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