Diane Gifford-Gonzalez
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Dr. Diane Gifford-Gonzalez |
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SAA President Dr. Diane Gifford-Gonzalez (left) presenting the 2016 Society for American Archaeology's Fryxell Award to Dr. Elizabeth Reitz (right)
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| Nationality | American |
| Awards | 2014 Martin M. Chemers Award for Outstanding Research in the Division of Social Sciences, 2013 Committee of Honor International Conference of Archaeozoology (ICAZ), 2013 Presidential Recognition Award (SAA), 2007-2011 Fulbright Senior Specialist, 2003 Distinguished Teaching Award, and 1995 Presidential Recognition Award (SAA) |
| Website | anthro |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
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| Discipline | Anthropologist |
| Sub discipline | Zooarchaeology and African pastoralism |
| Institutions | University of California Santa Cruz |
Diane Gifford-Gonzalez is an American archaeologist who specializes in the field of zooarchaeology. Her research has included fieldwork near Lake Turkana that borders Kenya and Ethiopia, and her research often touches on the question of animal domestication.
Gifford-Gonzalez is based out of the state of California, with a specialty in Zooarchaeology. She attended the University of California-Berkley where she got her B.A., M.A., and her Ph.D. Along with being President of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, she has served on boards for that organization along with so many others, such as: the International Conference of Archaeozoology (ICAZ), the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), and the Archaeology Division of the American Anthropological Association. She is currently the President-elect for the Society of American Archaeology. She was also on the Academic Advisory Council of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the Long-Range Planning Committee of the American Anthropological Association. Plus, she is on the editorial boards for African Archaeological Review, Journal of African Archaeology, California Archaeology, and Teals d’Arqueologia.
She has worked at universities in California (Santa Cruz), Nairobi, Tromsø, la Universidad del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Academia Sinica, Beijing, China. She retired from teaching at the end of the academic year in 2015.
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