Spring 1999 Featured Faculty Member
Founders' Award for Scholarship

ANTHONY GALT
Professor
Teaches several cultural anthropology courses, SCD 333--Social Change and Development in Italy, SCD 360--Models and Social Change. Research on southern Italian society. (Click here to see a selection of field photos from southern Italy.) Numerous articles and chapters on: ecology and agriculture, fertility and family size, magic and symbolism, social stratification, and family. Has integrated history and ethnography in Cambridge University Press book Far from the Church Bells; Settlement and Society in an Apulian Town. With L. Smith (see below) author of Models and Social Change, an unconventional text that forms the basis for one of the program core courses. Also published, Town and Country in Locorotondo, in the Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology series. Also active in the development of scholarly venues on the Internet. Editor of  H-SAE, an electronic discussion list and web page affiliated with the Society for the Anthropology of Europe. He serves on the board of that organization. Galt recently conducted six months medical anthropological research and applied anthropological work regarding diabetes on the Island of Pantelleria, Sicily,  site of his Ph.D disseration. Amateur photography occupies much of free time. As an example see his Baird Creek Parkway Photo site. (GALTA@uwgb.edu, MAC A317, 465-2349)