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Anthropology Faculty

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Emeritus Faculty


Anthropology Faculty

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Amanda Butler

Assistant Professor

Anthropology
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Elizabeth DiGangi

Associate Professor

Anthropology

Associate Professor

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program

Research Interests

  • Forensic anthropology
  • Population-specific standards
  • Age-at-death estimation
  • Trauma analysis
  • Prehistoric and historic health; stress; and well-being
  • Latin America; Caribbean; Europe Bioarchaeology; Paleopathology
  • North Africa
  • North America
  • Ancestry and social race
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Rikker Dockum

Assistant Professor

The Linguistics Program

Assistant Professor

Anthropology
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Deborah Elliston

Assistant Professor

Anthropology

Research Interests

  • Feminist Anthropology
  • Sexuality Studies
  • Queer Theory
  • Postcolonial Theory
  • Nationalism
  • Modernity
  • Oceania/Pacific
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Matthew Emery

Assistant Professor

Anthropology

Research Interests

  • Ancient DNA
  • Forensic genetics
  • Bioarchaeology
  • Molecular anthropology
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Carmen Ferradas

Associate Professor

Anthropology

Associate Professor

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program

Research Interests

  • Anthropology and Development
  • Political Ecology
  • Consumption
  • Urban Anthropology
  • Borders
  • Globalization
  • Latin America
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Ali Feser

Assistant Professor

Anthropology
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Douglas Holmes

Distinguished Professor

Anthropology

Research Interests

  • Contemporary fascism
  • Central banks and monetary policy
  • Technologies of money
  • Sovereign wealth funds
  • Experimental ethnography
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Brian Keeling

Lecturer

Anthropology

Research Interests

  • Paleoanthropology
  • Virtual anthropology
  • Pleistocene human evolution
  • Evolutionary morphology
  • Mandibular biomechanics
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BrieAnna Langlie

Associate Professor

Anthropology

Associate Professor

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program

Research Interests

Paleoethnobotany,Landscape archaeology in the Andes Mountains of South America
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Carl Lipo

Associate Dean for Research and Programs

Harpur College of Arts and Sciences

Professor

Anthropology

Research Interests

  • Island Archaeology (especially Rapa Nui/Easter Island)
  • Cultural Transmission and Evolutionary Archaeology
  • Remote Sensing, UAV Photogrammetry, and GIS
  • Luminescence Dating and Geophysical Methods
  • Climate Change Impacts on Sustainability in Island Environments
  • Ceramic Technology and Chronology in North America
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Sebastien Lacombe

Research Assistant Professor/Director of Undergraduate Studies

Anthropology

Research Interests

  • Archaeopetrography
  • lithic analysis and sourcing
  • landscape archaeology
  • experimental archaeology
  • CRM
  • Prehistoric Europe
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J. Koji Lum

Professor

Anthropology

Research Interests

  • Molecular anthropology
  • Forensic genetics
  • Malaria
  • epidemiology; Melanesia
  • Melanesia
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Sana Malik

Assistant Professor

Anthropology
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D. Andrew Merriwether

Collegiate Professor for College in the Woods

Residential Life

Professor

Anthropology

Research Interests

  • Ancient DNA/PaleoGenomics
  • Molecular Anthropology
  • Peopling of the New World and The Pacific
  • Plant and Animal Domestication
  • Population Genetics/Phylogenetics
  • Forensic DNA
  • Molecular Epidemiology
  • Biomedical Anthropology
  • Evolutionary Biology/Molecular Evolution
  • Paleodemography
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Laurie Miroff

Director

Public Archaeology Facility

Research Interests

  • Cultural Resource Management
  • Northeastern United States
  • Late Precontact Period
  • Pottery Analysis
  • Public Outreach and Archaeology


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Maria O'Donovan

Director of MAPA Program

Anthropology

Senior Staff Assistant

Public Archaeology Facility

Research Interests

  • Cultural Resource Management and Heritage
  • Historical and Contemporary Archaeology
  • Northeastern United States
  • Social Theory
  • Landscape
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Lubna Omar

Associate Director/CMENAS

Center for Middle East and North Africa Studies

Instructor

Anthropology

Research Interests

  • Zooarchaeology
  • Cultural Heritage
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Sabina Perrino

Professor

Anthropology

Professor, Director of the Linguistics Program

The Linguistics Program

TRIP Courtesy Title

Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Research Interests

  • Intimacy in Interaction
  • Language use in Ethnomedical Encounters & Political Speeches
  • Oral Narratives as Discursive Practices
  • Racialized Language in Everyday Conversation
  • Spatiotemporal Relations (Chronotope)
  • Research Methods in Linguistic Anthropology
  • Fitness Culture and Practices
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Rolf Quam

Director

Evolutionary Studies Program (EvoS)

Professor/Chair

Anthropology

Research Interests

  • Paleoanthropology
  • Neandertals
  • Language Evolution
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Joshua Reno

Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives

Graduate School

Professor

Anthropology

Research Interests

  • Environmental anthropology
  • Semiotics and language
  • Critical disability studies
  • Science and technology studies
  • Gaming, games and play
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Deborah Schechter

Instructor/Director of Graduate Program in Biomedical Anthropology

Anthropology

Research Interests

  • Health disparities
  • Risk-taking behavior
  • Biocultural models of health and disease
  • Community-based research methods
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Laure Spake

Assistant Professor

Anthropology

Research Interests

  • Growth and development
  • Human variation
  • Health, stress, and well-being
  • Quantitative methods
  • Statistical computing
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Kathleen Sterling

Associate Professor

Anthropology

Research Interests

  • Lithic Analysis
  • Feminism and Gender
  • Communities of Practice
  • Sociopolitics of Archaeology
  • Ethics of Archaeology
  • Prehistoric Europe
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Ruth Van Dyke

Distinguished Professor

Anthropology

Research Interests

  • Southwest United States
  • Landscape, place, and space
  • Indigenous collaboration
  • Memory, materiality, and social theory
  • Historical archaeology
  • Archaeology of pilgrimage
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Katherine Wander

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Anthropology

Research Interests

  • Evolutionary medicine and public health
  • Infectious disease and immune function
  • Human nutrition, growth and development
  • The optimal iron hypothesis
  • The immune system of human milk
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Thomas Wilson

Professor

Anthropology

Research Interests

  • National identity and nationalism; international borders and frontiers; ethnicity and ethnic conflict; political ritual and symbolism; commercial farming; agrarian economic strategies and politics; public policy and interest group formation; local government and political parties; cinema and popular culture; European integration; the borderlands of the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hungary, Canada, and the United States.
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Affiliated Faculty

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Abagail Breidenstein

Research Development Specialist

Office of Strategic Research Initiatives
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Barrett Brenton, PhD

Associate Director, Community-Engaged Learning and Research

Center for Community Engagement
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Beau DiNapoli

Assistant Dean for Research

Harpur College of Arts and Sciences
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Brendan Galipeau

Lecturer

Department of Environment and Sustainability
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Talia Katz

Assistant Professor of Israel Studies

Judaic Studies
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David Mixter

Assistant Professor

Department of Environment and Sustainability
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Kristina Nielsen

Lecturer

The Linguistics Program
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Belinda Ram铆rez

Assistant Professor

Global Public Health

Assistant Professor

Sociology

LACAS Faculty Affiliate

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
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Michel Shamoon Pour

Molecular and Biomedical Anthropology, Research Associate Professor

First-year Research Immersion Program


Emeritus Faculty

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Ralph Garruto

Professor Emeritus

Anthropology
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William Isbell

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Anthropology
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Randall McGuire

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Anthropology
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H. Stephen Straight

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Linguistics

Anthropology
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Nina Versaggi

Research Associate

Anthropology

Senior Research Associate

Public Archaeology Facility
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Michael Little

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Anthropology