Eugene Giles

I received an A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard in anthropology (the latter in 1966) and an M.A. in vertebrate paleontology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1956. I was a visiting fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra twice, once in Demography (NSF postdoc 1967-68) and once in Prehistory (1978). I held summer appointments at the University of Utah (1969) and the U.S. Army Natick Research, Development and Engineering Center, Natick, MA (1991). Otherwise, except for 1966-70 when I was an assistant professor of anthropology at Harvard, I have been an instructor, associate and full professor at UIUC from 1964 to 1999 and an associate dean in LAS and in the Graduate College for a total of seven years. I am presently Professor Emeritus. Professionally, I have been president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (1981-83) and previously served on its executive committee and that of the Human Biology Council and on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Forensic Anthropology.  The Physical Anthropology Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences gave me its T. Dale Stewart Award in 2004 and the American Association of Physical Anthropologists its Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.