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Dr. Jon H. Carter Associate Professor 346 Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD Columbia University 2012) Political anthropology, anthropology of violence, borders and immigration, incarceration and surveillance, media theory, fictocriticism and ethnographic writing; Honduras, Latin America
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Dr. Sophia C. Dent Visiting Assistant Professor 320A Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2020) Biological anthropology, skeletal biology and osteology, stable isotope analysis, nutrition, food security, periodontal disease and dental calculus, physiological plasticity; Southeastern North America |
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Dr. Cameron Gokee Assistant Professor 324 Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of Michigan 2012) Village communities, borderlands, spatial analysis, material culture; West Africa, Southwestern United States |
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Dr. Geoff Kelley Adjunct Assistant Professor 348 Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of Georgia 2013) Conservation anthropology, transboundary conservation, political ecology, historical ecology; U.S. - Mexico border |
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Dr. Marc Kissel Assistant Professor 349C Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison 2014) The evolution of modern humans and the processes by which hominins became human; the evolutionary arc of human warfare, Neandertal behavior; quantitative genetics; computer modeling; semiotics; paleoanthropological theory |
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Dr. Susan Lappan Associate Professor 349E Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD New York University 2005) Biological anthropology, primate behavior, ecology, conservation biology, small apes; Indonesia, Malaysia
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Dr. Krista A. Lewis Professor/Department Chair 349J Anne Belk Hall (Chair's Office) 330 Anne Belk Hall (Research Lab) |
(PhD University of Chicago 2005) Archaeology, interrelationships of food, politics, and trade; archaeological heritage preservation and engagement; public archaeology; development of social complexity; ancient urbanism; Arabian Peninsula, Oman, Yemen |
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Dr. Alex J. Nelson Visiting Assistant Professor 349F Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of Nevada, Las Vegas 2020) Psychological anthropology, gender and sexuality, anthropology of love and intimacy, sex work and human trafficking, marriage and courtship, socio-legal studies; Korea, East Asia, United States |
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Dr. Dana E. Powell Associate Professor 349H Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2011) Sociocultural anthropology, political ecology, environmental justice, energy extractivism, feminist STS, decolonial theory, posthumanist anthropology, social movements, collaborative ethnography; Diné (Navajo) Nation, North Carolina, Taiwan [ON LEAVE, SPRING-FALL 2021] |
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Dr. Gwen M. Robbins Schug Professor 320A Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of Oregon 2007) Bioarchaeology, human-environmental interactions, skeletal and dental biology, paleopathology, Indus civilization; India, Modern Italy, Bronze Age Oman [ON LEAVE 2020-2022] |
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Dr. Timothy J. Smith Professor/Departmental Honors Director 344 Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University at Albany, SUNY 2004) Political and legal anthropology, governance and ethnicity in Latin America, democracy and electoral politics, historical ethnography, environmental subjectivities, indigenous languages and pedagogy (Kaqchikel Mayan and Napo Kichwa), immigration; Guatemala, Ecuador, Spain, and France |
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Dr. Christina Verano Sornito Assistant Professor 349D Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD Columbia University 2015) Anthropology of religion, magic and sorcery, hauntology, climate change in the Pacific, debates across ontology and non-Western/Indigenous frameworks, trajectories in autoethnographic and multimodal ethnography, transnational labor, media studies, visual anthropology, anthropology of sound, psychoanalysis, Central European avant-gardes; The Philippines, Southeast Asia, U.S. Empire/Imperialism |
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Dr. Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson Visiting Assistant Professor 349G Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of Arizona 2019) Linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, globalization, language ideology, language in the mass media and popular culture, discourse analysis, digital ethnography, computer mediated communication, pragmatics, lexical semantics; Argentina, Latin America |
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Dr. Thomas R. Whyte Professor 328 Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of Tennessee at Knoxville 1988) Archaeology, zooarchaeology, experimental archaeology, Appalachian Summit archaeology; Eastern United States, Southern Appalachia |
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Dr. Jessica Wood Adjunct Assistant Professor 348 Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD Texas Woman's University 1996) Sociocultural anthropology, anthropology of dance, gender, race, and class; United States |
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Dr. Alice P. Wright Associate Professor 322 Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of Michigan 2014) Southeastern archaeology, pre-Columbian interaction, Hopewell, the built environment and monumentality, landscapes, GIS, archaeological geophysics, community and applied archaeology, heritage management; Southern Appalachians, Southeastern U.S. |
