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CURRICULUM VITAE
GRETCHEN SIEGLER, Ph.D
Westminster College
Social Science Program
Salt Lake City, Utah 84105
(801) 832-2426
ACADEMIC DEGREES
PhD
(1992)
Department of Anthropology
University of Nevada
Reno, Nevada
M.A.
(1983)
Department of Anthropology
University of Nevada
Reno, Nevada
B.A.
(1975)
Department of Psychology
University of New Hampshire
Durham, New Hampshire
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
New Religious Movements
Social Movements
Charismatic Religion
Conversion Studies
Non-Theist Organizations
Social Organization
Religious Conflict
Anthropology of Tourism
Environmental Anthropology
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Teaching Experience
2012-Present: Professor of Anthropology. Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah.
2005-2012: Professor of Anthropology, Division Chair of the Social Sciences.
Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah.
1998-2005: Associate Professor of Anthropology/Sociology, Division Chair of the Social
Sciences (1999-2002, 2004-2005). Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah.
1994-1998: Assistant Professor of Anthropology/Sociology. Westminster College, Salt
Lake City, Utah.
1993-1994: Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Wayne State College, Wayne,
Nebraska.
1991-1992: Adjunct Instructor of Anthropology. University of Nevada, Las
Vegas, Nevada.
1988-1989: Adjunct Instructor of Anthropology. University of Nevada, Reno,
Nevada.
Courses Taught
Social Anthropology
Myth, Magic and the Supernatural
Indian Peoples of the United States
Gender in Society
Introduction to Archeology
Qualitative Research Methods
Psychological Anthropology
Introduction to Anthropology
World Religions
Archeology and Prehistory
Political Anthropology
Technology and Culture
Cultural Anthropology
Urban Anthropology
Social Problems
Human Origins and Evolution
Human Sexuality
Race, Ethnicity and Class.
Human Evolution and Archeology
Environmental Anthropology
Anthropology of Tourism
Contemporary Issues in Anthropology
Special Topics: Archeology of Utah
Special Topics: Liberation Sociology
Special Topics: Apocalypse Watch
Special Topics: Pseudoscience Skeptically
Special Topics: Pseudoscience in Action
Special Topics: Death, Dying, and the Afterlife
Special Topics: Fieldwork on Death and Dying
Special Topics: Consuming Passions
Senior Thesis in Social Science
Senior Thesis in Justice Studies
Internship Supervision in Anthropology
Internship Supervision in Social Science
Internship Supervision in Sociology
Internship Supervision in Justice Studies
Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies
Senior Practicum in Social Science
Social Science Perspectives: Cultures of the Caribbean
Social Science Perspectives: Constructing Knowledge
Social Science Perspectives: Foundation in the Social Sciences
Social Science Perspectives: Sociobiology/Evolutionary Psychology
Research and Field Experience
2011-2013: Ethnographer: studying community building, social organization, deconversion, and conflict in the local and national non-theist movement.
2004: Ethnographer: continued longitudinal study of a religious community in Canby,
California.
1996: Ethnographer: studied competition and conflict between missionary groups in
central Belize.
1994: Ethnographer: tape-recorded narratives from members of a religious community in
Canby, California.
1992-1993: Archeologist: surveyed and excavated prehistoric and historic sites for
Western Cultural Resource Management, Boulder, Colorado.
1991: Consultant: reviewed archeological literature on prehistoric, Southern California
for Brian F. Mooney Associates, San Diego, California.
1991: Ethnographer: conducted a preliminary study of the impact of evangelical
religious groups on the social structure of communities in the country of Belize.
1989-1991: Ethnographer: observed and participated in a religious community resulting
in a Ph.D. Dissertation titled “The Structure of Anti-Structure: The Development and
Organization of a Religious Community in a Small Western Town.”
1983: Archeologist: surveyed prehistoric sites for the Gund Ranch Archeological
Project, sponsored by the College of Agriculture, University of Nevada, Reno,
and the State of Nevada Division of Historic Preservation and Archeology.
1982-1983: Ethnographer: participated in a rural, Californian community, observing the
inhabitants' reaction to the encroachment and political domination of a religious
commune. This research resulted in a Master's Thesis titled “The Impact of a Religious
Movement on a Small Town.”
1981: Research Assistant: aided in the development of a model and research
design, and surveyed and excavated sites in the Comstock Lode area, Virginia
City, Nevada, for the State of Nevada Division of Historic Preservation.
PUBLICATIONS
Siegler, Gretchen
2002 In Search of Truth: Maintaining Communitas in a Religious Community. In
Intentional Community: An Anthropological Perspective. Susan Love Brown,
ed. New York: State University of New York Press.
Siegler, Gretchen
1999 The Children of ISOT. In Children in New Religious Movements. Susan Palmer
and Charlotte Hardman, eds. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.
Siegler, Gretchen
1997 New Religious Movements. In Cultural Diversity in the United
States. Larry Naylor, ed. Westport, Connecticut: Bergin and
Garbey.
Siegler, Gretchen
1993 “The Processes of Conversion: A Transformation of Consciousness,” The
Anthropology of Consciousness, Special Edition #5. American
Anthropological Association.
Technical Monographs
Warren, Claude, Gretchen Siegler, and Frank Ditmer
1992 Overview and Research Issues of the Paleo-Indian and Early Archaic
Cultural Periods on the San Diego Coast. San Diego, California: Brian F.
Mooney Associates.
Hardesty, Donald, Valerie Firby, and Gretchen Siegler
1982 An Archeological Survey of the Virginia City National Historic
Landmark. Carson City, Nevada: State of Nevada Division of Historic
Preservation and Archeology.
AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
2014: Gore Course Release, Salt Lake City, Utah
2012: Sabbatical Leave, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah
2011: Gore Individual Summer Grant, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah
2005: Sabbatical Leave, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah
2003: The Gore Summer Grant. Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah
2002: The Gore Summer Grant. Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah
1999: The Gore Summer Grant. Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah.
1996: The Gore Summer Grant. Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah.
1995: The Weyher Family Award. Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah.
1994: The 1994 Research Award for postdoctoral research from the Society for
the Scientific Study of Religion.
1993: The McCandless Prize. Department of Anthropology, University of
Nevada, Reno. Awarded for a meritorious dissertation.
1988: The National Science Foundation Dissertation Research Award.
984: The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Graduate Student Paper Competition.
University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada.
1983: The Donald C. Kitselman Research Award. Department of Anthropology,
University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada.
PROFESSIONAL MEETING PRESENTATIONS AND SYMPOSIA
2015: “Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary, or Transdisciplinary: How’s it Working in
Social Science? The National Social Science Association for Professional Development,
Portland, Oregon.
2014: “Talking About Skepticism in the College Classroom.” The
National Social Science Association for Professional Development, San Francisco,
California.
2013: “A Coalition of Non-Theists: The Social Movement Working to Secularize
America.” The Western Social Science Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
2012: “The Non-Theist Movement: Strategies in Organization.” The Southwestern
Social Science Association, San Diego, California.
2010: “Experiencing Culture in the Classroom: A Simulation.” Presented at the annual
meeting of the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges, San Francisco,
California.
1997: “Religious Conflict Stimulates Modernization in Belize.” Presented at the annual
meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, San Diego, California.
1995: “The Impact of Religious Competition on the Social Structure of Creole
Communities in Belize.” Presented at the Second Interdisciplinary Conference on Belize,
Jacksonville, Florida.
1994: “The Commune as Family.” Presented at the Wayne State College National
Conference of the Family sponsored by the Humanities Division, Wayne State
College, Wayne, Nebraska.
1994: “The Myth of the Demise of the American Family.” Panel discussion at the
Wayne State College National Conference of the Family sponsored by the
Humanities Division, Wayne State College, Wayne, Nebraska.
1992: “The Process of Conversion.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, San Francisco, California.
1990: “The Maintenance of Communitas in a Religious Community.” Presented at the
annual meeting of the Western Social Science Association, Portland, Oregon.
1988: “The Impact of a Religious Movement on a Small Town.” Presented at the
biannual meeting of the Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Park City, Utah.
BOOK REVIEWS
Spirits, Blood, and Drums: The Orisha Religion in Trinidad by James T. Houk. Published
in 1995 by Temple University Press, Philadelphia. Reviewed for Choice: Current
Reviews of Academic Books.
Latin America and the Caribbean in Transition edited by Robert P. Watson and Donald
C. Simmons, Jr. Published in 1995 by Troy State University Press, Troy, Alabama.
Reviewed for Mesoamerica: Publication del Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de
Mesoamerica y Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies.
The Cherokees and Christianity, 1794-1870: Essays on Acculturation and Cultural
Persistence by Walter H. Conser, Jr. Published in 1994 by The University of Georgia
Press, Athens, Georgia. Reviewed for Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books.
The Sacred Self: A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing by Thomas
J. Csordas. Published in 1994 by University of California Press, Berkeley,
California. Reviewed for Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books.
An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective (blind review).
Reviewed for West Publishing Company.
Humanity: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology by James Peoples and
Garrick Bailey. Reviewed for West Publishing Company.
SERVICE
College-wide Senate (two terms)
Faculty in Westminster’s Environmental Studies Program
Faculty in Westminster’s Gender Studies Program
Faculty in Westminster’s Honors Program
School of Education Search Committee
TEPAC
Psychology Search Committees (three searches)
Liberal Education Committee (three terms)
Sabbatical and Merit Leave Committee (Chair)
College-wide Curriculum Committee (two terms)
Arts and Science Curriculum Committee
College-wide Advising Committee
Peer Contract Review Committees
Alpha Chi Advisor
Justice Studies Search Committees (two searches)
Sociology Search Committees (two searches)
Political Science Search Committees (two searches)
Acting Program Chair Sociology
Acting Program Chair Justice Studies
Program Chair Social Science
Division Chair Social Science
Grade Appeal Committees
Pagan Club Advisor
Students for Choice Advisor
Faculty Advisor
Weber State University Geography Assessment Committee
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP
American Anthropological Association
Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness Section
Society for the Anthropology of Religion Section
Society for Urban National and Transnational/Global Anthropology Section
Society for Environmental Anthropology Section
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Southwestern Social Science Association
Western Social Science Association
National Social Science Association