Emeriti Faculty

Emeriti


Joelle Bahloul

Joelle Bahloul

Professor Emeritus

  • bahloul@indiana.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

Gracia Clark

Professor Emeritus

  • gclark@indiana.edu

Research Interests
African economic systems; gender and development; participative methodologies

Della Collins Cook

Della Collins Cook

Professor Emeritus, Anthropology

Geographical Areas of Specialization
Americas; Aegean

Research Interests
human osteology; paleopathology; mortuary practices; demography

Philip S. Lesourd

Philip S. Lesourd

Professor Emeritus, Anthropology

  • plesourd@indiana.edu
Geographical areas of specializationNortheastern North America

Research Interests
linguistic theory and its application to the analysis of Native American languages; comparative Algonquian linguistics; Maliseet-Passamaquoddy

Robert Meier

Robert Meier

Chancellors' Professor Emeritus

  • meier@indiana.edu

Research Interests
human biological and genetic variation; dermatoglyphics; human identical twins; science education, especially with regard to evolutionary theory

Emilio Moran

Emilio Moran

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Rudy Professor Emeritus

  • moran@indiana.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

Anya Peterson Royce

Anya Peterson Royce

Chancellors' Professor Emeritus

  • royce@indiana.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

Susan Seizer

Professor Emeritus

  • sseizer@indiana.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

M. Nazif Shahrani

Professor Emeritus

  • shahrani@indiana.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

April K. Sievert

Professor Emeritus

  • asievert@indiana.edu

Research Interests
lithic analysis; south-central Andes; Mississippian archaeology; historical archaeology; archaeological ethics; anthropological pedagogy

Beverly Stoeltje

Beverly Stoeltje

Professor Emeritus

  • stoeltje@indiana.edu

Research Interests
performance; ritual; nationalism; gender; anthropology of law

Virginia J. Vitzthum

Virginia J. Vitzthum

Professor Emeritus

Senior Scientist, Kinsey Institute

Director, Evolutionary Anthropology (EVA) Laboratory

  • vitzthum@indiana.edu
Geographical Areas of Specialization
Bolivia; Germany; Greenland; Mongolia

Research Interests
life history theory; evolutionary mechanisms; reproductive functioning and adaptations; reproductive and sexual health; pregnancy loss; contraceptive technologies