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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 (ON LEAVE, SPRING 2022)
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Dr. Stephen Christopher Adjunct Assistant Professor (828) 262-2295 348 Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD Syracuse University 2018) Ethnicity; Religion; South Asia |
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Dr. Sophia C. Dent Visiting Assistant Professor (828) 262-7784 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 (828) 262-6752 324 Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of Michigan 2012) African archaeology, village communities, borderlands, spatial analysis, ceramic analysis, archaeology of the contemporary |
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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 Department Chair (828) 262-7404 349J Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of Chicago 2005) Arabian archaeology, interrelationships of food, politics, environment, and trade; archaeological heritage preservation and engagement; public archaeology; ancient urbanism; Arabian Peninsula, Oman, Yemen |
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Dr. Alex J. Nelson Visiting Assistant Professor (828) 262-6412 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 (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 [Dr. Powell is ON LEAVE for Academic Year 2021-2022, serving as Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures, and the Center for International Indigenous Affairs, National Dong Hwa University, 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 Department Honors Director (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 [ON LEAVE, SPRING 2022] |
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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. Brant Venables Adjunct Assistant Professor (828) 262-2295 348 Anne Belk Hall |
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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. Jessica Wood Adjunct Assistant Professor (828) 262-6381 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 (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. |
