About Me:
I am working with Native Americans in Pennsylvania who are attempting to reclaim their identity as Native Americans and state recognition. The primary organizations with which I am working are the Lenape Nation and the Eastern Delaware Nation.
In the past I have conducted research on creole languages in the southern Caribbean (Tobago) and ethnobotany among Pennsylvania Germans.
I am a professor of anthropology at Bloomsburg University, one of 14 state-owned universities in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. We have a small department of 6 faculty and approximately 75 majors. In addition to introductory courses, my primary areas of teaching responsibility are Medical Anthropology, Religion & Magic, Language & Culture, Peoples & Cultures of the Caribbean, Peoples & Cultures of SubSaharan Africa, and Anthropology Theory.
I have always had an applied focus to my research. My work with creole languages has focused on interference in school curricula between creoles and "standard" languages. I am now working on improving the quality of information about Native Americans of PA in the PA K-12 curriculum.
Area(s) of Training
cultural anthropology, ethnography, medical anthropology
Current Area of Employment
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Dept of Anthropology
