Faculty & Staff
Full-Time Faculty
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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: |
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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: |
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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: |
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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: |
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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: |
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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: |
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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: |
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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: |
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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: |
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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: |
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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: |
Adjunct Faculty
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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: |
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: |
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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: |
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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: |
Part-Time Faculty
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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: |
Frances Purifoy, Ph.D.Senior Lecturer Education: University of New Mexico Research Interests: Education and culture, gender, biological anthropology Contact Information: |
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Jeneen Wiche, M.A.Lecturer Education: University of Arizona Research Interests: Federal Indian policy, American Indian women, Food and body politic Contact Information: |
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: |
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Edwin Segal, Ph.D.Professor Emeritus Education: Indiana University Research Interests: Africa, Central Asia, Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, Development Contact Information: |
Administrative Support
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Katrina ElliottAcademic Counselor Contact Information: |
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