Faculty
Dr. Pam AshmoreSulawesi, biological anthropology, primate behavior and ecology, genus Macaca, evolutionary ecology
Dr. Susan Brownell
China, sports and body culture, the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and Olympic studies.
Dr. Sheilah Clarke-Ekong
Change and continuity
in contemporary West African cultures, African organizational structures,
women's participation in the informal economies of the urban United States
and South Africa, African geography and cultural education
Dr. Michael Cosmopoulos
Old World archaeology, emergence of states
and social complexity in Greece, Greece from the Neolithic Period, rise
of Greek city-states and Classical Greece
Dr. Donna Hart
Human variation, human origins, primate behavior and ecology, cross-cultural comparisons of infancy, childhood, and adolescence
Dr. Margo-Lea Hurwicz
Culture, health, and
aging; qualitative and quantitative research methods; Hispanic cultures
Dr. Jacquelyn Lewis-Harris
Women and material culture,
migration, ritual, gender studies; Oceania to Papua New Guinea
Dr. Laura Miller
She has published more than fifty articles and book chapters on Japanese culture and language, including topics such as the Korean wave, English loanwords in Japanese, the Abeno Seimei boom, girls’ slang, and print club photos.
Dr. Michael Ohnersorgen
Mesoamerica, Aztec empire, political economy, craft production & exchange, and public archaeology. Regional interests in Mesoamerica include the Gulf Coast Lowlands and Northwest Mexico.
Dr. Jay Rounds
Museum studies, process
theories of museology, long-term process of fundamental change in societal
institutions, creativity theory
Dr. Allon Uhlmann
Kinship and Gender, Cognition, Education, Theory and epistemology, Research methods, Middle East, Islamic civilization, urban Australia
Dr. Patti Wright
Midwestern U.S., Mesoamerica,
Peru, paleoethnobotany, origins of food production, history of archaeology,
archaeological methods and formation processes
Department Faculty
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