User talk:Meharkin

February 2009
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I have no conflict of interest. I am a professor of anthropology, and am not connected to any of the organizations mentioned in the article. I am, however, very familiar with the work of Douglas Anthony Cooper, and wished to address the charge of insufficient notability in the edit history. This was politically motivated, and I have added the necessary information and links required to demonstrate notability. I am past president of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology and am currently editor of the journals Ethnohistory and Reviews in Anthropology. I have been Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Cultural Studies at the University of Graz, and visiting professor at Shanghai University. I have received a fellowship from the Wyoming Arts Council for poetry.