Curriculum Vitae
Name: Leslie E. Sponsel
Position: Professor Emeritus
Department of Anthropology
University of Hawai’i
2424 Maile Way- 321 Saunders Hall
Honolulu, Hawai’i 96822-2223 USA
Phone: (808) 956-3770
FAX: (808) 956-4893
Email: sponsel@hawaii.edu
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Specializations
- Mainland Southeast Asia (Thailand) and Amazon (Venezuela)
- Spiritual ecology (religions and environment)
- Buddhist ecology (environmental philosophy, ethics, and
action, especially in Thailand)
- Biodiversity studies in relation to cultural diversity, cultural ecology, historical ecology, and
sacred places (especially sacred caves in Thailand)
- Anthropological aspects of peace studies and war studies
- Advocacy anthropology and human rights, professional ethics
- Yanommalogy (Yanomami Studies)
Education
- 1965 Indiana University, B.A. in geology
- 1973 Cornell University, M.A. in anthropology
- 1974-76 Ad-Honorem Graduate Student in Anthropology at the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Investigations
- 1981 Cornell University, Ph.D. in anthropology
- Also, summer courses at New York University in field primatology (1973), Summer Institute of Linguistics at University of Oklahoma in field linguistics (1976), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in nutritional anthropology field methods (1986)
- 2002 Workshop on The Protection of Human Research Subjects for Research Investigations, University of Hawai`i