Conrad Kottak

Short-term consultant, World Bank, Sociocultural dimensions of economic development, design and implementation of socially sensitive and culturally appropriate development, since 1981. Research on participatory development in northeast Brazil. Short-term consultant, USAID, 1990, social soundness analysis of conservation efforts nationally and at various protected areas in Madagascar; suggested site-specific strategies for socially sensitive forest conservation. Active in Michigan's doctoral program in Anthropology and Social Work and Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life. In the latter, did research on how families use the media, including media messages, to manage and evaluate work/family situations and responsibilities. My various textbooks, published by McGraw-Hill, present four-field anthropology and cultural anthropology to generations of undergraduates. Other outreach-relevant books include RESEARCHING AMERICAN CULTURE and ON BEING DIFFERENT.

Henry Wright

I lecture to chapters of the Michigan Archaeological Society an other local groups three times a year on average. Under the auspices of Prof. John O'Shea's Great Lakes program, I work on avocational projects four times a year on average, and I organize weekend training excavations for them on historic sites near Ann Arbor twice a year on average.

As a member of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences, a largely honorific society, I serve on a nominating group which seeks new international members in the sciences in other parts of the world. My personal responsibility has been reaching out to outstanding scholars from Africa and Asia. Recently, I have helped to bring in associates from Nigeria, Madagascar, Turkey, and Georgia. As a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, I have lectured widely in China and participated in their field training programs. As a researcher at the Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie in Antananarivo, Madagascar, I work almost every year with their students in field training programs and help with publications. In addition to these enduring relations, I have helped with individual field schools for local students in Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and Myanmar during the past ten year. Though I have retired from service on the National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration, in May 2003 I led an NGS team to Iraq to provide independent evaluation of ongoing damage to Iraq's irrepacable cultural heritage.

 

 

 

 

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