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SHANE MACFARLAN

Associate Professor

Anthropology

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  • Associate Professor
    Anthropology

RESEARCH INTERESTS

The bulk of my research today examines how the unique ecological constraints of the Baja California peninsula have shaped human population dynamics and cultural change over time and space. I use a variety of approaches to examine these phenomena including ethnography (of traditional ranchers), historical demography (of the 18th and 19th centuries), and archaeology (peopling of the New World and post-contact Jesuit relations).  

GRANTS

  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    BIRTH SEASONALITY
    ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY1 Oct 2022 - 31 Dec 2022
    ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    RAPID: ECOLOGICAL SHOCKS, RISK PERCEPTION, AND ECONOMIC DECISION MAKING IN RURAL BCS, MEXICO
    15 Aug 2022 - 30 Sep 2023
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    A Process of Evaluation of the Feather Carriers: Leadership in Life Promotion Training Program
    Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada12 Jan 2019 - 12 Jan 2020
    Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    OASIANA-RANCHERO
    NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY11 Jan 2017 - 31 Dec 2018
    NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    CNH-L: Dynamic Impacts of Environmental Change and Biomass Harvesting on Woodland Ecosystems and Traditional Livelihoods
    National Science Foundation9 Jan 2017 - 30 Sep 2023
    National Science Foundation