Rodney Carlos Kirk, Ph.D (emeritus) kirk1rc@cmich.edu
 
 

Education

Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1975
M.A., Michigan State University, 1969
Peace Corp, Chile Rural Development Project, 1964-66      Peace Corps Training, University of New Mexico, 1964
A.B., University of California, 1964
 
 

Teaching Expertise

Cultural Anthropology
Cultures of Latin America
Hispanic Cultures in the U.S.
Global Environmental Issues
 
 

Research Interests

Latin America
Latinos/Hispanics
Sociocultural Change
Cultural Ecology
 
 

Selected Publications

"Are Physical Anthropology Textbooks Color Blind?"  Transforming Anthropology 12 (2) in press.  With Leonard Lieberman, Michael Corcoran, and Christy Watterson-O’Neil. 2005

 "The Race Concept in Six Regions: Variation without Consensus."  Collegium Antropologicum 28 (2): 907-21.  With Leonard Lieberman, KA Kaszycka, AJ Martinez Fuentes, L Yablonsky, G Strkalj, Q Wang, and L Sun.  2004.

Review of  "The Myth of Human Races" by Alain Corcos.  Michigan Academician, Vol. 30, No. 4, (1998): 483 - 485.

Lieberman, Leonard and Rodney Carlos Kirk.  "Teaching About Human Variation:  An Anthropological Tradition for the 21st Century."  Teaching Anthropology.  Eds. Conrad Kottak, et al.  Mayfield Publishing Co., 1997.  193 - 207.

Lieberman, Leonard and Rodney Carlos Kirk. "The Trial of Darwin is Over:  Religious Voices for Evolution and the 'Fairness' Doctrine."  Creation/Evolution, Journal of the National Center for Science Education, Vol.16:2, 1997.
 
 
 
 

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