Although the Department does not offer a graduate degree in anthropology, six professors are members of the Graduate Faculty of the University. They serve on MA thesis committees and offer graduate courses for students.
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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. 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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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. 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 |
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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. |