About Me:
Zev Gottdiener is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Since 2008, as both a Presidential Fellow and a National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow in Geographic Information Science, Mr. Gottdiener has conducted ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in southern Sinaloa in northwestern Mexico. His research interests include Cultural Heritage and Development, Political Ecology, Tourism, Urbanization, and Rural Identity. Mr. Gottdiener recently concluded a yearlong fieldwork period with an ejido in southern Sinaloa from which he composed his dissertation with funding and support from The Opler Foundation Grant for Dissertation Writing and Research and the Department of Anthropology at SUNY Buffalo.
Area(s) of Training
anthropology, applied anthropology, archaeology, cultural anthropology, ethnography, ethnology, sociology
Area(s) of Expertise
Cultural Anthropology, Latin America, Ecology
Current Area of Employment
Anthropology Instructor at CCAC
