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Dr. Jon H. Carter Assistant 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 ON LEAVE FALL 2020
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Dr. Cheryl P. Claassen Research Professor/Professor Emerita of Anthropology (828) 262-2295 348 Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD Harvard University 1982) Archaeology, shell, sociology of archaeology, gender, Archaic, symbolism, caves; Eastern United States, Mexico |
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Sophia C. Dent Visiting Assistant Professor (828) 262-7784 349F Anne Belk Hall |
(ABD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 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, 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 Assistant Professor (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 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. 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 Associate Professor (828) 262-2268 349H Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2011) Environmental anthropology, political ecology, critical development studies, energy, social movements, infrastructure, new materialism, and climate change; Navajo/Diné Nation, Native America |
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Dr. Martin Schoenhals Research Professor (828) 262-2295 348 Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of Pennsylvania 1991) Sociocultural anthropology, anthropology of education, psychological anthropology, gender and sexuality, anthropology of work, race and caste, prejudice, development; China, India |
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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 2020-2021 |
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Dr. Timothy J. Smith Professor and Chair (828) 262-8473 344 Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University at Albany, SUNY 2004) Sociocultural anthropology, Latin American development and ethnicity, electoral politics and democracy, historical ethnography, environmental subjectivities, indigenous languages and pedagogy (Kaqchikel Mayan and Napo Kichwa), immigration; Guatemala, Ecuador, Spain, France |
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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 ON LEAVE FALL 2020 |
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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. |
