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 |
Affiliated Graduate Faculty
| Name | Contact |
|---|---|
| M. Bianet Castellanos American Indian Studies |
[email protected] |
| Ellen W. Demerath Epidemology |
[email protected] |
| Joshua M. Feinberg Earth Sciences & Adjunct Asst. Professor in Anthropology |
[email protected] |
| David Fox Earth and Environmental Sciences |
[email protected] |
| Cindy Garcia Theatre Arts & Dance |
[email protected] |
| Kieran McNulty Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior |
[email protected] |
| Jeani O'Brien History |
[email protected] |
| Ann Waltner History |
[email protected] |
| Bula Sirika Wayessa African American & African Studies |
[email protected] |
| Michael Wilson Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior |
[email protected] |
| Margaret Werry Theatre Arts & Dance; Performance Studies |
[email protected] |
| Thomas Wolfe History |
[email protected] |
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 and Scholars
| Name | Contact |
|---|---|
| Ed Fleming Science Museum of Minnesota |
[email protected] |
| Beverly Fok Visiting Researcher |
[email protected] |
| Niki Garrett Research Associate |
[email protected] |
| Charlie Iverson Science Museum of Minnesota |
[email protected] |
| David Mather Research Associate |
[email protected] |
| Jessica Stone Research Associate Anthropological Genetics Labs |
[email protected] |
| Lois Yellowthunder Research Fellow |
[email protected] |
| Katrina Yezzi-Woodley Instructor |
[email protected] |
Instructional Staff
| Name | |
|---|---|
| Melinda Salvador Instructor |
Fall 2024 |
| Britt Vanpaepeghem Adjunct Instructor |
Fall 2024 |
| Muhammad Osama Imran Graduate Instructor |
Fall 2024 |
| Katrina Yezzi-Woodley Adjunct Instructor |
Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 |
| Samantha Gogol Graduate Instructor |
Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 |
| Diana Dean Instructor |
Spring 2025 |
| Risa Luther Graduate Instructor |
Spring 2025 |
| MaryGrace Trifilio Graduate Instructor |
Spring 2025 |