Faculty

Our department has nineteen 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 brow7100@umn.edu 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	612-625-9862 edurbana@umn.edu 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	aghani@umn.edu 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 Associate Professor Archaeology	612-626-7482 kathayes@umn.edu 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 hakyemez@umn.edu 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 karenho@umn.edu 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 lipse001@umn.edu 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 Professor Sociocultural Anthropology	612-624-8944 mclea070@umn.edu 374 Hubert H. Humphrey Center	anthropology of modernity, social and cultural theory, historical anthropology, Ireland, European Union
Kieran McNulty Department Chair Professor Biological Anthropology	612-625-0058 anthchair@umn.edu kmcnulty@umn.edu 395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center	paleoanthropology, human and primate evolution, geometric morphometrics, cranial evolution and ontogeny, eastern Africa
Gilliane Monnier Associate Professor Archaeology	612-626-4846 monni003@umn.edu 368 Hubert H. Humphrey Center	stone tool analysis, lower and middle paleolithic Europe, Neanderthal behavior, microarchaeology
Maria Nieves-Colón Assistant Professor Biological Anthropology	612-625-4092 mnievesc@umn.edu 379 Hubert H. Humphrey Center	anthropological genetics and ancient DNA, the Caribbean and Latin America, human population history, migration and admixture, decolonizing genomics
Hoon Song Associate Professor Sociocultural Anthropology	612-624-8980 songx080@umn.edu 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 tappe004@umn.edu 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 taussig@umn.edu 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 toste003@umn.edu 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 Director of Undergraduate Studies Associate Professor Sociocultural Anthropology	612-626-8692 valen076@umn.edu anthdus@umn.edu 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 wells001@umn.edu 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	wbeeman@umn.edu
Timothy Dunnigan Professor Emeritus	dunni001@umn.edu
Luther Gerlach Professor Emeritus	gerla001@umn.edu
Stephen Gudeman Professor Emeritus	gudeman@umn.edu
John Ingham Professor Emeritus	ingha001@umn.edu
Jean Langford Professor Emerita	langf001@umn.edu
Frank Miller Professor Emeritus	mille005@umn.edu
Gloria Goodwin Raheja Professor Emerita	raheja@umn.edu

Affiliated Researchers

Name	Contact
Scott Anfinson Research Associate	anfin001@umn.edu
Yasmeen Arif Political Science	arifx003@umn.edu
Melissa Brown Minnesota Population Center; Harvard University	melbrown@fas.harvard.edu
M. Bianet Castellanos American Indian Studies	mbc@umn.edu
Ellen W. Demerath Epidemology	ewd@umn.edu
Joanne B. Eicher Design/Housing/Apparel	jeicher@umn.edu
Joshua M. Feinberg Earth Sciences & Adjunct Asst. Professor in Anthropology	feinberg@umn.edu
Ed Fleming Research Associate	flem0033@umn.edu
G. Friedmann-Sanchez Humphrey Institute	frie0013@umn.edu
Niki Garrett Research Associate	garre125@umn.edu
David Karjanen American Studies	karjanen@umn.edu
Laura Kunreuther Visiting Scholar	kunreuth@bard.edu
David Mather Research Associate	math0216@umn.edu
John D. Nichols American Indian Studies	jdn@umn.edu
Rebecca Nockerts Research Associate	slepk002@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
Sandro Simon Research Fellow	simo1209@umn.edu
Chery Smith Food Science & Nutrition	csmith@umn.edu
Elaine E. Tarone Continuing Education; Sociolinguistics	etarone@umn.edu
Rachel Thompson Research Associate	rthompson@g.harvard.edu
Bula Sirika Wayessa African American & African Studies	bwayessa@umn.edu
Margaret Werry Theatre Arts & Dance; Performance Studies	werry001@umn.edu
Joe Westermeyer Psychiatry; Cross-Cultural Psychiatry	weste010@umn.edu
Lois Yellowthunder Research Fellow	lois@anthrolaw.com

Instructional Staff

Name
Emily Briggs Graduate Instructor
Deniz Coral Graduate Instructor
Samantha Gogol Graduate Instructor
Megan Moore Graduate Instructor