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    Michael B. Whiteford

    Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    Presentations
    • "Collaborations Across Iowa State University"
      Given to ISU's President's Council
      May 20, 2005
      News Article
      PowerPoint

    Reports

  • Report to the President & Report - October 2007

    • From the Dean


    News
  • From the ground up - Inside Iowa State, April 15, 2005

    Question and Answer Session with Dean Whiteford - Around LAS Alumni, Fall 2004

    Michael Whiteford named LAS Dean - March 11, 2004

    • Dean's Lecture Series
    • Eli Rosenberg: Nov. 14, 2007 More

    Personal Home Page
  • www.anthr.iastate.edu/whiteford.shtml

    • Brief Bio
  • Dr. Michael Whiteford is professor of anthropology and the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University. As dean, Dr. Whiteford oversees Iowa State’s largest college with almost 7,500 majors among 22 departments, one professional school and 15 cross-disciplinary programs. The college’s more than 500 full-time faculty members teach approximately 60 percent of all student credit hours at Iowa State.

    Dr. Whiteford’s research interests focus on alternative curing practices and health-care decision-making processes. His geographic area of specialty is Latin America, and he has worked in Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. Dr. Whiteford’s research results have been published in journals such as Medical Anthropological Quarterly, Human Organization, Medical Anthropology, and Social Science and Medicine. He is co-author (with John Friedl) of an introductory anthropology textbook entitled The Human Portrait. With his brother, he edited Crossing Currents: Continuity and Change in Latin America, a volume published by Prentice-Hall, Inc. From 1993 to 2007 Dr. Whiteford was the editor of the quarterly Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter.

    Dr. Whiteford holds a Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley (1972).
 Mike Whiteford with arms folded in office

Michael Whiteford
Dean
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Professor
Anthropology

229 Catt Hall
515-294-3220
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