Faculty in Archaeology
Faculty in Biological Anthropology
Faculty in Linguistic Anthropology
Faculty in Sociocultural Anthropology
Emeritus Faculty
Archaeology Faculty
Sebastien C.P. Lacombe
Research Assistant Professor/Director of Undergraduate Studies
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Archaeopetrography
- lithic analysis and sourcing
- landscape archaeology
- experimental archaeology
- CRM
- Prehistoric Europe
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BrieAnna Langlie
Associate Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Paleoethnobotany
- Landscape archaeology in the Andes Mountains of South America
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Carl P. Lipo
Professor; Associate Dean for Research and Programs
Anthropology; Harpur College of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests
- Evolution of Past Human Populations
- Models of Cultural Transmission
- Methods in Remote Sensing, Geophysics
- North American Prehistory, Prehistory of the Pacific
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Randall H. McGuire
Distinguished Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Archaeology
- Social theory
- Historical archaeology
- US Southwest
- Northern Mexico
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Laurie Miroff
Director
Public Archaeology Facility
Research Interests
- Cultural Resource Management
- Northeastern United States
- Late Precontact Period
- Pottery Analysis
- Public Outreach and Archaeology
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David W. Mixter
Research Assistant Professor
Environmental Studies Program
Research Interests
- Archaeology of the Ancient Maya
- Comparative Studies of Societal Collapse and Recovery
- Frontiers and Early Complexity
- Social Dynamics of Urban Landscapes
- Collective Memory
- GIS and Spatial Analysis
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Maria O'Donovan
Senior Staff Assistant; Director of MAPA Program
Public Archaeology Facility; Anthropology
Research Interests
- Cultural Resource Management and Heritage
- Historical and Contemporary Archaeology
- Northeastern United States
- Social Theory
- Landscape
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Lubna Omar
Lecturer; Associate Director/CMENAS
Anthropology; Center for Middle East and North Africa Studies
Research Interests
- Zooarchaeology
- Near Eastern Archaeology
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Kathleen A. Sterling
Associate Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Lithic Analysis
- Feminism and Gender
- Communities of Practice
- Sociopolitics of Archaeology
- Ethics of Archaeology
- Prehistoric Europe
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Ruth M. Van Dyke
Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Southwest United States
- Landscape, place, and space
- Social theory
- Phenomenology, materiality, and representation
- Historical archaeology
- Archaeology of pilgrimage
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Biological Anthropology Faculty
Louis Calistro Alvarado
PRODiG Research Fellow
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Human evolutionary ecology
- Social endocrinology
- Health disparities
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Elizabeth DiGangi
Associate Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Forensic anthropology
- Population-specific standards
- Age-at-death estimation
- Trauma analysis
- Prehistoric and historic health; stress; and well-being
- Latin America; Caribbean; Europe Bioarchaeology; Paleopathology
- North Africa
- North America
- Ancestry and social race
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Matthew V. Emery
Research Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Ancient DNA
- Forensic genetics
- Bioarchaeology
- Molecular anthropology
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Ralph M. Garruto
Professor/Director, BU Biospecimen Archive Facility
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Natural
Experimental Models
- Population
Health
- Biomedical Anthropology
- Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Health Transitions
- Infectious
and Chronic Disease
Research Activities
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Jeffrey K. Lum
Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Molecular anthropology
- Forensic genetics
- Malaria
- epidemiology; Melanesia
- Melanesia
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D. Andrew Merriwether
Professor; Collegiate Professor for College in the Woods
Anthropology; Residential Life
Research Interests
- Ancient DNA/PaleoGenomics
- Molecular Anthropology
- Peopling of the New World and The Pacific
- Plant and Animal Domestication
- Population Genetics/Phylogenetics
- Forensic DNA
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Biomedical Anthropology
- Evolutionary Biology/Molecular Evolution
- Paleodemography
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Rolf Quam
Professor/Chair
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Paleoanthropology
- Neandertals
- Language Evolution
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Deborah Schechter
Instructor/Director of Graduate Program in Biomedical Anthropology
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Health disparities
- Risk-taking behavior
- Biocultural models of health and disease
- Community-based research methods
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Laure Spake
Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Growth and development
- Human variation
- Biomedical anthropology
- Skeletal biology
- Health, stress, wellbeing
- Quantitative methods
- Statistical computing
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Katherine Wander
Associate Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- infectious disease ecology
- immune function
- growth and development
- nutrition
- female circumcision
- East Africa
- West Africa
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Linguistic Anthropology Faculty
Douglas J. Glick
Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title
Linguistics Program; Anthropology; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- Linguistic anthropology
- semiotics
- mass media
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Sabina Perrino
Associate Professor/Director of Linguistics Program
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Intimacy in Interaction
- Language use in Ethnomedical Encounters & Political Speeches
- Oral Narratives as Discursive Practices
- Racialized Language in Everyday Conversation
- Spatiotemporal Relations (Chronotope)
- Research Methods in Linguistic Anthropology
- Fitness Culture and Practices
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Sociocultural Anthropology Faculty
Deborah A. Elliston
Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Feminist Anthropology
- Sexuality Studies
- Queer Theory
- Postcolonial Theory
- Nationalism
- Modernity
- Oceania/Pacific
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Carmen A. Ferradás
Associate Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Anthropology and Development
- Political Ecology
- Consumption
- Urban Anthropology
- Borders
- Globalization
- Latin America
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Douglas R. Holmes
Distinguished Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Contemporary fascism
- Central banks and monetary policy
- Technologies of money
- Sovereign wealth funds
- Experimental ethnography
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Joshua Reno
Professor/Graduate Director; TRIP Courtesy Title
Anthropology; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- Environment
- science and technology studies
- semiotics
- material culture
- North America
- United Kingdom
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Thomas M. Wilson
Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- National identity and nationalism; international borders and frontiers; ethnicity and ethnic conflict; political ritual and symbolism; commercial farming; agrarian economic strategies and politics; public policy and interest group formation; local government and political parties; cinema and popular culture; European integration; the borderlands of the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hungary, Canada, and the United States.
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Emeritus Faculty
William H. Isbell
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Anthropology and archaeology of the Americas
- Andean prehistory
- ancient cultures of Peru and Bolivia
- Wari and the Central Andean middle horizon
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H. Stephen Straight
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Linguistics
Anthropology
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Nina M. Versaggi
Retired, Senior Research Associate
Public Archaeology Facility
Research Interests
- Cultural resource management
- Northeastern U.S. archaeology
- Hunter-gatherer land use patterns
- American battlefield archaeology
- Native American consultations and collaborations
- Archaeology in the classroom
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Michael A. Little
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Biological anthropology
- adaptation
- history
- Andes
- East Africa
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