Denver, CO, April 15-Peter Van Arsdale, Ph.D., a Senior Lecturer at the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies, has been named Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal The Applied Anthropologist.  Entering its 30th year of publication, the journal features a wide-range of articles, book reviews and research reports on topics as diverse as ethnoecology, sustainable development and human rights.  Van Arsdale previously has served  on the editorial board of the journal American Anthropologist, and is the author or editor of six books.  He is a past president of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA).