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Dr. James Beveridge Teaching Assistant Professor (828) 262-6381 349C Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of Texas-Austin 2021) Environmental anthropology, multispecies studies, Amazonian Indigenous people with focus on Quichua-speaking Runa, Indigenous resistance movements, ethnographic video and sensory ethnography, community-engaged research in Grayson Highlands, studying feral ponies. Ecuador; TIPNIS Bolivia; Appalachia. |
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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. 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 Assistant Professor (828) 262-7784 324 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. Travis M. Fink Teaching Assistant Professor (828) 262-6412 349F Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD Tulane University 2024) Cultural and environmental anthropology, ethnicity, ethnohistory, historical ecology, traditional ecological knowledge, mobility and migration, and indigenous historicities with a focus on Chicham-speaking Shiwiar and Achuar, and Kichwa-speaking Runa and Andwa of Ecuador and Peru. |
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Dr. Georgia Fox Adjunct Professor (828) 262-2295 348 Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD Texas A&M University 1998) Archaeology of British colonialism, early consumerism and capitalism, economic anthropology, historical archaeology, African Diaspora and plantation archaeology, environmental archaeology, museum and material culture studies, preservation and conservation of archaeological and ethnographic materials, underwater and maritime archaeology. Caribbean, Eastern Mediterranean, Greece, Israel, Netherlands, and maritime California. |
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Dr. Cameron Gokee Associate Professor (828) 262-6752 330A 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. Seth B. Grooms Assistant Professor (828) 262-2283 328A Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD Washington University in St. Louis 2022) Eastern Woodlands of pre-contact North America, earthen monumentality, Poverty Point, archaeology of the Archaic period, the Lower Mississippi Valley, hunter-gatherer studies, American Indian epistemologies and philosophies, cultural landscapes, the role of ritual in identity formation, performance, flexible social organization among non-agrarian societies, geoarchaeology, chronological modeling; Southeastern U.S. |
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Ethan Gulledge Adjunct Assistant Professor (828) 262-2295 348 Anne Belk Hall |
(M.A., UNC Charlotte 2023) Biological anthropology, primatology, behavioral ecology,
conservation |
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Dr. Neşe Kaya Özkan Assistant Professor (828) 262-2268 349H Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD University of Arizona 2023) Language and environmental politics; language ideologies; language activism; language loss; language reclamation; environmental justice; anthropology of environmentalism; multilingualisms; language, ethnicity, and race; multispecies ethnography; Middle East, Hemshins, Turkey |
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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 349A 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 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. Margaret Morley Teaching Assistant Professor (828) 262-6383 349G Anne Belk Hall |
(Ph.D. Indiana University 2023) Economic anthropology; attention; anthropology of aesthetics,
the senses, and the body; media capitalism; global studies; coloniality; gender; Orientalism;
vibration; belly dance; beauty standards and aesthetic labor; the Middle East and North Africa |
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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 Associate 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. Jaclyn A Thomas Adjunct Assistant Professor (828) 262-2295 348 Anne Belk Hall |
(PhD Arizona State University 2022) Biological anthropology, evolutionary medicine, behavioral endocrinology, human biological variation, metabolic & cardiovascular health, nutrition, energy availability & allocation, the Tsimane, South America |
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Dr. Alice P. Wright Associate Professor Department Honors Director (828) 262-6384 322A 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. |
