Research In Ethnobiology
With five ethnobiologists on our permanent faculty, WSU offers unsurpassed training in ethnobiology. Our research examines past and present relationships of human societies with plants and animals. We integrate ethnobotany, paleoethnobotany, ethnozoology, paleoethnozoology and ethnoecology within broader sociocultural and archaeological dynamics of sustainability, societal scale, human health, and human evolution. Students should apply to the Cultural or Archaeology program depending which best aligns with their research interests. We have strong funding prospects, we seek graduate students to mentor and with whom to engage in research, and we welcome you to contact us. Please click on the names below to learn more about each of our faculty members.
Faculty:
Dr. John Bodley is a broad sociocultural ethnoecologist with research related to cultural ecology; societal power and scale; plant, animal and other natural resource use and sustainability (Amazon, Caribbean, Northwest US).
Dr. John Jones is a paleoethnobotanist and palynologist whose research reconstructs past environments and landscapes and the origins of agriculture, particularly in the New World (South America, Central America, North America, China).
Dr. Marsha Quinlan is an ethnobotanist and medical anthropologist. She examines usage, taxonomy and traditional ecological knowledge of plants and animals, with particular attention to health, ethnomedicine, and medical ethnobotany (NE Amazon, Caribbean, US).
Dr. Steven Weber is a paleoethnobotanist and founding member of the Society for Ethnobiology. He examines the relationship between subsistence systems, material culture and settlement systems (India, Japan, Southwestern US).
Course Information: The Department of Anthropology currently offers undergraduate courses in Cultural Ecology, and Past Environments and Culture (Sustainability). At the graduate level we offer seminars in Zooarchaeology; Palynology; and, Settlement and Agro-Pastoralism; and we are developing a seminar in Ecological Anthropology and Ethnobiology.
Main Office Contact Info:
Department of Anthropology College Hall 150 Phone: 509.335.3441
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