John D. Hawks
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John Hawks is a professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He also is the author of a widely read Paleoanthropology blog.
Biography
Hawks graduated from Kansas State University in 1994 with degrees in French, English, and Anthropology. He received both his M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan where he studied under Milford Wolpoff. His doctoral thesis was titled, "The Evolution of Human Population Size: A Synthesis of Paleontological, Archaeological, and Genetic Data." After working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Utah, he moved to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he is currently a member of the Anthropology department, teaching courses including Human Evolution, Biological Anthropology, Hominid Paleoecology.
The John Hawks Blog
The John Hawks Weblog is one of the web's most widely read and referenced science blogs, being ranked 13th as of May 2010 by Technorati [1].
The blog deals primarily with Paleoanthropology. The blog provides analysis of current research in Paleoanthropology, discussing the significance and implications of fossils related to human evolution, genetics and genomics of hominid populations (alive and extinct), archaeological topics, as well as general commentary and review of both scientific and popular literature.
Hawks has also written extensively about the experience of blogging about one's field while working in academia [2]. He is one of few academics to publish both a widely read daily blog and remain an active researcher and professor at a major research university, though he notes that this trend seems to be changing [2].
References
- ^ http://technorati.com/blogs/directory/science/page-2/ | Technorati: Ranking of Science Blogs
- ^ a b http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/meta/tenure-blog-prosper-2008.html | How to blog, get tenure, and prosper.
External links
John Hawks at the University of Wisconsin
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