Professor of Anthropology

Professor Gatewood received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and joined the Lehigh faculty in 1978. He is a member of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Over the years, he has served as Department Chair and as an Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. Currently, he is Director of Lehigh's Cognitive Science Program and a Board Member of the University of North Carolina Coastal Studies Institute. He teaches a wide range of courses in anthropology. Those most relevant to the Environmental Initiative are human evolution, anthropology of fishing, environment and the consumer society, and a field school in Caribbean anthropology (which focuses on sustainable development with respect to fisheries and tourism). Other courses include cognitive anthropology, linguistics, North American Indians, and research methods and statistics.

Professor Gatewood has studied commercial fishing in Southeast Alaska, New Jersey, Nova Scotia, and more recently in the Caribbean. His current research interests include the social organization of knowledge, cultural consensus theory, cultural model theory, tourists' motivations, residents' understandings of tourism impacts, and the effects of globalization on consumerism in the Turks and Caicos Islands.