Stephen L. Whittington
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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