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Daniel Monteith, Ph.D.

Daniel Monteith, Ph.D.

Professor of Anthropology

Arts and Sciences — Social Sciences

Education

  • Ph.D., Michigan State University

Research Interests

Dr. Monteith specializes in ethnohistory, economic anthropology, cultural ecology pertaining to subsistence, Tlingit art and oral narratives, and archeology of Southeast Alaska; his geographical areas of interest include Alaska, the Russian Far East, and Siberia.

Biography

Dan grew up in Seattle, Washington and went to the University of Chicago for a bachelor’s degree in anthropology. He earned a master’s degree and Ph.D. in anthropology from Michigan State University. He also holds a master’s degree in social science from the University of Chicago.

While in Chicago he worked at the Field Natural History Museum and Oriental Institute Museum. As a student his summers were spent working in the fishing industry in Bristol Bay. This experience led him to his current research, which is an anthropological study of the Bristol Bay fishery.

Daniel has a wide range of practical experience. In 1992-93 he was employed by the Forest Service as an archeologist in the Ketchikan area of the Tongass National Forest. He then worked for the Tongass Tribe on a federal project; and during 1995-96 in the Economic Development Center at the UAS Ketchikan Campus. In 1998 he became the Executive Director of Historic Ketchikan.

Daniel Monteith, Ph.D.

Professor of Anthropology

Arts and Sciences — Social Sciences

Daniel Monteith, Ph.D.