What makes us different is what makes us human..
Leonard Plotnicov
Professor
Leonard Plotnicov received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1964.
He is a cultural anthropologist interested in understanding complex modern society by applying the perspective and wisdom gained from a century of anthropology's collective ethnographic fieldwork experience.
He has conducted research in such diverse places as West African cities and the Borscht Belt resort area of New York state.
His current work in Pittsburgh treats the political economy of central business district developments.
lenplot@pitt.edu
Research
African Political Systems
Faculty
- Kathleen M. S. Allen
Archaeology, Iroquois, ethnoarchaeology
- Joseph S. Alter
Cultural, India, medical anthropology
- Marc Bermann
Archaeology, Andes, households
- Nicole Constable
Cultural, China, modernity
- Olivier de Montmollin
Archaeology, Maya, states
- Kathleen M. DeWalt
Cultural, Latin America, medical anthropology
- Robert D. Drennan
Archaeology, Latin America, complex societies
- Bryan K. Hanks
Archaeology, Russia, zooarchaeology
- Robert M. Hayden
Cultural, Eastern Europe, law
- Margaret Judd
Physical, Near East, paleopathology
- Terrence Kaufman
Linguistic, Mesoamerica, writing systems
- Katheryn M. Linduff
Archaeology, China, nomads
- Gabriella Lukacs
Cultural, Japan, media
- Emily McEwan-Fujita
Linguistic, Scotland, ethnolinguistic revitalization
- Mark P. Mooney
Physical, comparative anatomy
- Hugo G. Nutini
Cultural, Mesoamerica, social structure
- Leonard Plotnicov
Cultural, US, urban studies
- James B. Richardson III
Archaeology, Andes, ecology
- Harry Sanabria
Cultural, Andes, economic anthropology
- Richard Scaglion
Cultural, Pacific, conflict
- Jeffrey H. Schwartz
Physical, hominids, evolution
- Michael I. Siegel
Physical, functional anatomy, craniofacial
- Andrew J. Strathern
Cultural, Pacific, ethnography