Gerry Tierney, Ph.D.Behavioral & Social Sciences
Room: WH 303
Phone: 968-5917
tierney@webster.edu
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Fall 2003 Courses
Areas of Interest:
Alaska Natives: Art/Family Life/Subsistence Practices
Applied Anthropology
Hokkaido, Japan: Family Life/Gender
Qualitative Research Methods: Life
History/Participation Observation
Women's Studies: Women in the Criminal Justice
System/Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Women
Applied Anthropology: (selected projects)
AIDS Prevention Coordinator for Alaska Natives
Needs Assessment for a private homeless shelter-Anchorage, Alaska
Evaluator for a private substance abuse program for women-Anchorage, Alaska
Needs Assessment for the New York State Prison System-Albany, New York
Selected Courses Taught at Webster University:
Applied Anthropology
Culture & Communication
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Understanding the "other" through Ethnographic Film
Women in the Criminal Justice System
Women's Voices (Cross Cultural Perspectives of Women)
Fieldwork/Research
Anchorage, Alaska: Alaska Natives/Homeless/Skid Row/Substance Abuse
Asahikawa, Japan: University Students/Life History of a Japanese Woman/Rural Life on Hokkaido
New York City: Homeless Women/Prison Studies
St. Louis, Missouri: Life Histories of Women
Tampa, Florida: Life Histories of Women/Juvenile Offenders
Teaching: (click on a picture to bring up a larger version)
Alaska
Japan
Thailand
St. Louis, Missouri
Vienna, Austria
Selected Publications:
Topics on Applied Anthropology, Participant
Observation, Homeless Women in Alaska and Gender
Acquisition in Japan.
Papers/Presentations:
Invited presenter and key note speaker to a conference in Sapporo, Japan.
Presented papers at conferences in the United States as well as Alaska, Australia and Japan.
