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Email | Office Hours Susan Alt

Alt, Susan

Assistant Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: North America, Midwest, Southeastern U.S., Mississippi Valley
Topical Interests: Complexity, identity, migration, materiality, ritual, craft production, ceramics, GIS


Email | Office Hours Sonya Atalay

Atalay, Sonya

Assistant Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Near East, North America
Topical Interests: community based archaeology, participatory research methods, clay/ceramic analysis, anthropology of food and cooking, social science research ethics, cultural and intellectual property, NAGPRA


Email | Office Hours Joelle Bahloul

Bahloul, Joelle

Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Europe and North Africa
Topical Interests: Jewish ethnography in Europe and North Africa, European ethnography, social anthropology of kinship and gender, ethnicity and migration, religion in urban society, collective memory, French social thought.


Email | Office Hours Eduardo Brondizio

Brondizio, Eduardo

Professor and Chair

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Amazon, Brazil, Latin America
Topical Interests: Environmental and economic anthropology, land use and landscape history, ethnobotany, integrative methodologies and remote sensing applications in Anthropology, household economy and demographics, people-forest interaction.


Email| Office Hours Beth Anne Buggenhagen

Buggenhagen, Beth Anne

Assistant Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Africa, North America, Senegal
Topical Interests: circulation and value, material and visual culture, gender and Islam


Email | Office Hours Gracia Clark

Clark, Gracia

Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Africa
Topical Interests: African Economic Systems, Gender and Development, Participative Methodologies


Email | Office Hours Geoffrey Conrad

Conrad, Geoffrey

Professor
Director of Mathers Museum of World Cultures
Director of Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology

Geographical Areas of Specialization: The Caribbean, Central Andes
Topical Interests: Caribbean Archaeology; Peruvian (Central Andean) Archaeology; Comparative Ancient Civilizations; Museum Anthropology


Email | Office Hours Della Cook

Cook, Della

Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Americas, Aegean
Topical Interests: Human osteology, Paleopathology, Mortuary practices, Demography


Email | Office Hours Ray DeMallie

DeMallie, Raymond

Chancellors' Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: North America, with an emphasis on Plains Indians
Topical Interests: kinship and social organization, ritual and belief systems, oral traditions, and material culture


Email | Office Hours Sara Friedman

Friedman, Sara

Associate Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: China, Taiwan
Topical Interests: marriage and the state; citizenship; socialism and post-socialism; gender and sexuality; reproductive politics; kinship; ethnicity; media and representation


Email | Office Hours Brian Gilley

Gilley, Brian

Associate Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Native North America, Contemporary Italy and Belgium
Topical Interests: Gender, Sexuality, the body, power and difference, HIV/AIDS, the nature of the subject, Institutional logics in late liberalism, body movement in sport


Email | Office Hours Paula Girshick

Girshick, Paula

Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Africa, especially Nigeria and South Africa
Topical Interests: Monuments, museums, and national identity, history and memory, politics of representation, the art market - collecting, selling, and exhibiting.


Email | Office Hours Shane Greene

Greene, L. Shane

Associate Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Peru, Amazonia/Andes, elsewhere, although mostly Latin America
Topical Interests: Social theory, social movements, race, urban subcultures, music and society, indigenous and afro-descendent rights, political ecology.


Email | Office Hours Hung Ling-yu

Hung, Ling-yu

Assistant Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: East Asia
Topical Interests: Development of social complexity in prehistoric mainland China and Taiwan.


Email | Office Hours Kevin Hunt

Hunt, Kevin

Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Africa
Topical Interests: Functional Morphology and Ecology of Hominids and Apes


Email | Office Hours Frederika Kaestle

Kaestle, Frederika

Associate Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Native America, Pacific, Asia
Topical Interests: Molecular anthropology, molecular evolution, population genetics, ancient DNA


Email | Office Hours Stacie King

King, Stacie

Assistant Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Mexico (Oaxaca), Mesoamerica
Topical Interests: Ancient & Colonial Mexico, household archaeology, identity, food practices, soil chemistry and microscale methods in archaeology, soundscapes, social theory, culture contact


Email | Office Hours Philip LeSourd

LeSourd, Phil

Associate Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization:Northeastern North America
Topical Interests: linguistic theory and its application to the analysis of Native American languages, comparative Algonquian linguistics, Maliseet-Passamaquoddy


Email | Office Hours Michael Muehlenbein

Muehlenbein, Michael

Assistant Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Borneo
Topical Interests: Physiological adaptations (primarily metabolic and reproductive endocrine changes) to infectious diseases; immune-endocrine interactions; ecological immunology; emerging infectious diseases; ecotourism; male reproductive ecology; human life history evolution; behavioral endocrinology


Email | Office Hours Doug Parks

Parks, Douglas

Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: North America
Topical Interests: anthropological linguistics


Email | Office Hours Sarah Phillips

Phillips, Sarah

Associate Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Central and Eastern Europe; the Former Soviet Union, especially Ukraine and Russia.
Topical Interests: postsocialist transformations, civil society and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), globalization, development, gender studies, medical anthropology, post-Chernobyl health and healing, folk medicine, and disability studies


Email | Office Hours Anne Pyburn

Pyburn, Anne

Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Mesoamerica , Belize, Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan
Topical Interests: Archaeology, settlement patterns, Maya, gender, ethics, archaeology and social context


Email | Office Hours Anya Royce

Royce, Anya

Chancellors' Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Mexico, Russia, and Eastern Europe
Topical Interests: Local and global identities, anthropology of dance, performance, popular theater, ethnic identity, aesthetics and creative processes, indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica, death belief and ritual, anthropological writing, anthropology of food


Email | Office Hours Laura Scheiber

Scheiber, Laura

Associate Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: North America, Plains
Topical Interests: Zooarchaeology, Faunal Analysis, North American Archaeology, Native American Ethnohistory, Culture Contact, Archaeological Theory and Practice, Historical Anthropology, Landscapes, Identity, Archaeological Fiction


Email | Office Hours Kathy Shick

Schick, Kathy

Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Africa, China
Topical Interests: Paleoanthropology, African prehistory


Email | Office Hours schoenemann

Schoenemann, Tom

Associate Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: The World
Topical Interests: Coevolution of brain and behavior, evolution of language, functional morphology of the brain, human variation, modeling evolutionary hypotheses, mathematical image analysis


Email | Office Hours Jeanne Sept

Sept, Jeanne

Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Africa
Topical Interests: Archaeology, human evolution, paleoecology, primate ecology and diet


Email | Office Hours Nazif M. Shahrani

Shahrani, Nazif

Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Afghanistan, former Soviet Central Asian Republics (Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Turmenistan), Iran, and Turkey
Topical Interests: History of anthropological theories and methods; anthropology of religion; political anthropology; social change; comparisons of filmed and written ethnographic representations


Email | Office Hours April Sievert

Sievert, April

Senior Lecturer

Geographical Areas of Specialization: American Midwest, south-central Andes
Topical Interests: Lithic analysis, south-central Andes , Mississippian archaeology, historical archaeology, archaeological ethics, anthropological pedagogy


Email | Office Hours marvin

Sterling, Marvin

Associate Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Japan, Caribbean
Topical Interests: Contemporary Japan, African Diaspora, Race, Social Identity, Afro-Asia, Performance Studies, Transnationalism, Human Rights


Email | Office Hours beverly

Stoeltje, Beverly

Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Ghana, West Africa and American West, especially Texas
Topical Interests: Performance, Ritual, Nationalism, Gender, and Anthropology of Law


Email | Office Hours Dan Suslak

Suslak, Daniel

Associate Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Mexico, Mesoamerica
Topical Interests: Linguistic anthropology, Sociolinguistics, Bilingualism, Verbal Art, Youth and Adolescence, Mesoamerican languages and cultures


Email | Office Hours Nicholas Toth

Toth, Nicholas

Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Africa and China
Topical Interests: Paleoanthropology, lithic technology, African prehistory


Email | Office Hours Frances Trix

Trix, Frances

Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Kosova, Turkey, Albania, Muslim communities in North America
Topical Interests: Islam in the Balkans, Discourse Analysis, Sufism, Disaster Studies, migration, gender


Email | Office Hours Catherine Tucker

Tucker, Catherine

Associate Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Honduras, eastern Guatemala, and Oaxaca, Mexico
Topical Interests: Ecological Anthropology, Political Ecology, Community Forestry, Collective Action, Common Property, Economic Development, Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, Latin America


Email | Office Hours Viginia Vitzthum

Vitzthum, Virginia

Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization:
Topical Interests: variation in human female reproduction,contraceptive technology, applied health policy


Email | Office Hours Andrea Wiley

Wiley, Andrea

Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: South Asia, particularly India
Topical Interests: Human diet and nutrition and the adaptive significance of human dietary behavior; human adaptability, particularly to stressful environments such as high altitude; Human health and disease, especially maternal and infant health within an evolutionary framework; Demography and determinants of fertility and mortality in human populations


Email | Office Hours

Wilk, Richard

Provost Professor

Geographical Areas of Specialization: Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and Belize
Topical Interests: Economic, Applied and Cultural Anthropology