Professor, Chair
(Ph.D., Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara, 2003) Biological anthropology; bioarchaeology; identity, inequality, health, and violence in social and environmental contexts of change; complex societies; Chile
Professor
(Ph.D., Anthropology, UC Berkeley, 2004) Sociocultural anthropology, collective identity, migration and transnationalism, social memory, indigeneity; El Salvador, California
Professor
(Ph.D., Anthropology, SUNY Buffalo, 2006) Archaeology, religion, sacred space, cave archaeology, leadership strategies, complex societies, humans and environment, archaeology and the public, spatial analysis, GIS; Mesoamerica
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Anthropology, UC Berkeley and San Francisco, 1993) Medical anthropology, maternal and child health, economic development, social change, globalization, gender, sexuality, religion, emotion; Latin America, African Diaspora, Nigeria
Professor
(Ph.D., Geography, University of Minnesota, 2002) Heritage studies, historical GIS, geography of religion, economic history
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, 2018) Biological anthropology; bioarchaeology; paleopathology; paleodiet (stable isotope analysis); paleomobility (radiogenic isotope analysis); GIS, geospatial analysis; physical/structural violence; Andes
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Anthropology, Emory University, 2019) Sociocultural anthropology; urban political economy, borderlands, state-building, capitalism/finance, forced migration, mixed-methods research, cartography, GIS; eastern and southern Africa, African diaspora
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Utah, 2001) Biological anthropology, population genetics, and molecular evolution with a specific focus the genetics of taste perception
Professor Emeritus
(Ph.D., Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, 1977) Archaeology, quantitative methods, geographic information systems, hunters and gatherers; Andean Preceramic and Formative, Central Asia, Tibet
Professor Emerita
(Ph.D., Anthropology, UC Berkeley, 2002) Archaeology, culture contact and colonialism, hunter-gatherer demography, communal ritual, identity and ethnogenesis, lithics; California, Great Basin
Continuing Lecturer
(Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2011) Palaeopathology and human osteology, trauma and health, primate behavior, comparative primate anatomy, medical anthropology, human gross anatomy
Professor, Global Arts Studies
(Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Chicago, 2007) Music, semiotics, anthropological linguistics; commodification of music, music industries, intellectual property; Indian musics, Bollywood film songs; jazz, improvisatory musics; music and multimedia
Professor, Public Health
(Ph.D., Anthropology and Public Health, University of New Mexico, 2001) Global health, social Inequalities in health/health disparities, health behavior, medical anthropology, refugees, survivorship, immigration
