People
Faculty
Robin Maria DeLugan
(Ph.D., Anthropology, UC Berkeley, 2004) Sociocultural anthropology, collective identity, migration and transnationalism, social memory, indigeneity; El Salvador, California
Holley Moyes
(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
Linda-Anne Rebhun
(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
Karl E. Ryavec
(Ph.D., Geography, University of Minnesota, 2002) Heritage studies, historical GIS, geography of religion, economic history
Beth Scaffidi
(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
Daniel Thompson
(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
Stephen Wooding
(Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Utah, 2001) Biological anthropology, population genetics, and molecular evolution with a specific focus the genetics of taste perception
Mark S. Aldenderfer
(Ph.D., Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, 1977) Archaeology, quantitative methods, geographic information systems, hunters and gatherers; Andean Preceramic and Formative, Central Asia, Tibet
Kathleen L. Hull
(Ph.D., Anthropology, UC Berkeley, 2002) Archaeology, culture contact and colonialism, hunter-gatherer demography, communal ritual, identity and ethnogenesis, lithics; California, Great Basin
Lecturers
Heather Jarrell
(Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2011) Palaeopathology and human osteology, trauma and health, primate behavior, comparative primate anatomy, medical anthropology, human gross anatomy
Affiliated Faculty in Other Programs
Jayson Beaster-Jones
(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
Nancy Burke
(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
