Faculty & Staff

Full-Time Faculty

Amanuel Beyin

Amanuel Beyin, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Currently accepting graduate students with interests in Paleolithic Archaeology (African focus), early human dispersal, stone tool technology and the transition to food production

Education: Stony Brook University

Research interests: The archaeology of human origins and dispersal, stone tool technology, shoreline (coastal) adaptation, paleoenvironment and the transition to food production with a geographic focus on northeast Africa and the Red Sea basin.

Contact information:
Site: Dr. Beyin's Research
External Site: Dr. Beyin's Google Site
Office: Room 235 Lutz Hall, Department of Anthropology
Phone: (502) 852-2424
Email: amanuel.beyin@louisville.edu

Anna T. Browne Ribeiro

Anna T. Browne Ribeiro, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Education: University of California Berkeley

Research Interests: Human-environment interactions, Amazonian archaeology, social and spatial organization, household and community, geoarchaeology, colonialism, critical historiography, community archaeology

Contact Information:
Site: Dr. Browne Ribeiro's academic profile
External Site: Dr. Browne Ribeiro's External Site
Office: Room 243 Lutz Hall, Department of Anthropology
Phone: (502) 852-8303
Email: Dr. Browne Ribeiro

Fabian Crespo

Fabian Crespo, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Currently accepting graduate students with interests in human ecological immunology and anthropology of infectious diseases.

Education: University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Research Interests: Human Immunology, Ecological Immunology, Anthropology of Infectious Diseases; Europe, Latin America.

Contact Information:
Site: Dr. Crespo's Research 
Office: Room 243 Lutz Hall, Department of Anthropology

Phone: (502) 852-2427

Email: Dr. Crespo

Jonathan Haws

Jonathan Haws, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair (On Sabbatical Fall 2018)

Currently accepting graduate students with interests in archaeology.

Co-Director of Portuguese Studies Program

Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research Interests: Palaeolithic archaeology, European prehistory, coastal settlement patterns, time perspectivism, multi-scale approaches to understanding past human socioecology, zooarchaeology, anthracology, geoarchaeology

Contact Information:
Site: Dr. Haws' ResearchPortuguese Studies Program Pages
Office: Room 236 Lutz Hall, Department of Anthropology

Phone: (502) 852-2423

Email: Dr. Haws

Yvonne V. Jones

Yvonne V. Jones, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Also, Associate Professor in the Department of Pan African Studies

Currently accepting graduate students with interests in social and political anthropology.

Education: American University

Research Interests: Social anthropology, nationalism and genocide, Afro-American culture, method and theory, race, ethnicity, public history, Southeast USA.

Contact Information:
Site: Dr. Jones' Research 
Office: Room 241 Department of Anthropology, Lutz Hall

Phone: (502) 852-6864
Email: Dr. Jones

Lisa Markowitz

Lisa Markowitz, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Director of Graduate Studies

Now accepting graduate students with interests in Cultural Anthropology, Food and Agriculture, and Latin America.

Education: University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Research Interests: Rural livelihoods, food studies, social movements, the Andes

Contact Information:
Site: Dr. Markowitz's Research
Office: Room 231 Lutz Hall, Department of Anthropology

Phone: (502) 852-6864

Email: Dr. Markowitz

Shawn Parkhurst

Shawn Parkhurst, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Currently accepting graduate students with interests in cultural anthropology.

Co-Director of Portuguese Studies Program

Education: University of California-Berkeley

Research Interests: Space, place and power; regional and national cultures; equality, inequality, gender, class culture; Europe, Mediterranean, Iberia; the history of anthropology and the social sciences

Contact Information:
Site: Dr. Parkhurst's Research
Office: Room 238 Lutz Hall, Department of Anthropology

Phone: (502) 852-2425
Fax: (502) 852-4560

Email: Dr. Parkhurst

Julie Peteet

Julie Peteet, Ph.D.

Professor

Director of Middle East and Islamic Studies

Currently accepting graduate students with interests in displacement, political violence, the Middle East, and cultural heritage.

Education: Wayne State University

Research Interests: Space, political violence, Palestine, displacement, human rights, the Middle East, and cultural heritage

Contact Information:
Site: Dr. Peteet's Research 
Office: Room 239 Lutz Hall, Department of Anthropology
Phone: (502) 852-6864

Email: Dr. Peteet

Angela D. Storey

Angela D. Storey, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Education: University of Arizona

Research Interests: Political anthropology, social movements, environmental anthropology, political ecology, informality, Southern Africa

Contact Information:
Site: Dr. Storey's academic profile 
Office:  Room 243 Lutz Hall, Department of Anthropology

Phone: (502) 852-3012
Email: Dr. Storey

Christopher Tillquist

Christopher Tillquist, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Director of Minor in Global Public Health and Minor in Forensic Anthropology

Currently accepting graduate students with interests in evolutionary and molecular anthropology.

Education: PhD, University of Arizona; MPH, Arizona College of Public Health

Research and Scholarly Interests: Anthropological genetics, humans and disease, human variation, history of evolutionary theory.

Contact Information:
Site: MAPS Group Website 
Office: Room 242 Lutz Hall, Department of Anthropology

Phone: (502) 852-2422

Email: Dr. Tillquist

Jianhua Zhao

Jianhua Zhao, Ph.D.

Associate Professor (Acting Chair Fall 2018)

Currently accepting graduate students with interests in cultural anthropology, fashion, kinship, political economy, and East Asia.

Education: University of Pittsburgh

Research Interests: Globalization, capitalism, family and kinship, social change, clothing and the clothing industry, anthropological political economy, China and East Asia

Contact Information:
Site: Dr. Zhao's research
Office: Room 235 Lutz Hall, Department of Anthropology
Phone: (502) 852-3078

Fax: (502) 852-4560 
Email: Dr. Zhao

Adjunct Faculty

John Hale

John Hale Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor

Director of the Liberal Studies Program

Education: Cambridge University

Research Interests: Nautical and underwater archaeology, ancient oracle sites, radiocarbon dating of mortar, rural life in the western Roman empire.

Contact Information:
Office: Department of Anthropology, Lutz Hall

Phone: (502) 852-2248

Email: Dr. Hale

Bert Little, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor 

Also, Professor in the Department of Health Management Systems in the School of Public Health

Education: University of Texas, Austin

Research Interests: Analytics (mathematics, statistics, databases, big data, and probability theory) and Population Health (human biology, genetics, medicine, public health)

Contact Information:
Site: http://louisville.edu/sphis/directory/bert-little-phd
Office: Room 105, SPHIS
485 E. Gray St., Louisville, KY 40202
Phone: (502) 852-5933
Email: Bert.Little@Louisville.edu

Robert M. Malina, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor 

Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin; Adjunct Professor in the Department of Health Management Systems in the School of Public Health

Education: University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests: Growth, maturation and physical performance; Nutritional aspects of growth and performance, with emphasis on under-nutrition, overweight, obesity; Youth sports, growth and maturation of young athletes, talent development, coach education

Contact Information:
Site:
Office: Room 105, SPHIS
485 E. Gray St., Louisville, KY 40202
Phone: (502) 852-5933
Email: rmalina@1skyconnect.net

Karl Swinehart

Karl Swinehart, Ph.D.

Affiliated

Affiliation: Department of Comparative Humanities

Education: University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests: linguistic anthropology, education, language and social groups

Contact Information:
Site: Dr. Swinehart's academic profile
Office: Room 200G Bingham Humanities Building, Department of Linguistics
Phone: (502) 852-1298
Email: Dr. Swinehart

Part-Time Faculty

David Hoefer

David Hoefer, M.A.

Lecturer

Education: University of Louisville

Research interests: Zooarchaeology; taphonomy; prehistoric hunting and fishing; rise of social and political complexity; origins of the state

Contact information:
Site: David Hoefer's research
Office: Room 245 Lutz Hall, Department of Anthropology
Phone: (502) 767-3931
Email: d0hoef01@louisville.edu

Frances Purifoy, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer

Education: University of New Mexico

Research Interests: Education and culture, gender, biological anthropology

Contact Information:
Office: Room 245 Lutz Hall, Department of Anthropology

Phone: (502) 852-6864

Email: Dr. Purifoy

Jeneen Wiche

Jeneen Wiche, M.A.

Lecturer

Education: University of Arizona

Research Interests: Federal Indian policy, American Indian women, Food and body politic

Contact Information:
Office: Room 245 Lutz Hall, Department of Anthropology 
Phone: (502) 852-6864 
Email: Jeneen Wiche

Emeriti Faculty

Russell Reid, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Education: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests: Biological anthropology, nutrition, genetics, kinship and marriage systems, South Asia.

Contact Information:
Office: Lutz Hall, Department of Anthropology
Phone: (502) 852-6864

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Edwin Segal, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Education: Indiana University

Research Interests: Africa, Central Asia, Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, Development

Contact Information:
Office: Lutz Hall, Department of Anthropology

Phone: (502) 852-6864
Email: Dr. Segal

Administrative Support

Katrina Elliott

 

Katrina Elliott

Academic Counselor

Contact Information:
Office:
 Room 205 Lutz Hall, Department of Anthropology 
and Geography/Geosciences
Phone:
 (502) 852-5575
Fax: (502) 852-4560
Email: katrina.elliott

 Sharon M. O'Bryan
 Unit Business Manager
 Room 210 Lutz Hall
 s.obryan@louisville.edu
 Phone: 852-2739


Paula T. Huffman
Program Assistant Senior
Room 230 Lutz Hall
p.huffman@louisville.edu
Phone: 852-2421


Anthony Hundley
Technology Support
Room 119 Lutz Hall
jahund01@louisville.edu
Phone: 852-8011