Personnel
A list of personnel in Anthropology along with links to information on research and email.
Faculty
- Jennie Burnet; Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005; Anthropology of violence and war, identity and subjectivity (gender, ethnicity and race), medical anthropology, development, Rwanda, central and east Africa. BurnetResearchLink Email-Burnet
- Fabián Crespo; Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1998; Biological anthropology, molecular anthropology, human evolutionary genetics. CrespoResearchLink Email-Crespo
- John Hale; Professor (adjunct); Ph.D., Cambridge University, 1967; Nautical and underwater archaeology, ancient oracle sites, radiocarbon dating of mortar, rural life in the western Roman Empire. HaleResearchLink Email-Hale
- Anita Harris; Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 2004; Culture of the African Diaspora, folklore, museology. HarrisResearchLink Email-Harris
- Jonathan Haws; Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003; Palaeolithic archaeology, European prehistory, hunter-gatherers, palaeodiet, zooarchaeology, charcoal analysis, Mediterranean. HawsResearchLink Email-Haws
- Yvonne Jones; Associate Professor; Ph.D., American University, 1975; Social anthropology, political anthropology, Afro-American culture, method and theory. JonesResearchLink Email-Jones
- Lisa Markowitz; Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1992; Development, pastoralism, peasant studies, Latin America. MarkowitzResearchLink Email-Markowitz
- Shawn Parkhurst, Assistant Professor and Director, Programs in Portugal, Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 2000; Space, place, and power; regional and national cultures; inequality, gender, class culture; Europe, Mediterranean, Iberia. ParkhurstResearchLink Email-Parkhurst
- Julie Peteet; Professor and Chair; Ph.D., Wayne State University, 1985; Legal anthropology, gender, resistance and culture, refugees, transnationalism, Middle East. PeteetResearchLink Email-Peteet
- Christopher Tillquist; Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2002; Anthropological genetics, humans and disease, human variation. TillquistResearchLink Email-Tillquist
- Jianhua Zhao; Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2008; Globalization, modernity, social change, capitalism, material culture, clothing and the clothing industry, China. ZhaoResearchLink Email-Zhao
Emeritus Faculty
- Frederic N. Hicks; Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., UCLA, 1963; Ethnology, state-level societies, ethnohistory, economic anthropology, Mesoamerica, Latin America. Email-Hicks
- Russell M. Reid; Professor Emeritus; Ph.D.,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1971; Biological Anthropology, nutrition, genetics, kinship and marriage systems, South Asia.
- Edwin S. Segal; Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Indiana University, 1970; Ethnology, culture change, cross-cultural methods, gender, ethnicity, Africa, Central Asia. Email-Segal
Lecturers
- Frances E. Purifoy; Lecturer; Ph.D., University of New Mexico; Education and culture, gender, biological anthropology. Email-Purifoy
- Jeneen H. Wiche; Lecturer, M.A., University of Arizona; American Indian societies and cultures. Email-Wiche
- Phil J. DiBlasi; Lecturer and Staff Archaeologist; M.S., University of Louisville, 1981; Ohio Valley archaeology, historic cemeteries, cave archaeology. ResearchLink Email-Diblasi
Administrative Support
- Paula Huffman; Secretary. Phone (502) 852-2421, Email-Huffman.
- Sharon M. O'Bryan; Business Manager. Phone (502) 852-2739, Email-O'Bryan.

