Scott A. Lukas is professor of Anthropology & Sociology at Lake Tahoe Community College. He is the author/editor of Theme Park (2008), The Themed Space: Locating Culture, Nature, and Self (2007), Fear, Cultural Anxiety, and Transformation: Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Films Remade, (co-edited with John Marmysz, 2009), Recent Developments in Criminological Theory (co-edited with Stuart Henry, 2009), Strategies in Teaching Anthropology (co-editor, 2010), The Immersive Worlds Handbook (Focal, forthcoming, 2012). He appeared in the documentary The Nature of Existence. He has been recognized with the McGraw-Hill Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology by the American Anthropological Association (2005), a Sierra Arts Foundation Artist Grant Program Award in Literary–Professional (2009) and the California Hayward Award for Excellence in Education (2003).
Community Projects: Generation X and the Classroom; September 11th; MLK Celebration; Gender & Advertising; Don Imus Controversy; Critical Thinking; Civics & Civil Liberties (Lake Tahoe Democratic Club); The People Speak (United Nations series); The Patriot Act; Understanding Iraq; Careers in Anthropology; Poverty in South Lake Tahoe.
Conferences: American Anthropological Association; Society of Composers, Inc; Performance Studies Conference; Assault: Radicalism in Aesthetics and Politics; California American Studies Association; National Women's Studies Association; NISOD; Staging the Past; Society for Cinema & Media Studies.
Conferences: American Anthropological Association; Society of Composers, Inc; Performance Studies Conference; Assault: Radicalism in Aesthetics and Politics; California American Studies Association; National Women's Studies Association; NISOD; Staging the Past; Society for Cinema & Media Studies.
Professional (LTCC): Academic Senate President, Faculty Association President, committees too numerous and exhilarating to mention.
Professional (California): Representative at Large (Academic Senate for CCC); Chair, Disciplines List Review; Chair, IMPAC project for Anthropology; CSU Lower Division Transfer Initiative Program; Nominee, California Community Colleges Board of Governors (2006).
Professional (National): PBS Frontline World committee; Advisory Board Member, Dads & Daughters; 911 Documentary Project (Library of Congress); General Anthropology Division, AAA, Member at Large.
Professional (California): Representative at Large (Academic Senate for CCC); Chair, Disciplines List Review; Chair, IMPAC project for Anthropology; CSU Lower Division Transfer Initiative Program; Nominee, California Community Colleges Board of Governors (2006).
Professional (National): PBS Frontline World committee; Advisory Board Member, Dads & Daughters; 911 Documentary Project (Library of Congress); General Anthropology Division, AAA, Member at Large.
Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology (Rice University), M.A. Anthropology (The University of Iowa), B.A. Anthropology with Distinction (Indiana University), majored in Music & Communications (Albion College).