Anthropology Faculty
Elizabeth DiGangi
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
Rikker Dockum
rdockum@binghamton.edu
Research Interests
- Feminist Anthropology
- Sexuality Studies
- Queer Theory
- Postcolonial Theory
- Nationalism
- Modernity
- Oceania/Pacific
Research Interests
- Ancient DNA
- Forensic genetics
- Bioarchaeology
- Molecular anthropology
Carmen Ferradas
Associate Professor
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Research Interests
- Anthropology and Development
- Political Ecology
- Consumption
- Urban Anthropology
- Borders
- Globalization
- Latin America
Research Interests
- Contemporary fascism
- Central banks and monetary policy
- Technologies of money
- Sovereign wealth funds
- Experimental ethnography
Research Interests
- Paleoanthropology
- Virtual anthropology
- Pleistocene human evolution
- Evolutionary morphology
- Mandibular biomechanics
BrieAnna Langlie
Associate Professor
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Research Interests
Paleoethnobotany,Landscape archaeology in the Andes Mountains of South America
Carl Lipo
clipo@binghamton.eduResearch 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
Sebastien Lacombe
slacombe@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Archaeopetrography
- lithic analysis and sourcing
- landscape archaeology
- experimental archaeology
- CRM
- Prehistoric Europe
Research Interests
- Molecular anthropology
- Forensic genetics
- Malaria
- epidemiology; Melanesia
- Melanesia
D. Andrew Merriwether
andym@binghamton.eduResearch 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
Research Interests
- Cultural Resource Management
- Northeastern United States
- Late Precontact Period
- Pottery Analysis
- Public Outreach and Archaeology
Maria O'Donovan
odonovan@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Cultural Resource Management and Heritage
- Historical and Contemporary Archaeology
- Northeastern United States
- Social Theory
- Landscape
Sabina Perrino
sperrino@binghamton.eduResearch 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
Research Interests
- Paleoanthropology
- Neandertals
- Language Evolution
Joshua Reno
jreno@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Environmental anthropology
- Semiotics and language
- Critical disability studies
- Science and technology studies
- Gaming, games and play
Deborah Schechter
dschecht@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Health disparities
- Risk-taking behavior
- Biocultural models of health and disease
- Community-based research methods
Research Interests
- Growth and development
- Human variation
- Health, stress, and well-being
- Quantitative methods
- Statistical computing
Research Interests
- Lithic Analysis
- Feminism and Gender
- Communities of Practice
- Sociopolitics of Archaeology
- Ethics of Archaeology
- Prehistoric Europe
Research Interests
- Southwest United States
- Landscape, place, and space
- Indigenous collaboration
- Memory, materiality, and social theory
- Historical archaeology
- Archaeology of pilgrimage
Katherine Wander
katherinewander@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Evolutionary medicine and public health
- Infectious disease and immune function
- Human nutrition, growth and development
- The optimal iron hypothesis
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.
Affiliated Faculty
Abagail Breidenstein
abreiden@binghamton.edu
Barrett Brenton, PhD
Associate Director, Community-Engaged Learning and Research
Center for Community Engagement
Beau DiNapoli
dinapoli@binghamton.edu
Brendan Galipeau
bgalipeau@binghamton.edu
David Mixter
Assistant Professor
Department of Environment and Sustainability
Belinda Ram铆rez
LACAS Faculty Affiliate
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Michel Shamoon Pour
Molecular and Biomedical Anthropology, Research Associate Professor
First-year Research Immersion Program
Emeritus Faculty
H. Stephen Straight
straight@binghamton.edu
Nina Versaggi
nversagg@binghamton.edu