Birgitta Karin Kimura

Department of Anthropology

1112 Turlington

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL 32611

e-mail: bkimura@ufl.edu

 

EDUCATION:

University of Florida:          Ph.D. Anthropology, subfield Archaeology. December 2004

           Dissertation “An Archaeological Investigation into the History and Socio-Political Organization of Konso, Southern Ethiopia”

University of Florida:          M.A. Anthropology, subfield: Archaeology, minor: Molecular biology.  May 1996.

University of Uppsala:        B. Sc. Biology and chemistry. June 1976. Sweden

 

Positions held

Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, 12/05-present

Visiting Instructor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida. Courses: Physical Anthropology, 1/05-5/05 and 9/05-12/05,

           Indian Cultures of South America, 9/05-12/05, African Archaeology.1/05-5/05

Teaching Associate (instructor) for Cultural Anthropology course, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida 12/02-5/03 and 8/03-12/03.

Scientific Research Manager, Department of Physiology, University of Florida, 3/90-5/03.

Teaching Assistant in Human Sexuality and Culture course, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida 12/00- 5/01.

Assistant in course in Stable Isotopes given by the Department of Anthropology, University of Florida 1/99-4/99.

Biological Administrator I, Department of Physiology, University of Florida, 9/89-3/90.

Biological Scientist III, Department of Physiology, University of Florida, 3/86-9/89.

Biological Scientist II, Department of Physiology, University of Florida, 2/85-3/86.

OPS Technical, Department of Physiology, University of Florida, 8/81-2/85.

Senior Research Assistant, Department of Pharmacology, University of Uppsala Sweden, 4/80-4/81.

Technician, Department of Endocrinology, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, 3/78 -4/80.

Technician, Radiocarbon dating laboratory, Dept. of Physics, University of Uppsala, Sweden, 3/77-3/78.

 

RESEARCH WORK

Pottery analysis of materials from Gilgel-Gibe, Ethiopia. Analysis conducted in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia June 2003.

Fieldwork in Konso, Ethiopia 8/01-8/02.

Member of field team at excavations at Gilgel-Gibe, Ethiopia, 5/00-7/00.

Member of field team at survey-test excavation at Gilgel-Gibe, Ethiopia 4/99-5/99.

Volunteer at survey-excavation in northern Sweden, June 1997.  

Archaeological field school in Panama, summer 1996, 6 weeks.

Member of field team conducting a survey of hide workers in southern Ethiopia 5/95-  7/95.

Volunteer at survey-excavation at Burgess Island, Florida 5/12/94-5/24/94.

 

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Threadgill Dissertation Fellowship from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, Spring 2004 $3,750.

Fairbanks Award from the Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, March 2003 $750.

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad Fellowship, August 2001-August 2002    $21,196.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS  

Kimura B. Spatial Distribution of Historical Konso Settlements. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, in press.

Kimura B., B.L. Hardy, S.A. Brandt, W.W Hauswirth. 2001. Analysis of DNA from ethnoarchaeological stone scrapers. Journal of Archaeological Science 28:45-53.

Kimura B., D. Mohuczy, X. Tang and M.I. Phillips. Attenuation of hypertension and heart hypertrophy by adeno-associated virus delivering angiotensinogen antisense. Hypertension 37(2):376-380.

 Phillips, M.I. and B. Kimura. 1999. Central nervous system and angiotensin in the development of hypertension. In Handbook of Hypertension, Vol 19. Elsevier Science B.V. pp383-411.

B. Kimura, C. Sumners and M.I. Phillips. 1992. Changes in skin angiotensin II receptors in rats during wound healing. BBRC 187(2): 1083-90.                                

          

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS    

Knapped Glass Tools from Konso, Southern Ethiopia. B Kimura. Paper presented at the Society of Africanist Archaeologists Conference in Calgary, Canada, June 2006.

Excavation in a Historical Walled Settlement in Konso, Southern Ethiopia. B Kimura. Paper presented at the Society of Africanist Archaeologists Conference in Bergen, Norway, June 2004.

Spatial Distribution of Historical Konso Settlements. B Kimura. Paper presented at the 15th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Hamburg, Germany July 2003.

Hierarchy or Heterarchy: Toward an Understanding of Political Organization through a Study of the Historical Settlement Distribution in Konso, Southern Ethiopia. B Kimura and Awoke Amzaye. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 2003.

Recovery of DNA from Ethnoarchaeological Stone Scrapers from Ethiopia. B. Kimura. Paper presented at the Society of Africanist Archaeologists 14th Biannual Conference in Syracuse, New York, May 1998.                     

Analysis of DNA from Ethnoarchaeological Stone Scrapers. B. Kimura, B.L. Hardy, S.A. Brandt and W.W Hauswirth. Poster at the Ancient DNA IV meeting in Gottingen, Germany, June 1997.

Recovery of DNA from Ethnoarchaeological Stone Tools: Implications for Determining Prehistoric Stone Tool Function. B. Kimura and B.L. Hardy. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology meeting in New Orleans, April 1996.