Joel S. Savishinsky, Ph. D. Charles A. Dana Professor in The Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology and The Gerontology Institute, Ithaca College Phone: 607-274-3541. E-mail: savishin@ithaca.edu Doctorate in Anthropology from Cornell University, 1970

I am a cultural anthropologist with strong interests in aging, environmental issues, psychological anthropology, social organization, and American culture. Since the mid-1960s, I have worked as the physical anthropologist on an archaeological expedition to Sardis, Turkey; carried out ethnographic research on environmental adaptations in the Canadian Arctic; studied family life and social structure in the Bahamas; and done research on aging, community organization and applied anthropology in the United, Great Britain, and India.

My major publications include the following books:

The Trail of the Hare: Environment and Stress in a Sub-arctic Community
(Gordon and Breach, 1st ed., 1974; 2nd revised edition 1994).

Dementia Sufferers and their careers in a London Borough
(Polytechnic of North London Press, 1990).

Deviance: Anthropological Perspectives
(co-edited with Morris Freilich and Douglas Raybeck, Bergin and Garvey, 1991).

The Ends of Time: Life and Work in a Nursing Home
(Bergin and Garvey, 1991; winner of the 1992 Kalish Innovative Publication Award from the Gerontological Society of America).

Breaking the Watch: The Meanings of Retirement in America  website (Cornell University Press, 2000; winner of the 2001 Kalish Innovative Publication Award from the Gerontological Society of America.)

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