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Bev Davenport is a socio-cultural anthropologist with a specialty in medicine and public health. She retired from UNT in 2019. She taught countless undergraduates and advised many seeking help with planning their futures. She also was the Departmental Adviser for incoming freshman and transfer students. Finally, she was the thesis advisor to several dozen graduate students first as an assistant professor and then as a principal lecturer. At present she is living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, still teaching and advising but doing so on a voluntary basis. ...

Ann Jordan is an applied anthropologist who specializes in business anthropology, especially organizational anthropology. Her work includes studies of health care systems, organizational culture and change, mergers, self-managed work teams, and global organizational networks. Work in Saudi Arabia included a study of organizational issues in a state-owned hospital as well as an analysis of the ways in which Saudi Arabia, a recently emerged economy, drives and benefits from globalization. In globalization studies she is interested in the ways organizations partner, network,...

Larry Naylor was an applied anthropologist who specialized in sociocultural and applied anthropology. His work included cultural change, modernization, impact development, as well as the study of the American culture. He provided Pipeline Impact studies as Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, then started and grew the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Texas, Denton from 1978 until he retired in May of 2004. He served as chair of the Department of Anthropology for 14 years. Larry has published six books and a study...