Associate Professor Sociocultural Anthropology: Europe, Religion, Race, Personhood… Professor Sociocultural Anthropology: Afghanistan, Nomadic peoples, Historical Anthropology… Assistant Professor Anthropological Archaeology: Diné (Navajo), Southwestern Cultural Exchange, Spanish Colonialism… Professor Anthropological Archaeology: Mesoamerica, Households, Ritual, Political Evolution… Assistant Professor Anthropological Archaeology; African Diaspora, Migration History; Non-Invasive Bio-Archaeology… Associate Professor Sociocultural Anthropology: Africa, Political Ecology, Agrarian Societies, Knowledge Systems… Department Teaching Associate, Biological Anthropology Biological Anthropology Adjunct Lecturer of Archaeology Southern Levant and Eastern Mediterranean, archaeobotany/paleoethnobotany, agricultural economy, arboriculture… Assistant Professor Biological Anthropology: Sensory Ecology, Olfaction, Primate Evolution, Genomics, Bioinformatics… Assistant Professor Biological Anthropology: Ethiopia, Human Evolution, Warfare, Small-scale Societies, Complex Social Behavior… Adjunct Lecturer of Biological Anthropology Biological Anthropology Professor, On Leave Spring 2026 Sociocultural Anthropology: Southeast Asia, Ethics & Morality, Islam, Political Anthropology… Associate Professor Biological Anthropology: Sex-typical Trait Plasticity, Evolutionary Sex/Gender Differences… Adjunct Lecturer of Sociocultural Anthropology Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences Biological Anthropology: Borneo, Orangutan Biology, Reproductive Physiology, Conservation… Adjunct Lecturer of Sociocultural Anthropology Professor Anthropological Archaeology: Mediterranean, Near East, Central Asia, Environment, Sustainability, Agriculture… Adjunct Lecturer of Archaeology, Professor Sociocultural Anthropology: West Africa, Linguistics, Islam, Ajami Literary Traditions… Associate Professor Sociocultural Anthropology: Turkey, Political Anthropology, Migration & Citizenship, Emotion, Morality… Department Course Facilitator, Sociocultural Anthropology Southeast Asia; multiculturalism; Indigeneity; political belonging; religion; ethical selfhood Adjunct Lecturer of Archaeology Senior Lecturer of Archaeology Professor Anthropological Archaeology, Prehistoric Greece, Hominin dispersals, Lithic technology, Archaeological history… Associate Professor Biological Anthropology: Developmental Variation in Primates, Behavioral Ecology, Physiology… Professor Sociocultural Anthropology: Africa, Kinship, Economic & Symbolic Anthropology, Development… Associate Professor Sociocultural Anthropology: Vietnam, Israel, Medical & Psychological Anthropology, Ethics & Morality… Professor, Department Chair Sociocultural Anthropology: Southeast Asia, Linguistics, Gender & Sexuality, Youth… Adjunct Lecturer of Sociocultural Anthropology Adjunct Lecturer of Archaeology Professor Sociocultural Anthropology: China, Taiwan;, Religion & Ritual, Environment, Political change… Research Associate Professor Archaeology: Arctic, Zooarchaeology, Environment, Stable Isotope Analysis…
Kimberly Arkin
Associate Chair of Anthropology
Thomas Barfield
Wade Campbell
David Carballo
Andreana Cunningham
Joanna Davidson
Director, BU Society of Fellows
Benjamin Finkel
Kathleen Forste
Eva Garrett
Luke Glowacki
Faye Harwell
Robert Hefner
Director of the Center for the Study of Asia (BUSCA)
Carolyn Hodges-Simeon
Director of Undergraduate StudiesEric Kelley
Cheryl Knott
Associate ChairLaurie LaPorte
John M. Marston
Robert Murowchick
Interim Director, Archaeology Undergraduate Studies
Fallou Ngom
Ayşe Parla
Director of Graduate Studies
Affiliate Faculty, Center on Forced Displacement
Dylan Renca
Samantha Richter
Joshua Robinson
Curtis Runnels
Christopher Schmitt
Parker Shipton
Merav Shohet
Nancy J. Smith-Hefner
Chun-Yi Sum
Lecturer of Social Sciences, College of General Studies
Maria Torras Freixa
Robert P. Weller
Catherine West
Interim Director of Archaeology Master’s Program & Admissions