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  • Kimberly Arkin
    Kimberly Arkin

    Associate Professor
    Associate Chair of Anthropology

    Sociocultural Anthropology: Europe, Religion, Race, Personhood…

  • Thomas Barfield

    Professor

    Sociocultural Anthropology: Afghanistan, Nomadic peoples, Historical Anthropology…

  • Wade Campbell

    Assistant Professor

    Anthropological Archaeology: Diné (Navajo), Southwestern Cultural Exchange, Spanish Colonialism…

  • David Carballo

    Professor

    Anthropological Archaeology: Mesoamerica, Households, Ritual, Political Evolution…

  • Andreana Cunningham

    Assistant Professor

    Anthropological Archaeology; African Diaspora, Migration History; Non-Invasive Bio-Archaeology…

  • Joanna Davidson

    Associate Professor
    Director, BU Society of Fellows

    Sociocultural Anthropology: Africa, Political Ecology, Agrarian Societies, Knowledge Systems…

  • Benjamin Finkel

    Department Teaching Associate, Biological Anthropology

    Biological Anthropology

  • Kathleen Forste

    Adjunct Lecturer of Archaeology

    Southern Levant and Eastern Mediterranean, archaeobotany/paleoethnobotany, agricultural economy, arboriculture…

  • Eva Garrett

    Assistant Professor

    Biological Anthropology: Sensory Ecology, Olfaction, Primate Evolution, Genomics, Bioinformatics…

  • Luke Glowacki

    Assistant Professor

    Biological Anthropology: Ethiopia, Human Evolution, Warfare, Small-scale Societies, Complex Social Behavior…

  • Faye Harwell

    Adjunct Lecturer of Biological Anthropology

    Biological Anthropology

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    Robert Hefner

    Professor, On Leave Spring 2026
    Director of the Center for the Study of Asia (BUSCA)

    Sociocultural Anthropology: Southeast Asia, Ethics & Morality, Islam, Political Anthropology…

  • Carolyn Hodges-Simeon

    Associate Professor
    Director of Undergraduate Studies

    Biological Anthropology: Sex-typical Trait Plasticity, Evolutionary Sex/Gender Differences…

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    Eric Kelley

    Adjunct Lecturer of Sociocultural Anthropology

  • Cheryl Knott
    Cheryl Knott

    Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences
    Associate Chair

    Biological Anthropology: Borneo, Orangutan Biology, Reproductive Physiology, Conservation…

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    Laurie LaPorte

    Adjunct Lecturer of Sociocultural Anthropology

  • John M. Marston

    Professor

    Anthropological Archaeology: Mediterranean, Near East, Central Asia, Environment, Sustainability, Agriculture…

  • Robert Murowchick

    Adjunct Lecturer of Archaeology,
    Interim Director, Archaeology Undergraduate Studies

  • Fallou Ngom

    Professor

    Sociocultural Anthropology: West Africa, Linguistics, Islam, Ajami Literary Traditions…

  • Ayşe Parla

    Associate Professor
    Director of Graduate Studies
    Affiliate Faculty, Center on Forced Displacement

    Sociocultural Anthropology: Turkey, Political Anthropology, Migration & Citizenship, Emotion, Morality…

  • Dylan Renca

    Department Course Facilitator, Sociocultural Anthropology

    Southeast Asia; multiculturalism; Indigeneity; political belonging; religion; ethical selfhood

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    Samantha Richter

    Adjunct Lecturer of Archaeology

  • Joshua Robinson

    Senior Lecturer of Archaeology

  • Curtis Runnels
    Curtis Runnels

    Professor

    Anthropological Archaeology, Prehistoric Greece, Hominin dispersals, Lithic technology, Archaeological history…

  • Christopher Schmitt

    Associate Professor

    Biological Anthropology: Developmental Variation in Primates, Behavioral Ecology, Physiology…

  • Parker Shipton

    Professor

    Sociocultural Anthropology: Africa, Kinship, Economic & Symbolic Anthropology, Development…

  • Merav Shohet

    Associate Professor

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

  • Nancy J. Smith-Hefner

    Professor, Department Chair

    Sociocultural Anthropology: Southeast Asia, Linguistics, Gender & Sexuality, Youth…

  • Chun-Yi Sum

    Adjunct Lecturer of Sociocultural Anthropology
    Lecturer of Social Sciences, College of General Studies

  • Maria Torras Freixa

    Adjunct Lecturer of Archaeology

  • Robert Weller
    Robert P. Weller

    Professor

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

  • Catherine West

    Research Associate Professor
    Interim Director of Archaeology Master’s Program & Admissions

    Archaeology: Arctic, Zooarchaeology, Environment, Stable Isotope Analysis…

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