Noriko Seguchi

Associate Professor

Office Location: Social Science 207 Office Telephone: 406-243-2668 E-mail: noriko.seguchi@umontana.edu Website: http://www.anthro.umt.edu/biolab/ Curriculum Vitae: Click here

Current Position

Associate Professor

Research Interests

Craniofacial Morphometircs, Dental anthropology, Human Biodiversity, Gender issues, Problems of "Race", Human Evolution in Asia, the Pacific Rim (North America, East Asia, and Northeast Asia), and the Peopling of the Americas.

Education

B.A. University of California, Los Angeles, Anthropology

M.A. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Anthropology

Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Anthropology

Selected Publications

2009    Schmidt R.W.,Christy B., Burch A. Nelson, A.R. and Seguchi, N. The People of the Xiongnu Culture (3^rd century B.C. to 2^nd Century A.D.): Insights into the biological diversity of the earliest Curasian nomadic Steppe Empire. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Abstract, (S 48): 230.

2008    Brace C. L., Seguchi, N., and Brace, M. L. Exploring the Kennewick Connection, in Kennewick Man: Perspectives on the Ancient One, edited by Claire Smith, Larry Zimmerman, Joe Watkins and Dorothy Lippert and it will be published by The Left Coast Press in Australia. Pp. 153-168.

2008    Seguchi, N. History and Trends within the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Anthropological Science. 116(1):57-66.

2008    Seguchi, N. and Umeda, H. Re-analysis of the Ainu Samurai hypothesis using population genetic analysis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Abstract, 136 (S46):190.

2007    Seguchi, N. “Recent trends within the American Association of physical Anthropologists” Anthropological Science. 115(3): 267.

2007    Baba, H and Seguchi, N. Stature estimation of the Minatogawa skeletons, taking into account vault and spine heights. Anthropological Science 115(3):237.

2007    Seguchi N. Mystery of the first American: The Kennewick man and the Jomon (Saisho no America jin no nazo: Kennewick man to Jomon jin). National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo News, July issue (Kokuritsu Kagaku Hakubutsukan News), Vol. 459, 6-7. In Japanese.

In Press   Seguchi, N. The Medieval Kamakura, the population structures and history: A View from America (single author) submitted to Chusei Sogo Shiryo Gakuron-shu, Shin jinbutsu Orai Sha, Japan.

  2007    “The connections of the Kennewick Palaeoindian specimen and the sources of the    original inhabitants of the New World.” With C. Loring Brace, A. Rusell Nelson,         Hideyuki Umeda, Pan Qifeng, Margaret Wilson and Mary L. Brace. In Douglas     Owsley (ed.) volume on the Kennewick specimen. Smithsonian Institution Press.      Submitted.

2007  Population movement into the Japanese Archipelago during antiquity: a craniofacial and odontometric perspective. With H. Umeda, A.R. Nelson, and C.L. Brace. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Abstract, Supplement. 132: 213.

2007  A Howells grasp on prehistoric and recent Japan: A precursor to the Kennewick connection. With C.L Brace. Fifth Annual Wiley-Liss Symposium. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Abstract, Supplement. 132: 79-80.

N/D   Craniofacial Form and Regional Population Affinities: A Comparative Approach Paleo-Indian Origins. With A. R. Nelson and C. L. Brace. in Environment, origins, and population, Handbook of North American Indians series. (ed) Douglas Ubelaker, vol.3. pp. 679-684, Smithsonian Institution. Washington D.C.

2006  Deconstructing scientific discourse by the conservatives: the debate over gender differences from the perspective of biological anthropology (Kagaku-teki Hoshuha Gensetsu wo kiru: Seibutsu-Jinruigaku no shiten kara mita Seisa-Ronso, ?????????????!:??????????????????)” in Backlash!: Why is gender-equality being attacked?" (Backlash! : Naze Gender-free ha tatakareta noka? ???????!??????????????????), pp.310-339. Sofusha, Tokyo Japan. In Japanese.

2006  The questionable contribution of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age to European craniofacial form. With C. Loring Brace, Noriko Seguchi, Conrad B. Quintyn, Sherry C. Fox, A. Russell Nelson,  Sotiris K. Manolis, and  Pan Qifeng, in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 103(1): 242-247.

2006  Do Early South Americans Show Biological Similarity to Australians?: Lagoa Santa in odontometric and craniometric perspective. With Hideyuki Umeda, A.Russell Nelson, and C.Loring Brace. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Abstract, Vol. 129 Supplement 42, pp. 162.

2006  Professor C. Loring Brace: Bringing Physical Anthropology (“Kicking and             Screaming”) Into the 21^st Century!  Dean Falk and Noriko Seguchi, Michigan Discussion in Anthropology, (ed) Derek Brereton, Vol 16. p175-211.

2006  Brace’s Ainu-amurai Hypothesis from 1989 Until Today :Reanalysis of dental      dimension data and craniofacial data. Anthropological Science, 113 (3): 307

2005  Brace’s Ainu-Samurai Hypothesis from 1989 Until Today :Reanalysis of dental dimension data and craniofacial data. The 59th Annual meeting of the  Anthropological Society of Nippon, program and abstract, p.33.

2005  The Medieval Kamakura : A View from America (America kara mita Kamakura, ??????????)?In The 59th Annual Open Public Symposium of the Anthropological Society of Nippon, The Truth of the Medieval Kamakura (?59???????????????:???????). St. Marianna University, School of Medicine, Fujinsha, Japan. pp. 14-15. (in Japanese)

2005   Obituary of Kazuro Hanihara 1927-2004. with C. Loring Brace, in Dental Anthropology       18(2):65-66.

2005  “Race” is not Valid Biological Concept. with C. L. Brace, in Is Race a Universal   Idea? : Transcending the Western Paradigm. (ed) Yasuko Takezawa, Jinbun Shoin,           Kyoto, Japan. pp. 437-467. (In Japanese) 

2005  Early South Americans in Craniofacial metric Perspective: Lagoa Santa. With A. R. Nelson, S. Austin, and C. L. Brace. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Abstract, Vol.126, Supplement 39, pp. 187.

Publications

2004  Craniometric view from the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene of East Asia: the Zhoukoudian Upper Cave and Minatogawa, in Symposium: Paleoanthropological Research at the Asian Frontiers, at the seventy-third Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Abstract, Vol. 123, Supplement 38, pp. 178.

2004  A Odontometric and a craniometric perspective on past and present population            relationships in East and Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific, with C. Loring        Brace,   in Symposium: Paleoanthropological Research at the Asian Frontiers, at        the seventy-third Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical                       Anthropologists. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Abstract, Vol. 123,            Supplement 38, pp. 67.

2003  “Race” Is Not A Valid Biological Concept  (English version) / “Jinshu” ha shakaiteki kouchikubutsu ka seibutugakuteki reality ka,?????????????????????? (Japanese version, translated by Noriko Seguchi). C. L. Brace and Noriko Seguchi. pp. 44-83. Kokusai Jinruigaku Minzokugaku Kaigi 2002 Kyoto Kaigi Symposium Hokokusho/ Proceedings of the IRH International Symposium/IUAES 2002, Jinshu GAinen no Fuhensei wo Tou: Shokuminchi shugi, Kokumin Kokka, Tsukurareta Shinwa/ Is Race a Universal Idea?: Colonialism, Nation-States, and a Myth Invented. Edited by Yasuko Takezawa. Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

2003  “New World Paleoindians in craniometric perspective: New Looks at Old Faces" Noriko Seguchi, with A. R. Nelson, and C. Loring Brace. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Abstract, Vol. 120, Supplement 36, pp. 188.

2003  “Race” is not a Valid Biological Concept. C. L. Brace, and Noriko Seguchi. Anthropological Science, Vol. 111(1): 68.

2003  Race and Gender: Social and Political Constructs. Noriko Seguchi. Anthropological Science, Vol. 111(1): 85. 

2002  “Race” is not a Valid Biological Concept. C. L. Brace, and Noriko Seguchi. Inter-Congress of IUAES 2002, The Human Body in Anthropological Perspectives. Program and Abstracts. pp.61. 

2002  Race and Gender: Social and Political Constructs. Noriko Seguchi. Inter-Congress of IUAES 2002, The Human Body in Anthropological Perspectives. Program and Abstracts. pp.80.

2002  The Anthropology of Malocclusion: Crowding and Anomalies in the Japanese.  N. Seguchi, H. Oe. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Abstract, Vol. 117. Supplement 34, pp.138.

2002  Human Evolution: A Neanderthal Skeleton in a sapiens Closet. C. L. Brace, N Seguchi, C. Quintyn. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Abstract, Vol. 117, Supplement 34, pp. 47.

2001  Old World sources of the first New World human inhabitants: A comparative cranifaical view.  C. Loring Brace, A. Russell Nelson, Noriko Seguchi, Hiroaki Oe, Leslie Sering, Pan Qifeng, Li Yongyi, Dashtseveg Tumen. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 98 (17):10017-10022.

2001  The morphometric picture of prehistoric and recent Japan in comparison with Northeast and Southeast Asia. N Seguchi, C. Loring Brace, and H Oe. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Abstract, Vol. 114, Supplement 32, pp. 134.

2001  Morphometric and molecular perspectives on the comparison of human populations. C. Loring Brace, N. Seguchi, and A. R. Nelson. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Abstract, Vol. 114, Supplement 32, pp. 42-43. 

2000  A comparative craniofacial analysis of 24 Asian and Pacific populations using the neighbor-joining method. N. Seguchi and C. Loring Brace. . American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Abstract, Vol.111, Supplement 30, pp. 277.

2000  Secular change in the Japanese occlusion: the frequency of the overbite and its association with food preparation techniques and eating habits. Ph.D. dissertation. Anthropology, University of Michigan. pp. 338. UMI, Bell & Howell.

2000  Association between occlusal form and tooth wear. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Abstract, Vol. 108, Supplement 28, pp. 247 .

1999  Secular change of Japanese occlusion: the frequency of the overbite and its association with food preparation techniques and eating habits. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Abstract, Vol. 105, Supplement 26, pp. 199.  

1998  Drawing the Borders: Sexual, Racial, and National Boundaries Today, Tomorrow, and Forever. Working Paper Series, No. 34. Institute for Research on Women and Gender, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Specialized Skills

Physical Anthropology; Dental Anthropology; Peopling of the New World; Human Evolution in Asia