RESEARCH SUPPORT (selected) 

• National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology, "Biotechnology and the Political Ecology of Information in Andhra Pradesh."  $152,289.  2003-05. (PI) [pdf].  Supplement, $13,348. 2005-06 (PI) [pdf]
• Wenner-Gren Foundation, "Genetically Modified Crops in Developing Nations: Multi-Sited Ethnography of the Effects on Agricultural Sustainability."  $18,600.  2000-02. (PI)
• National Science Foundation, Scholar's Award for Methodological Training in Cultural Anthropology, "Crop Biotechnology for Developing Countries."  $49,000. 2000-01. (PI)
• National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology and Human Dimensions of Global Change, "Historical Ecology on a Nigerian Frontier: Tiv and Kofyar."  $111,145. 1994-97. (PI; Co-PI=R. Netting)
• Wenner-Gren Foundation, "Tiv and Kofyar Agrarian Settlement Systems: A Comparative Study in Historical Ecology."  $24,000. 1994-1996. (PI; Co-PI=J. Gbor) 

FIELDWORK: Biotechnology

•  Laboratory work on crop genetic modification (tissue specific transgene expression driven by a cassava-derived PAL promoter), Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis.  Fall 2001.

FIELDWORK: Ethnography 

• Smallholder farming and transgenic crops, Andhra Pradesh India.  Summer & Fall 2000, Summer 2002, Winter 2002, Summer 2003, Summer 2004, Winter 2005, Summer 2005, January 2006, January 2007.
• Historical ecology of Tiv agriculture and conflict, Plateau State, Nigeria.  Summer 1994.
• Kofyar settlement and agricultural change, Plateau State, Nigeria.  Jan 1984 - Feb 1985.

FIELDWORK: Archaeology (selected)

• Crew Chief, Black Mesa Archaeological Project (Navajo Reserva­tion, Ariz.).  1982.
• Project Director, Zuni Reservation.  Tested/excavated PI-PII village site.  1981.
• Curator, State Historical Society of Wisconsin.  Archaeological survey for various projects (1979); supervised excavation of two mound groups and five habitation sites (1980).
• Director, High School & Public Program, Foundation for Illinois Archaeology, Kamps­ville; field school program with excavations at Archaic, Mississippian, and Woodland sites.  1978.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS with hyperlinks (*refereed)

*G.D.Stone
2007 The Birth and Death of Traditional Knowledge: Paradoxical Effects of Biotechnology in India. In Biodiversity and the Law: Intellectual Property, Biotechnology and Traditional Knowledge, edited by Charles McManis, pp. 207-238. Earthscan. [pdf]
   Media on this research:
      The Napster pirates of transgenic biotech (Salon.com)

*G.D.Stone
2007 Agricultural Deskilling and the Spread of Genetically Modified Cotton in Warangal . Current Anthropology 48:67-103. [pdf]
   Media on this research:
     Ganesh and Brahma bow to a new god (Salon.com)
     The Independent, London (mirror)
     Eenadu, Warangal (Telugu)
     Economic Times (India national)
     The Hindu (India national)
     Times of India (India national)

*G.D.Stone
2005  A Science of the Gray: Malthus, Marx, and the Ethics of Studying Crop Biotechnology.  In Embedding Ethics: Shifting Boundaries of the Anthropological Profession, edited by L.Meskell and P.Pels, pp. 197-217.  Berg, Oxford. [pdf]

*G.D.Stone
2004 Social Constraints on Biotechnology in Developing Countries.  AgBioForum 7(1&2): 75-78. [html]

*G.D.Stone
2004  Biotechnology and the Political Ecology of Information in India.  Human Organization 63:127-140. [pdf]

*G.Barkin and G.D.Stone
2004  Fieldnotes as a Website: Integrating Multimedia into Anthropological Documents.  Field Methods 16:203-214. [pdf and supplemental website]

*G.D.Stone
2002  Both Sides Now: Fallacies in the Genetic-Modification Wars, Implications for Developing Countries, Anthropological Perspectives (+CA* commentary). Current Anthropology 43:611-630. [CA+ enhanced online article for subscribers, or local pdf file with backgrounder]

G.D.Stone
2002  Biotechnology and Suicide in India.  Anthropology News 46(5):5. [html]

G.D.Stone
2001  Agricultural Change Theory.  International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.  Elsevier Science Ltd. [pdf]

*E.F.Lambin, B.L.Turner... G.D.Stone, et al.
2001  The Causes of Land-use and Land-Cover Change: Moving beyond the Myths.  Global Environmental Change 11:261-269.

*G.D.Stone
2001  Theory of the Square Chicken: Advances in Agricultural Intensification Theory.  Asia Pacific Viewpoint 42:163-180. [pdf]

G.D.Stone
2001  Malthus, Agribusiness, and Death of the Peasantry.  Review essay on Hungry for Profit, ed. by Magdoff et al., and The Malthus Factor, by E. Ross.  Current Anth 42:575-578. [pdf]

*M.P.Stone and G.D.Stone
2000  Kofyar Women Who Get Ahead: Incentives for Agricultural Commercialization in Nigeria.  In Women Farmers and Commercial Ventures: Increasing Food Security in Developing Countries, edited by A.Spring, pp. 153-170.  Lynne Rienner, Boulder.

 *G.Barkin and G.D.Stone
2000  Blurring the Lines and Moving the Camera: The Beginnings of Web-Based Scholarship in Anthropology.  Social Science Computer Review 18:125-131.

*G.D.Stone and C.E.Downum
1999  Non-Boserupian Ecology and Agricultural Risk: Ethnic Politics and Land Control in the Arid Southwest.  American Anthropologist 101:113-128. [html, pdf)

WINNER: Gordon Willey Prize for best archeology paper, American Anthropologist 1998-2000.

 *G.D.Stone
1998  Keeping the Home Fires Burning: The Changed Nature of House­holding in the Kofyar Homeland.  Human Ecology 26:239-265. [pdf]

*G.D.Stone
1998  Settlement Concentration and Dispersal among the Kofyar.  In Rural Settlement Structure and African Development, edited by M.Silberfein,  pp. 75-97.  Westview Press, Boulder.

*G.D.Stone
1998  Anthropology: Implications for Form and Content of Web-Based Scholarship.  Social Science Computer Review 16:4-15.  [html]

*G.D.Stone
1997  Predatory Sedentism: Intimidation and Intensification in the Nigerian Savanna.  Human Ecology 25:223-242. [pdf]

G.D.Stone
1997  Animated Images: A New Tool for Web-Based Anthropology.  Cultural Anthropology Methods 9(1):15-16  [html]

*G.D.Stone
1996  Settlement Ecology: The Social and Spatial Organization of Kofyar Agriculture.  University of Arizona Press, Tucson. [html] 

REVIEWED IN:  Amer. Anthrop. 100(1); Amer. Antiquity 63(2); Annals Assoc. Amer. Geog. 88:752; Current Anthrop. 38(5); Geog. Review 87(4); Human Ecology 26(1); J. Regional Science 38 (1); J. of the West 38(1); Land Degradation and Development 12(1). 

NAMED AS:  Outstanding Publication on Africa, Choice, Feb 1999.

*M.P.Stone, G.D.Stone and R.M.Netting
1995  The Sexual Division of Labor in Kofyar Agriculture.  American Ethnologist 22:165-186. [Jstor]

*R.M.Netting, G.D.Stone and M.P.Stone
1995  Social Organization of Agrarian Labor.  In Comparative Analysis of Human Societies, edited by  E.Moran, pp. 55-73.  Lynne Rienner, Boulder.

*G.D.Stone
1994  Agricultural Intensification and Perimetrics: Ethnoarchaeological Evidence from Nigeria.  Current Anthropology 35:317-324. [Jstor]

*R.M.Netting, G.D.Stone and M.P.Stone
1993  Agricultural Expansion, Intensification, and Market Participation among the Kofyar, Jos Plateau, Nigeria.  In Population Growth and Agricultural Intensification in Africa,  edited by B.L.Turner II, G.Hyden and R.Kates, pp. 206‑249. Univ. of Florida Press, Gainesville.

*G.D.Stone
1993  Agricultural Abandonment: A Comparative Study in Historical Ecology.  In Abandonment of Settlements and Regions: Ethnoarchaeological and Archaeological Approaches, edited by C.Cameron and S.Tomka, pp. 74-81.  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.

*G.D.Stone
1993  Agrarian Settlement and the Spatial Disposition of Labor.  In Spatial Boundaries and Social Dynamics: Case Studies from Food-Producing Societies, edited by A.Holl and T.Levy.  International Monographs in Prehistory, Ethnoarchaeological Series 2, pp. 25-38.

*G.D.Stone
1992  Social Distance, Spatial Relations, and Agricultural Production among the Kofyar of Namu District, Plateau State, Nigeria.  Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 11:152-172.

*G.D.Stone
1991  Settlement Ethnoarchaeology: Expedition 33(1):16-23.

*G.D.Stone
1991  Agricultural Territories in a Dispersed Settlement System.  Current Anthropology 32:343-353. [Jstor]

*R.H.Wilshusen and G.D.Stone
1990  An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective on Soils.  World Archaeology 22:104-114. [Jstor]

*G.D.Stone, R.M.Netting, and M.P.Stone
1990  Seasonality, Labor Scheduling and Agricultural Intensification in the Nigerian Savanna.  American Anthropologist 92:7-23. [ Jstor]

*R.M.Netting, M.P.Stone, and G.D.Stone
1989  Kofyar Cash Cropping: Choice and Change in Indigenous Agricultural Development.  Human Ecology 17:299-319. [html]

REPRINTED IN:  Case Studies in Human Ecology (1996), edited by D.Bates and S.Lees, pp. 327-348.  Plenum Press, NY. 

*G.D.Stone, M.P.Johnson and R.M.Netting
1984  Household Variability and Inequality in Kofyar Subsistence and Cash-Cropping Economies. Journal of Anthropological Research 40:90-108.

REPRINTED IN:  Household Economies and Their Transformation (1987), edited by M.Maclach­lan, pp. 173-197.  Univ. Press of America, Lanham.

SELECTED SERVICE & PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES  

Culture & Agriculture, board member (2004-present)
National Science Foundation, review panel on Cultural Anthropology (2004-present)
Wenner-Gren Foundation, review panel (2004-present)
National Science Foundation, review panel on Biodiversity (2001).
Washington University Faculty Council (elected, 1999-2001, 2004-present).
Editorial Board, Current Anthropology (1998-2002).
Distinguished Service Award committee, SAA (1998-2003, chair 1999-2003).                        
Book review co-editor, American Anthropologist (1997-1998). 

 COURSES TAUGHT

Political Ecology (grad/undergrad seminar)
Brave New Crops: Politics and Biology of Genetically Modified Crops (co-taught with biologist)
Land Dynamics and Environment: Scientific, Cultural, Policy, and Ethical Perspectives (undergrad, co-taught with geologist & pol. scientist)
Africa: Peoples and Cultures (undergrad)
Ecological Anthropology (grad/undergrad)
Seminar: Proposal Writing (grad)
Analytic Methods in Anthropology (grad)
Culture and Environment (undergrad)
Method and Theory in Archaeology (grad core course)
Archaeology of the American Southwest (grad/undergrad)
Principles of Archaeology (undergrad survey course)
The Strategy of Archaeology (undergrad methods course)
Quantitative Thinking in Anthropology (undergrad)
Origins of Human Society (intro)
Human Origins (intro)