We have growing list of contributors at this stop on the anthropology trail. Our current contributers are:

Cynthia Van Gilder is czarina and co-editor of Ethnography.com.  She is currently Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at St. Mary’s College of California in Moraga, California . A strong believer in the power of four-field anthropology to illuminate the human condition, Cindy’s area of expertise is archeology. Although she has worked at sites from the Palaeolithic to the 19th Century, and from Europe to the American Midwest, her true love is Polynesia, where she has been lucky enough to use household archeology to study gender and family organization.

Donna Lanclos currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. While she is a cultural anthropologist and folklorist by graduate training, she claims to be part archaeologist by marriage. Donna received her PhD in 2000 and is the author of the book At Play in Belfast: Children’s Folklore and Identities in Northern Ireland (2003 Rutgers University Press).

Tony Waters comes to us from the Sociology department at California State University at Chico where he has been a professor since 1996. He is currently on leave from Chico for one year, and teaching in the Department of Communication and Cultural Management at Zeppelin University in southern Germany. Zeppelin is a new private university (four years old) seeking to create a name for training entrepreneurs, and cultural management. In the past, his main interests have been international development and refugees in Thailand, Tanzania, and California. This reflects a former career in the Peace Corps (Thailand), and refugee camps (Thailand and Tanzania). Future blogs will probably reflect this, as well as his experiences at Zeppelin U. His books include: Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan (2001), The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture: Life Beneath of the Marketplace (2007), When Killing is a Crime (2007)

Mark Dawson is czar and co-editor of Ethnography.com.  Currently a Social Scientist with BAE systems, he was formerly a senior strategist with Jump Associates, a new opportunity and strategy development firm in San Mateo, California. He has an MA and MS in Anthropology and Instructional Systems Design respectively, the majority of his work since graduate school has been focused on using ethnographic methods for product design and development, design strategy and new opportunity development. He worked with a number of product development firms helping them bring ethnography methods into the process. Just prior to Jump, was Sr. Anthropologist with Eastman Kodak Corporation in Rochester, NY. Given his role as a corporate shill, the other bloggers believe that Mark goes home at night and secretly bathes in Spanish doubloon’s.

Jennifer Jones is a student at California State University, Fresno, finishing up BA degrees in both history and Anthropology (cultural focus). After reading the Epic 2006 conference proceedings, she became interested in applied business anthropology. Currently she is involved in multiple projects including a study on downtown Fresno revitalization efforts, an entrepreneur mentorship program, and Engineering for Peoples and Markets, an inter-disciplinary team that includes students from anthropology, business, and engineering. In addition to this, she works as an office manager for a non-profit program focused on American Indian health access, education, and advocacy. Her educational goals include completing an M.B.A. and then a Ph.D. in anthropology. While her social life has become limited with all of these various projects, she enjoys discovering new music and reading about places she’d like to travel to in the future. She the the recipient of the first Ethnography.com grant to assist her to attend the EPIC 2008 conference in Denmark.