About our Faculty
Anthropology Department

Expertise 

• Environmental anthropology 
• Applied anthropology 
• Cultural ecology 
• Community-based conservation 
• Environmental impacts 
• Southeast Asia 
• Public involvement 
• Social impact assessment 
• Curriculum design 
• Program evaluation 
• Environmental justice 
• Environmentalism  

Education 

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

Expertise

• Bioarchaeology
• Biological Anthropology
• Skeletal variation
• Population genetics
• Early agricultural societies
• North American Southwest

Education

• Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Arizona, 2019
• M.A., Anthropology, University of Arizona, 2012
• B.A., Fort Lewis College, 2007

Areas of expertise:

• Geoarchaeology
• Hunter-gatherer archaeology
• Human-environment interaction
• Paleoenvironmental reconstruction
• Human behavioral ecology
• Lithic Technology

Education:

• Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 2022
• M.S., University of New Mexico, 2008
• B.A., Western Colorado University, 2003

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

Research Expertise

• Ice Age hunter-gatherers
• Colonization processes
• Human-environment relationships
• Human behavioral ecology
• Lithic technological organization
• Geoarchaeology
• Drone-based remote sensing

Education

• Ph.D., Anthropology, Texas A&M University, 2015
• M.A., Anthropology, American University, 2010
• B.S., Anthropology, Middle Tennessee State University, 2008
• B.S., Aerospace, Middle Tennessee State University, 2008

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