Disciplinary Interests: ANTHROPOLOGY

Matthew Kruger-Ross
Matthew Kruger-Ross is a graduate student in instructional technology at NC State University in Raleigh, NC.
Michael Gonzalez
Michael Gonzalez is a veteran academic technologist. His recent work was at Stanford University serving the departments of History, Art History, Drama, and Overseas Studies Program. He is the founder of the NVMGonzalez Writers Workshop an organization deveoted to promoting the works of writer NVM Gonzalez and to encouraging writing among minority youth and seniors. He lectures at California State University East Bay and City College San Francisco.
Eric Kansa
Eric C. Kansa is cofounder and Executive Director of the Alexandria Archive Institute and chief developer of "Open Context" (www.opencontext.org/database/browse.php), an online system for sharing primary field data for archaeology and other environmental and social sciences. This follows a position on the faculty of Harvard University, where he served as Lecturer and Undergraduate Tutor for the Department of Anthropology. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a BA in Cultural Anthropology and continued his education at Harvard University beginning in 1995. There, he earned his doctorate in 2001 and has focused his archaeological research on the interactions between ancient states and neighboring societies. His current efforts focus on open dissemination strategies, information architectures for the social sciences, and intellectual property frameworks for online scholarship. These efforts work towards enhancing the research value and creative potential of world cultural heritage. I am currently the volunteer head of the Society for American Archaeology's Digital Data Interest Group.
Nancy Fried Foster
Nancy Fried Foster is Lead Anthropologist for the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries and co-manager of the Libraries' Digital Initiatives Unit. She conducts research on faculty, staff, and students to document work habits and identify needs for web-based products to support research and writing. Before joining the library staff, Nancy conducted research in small indigenous communities in Brazil and Papua New Guinea as well as in educational, commercial, and not-for-profit organizations in the United States and England. She has a Ph.D. in applied anthropology from Columbia University and a diploma in social anthropology from Oxford.