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	October 31, 2005 Paul Lasley to assume duties in Department of Anthropology Paul Lasley, professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at Iowa State University, has been named chair of the Department of Anthropology, effective Jan.1, 2006. Lasley will succeed Shu-min Huang, professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology, who will retire from Iowa State effective Dec. 31, 2005 after 30 years on campus. Huang has accepted a position with Academia Sinica, a Taiwanese research institute. Nancy Coinman, associate professor of anthropology, will assume many of the day-to-day activities of the department in the new structure as associate chair. "The Department of Anthropology will continue to be a solid, dynamic and independent department at Iowa State University," said Michael Whiteford, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. "Paul (Lasley) will remain as chair of the Department of Sociology in addition to assuming his new duties with anthropology, but these will be two separate entities with no merging or blending of the two units." Whiteford views the change as a temporary situation. "Anthropology continues to enjoy healthy enrollments; the tenure-track faculty all have active research programs; and the department will be making two joint hires in American Indian Studies and Women's Studies this year," Whiteford said. Lasley's research effort focuses on the organization of U.S. agriculture and how changes in agriculture affect rural communities. A major focus of his research examines trends in rural culture and what these trends suggest about the future of rural communities, families and social organizations. Lasley is a co-investigator of the Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll, a series of statewide surveys among farm operators on major agricultural and rural development issues.
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