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Jonathan Haws, PhD

Professor and Department Chair
Director of Portuguese Studies Program

Currently accepting graduate students with interests in archaeology.
Research Interests: Palaeolithic archaeology, European prehistory, coastal settlement patterns, time perspectivism, multi-scale approaches to understanding past human socioecology, zooarchaeology, anthracology, geoarchaeology

Courses regularly taught by Dr. Haws: Principles of Archaeology (ANTH 206), Zooarchaeology (ANTH 329/529), Archaeology Method and Theory (ANTH 509), Animals and Humans  (ANTH 528), Anthropology of Water (ANTH 531), Research Design in Archaeology (ANTH 609),

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Ashley Smallwood, PhD

Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies

Research Interests: Prehistory of the American Southeast, Paleoindian and Archaic hunter-gatherer adaptations, flaked stone artifact analysis, technological organization, cultural evolution, human-environment interactions.

Courses regularly taught by Dr. Smallwood: Archaeology of Human History (ANTH 203), Rise of Civilizations (ANTH 312), Ice Age People of the Americas (ANTH 380), Engaged Anthropology (co-taught) (ANTH 475), Archaeology Method and Theory (ANTH 509), Special Topic: Ice Age People of the Americas (ANTH 664), Research Design: Archaeology (ANTH 609), Kentucky Archaeology (ANTH 664)

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Amanuel Beyin, PhD

Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies

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

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

Courses regularly taught by Dr. Beyin: Introduction to Archaeology (ANTH 204), Principles of Archaeology (ANTH 206), Emergence of Human Culture (ANTH 311), Cultures of Africa (ANTH 323), African Archaeology (ANTH 326), Environmental Archaeology (ANTH 328), Lithic Technology (ANTH 378/578), Contemporary Issues in Anthropology: Technology and Society (ANTH 612)

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Anna T. Browne Ribeiro, PhD

Associate Professor

Human-environment interactions, Amazonian archaeology, Afro-Latin American Archaeology, households and community, geoarchaeology, colonialism and race, critical historiography, community archaeology

Courses regularly taught by Dr. Browne Ribeiro: Archaeology of Human History (ANTH 203), Amazonian Archaeology and the Future of Tropical Forests (ANTH 364/ HON 341/ HON 351), Ceramic Analysis (ANTH 379/579), Engaged Anthropology (ANTH 475), History of Anthropological Thought (ANTH 508)

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Aaron Comstock, PhD

Assistant Professor

Research interests: Climate change, migration, transition to agriculture, ceramic analysis, Eastern North America, Mississippian, Fort Ancient.

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Fabian Crespo, PhD

Courses regularly taught by Dr. Crespo: Biological Anthropology (ANTH 202), Principles of Biological Anthropology (ANTH 207), Human Origins (ANTH 303), Anthropology of Infectious Diseases (ANTH 354), Black Death (ANTH 355)

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M. Ruth Dike, PhD

Assistant Professor Term

Research Interests: Reproductive Labor; Gender; Social Class; Labor & Identity; Anthropology of the Family; Anthropology of Food; Ethnography; Applied Anthropology; Morocco 

Courses regularly taught by Dr. Dike: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (ANTH 201), Sex, Gender, & Culture (ANTH 309/WGST 300), Cultures of the Middle East (ANTH 319), Engaged Anthropology (ANTH 475), Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology: Middle East Anthropology (ANTH 562)

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Thomas Jennings, PhD

Associate Professor, Director of Center for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (CACHe)

Research Interests: Colonization of North America, hunter-gatherers, geoarchaeology, lithic technologies, Quaternary environments, curation and public archaeology

Courses regularly taught by Dr. Jennings: Principles of Archaeology (ANTH 206), Quantitative Analysis in Anthropology (ANTH 376/576), Geoarchaeology (ANTH 381/581).

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Yvonne V. Jones, PhD

Associate Professor
Associate Professor Department of Pan African Studies

Currently accepting graduate students with interests in social and political anthropology.
Research Interests: Social anthropology, nationalism and genocide, Afro-American culture, method and theory, race, ethnicity, public history, Southeast USA.

Courses regularly taught by Dr. Jones: Race, Culture, Identity (ANTH 310/ PAS 368), African American Cultural Traditions (ANTH 318/ PAS 318), Nationalism and State Sanctioned Violence (ANTH 337), Museums and Culture (ANTH 562/PAS 618)

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Kathryn Marklein, PhD

Assistant Professor 

Research interests: Bioarchaeology, palaeopathology, commingled remains, forensic anthropology, palaeodietary reconstructions, imperialism and colonization, Eastern Mediterranean and Anatolian archaeology

Courses regularly taught by Dr. Marklein: Biological Anthropology (ANTH 202), Principles of Biological Anthropology (ANTH 207), The Human Skeleton (ANTH327), Skeletal Forensics (ANTH410), Methods in Skeletal Forensics (ANTH512)

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Lisa Markowitz, PhD

Professor

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

Courses regularly taught by Dr. Markowitz: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (ANTH 201), People and their Food (ANTH 252), Anthropology of Latin America (ANTH 325), Globalizing Inequalities (ANTH 333), History of Anthropological Theory (ANTH 508), Food and Farm Movements in the Americas (ANTH 534), Food Justice (ANTH 626), Contemporary Issues in Anthropology (ANTH 612)

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Shawn Parkhurst, PhD

Associate Professor

Currently accepting graduate students with interests in cultural anthropology. 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

Courses regularly taught by Dr. Parkhurst. The Anthropology of Europe (ANTH 315), Globalizing Inequalities (ANTH 333), The Anthropology of Space and Place (ANTH 339), Modes of Consciousness (ANTH 349/ANTH 549), The History of Anthropological Thought (ANTH 508), Space, Place, and Culture (ANTH 507), Social and Cultural Theory (ANTH 608), Anthropology of Violence (ANTH 622). 

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Angela D. Storey, PhD

Associate Professor & Director of the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research

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

Courses regularly taught by Dr. Storey: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (ANTH 201), Ecology, Politics & Culture (ANTH 332/522), Cultures of Africa (ANTH 323/PAS 383), Practicum in Anthropology Education (ANTH 430), Engaged Anthropology (ANTH 475), Ethnographic Methods & Research Design (ANTH 511/611)

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Christopher Tillquist, PhD

Associate Professor

Currently accepting graduate students with interests in evolutionary and molecular anthropology.
Research and Scholarly Interests: Anthropological genetics, humans and disease, human variation, history of evolutionary theory.

Courses regularly taught by Dr. Tillquist: Introduction to Biological Anthropology (ANTH 202, ANTH 207, ANTH 111); Darwin (ANTH 307), Primates (ANTH 308), Medical Anthropology (ANTH 351), Engaged Anthropology- team taught (ANTH 475), History of Anthropology (ANTH 508), Methods in Biological Anthropology (ANTH 510), Nutritional Anthropology (ANTH 535), Research Design: Biological Anthropology (ANTH 610)

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Jianhua Zhao, PhD

Associate Professor

Currently accepting graduate students with interests in cultural anthropology. Research Interests: Globalization, capitalism, family and kinship, social change, clothing and the clothing industry, anthropological political economy, China and East Asia

Courses Regularly taught by Dr. Zhao: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (ANTH 201), Introduction to Japanese Society (ANTH/AST 314), Anthropology of China (ANTH/AST 317), Anthropology of Clothing (ANTH 344), Global Capitalisms (ANTH/AST 347), Internship (ANTH 401), Ethnographic Methods/Research Design (ANTH 511/611). 

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