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Dr. Jon H. Carter Assistant Professor (828) 262-6380 346 Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD Columbia University 2012) Anarchist anthropology, anthropology of violence, borders and immigration, incarceration and surveillance, media theory, fictocriticism and ethnographic writing; Honduras, Latin America |
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Dr. Cheryl P. Claassen Research Professor (828) 262-6385 326 Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD Harvard University 1982) Archaeology, shell, sociology of archaeology, gender, Archaic, symbolism, caves; Eastern United States, Mexico |
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Dr. Cameron Gokee Assistant Professor (828) 262-6752 324 Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of Michigan 2012) Village communities, historical landscapes, material culture and technology, archaeology of the contemporary; West Africa, Southwestern United States |
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Dr. Eric I. Karchmer Assistant Professor (828) 262-6398 349A Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2005) Medical anthropology, science studies, the politics of knowledge, Chinese medicine, China studies, colonial and postcolonial societies, history of medicine, ethnobotany; China |
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Dr. Larry R. Kimball Professor Director of the ASU Laboratories of Archaeological Science (828) 262-4899 330 Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD Northwestern University 1989) Southern Appalachian Prehistory, Middle Palaeolithic of Caucasus Mountains (Russia), lithic technology and microwear analysis, quantitative methods; Russia, Appalachia |
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Dr. Marc Kissel Lecturer (828) 262-6713 349C Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison) 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 Assistant Professor (828) 262-8909 349E Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD New York University 2005) Biological anthropology, conservation biology, reproductive strategies in Siamangs, population genetics; Indonesia
ON LEAVE, 2017-2018 |
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Dr. Diane P. Mines Professor (828) 262-6382 349J Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of Chicago 1995) Cultural anthropology, materiality and time, narrative, phenomenology of time and place, Tamil Studies; India, South Asia |
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Dr. Dana E. Powell Assistant Professor (828) 262-2268 349H Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2011) Cultural politics of energy development; political ecology; critical Native/Indigenous studies; infrastructure; science and technology studies; social movements; ethnography; and engaged scholarship; Native North America. |
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Dr. Gypsy C. Price Visiting Assistant Professor (828) 262-6381 349E Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of Florida 2015) Isotopic analyses and diet and mobility studies; the intersection of exchange spheres and object biographies; mortuary identity, connection to place, and socio-political relations; subsistence and faunal political economies; social complexity and emerging complex societies; Late Bronze Age Greece and the Mycenaean Culture; the archaeology of Late Woodland North Carolina. |
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Dr. Gregory G. Reck Professor (828) 262-6383 349G Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD Catholic University of America 1972) Ethnological theory, social change, magic and religion, narrative ethnography, global processes at the local level, identity construction; Mexico, India, Appalachia |
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Dr. Christopher J. Santiago Adjunct Lecturer (828) 262-6381 349F Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD Columbia University 2017) Peasant resistance movements, Andean messianism, shamanism, animism, histories of magic and the imagination, hysteria, intimacy/obscenity, sacred sociology, avant-garde art and ethnographic film; Peru, Latin America |
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Dr. Gwen M. Robbins Schug Professor 320A Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of Oregon 2007) Bioarchaeology, human growth and development, bone biology, histology, human-environment interactions, paleodemography, South Asian Prehistory; India
ON LEAVE, FALL 2017 |
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Dr. Timothy J. Smith Department Chair Associate Professor (828) 262-8473 342 Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University at Albany, SUNY 2004) Sociocultural anthropology, ethnicity and development, electoral politics and democracy, languages (Kaqchikel Mayan and Kichwa); Latin America (Guatemala and Ecuador) and Europe (France and Spain) |
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Dr. Christina Verano Sornito Assistant Professor (828) 262-6429 349D Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD Columbia University 2015) Visual anthropology, ethnographic film, video/audio documentary, voice theory and anthropology of sound, healing and sorcery, magic and religion, anthropology of nature and the Anthropocene, indigenous studies, nationalism, transnational labor, psychoanalysis, Central European avant-gardes; The Philippines, Southeast Asia |
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Dr. Thomas R. Whyte Professor (828) 262-2283 328 Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of Tennessee at Knoxville 1988) Archaeology, zooarchaeology, experimental archaeology, island and coastal adaptations, zoogeography; Eastern United States, Southern Appalachia |
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Dr. Alice P. Wright Assistant Professor (828) 262-6384 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. |
