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	William R. Coe			PhD	University of Pennsylvania			1958
		Professor Emeritus			1958-1987 Anthropology Department Faculty
		Appointments		Curator Emeritus, American Section, University Museum
		Research Interests		Archaeology; Mesoamerica (Maya)
	Robert H. Dyson			PhD	Harvard University			1966
		Professor Emeritus			1954-1995 Anthropology Department Faculty
		Appointments		Curator Emeritus, Near East Section, University Museum.
		Research Interests		Archaeology and prehistory; Near East and Iran; paleoecology, technology, architecture, cultural change, history of Near Eastern archaeology; chronology and urbanization. 1957-1977--study results of Hasanlu Project (6000-300 BC) in Iran. Aimed at data retrieval for reconstruction of cultural development functionally and historically.
	Ward H. Goodenough			PhD	Yale University			1949
		University Professor Emeritus			1949-1989 Anthropology Department Faculty
		Appointments		Consulting Curator Emeritus, Oceania Section, University Museum
		Research Interests		Cultural and linguistic anthropology; Oceania, Micronesia; social organization; anthropology of law; culture theory; semantics.
	Melvyn Hammarberg			PhD	University of Pennsylvania			1970
		Associate Professor Emeritus			began teaching at Penn in 1970
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Graduate Group Chair, American Civilization Program; Consulting Curator, American Section, University Museum; History Graduate Group; Folklore Graduate Group.
		Research Interests		Cultural and psychological anthropology; U.S.--historical and contemporary ethnography; the American West; the Latter-day Saints; Native American Indian Peoples; social organization and cultural values; life history analysis; mental health; psychological trauma and cultural response. Current work: ethnography of the Latter-day Saints; psychological trauma; native peoples.
	Robert S. O. Harding			PhD	University of California, Berkeley			1973
		Associate Professor Emeritus			1973-1997 Anthropology Department Faculty
		Appointments		Consulting Curator Emeritus, Physical Anthropology Section, University Museum
		Research Interests		Physical anthropology; primary interests in the evolution of behavior, specifically the behavior of the nonhuman primates. Special interests in ecology, primate conservation, and the evolution of sexual strategies. Research includes fieldwork with free-ranging olive baboons (Papio anubis) near Gilgil, Kenya, between 1970 and 1980, a nine-month survey of large mammals (including eight primate species) in the proposed Outamba-Kilimi National Park in Sierra Leone, West Africa in 1981-1982, and a study of mating strategies in a free-ranging troop of patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) on the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya. Studied wedge-capped capuchin monkeys (Cebus olivaceus) at Hato Pinero , in the Venezuelan llanos, between 1988 and 1995.
	Rebecca Huss-Ashmore			PhD	University of Massachusetts			1984
		Associate Professor Emeritus			began teaching at Penn in 1984
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Research Associate, Population Studies Center; Associate Curator-in-Charge, Physical Anthropology Section, University Museum; Anthropology Graduate Group; History and Sociology of Science Graduate Group.
		Research Interests		Medical anthropology (healing systems, semiotics of healing, narrative, discourse, cosmetic surgery); Psychological anthropology (self and identity, cultural models of mental illness); Human adaptibility.
	Francis E. Johnston			PhD	University of Pennsylvania			1962
		Professor Emeritus			1960-1963 and 1973-2000 Anthropology Department Faculty
		Appointments		Curator Emeritus, Physical Anthropology Section, University Museum; Fellow, Population Studies Center; Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute
		Research Interests		Biomedical anthropology; participatory action research; contemporary USA, Latin America; human biology; child development; nutrition; urban health; nutritional ecosystems; nutritional surveillance.
	Igor Kopytoff			PhD	Northwestern University			1960
		Professor Emeritus			began teaching at Penn in 1962
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Consulting Curator, African Section, University Museum.
		Research Interests		Cultural anthropology; Africa; history of anthropology; social structure; African religious transformations and African political culture; culture history; economic anthropology.
	Alan E. Mann			PhD	University of California at Berkeley			1968
		Professor Emeritus			began teaching at Penn in 1969
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Curator in Charge, Physical Anthropology Section, University Museum; Geology Graduate Group
		Research Interests		Physical anthropology; Africa, Middle East, Europe; human evolution, focussing on the behavioral/environmental contexts in which human evolution took place; histological investigation of fossil hard tissues; preservation of the fossil evidence for human evolution.
	Gregory L. Possehl			PhD	University of Chicago			1974
		Professor Emeritus			began teaching at Penn in 1973
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Curator in Charge, Asian Section, University Museum; South Asia Graduate Group.
		Research Interests		Archaeology; South Asia, Near East; Old World pre-history; food production; urbanization; settlement patterns; history of archaeology; field work continues to focus on the Harappan civilization, especially the eclipse of urbanization; currently excavating a Harappan settlement in Gujarat, India.
	Ruben E. Reina			PhD	University of North Carolina			1957
		Professor Emeritus			1957-1990 Anthropology Department Faculty
		Appointments		Consulting Curator Emeritus, American Section, University Museum
		Research Interests		Cultural anthropology; Central and South America, Spain; culture change; ethnographic and ethnohistorical studies; contemporary and traditional Maya Indians, modern Latin American peoples, peasants, urban communities; research in contemporary Mayan communities.
	Bernard Wailes			PhD	Cambridge University			1964
		Associate Professor Emeritus			1961-1999 Anthropology Department Faculty
		Appointments		Curator Emeritus, European Archaeology Section, University Museum
		Research Interests		Archaeology; later prehistoric and early historic Europe, especially Ireland; cultural evolution, especially 'chiefdom' societies; interrelationship of textual and archaeological evidence; Old World archaeology generally; farming systems.
	Anthony F. C. Wallace			PhD	University of Pennsylvania			1950
		University Professor Emeritus			1950-1988 Anthropology Department Faculty
		Appointments		Consulting Curator Emeritus, American Section, University Museum
		Research Interests		Cultural anthropology, US; processes of social and cultural change and particularly those associated with the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; cognitive process involved in technological creativity and the transfer of technological information.