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Glen Doran, Ph.D.

Professor of Anthropology and Chair
Phone: (850) 644-8154
Fax: (850) 645-0032
Email: gdoran@fsu.edu
Office Hours: Summer Hours or by appointment

Research Interests and Activities

  • Development and direction of the Windover Archaeological Research Project, focusing on bioarchaeological analysis
  • Pilot project on Etruscan and Mediterranean skeletal biology
  • Plantation archaeology in northern Florida
  • Skeletal biology of North American populations within a biocultural framework; currently synthesizing data from Florida, southeastern US, Illinois and southwestern US.
  • Jomon and Yoyoi bioarchaeology. Bioarchaeological changes related to changes in subsistence, population density and social complexity.

Teaching Specializations

Undergraduate Level Classes
  • Introduction to Archaeology
  • Introduction to Physical Anthropology
  • Florida Archaeology
  • Human Osteology
  • World Prehistory
  • Archaeological Field Techniques
  • Computer Applications in Anthropology
  • Topics in Florida Prehistory
  • North American Archaeology
Graduate Level Classes
  • Laboratory Techniques
  • Material Culture
  • Quantitative Methods
  • Bioarchaeology
  • Method and Theory
  • Proseminar/ Research Methods
  • Paleodemography
  • Seminars in forensic archaeology
  • Institute for Police Training and Management, University of North Florida

Dr. Doran's Graduate Students

Select Publications and Writing Projects

2003 A Treatment Plan for Archaeological Findings at the Buckeye Knoll Site, 41VT98, Victoria County Texas . Prepared for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District. http://www.swg.usace.army.mil (Ricklis, Robert A. and Glen H. Doran)
2002 Differential skeletal preservation at Windover Pond: Causes and Consequences. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 119:15 - 26. (Stojanowski, Christopher, Ryan M. Seidemann and Glen H. Doran)
2001 A meta-analysis of bifaces and bones, in "International Colloquium on the First Americans", pp. 20-22, edited by Mark Hudson and K. Omoto, Interdisciplinary Study on the Origins of Japanese Peoples and Cultures Newsletter , March 2001. International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Kyoto, Japan. (Doran, Glen H. and Michael K. Faught)
2001 The View from Windover, pp. 9 - 17. In Enduring Records, Barbara A. Purdy (editor). Oxbow Books, Oxford, England. (Doran)
2000 Windover and Early Archaic (7,400 BP uncorrected) adaptations to the marshlands of south Florida, pp. 59 - 70. In, The Archaeology of World Lakes, edited by A. Matsui and K. Makino, Kubapuro Publishing Co., Tokyo (in Japanese). (Doran)
1998 Osteology of the Late Archaic Bird Island Site (8D152), Dixie County, Florida. The Florida Anthropologist 51(3).