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Educational History:
Current:    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Wayne State University.
1997          M.A.  Anthropology. Wayne State University.
1994          B.A.  With Distinction, History and Anthropology. University of Michigan-Dearborn.

Publications (*co-authorship with current students, # co-authorship with former students):

Books: (information on the following: http://www.americansuperhero.com/franchiseindex.html)

2006    Finding the Force of the Star Wars Franchise: Fans, Merchandise and Critics. Eds. Matthew Wilhelm Kapell and John Shelton Lawrence. Peter Lang (New York), 2006. (Primary editor and two chapters.)

2004    Jacking In to The Matrix Franchise: Cultural Reception and Interpretation. Eds. Matthew Kapell and William G. Doty. Continuum Press International (London and New York), 2004. (Primary editor and two chapters.)

Refereed Journals:
2005 Matthew Kapell and Suzanne Becker#. “Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel and the ‘Ecosystem of Sex’.” Popular Culture Review, Vol. 16, No 1 (Spring): 147-155.

2003 Matthew Kapell. “Mack Reynolds’ Avoidance of his own Eighteenth Brumaire: A Note of Caution for Would-be Utopians.” Extrapolation, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Summer): 201-208.

2002    Matthew Kapell. “Civilization and its Discontents: American Monomythic Structure as Historical Simulacrum.” Popular Culture Review Vol. XIII, No. 2 (Summer): 129-136.

2000 Matthew Kapell. “Speakers for the Dead: Star Trek, The Holocaust, and the Representation of Atrocity.” Extrapolation Vol. 41, No. 2 (Summer): 104-114.

Book Chapters:
2006    Matthew Wilhelm Kapell. “Eugenics, Racism, and the Jedi Gene Pool.” In: Matthew Wilhelm Kapell and John Shelton Lawrence, Eds. Finding the Force of the Star Wars Franchise: Fans, Merchandise and Critics. Peter Lang (New York), 2006: 159-173.

2006    Matthew Wilhelm Kapell. “Conclusion: Finding Myth in the History of Your Own Time.” Matthew Wilhelm Kapell and John Shelton Lawrence, Eds. Finding the Force of the Star Wars Franchise: Fans, Merchandise and Critics. Peter Lang (New York), 2006: 269-276.

2004    Stephanie J. Wilhelm and Matthew Kapell.  “Visions of Hope, Freedom of Choice, and the Alleviation of Social Misery: A Pragmatic Reading of The Matrix.” In: Matthew Kapell and William G. Doty, Eds. Jacking In To The Matrix Franchise: Cultural Reception and Interpretation. Continuum Press International (London and New York) 2004: 125-140.  
 
2004    Matthew Kapell. “Conclusion: At the Edge of the World, Again.” In: Matthew Kapell and William G. Doty, Eds. Jacking In To The Matrix Franchise: Cultural Reception and Interpretation. Continuum Press International (London and New York) 2004: 190-197.

2002    B. Bogin and M. Kapell.  “Worldwide Variation in Human Body Proportions: An Analysis of Some Biosocial Determinants of the Sitting Height Ratio.”  In: O.G. Eiben and E.B. Bodzsar, Eds.  Children and Youth at the Beginning of the 21st Century.  (Humanbiology Budapest Vol. 27.)  Budapest, Hungary: Eotvos Lorand University Press: 17-26.

2001    Barry Bogin, Matthew Kapell, M.I. Varela Silva, B. Orden, P.K. Smith, James Loucky. “How genetic are human body proportions?”  In: P. Dasgupta and R. Hauspie, Eds.  Perspectives in human growth, development and maturation - Global tributes to S.R. Das, the pioneering Indian auxologist.  New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers: 205-221.

Book Reviews:
2006    Matthew Wilhelm Kapell. From Alien to The Matrix: Reading the Science Fiction Film. (Roz Kaveney.) Extrapolation, forthcoming.

2005    Matthew Kapell. Alien Woman: The Making of Lt. Ripley. (Ximena Gallardo C. and C. Jason Smith.) Extrapolation. Vol. 46.1 (Summer): 142-144.

2004    Matthew Kapell. Captain American and the Crusade against Evil. (Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence.) Extrapolation, Vol. 45, No. 3 (Fall): 320-2.

2003    Matthew Kapell. The Myth of the American Superhero.  (John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett.)  Extrapolation, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Summer): 247-249.

2001    Matthew Kapell. Human Growth in the Past.  (Robert D. Hoppa and Charles FitzGerald, Eds.) Human Biology.  73.2 (April 2001): 325-7.

2000    Maria Bonham* and Matthew Kapell. The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence. (Henry Giroux).  Anthropology and Education Quarterly 32.1 (March 2000).

2000    Matthew Kapell. Robot World: Education, Popular Culture, and Science.  (Matthew Weinstein). Anthropology and Education Quarterly 32.1 (March 2000).

2000    Matthew Kapell. Deep Space and Sacred Time: Star Trek in the American Mythos (Jon Wagner and Jan Lundeen).  Extrapolation.  Spring 2000: 73-75.

1999    Matthew Kapell.  Culture of Intolerance (Mark Nathan Cohen).  Anthropology and Education Quarterly 31.1 (March 1999).

1999    M. Kapell. Children at Play: Myth, Magic and Mimesis (L.R. Goldman). Choice. Vol. 36, no.5: 929.

1998    M. Kapell. The Feminine Ideal (Marianne Thesander). Choice. Vol. 35, no. 8: 1413.

1998    M. Kapell. The Textual Society (Edwina Taborsky). Choice. Vol. 35, no. 5: 864.

1993    Barry Bogin and Matthew Kapell. The Bokony Growth Study (Eva Bodzsar). The American Journal of Human Biology, Vol. 5, no 3: 364-5.

Encyclopedia Entries:
Encyclopedia of African American History: From the Colonial Period through the Age of Frederick Douglass, 1619-1895. Oxford UP, 2006. General Ed. Paul Finkelman, on “Race, theories of.” Encyclopedia of African American History: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, 1896-2005. Oxford UP, 2007. General Ed. Paul Finkelman, on “Race, theories of,” and “Coleman A. Young.” Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia. New York: Greenwood, 2007. Editor Robin Ann Reid, on “Kathy Acker,” “Babylon 5,” “David Weber.” History of Physical Anthropology: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Press. Editor F. Spencer, “Growth: Human, Normal” (With Barry Bogin).

Fiction:
1997     Matthew Kapell.  “Middle Initials: P.K.D.” E Dika, Vol. 1, No. 1.

1996    Matthew Kapell.  “Toggle Off, My Hind Brain Said.” Lost Worlds, Vol. 8, No. 10: 14-17; 26.

1994    Matthew Kapell.  “The Really, Really Funny Thing.” Oasis: A Literary Magazine: Vol. 2, No. 4: 46-54.  (Pushcart Prize winning magazine.)

Professional Interviews:
2004    “Jacking In: A Conversation with Matthew Kapell.” Available at: http://thematrix101.com/books/jacking_interview.php

Professional Presentations:

Invited Presentations:        
2000    Matthew Kapell.  Using Undergraduate Students in Successful Research Projects.
Luncheon Talk, A Meeting of Minds, an undergraduate Research Colloquium sponsored by Oakland University, the University of Michigan-Flint and the University of Michigan-Dearborn, at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.   

1998    Panelist with Stephen Jay Gould and Nancy Locke. Graduate Council Colloquium. Detroit, MI.  Wayne State University, College of Interdisciplinary Studies. Information at: http://www.media.wayne.edu/news.releases/98august/gould.in.html for a press release from Wayne State University.   

1998    Matthew Kapell. Application of the Bridge Hypothesis to Children’s Learning of Time: Parental Status Differences. Time and Temporality Conference, in association with the Graduate Council Colloquium. Wayne State University, College of Interdisciplinary Studies.

Panels and Symposia Organized:        
2001    The Matrix in Popular Culture. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association.   

2000    Deeper Spaces and Newer Places: Placing Deep Space Nine in the Trek Canon. Popular Culture Association Meeting/American Culture Association.

Academic Presentations:    
2004    Matthew Kapell. Isis, Inanna and Trinity: The Role of the Goddess In the Matrix Films. Science-Fiction Research Association Annual Meeting.   
   
2003    Matthew Kapell, Chair. Teaching Roundtable: Using Popular Culture in the Classroom. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. 
     
2003    Matthew Kapell. Between Edward Bellamy and Mack Reynolds: Looking Backward on American Pragmatism. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association.   
   
2002    Erin E. Wallace*, Alicia C. Mindlin* and Matthew Kapell. Cultural and Religious determinants of sexual behaviors: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Available Literature. Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters.      
 
2001    Matthew Kapell. Modernism and postmodernism Finely Come to Blows: A Theoretical Take on The Matrix. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association.   

2001    B. Bogin and M. Kapell. Worldwide variation in human body proportions: An analysis of some biosocial determinants of the sitting height ratio. Key Lecture at the 7th International Symposium of Human Biology, Koszeg, Hungary.   

2001    Bethany Cara Bray, Katrina MacRain*, Scott Harmon*, Matthew Kapell. The Effects of Socio-
Economic Status on the Growth and Development of Children during the Depression Years: A Data Archaeology Project of the Merrill-Palmer Longitudinal Study. Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters.   

2000    Matthew Kapell. The Americanization of the Holocaust in Deep Space Nine. Popular Culture
Association/American Culture Association Meeting.   

2000    B. Bogin, J. Loucky, S. Leskie*, S. MacNee*, M. Kapell, P.K. Smith. Body Proportion Changes in Maya Refugees in the United States. Human Biology Council.   

2000    Matthew Kapell and Amy K.M. Hawkins. Reassessing the “Bridge Hypothesis”: Are Learning
Language and Learning to Read Begun by Mothers or is that Merely a Gender Bias? Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters.  
 
2000    S. Leskie*, S. MacNee*, M. Kapell, J. Loucky, P.K. Smith, B. Bogin. The Maya in America: Changes in Body Proportions in Mayan Refugees. Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters.

1999    Bogin, B. and M. Kapell. How “genetic” are human body proportions? Nacionales de Antropologia Biologica, Argentina.
      
1999    Matthew Kapell and Barry Bogin. How “genetic” are human body proportions? Human Biology Council.     
 
1999    Matthew Kapell. The Americanization of the Holocaust in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters.  
          
1999    Michelle Nerowski* and Matthew Kapell. Dirty, Stinking Apes: Stereotypes in the Representation of Pre-Human Hominids in Popular Documentaries on Human Evolution. Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters.   

1999    Matthew Kapell. Homosexual informants as controls for gender paradigms in behavioral science research: a proposal and example from discourse linguistics. Queer Studies Symposium, McMaster University, Hamilton ONT, CA.   

1997    Amy Hawkins and Matthew Kapell. The Use of Linguistic Discourse Analysis in the Process of Learning to Read: An Examination of Educational Styles Based on Gender and Parental Status. Ethnography and Education Forum, University of Pennsylvania.
      
1997    D.A. Barondess, M. Kapell, K.L. Cross, M.K. Theek-Klawender, S.E. Schlaen, D.A. Nelson. Assessment of Physical Maturity and Skeletal Mass in White and African-American Boys and Girls. American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting.

Teaching:
    
LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (Humanities):
Development of the American Experience; Foundations of the American Experience; The American Intellectual Tradition.

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (History):
The Modern United States (1945-present).

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-DEARORN (Anthropology, Women’s Studies, Sociology, African-American and Africana Studies, Linguistics):
Culture and Sexuality (Available for graduate credit); Growth, Ecology and Evolution (Available for graduate credit); Human Evolution; Human Genetics (Available for graduate credit); Human Paleontology; Introduction to Anthropology (four fields); Language and Society (Available for graduate credit); Race and Evolution; Sexual Praxis and Theory (Available for graduate credit, originated this course independently); International Popular Culture (Originated this course independently); Popular Culture Studies (Originated this course independently).

WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY (History, Anthropology):
American Civilization Since World War Two; Introduction to Anthropology (four fields); Introduction to Physical Anthropology (Required Course for Ph.D. students, Medical Anthropology program); United Stares History to 1877; United States History 1877 to Present.