Recent Faculty Activities (2008-2009)

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• Brian Haley is joint editor of the new interdisciplinary book, Imagining Globalization: Language, Identities, and Boundaries (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009), along with Ho Hon Leung, Matthew Hendley, and Robert Compton. He also contributed a chapter based on his own research entitled, “Immigration and Indigenization in the Mexican Diaspora in the Southwestern United States.” The chapter explores differences in identity between historically distinct waves of immigrants from what is now Mexico, and especially looks at claims to indigeneity within the United States and how those are related to anti-immigrant sentiment and the broader context of the politics of identity within the modern multicultural nation-state.

· Cindy Klink and Renee Walker were coauthors on a paper entitled “Combining Archaeology, Sedimentology, and GPR Stratigraphy to Elucidate Floodplain Development, Charlotte Creek, NY,” presented by Les Hasbargen of the Department of Earth Sciences at the Fall 2009 meeting of the Geological Society of America, Portland, Oregon. SUNY Oneonta student Emmon Johnson was also a coauthor.

· Don Hill has published a review of Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad’s Carnival Musics by J Guilbault (University of Chicago Press) in the latest issue of New West Indian Guide (Vol. 83, 2009).

• Sallie Han presented a paper entitled “A Healthy Love of Learning: The Pediatric Well-Child Visit as Literary Event” at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Society for Medical Anthropology, Yale University, September 24–27, 2009. She also co-chaired a workshop on “Motherhood Beyond Mothers: Negotiating Opportunities of Kin.”

• John Relethford has published the eighth edition of his introductory textbook, The Human Species: An Introduction to Biological Anthropology (McGraw-Hill, 2010).

• Brian Haley has published a book review entitled “Is Collaborative Anthropology Better?” in Current Anthropology (50:577–579, 2009). The review is of the book Abalone Tales: Collaborative Explorations of Sovereignty and Identity in Native California, by L.W. Field et al.
  
  
• John Relethford was one of several scientists interviewed in a new story on new research on Neandertal mitochondrial DNA sequences in the July 17, 2009 issue of the journal Science
  
  
• John Relethford published a paper entitled “Race and global patterns of phenotypic variation” in the latest issue of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (139:16-22, 2009). This paper is part of a special symposium issue on “Race Reconciled: How Biological Anthropologists View Human Variation.”
  
  
• Tracy Betsinger presented a paper entitled "Urbanization and infection: Trends from Medieval Poland" at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, held in Chicago, April 1-4. She co-authored two additional papers presented at the meetings: "The history of European infectious diseases: Skeletal evidence of tuberculosis, leprosy, and treponematosis" (with Charlotte Roberts, et al.) and "Tooth development models predict Carabelli cusp variation" (with Theresa Weston, et al.).
  
  
• John Relethford presented a paper entitled “Geographic structure of global craniometric variation” as part of a symposium on “Quantitative Genetic Approaches to Human Phenotypic Evolution” at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, held in Chicago, April 1-4. Relethford was also a coauthor on a poster presentation entitled “Social stratification of height in postfamine Ireland (1860-1910).”
  
  
• Tracy Betsinger has been selected to be on the Archaeological Society of America’s 2009-2010 lecture progam.
  
  
• Sallie Han published a commentary entitled “Imaging babies through belly talk” in the February 2009 issue of Anthropology News. The commentary can be accessed by clicking here.
  
  
• Brian Haley presented a paper entitled “Is it family or industrial? Some implications of Goldschmidt’s forgotten data” at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, California, November 20, 2008.
  
  
• Sallie Han presented a paper entitled “Class affects: Love of books, parenting, and inequality in contemporary North America” at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, California, November 19-23, 2008. The paper was part of a session chaired by Sallie on “Imagined Futures and Limited Presents: Engaging Parenting and Inequality in Contemporary North America.”
  
  
• Renee Walker participated in the annual meeting of the Southeast Archaeological Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, November 12-15, 2008. She serves as Associate Editor for Book Reviews and is the Chair of the student paper prize committee.
  
  
• Cynthia Klink presented a paper entitled “The sedentarization process in the Lake Titicaca basin: Insights from pattern of raw material use” at the 27^th Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, October 1-12, 2008. This paper reports results of her field research into early hunting-gathering land use patterns in the Peruvian Lake Titicaca basin.
  
  
• John Relethford published a review of the book “The World From Beginnings to 4000 BCE” by I. Tattersall, in the online journal PaleoAnthropology (2008:251–252). You can access the review by clicking here.
  
  
• Tracy Betsinger is coauthor of a paper entitled “Dental crown size and sex hormone concentrations: Another look at the development of sexual dimorphism” in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (137:324–333, 2008).
  
  
• John Relethford has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the online science journal PLoS One (Public Library of Science)
  
  
• John Relethford is coauthor of a paper entitled “Postfamine stature and socioeconomic status in Ireland” in the American Journal of Human Biology (20:726-731, 2008). The senior author was Kristin Young and the other coauthor was Michael Crawford, both of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kansas.
  
  
• John Relethford presented the annual European Field Studies Program Distinguished Lecture to the Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, October 17, 2008. The title of his talk was “Settlement, Invasion, and the Genetic History of Ireland.”
  
• Don Hill has been awarded a grant through EVIADA (Ethnomusicological Video for Instruction and Analysis Digital Archive) under an umbrella grant funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This grant will be used for digitizing film and video of music and dance rituals that he collected in Carriacou, Grenada, between 1917 and 2001.
  
  
• Brian Haley has published a commentary in American Anthropologist entitled "Tveskov's straw man: A response to 'Social identity and culture change on the southern northwest coast,' a paper that had been published last year in the same journal.
  
• John Relethford has published a review paper entitled "Genetic evidence and the modern human origins debate" in the journal Heredity (100:555-563, 2008).
  
• John Relethford has published a review of the book “Mapping Our Ancestors: Phylogenetic Approaches in Anthropology and Prehistory,” edited by CP Lipo, MJ O’Brien, M Collard, and SJ Sheenan, in the latest issue of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (136:243-244, 2008).
  
• John Relethford is the author of an article in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology entitled “Geostatistics and spatial analysis in biological anthropology” (136:1-10, 2008).
  
• John Relethford is the author of an entry entitled "Modern human origins: The 'Out of Africa' debate" in the online Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (John Wiley and Sons).
  
• Don Hill has published an entry entitled "Ethnomusicology" in the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Vol. 3 (ed. by W.A. Darity, Jr.), second edition, 2008. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, pp. 19-20.
  
• Don Hill's research was highlighted in an article in The Tri-State Defender. The article outlines Hill's research on locating the heirs of blues singers recorded by Hill and others in the 1950s and 1960s. The article can be read here.
  
• John Relethford presented an invited paper entitled “The State of the Art in the Origin of Humans” as part of a symposium on “Major Transformations in Evolution: The State of the Art and Public Understanding” at the 174^th annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston, February 18. The purpose of this symposium was to present current developments in evolution biology with particular focus on what the public and the media need to know about major evolutionary transitions. The topics included presentation on major evolutionary changes, including the origin of life, the origin of body plans, and the origin of tetrapods. Relethford spoke on human origins, and described a “top-10” list of what the public and media should know about human origins and evolution.
  
• John Relethford is the author of an article entitled "Genetic variation among populations" in Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, edited by J.H. Moore (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, Volume 2, pp. 29-34.
  
  

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