Faculty
Anthropology Department

Areas of expertise:

• Environmental anthropology 
• Applied anthropology 
• Cultural ecology 
• Community-based conservation 
• Cultural resource ethnography 
• Public involvement 
• Social impact assessment 
• Curriculum design 
• Program evaluation 
• Environmental justice 
• Southwest U.S.
• Philippines
• Traditional ecological knowledge 

Education 

• Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Georgia, 2003 
• M.A., Applied Anthropology, Northern Arizona University, 1989 
• B.A., Fort Lewis College, 1980 

Areas of expertise

• Landscape Archaeology
• Spatial Analysis
• GIS Analysis
• Ethnohistorical Archaeology 
• Social and Religious Landscape
• Plant Uses
• Human-Environment Interaction

Education

• Ph.D., Washington State University, 2023
• M.A., Washington State University, 2017
• M.A., Silpakorn University, Thailand 2003
• B.A., Chiang Mai University, Thailand 1998
   

Areas of Expertise:

• Skeletal biology
• Forensic anthropology
• Bioarchaeology
• Paleopathology
• Human evolution
• Repatriation

Education:

• Ph.D., Anthropology, the University of Colorado at Boulder, 1996
• M.A., Anthropology, the University of Colorado at Boulder, 1994
• B.S., Cornell University, 1992

Expertise 

• Neolithic societies 
• Community layout, architecture, and spatial organization 
• Migration, residential mobility, and identity 
• Community aggregation and reorganization 
• Computer applications in archaeology, including GPS/GIS technologies 
• Native American perspectives  

Education 

• Ph.D., The University of Arizona, 1999 
• M.A., The University of Arizona, 1994 
• B.A., The University of Arizona, 1990 

Areas of interest

• Migration and borders
• Human rights and humanitarianism
• War and conflict
• Displacement and refugee camps
• Sovereignty and governance
• Anthropology of gender
• Sexual and gendered violence
• Memory and narrative
• Public anthropology
• Multi-sited ethnography (Tanzania, DRC, Kenya, Switzerland, US)

Education

• Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Colorado, 2016
• M.A., Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 2006
• B.A., Washington University in St. Louis, 2004

Areas of expertise:

• Medical Anthropology
• North America
• Medicalization
• Warriordom
• Violence/War
• Trauma/Healing
• PTSD
• Gender/Masculinity
• Native American Studies
• Mental Health
• Psychological Anthropology
• Public Anthropology

Education:

• Ph.D., Duke University, 2022
• M.A., Duke University, 2018
• B.A., UNC Asheville, 2014
• A.A., Asheville Buncombe Technical Community College, 2012