Linda Watts

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Associate Professor of Anthropology.

Dr. Watts has been on the faculty of the University of Colorado since 1992.  She has published The Social Semiotics of Relational Terminology at Zuni Pueblo (Mellen Press, 2000) and several articles, research reports and book reviews.

Education
B.A., State University of New York College at Buffalo, English;
M.A., State University of New York  Center at Buffalo,  Linguistics;
Ph.D., Arizona State University, Anthropology.

Honors and Fellowships
Dr. Watts has been the recipient of the National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Basic Research Grant and a Museum of Northern Arizona Research Internship. 

She has been involved with several ethnographic studies dealing with Southeastern Colorado Native American Cultural Properties, Zuni Pueblo Social Organization and Kinship Terminology, Native American Substance Dependency Research, and currently  "Life Paths", an applied humanistic study of cultural schemas associated with managing life's transitions.

Interests
Life Course Studies; Native American Languages, Cultures and Social Organization; Kinship and Social Organization; Native American Substance Abuse and Recovery Research; Cultural Models and Schemas; Psychological Anthropology; Applied Ethnographic Research; Linguistics and Ethnographic Field Methods.

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