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ANTH 240 - Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies

  • 3 credits

Introduction to basic theory and organization of museums and cultural heritage sites including their history, their role in society as places of preservation and education, exhibitions and interpretation, and the relationship between museums and cultural heritage sites and the communities they serve. Emphasis on defining the role of anthropology in today’s museums and cultural heritage sites and multidisciplinary approaches to curation. Required field trips. Credit not allowed for both ANTH 240 and ANTH 281A2.

Textbooks and Materials

Please check the CSU Bookstore for textbook information. Textbook listings are available at the CSU Bookstore about 3 weeks prior to the start of the term.

Instructors

Kim Nichols

kimberly.nichols@colostate.edu

Kim Nichols was born in Nuremberg, Germany and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Her undergraduate education at the University of California at Santa Cruz included extensive participation in nonhuman primate anatomical research, casework experience in forensic anthropology, and archaeological research at the State of California Mission Santa Cruz site.

Her graduate education at the University of Colorado at Boulder included field research on howling monkey locomotor behaviors in Costa Rica. In addition, she participated in primate paleontological field research at sites in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and in the Fayum Depression in Egypt.

Additionally, she has studied primate skeletal and dental variation in museum collections in Washington DC, New York City, and Chicago, Illinois. Kim's current research interest is in nonhuman primate skeletal dimension variation in captive and wild populations and implications for the interpretation of reproductive pathways in extinct primate species.