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RESEARCH/TEACHING PROJECTS:
Oral History/Ethnographic
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Applied Anthropology
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Background: My specializations are in Historical, Economic, Environmental, and Applied Anthropology, and experiential teaching. I received my Ph.D. in Anthropology from UCLA in 1985 and started my career specializing on the Inca in Peru (economic and land tenure issues). When I started teaching Anthropology at Radford University in 1989, I became so interested in the Appalachian culture surrounding RU that I shifted my culture area focus to Appalachia. I developed a combined research and experiential teaching model that I've used since the 1990's to carry out heritage preservation projects in Appalachian Virginia with my students. These include projects focused on oral history documentation, heritage tourism, and park/museum planning. My Appalachian research projects -- listed in the left-hand column -- have focused on Appalachian coal mining and family farming cultures and other related Appalachian topics. In addition to the introductory course in Cultural Anthropology (ANTH 121), I teach classes in Economic & Environmental Anthropology, Applied Anthropology, Culture Change & Globalization, and Anthropological Theory. |
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I'm married to Dr. Kimbell Knight, a professor in Radford
University's Geology Department.
We have 7 cats and 2 dogs, and are avid horticulturalists who tend
our two-acre botanical garden, Stonewood Garden.
My very special
interest is raising orchids and tropical plants.
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