{"id":142152,"date":"2016-03-02T09:47:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T14:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=142152"},"modified":"2016-04-07T09:08:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T13:08:52","slug":"robert-foster-appointed-richard-l-turner-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/robert-foster-appointed-richard-l-turner-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Foster appointed Richard L. Turner Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_142162\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142162\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-142162 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Foster_2011-442x630.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Foster\" width=\"442\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Foster_2011-442x630.jpg 442w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Foster_2011-768x1094.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Foster_2011-719x1024.jpg 719w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Foster_2011.jpg 1401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-142162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Foster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Robert Foster, professor of anthropology and of visual and cultural studies, has been appointed the Richard L. Turner Professor, a position that supports a faculty member in the humanities. The Board of Trustees approved the appointment in January.<\/p>\n<p>Foster, a member of the Rochester faculty since 1990, is known for his research on globalization, media, consumption, and corporations. He has done extensive fieldwork in Papua New Guinea since 1984. His current projects include research on the history of the P.G.T. Black Collection of Pacific Islands artifacts at the Buffalo Museum of Science, where he is a research associate. He is also examining the role of information and communication technologies in shaping the moral and cultural dimensions of socioeconomic life in Papua New Guinea and Fiji.<\/p>\n<p>Foster is the editor of two books and the author of three books, most recently <em>Coca-Globalization: Following Soft Drinks from New York to New Guinea<\/em> (2008). He has authored several book chapters and articles for academic journals including <em>Cultural Anthropology, Museum Anthropology, <\/em>and<em> Anthropological Theory<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He earned his PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago, where he also completed a bachelor\u2019s degree. He holds a master\u2019s degree from Columbia University. Foster served as Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor and in 2008 he was awarded the Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Teaching. His other honors include a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2011\u201312; and an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2011\u201312\u2014receiving both fellowships twice. Foster is current president of the Society for Cultural Anthropology.<\/p>\n<p>The Richard L. Turner Professorship appointment lasts for five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Foster, professor of anthropology and of visual and cultural studies, has been appointed the Richard L. Turner Professor, a position that supports a faculty member in the humanities. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Robert Foster appointed Richard L. 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