College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Department of Anthropology
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Contact us at 515-294-7139 or lhaglund@iastate.edu
FAX: 515-294-1708
Paul Lasley
Chair
Department of Anthropology
Department Office
324 Curtiss
Ames, Iowa 50011-1050
Hsain Ilahiane
Director of Graduate Education
hsain@iastate.edu
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Leland (Lee) Searles
Leland (Lee) Searles is a lecturer in social/cultural anthropology.
With an M.A. from Iowa State (1993) and a Ph.D. from the University
of Minnesota (2001), he has specializations in medical and psychological
anthropology, transnational migrants in Iowa, and cultural perceptions
of landscape. Searles's Master's thesis focused on former participants
in a new religious movement, and his doctoral project involved interviews
with and participant observation of psychotherapists who treat Dissociative
Identity Disorder. The latter looked at the politics of and rationales
for a contested mental illness and equally contested treatment techniques,
such as repressed/recovered memory work.
Searles also teaches as an adjunct instructor of anthropology at Des
Moines Area Community College, where he designed and offers an independent
study in community-based learning, on the general theme of barriers
to higher education among Latinas and Latinos in Iowa.
On the side, if there's time for a "side," he reads extensively,
plays fingerstyle guitar, and does participant observation with two
kittens and an adult cat. He is unsure as to whether the cats have
adopted him as a fellow feline, or they mistake themselves as quadrupedal
humans.
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Leland (Lee) Searles
Office Phone: 515-294-7139
Fax: 515-294-1708
lsearles@iastate.edu
324 Curtiss
PhD 2001, University of Minnesota, Lecturer in Social/Cultural Anthropology.
Specializations in medical and psychological anthropology, transnational migrants in Iowa and
cultural perceptions of landscape.
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