University

Person, Position

Miscellaneous Relevant Comments

Resources for Students?

CMA Classes?

Faculty Interest?

SUNY at Buffalo

Don Pollock, Chair, Anthropology

I'll respond to your survey presently, but I wanted to comment immediately that the term "computer-mediated" anthropology is slightly ambiguous. We have been doing, literally, computer-mediated anthropology for decades -- I used a big mainframe computer to analyze the HRAF database on punch-cards more than 30 years ago as an undergraduate. That's certainly a form of computer-mediated anthropology. I assume you mean internet-mediated anthropology, access to which is usually through computers. Sorry to be pedantic, but those of us who come from a slightly older generation of anthropologists may find it rather amusing to privilege the 'computer' part of the term, when we used computers too, probably before you were born :) -- and it's the internet that's the great new medium...  Again, I'll respond in a week or two, and good luck with the survey -- it looks interesting and important, despite my tiny nit-pick....

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Truman State University

Amber Johnson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology

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We are an undergraduate department of sociology & anthropology. None of the faculty have research interests in this area, though some of us would be willing to work with a student on an independent project in this (or many other) area(s).

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NO

Tufts University

(Anonymous)

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nothing beyond basic training in theory and ethnography

no

no

Universiteit van Amsterdam

Peter Mesker

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There is a master within the faculty of social and behaviourial sciences called   Master in Science and Technology Studies

Yes, within that specific master mentioned above,. Sometimes in some classes within related fields.

Yes, prof. Stuart blume

University of Calgary

Alan Smart

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none of the faculty have done research in this area, although a couple of us have supervised MA dissertations related to this. However, several of us do research in the general area of globalization, and thus have some familiarity with the issues.

closest is 'the ethnography of global/local dynamics' (undergraduate), which I teach

not specifically

University of Colorado at Denver

(Anonymous)

We are an extremely small department (only 7 faculty members) and don't do anything related to this topic

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University of Illinois at Chicago

(Anonymous)

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nothing

no

no

University of Indianapolis

Greg Reinhardt, Professor of Anthropology and Chair, Dept. of Anthropology

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Nothing 

No.

No

University of Mississippi

Jay K. Johnson, Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

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We have a GIS/remote sensing lab and do a lot of geophysics with our archaeology graduate students but I suspect that this is not what you're talking about

no

no

University of Missouri, St. Louis

Susan Brownell, Chair, Department of Anthropology

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I'm not sure what you mean.We have many courses that are partially offered online, even our classroom courses have large internet components through the universitiy's "Blackboard" software .We have had several students who did "CMA" for their senior theses.

No.

Many of us utilize the internet for research and teaching. 

University of Nevada, Reno

(Anonymous)

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Nothing, really

No

No

University of North Carolina -Charlotte

Janet Levy, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Noah - Your message to our chair was forwarded to me.  I just want to acknowledge receipt of this survey.  We are a B.A. program in anthorpology, and do not have courses or resources in this area.  I have occasionally had students do research via the Web: one student studied web-based simulation games like "Dungeons and Dragons"; another student used chat rooms to investigate attitudes toward cloning.  I have found that these research projects, while based on interesting ideas, did not utilize any scholarly research on web-based inquiry, and, thus, became kind of student autobiography rather than research.

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University of North Dakota

Melinda Leach, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology

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Relatively little, except access to computers where they could conduct internet and online research.

No

No

University of Northern British Columbia

(Anonymous)

I am not very helpful but did try to fill out some of your questionnaire.If you wanted to resend this to Dr. Michel Bouchard (michel@unbc.ca) late in August when he returns from the field, he might be able to answer more fully.

There is a Social Sciences Research Laboratory that is fully digitally equipped, however to my knowledge, no undergrad or grad has yet to seek access in order to carry out computer-mediated anthropology.

No, however many students take the Geography GIS related courses.

At present no one has the expertise, though I am interested in applications of GIS as is, I believe Dr. Michel Bouchard.

University of Notre Dame

(Anonymous)

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none--unless I don't understand what it is…

no.

no.

University of Pittsburgh

(Anonymous)

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Nicole Constable has done some work in this area.  See: Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and 'Mail Order' Marriages.  U. California Press 2003.   See especially chapter 2 "Ethnography in Imagined Virtual Communities."

In Nicole Constable's class on Transnationalism and Gender (graduate course) this topic is covered briefly.

Nicole Constable