The Directory of Research and Researchers at Brown: Douglas D. Anderson

Archaeology, ethnography, hunter-gatherer ecology, environmental management in taditional societies, ethnonationalism, North America, Circum Arctic, Southeast Asia.

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In 1960 Anderson graduated in Anthropology (major) and Geology (minor) from the University of Washington before going to Brown University as the first graduate student in the field of anthropology thee, with a focus in Arctic anthropology. After his MA in 1962 he spent a Fulbright year in Denmark studying Arctic collections at the Nationalmuseet and excavating in Godthaab Fjord, Greenland. He then attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his Ph.D. 1967. He began teaching at Brown University in 1965, and in 1973 developed the department's Laboratory for Circumpolar Studies, located at the university's Haffenreffer Museum of anthropology, Bristol Rhode Island.
In the 1970's he expanded his research interests to include Southeast Asia, with a focus on Pleistocene and Early-Middle Holocene archaeology.

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DOUGLAS D. ANDERSON, Ph.D., U. Pennsylvania 1967
Professor of Anthropology and Director, Laboratory for Circumpolar Studies
Anthropology
Phone: +1 401 863 3251
Phone 2: +1 401 863 7060
E-mail: Douglas_Anderson@Brown.EDU

Douglas D. Anderson's Brown Research URL:
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Douglas_D._Anderson

Brown collaborators:

Wanni Anderson

Collaborators at other institutions:
Gromet, L. Peter (Brown University Geological Sciences, but not on above list of Brown Faculty Members)

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