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  • Kimberly Arkin
    Kimberly Arkin

    Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies

    Sociocultural Anthropology; Europe; Religion; Race; Personhood…

  • Thomas Barfield

    Professor

    Sociocultural Anthropology; Afghanistan, Central Asia; Nomadic peoples; Historical Anthropology…

  • Wade Campbell

    Assistant Professor

    Archaeology; Diné (Navajo); Southwestern cultural exchange; Spanish colonialism…

  • David Carballo

    Professor; Assistant Provost for General Education

    Archaeology; Mesoamerica; Households; Ritual; Political Evolution…

  • Matt Cartmill
    Matt Cartmill

    Professor

    Biological Anthropology; Human origins; Systematics; Cranial morphology; Locomotion…

  • Joanna Davidson

    Associate Professor; Associate Director of the Kilachand Honors College

    Sociocultural Anthropology; Africa; Political ecology; Agrarian societies; Knowledge systems…

  • Eva Garrett

    Assistant Professor

    Biological Anthropology; Sensory ecology; Olfaction; Primate evolution; Genomics; Bioinformatics…

  • Luke Glowacki

    Assistant Professor

    Biological Anthropology; Human evolution; warfare; small-scale societies; Ethiopia; complex social behavior…

  • Shahla Haeri

    Professor

    Sociocultural Anthropology; Middle East, Pakistan; Islam; Gender; Law…

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    Robert Hefner

    Professor

    Sociocultural Anthropology; Southeast Asia; Ethics & Morality; Islam; Political Anthropology…

  • Carolyn Hodges-Simeon

    Associate Professor; Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies

    Biological Anthropology; Sex-typical trait plasticity; Evolutionary sex/gender differences…

  • Cheryl Knott
    Cheryl Knott

    Professor, Associate Chair

    Biological Anthropology; Borneo; Orangutan biology; Reproductive physiology; Conservation…

  • Frank Korom
    Frank Korom

    Professor of Religion & Anthropology

    Sociocultural Anthropology; South Asia; Folklore; Religion; Ritual…

  • John M. Marston

    Professor; Director of Archaeology Program

    Archaeology; Mediterranean, Near East, Central Asia; Environment; Sustainability; Agriculture…

  • Fallou Ngom

    Professor

    Sociocultural Anthropology; West Africa; Linguistics; Islam; Ajami literary traditions…

  • Ayşe Parla

    Associate Professor; Provost’s Faculty Fellow for Graduate Academic Programs and Policies

    Sociocultural Anthropology; Turkey; Political Anthropology; Migration & Citizenship; Emotion; Morality…

  • Curtis Runnels
    Curtis Runnels

    Professor

    Archaeology; Prehistoric Greece; Hominin dispersals; Lithic technology; Archaeological history…

  • Caterina Scaramelli

    Research Assistant Professor

    Sociocultural Anthropology; Europe, Middle East; Environment; Science; Infrastructure…

  • Christopher Schmitt

    Assistant Professor

    Biological Anthropology; Developmental Variation in Primates; Behavioral Ecology; Physiology…

  • Parker Shipton

    Professor

    Sociocultural Anthropology; Africa; Kinship; Economic & Symbolic Anthropology; Development…

  • Merav Shohet

    Assistant Professor; Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies

    Sociocultural Anthropology; Vietnam, Israel; Medical & Psychological Anthropology; Ethics & Morality…

  • Nancy J. Smith-Hefner

    Professor; Department Chair

    Sociocultural Anthropology; Southeast Asia; Linguistics; Gender & Sexuality; Youth…

  • Robert Weller
    Robert P. Weller

    Professor

    Sociocultural Anthropology; China, Taiwan; Religion & Ritual; Environment; Political change…

  • Catherine West

    Research Associate Professor

    Archaeology; Arctic; Zooarchaeology; Environment; Stable isotope analysis…

  • Merry White

    Professor

    Sociocultural Anthropology; Japan; Food; Travel & Tourism; Family…

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