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Stephen L. WhittingtonDr. Steven L. Whittington, preparing the Los Dias De Los Muertos exhibit for the Museum of Anthropology.

Dr. Stephen L. Whittington has been Director of the Museum of Anthropology and Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology since 2002. Since arriving at Wake Forest, he has been concentrating on museum programming and improving conditions for the collections while attempting to find time to continue his research interests in Mesoamerican archeology and human osteology. He curated the exhibit "Peruvian Textiles, Past & Present" at the Museum of Anthropology in 2003. He has received grants from the North Carolina Humanities Council, Mudge Foundation, Wake Forest Social and Behavioral Science Research Fund, Wake Forest Pro Humanitate Fund, Wake Forest Fund for Leadership and Ethics, and Wake Forest Theme Year Mini-Grant Program. He has reviewed articles for the journals Ancient Mesoamerica and Latin American Antiquity and proposals for the National Science Foundation and the Division of Preservation and Access, National Endowment for the Humanities. He has presented public lectures at the Museum of Anthropology and the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, NC, and presented "The End is Near: Disease in the Low-status Population of the Copán State" at the 2002 Chacmool Conference. With colleague Nancy Gonlin he organized a symposium entitled "Recent Research in the Archaeology of the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico" at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, where he and Gonlin also presented a paper, "El Mapa de Teozacoalco: An Early Colonial Guide to Cultural Transformations." He has submitted four articles about university museums and Maya osteology for publication in edited volumes and a magazine. He is co-author, with Roger Nance and Barbara Borg, of Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Iximché (University Press of Florida 2003) and co editor, with David Reed, of Bones of the Maya: Studies of Ancient Skeletons (Smithsonian 1997). [2002]


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