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Mizuko Ito is a cultural anthropologist of technology use, focusing on children and youth's changing relationships to media and communications. She recently completed a research project supported by the MacArthur Foundation a three year ethnographic study of kid-initiated and peer-based forms of engagement with new media. In 2008, she was awarded the Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies from the American Educational Research Association.

Professor Maurer is a cultural anthropologist and sociolegal scholar. His most recent research looks at how professional communities (payments industry professionals, computer programmers and developers, legal consultants) conceptualize and build financial technology or “fintech,” and how consumers use and experience it. More broadly, his work explores the technological infrastructures and social relations of exchange and payment, from cowries to credit cards and cryptocurrencies. As an anthropologist, he is interested in the broad range of technologies people have used throughout history and across cultures to figure value and conduct transactions. He has particular expertise in alternative and experimental forms of money and finance, payment technologies, and their legal implications. He has published on topics ranging from offshore financial services to mobile phone-enabled money transfers, Islamic finance, alternative currencies, blockchain/distributed ledger systems, and the future of money. He is the Director of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion (www.imtfi.uci.edu). From 2008-2018, he coordinated research in over 40 countries on how new payment technologies impact people’s well being. Highlights from IMTFI’s research were published in Money at the Margins: Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion, and Design (with Smoki Musaraj and Ivan Small). Since 2018, IMTFI has been the Filene Center of Excellence in Emerging Technology. With Filene, Maurer has been exploring how fintech impacts the credit union movement, exploring topics ranging from algorithmic bias in consumer-facing applications of AI, to the often-ambiguous lessons fintech apps teach their users. His research has had an impact on US and global policies for mobile payment and financial access, and it has been been discussed in venues ranging from Bloomberg BusinessWeek to NPR’s Marketplace and the Financial Times.

Dr. Elizabeth D. Benchley is director of the Division of Anthropology and Archaeology and of the Archaeology Institute at the University of West Florida. Dr. Benchley manages the institute's resources to support the academic and research interests of the division's faculty, staff and students. Her local research focuses on the Spanish, British and American archaeology of the Pensacola area. She teaches courses in cultural resource management and writing in anthropology and she is active in public archaeology outreach.  Dr. Benchley has authored hundreds of reports and monographs on her archaeological investigations in the Midwest and the Pensacola area.

Dr. Ramie Gougeon, department chair and professor, teaches courses in archaeological and anthropological theory; historic preservation, policies and practice in archaeology; and area courses in North American prehistory.

Gougeon cultivated an interest in household anthropology as a graduate student. His dissertation research on household activities and gender provided a jumping-off point for him to explore power and authority in middle-range societies in the Southeast, and architectural pattern languages in prehistory. 

He has published on various aspects of household archaeology, power, gender, and pattern language. A recent publication, 鈥淐onsidering Gender Analogies in Southeastern Prehistoric Archaeology,鈥� is an examination of how archaeologists鈥� approaches to gender analogies are influenced by underlying and unresolved epistemological issues.

One of Gougeon鈥檚 long-term projects is an investigation of the lifeways of native groups who inhabited the Pensacola area before and immediately after Spanish contact. He and his students are collaborating with Dr. John Worth, professor of anthropology, who is investigating the Spanish contact and early colonial periods. Their combined research efforts address issues of ethnic identity and the material record, and the short and long-term impacts of cultural contact, among others. 

Before coming to UWF in 2010, he worked in academe and contract archaeology. He held teaching positions at the University of Georgia, Kennesaw State University, and Brenau University, and was a visiting assistant professor at Western Carolina University. His experience as an archaeologist with several cultural resource management companies gave him the opportunity to learn the business of archaeology through a wide variety of archaeological projects in the Southeast. 

Gougeon is Past President of the Florida Archaeological Council and is Secretary Elect of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference. 

He received a bachelor鈥檚 degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a doctorate from the University of Georgia, both in anthropology.

Meredith Marten, assistant professor of anthropology, teaches cultural anthropology, medical anthropology and African studies.

Marten is a cultural and medical anthropologist whose work on HIV prevention programs in East Africa led to her current research on reproductive health and maternal mortality. Her primary research interests include equity in access to HIV and maternal health services in Tanzania and northwest Florida, focusing on how volatility in donor aid and health policy affects the health and well-being of women living in poverty.

Medical anthropology incorporates both cultural and biological anthropology by examining the effects of social and cultural factors on health and health care. For her dissertation, she spent 20 months in rural and urban health-care settings in Tanzania to document the impact reduced funding can have on a health system鈥檚 ability to respond to health emergencies. She focused on US-funded programs designed to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and the coping strategies HIV-positive women use to manage their health in unpredictable donor aid and health care contexts. She is a recipient of a Fulbright-Hays dissertation fellowship, and has written peer-reviewed journal articles related to this work and to global health, including 鈥淔rom Emergency to Sustainability: Shifting Objectives in the US Government鈥檚 HIV Response in Tanzania,鈥� published in Global Public Health, 鈥淟iving with HIV as Donor Aid Declines,鈥� published in Medical Anthropology, and 鈥淗ospital Side-Hustles: Funding Conundrums and Perverse Incentives in Tanzania鈥檚 Publicly-Funded Health Sector鈥� in Social Science and Medicine.

Marten received a bachelor鈥檚 degree in anthropology from Michigan State University, a master鈥檚 in anthropology from Florida State University, a master鈥檚 in public health (international health and development) from Tulane University, and a doctorate in medical anthropology from the University of Florida.

Associate Dean of STEM Equity, Graduate School





Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Anthropology, Stanford Archaeology Center, and Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, 2011-2013
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Oregon
BA Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley



About:
Melissa F. Baird is an Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University (USA). A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (BA), she earned both MS and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Oregon.  Her research has focused on the politics of heritage in extractive zones and, more recently, connecting anthropological tools and methods to address environmental and societal challenges. She is the author of Critical Theory and the Anthropology of Heritage Landscapes (2017), which drew on over a decade of fieldwork to investigate the sociopolitical contexts of landscapes as heritage. In 2020, she was elected as president of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies



Research Interests

Extractive zones
STEMM Equity in Higher ED
Forensic and Ethnographic methods

Dr. Kendra Calhoun is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is an interdisciplinary linguistic anthropologist with a background in linguistics, and her scholarship engages fields including media studies, communication, sociology, education, and Black Studies. Her qualitative research explores critical questions about language, identity, and power in face-to-face and mediated contexts, with particular focus on the language, culture, and experiences of Black people in the United States.
Dr. Calhoun’s research on language, race, gender, humor, and activism on social media includes studies of Vine, Tumblr, and TikTok. She has analyzed racial comedy on Vine as a platform-specific genre of African American humor, “everyday online activism” among Black Tumblr users, and linguistic innovation on TikTok in response to content moderation policies. Her dissertation, “Competing Discourses of Diversity and Inclusion: Institutional Rhetoric and Graduate Student Narratives at Two Minority Serving Institutions,” analyzed diversity discourses, ideologies, and practices in U.S. colleges and universities and their impacts on the experiences of graduate students of color.
Research interests

sociolinguistics
linguistic anthropology
power
identity
language, race, and ethnicity
online discourse
digital culture
social and entertainment media
African American language and culture
diversity discourse in higher education

Education

PhD, Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2021
BA, English Language & Literature and Experimental Psychology, University of South Carolina, 2013

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Lisa J. Lucero is a professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. As an archaeologist, her interests focus on ritual and power, water management, the impact of climate change on society, sustainability in tropical regions, and the ancestral Maya. She received her PhD from UCLA in 1994 and has been conducting archaeology in Belize for over 30 years, authoring seven books and an array of articles and book chapters. Dr. Lucero uses insights from traditional Maya knowledge to promote tropical sustainability and to address global climate change.
Research interests

Classic Maya
ritual
political power
water management
climate change
sustainability

Education
Ph.D., UCLA, 1994
Website

Dr. Kristin Tully is an anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is Associate Faculty at Ariadne Labs, which is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Additionally, she Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. Her expertise is engaging perinatal patients, family members, and clinicians to understand and address their health needs. Broadly, this work advances health equity by strengthening systems of care to address what individuals need to know, feel, and have happen over time to be safe and well.
Dr. Tully’s program of research leverages community engagement, mixed methods, and human factors engineering to iteratively shape understanding of healthcare strengths/problems and co-develop solutions for effectiveness, sustainability, and spread. She led development of a patented medical device for use with mother-newborn couplets during inpatient postpartum care, the Couplet Care Bassinet. Currently, Dr. Tully represents the UNC Collaborative for Maternal and Infant Health at the National Quality Forum.
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