Faculty
 | Amanuel Beyin, PhDAssistant 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. Coasting Out of Africa: Paleolithic Investigation of the Red Sea Basin Contact information: |
 | Anna T. Browne Ribeiro, PhDAssistant 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: |
 | Fabian Crespo, PhDAssociate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies 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: |
 | Jonathan Haws, PhDProfessor and Chair, (On Sabbatical) 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: |
Thomas Jennings, PhDAssistant Professor Education: Texas A&M University Research Interests: Colonization of North America, hunter-gatherers, geoarchaeology, lithic technologies, Quaternary environments, curation and public archaeology Contact Information: | |
 | Yvonne V. Jones, PhDAssociate 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: |
 | Lisa Markowitz, PhDAssociate 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: |
 | Shawn Parkhurst, PhDAssociate 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: |
 | Julie Peteet, PhDProfessor 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: |
 | Angela D. Storey, PhDAssistant Professor Education: University of Arizona Research Interests: Political anthropology, social movements, environmental anthropology, political ecology, informality, Southern Africa Contact Information: |
 | Christopher Tillquist, PhDAssociate 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: |
 | Jianhua Zhao, PhDAssociate Professor, (Acting Chair) Currently accepting graduate students with interests in cultural anthropology. 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: |