Faculty
Sulawesi, biological anthropology, primate behavior and ecology, genus Macaca, evolutionary ecology
China, sports and body culture, the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and Olympic studies.
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
Old World archaeology, emergence of states and social complexity in Greece, Greece from the Neolithic Period, rise of Greek city-states and Classical Greece
Human variation, human origins, primate behavior and ecology, cross-cultural comparisons of infancy, childhood, and adolescence
Culture, health, and aging; qualitative and quantitative research methods; Hispanic cultures
Women and material culture, migration, ritual, gender studies; Oceania to Papua New Guinea
Mesoamerica, Aztec empire, political economy, craft production & exchange, and public archaeology. Regional interests in Mesoamerica include the Gulf Coast Lowlands and Northwest Mexico.
Museum studies, process theories of museology, long-term process of fundamental change in societal institutions, creativity theory
Kinship and Gender, Cognition, Education, Theory and epistemology, Research methods, Middle East, Islamic civilization, urban Australia
Midwestern U.S., Mesoamerica, Peru, paleoethnobotany, origins of food production, history of archaeology, archaeological methods and formation processes
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