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Back to Ecological Anthropology Home Page ALUMNI FROM THE ECOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY PROGRAMDavid Adams (Ph.D. 1998) is founder and President of the Institute
for Cultural Ecology, based in Hilo, Hawai`i. The Institute for Cultural
Ecology is a private non governmental organization that develops and
manages responsible study abroad programs and individual internships
in Australia, Fiji, Hawai`i, Nepal, New Zealand, and Thailand. In 2001,
David published his first book: Season of the Loon: One Man's Search
for Wilderness in Increasingly Strange Times. It draws heavily on his
dissertation. From his North woods cabin in northern Minnesota, he finished
the manuscript for an anthropological novel called Samsara based on
his many visits to explore Thailand. Besides creative writing, he enjoys
wilderness canoeing in northern Minnesota, Canada, Finland, Russia,
and elsewhere. See the web site for his Institute for Cultural Ecology: Shankar Aswani (Ph.D. 1997) is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Sciences at the University of California in Santa Barbara. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Shankar has conducted more than a decade of research in the Solomon Islands. His projects have focused on a diversity of subjects including property rights and common property resources, marine indigenous environmental knowledge, cultural ecology and human behavioral ecology of fishing, demography, ethnohistory, political ecology, economic anthropology, and applied anthropology. He helped to develop a network of locally managed Marine Protected Areas(MPAs) and small-scale rural development projects in the Roviana and Vonavona Lagoons with funds provided by the MacArthur and Packard Foundations among others. As a result of this effort, a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation was awarded to Shankar in 2005, the first time in its 15-year history that the world’s premier award in marine conservation has been given to an anthropologist. He is also involved in archaeological projects in the Solomon Islands and more recently in a project sponsored by the National Geographic Society in the Marquesas, French Polynesia. Also, he developed a field school program on ecological anthropology in the Solomons. His extensive publications include articles in the journals Ambio, Asian Perspectives, Current Anthropology, Environmental Conservation, Human Ecology, Journal of the Polynesian Society, New Caledonia, and Ocean and Coastal Management. In 2002, Shankar received a prestigious 5-year Career Award grant from the National Science Foundation. For more details see his website at: http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/aswani Morgan Brent (Ph.D. 2001) taught cultural anthropology and other courses in various appointments at Chaminade University, Hawaii Pacific University, and the University of Hawai`i in Honolulu from 1997-2003. He has an M.A. in anthropology from San Francisco State University (1993). Morgan lived in Taiwan and China for six years and speaks Mandarin. He has taught Tai Chi. Currently Morgan lives in Seattle, Washington, where he writes and teaches about spiritual ecology drawing on his extensive background in Taoism, ecological anthropology, plant medicines, and the Amazon forest. Since 2000 he has been conducting experiential research on shamanism, the ayahuasca plant teacher (plantas maestras), and diets (dietas) in the tropical rainforests of the Amazon. Morgan is the founder and director of Tribes of Creation which collaborates in workshops on Amazonian traditional herbalist healing with field trips in the Pucallpa area of Peru. Also he is reworking his dissertation for publication as a book. See his web site at: http://www.tribesofcreation.com Peter Brosius (M.A. 1981) completed his doctorate in anthropology at the University of Michigan in 1992. In the same year he joined the Anthropology faculty at the University of Georgia where he is now an Associate Professor. His research interests include conservation, environmental discourses, social movements, political ecology, hunter-gatherers, and Southeast Asia. In particular, he has focused on the international campaign against logging in the East Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo. He is author of the book After Duwagan: Deforestation, Succession, and Adaptation in Upland Luzon, Philippines (1990), revised from his M.A. thesis at UH. He is also author of numerous publications on human ecology, conservation, and social justice including articles in the journals American Anthropologist, Borneo Research Bulletin, Conservation Biology, Current Anthropology, Ethnology, Human Ecology, Journal of Sustainable Forestry, Society and Natural Resources, and so on. Pete teaches courses on the anthropology of consumption and globalization, ecological anthropology, environmentalism, and conservation and community. He is co-editor of the book Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management. Pete served as the President of the Anthropology and Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association. In recent years much of his research has focused examining the emergence of ecoregional planning in contemporary conservation. For more details see his web site at: http://anthro.dac.uga.edu/brosius.htm Carolyn Cook (Ph.D. 1995) is Senior Anthropologist for Freeport Indonesia, Inc., where she develops projects in applied anthropology focused on sustainable economic and community development for the Amungme people in the mountainous cloud forests of Papua, Indonesia (formerly Irian Jaya). Among the projects are agroforestry of pandanus, coffee, fruit trees, peanuts, nitrogen fixing trees, and bamboo for scaffolding. Recently she launched businesses for mushroom growing and short-term vegetable and spice crops. Among her publications are “Papuan Gold: A Blessing or a Curse?” in Cultural Survival Quarterly 2001, 25(1):1-3, and “Pandanus agroforestry of the Amungme in Irian Jaya, Indonesia,” in Forest, Farm, and Community Tree Research Reports 4:95-103. She is currently working on a documentary film and book. See the web site: http://www.fcx.com/envir/wtsd/2003/partnership.htm Ephrosine Daniggelis (Ph.D. 1997) is presently working with the University of Hawai`i Nutrition Department as an interventionist on an environmental store-based community project that aims to help improve the health of the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Island populations. Since completing her degree she has worked as a Non-Timber Forest Product Specialist with Resources Himalaya, an environmental non governmental organization based in Nepal; as a Community Development Specialist for the New Zealand Government on a pilot project to control hydatid disease among Tibetan nomads in Western Sichuan, China; and as a Nutritional Anthropologist with the Swiss Red Cross in Tibet to assess nomad and farmer food security situations, and develop and test nutrition and health education materials. She has also worked with humanitarian aid agencies as a Nutrition Surveillance Manager in southern Afghanistan; Food Security Officer in Macedonia; and a Nutritionist for an Emergency Targeted Feeding Program in southeast Tajikistan. Her dissertation was published as a book titled Hidden Wealth: The Survival Strategy of Foraging Farmers in the Upper Arun Valley, Eastern Nepal (2001). Also, she contributed a chapter in the book Women and Plants: Gender Relations in Biodiversity Management and Conservation, edited by Patricia L. Howard (2003). Glenn Dolcemascalo (Ph.D. 2004) has worked for several years as an anthropological specialist on the staff of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center in Bangkok, Thailand. From this base Glenn travels widely in Asia to conferences, workshops, field sites, and the like combining applied anthropology and environmental anthropology. Cynthia Fowler (Ph.D. 1999)is an Assistant Professor at Wofford College
in South Carolina. Since completing her degree, she was a Visiting Assistant
Professor at the College of Charleston (2000-2001); pursued post doctorate
research at the University of Hawaii’s School of Medicine in the
Division of Ecology and Health (2001-2002); and completed a second post
doctorate as a Research Ecologist at the USDA Forest Service’s
Southern Research Station in the Disturbance and Management of Southern
Ecosystems unit (2003-2004). Previously she taught as an adjunct professor
at the University of Hawai`i in Hilo, Wofford College, and the University
of South Carolina. She is currently co-editor and author for the Encyclopedia
of Southern Fire Science, an internet-based and peer-reviewed synthesis
of fire science whose audience is land managers in the southern United
States. She is also a content and programming developer for the Southern
Fire Portal, a web site where fire professionals and land managers can
obtain access to scientific syntheses, fire behavior models, metadata,
bibliographies, and other necessary tools. She has published articles
in the Journal of Ecological Anthropology: Journal of Ethnobiology;
and Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion, as well as a chapter
in the book Ethnobiology and Biocultural Diversity. See the web sites: Kathleen A. Gillogly (M.A. 1986) completed an M.A. thesis titled “The Ethnography of Animal Husbandry in Lowland Thailand: Aspects of Human, Animal, and Crop Interactions.” She is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Michigan. Her topical specializations are kinship, agriculture, cultural ecology, and economic development. Kate’s regional interests include mainland Southeast Asia (Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam) and the Solomon Islands (Kwaio). In various capacities she has been associated with Chiang Mai University in Thailand, East-West Center in Honolulu, and the University of Hanoi. She speaks Kwaio, Lao, Lisu, Thai, and Vietnamese. Among other publications, she is co-editor of Ethnic Diversity and Control of Natural Resources in Southeast Asia (1987), and Profiles in Cultural Evolution: Essays in Honor of Elman Service (1991). Kate teaches in the Department of Liberal Education at Columbia College in Chicago. Barun Gurung (Ph.D. 1998)is presently the Coordinator of the Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis for the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). He is based at Cornell University as a visiting scholar in the Department of Anthropology. His CGIAR fieldwork has taken him to a number of countries including Bhutan, Burundi, China, Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Laos, Madagascar, Nepal, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. A major focus of his work is on building the capacity and skills for agricultural scientists to include farmers in the decision-making process in their research and development. This requires addressing ways to institutionalize participatory practices in the research process through organizational changes in agricultural and natural resource management institutions. His present research emphasizes participatory action research and organizational anthropology. For more information, see the web site: http://www.prgaprogram.org Corey Miyano Hayashi (M.A. 2004) is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at Indiana University. He is a Graduate Assistant in the Anthropological Center for Research and Training for Global Environmental Change. Corey specializes in human ecology, ecological anthropology, land-use and landscape change, GIS, and environmental conflict resolution. His regional focus is in the Brazilian Amazon. At IU he is also pursuing a minor in Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. While at UH, Corey focused on ecological anthropology and completed the graduate Conflict Resolution Certificate in the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace. Also he served as an intern with The Nature Conservancy. See the web site: http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eact/home.htm Thomas N. Headland (Ph.D. 1986) has been an international anthropology consultant at the SIL International (formerly Summer Institute of Linguistics) in Dallas, Texas, since 1984, and an adjunct professor of linguistics at the University of Texas in Arlington since 1986. He also teaches anthropology each summer at the University of North Dakota. Tom, and his wife, Janet Headland, have made many trips to the Philippines to conduct field research among the Agta foragers for over four decades. Tom’s research interests include human ecology in tropical forests, indigenous human rights, endangered languages, and Austronesian linguistics. He has published ten books and 100 scholarly articles. Among his books are: Population Dynamics of a Philippine Rain Forest People: The San Ildefonso Agta with John Early (1998), co-editor of Tropical Deforestation: The Human Dimension (1996), co-editor of Emics and Etics: The Insider/Outsider Debate (1990), and editor of The Tasaday Controversy: Assessing the Evidence (1992). For more information see his web site: http://www.sil.org/~headlandt Narumon Hinshiranan (Ph.D. 1996) is a member of the Social Science
Research Institute at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.
She continues field research on the cultural ecology, cultural change,
and economic development of the Moken of the Andaman Sea coast of southern
Thailand. Narumon is one of the authors of the UNESCO publication titled
Indigenous People and Parks: The Surin Islands Project( 2001). She is
a member of the UNESCO supported Andaman Pilot Project. See the web
sites: Daisuke Hirano (M.A. 2005) is currently working in Japan before continuing with his doctorate in anthropology. His research interests include ecological anthropology (especially cultural ecology and political ecology), environmental anthropology, applied anthropology, cultural change, and economic development. His regional interests are in mainland Southeast Asia, especially Thailand and Laos. Daisuke is developing a field research project on the political ecology of commercial shrimp pond farming in Thailand. David Kyle Latinis (Ph.D. 1999) is a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore where he was also awarded a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian Studies in 2005. His research interests include ecological anthropology, historical ecology, evolutionary ecology, ethnography, subsistence and peasant economies, and tropical Asia and Pacific. Kyle has conducted fieldwork in Cambodia, Maluku in Eastern Indonesia, and the Philippines. Among his publications are articles in the periodicals Asian Perspectives, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, and World Archaeology. Regina Woodrom Luna (M.A. 2003) is currently pursuing the doctorate in anthropology at the University of Hawai’i. She is employed as a Biological Assistant with the Marine Turtle Research Program Stranding Response Team. Regina earned a Graduate Certificate in Ocean Policy (Marine Science) at UH, and she also has a B.S. degree in Marine Administration/Environmental Law from Texas A & M University. Her research and teaching interests include coastal and marine resource use, management, and conservation in the islands of the Pacific and Caribbean. She has conducted field research in the Ecuadorian Amazon and on the Galapagos Islands, in Costa Rica with the Center for Sustainable Development, and in Mexico with the Center for Coastal Studies. In recent years, Regina has been conducting long-term field research on the island of Oahu focused on the cultural ecology of sea turtles. Her publications include articles in the Journal of Public Anthropology and in the SPC Traditional Marine Resource Management and Knowledge Information Bulletin. She has been an Instructor in the Institute for Cultural Ecology and at the University of California in Santa Barbara. Ryan Luskin (M.A. 1997) is the Director of Youth for Environmental Service (YES) in Kihei, Maui, Hawai`i. YES is a nonprofit environmental organization focusing on working with students in environmental protection. Ryan has developed many creative initiatives to promote a better environmental future for the human and biotic communities of Maui. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Hawai`i Environmental Education Association. Micah Morton (M.A. 2004) is the Program Coordinator and a Co-Instructor
in the Thai and Southeast Asian Studies Program at Payap University
in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Micah was accepted into the doctoral program
in anthropology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. His research
interests include ecological anthropology, anthropology of religion,
Buddhism and ecology, and socially engaged Buddhism in northern Thailand. Thao Cong Nguyen (M.A. 2005) is employed as a researcher for the Institute of Anthropology at the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. His research interests include ecological anthropology, sustainable development, farming systems, acculturation, and poverty in the upland regions of Vietnam. More generally his area interests include Southeast Asia and South China. Thao returned to Vietnam for a period of research before resuming his graduate studies toward the doctorate in anthropology. The title of his M.A. thesis is “Changing Traditions and Identities: The Ecology of Differential Responses of Tai and Kinh Farmers to Government Agrarian and Technological Initiatives in Northwest Vietnam.” Chai Podhisita (Ph.D. 1985) is a Professor in the Institute of Population and Social Research at Mahidol University, Salaya, in Thailand. His research and publications focus on applied, demographic, and medical anthropology with an emphasis on the study of adolescents, youth, life course, family, and household. Usha Prasad (Ph.D. 1989) is an independent consultant in applied anthropology. Also she has been on the staff of the UH Social Sciences Research Institute and teaches anthropology at Chaminade University and Hawaii Pacific University. Her research specializations are the Pacific Islands, ecological anthropology, medical anthropology, applied anthropology, and human rights. Rajindra Puri (Ph.D. 1997) is a Lecturer and Convenor of the Masters
Programme in Environmental Anthropology at Kent University in Canterbury,
England. Among the courses he teaches are Environmental Anthropology,
Development Anthropology, Ethnobotany, and Research Methods. Each September
he co-directs an intensive week-long field school on ethnobotany in
the Austrian Alps. Over the past 15 years he has been studying the historical
ecology of a rainforest valley in Indonesian Borneo, documenting the
ethnobiological knowledge of Penan Benalui hunter-gatherers and Kenyah
swidden agriculturalists, elucidating the causes and consequences of
trade in wildlife and plants, and developing theory and methods in conservation
social science. Raj has held positions as a research fellow, consultant,
and trainer at the East-West Center in Honolulu, World Wildlife Fund
and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Indonesia,
and the WWF/UNESCO/KEW People and Plants Initiative. Also he was an
Affiliate Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies in
Leiden, The Netherlands. While at CIFOR, he published the first regional
survey of ethnobiological knowledge in Borneo: The Bulungan Ethnobiology
Handbook and helped design and test the methodology for their Multidisciplinary
Landscape Assessment (MLA) project. A book based on his dissertation
is in press: Deadly Dances in the Bornean Rainforest: Hunting Knowledge
of the Penan Benalui. He has also worked in Vietnam (2001) and is currently
studying transmission of rattan basketry knowledge among the Penan in
East Kalimantan and collaborating with the Global Diversity Foundation
on research and training projects in Morocco (wildlife trade in southern
Morocco) and in Sabah, Malaysia (ethnobiology of traditional use zones
in Crocker Range Park). See his web site for more detail: Navin K. Rai (Ph.D. 1982) worked for 12 years for the German Agency
for Technical Cooperation as leader for multinational teams in Nepal
and the Philippines. Navin has also been a Fulbright visiting professor
at Carleton College in Minnesota and at the University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor. In 1999 he joined the World Bank staff as the South Asian
Region indigenous specialist. Now he is the Senior Social Development
Specialist for Indigenous Peoples. Navin is the coordinator for indigenous
peoples issues in the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development
Network. He oversees the formulation and implementation of the World
Bank’s strategy and policies on indigenous peoples. He has conducted
fieldwork in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Philippines, and Sri Lanka. Navin
is author of the book Living in a Lean-to: Philippine Negrito Foragers
in Transition (1990). See the web site: Tom Splain (M.A. 2004), a Jesuit priest, teaches cultural anthropology at the Gregorian University in Rome where he has developed courses in the departments of social science, missiology and inter-religious dialogue. His interests are symbolic anthropology, missionary studies in the Caroline Islands and cultural ecology. His work in ecology has focused on treating the spiritualities of religious orders as cultures and then viewing the order's relationship to its lands. He feels that while Saint Francis of Assisi is seen as the patron of ecology, it is more the Benedictine and Cistercian monasteries that have developed a dynamic relationship with their environments. Frank Thomas (Ph.D. 1999) served as an Assistant Professor at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji. There he taught the courses Human Geography; Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition in the Developing World; and Applied Rural and Agricultural Geography in the Pacific Islands. Frank conducted interdisciplinary research on Prehistoric Environmental Change and Human Impact on Vanuabalavu Island in the Lau Group of eastern Fiji, and on Food Production in Kiribati. Among his publications are: "Remodeling Marine Tenure on the Atolls: A Case Study from Western Kiribati, Micronesia," Human Ecology 29:399-423, 2001; "Mollusk Habitats and Fisheries in Kiribati: An Assessment from the Gilbert Islands," Pacific Science 55:77-97, 2001; "An Evaluation of Central-Place Foraging among Mollusk Gatherers in Western Kiribati, Micronesia: Linking Behavioral Ecology with Ethnoarchaeology" World Archaeology 34:182-208, 2002; "Self-Reliance in Kiribati: Contrasting Views of Agricultural and Fisheries Production," The Geographical Journal 168:163:177, 2002; and “Shellfish Gathering in Kiribati, Micronesia: Nutritional, Microbiological, and Toxicological Aspects,” Ecology of Food and Nutrition 42:91-127, 2003. Currently Frank is the Chief Archaeologist in the Historic Preservation Office in Majuro, Marshall Islands. Lye Tuck-Po (Ph.D. 1997) has been affiliated with the World Wide Fund for Nature in Malaysia; the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University in Japan; the Centre for Environment, Technology, and Development in Malaysia; and Randolf-Macon Women’s College, the latter as a Visiting International Professor for 2003-2004. She is author of the books Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia: A Comprehensive and Annotated Bibliography (2001) and Changing Pathways: Forest Degradation and the Batek of Pahang, Malaysia (2004, and Malaysian edition in 2005); and co-editor of the books The Political Ecology of Tropical Forests in Southeast Asia: Historical Perspectives(2003) and Migration and the Social Ecology of Tropical Forests (2006). Currently she is Affiliate Researcher with Heritage Watch (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) and the Naga Research Group (Hawai`i), in which capacity she is preparing for fieldwork on memory and environmental knowledge in the Stueng Sen river basin of Cambodia. This is part of a research cum training and advocacy project she is developing with fellow alumnus Kyle Latinis and UH Professor Bion Griffin on the historical ecology of natural resource management in central Cambodia. Their aim is to develop a model of long-term change with a focus on how Cambodian populations modified and managed the environment and its resources for more than 2000 years. Back to Ecological Anthropology Home Page
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