NSF Biographical Sketch - Gragson, Ted
 

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Name: Gragson, Ted
Telephone: 706.542.1460; Fax: 706.542.3998
Email: tgragson@uga.edu
Organization:
Department of Anthropology
University of Georgia
250 Baldwin Hall
Athens, Georgia 30602

Position at Coweeta LTER: Lead Principal Investigator
Specialty: Human Ecology
Habitat: Terrestrial Ecosystems
Organism: Human
Core Area(s): modeling/synthesis, land-use/land-use change, historical ecology, spatially-explicit modeling

Education:
B.A., University of Montana, Anthropology, 1982
M.A., Pennsylvania State University, Anthropology, 1984
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, Anthropology, 1989

Appointments:
Professor and Head, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, 2009-present
Professor of Anthropology, University of Georgia, 2006-present
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Georgia, 1998-present
Adjunct Faculty of Ecology, University of Georgia, 1992-present
Visiting Associate Professor, Museó Andrés Barbero, Asunción, Paraguay, 2000
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Georgia, 1992-1998
Visiting Assistant Professor, Universidad Católica de Asunción, Paraguay, 1993
Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1990-1992

Publications (Five most relevant):
Bolstad, Paul V. Ted L Gragson. 2008. Resource Abundance as Constraints on Early Post-Contact Cherokee Populations. Journal of Archaeological Science 35:563-576.

Gragson, Ted L and Paul V. Bolstad. 2007. A Local Analysis of Early 18th Century Cherokee Settlement. Social Science History 31(3): 435-468.

McDonald, Robert I., Chris Yuan-Farrell, Charles Fievet, Matthias Moeller, Peter Kareiva, David Foster, Ted Gragson, Ann Kinzig, Lauren Kuby, and Charles Redman. 2007. How effective are protected lands at preventing nearby development and spawning more conservation? Conservation Biology 21(6): 1526-1536.

Gragson, Ted L and Paul Bolstad. 2006. Land Use Legacies and the Future of Southern Appalachia. Society and Natural Resources 19: 175-190.

Gragson, Ted L and Morgan Grove. 2006. Social Science in the Context of the Long Term Ecological Research Program. Society and Natural Resources 19: 93-100.

Synergistic Activities
1. Professeur invité, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France, 2005

2. Professeur invité, Université de Toulouse le Mirail, France, 2007

3.Member, Conference Committee for the LTER Planning Grant, 2005-2007

4. Georgia Journal of Ecological Anthropology, Editorial Board, 2005-Present

5. Co-Chair, LTER Network Social Science Committee, 1998-Present

6. Teacher-Guide, "Sustaining Human Societies and the Natural Environment" in Fiji, UGA Studies Abroad in the South Pacific

7. Co-instructor/developer of internet-based course "From Yardstick to Gyroscope" that unites graduate students and LTER and non-LTER researchers in a virtual classroom.