Lecturer of Anthropology
Student Anthropology Society Faculty Sponsor

Research Interests

Cultural anthropology; Latin America; Mesoamerican Indians (especially Aztec); religion; peasant societies; economic anthropology; kinship; gender roles; film-making; culture theory.

Current Research

My current and ongoing research is with the people of the Tlaxcala/Puebla region of Mexico.  Occasionally, I have taken students to Mexico. 

Academic Degrees

• Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh
• B.A. Ohio University

Courses

• ANT 100 Cultural Anthropology
• ANT 245 Peoples of Latin America
• ANT 320 Religion and Culture
• ANT 360 Mesoamerican Indians 
• ANT 401 Culture Theory

Accolades

• 2000-2003 Secretary of the Anthropology Division of the Kentucky Academy of Science

Selected Publications

• 1999 Indians of Mesoamerica. In Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Julio López-Arias and Gladys Varona-Lacey, editors, New York: Peter Lang Publishers.
• 1984 San Miguel Canoa: The Structure of Marriage, Family, and Kinship. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.
• 1976 Marriage and Family in a Nahuatl-speaking Community in the Sierra de Puebla. In Kinship and Social Relations in Mesoamerica. Hugo G. Nutini, Pedro Carrasco, and James M. Taggart, eds. Pittsburgh: Univeristy of Pittsburgh Press.

Associated Websites

• Native American Studies
• NKU Student Anthropology Society
• Kentucky Academy of Science