Rodney Carlos Kirk, Ph.D (emeritus)

email: 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

Areas of 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.