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Jon Erlandson, Mentor
Anthropology

Don Day, McNair Scholar
Deana Dartt, McNair Scholar

Jon Erlandson, archeologist and Associate Professor of Anthropology, received his Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. A member of the UO faculty since 1990, he specializes in the study of maritime societies, human adaptations to coastal environments, the archeology of western North America, and working with Native American tribes to preserve and protect archeological sites. As part of his work, he has written or edited eight books and written almost 100 scholarly articles.