of Physical Anthropologists
If you wish to contact Dr. Tierson contact him at ftierson@uccs.edu
Linda Watts
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Associate Professor of Anthropology.
Dr. Watts has been a part of the University of Colorado Community since 1992. She has published The Social Semiotics of Relational Terminology at Zuni Pueblo (Mellen Press, 2000) and several articles and book reviews.
Education
B.A., State University of New York College at Buffalo, English;
M.A., State University of New York Center at Buffalo, Linguistics;
Ph.D., Arizona State University, Anthropology.
Honors and Fellowships
Dr. Watts has been the recipient of the U.C.C.S. Committee on Research and Creative Works Research Grant, the National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Basic Research Grant and a Museum of Northern Arizona Research Internship.
She has been involved with several ethnographic studies dealing with Zuni Pueblo Social Organization and Kinship Terminology, Native American Substance Dependency Research, and currently "Life Paths", a study of cultural schemas associated with managing life's transitions.
Interests
Life Course Studies; Native American Studies; Kinship and Social Organization; Native American Substance Abuse and Recovery Research; Cultural Models; Linguistics and Ethnographic Field Work.
If you wish to contact Dr. Watts you can contact her at lkwatts@uccs.edu
Thomas Wynn
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Professor of Anthropology.
http://web.uccs.edu/twynn
Education
A.B., Occidental College, Los Angeles;
A.M., Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana.
Interests
Evolution of Human Cognition; Palaeolithic Archaeology and Plains Prehistory.
Courses:
ANTH 103 - Introduction to Human Origins
ANTH 220 - Survey of Prehistory
ANTH 324 - Palaeolithic Archaeology
ANTH 326 - Agricultural Origins
ANTH 420 (temporary number) - Cognitive Evolution
ANTH 498 - Senior Seminar
If you wish to contact Dr Wynn please email him at twynn@uccs.edu
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