The Department of Anthropology Welcomes Yancey Orr

The Department of Anthropology is delighted to announce that Yancey Orr will join us as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 2012. Mr. Orr was awarded two degrees from Yale University (BA in History and MA in Religion and Society), a second MA (in anthropology) from UC Berkeley, and he is scheduled to defend his doctoral dissertation in Anthropology at the University of Arizona next month. His PhD dissertation, entitled "The Emergence of Environmental Knowledge: Cognition, Interpretation, Perception and Social Labor in a Balinese Society," explores the means by which phenomenological experience and symbolic systems shape epistemology. Mr. Orr has been the recipient of many fellowships and awards, including a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Graduate Fellowship from the National Research Council, a Chancellor's Fellowship at Berkeley, and a Dissertation Improvement Grant from The National Science Foundation.