FACULTY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus
William N. Fenton, Ph.D., Yale University
Professor Emeritus
Peter T. Furst, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Gary H. Gossen, Ph.D., Harvard University
Social Anthropology, Folklore, Oral History, Ritual, Religion, Structural
and Poststructural Theory; Mesoamerica
Associate Professors Emeriti
George J. Klima, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Dwight T. Wallace, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Professors
Robert M. Carmack, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Political Anthropology, Historical Anthropology; Mesoamerica
James Collins, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Linguistic Anthropology, Anthropology and Education; North America,
Native American Societies
Dean Falk, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Primate and Human Brain Evolution, Neuroanatomy, Osteology
Timothy B. Gage, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Human Biology; Demography, Population Genetics, Quantitative Methods;
Oceania, Mesoamerica
Robert W. Jarvenpa, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Ecology, Social Change, Interethnic Relations, Ethnoarchaeology; Native
North America, Circumpolar, Central America
Lawrence M. Schell, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Medical Anthropology, Growth, Adaptability, Urbanism
Michael E. Smith, Ph.D., University of Illinois
Complex Socities, Economic Anthropology, Ancient Urbanism, Ethnohistory,
Method and Theory; Mesoamerica
Richard G. Wilkinson, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Osteology, Bioarchaeology; North America, Mesoamerica
Gary A. Wright, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Symbolic Ecology; Middle East, North America
Walter P. Zenner, Ph.D., Columbia University
Urban Anthropology, Ethnicity; Middle East, North America, Jewish Communities
Associate Professors
Lee S. Bickmore, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Phonology, Tone, Historical Linguistics; Africa, Polynesia
G. Aaron Broadwell, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Syntax, Historical Linguistics; North America, Mesoamerica
Louise Burkhart, Ph.D., Yale University
Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology, Historical Ethnography, Religion
and Literature; Mesoamerica
Liliana R. Goldin, Ph.D., University at Albany, SUNY
Economic and Symbolic Anthropology, Peasant Societies, Work and Social
Change; Mesoamerica, U.S.
John S. Justeson, Ph.D., Stanford University
Epigraphy, Historical Linguistics, Language and Prehistory, Computer
Modelling; Mesoamerica
Gail H. Landsman, Ph.D., Catholic University of America
Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology, Reproduction, Disability, Gender,
Social Movements; U.S., Contemporary Native America
James W. Wessman, Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Political Economy, Economic Anthropology; Latin America, Caribbean
Assistant Professor
Tom Brutsaert, Ph.D., Cornell University
Human Adaptation - altitude, exercise
Marilyn A. Masson, Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin
Archaeology of Complex Societies, Precolumbian Religion, Economic Archaeology,
Zooarchaeology, Lithic Analysis; Mesoamerica, Southern U.S. Plains, Southeastern
U.S.
Associate Curator of Anthropology
Hetty Jo Brumbach, Ph.D., University at Albany, SUNY
Ecology, Ethnoarchaeology, Museum Studies; North America
Adjunct Faculty
Henry Chaya, M.S., Purdue University
Chemistry, Archeometry, North America
Edward Fitzgerald, Ph.D., Yale University
Epidemiology
Robert E. Funk, Ph.D., Columbia University
Prehistory; Northeastern North America
Karen Hartgen,
Cultural Resource management, Northeastern North America
Robert Kuhn, Ph.D., University at Albany, SUNY
Cultural Resource Management, Historic Preservation; Northeastern North
America
Elizabeth Marshall, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Epidemiology
Carolyn L. Olsen, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Demography, Population Genetics; Ecology; Epidemiology
Carol A. Raemsch, Ph.D., University at Albany, SUNY
Osteology, Northeast Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Genetic Variation,
North America
Brenda Rosenbaum, Ph.D., University at Albany, SUNY
Gender, Ethnicity; Mesoamerica