Douglas William Hume, Ph.D.

Northern Kentucky University
Department of Sociology/Anthropology/Philosophy
228 Landrum Academic Center
Highland Heights, KY 41099

Phone: (859) 572-5702
FAX: (859) 572-6086

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Education

Research Interests

  • Cultural anthropology; applied anthropology; ethnoecology; analysis of inter- and intracultural variation; cultural models; ritual; conservation; agriculture; linguistics; Internet culture; Belize; Madagascar; North America.

Teaching Positions

Graduate Assistant/Teaching Positions at the University of Connecticut

  • 2001-2005 Instructor (Graduate Assistant).
  • 2001 Graduate Assistant - Integration of Audio/Video for Teaching Anthropology.
  • 2000-2003 Anthropology Computer Lab Technician/Webmaster.
  • 1999-2001 Teaching Assistant (Graduate Assistant).

Research Experience

  • 2008-date Transmission of Ecological Knowledge in Rural and Urban Kentucky.
  • 2007-date Student Identification of "Racial Types", Kentucky.
  • 2004 Dissertation Research, Madagascar.
  • 2004 Risk Taking and Environmental Beliefs, Connecticut.
  • 2003-2007 Student Identification of "Racial Types", Connecticut.
  • 2003 Age and Environmental Beliefs, Connecticut and Internet.
  • 2003 Dissertation Research, Madagascar.
  • 2002 Cultural Models of the Environment, Connecticut and Internet.
  • 2001 Pre-Dissertation Research, Madagascar.
  • 1999-2000 The Internet and Birders, Internet.
  • 1998-1999 Master's Thesis Research, Hospital Operating Room, California.
  • 1995-1997 Assistant Archæology Laboratory Director, California.
  • 1994-1997 Assistant Archæology Field Director, California.
  • 1994 Groundstone/Inversion Analysis, California.
  • 1993-1994 Hospital Operating Room Ethnography, California.
  • 1993 Projectile Point Analysis, California.

Applied Anthropology Projects

Publications

Papers and Posters Presented

  • Submitted Teaching Applied Anthropology Through Service-Learning: Successes and Failures of Three Community Projects. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Mérida, México, March 24-27, 2010.
  • Accepted Cultural Models of Farming, Rice and Nature: Guiding Policy using Cognitive Anthropology in Eastern Madagascar and Northern Kentucky. in Making Cognitive Approaches in Environmental Anthropology Count: Bridging Findings to Policy. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 5, 2009.
  • Accepted Cultural Models of Nature and Conservation in Northern Kentucky. Kentucky Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Highland Heights, Kentucky, November 13-14 2009.
  • 2009 Oral History and Conservation Attitudes at Hawthorne Crossing, Kentucky. With Lindsey Barley, Timothy Carpenter, and Laura Burford. Anthropologists and Sociologists of Kentucky Annual Meeting in Murray, Kentucky.  November 7, 2009.
  • 2009 Plant Discourses: Cultural Implications of Plants on Development in Madagascar. Chair and Organizer. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 20, 2009.
  • 2009 Vary Gasy: Meanings of Rice and Implications for Agricultural Development in Eastern Madagascar. in Plant Discourses: Cultural Implications of Plants on Development in Madagascar. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 20, 2009.
  • 2009 Cultural Consensus and the Transmission of Knowledge. in Scientific Methods in Cognitive Anthropology Research. Society for Anthropological Sciences Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, February 20, 2009.
  • 2008 "My father said it was so": The Transmission of Ecological Knowledge in Rural and Urban Kentucky. Poster Session Chair. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, November 21, 2008.
  • 2008 Farmer’s Categories of "Wet" and "Dry": Implications for Agricultural Development in Madagascar. Meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Memphis, Tennessee, March 28.
  • 2007 Medicinal Plants as Conservation Capital in Andasibe, Madagascar. Poster. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., November 29.
  • 2007 Malagasy Healers as Conservationists. Session Chair. Anthropologists and Sociologists of Kentucky Annual Meeting at Northern Kentucky University, September 22.
  • 2007 Rice Preferences in Madagascar: Obstacles in the Sustainable Development of Agriculture. Meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Tampa, Florida, March 30.
  • 2006 Obstacles in the Agricultural Development of Eastern Madagascar: Variation in Cultural Models of Rice Types by Scientists, Consumers and Farmers. Poster Session Chair. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in San Jose, California, November 18.
  • 2006 Agriculture in Madagascar: Comparison of the Rituals of Swidden and Irrigated Farming. Meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Vancouver, British Columbia, April 1.
  • 2005 Swidden and Irrigated Farming Rituals in Andasibe, Madagascar. Poster. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., December 2.
  • 2005 Malagasy Swidden Agriculture: The Influence of Conservation Organizations on Indigenous Knowledge. Poster. Meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 9.
  • 2004 Swidden Agriculture: The Influence of Conservation Organizations on Indigenous Knowledge. Roy Rappaport Panel. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, November 17-21 (Atlanta, December 18).
  • 2004 Agricultural Change in Eastern Madagascar. Session Chair. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas, April 3.
  • 2003 Swidden Farming in Madagascar: Cultural Models versus Actual Behavior. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, November 20.
  • 2002 Discounting, Human Effects and Place: Relationships Between Cultural Models of the Environment. Poster Session Chair. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, November 22.
  • 2002 Conservation and Cultural Models in Madagascar. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, March 9.
  • 2001 Community as 'Place': The Tragedy of the Commons, Cooperation and Community-Based Conservation in Madagascar. Part of organized panel, Ecology, Culture and the Transformation of Values: Place-based Analyses and Globalization, to the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., November 28.
  • 2000 Birder Identity and Environmental Conservation: Is Knowledge Enough? American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, November 19.
  • 1998 North American Culture Areas: Uses and Limitations of Population Patterning. Poster. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 5.
  • 1996 Projectile Points and Groundstone Artifacts from CA-ORA-35: A Preliminary Analysis. Southern California Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting at Loyola Marymount University, California, May 4.
  • 1996 Investigations at the Nichols Institute Site (CA-ORA-840a): An Early Occupation at the "Milling Stone Culture". with L. Joesink-Mandeville and C. Cameron. Southern California Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting at Loyola Marymount University, California, May 4.
  • 1995 Using the Inversion Method in a California Archæological Site. Poster Session Chair. Archæological Institute of America Annual Meeting at San Diego, California, December 27.
  • 1995 Environmental Archæology: The Use of Biology, Geology, and Geography in Archæological Interpretation. Southern California Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting at California State University, Fullerton, California, May 6.
  • 1995 The Inversion Method: Understanding Vertical Distribution Within Archæological Sites. Southwestern Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California, April 8.
  • 1995 Environmental Archæology: The Use of Biology, Geology, and Geography in Archæological Interpretation. Sacramento Anthropological Society Symposium "Anthropology at Work: Show and Tell in the Four Fields." Sacramento, California, March 18.

Consulting Presentations

  • 2009 Human Communities. Proctor and Gamble, Clay Street Project. Cincinnati, Ohio, February 10.

Grants and Fellowships

  • 2009 University-community Partnership Mini-Grant, University of Northern Kentucky.
  • 2008 Faculty Summer Fellowship, University of Northern Kentucky.
  • 2004 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Connecticut.
  • 2004 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation (BCS-0349981, James Boster PI).
  • 2004 Extraordinary Expense Award, Graduate School, University of Connecticut.
  • 2002 Travel Grant, University of Connecticut, Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • 2001 Summer Research Grant, University of Connecticut Anthropology Department, Preliminary Dissertation Research, Madagascar.
  • 2001 Summer Research Fellowship, University of Connecticut Anthropology Department, Preliminary Dissertation Research, Madagascar.
  • 2000 Travel Grant, University of Connecticut, American Anthropological Association Meeting, San Francisco, California.
  • 2000 Summer Research Grant, University of Connecticut Anthropology Department, Intensive French Language Course, Paris, France.
  • 1994 Departmental Associations Council, CSU Fullerton, publication grant for program of 1st Annual Anthropology Student Symposium, Anthropological Perspectives, Volume 3, and 1st Annual Anthropology Students Symposium.

Honors and Awards

  • 2009 Master Advisor, Northern Kentucky University.
  • 2004 Sixth Annual Rappaport Panel, Anthropology and Environment Section, American Anthropological Association.
  • 2002 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Connecticut.
  • 1999 Professional Achievement Award, Anthropology Department, CSU Fullerton.
  • 1995 Special Project Award, Anthropology Department, CSU, Fullerton.
  • 1995 Organizational Excellence Award, Anthropology Department, CSU, Fullerton.
  • 1994 Lambda Alpha, Eta Chapter, Honors, Anthropology Department, CSU, Fullerton.
  • 1994 Distinguished Service Award, Anthropology Department, CSU, Fullerton.
  • 1994 Organizational Excellence Award, Anthropology Department, CSU, Fullerton.

Professional Memberships

Professional Activities

Professional Training

  • Short Course on Behavior Measurement in Naturalistic Settings. Instructors: Raymond Hames and Michael Paolisso. Supported by the National Science Foundation. Duke Marine Labs, Beaufort, North Carolina, July 13–17, 2009.
  • Short Course on Social Network Analysis. Instructors: Jeffrey C. Johnson and Christopher McCarty. Supported by the National Science Foundation. Duke Marine Labs, Beaufort, North Carolina, July 20–24, 2009.

Service Activities

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