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 | Office location | Anthropology subfield | Research specialties |
| William Beeman Professor |
wbeeman@umn.edu | 368 Hubert H. Humphrey Center | Sociocultural Anthropology | peasant and nomadic societies, philosophic anthropology, action anthropology, paralinguistic and nonlinguistic semiotics, sociolinguistics and the semantics of interaction, cross-cultural comparison of theatrical and performance genres, opera, Middle East, Islamic world, Iran, South Asia, Japan, business anthropology |
| Rebecca Bria Temporary Assistant Professor |
612-625-9723 rebria@umn.edu |
371 Hubert H. Humphrey Center | Archaeology | |
Erin Durban Assistant Professor |
612-625-9862 edurbana@umn.edu |
375 Hubert H. Humphrey Center | Sociocultural Anthropology | colonialism/imperialism, LGBTQI studies, political anthropology, social movements, human rights, transnational feminisms, critical theory (queer, trans*, feminist, black, decolonial, postcolonial, Marxist), transnational American studies, Haiti/ Caribbean |
| Aisha Ghani Assistant Professor |
aghani@umn.edu | 369 Hubert H. Humphrey Center | Sociocultural Anthropology | anthropology of religion and secularism, political and legal anthropology, violence, liberalism sovereignty, U.S. constitutional and environmental law, Islamic law, psychoanalysis, courtroom ethnography, social theory; Islam and Muslim communities in the United States. |
| Katherine Hayes Associate Professor |
612-626-7482 kathayes@umn.edu |
386 Hubert H. Humphrey Center | Archaeology | historical archaeology, memory, forgetting, history, heritage, colonialism in North America, ceramic analysis, material culture studies |
| Serra Hakyemez Assistant Professor |
612-625-9480 hakyemez@umn.edu |
365 Hubert H. Humphrey Center | Sociocultural Anthropology | political-legal anthropology, social theory, human rights, political violence, "war on terror", courtroom ethnography, Kurdish freedom movement, Turkey, Middle East |
| Karen Ho Associate Professor |
612-626-1313 karenho@umn.edu |
395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center | Sociocultural Anthropology | cultural studies of finance capital, finance, globalization, and capitalism, ethnography, feminist studies, political economy, United States, comparative race and ethnicity |
| Steve Kosiba Assistant Professor |
612-625-3890 skosiba@umn.edu |
370 Hubert H. Humphrey Center | Archaeology | political and historical ecology; landscape archaeology; environmental anthropology; materiality, "new materialism," and material culture studies; anthropology of religion; political theory; subjectivity and subjectification; indigenousness; colonialism; Latin America; Andes. |
| Jean Langford Professor |
612-625-4092 langf001@umn.edu |
395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center | Sociocultural Anthropology | South and Southeast Asia, death and dying, haunting, violence, historical memory; healing practices and medicine, semiotics, poststructuralism, deconstruction; science studies, postcolonial studies, animal studies, biopolitics |
| David Lipset Professor |
612-626-8657 lipse001@umn.edu |
395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center | Sociocultural Anthropology | masculinity, personhood and modernity, the state of the Pacific, symbolic, politcial-legal, and psychoanalytic anthropology, Bakhtinian dialogism, Papua New Guinea, Sepik River, the Pacific; romance, the body, nonWestern people in mass media, class cross-culturally, climate change and culture, social theory, material culture, communications technology cross-culturally, social media |
| Stuart McLean Director of Graduate Studies Professor |
612-624-8944 mclea070@umn.edu |
375 Hubert H. Humphrey Center | Sociocultural Anthropology | anthropology of modernity, social and cultural theory, historical anthropology, Ireland, European Union |
| Kieran McNulty Professor |
612-625-0058 kmcnulty@umn.edu |
383 Hubert H. Humphrey Center | Biological Anthropology | paleoanthropology, human and primate evolution, geometric morphometrics, cranial evolution and ontogeny, East Africa |
| Gilliane Monnier Director of Undergraduate Studies Associate Professor |
612-626-4846 monni003@umn.edu anthdus@umn.edu |
395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center | Archaeology | stone tool analysis, lower and middle paleolithic Europe, neanderthal behavior, microarchaeology |
| Gloria Goodwin Raheja Professor |
612-625-8547 raheja@umn.edu |
395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center | Sociocultural Anthropology | cultural production in India (caste, gender and oral traditions), poetics and politics of speech and song; colonialism, culture, and colonial knowledge, colonial ethnography in nineteeth century India; the politics of representation, ethnographic history, music and industrial capitalism in Appalachia, blues music in the mountain south; landscape, history, memory |
| Hoon Song Associate Professor |
612-624-8980 songx080@umn.edu |
395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center | Sociocultural Anthropology | ontology of power, materiality of sovereignty, psychoanalysis, biopolitics, philosophical anthropology, animality, US/North Korea, early french anthropology |
| Martha Tappen Associate Professor |
612-625-3087 tappe004@umn.edu |
395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center | Biological Anthropology | human evolution and adaptations, out of Africa, paleoenvironments, stone age archaeology, zooarchaeology, taphonomy |
| Karen-Sue Taussig Department Chair Associate Professor |
612-625-3366 taussig@umn.edu |
395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center | Sociocultural Anthropology | 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 |
612-625-5542 toste003@umn.edu |
379 Hubert H. Humphrey Center | Archaeology | human evolution, lithic technology, old world archaeology, paleolithic archaeology, cultural transmission theory, experimental archaeology, origins of modern humans, material culture |
| David Valentine Associate Professor |
612-626-8692 valen076@umn.edu |
364 Hubert H. Humphrey Center | Sociocultural Anthropology | cultural and linguistic anthropology, social justice movements, gender and sexuality, queer theory, the idea of the future, commercial space exploration |
| Peter Wells Professor |
612-624-6845 wells001@umn.edu |
395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center | Archaeology | 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 |
| Michael Wilson Associate Professor |
612-625-1376 wilso198@umn.edu |
395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center | Biological Anthropology | primate behavior and ecology, warfare and human evolution |
Faculty Emeriti
| Name | Contact |
| Timothy Dunnigan Professor Emeritus |
dunni001@umn.edu |
| Luther Gerlach Professor Emeritus |
gerla001@umn.edu |
| Guy Gibbon Professor Emeritus |
gibbo001@umn.edu |
| Stephen Gudeman Professor Emeritus |
gudeman@umn.edu |
| John Ingham Professor Emeritus |
ingha001@umn.edu |
| Frank Miller Professor Emeritus |
mille005@umn.edu |
| Mischa Penn Professor Emeritus |
pennx001@umn.edu |
Affiliated Researchers
| Name | Contact |
| Amelie Allard Visiting Scholar |
allar030@umn.edu |
| Lore Phillips Visiting Scholar |
phil0483@umn.edu |
| Yasmeen Arif Political Science |
arifx003@umn.edu |
| Melissa Brown Minnesota Population Center; Harvard University |
melbrown@fas.harvard.edu |
| M. Bianet Castellanos American Studies |
mbc@umn.edu |
| Ursula Dalinghaus Visiting Scholar |
dali0012@umn.edu |
| Ellen W. Demerath Epidemology |
ewd@umn.edu |
| Joanne B. Eicher Design/Housing/Apparel |
jeicher@umn.edu |
| Katherine Erdman Visiting Scholar |
erdma084@umn.edu |
| Joshua M. Feinberg Earth Sciences & Adjunct Asst. Professor in Anthropology |
feinberg@umn.edu |
| G. Friedmann-Sanchez Humphrey Institute |
frie0013@umn.edu |
| David Karjanen American Studies |
karjanen@umn.edu |
| John D. Nichols American Indian Studies |
jdn@umn.edu |
| Maureen O'Dougherty Food Science & Nutrition |
modoughe@umn.edu |
| Mark Pedelty Journalism & Mass Communications |
pedeltmh@umn.edu |
| Riv-Ellen Prell American Studies |
prell001@umn.edu |
| Joel D. Rudney Dentistry |
jrudney@umn.edu |
| Harvey B. Sarles Cultural Studies |
sarle001@umn.edu |
| Anna Schultz Music |
schul778@umn.edu |
| Chery Smith Food Science & Nutrition |
csmith@umn.edu |
| Elaine E. Tarone Continuing Education; Sociolinguistics |
etarone@umn.edu |
| Margaret Werry Theatre Arts & Dance; Performance Studies |
werry001@umn.edu |
| Joe Westermeyer Psychiatry; Cross-Cultural Psychiatry |
weste010@umn.edu |
Instructional Staff
| Name | Contact |
| Rebecca Bria Lecturer |
371 Hubert H. Humphrey Center rebria@umn.edu |
| Niki Garrett Lecturer |
365 Hubert H. Humphrey Center garre125@umn.edu |
| Aaron Armstrong Lecturer |
365 Hubert H. Humphrey Center armst147@umn.edu |
| Steven Andrew Kensinger Graduate Instructor |
365 Hubert H. Humphrey Center kensi008@umn.edu |