The University of Montana Department of Anthropology
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International Studies
Faculty research in international settings spans all four sub-disciplines of anthropology, and offers students research and learning opportunities from nearly every continent. These research activities enrich teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, help graduate students shape M.A. thesis and Ph.D. dissertation projects, and contribute to the scholarly and applied fields of anthropology.
An area of international expertise and activity at The University of Montana is the Central and Southwest Asia Program, which has a broad cross-disciplinary mission, and is academically linked with the Department of Anthropology.
Despite its value, “international research” is, naturally, not an intellectual division in anthropology, and therefore projects must be considered individually. Here are some examples of research with an international component conducted by the faculty Department of Anthropology.
John Douglas is an archaeologist with interests in Latin America. He has worked and published on projects in the lower Amazon area of Brazil, with projects that have involved remains from paleoindian period over 10,000 years ago through the protohistoric of 500 years ago. Northern Mexico is another area of interest, where Dr. Douglas has led a project on the origins and development of farming villages along the river valleys of northeastern Sonora.
S. Neyooxet Greymorning is a political and linguistic anthropologist who has conducted research among Indigenous peoples of Australia, Canada, East Timor, New Zealand, South America, and the United States. Professor Greymorning's research interests include indigenous sovereignty issues, contemporary Native American issues, and Native American language revitalization and retention. To this end he has developed a methodology for second language instruction and acquisition, and has been invited into over 50 different Native communities throughout North America to train language instructors in what is proving to be a very successful approach toward instructing and learning Indigenous languages.
Kimber McKay is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in demography, health and human behavioral ecology. Dr. McKay has worked both full time and as a consulting anthropologist designing studies of health conditions and evolving attitudes toward health and treatment of illness in remote areas of Nepal and Uganda. She has lived and worked in Nepal frequently from 1994 to the present, and assists in the design of locally appropriate development schemes aimed at improving health conditions, particularly in the use of sustainable energy technologies and in public health-related interventions such as latrine design, improved/smokeless cookstoves, lighting schemes, community based health training, and drama programs with specific health-related messages. Currently Dr. McKay is also designing a multi-district analysis of the impact of traditional healer organizations on attitudes towards healers in the allopathic healing community in Uganda.
Anna M. Prentiss is an archaeologist specializing in evolutionary theory, stone tool technology and hunters and gatherers. Her recent research emphasizes cultural transitions associated with the emergence of socio-economic complexity. Recent research has focused on cultural chronologies of the Northwest Coast and Plateau areas of North America and the Levant region of the Near East. She is an active field archaeologist with an emphasis on the household.
Noriko Seguchi is a biological anthropologist. She focuses on the state of paleoanthropological and bioarchaeological research in the relatively underrepresented regions of Asia, such as Central Asia (including Mongolia), Northeast Asia (Japan and Korea), and peninsular South and Southeast Asia. She explores past and present population relationships in East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Pacific, Northeast Asia, and the New World. She uses craniometric and odontometric data, and examines the population relationships in the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene of East Asia, and North and South America. Dr. Seguchi has also been involved in effort to test the relationships of skeletal remains of pre-Columbian inhabitants with possible related or ancestral populations in the Old World. Currently, she is working on a project that focuses on the comparison of the craniofacial morphology of Brazilian Paleoamerican from Lagoa Santa with worldwide prehistoric and recent human craniofacial metric data. She also has looked at and published the Neolithic and Bronze Age population spread in Northern Africa, Near East and Europe.
G.G. Weix is a cultural anthropologist with interests in ethnology, myth, and language death as well as political economy, gender, and languages of Southeast Asia (Indonesian, Javanese, and Dutch). Her current international research interests are archival and ethnographic research, and the intersection of area studies and global advocacy of human rights issues.