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Dr. Jon H. Carter Associate Professor (828) 262-6380 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 (828) 262-7784 349F 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 (828) 262-6752 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 (828) 262-2295 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 (828) 262-6713 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 (828) 262-8909 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 and Chair (828) 262-7404 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. Dana E. Powell Associate Professor (828) 262-2268 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 |
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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 (828) 262-8473 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 (828) 262-6429 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 (828) 262-6383 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 (828) 262-2283 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. Alice P. Wright Associate 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. |
