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Jean S. Aigner is professor of Geography and Anthropology at Cal Poly Pomona. She attended UCLA and the University of Wisconsin, Madison for her academic degrees. She taught archaeology at the Universities of Connecticut and Alaska-Fairbanks before becoming the head of international programming at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and, more recently, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. For most of her academic career her research and publications focussed on the archaeology and paleoanthropology of Homo erectus and early Homo sapiens in China and on prehistoric and protohistoric Aleut archaeology in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. In the 1980s, for five years she directed the cultural resources survey of the proposed Alaska gas pipeline and for five years conducted archaeological surveys in the eastern Aleutians. She has also worked in Kazakstan, southern Siberia, Cyprus, and Thailand. For the last 15 years she has advised doctoral students in higher education administration and worked to promote the importance of anthropological perspectives in modern society and to expand international education and international opportunities for faculty, staff and students.