Core Faculty
Susan Alt
Associate Professor
Geographical Areas of Specialization: North America, Midwest, Southeastern U.S., Mississippi Valley
Topical Interests: Complexity, identity, migration, materiality, ritual, craft production, ceramics, GIS
Joelle Bahloul
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.
Eduardo S. Brondizio
Professor
Geographical Areas of Specialization: Amazon, Brazil, Latin America
Topical Interests: Environmental and economic anthropology, land use and landscape history, ethnobotany, household economy and demographics, livelihoods and poverty, people-forest interaction, socio-ecological complex systems analysis, and integrative methodologies and remote sensing applications in the social sciences.
Beth A. Buggenhagen
Assistant Professor
Geographical Areas of Specialization: Africa, North America, Senegal
Topical Interests: circulation and value, material and visual culture, gender and Islam
Gracia Clark
Professor
Geographical Areas of Specialization: Africa
Topical Interests: African Economic Systems, Gender and Development, Participative Methodologies
Della Collins Cook
Professor
Geographical Areas of Specialization: Americas, Aegean
Topical Interests: Human osteology, Paleopathology, Mortuary practices, Demography
Raymond J. DeMallie
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
Sara Friedman
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
Brian Gilley
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
L. Shane Greene
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.
Ling-yu Hung
Assistant Professor
Geographical Areas of Specialization: China, Taiwan
Topical Interests: Chinese archaeology, prehistory of Taiwan, craft specialization, ceramics, ritual practice, cultural interaction, geoarchaeology, and the application of GIS in archaeology.
Kevin D. Hunt
Professor
Geographical Areas of Specialization: Africa
Topical Interests: Functional Morphology and Ecology of Hominids and Apes
Frederika Kaestle
Associate Professor
Geographical Areas of Specialization: Native America, Pacific, Asia
Topical Interests: Molecular anthropology, molecular evolution, population genetics, ancient DNA
Stacie M. King
Associate 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, colonialism
Philip S. LeSourd
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
Michael P. Muehlenbein
Associate 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
Douglas R. Parks
Professor
Geographical Areas of Specialization: anthropological linguistics
Topical Interests: North America
Sarah Phillips
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.
Anne Pyburn
Professor
Geographical Areas of Specialization: Mesoamerica , Belize, Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan
Topical Interests: Archaeology, settlement patterns, Maya, gender, ethics, archaeology and social context
Anya Peterson Royce
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
Laura Scheiber
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
Kathy Schick
Professor
Geographical Areas of Specialization: Africa, Europe, Asia
Topical Interests: Old World prehistory, palaeoanthropology, archaeological site formation, geoarchaeology, taphonomy, zooarchaeology, hunter-gatherers, ethnoarchaeology, lithic technology, experimental archaeology, primate studies, invention and technology, history of archaeology
Tom Schoenemann
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
Jeanne Sept
Professor
Geographical Areas of Specialization: Africa
Topical Interests: Archaeology, human evolution, paleoecology, primate ecology and diet
M. Nazif Shahrani
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 with focus on failing modern nation-states in multi-ethnic societies; social change; comparisons of filmed and written ethnographic representations; and seminars on approaches to the study of Islam and Muslims; states and societies; cultural ecology of pastoral nomads and nomadism; family, gender and crises of masculinity in Muslim Central Asia and the Middle East; and Islam and politics in Muslim societies of Middle East and former Soviet Central Asia from a comparative perspective.
April K. Sievert
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
Marvin D. Sterling
Associate Professor
Geographical Areas of Specialization: Japan, Caribbean
Topical Interests: Contemporary Japan, African Diaspora, Race, Social Identity, Afro-Asia, Performance Studies, Transnationalism, Human Rights
Beverly Stoeltje
Professor
Geographical Areas of Specialization: Ghana, West Africa and American West, especially Texas
Topical Interests: Performance, Ritual, Nationalism, Gender, and Anthropology of Law
Daniel Suslak
Associate Professor
Geographical Areas of Specialization: Mexico, Mesoamerica
Topical Interests: Linguistic anthropology, semiotic anthropology, verbal art, youth and adolescence, Mesoamerican languages and cultures
Nicholas Toth
Professor
Geographical Areas of Specialization: Africa and China
Topical Interests: Human evolutionary studies, African prehistory, palaeolithic studies, the evolution of human intelligence, lithic technology, experimental archaeology, microscopic approaches to archaeology, faunal analysis and taphonomy, ethnoarchaeology, primate studies, history of evolutionary thought.
Frances Trix
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
Catherine M. Tucker
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
Virginia Vitzthum
Professor
Geographical Areas of Specialization: Bolivia
Topical Interests: variation in human female reproduction,contraceptive technology, applied health policy
Andrea Wiley
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
Richard Wilk
Provost Professor
Geographical Areas of Specialization: Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and Belize
Topical Interests: Economic, Applied and Cultural Anthropology
