Anthropology Department
George Gmelch (B.A., Stanford and Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara) joined the Union faculty in 1982. He partially retired from Union in 2008, retaining a half line, shared with Sharon Gmelch. He did his early research in Ireland among a then nomadic group known as Travellers. Since then he has done research on return migration in Ireland, Newfoundland and Barbados, studied the ecology of salmon fisherman in Alaska, the ecology and nomadism of Gypsies in England, the culture of professional baseball players in the United States, tourism workers in Barbados, wine tourism in the Napa Valley, and currently work mobility and community change in rural Newfoundland. He currently directs Union College's internship program in San Francisco.
