Biological Anthropology Lab

 

 

 

 

Sea Otter in Alaska

 

 

              Aurora (at north of Anchorage)

 

 

 

Noriko Seguchi Ph.D.

 

Social Science Building 240

Department of Anthropology, University of Montana

Missoula, MT 59812-1001

Email: noriko.seguchi@umontana.edu

 

University of Montana　　　Department of Anthropology

Presentations and Publications

 

 

 

Current Research Projects:

 

* Kennewick Man Research

* 3 D analysis of alveolar prognathism : the people of the Edo Period, Japan

* Reevaluation of craniometoric variation using the Relethford-Blangero model

* Early South Americans in Craniofacial metric and Odontometoric Perspectives: Lagoa Santa (using the Relethford-Blangero Model)

* A craniometric view from the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene of East Asia: the Zhoukoudian Upper Cave and Minatogawa

* We collaborate with Museum of Anthropology University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

 

Research News:

 

Cryse Heiner (and N. Seguchi) presented “Tuberculosis Rates Among the Ainu 1909-1916,” Ryan Schmidt (and N. Seguchi) presented “A bridge between West and East: A Craniofacial Perspective on Anatolian Biological Diversity & Turkish Population History and Structure,” and Bonny Christy, Ashley Burch, Ryan Schmidt, (and N. Seguchi) presented “Fate of the Xiongnu: What happened to the Legendary Mongolian Nomads?” at the Graduate Student and Faculty Research Conference at the University of Montana, Missoula, April 5, 2008.

 

Lectures by Professor Milford Wolpoff, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. “Hominid origins–Is the late divergence theory late enough?” was held on April 3, 2008 at 3pm, and “How Neandertals inform human variation” was held on April 3, 2008 at 7pm at Urey Lecture Hall.

 

A Lecture by Emi Koyama (Feminist/Activist), “Lara Croft, Baby Raider?: Colonialism, Militarism, and the Political Economy of Transracial Adoption” was held on April 11, 2007, From 5-7 PM at Social Science building 356.

 

A Lecture in Paleoanthropology with Professor. James Ahern, Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming Laramie: “Ice Age Hanky-Panky? Neanderthal Evolution Reconsidered…Again.” was held on March 12 (Monday), 6-7:30 PM at Social Science Building 356.

New publication: “Craniometric Affinities and Early Skeletal Evidence for Origins” by Nelson AR., Seguchi, N. and CL. Brace. In Ubelaker D, Stanford D, Smith BD, Szathmary EJE.(eds.), Environment, Origins, and Population. Handbook of North American Indians, Vol.3. pp.679-684. Smithsonian Institution, Washington. 2006.

“'Scientific' discourse by the conservatives and the debate over 'racial' differences and gender differences,” presented by Noriko Seguchi at Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, Jan 14, 2007.

 

“The Kennwick Connection: The connections of the Kennewick Palaeoindian specimen, and the sources of the original inhabitants of the New World”, presented by Noriko Seguchi at Department of Physical Anthropology, Kyoto University, Jan 16, 2007.

Deconstructing "scientific" discourse by the conservatives: the debate over gender difference from the perspective of biological anthropology (Kagaku-teki Hoshuha Gensetsu wo kiru: Seibutsu-Jinruigaku no shiten kara mita Seisa-Ronso, ｢科学的｣保守派言説を斬る！：生物学的人類学の視点から見た性差論争)”by Seguchi, N,  in Backlash!: Why is gender-equality being attacked?" (Backlash! : Naze Gender-free ha tatakareta noka? バックラッシュ！なぜジェンダーフリーは叩かれたのか？), pp.310-339. Sofusha, Tokyo Japan, 2006. In Japanese.

“The questionable contribution of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age to Euroepan craniofacial form” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol.103, no.1, Jan. 3, P.242-247, 2006

Brace’s Ainu-Samurai Hypothesis from 1989 Until Today :Reanalysis of dental dimension data and craniofacial data, presented by Noriko at the Open Public Symposium “公開シンポジウム：中世鎌倉の素顔 (The Truth of the Medieval Kamakura)”, the 59th Annual Meeting of the Anthropological Society of Nippon, Yokohama, Japan, Nov. 5, 2005

“Race” is not Valid Biological Concept. C. L. Brace and Noriko Seguchi, in Is Race a Universal Idea? : Transcending the Western Paradigm 人種概念の普遍性を問う：西洋的パラダイムを超えて. 2005. (ed) Yasuko Takezawa, Jinbun Shoin, Kyoto, Japan. pp. 437-467. (In Japanese) 

My Profile:

 

*   I received BA from the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angels, and MA and PhD in Biological Anthropology from the Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. After completing my Ph.D., I have been working as an adjunct research scientist with Prof. Loring Brace at the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology. I moved from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor to University of Montana, Missoula, as an assistant professor in 2002.

 

My Research Interests:

 

*   My research specializations include Dental anthropology, Craniofacial Morphometircs, Human Biodiversity, Gender issues, Problems of "Race", Human Evolution in Asia, the Pacific Rim (North America, East Asia, and Northeast Asia), and the Peopling of the Americas.

 

 

Teaching:

 

* Human Genetics (ANTH 211N, Spring Semester)

* Human Variation (ANTH 310N, Spring Semester)

* Osteology (ANTH 463)

* Dental Anthropology (ANTH 416 Spring 2008)

* Origins of “Modern” Humans (ANTH 415 Fall 2006)

* Human Adaptation and Nutritional Anthropology (ANTH 417 Fall 2005)

* Ecological and Genetic Variations in Human Populations (ANTH 418 Fall 2008)

* Graduate Seminar: Peopling of the New World (ANTH 595)

* Graduate Seminar: The current topics in Human Evolution in Asia (ANTH 595)

* Graduate Seminar: Human Variation and Evolution (ANTH 510 Fall 2007)

 

Facilities:

 

*    The Biological Anthropology Lab is located in Social Science Building Rm 240 and equipped with PCs and Mac computers.

 

Statistics Softwares:

 

* SPSS (PC), SAS (PC), Splus (Unix, Windows), and R

 

Collaborators:

 

* Professor C. Loring Brace, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

* Professor A. Russell Nelson, Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

* Professor Conrad B. Quintyn, Department of Anthropology, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburgm, PA

* Professor Hideyuki Umeda, Department of Astronomy, School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

* Dr. Hiroaki Oe, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

 

Graduate Students:

 

·    Cryse Heiner M.A. (M.A. University of Montana, Spring, 2006)

Ph.D. student of Cultural Heritage and Historical Anthropology at University of Montana, Missoula.

·    Ryan Schmidt M.A. (M.A. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2006)

Ph.D. student of Biological Anthropology at University of Montana, Missoula.

 

Ryan received Outstanding Poster Award on “A craniometric Investigation of a Historic Chinese Cemetery: Implications for Biological Variability in an Emerging Immigrant Population.” The Graduate Student and Faculty Research Conference at the University of Montana, Missoula, April 14, 2007.

 

“Two Northern Nevada Chinese Cemeteries: A bioanthropological assessment.” Poster presented by Ryan Schmidt at the 76th Annual Meeting of American Association of Physical Anthropologists, March28-31, 2007, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

 

·    Bonny Christy (BA. University of New Mexico, 2006)

 

·    Ashley Burch (B.A. Michigan State University, 2007)

 

Undergraduate Student:

·    Jaclyn Strate (Perceptor for Anth 310N)

 

Former Undergraduate Students:

 

·    Sarah Parker (B.A. University of Montana, 2005)

·    Now, she is a graduate student of cultural heritage program at University of Montana, Missoula.

 

·     The recipient of McNair scholarship 2004-2005

·     She presented a paper "Paleo South American in Odontometric Perspective : Lagoa Santa (Sarah Parker and Noriko Seguchi)" at The 5th Annual Conference on Undergraduate Research, The University of Montana, Missoula, April 15, 2005.

 

·    Adam Keaster (B.A. University of Montana, 2004)

  Currently, he is a graduate student at University of Minnesota, School of Public Health.

 

·    Sam Austin (B.A. University of Montana, 2004)

·     The recipient of an Undergraduate Research Opportunity for the 2003-04 academic year from the Davidson Honors College

·     He presented a paper “Paleo South American in craniometric perspective: Lagoa Santa (Sam Austin and Noriko Seguchi)” at The 4th Annual Conference on Undergraduate Research, The University of Montana, Missoula, April, 2004.

 

Former Graduate Students:

 

·     Wendy Leach M.A. (B.S. Purdue University, 2003; M.A. University of Montana, Missoula, Dec. 2006)

·    She is currently a doctoral student at University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

“Alaskan Eskimo and Polynesian Island population skeletal anatomy: The “Pacific Paradox” revisited through surface area to body mass comparisons”. Poster presented by Wendy Leach at the 76th Annual Meeting of American Association of Physical Anthropologists, March28-31, 2007, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

 

Alaskan Eskimo and Polynesian Island Population Skeletal Anatomy: The “Pacific Paradox” Revisited Through Surface Area to Body Mass Comparisons, Master thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Montana, Missoula. 2006.

 

She presented a paper entitled “Alaskan Eskimo and Polynesian Island Population Skeletal Anatomy: The Pacific Paradox Revisited Through Surface Area/Body Mass Comparisons” at The Graduate Student and Faculty Research Conference at the University of Montana, Missoula, April 8, 2006.

 

·    Yasuko Takebe (B.A. University of Nevada, Reno, 2004; M.A. University of Montana, Missoula, May 2007)

Professional paper “A comparative Case Report of the Forensic Collection of the University of Montana Case #141”

 

·    Dawn Corso M.A. (B.S. SUNY, Binghamton, 2003; M.A. University of Montana, Missoula, May 2005)

 

“Working towards higher pelvic standards: accuracy, comparability & sex.” Poster presented by Dawn M Boeker (Corso) at the 76th Annual Meeting of American Association of Physical Anthropologists, March28-31, 2007, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

 

"A Comparative Study of Pelvic Variability in Relation to Sexual Dimorphism and Geography in Both Modern and Prehistoric Populations", Master thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Montana, Missoula. 2005.

 

·    "A Comparative Study of Pelvic Variability in Relation to Sexual Dimorphism and Geography in Both Modern and Prehistoric Populations", by Dawn Corso, Poster presented at The 74th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 2005. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 6-9.  

 

* Christy Watterson M.A. (B.A. Central Michigan University)

* “Concordance of Two Methods of Assessing “Race” of Human Crania.” Master thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Montana, Missoula. 2003.

 

* J. Chad Jones M.A. (B.A. Denison University, Ohio 1996)

*  “The Ancestry of North America: A statistical craniomorphic comparison of paleoindian skulls.” Master thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Montana, Missoula. 2003.

 

* Dawn Medved MA. (B.A. Cleveland State University, 1998)

* “Premortem Tooth Loss: A Model for Estimating Adult Age at Death.”  Master thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Montana, Missoula. 2003.

 

 

 

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