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Kendall
M. Thu
Northern
Illinois University Professor Kendall M. Thu is a cultural
anthropologist with specific interests in applied anthropology,
food systems, public and environmental health, and the
anthropology of sports. His research focuses on the relationships
between industrialized food systems, the environment,
public health, rural social dynamics and state power and
policy.
Thu
earned his Ph.D. in anthropology in 1992 from the University
of Iowa. From 1993 to 1999 he served as associate director
of Iowa's Center for Agricultural Safety and Health, as
a research scientist for the Institute for Rural and Environmental
Health, and as an adjunct faculty member in the Department
of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. He joined the
faculty at Northern Illinois University in the fall of
1999.
Thu
is president of the Culture and Agriculture Section of
the American Anthropological Association, serves on the
executive board of the Central States Anthropological
Society and is a fellow in the Society for Applied Anthropology.
Former Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman appointed
Thu to the National Agricultural Air Quality Task Force,
a post he served from 1999 to 2000.
At
NIU, Thu teaches courses in applied anthropology, medical
anthropology, environmental anthropology and introductory
cultural anthropology.
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