Professor, Anthropology
Director, Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands
Director, Native American and Indigenous Studies
Research Interests
complexity; identity; migration; materiality; ritual; craft production; ceramics; GIS
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests
Jewish ethnography in Europe and North Arica; European ethnography; social anthropology of kinship and gender; ethnicity and migration, religion in urban society; collective memory; French social thought
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests
African economic systems; gender and development; participative methodologies
Professor Emeritus, Anthropology
Research Interests
human osteology; paleopathology; mortuary practices; demography
Professor Emeritus
Chancellors' Professor Emeritus
Professor Emeritus, Anthropology
Research Interests
linguistic theory and its application to the analysis of Native American languages; comparative Algonquian linguistics; Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
Chancellors' Professor Emeritus
Research Interests
human biological and genetic variation; dermatoglyphics; human identical twins; science education, especially with regard to evolutionary theory
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Rudy Professor Emeritus
Research Interests
Ecological Anthropology; research methods; tropical ecology and resource management; land use and land cover change, and demography; E620 human dimensions of global environmental change
Professor Emeritus
Provost Professor, Anthropology
Research Interests
archaeology; settlement patterns; Maya, gender, ethics; archaeology and social context
Chancellors' Professor Emeritus
Research Interests
local and global identities; anthropology of dance, performance, popular theater; ethnic identity, aesthetics and creative processes; indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica; death belief and ritual; anthropological writing; landscapes and identities
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests
humor in use; stigma and its effects; performance in dance, theater, circus; standup comedy; South Asian studies; ethnographic writing and ethnographic methods; documentary, diasporic, and feminist film; disability studies; gender studies; kinship
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests
Islamic movements, identify politics in failed/failing nation states, Islamic movements, Muslim family and gender dynamics, cultural ecology of nomadic pastoralism, and the political ecology of state-society relations in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia, Southwest Asia and the Middle East.
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests
lithic analysis; south-central Andes; Mississippian archaeology; historical archaeology; archaeological ethics; anthropological pedagogy
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests
performance; ritual; nationalism; gender; anthropology of law
Emeritus
Professor Emeritus
Senior Scientist, Kinsey Institute
Director, Evolutionary Anthropology (EVA) Laboratory
Research Interests
life history theory; evolutionary mechanisms; reproductive functioning and adaptations; reproductive and sexual health; pregnancy loss; contraceptive technologies
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