Faculty

Our department has seventeen full-time faculty members. All of our faculty members conduct anthropology-centered interdisciplinary research. Together, they specialize within our three anthropology subfields: archaeology, biological anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology.

Faculty

Name	Contact	Research specialties
Michelle Brown Associate Professor Biological Anthropology	612-625-9496 [email protected] 365 Hubert H. Humphrey Center	primate behavior and ecology; feeding competition; intergroup conflict; cooperation; hormones and energetics; movement ecology; animal communication; gastrointestinal parasites; social evolution; East Africa
Erin Durban Associate Professor Sociocultural Anthropology	[email protected] 383 Hubert H. Humphrey Center	queer and trans* studies, feminist studies, critical disability studies, transnational American studies, political anthropology, social movements, critical ecologies, Haiti/ Caribbean, U.S. imperialism
Aisha Ghani Assistant Professor Sociocultural Anthropology	[email protected] 369 Hubert H. Humphrey Center	religion & secularism; law, violence, sovereignty, Islam; psychoanalysis, poetry & poetics, political theory, literary theory, courtroom ethnography; Islam and Muslim communities in the United States
Katherine Hayes Director of Graduate Studies Professor Archaeology	612-626-7482 [email protected] 386 Hubert H. Humphrey Center	historical archaeology, memory and forgetting, heritage studies, archaeologies and/of settler colonialism in North America, archaeological ethics and repatriation, ceramic analysis, material culture studies
Serra Hakyemez Assistant Professor Sociocultural Anthropology	612-625-9480 [email protected] 365 Hubert H. Humphrey Center	law, psychoanalysis, decolonization, incarceration, counterinsurgency warfare, social movements, armed resistance, media studies, Kurdish freedom movement, Turkey, Southwest Asia and North African (SWANA)
Karen Ho Professor Sociocultural Anthropology	612-626-1313 [email protected] 395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center	cultural studies of finance capital, finance, globalization, and capitalism, ethnography, feminist studies, political economy, United States, comparative race and ethnicity
David Lipset Professor Sociocultural Anthropology	612-626-8657 [email protected] 395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center	masculinity, personhood and modernity, the state of the Pacific, symbolic, political-legal, and psychoanalytic anthropology, Bakhtinian dialogism, Papua New Guinea, Sepik River, the Pacific; romance, the body, non-Western people in mass media, class cross-culturally, climate change and culture, social theory, material culture, communications technology cross-culturally, social media
Stuart McLean Department Chair Professor Sociocultural Anthropology	612-625-0058 [email protected] [email protected] 395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center	anthropology of modernity, social and cultural theory, historical anthropology, Ireland, European Union
Gilliane Monnier Director of Undergraduate Studies Professor Archaeology	612-626-4846 [email protected] [email protected] 368 Hubert H. Humphrey Center	stone tool analysis, lower and middle paleolithic Europe, Neanderthal behavior, microarchaeology
Maria Nieves-Colón Assistant Professor Biological Anthropology	612-624-8944 [email protected] 374 Hubert H. Humphrey Center	anthropological genetics and ancient DNA, the Caribbean and Latin America, human population history, migration and admixture, decolonizing genomics
Sofía Pacheco-Fores Postdoctoral Associate Archaeology	612-625-4092 [email protected] 379 Hubert H. Humphrey Center	bioarchaeology; paleomobility and migrant experiences; identity; ritual violence; biogeochemistry; biodistance analysis; Mesoamerican archaeology
Hoon Song Associate Professor Sociocultural Anthropology	612-624-8980 [email protected] 395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center	political sovereignty, history and memory, visual art, space-time, religion, psychoanalysis, North Korea/US
Martha Tappen Associate Professor Biological Anthropology	612-625-3087 [email protected] 395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center	human evolution and adaptations, out of Africa, paleoenvironments, stone age archaeology, zooarchaeology, taphonomy
Karen-Sue Taussig Associate Professor Sociocultural Anthropology	612-625-3366 [email protected] 395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center	medical anthropology, social and cultural implications of genetic testing, new reproductive technologies, cloning and stem cell research, genetics, eugenics, anthropology of science, biotechnology
Gilbert Tostevin Associate Professor Archaeology	612-625-5542 [email protected] 372 Hubert H. Humphrey Center	human evolution, lithic technology, old world archaeology, paleolithic archaeology, cultural transmission theory, experimental archaeology, origins of modern humans, material culture
David Valentine Associate Professor Sociocultural Anthropology	612-626-8692 [email protected] 364 Hubert H. Humphrey Center	cultural and linguistic anthropology, social justice movements, gender and sexuality, queer theory, futurity, anthropology of outer spaces
Peter Wells Professor Archaeology	612-624-6845 [email protected] 395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center	material culture, visual representation, central Europe, culture contact, European prehistory, frontiers, Iron Age, late prehistory, Roman and early medieval periods, Roman Europe, identity, ancient Germans, ancient Celts

Faculty Emeriti

Name	Contact
William Beeman Professor Emeritus	[email protected]
Timothy Dunnigan Professor Emeritus	[email protected]
Stephen Gudeman Professor Emeritus	[email protected]
John Ingham Professor Emeritus	[email protected]
Jean Langford Professor Emerita	[email protected]
Frank Miller Professor Emeritus	[email protected]
Gloria Goodwin Raheja Professor Emerita	[email protected]

Affiliated Researchers

Name	Contact
Scott Anfinson Research Associate	[email protected]
Yasmeen Arif Political Science	[email protected]
Melissa Brown Minnesota Population Center; Harvard University	[email protected]
M. Bianet Castellanos American Indian Studies	[email protected]
Ellen W. Demerath Epidemology	[email protected]
Joanne B. Eicher Design/Housing/Apparel	[email protected]
Joshua M. Feinberg Earth Sciences & Adjunct Asst. Professor in Anthropology	[email protected]
Ed Fleming Research Associate	[email protected]
G. Friedmann-Sanchez Humphrey Institute	[email protected]
Niki Garrett Research Associate	[email protected]
David Karjanen American Studies	[email protected]
Laura Kunreuther Visiting Scholar	[email protected]
David Mather Research Associate	[email protected]
John D. Nichols American Indian Studies	[email protected]
Rebecca Nockerts Research Associate	[email protected]
Maureen O'Dougherty Food Science & Nutrition	[email protected]
Mark Pedelty Journalism & Mass Communications	[email protected]
Riv-Ellen Prell American Studies	[email protected]
Joel D. Rudney Dentistry	[email protected]
Harvey B. Sarles Cultural Studies	[email protected]
Anna Schultz Music	[email protected]
Sandro Simon Research Fellow	[email protected]
Chery Smith Food Science & Nutrition	[email protected]
Elaine E. Tarone Continuing Education; Sociolinguistics	[email protected]
Rachel Thompson Research Associate	[email protected]
Bula Sirika Wayessa African American & African Studies	[email protected]
Margaret Werry Theatre Arts & Dance; Performance Studies	[email protected]
Joe Westermeyer Psychiatry; Cross-Cultural Psychiatry	[email protected]
Lois Yellowthunder Research Fellow	[email protected]

Instructional Staff

Name
Britt Vanpaepeghem Adjunct Instructor
Muhammad Osama Imran Graduate Instructor