Sociocultural Anthropology |
Catherine Allen |
Symbolism; ritual; social organization; aesthetics; oral narrative; drama. Regional focus: Andean South America. |
Ilana Feldman |
Historical anthropology, government and bureaucracy, humanitarianism, citizenship, colonialism, policing and security. Regional focus: Middle East. |
David D. Gow |
Development theory and practice; anthropology of development; alternative government; modernity; methodology. Regional focus: Colombia. |
R. Richard Grinker |
Social organization; ethnicity and nationalism; autism and psychological anthropology; gender; museum anthropology; hunter-gatherers. Regional foci: Africa, Korea. |
Stephen C. Lubkemann |
Political conflict; violence; gender, migration; transnationalism and diasporas; refugees and displacement; humanitarian action; development; ethnohistory; maritime archaeology and CRM; epistemology and methodology in the social sciences. Regional foci: Lusophone Africa, Liberia, African diasporas. |
Barbara D. Miller |
Social change and development; medical anthropology; health and demography; gender. Regional focus: India. |
Robert J. Shepherd |
Anthropology of development; tourism; contemporary urban China; human rights. |
John M. Vlach |
Folklife; material culture; vernacular architecture; art and crafts. Regional foci: Southern U.S., Caribbean, West Africa. |
Archaeology |
Jeffrey Blomster |
Rise of complex societies, interregional interaction in Mesoamerica, symbolism and ideology, archaeological approaches to gender, material culture. Regional focus: Mexico. |
Alison S. Brooks |
Paleolithic archaeology, physical anthropology, paleoanthropology, ethnoarchaeology, geochronology. Regional foci: Africa, northern China. |
Eric H. Cline |
International trade and relations in the ancient Mediterranean; Bronze Age archaeology; ancient Greece, Egypt, and Israel; military history in the Mediterranean area through the ages. |
Linguistic Anthropology |
Alexander S. Dent |
Public/popular culture; language; media, rural-urban relations; ethnography; ethnomusicology. Regional foci: Brazil; Latin America; North America |
Joel C. Kuipers |
Linguistic anthropology; ethnography of speaking; ethnoscience; ritual; gender; nationalism; politics of culture; medical anthropology. Regional focus: Indonesia. |
Biological Anthropology |
Robin M. Bernstein |
Human and non-human primate growth and development; developmental, reproductive, and behavioral endocrinology. |
Peter W. Lucas |
Dental morphology and function; primate diet, feeding ecology, and behavior; chemical and physical content of food; tools for the field study of foraging mammals; evolution of color vision. |
Brian G. Richmond |
Human and ape evolution, origin and evolution of human bipedalism; functional anatomy; trabecular bone structure; craniofacial biomechanics; finite element analysis. |
Chet C. Sherwood |
Evolution of the primate brain; biological bases of human cognitive abilities; primatology. |
Bernard Wood |
Human evolution; systematics; functional morphology |
Visiting and Adjunct Faculty |
Nancy Benco |
Complex societies, ceramic analysis, craft production; Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Islamic archaeology. Regional focus: North Africa. |
Linda Brown |
Ethnoarchaeology, archaeology of ritual, the role of ideology and resistance in complex society, the cultural landscape. Regional focus: Mesoamerica. |
Michael Cernea |
Development social policy; irrigation and water use; forestry and reforestation; population resettlement; agricultural extension; pastoral development; natural resources management; social and environmental impact assessments; cultural heritage preservation; applied research methods. |
Pamela Cressey |
Historical archaeology, community archaeology, preservation planning, urban development, African-American and Euro-American domestic life and material culture. |
John K. Donaldson, Jr. |
Native American linguistics, Native American literature, English pedagogy and curriculum. |
Candace Greene |
Native American art, especially Plains Indians; material culture; representation; museum research methods. |
Shelly Habecker |
Anthropology of displacement, diasporas, and transnationalism; African migration and social change; immigrant integration patterns and U.S. race identities. |
David Hunt |
Human osteology, human variation and modification, forensic anthropology, human mummies and mummification, dermatoglyphics. |
Susan Johnston |
Iron Age archaeology, archaeology of religion and ritual, petroglyphs and rock art. Regional focus: Ireland. |
Jacob Wainwright Love |
Ethnomusicology, music history, dance. Regional focus: Oceania. |
Agnes Manzon |
Body practices, religion, ritual, performance, violence, hunters, epistemology and methodology in anthropology. Regional focus: West Africa.
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Marilyn Merritt |
Language and media in public places and spaces; creativity, interdisciplinarity, and social change; situated discourse analysis; ritual and civility; education and visual literacies; cross-cultural understanding and scientific collaboration. |
Kannan Nambiar |
Rural development, poverty, economic anthropology. |
Frances Norwood |
Disability, end-of-life, euthanasia, aging, long-term care, and spirituality and health. |
Richard Potts |
Human origins, early hominid evolution, ecology and behavior, taphonomy. |
J. Daniel Rogers |
Analysis of social change using ethnohistorical and archaeological methods; theories of meaning and the role of the individual; culture contact, state and empire formation, and the creation of colonies. Regional foci: Inner Asia, Caribbean, Central Mexico, Great Plains. |
Eric Ross |
Anthropological theory, development and medical anthropology, global politics of food, gender and resource allocation. |
Diana Santillán |
Anthropology of gender, health, and development. Regional foci: Latin America, Vietnam. |
David K. Thulman |
Chronological and spatial patterns of variation in material culture; Paleoindian and underwater archaeology. Regional focus: U.S. |
Catherine Timura |
Ethnomedical systems, child health, and medical pluralism in Latin America.. Regional focus: South America. |
Douglas Ubelaker |
Forensic and physical anthropology, human osteology, paleopathology, paleodemography. |
Anthropologists in Other Departments and Programs |
Mark C. Edberg,
Department of Prevention and Community Health |
Applied, public health, and psychological anthropology, research methods, theory, violence/violence prevention, substance abuse, HIV risk, marginalization and poverty, immigrant and refugee populations. Regional foci: Latin America, Caribbean, Southeast Asia, urban North America. |
Sarah Orndorff,
Department of Health Policy |
Infant mortality and reproductive health, gender, partner violence, qualitative research methods. |
Moses Schanfield, Department of Forensic Sciences |
Applied and anthropological genetics, forensic genetics, paternity testing, evolutionary biology of the human immune system. |
Shoko Hamano, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures |
Anthropological linguistics, syntax, phonology, foreign language teaching. |
Sean Roberts, International Development Studies Program |
Nationalism, ethnicity, and development in Central Asia. Regional focus: Sinkiang and Kazakhstan. |
Francys Subiaul, Department of Speech and Hearing Science |
Primate cognition, cognitive and brain evolution, evolutionary psychology, cognitive development, social cognition, autism. |
Elanah Uretsky, Department of Global Health |
Medical anthropology, HIV/AIDS, gender roles and disease transmission, research methods. Regional focus: China. |
Research Associates |
Fabio Esteban Amador |
Ceramic analysis, archaeological study of identity and sociocultural complexity, art. Regional focus: Southeastern Mesoamerica. |
Paul Constantino |
Dietary ecology and adaptation, Paranthropus. |
Tetyana Duka |
Nervous system functioning at the molecular level, neurogenerative diseases and neuropsychiatric disorders. |
Patty Kelly |
Culture, power, and inequality in Latin America; ethnography of legal prostitution; Central American transmigrants in southern Mexico; border policy, human rights, and the political economy of migration. Regional focus: Mexico and Central America. |
Shannon McFarlin |
Mineralized tissue biology in primates; microanatomical correlates of life history, environment and skeletal function. |
Dolores Piperno |
Prehistoric human adaptations in tropical lowlands, use of phytoliths and other plant microfossils to study the origins of agriculture and changes in tropical environments in the Pleistocene and Holocene. |
Jo Anne Schneider |
Ethnographic research methods, social capital, faith communities and non-profit organizations, poverty, welfare reform. |
Muhammad A. Spocter |
Allometric scaling of brain size; brain asymmetries and lateralization and their manifestation at the cellular level. |
Mauricio Talebi |
Food choice, social behavior, and color vision among Brazilian monkeys. |
Gail Viechnicki |
Language and education, discourse analysis, ethnography of classroom instruction. |
Erin Vogel |
Primate feeding ecology and energy balance, evolution of cooperative behavior in primates. |
Emeritus Faculty |
Diane Bell, Professor Emerita of Anthropology |
Indigenous peoples (Australia and North America), applied, legal and feminist anthropology. |
Ruth Krulfeld, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs |
Refugee studies, culture change, ethnic identity, gender, transnationalism, ethics and human rights. |
Suzanne Simons, Associate Professor Emeritus of Anthropology |
Religion, psychological anthropology, social organization, culture contact and change. |
