Phil Young
Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., Anthropology, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1968)
Email: pyoung@uoregon.edu
Phone:  (541) 346-5177
Website: http://pages.uoregon.edu/pyoung/

I am a cultural and applied anthropologist with experience as a researcher, teacher, consultant, field training director, project evaluator, project chief of party, and administrator. My focal geographic area of interest is Latin America. My special research interests include cultural ecology, particularly adaptive strategies in indigenous societies, studies of socioeconomic change and adaptation among small farmers and indigenous peoples, and language and culture relationships.

I have conducted most of my field research in collaboration with the indigenous Ngöbe people in the western provinces of the Republic of Panama. My most recent and ongoing research concerns Ngöbe women's roles and responses to changes engendered by processes of globalization.

I have also worked in Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, Ecuador, Nepal (briefly) and the southern Sudan (for a year).

As a professor emeritus, I no longer teach but I continue to conduct research and write.