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name: William C. Meadows
about: Dr. Meadows holds a B.A. from Indiana University (1989) with a double major in anthropology and history, and M.A. (1991) and Ph.D. degrees in cultural anthropology from the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Meadows has performed fieldwork and published in the subfields of cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and archaeology. He has performed cultural and linguistic fieldwork with the Kiowa, Comanche, Naishan Apache, Cheyenne, and Crow tribes, as well as in Japan, and has carried out archaeological fieldwork in the Midwestern United States.Before joining Missouri State University, Dr. Meadows taught in the anthropology departments at Colorado State University (1995-1997) and Indiana State University (1998-2003).Dr. Meadows research inte Dr. Meadows holds a B.A. from Indiana University (1989) with a double major in anthropology and history, and M.A. (1991) and Ph.D. degrees in cultural anthropology from the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Meadows has performed fieldwork and published in the subfields of cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and archaeology. He has performed cultural and linguistic fieldwork with the Kiowa, Comanche, Naishan Apache, Cheyenne, and Crow tribes, as well as in Japan, and has carried out archaeological fieldwork in the Midwestern United States.Before joining Missouri State University, Dr. Meadows taught in the anthropology departments at Colorado State University (1995-1997) and Indiana State University (1998-2003).Dr. Meadows research interests include: 1) past and present Native American cultures with emphasis on Plains and Southeastern cultures, code talkers, Native Americans in the military, contemporary Native American issues, and art; 2) Japan; 3) ethnography, ethnohistory, field research methods, language and culture, sodalities; and 4) midwestern archaeology, and chert studies. He teaches World Cultures (ANT 100), North American Indian Cultures (ANT 325), Peoples and Cultures of Japan (ANT 330), Plains Indians (ANT 330), North American Archaeology (ANT 360), North American Indians Today (ANT 425), and an ethnographic field school (ANT 490). He is currently finishing a book of Kiowa ethnogeography.Dr. Meadows is the author of two books; Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Military Societies (1999); and The Comanche Code Talkers of World War II (2002). He has also published articles in Plains Anthropologist, Great Plains Quarterly, and Ohio Archaeologist. Dr. Meadows testified before Congress regarding Native American Code Talkers in 2004 and spoke at the Library of Congress in 2005. He is a member of the Missouri State Native American Studies Committee, and the Central States and Missouri Archaeological Societies. ...more