Abbott, Anderies and Schwartz earn tenure; Anderies named faculty exemplar

May 21, 2008

Congratulations to David R. Abbott, J. Marty Anderies and Gary T. Schwartz on achieving tenure in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and additional congratulations to J. Marty Anderies for being named one of the university's faculty exemplars!

Abbott, an associate professor specializing in American Southwest archaeology, specifically ceramics, joined the ASU faculty in August 2004 after working as an independent consultant and a research associate at the Arizona State Museum. He established the Laboratory of Sonoran Ceramic Research at ASU and continues to conduct long-term, transdisciplinary research on the ancient pottery of central and southern Arizona.

Anderies is an associate professor connected with the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, the Global Institute of Sustainability and the IGERT program in Urban Ecology, as well as being affiliated faculty in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. He employs formal mathematical modeling and analysis in his research, which focuses on social-ecological systems. In 2006 he received the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Distinguished Teaching Award. Anderies was recently one of a handful of faculty chosen as a Promotion and Tenure Exemplar, a teacher-scholar "whose work represents the ideals of the New American University."

A biological anthropologist and associate professor, Schwartz is primarily interested in human and primate development as recorded in tooth tissues. His work bridges the gap between comparative anatomy/morphology and evolutionary developmental biology and is at the forefront of exploring the mechanisms that underlie morphological change during evolution. Schwartz collects original fossil hominid material from the field for his lab work. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed media.

Rebecca Howe, rebecca.howe@asu.edu
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School of Human Evolution and Social Change