Pyburn - Ungendering Civilization

Cristina Alcalde received her PhD in Anthropology in 2003 from Indiana University. She also has an MA in Latin American Studies. Her dissertation fieldwork focused on the everyday experiences and forms of resistance of poor women in abusive relationships in Lima, Peru.

Layla Al-Zubaidi studied Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology and Islam Studies at the Free University, Berlin in Germany, and at Indiana University, Bloomington in the United States. She worked in archeological excavations in Europe and the Middle East and wrote her MA thesis on cultural tourism at the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Palmyra, Syria. She is currently based in Ramallah, Palestinian Territories, where she holds a position in a German Green Party political foundation, researching sustainable development, womens rights, and freedom of expression

Sean P. Dougherty has an MA in Classical Studies from Indiana University and is currently pursuing a PhD in physical anthropology at that institution. He has done field research in Belize and Egypt; his doctoral research concerns patterns of trauma among a nineteenth-century pauper cemetery population in Milwaukee, WI.

Candice Marie Lowe is a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia, and a doctoral candidate in Socio-Cultural Anthropology at Indiana University. She has a background in feminist theory and Central Asian Studies, particularly in the client states of the former Soviet Union. In her dissertation, Speaking Our Name: Multiculturalism and the Struggle for National Belonging Among Afro-Creoles in Mauritius, she explores her interests in African diaspora studies, postcolonial nationalism, multiculturalism, gender, music, and social protest formations.

Tracy Luedke is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology and Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Gender Studies at Indiana University. Her dissertation concerns healing in central Mozambique.

Lena Mortensen is the Assistant Director of the Center for Heritage Resource Studies and a PhD candidate in anthropology at Indiana University. She specializes in the social context of archaeology with particular interests in heritage tourism and Central America. She has several publications based on her research on the interrelations between nationalism, politics, tourism, and science in the daily operations of the Copan archaeological park in Honduras.

Laura Pate is a Prehistory Research Fellow at the Glenn Black Laboratory of Indiana University. Her research interests include mortuary practices and ceramic analysis of the native American cultures of the midwestern United States. She is pursuing a PhD in anthropology at Indiana University.

K. Anne Pyburn is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University. She writes about archaeology and ethics, gender, and the Maya. She is principle investigator of the Chau Hiix Project (Belize) and director of the MATRIX Project. http://www.indiana.edu/~arch/saa/matrix/homepage.html.

Gabriel D. Wrobel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Mississippi where he specializes in bioarchaeology and mortuary practices. He has done fieldwork in Egypt and Belize.