LYNN WALTER
Ben J. and Joyce Rosenberg Professor of Anthropology and Social Change and Development (On leave 2007-08)
Cultural anthropology and women's studies. Teaches Family, Kin and Community and Varieties of World Culture in anthropology; Women, Race and Culture in women’s studies and the Social Change and Development area course on Denmark. Co-Director of the Center for Food in Community and Culture. Editor of Women's Issues Worldwide: Europe; Women’s Rights: A Global View (2000;, and author of Ethnicity, Economy and the State in Ecuador (1981); and articles on indigenous communities in Ecuador, women’s concerns in Denmark, and feminist anthropology. Editor-in-Chief for a six-volume series Women’s Issues Worldwide (2003), as well as writing and publishing articles about women and welfare, and the implied contradictions between being a culturally relativistic anthropologist and a politically concerned feminist. Significant international experiences in Denmark and Ecuador. (walterl@uwgb.edu, MAC B308, 465-2474)

JILL WHITE
Interim Chair of Anthropology and Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Human Development

Teaches Cross Cultural Human Development, Introduction to Human Development, Middle Childhood & Adolescence, and Human Sexuality, Trained as a psychological anthropologist, but with grounding in political economy, she does research with Mexican teens in the US and in Mexico, and is interested in issues of immigration, education and identity. Dr. White offers students opportunities to be involved with various cultural communities in Wisconsin and to assist her with qualitative fieldwork. ( whiteji@uwgb.edu, MAC C315, 465-2368)

JANET SPETH
Instructor of Anthropology

Teaches Introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology. My research interests center on Wisconsin archeology.  Right now I am working on the use of freshwater mussels in northeastern Wisconsin, Late Woodland ceramics from the west side of Green Bay, a project for the Town of Scott which builds on my earlier research on Red Banks, and a site excavated this summer in Trempealeau County under the direction of Dr. Thomas Pleger of UW Colleges.  Other research interests include the use of birds at archeological sites and fossil avifauna in general. ( spethj@uwgb.edu, MAC B327, 465-2979)

James M. (JIM) WHITE
Instructor of Anthropology

Archaeological anthropology.  Teaches Varieties of World Culture.  Involved in cultural resource management projects around the Midwest prior to completing doctoral dissertation fieldwork in the desert of Nuevo Leon, Mexico.  Research focus in Mexico and in Wisconsin is upon the early hunter-gatherers of the New World, particularly the earliest Americans who arrived on the continent more than 12,000 years ago.  Generally interested in questions of major culture change such as the First Americans, but also including the development of agriculture and transformations into state-level political complexity.  Also fascinated by the philosophical aspects of human cultures, particularly the role religion plays in human lives.  (whitej@uwgb.edu, MAC B319, 465-2361)