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Concentration in Culture change and historical process encompass prehistory, historical archaeology, and historical anthropology This concentration is linked to a variety of contemporary social issues through the practice of cultural resource management and public archaeology. Graduate Concentration in Gender The concentration offers critical perspectives on the ways sex and gender become meaningful and constraining dimensions of people's lives and broader political processes. Research analyzes gender in health and healing, social organization and kinship, social movements, post-socialist change, nutrition and food. Graduate Concentration in Ecology and Economy The concentration explores the interactions among resource exploitation, economic organization, and the wider political economy in the context of recent and long-term historical change. Facets of this area of study can include the political ecology of natural resource management, environmental and economic change, resource degradation, the organization of production and distribution systems, migration, and technological choice. Graduate Concentration in Development Anthropology Development anthropology encompasses the application of anthropological methods and concepts in evaluating international and domestic development programs, and the study of social processes and theories of development and underdevelopment. The emphasis includes participatory rural development and local links to community, national and international organizations, in programs focusing on agriculture, food and food security, gender, health, nutrition, pastoralism, and resettlement. Students within this concentration can work with the Interdisciplinary Group in Developmental Studies as well as the Department of Community and Leadership Development with the College of Agriculture. Graduate Concentration in Life Course and Aging This concentration focuses on the human diversity of experience and interpretation of different stages of life. It is particularly valuable in providing data to expand our knowledge of both culture-specific and universal aspects of the human developmental cycle and aging. Strong ties are maintained with the University's Sanders-Brown Center for Aging, a major center for multidisciplinary research on aging, and students can take a minor, through the Center, in gerontology. Graduate Concentration in Medical Anthropology Medical anthropology examines power relations, the dynamics of culture, and gendered and raced dimensions of health and illness. Central to this approach is an examination of social inequalities as they are culturally and materially reproduced. Our analyses encompass the production of health and illness in children, adults, families, and communities. Students within the concentration can work with the Medical Anthropology Research Group. The Survey is jointly administered by the Kentucky Heritage Council (State Historic Preservation Office) and the University of Kentucky Department of Anthropology. Its mission is to provide a service to other state agencies, to work with private landowners to protect archaeological sites, and to educate the public about Kentucky's rich archaeological heritage. This unit of the Department of Anthropology, performs state-level functions mandated by the Kentucky Antiquities Act. It requires that the UK Department of Anthropology control archaeological fieldwork on state, county, and municipal lands in the Commonwealth through a permitting process. The Antiquities Act also gives the Department the power to designate archaeological sites, maintain the statewide archaeological site database, and gives the Department the authority to contract with private owners relating to the preservation and exploration of archaeological sites. Program for Archaeological Research The Program was established in 1978 within the Department of Anthropology to provide research services for public and private agencies and organizations across the Commonwealth of Kentucky and surrounding states, and through these projects to offer both undergraduate and graduate students in Anthropology an opportunity for practical training in the field of public archaeology. The William S. Webb Museum of Anthropology has three primary purposes. It acquires and maintains anthropological collections, supports anthropological research, and disseminates anthropological knowledge. The extensive holdings serve to link the past, the present, and the future. The Museum is charged with several responsibilities: to serve a diverse audience, from the layperson to professionals; to preserve significant, irreplaceable objects; and to contribute to our understanding of past and present cultures, especially those of prehistoric Kentucky. The major goal of the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging is to support life-long growth and development. To accomplish this goal, it sponsors a wide range of research, service, and educational activities. The Elder Care program, for example, is a free employee benefit established to support full-time UK faculty, staff, retirees and their spouses nationwide who help their parents, spouses and other older family members. Meeting the Challenges of Aging is a one-day program of educational sessions and speakers for the wider community that provides up-to-date information for maintaining an active and independent lifestyle. Tracy Farmer Center for the Environment The mission of the Center is to serve as the University of Kentucky’s focal interdisciplinary center for the comprehensive integration of research, education, and public service dedicated to: (a) advancing knowledge and understanding of environmental systems, (b) analysis and management of environmental problems and issues, (c) development of sustainable technologies and solutions to these environmental problems and issues, and (d) successful transfer and dissemination of the technologies and solutions to state, federal, and local governments, private organizations, businesses, and corporations and individuals. Kentucky Watershed Watch, for example, is a volunteer organization dedicated to the improvement of stream water quality across the state by supporting the full implementation of the interim and long-term goals of the Clean Water Act. Citizen participation is facilitated through eight different watershed groups that coordinate annual sampling for herbicides/pesticides, pathogens, and nutrients/metals. Patterson
School of Diplomacy and The Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce converts knowledge into action by training high-caliber professionals for work in the international arena. It offers an interdisciplinary professional Masters of Arts degree, preparing students for international careers in both the public and private sectors such as careers with government agencies, the U.S. State Department, the Department of Commerce, the United Nations, the World Bank, international commerce, foreign trade and international banking.
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Mary Anglin Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Lisa Cliggett Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Deborah Crooks Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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George Crothers Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Richard Jefferies Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Peter Little Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Sarah Lyon Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Christopher Pool Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Michele Rivkin-Fish Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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Monica Udvardy Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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John van Willigen Citations in the LexisNexis Database Significant
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