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Michael B. Whiteford

Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Dean Michael Whiteford
jefe@iastate.edu

Presentations

• "Innovations"
  Presented to ISU's President's Council
  September 19, 2008
  PowerPoint
  

College Report

• Report to the President & Provost - December 2008

From the Dean

• State of the College: Fall LAS Convocation Remarks - Fall 2009
• Forward Thinking: An Academic Roadmap 2005-2010 - April 2007

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 more than 7,000 majors among 22 departments, one professional school and 14 cross-disciplinary programs. The college's 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).