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Cathy Small is a professor and graduate coordinator of anthropology at Northern Arizona University, and has written under the pen name of Rebekah Nathan. During a leave of absence from teaching, during the fall of 2002 at the age of 52 she enrolled as a student at Northern Arizona University, signing up for a standard first year range of courses.After teaching for more than fifteen years, she realized that she no longer understood the behavior and attitudes of her students. As fewer people participated in class discussions or had decided not to discuss problems during her office hours. Her contributions to anthropology have focused on understanding long-term social change including the rise and fall of social institutions, the long-term implications of social structures, and the processes by which culture changes. Her work is characterized by a critical empathetic feminism, reflexivity, and a creative re-adaptation of focus: From Tonga to computer simulations of gender in Polynesian hierarchies, to U.S. college life.In 1997, Dr. Cathy Small was awarded a National Science Foundation grant for 1998 and 1999 to model and simulate Polynesian social systems.It was the publication of her ethnography of American university student life under the pen name 'Rebekah Nathan', and the ensuing discussions of ethnographic ethics, for which she has most received attention. ==Biography== Cathy A. Small is a cultural anthropologist, with a Ph.D. from Temple University, and currently a professor of anthropology at Northern Arizona University. She was born in 1953 and raised in New York City, New York. She is 59 years old. Rebekah Nathan is a pseudonym for Cathy Small, an anthropology professor at Northern Arizona University. Nathan had to use a fake name to protect the identity of her students and her university.Throughout the writing of ''My Freshman Year'', Nathan paid for all the expenses in order to protect students’ confidentiality that could lead to situations that could harm them. Her projects formed alliances with numerous regional groups, such as Big Brothers and Big Sisters, the Institute for Law & Systems Research, and the Hopi Arts & Crafts Coop Guild. She earned state and national recognition, including the Praxis Award for Excellence in Applied Anthropology, the National Points of Light award, the Governor's Special Recognition, and Best Educational Practices in Post-Secondary Education in the state of Arizona award (for her co-founded mentoring and college scholarship program for low-income youth). Dedicated to her love of teaching, Cathy is unmarried and does not have children. Her ethnographic work, including her book ''Voyages'' (1997, Cornell University Press) about Tongan islander immigration to the U.S., has focused on understanding long-term social change. Dr. Small’s journey in ethnographic studies has expanded to the South Pacific. In the region more than 100 universities have adopted her book ''Voyages''. Her works were even selected by Pacific Studies for scholarly review. In 1997, Dr. Cathy Small was awarded a National Science Foundation grant for 1998 and 1999 to model and simulate Polynesian social systems. Cathy Smalls, known to some as “Rebekah Nathan”, also received the American Anthropology Association/Oxford University Press Award for Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology in 2008-2009 academic year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cathy Small」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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