Anthropologist Lynn Sibley is PI of Gates Foundation Grant
Anthropologist Lynn Sibley, RN, PhD, is Principal Investigator of a $8,163,298 grant awarded to Emory University's Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Gates Foundation grant is the largest grant received in the history of the School of Nursing. The two and a half year project aims to improve maternal and newborn survival rates in rural Ethiopia. Dr. Sibley is Associate Professor in the Emory School of Nursing and Rollins School of Public Health and Associated Faculty member in the Department of Anthropology. Read more here>>
New Chair Michael Peletz and Associate Chair Sally Gouzoules
Dr. Michael Peletz has been appointed the new Chair of Anthropology and begins his three-year term this fall. Dr. Sarah Gouzoules continues as Associate Chair after a successful term with George Armelagos.
Dr. Peletz received his doctoral degree from the University of Michigan in 1983 and joined Emory in Fall 2006. His teaching and research interests focus on social and cultural theory, gender, sexuality, kinship, law, religion (especially Islam), social history, and modernity, particularly in Malaysia, Indonesia, and other parts of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim. Professor Peletz has done extensive fieldwork in Malaysia and his research has also taken him to Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, and Vietnam. He spent this past summer as a Research Fellow at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology. Dr. Peletz has taught courses at Emory on anthropological theory, gender and sexuality, and Southeast Asia, and is set to teach a new graduate seminar on anthropology and Islam as well as a new undergraduate course on law, discipline, and disorder.
Dr. Gouzoules received her doctoral degree from the University of Chicago and joined the Anthropology department in the Fall of 2000. Her research and teaching interests center on the evolution of primate communication and social behavior. Her work has focused on the evolution of vocal communication systems in Old World monkeys and how these systems may inform our understanding of the evolution of human language. She has a long standing interest in kin selection theory, the evolution of social groups, and the behavior of, especially, macaque monkeys. Dr. Gouzoules teaches courses in both Anthropology and in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology. She also serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Anthropology.
We wish Michael and Sally well as they lead the department into the 2009-2010 school year!