User:Hoopes

I'm an anthropologist on the faculty of the University of Kansas. I'm a longtime user and contributor to Wikipedia, and have also encouraged my students to create and edit articles. My principal research interests are the Pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica, Central America, and South America, with a special emphasis on the Isthmo-Colombian Area. However, I also have a longterm interest in critical thinking and its application to fringe science and pseudoscience, especially pseudoarchaeology. I regularly encourage my students to develop skills in critically reading, writing, and revising Wikipedia articles on various topics. (See my talk page for some examples of this.)

Some of the articles that I have created or substantially revised are:


 * Younger Dryas impact hypothesis
 * 2012 phenomenon
 * Augustus Le Plongeon
 * Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg
 * Chibchan languages
 * Isthmo-Colombian Area
 * La Ciudad Blanca
 * Mayanism
 * Pseudoarchaeology
 * Votan