Professors

PhotoFaculty MemberResearch Interests
lappanprofilec.jpg?itok=a97spD8jDr. Susan Lappan
Professor
(828) 262-8909
349E Anne Belk Hall lappansm@appstate.edu
 (PhD New York University 2005) Biological anthropology, primate behavior, ecology, conservation biology, small apes; Indonesia, Malaysia
lewisprofilec.jpg?itok=RotMkezBDr. Krista A. Lewis
Professor
Department Chair
(828) 262-7404
349J Anne Belk Hall
lewiska5@appstate.edu
(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
smith_profile_final_pic_1.jpgDr. Timothy J. Smith
Professor
Department Honors Director
(828) 262-8473
344 Anne Belk Hall
smithtj2@appstate.edu
(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