Theodore E. Downing

Education

Stanford University	Ph.D.	1973
Stanford University	M.A.	1966
Beloit College	B.A.	1965

Academic Teaching and Research

University of Arizona

Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology (1971-72)

Research Specialist, BARA Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (formerly the Bureau of Ethnic Research) (1972-77)

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology (1972-1980)

Interim Director, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (1977-1981)

Anthropologist, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (1980-85)

Research Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology (1982-1992)

Director of Social Anthropology, Arizona State Museum (1985-1992)

Research Professor of Social Development (1992 - present), Arizona

Research Laboratories: Interdisciplinary Division

Saudi Arabia, King Abdulaziz University

Research Director and Associate Professor of Arid Land Studies in Faculty of Meteorology and Environmental Studies (July 1982-Jan. 1983).

England, University of Oxford

Visiting Scholar Institute of Social Anthroplogy (Jan – Nov 1983)

Mexican National Science Foundation

Scientific Research Team Director Center for EcoDevelopment, (Centro de Ecodesarrollo, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia).(Sept. 1977 - June 1979)

Consulting and policy development experience

International Institute on Environment and Development (IIED); The World Bank (IBRD), The International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group), Inter-American Development Bank, AGRA Earth and Environment (Canada), Shell Oil (UK), Mexican government, and select private companies.

Candidate for the Arizona Legislature, 2000.

Leadership Positions

Chair [elected], International Network on Displacement and Resettlement, 2000 - present

President [elected], The Society for Applied Anthropology, 1985-87.

President [elected], American Association of University Professors, Conference of the State of Arizona. 1988-90. Vice-President, 1990-95.

Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Social Anthropology in Oxford University, Feb-Nov 1983.

Visiting Lectures series on Policy Science. Ritsumeikan University, Jan 1999, 2000, 2001

Editorial Boards and Honors

Fulbright Academic Program Specialist on Micro-Computer uses in social sciences, Mexico

Editorial boards of Human Organization, International Journal of Moral and Social Studies (UK), Agriculture and Human Values, High Plains Applied Anthropologist, American Assoc. of University Professors: Arizona Conference Newspaper],

Teaching and Research Experience

Completed over 15 major interdisciplinary research projects and presented seminars, lectures and courses to impart this knowledge to students and the public. Directed research teams ranging from 3 to 25 scientists. Trained indigenous research teams. Responsibilities included responding to requests for proposals; writing research proposals; defining specific objectives; reviewing literature, statistical analysis, and structural analysis; training researchers; time scheduling and research task coordination; outlining, editing and writing final reports; and presentation of results to professionals and the public..