Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS & SASci)

Election 2010: Candidate Biographical sketches

Treasurer:

SEAMUS DECKER (PhD, Emory University, 2001) Positions Held: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology (2007-Present) University of Massachusetts Amherst; Director, Psychological Anthropology and Human Adaptation Laboratory (2007-Present) University of Massachusetts Amherst; Postdoctoral Fellow (2003 ? 2006) McGill University; Lecturer, Social Sciences Division (2003) Agnes Scott College; Lecturer, Department of Anthropology (2001-2002) Yale University; Interests and/or Activities: biocultural anthropology, developmental psycho-neuroendocrinology, health ecology; Significant Publications: ?Failed urban migration and psychosomatic numbing: Cortisol stress, unfulfilled lifestyle aspirations, and depression in Botswana? Research in Economic Anthropology, 2008; ?Low salivary cortisol and elevated depressive affect among rural men in Botswana: reliability and validity of laboratory results? Journal of Physiological Anthropology, 2006; ?Cultural congruity and the cortisol stress response among Dominican men? (with Mark Flinn, PhD, Barry England, PhD and Carol Worthman, PhD), In J. Wilce (Ed.) Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2003.

Executive Board:

VICTOR C. DE MUNCK (PhD, University of California, Riverside, 1985) Positions Held, Department Chair, Anthropology (2004-present), SUNY-New Paltz; Assistant/Associate Professor (1997-present) SUNY New Paltz. Interests and/or Activities: (limit 3) culture, cognition, and social structure; cross-cultural research; Significant Publications: Research Design and Methods for Studying Cultures, AltaMira Press, 2009. ?Millenarian Dreams: The Objects and Subjects of Money in the New Lithuania? Asta Vonderau and Ingo W. Schršder(eds.) Changing Economies and Changing Identities in POstsocialist Eastern Europe 2008 LIT Verlag, Berlin. ?Self, Other and the Love Dyad in Lithuania: Romantic Love as Fantasy and Reality (Or, When Culture Matters and Doesn?t Matter).? In Jankowiak, William (ed), Intimacy. Columbia University Press, 2008.

ROSALYN NEGRîN GOLDBARG (PhD, University of Florida, 2007) Positions Held: Director, Latino Leadership Opportunity Program (2009-pres) University of Massachusetts Boston; Assistant Professor (2007-pres) University of Massachusetts Boston; Field Researcher (2005-2006) University of Florida Survey Research Center; Graduate Research Assistant (2002-2004) University of Florida Survey Research Center; Interests and/or Activities: flexible ethnicity, anthropological linguistics, social network analysis; Significant Publications: "Gender, Personal Networks and Drug Use among Rural African Americans" (with E.J. Brown, PhD) International Quarterly of Community Health Education, in print; ?Negotiating Latino Ethnicity in NYC: Social Interactions & Ethnic Self-Presentation? (with Wilneida Negr—n, MA) Dialogos Latinoamericanos, 2009; ?Spanish / English Code-Switching in E-Mail Communication? Language@Internet, 2009.

MARGOT-LEA HURWICZ (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1982) Positions Held: Associate Professor (1996-present), Assistant Professor (1990-1996) University of Missouri ?St. Louis; Interests and/or Activities: cognitive anthropology research methods, medical anthropology, aging and public health/medicine; Significant Publications: Prevalence and Correlates of Doctor-Geriatric Patient Lifestyle Discussions: Analysis of ADEPT Videotapes (with Marcia Ory et al) Preventive Medicine, 2006; Understanding Primary Care Physicians? Propensity to Assess Elderly Patients for Depression Using Interaction and Survey Data (with Ming Tai-Seale, Rachel Bramson, et al) Medical Care, 2006; A National Dissemination of an Evidence Based Self-Management Program: A Process Evaluation Study (with Kate Lorig, David Sobel, et al) Patient Education and Counseling, 2005; Do Elderly Medicare Recipients Contact Physicians Appropriately? (with Emil Berkanovic) Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 2002; Physicians' Norms and Health Care Decisions of Elderly Medicare Recipients. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 1995.

JAMES HOLLAND JONES (PhD, Harvard University, 2000) Positions Held: Assistant Professor, Anthropology (2003-present), Stanford University; Co-Director, Methods of Analysis Program in the Social Sciences (2009-), Stanford; Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment (2007-), Stanford; Faculty Fellow, Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging (2003-present), University of California, Berkeley. Interests and/or Activities: Demography and Life History Theory, Infectious Disease Ecology, Social Networks; Significant Publications: ?The Force of Selection on the Human Life Cycle,? Evolution and Human Behavior, 30(5): 305-314; ?Increased Mortality and AIDS-like Immunopathology in Wild Chimpanzees Infected with SIVcpz,? Nature, 460: 515-519 (with 21 others); ?Anthropogenic Fire Mosaics, Biodiversity and Australian Aboriginal Foraging Strategies: A Test of the ?Fire Stick Farming? Hypothesis,? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 105(39): 14796-14801 (with R. Bird, D. Bird, B. Codding, and C. Parker).

Student Board:

MATTHEW T. BOULANGER (M.A., University of Missouri, 2009) Positions Held: Research Specialist, (2007?Pres) Archaeometry Laboratory, Missouri University Research Reactor; Research Laboratory Technician, (2005?2007) Archaeometry Laboratory, Missouri University Research Reactor; Project Archaeologist, (2000?2005) Archaeology Consulting Team, Essex Junction, VT; Interests and/or Activities: landscape ecology, archaeometry, cultural responses to rapid social change; Significant Publications: ?Problems in the Archaeological Legacy: The TRB/Lengyel-Baden Conundrum? (with Maximilian O. Baldia, Ph.D. and Douglas S. Frink, Ph.D.), in M. Furholt, M. Szmyt, and A. Zastawny (Eds.) The Baden Complex and the Outside World, Studien zur ArchŠologie in Ostmitteleuropa/Studia nad Pradziejami Europy ?rodkowej, Bonn, 2008; Geographic and Compositional Variability of Ceramic Resources in Northern New England (with Michael D. Glascock, Ph.D.), North American Archaeologist 29, 2008; A Preliminary Study on the Suitability of Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) for Identifying Hathaway Formation Chert from the Northern Champlain Valley of Vermont (with Allen D. Hathaway, Robert J. Speakman, and Michael D. Glascock, Ph.D.), Archaeology of Eastern North America 33, 2005.

ARYEH Y. JACOBSOHN (BA, University of Florida, 2008) Positions Held: Graduate Research Assistant (2009-present) The Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University; Society, Biology, and Health Cluster Fellow (2008-present) Northwestern University; Teaching Assistant (2009) Northwestern University; PhD Student (2008-present) Northwestern University; Teaching Assistant (2005-2008) NSF Summer Institute for Research Design; Interests and/or Activities: social networks; health; learning.