Susan Alt
Professor Emeritus
- susalt@iu.edu
- (812) 856-5260
North America; Midwest; Southeastern U.S.; Mississippi Valley
Research Interests
complexity; identity; migration; materiality; ritual; craft production; ceramics; GIS
Emeriti
North America; Midwest; Southeastern U.S.; Mississippi Valley
Joelle Bahloul
Professor Emeritus
- bahloul@iu.edu
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
Gracia Clark
Professor Emeritus
- gclark@iu.edu
Research Interests
African economic systems; gender and development; participative methodologies
Della Collins Cook
Professor Emeritus, Anthropology
- cook@iu.edu
- (812) 855-6368
Americas; Aegean
Research Interests
human osteology; paleopathology; mortuary practices; demography
Geoffrey Conrad (Deceased)
Professor Emeritus
Raymond J. DeMallie (Deceased)
Chancellors' Professor Emeritus
Philip S. Lesourd
Professor Emeritus, Anthropology
- plesourd@iu.edu
Research Interests
linguistic theory and its application to the analysis of Native American languages; comparative Algonquian linguistics; Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
Robert Meier
Chancellors' Professor Emeritus
- meier@iu.edu
Research Interests
human biological and genetic variation; dermatoglyphics; human identical twins; science education, especially with regard to evolutionary theory
Emilio Moran
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Rudy Professor Emeritus
- moran@iu.edu
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
Douglas R. Parks (Deceased)
Professor Emeritus
Anne Pyburn
Provost Professor Emeritus
- apyburn@iu.edu
- (812) 855-2563
Mesoamerica; Belize; Central Asia; Kyrgyzstan
Research Interests
archaeology; settlement patterns; Maya, gender, ethics; archaeology and social context
Anya Peterson Royce
Chancellors' Professor Emeritus
- royce@iu.edu
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
Susan Seizer
Professor Emeritus
- sseizer@iu.edu
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
M. Nazif Shahrani
Professor Emeritus
- shahrani@iu.edu
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.
April K. Sievert
Professor Emeritus
- asievert@iu.edu
Research Interests
lithic analysis; south-central Andes; Mississippian archaeology; historical archaeology; archaeological ethics; anthropological pedagogy
Beverly Stoeltje
Professor Emeritus
- stoeltje@iu.edu
Research Interests
performance; ritual; nationalism; gender; anthropology of law
Karen Vitelli (Deceased)
Professor Emeritus
Virginia J. Vitzthum
Professor Emeritus
- vitzthum@iu.edu
Bolivia; Germany; Greenland; Mongolia
Research Interests
life history theory; evolutionary mechanisms; reproductive functioning and adaptations; reproductive and sexual health; pregnancy loss; contraceptive technologies
Andrea Wiley
Provost Professor Emeritus
- wileya@iu.edu
- (812) 856-4993
South Asia; particularly India
Research Interests
human diet and nutrition and the adaptive significance of human dietary behavior; medical anthropology; biocultural perspectives and theory; biological normalcy – how population biology and ideas about “normal” human biology are related; human adaptability, particularly to stressful environments such as high altitude; demography; life history theory
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