Faculty
Our faculty are dedicated to instilling in students the skills necessary to study humans and further develop our knowledge of humanity.
Our department has seventeen full-time faculty members. All of our faculty members conduct anthropology-centered interdisciplinary research. Together, their work encompasses subjects in all four fields of anthropology: archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology.
Faculty
| Name | Contact |
| William Beeman Department Chair |
395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center wbeeman@umn.edu |
| Rebecca Bria Temporary Assistant Professor |
371 Hubert H. Humphrey Center rebria@umn.edu |
| Katherine Hayes Associate Professor |
386 Hubert H. Humphrey Center 612-626-7482 kathayes@umn.edu |
| Karen Ho Associate Professor |
395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center karenho@umn.edu |
| Steve Kosiba Assistant Professor |
370 Hubert H. Humphrey Center 612-625-3890 skosiba@umn.edu |
| Jean Langford Professor |
395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center 612-625-4092 langf001@umn.edu |
| David Lipset Professor |
395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center 612-626-8657 lipse001@umn.edu |
| Stuart McLean Associate Professor |
375 Hubert H. Humphrey Center 612-624-8944 mclea070@umn.edu |
| Kieran McNulty Director of Undergraduate Studies Professor |
383 Hubert H. Humphrey Center 612-625-0058 kmcnulty@umn.edu |
| Gilliane Monnier Associate Professor |
395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center 612-626-4846 monni003@umn.edu |
| Gloria Goodwin Raheja Professor |
395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center 612-625-8547 raheja@umn.edu |
| Hoon Song Associate Professor |
395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center 612-624-8980 songx080@umn.edu |
| Martha Tappen Associate Professor |
395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center 612-625-3087 tappe004@umn.edu |
| Karen-Sue Taussig Associate Professor |
395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center taussig@umn.edu |
| Gilbert Tostevin Associate Professor |
379 Hubert H. Humphrey Center 612-625-5542 toste003@umn.edu |
| David Valentine Director of Graduate Studies Associate Professor |
364 Hubert H. Humphrey Center 612-626-8692 valen076@umn.edu |
| Peter Wells Professor |
395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center 612-624-6845 wells001@umn.edu |
| Michael Wilson Associate Professor |
395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center 612-625-1376 wilso198@umn.edu |
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 |
| 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 |
| Aaron Armstrong Lecturer |
375 Hubert H. Humphrey Center 612-625-9862 armst147@umn.edu |
| Niki Garrett Graduate Instructor |
369 Hubert H. Humphrey Center garre125@umn.edu |
| Namrata Gaikwad Lecturer |
Room 768 Social Science Bldg gaikw002@umn.edu |
| Rutger Jansma Graduate Instructor |
369 Hubert H. Humphrey Center jansm014@umn.edu |
| Steve Kensinger Graduate Instructor |
369 Hubert H. Humphrey Center kensi008@umn.edu |
| Damon Lynch Graduate Instructor |
369 Hubert H. Humphrey Center lynch355@umn.edu |
| Amir Shiva Graduate Instructor |
375 Hubert H. Humphrey Center shiva011@umn.edu |
| Lore Phillips Graduate Instructor |
375 Hubert H. Humphrey Center phil0483@umn.edu |
| Meryl Lodge Graduate Instructor |
369 Hubert H. Humphrey Center lodg0022@umn.edu |