Justin M Nolan

Justin M Nolan, Ph.D.

  • Positions:
    Associate Professor

    Anthropology

    University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, AR)

    Community Ethnobotany Program Director

    Department of Education Services

    Cherokee Nation (Tahlequah, OK)

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  • Degrees:
     
    Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Missouri (Columbia, MO)
     
    M.A., Anthropology, University of Missouri (Columbia, MO)
     
    B.A., Sociology and Anthropology, Westminster College (Salt Lake City, UT)
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    Deborah M. Pearsall (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
     
    Michael C. Robbins (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
     
    Libbet Crandon-Malamud (as Visiting Student)
     
    Mike Amspoker (as Undergraduate Student)
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  • Research:
    I'm an anthropologist interested in medical ethnobiology, specifically the relationships between natural resource procurement, traditional belief systems and western science.

    My interests within anthropology include ethnobiology, the study of humans and their relationships with native flora and fauna, medical anthropology, the study of health belief systems, and cultural conservation, the study of region-specific folkways and traditions. Since joining the anthropology faculty at UA-Fayetteville in 2002, I have examined folk medicine in the Ozarks, vernacular lore in the Ouachita Mountains, historic hunting and fishing practices in the Piney Woods, and traditional foodways in the Arkansas Delta. Presently, I am working with communities throughout Cherokee Nation in Northeast Oklahoma on a project designed to safeguard and perpetuate Cherokee language, culture, and knowledge of native plant foods and medicines.

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  • Other Experience:

    2008-present Project Supervisor: The Cherokee Ethnobotanical Conservation Initiative

    2006-present Consultant: Arkansas Traditional Health and Foodways Program

    2007-2008 Coordinator: Society of Ethnobiology Annual Conference

    2007 Contract Consultant: Cherokee Language Documentation Program

    2001-2003 Project Supervisor, Missouri Department of Health Rural Minority Health Care Initiative

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  • Honors:

    2007-present Fellow for Society of Applied Anthropology

    2005-2008 Board of Trustees for Society of Ethnobiology

    2001 Students' Choice Teaching Award-University of Missouri

    2000 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

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Distribution of factor scores for traditional cultural indicators in Cherokee Nation's rural communities of Northeast Oklahoma


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