Faculty

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

Research Interests

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

Research Interests

• Ancient DNA
• Forensic genetics
• Bioarchaeology
• Molecular anthropology

Research Interests

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

Research Interests

• Contemporary fascism
• Central banks and monetary policy
• Technologies of money
• Sovereign wealth funds
• Experimental ethnography

Research Interests

• Paleoanthropology
• Virtual anthropology
• Pleistocene human evolution
• Evolutionary morphology
• Mandibular biomechanics

Research Interests

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

Research Interests

• Island Archaeology (especially Rapa Nui/Easter Island)
• Cultural Transmission and Evolutionary Archaeology
• Remote Sensing, UAV Photogrammetry, and GIS
• Luminescence Dating and Geophysical Methods
• Climate Change Impacts on Sustainability in Island Environments
• Ceramic Technology and Chronology in North America

Research Interests

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

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

• Cultural Resource Management
• Northeastern United States
• Late Precontact Period
• Pottery Analysis
• Public Outreach and Archaeology

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

• 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

• Paleoanthropology
• Neandertals
• Language Evolution

Research Interests

• Environmental anthropology
• Semiotics and language
• Critical disability studies
• Science and technology studies
• Gaming, games and play

Research Interests

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

Research Interests

• Growth and development
• Human variation
• Biomedical anthropology
• Skeletal biology
• Health, stress, wellbeing
• Quantitative methods
• Statistical computing

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

• Evolutionary medicine and public health

• Infectious disease and immune function

• Human nutrition, growth and development

• The optimal iron hypothesis

• The immune system of human milk

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.