Academic interests

International learning and partnerships; modern Greece; migration, settlement, and the construction of community in contemporary life; tourism, travel narratives, and archaeological sites.

Awards

• IU Amoco Foundation Award 1985,
• IUPUI Student Council Outstanding Educator Award 1985,
• IUPUI Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Teaching 1990,
• Honorable Mention from the National Association of Student Anthropologists 1994,
• FACET Award 1996,
• Lola Lohse Award Mentoring Award 1998,
• School of Liberal Arts Outstanding Faculty Award 2002,
• SLA Student Council Outstanding Student Advisor Award 2002,
• Trustees Teaching Award 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002.

Publications

• The Landscape and People of the Franchthi Region  (Indiana University Press 1987);
• Constructed Meanings: Form and Process in Greek Architecture  (University of Minnesota 1995);
• A Contingent Countryside: Settlement, Economy, and Land Use in the Southern Argolid Since 1700 (Stanford University Press in press);
• thirty articles and twelve book reviews.

Service

• Editor, Journal of Modern Greek Studies 1999-2002;
• President, School of Liberal Arts Faculty Assembly 1998-2000;
• Chair Committee on Teaching, American Anthropological Association 2001-03;
• President-Elect, General Anthropology Division, American Anthropological Association, 2004-7;
• plus membership on numerous university and professional committees.