Anthropology : Faculty - Bill Wood

W. Warner "Bill" Wood Assistant Professor Office: 327 Farrell Hall Phone: 963-3209 Fax: 963-3215 Email: WoodW@cwu.edu

Education:

• Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997.

Research Interests:

Courses:

• Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (2006-Current)
• The Anthropology of Environmental Issues (2007-Current)
• Many Mexicos: Environmental Cultures of Mexico with Dr. Michael Ervin (Spring Break 2008)
• Cultural and Natural Resource Analysis and Assessment with Dr. Allen Sullivan (2007-Current)
• Material Culture (in development)
• Museum Curation and Collection Management (2007-current)
• Museums and Communities (in development)

Affiliations and Appointments:

• Program Faculty Member, Resource Management, Central Washington University www.cwu.edu/~geograph/rem.html
• Program Faculty Member, Latin American and Latino Studies, Central Washington University www.cwu.edu/~la_studies
• Research Associate, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County www.nhm.org
• Senior Fellow, Environmental Leadership Program www.elpnet.org

Recent Select Publications, Exhibits, and other Creative Work:

• In press Book Manuscript: Made In Mexico: Crafting Zapotec Textiles and Weaver, A Community of Practice Study (for Indiana University Press's "Tracking Globalization" series).
• In review Picturing Pristine Coral Reefs and the Government of Eco-Friendly Tourism at Las Bahías de Huatulco Resort (for The Art of Governance: Visual Culture in Greater Mexico, Mary Coffey and Sarah Hill, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming).
• 2006 Co-authored with D. Ayers, et. al. Harmful Algal Research and Response: A Human Dimensions Strategy. Washington, D.C.: National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
• 2006 "Bound and Gagged Curator's Statement." In See/Hear: Museums and Imagination, ed. K. Jacobson, p. 46. Los Angeles: NHMLAC
• 2005 Book Review: Mayas in the Market Place: Tourism, Globalization, and Cultural Identity. Walter E. Little. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. x+320 pp., illustrations, epilogue, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. American Ethnologist 33(1): posted online February 2006.
• 2005 Co-Curator, Temporary Exhibit: Conversations (February 20 - June 19) Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
• 2003 Textiles oaxaqueños, el arte indígena 'falso', y la 'invasión' mexicana de la Tierra del Encanto. Cuadernos del Sur 9(19): 19-33.
• 2003-04 Curator, Temporary Exhibit: "What is Mexican Folk Art?" (October 19 - January 4) Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
• 2003 co-authored with Bob Rhein, "Creativity, Genius, and Mastery of Tradition: The Spirit of Contemporary Mexican folk Art Comes to L.A." The Naturalist, September/October: 12-14.