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
Michelle Brown
Specialties
primatology; behavioral ecology; endocrinology
Erin L. Durban
Specialties
Anti-ableist ethnographic methods; Critical disability studies; Disability anthropology; Feminist studies; Queer anthropology; Trans* studies; Transnational American studies
Aisha Ghani
Specialties
Anthropology of Religion; Political Theology; Philosophies of Violence; Philosophies of Difference; Islam; Psychoanalysis; Poetry and Poetics
Serra M Hakyemez
Specialties
Carcerality; Colonialism and Decolonial Studies; Extractivism; Humanitarianism; Political Violence; Psychoanalysis; Subjectivity; Middle East Studies; East Africa Studies
Kevin Hatala
Specialties
paleoanthropology; biomechanics; locomotion; functional anatomy
Kat Hayes
Specialties
Historical archaeology; Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Studies; XR (extended reality) in heritage interpretation; Archaeological ethics and repatriation; Memory, forgetting, history, heritage
Karen Ho
Specialties
Ethnography; Feminist studies; Political economy; United States; Cultural studies of finance capital; Finance, globalization, and capitalism; Comparative race and ethnicity
David Lipset
Specialties
The state in the Pacific; Symbolic, political-legal, and psychoanalytic anthropology; Bakhtinian dialogism; Papua New Guinea, Sepik River, the Pacific; Masculinity, personhood and modernity; Romance, the body; Material culture; NonWestern people in mass media; Class cross-culturally; Climate change and culture; Social theory; Communications technology, cross-culturally; Social media
Stuart McLean
Specialties
Philosophical anthropology; Experimental writing; Anthropology of Art; North Atlantic region; Landscape and environment
Gilliane Monnier
Specialties
Stone tool analysis; Lower and Middle Paleolithic in Western Europe; Microarchaeology; Neanderthal behavior
Maria Nieves-Colón
Specialties
Latin America and the Caribbean; Ancient DNA; Anthropological genetics; Migration and admixture; Human population history
Sofía Pacheco-Fores
Specialties
Bioarchaeology; Mesoamerican Archaeology; Migration; Biogeochemistry; Biodistance Analysis
Hoon Song
Specialties
Early French Anthropology; Philosophical anthropology; Psychoanalysis; US/North Korea; Animality; Biopolitics; Ontology of power, materiality of sovereignty
Karen-Sue Taussig
Specialties
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
Specialties
Human evolution and adaptations; Lithic technology; Old World archaeology; Paleolithic archaeology; Cultural transmission theory; Experimental archaeology; Origins of modern humans; Material culture
David Valentine
Specialties
Cultural and linguistic anthropology; Social justice movements; The idea of the future; Gender and sexuality, queer theory; Commercial space exploration
Peter Wells
Specialties
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
Bianet Castellanos
Specialties
Indigenous communities; Migration; Anthropology of work; Chicana/o studies; Latin America; Transnationalism; Gender studies; tourism; settler colonialism
Cindy García
Specialties
Race and Performance in the Americas; Choreographic Ethnography, Ethnography of Performance; Chicana/o and Latina/o Politics, Culture, and Performance; Dance and the Practices of Everyday Life
Jean O'Brien
Specialties
Native American and Indigenous Studies; State and Federal Recogntion; Settler Colonial Studies; US Colonialism
Bula Wayessa
Specialties
African Archaeology; Ethnoarchaeology; Ceramic analysis; Social Identity; Ontology; Agrarian change
Margaret Werry
Specialties
performance studies and performance theory; theatre historiography, 19C performance, theatre, and entertainment; museum studies; settler colonialism, neo-liberalization, nationalism, state-making and theories of race and ethnicity; tourism, heritage, and cultural policy; Pacific studies; critical pedagogy
Michael Wilson
Specialties
Primate behavior and ecology; Warfare and human evolution
Thomas Wolfe
Specialties
history of media and communications; pragmatism; European Union; Soviet Union
Faculty Emeriti
William Beeman
Specialties
business 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
Timothy Dunnigan
Specialties
adjustment among Hmong refugees; cultural semantics; Dak'ota lexicography and language maintenence; Native North America and South East Asia
John Ingham
Specialties
childhood and the self in late capitalist society; human nature; psychoanalysis; subjective meaning and motivation of social behavior and cultural practices
Jean Langford
Specialties
Semiotics, poststructuralism, deconstruction; Death; Healing; Postcolonial studies; Haunting and Political Violence; Animal Studies; Biopolitics; South and Southeast Asia; Science studies
Frank Miller
Specialties
Highland Maya; Mexico; Mexico's position in the global economy; social change, development, and public policies in southern and central Mexico
Gloria Goodwin Raheja
Specialties
Poetics and politics of speech and song; Ethnographic history; Music and industrial capitalism in Appalachia; Cultural production in India (caste, gender and oral traditions); Colonialism, culture, and colonial knowledge; Colonial ethnography in nineteenth century India; American vernacular music; Landscape, history, memory
Martha Tappen
Specialties
Human evolution and adaptations; Out of Africa I; Paleoenvironments; Stone Age archaeology; Zooarchaeology; Taphonomy
Instructional Staff
