Faculty

Research Interests

• Anthropology and archaeology of the Americas
• Andean prehistory
• ancient cultures of Peru and Bolivia
• Wari and the Central Andean middle horizon

Research Interests

• Archaeopetrography
• lithic analysis and sourcing
• landscape archaeology
• experimental archaeology
• CRM
• Prehistoric Europe

Research Interests

• Paleoethnobotany
• Landscape archaeology in the Andes Mountains of South America

Research Interests

• Evolution of Past Human Populations
• Models of Cultural Transmission
• Methods in Remote Sensing, Geophysics
• North American Prehistory, Prehistory of the Pacific

Research Interests

• Archaeology
• social theory
• historical archaeology
• US Southwest
• Northern Mexico

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

Research Interests

• Cultural Resource Management and Heritage
• Historical and Contemporary Archaeology
• Northeastern United States
• Social Theory
• Landscape

Research Interests

• Zooarchaeology
• Near Eastern Archaeology

Research Interests

• Lithic Analysis
• Feminism and Gender
• Communities of Practice
• Sociopolitics of Archaeology
• Ethics of Archaeology
• Prehistoric Europe

Research Interests

• Southwest United States
• Landscape, place, and space
• Social theory
• Phenomenology, materiality, and representation
• Historical archaeology
• Archaeology of pilgrimage

Research Interests

• Cultural Resource Management
• Northeastern U.S. Archaeology
• Hunter-Gatherer Land Use Patterns
• American Battlefield Archaeology
• Native American Consultations

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 & social race

Research Interests

• Natural Experimental Models
• Population Health
• Biomedical Anthropology
• Neurodegenerative Diseases
• Health Transitions
• Infectious and Chronic Disease

Research Activities

Research Interests

• Biological anthropology
• adaptation
• history
• Andes
• East Africa

Research Interests

• Molecular anthropology
• Forensic genetics
• Malaria
• epidemiology; Melanesia
• Melanesia

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

Research Interests

• Paleoanthropology
• Neandertals
• Language Evolution

Research Interests

• Health disparities
• Risk-taking behavior
• Biocultural models of health and disease
• Community-based research methods

Research Interests

• Epidemiology and Global Health
• infectious disease ecology
• immune function
• growth and development
• nutrition
• female circumcision
• East Africa
• West Africa

Research Interests

• Linguistic anthropology
• semiotics
• mass media

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

Research Interests

• Feminist Anthropology
• Sexuality Studies
• Queer Theory
• Postcolonial Theory
• Nationalism
• Modernity
• Oceania/Pacific

Research Interests

• Anthropology and Development
• Political Ecology
• Consumption
• Urban Anthropology
• Borders
• Globalization
• Latin America

Research Interests

• Environment
• science and technology studies
• semiotics
• material culture
• North America
• United Kingdom

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.

Research Interests

• Critical Medical Anthropology
• Science and Technology Studies
• Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.
• Disability Studies
• Global Social Theory
• The Biology of Everyday Life