| Photo | Faculty Member | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
 | Dr. Seth B. Grooms Assistant Professor (828) 262-2283 328A Anne Belk Hall groomssb@appstate.edu | (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. |
 | Dr. Neşe Kaya Özkan Assistant Professor (828) 262-2268 349H Anne Belk Hall ozkannk@appstate.edu | (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 |
 | Dr. Marc Kissel Assistant Professor (828) 262-6713 349A Anne Belk Hall kisselm@appstate.edu | (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 |
 | Dr. Christina Verano Sornito Assistant Professor (828) 262-6429 349D Anne Belk Hall sornitocv@appstate.edu | (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 |
