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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. |