Mentor Record

Ann M. Kakaliouras

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Whittier College
13406 Philadelphia Street
Whittier, CA 90608
< akakalio@whittier.edu>
http://web.whittier.edu/academic/anthropology/Kakaliouras/


Degrees Earned:
Degree
Discipline
School
Date
Ph. D Anthropology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2003
BA Anthropology
w/ minors in art history and women’s studies
Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota 1993

Major Influences on Professional Life:

Professors Cynthia A. Cone, Barbara H. O’Connell, and Susan M.T. Myster at Hamline University

Professors Catherine Lutz and Judith Farquhar, both formerly of UNC-Chapel Hill

Professor Kim Q. Hall, Appalachian State University colleague

Subfields of Interest within Anthropology:

Biological anthropology, bioarchaeology, reburial and repatriation, classification in anthropological science, history of the race concept, cultural studies of physical anthropology, feminist pedagogy

Regions of specialization and Languages:

American Southeast, North America

Current research, interests, goals:

Analysis and deconstruction of morphological classification in physical anthropology (beginning research for a monograph in summer 2005)

Other Relevant Information:

Yes, there are queer biological anthropologists out here struggling to do something different and less essentializing. :–)


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