- John H. Moore
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field = Anthropology
work_institutions =University of Florida
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prizes =Dr. John H. Moore is a professor ofanthropology at theUniversity of Florida inGainesville, Florida . His research specialties includeNorth American Indian ethnology ,kinship ,demography , andsociocultural evolution . His fieldwork includes research with theCheyenne , Mvskoke Creek,Seminole ,Choctaw ,Cree andPamunkey . His most recent work is a demographic exploration of the feasibility ofspace colonization , published byNASA in the book "Interstellar Travel and Multi-Generational Space Ships". He was featured in the "Spacemen” episode ofNational Geographic Channel ’s "Naked Science" television series. He works as a consultant and expert witness on behalf of Native American groups who are seeking to protect their land, resources and treaty rights, especially the descendants of those killed or attacked at theSand Creek Massacre in Colorado in 1864, who were promised reparations under the Treaty of the Little Arkansas in 1865, which have never been paid. He is interested in the interactions between the biological and cultural aspects of "race," and is Editor-in-Chief of the 2007 Macmillan Encyclopedia of Race and Racism.He currently lives in Gainesville, Florida with his wife, Shelley Arlen. They have two daughters.
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