ABOUT ME
I'm retired from my position as UCIS Research Professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
I'm looking to the future as an independent researcher working on problems in Pacific Islands prehistory and ethnology. I collaborate with scientists in many different fields on matters of mutual interest. Current research questions include:
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The Polynesian Outliers: What can they tell us about ancient Polynesia?
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The Sweet Potato: A New World crop found in ancient Polynesia: How did it get there?
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The Abelam People: How are they coping with a changing world?
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EDUCATION
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Scaglion, Richard and Barry Craig. ’Filming in Cannibal-Land’: The New Guinea Ethnographic Representations of Zoologists E.A. Briggs and Jock Marshall. In Naturalist Histories: Making Nature, Knowledge and People in Oceania. J. Bell and J. Halvaksz (eds.) [forthcoming].
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Lafayette College
BS Mathematics
Scaglion, Richard. Abelam Masks: New Perspectives. Tribal Art 96:42-49, 2020. (en français: Masques du Nouvelle Guinée: Nouvelle Perspectives).
Lin, Hao-Li Lin and Richard Scaglion Austronesian Speakers and Hereditary Leadership in the Pacific. Anthropological Forum 29(3): 267-283, 2019.
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University of Pittsburgh
PhD Anthropology
Scaglion, Richard. ’Flying by the Seats of our Pants’: Changing Topics in the Field. In First Fieldwork: Pacific Anthropology, 1960-1985. L. Tamakoshi (ed.), pp. 89-101, University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu, 2018.