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Tristram R. Kidder Professor of Anthropology
Professor of Environmental Studies
Chair, Department of Anthropology
North American Archaeology, Geoarchaeology, Humans and Climate Change; Mississippi River, Southeastern United States, Yellow River, China
John G. Baugh Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts & Sciences
Professor, Linguistics
Sociolinguistics; Language, Equity and Environmental Change; Linguistic Profiling; Econolinguistics
Lois Beck Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology
Political Anthropology, History, Tribe-State Relations, Nomadic Pastoralism, Islam, Gender; Iran, The Middle East
Peter Benson Associate Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology
Cultural Studies, Capitalism, Medical Anthropology, Tobacco; United States, Latin America
John Bowen Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences
Sociocultural Anthropology
On Leave Spring 2013
Religion and Ritual, Islam, Social Theory, Kinship and Social Organization, Historical Studies, Culture and Political Change; Sumatra, Indonesia, Europe
Pascal Boyer Henry Luce Professor of Collective and Individual Memory
Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology and Psychology
Cognitive Processes, Cultural Transmission, Cognitive Development, Evolutionary Psychology, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Religion
David Browman Director, Interdisciplinary Program in Archaeology
Professor, Archaeology
On Leave Spring 2013
North and Latin American Archaeology, Origins of Agricultural Economies, Development of Complex Societies, Pastoralism, Historical Archaeology
Robert Canfield Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology
Political Anthropology, Peasant Society, Ethnicity and Symbolism, Historical Anthropology; Afghanistan, Central Asia and Eastern Islamic World
James Cheverud Professor, Physical Anthropology
Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Quantitative Genetics, Evolutionary Theory, Human Genetics, Human and Nonhuman Primate Biology
Geoff Childs Associate Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology
Anthropological Demography, Historical Demography, Fertility, Ageing, Family Systems, Research Methodology; Tibet, Nepal
Glenn Conroy Professor, Physical Anthropology
Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Primate Evolution and Comparative Anatomy, Human Evolution; Southern Africa
Darla Dale Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Lecturer, Archaeology
Archaeology, Hunter-Gatherers, Socioeconomic Inequality; East Africa
Michael Frachetti Associate Professor, Archaeology
On Leave Spring 2013
Eurasian Prehistory, Bronze Age Steppe Pastoralism, Landscape Archaeology, Paleo-Environment and Geographic Information Systems, Ethnographic Nomadism; Central Asia
David Freidel Professor, Archaeology
Archaeology, Mayas
Gayle Fritz Professor, Archaeology
Paleoethnobotany, Development of Agricultural Systems, Plant Domestication, Subsistence and Culture Change, North American Prehistory
Bret Gustafson Associate Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology
On Leave Spring 2013
Ethnography of States, Movements, and Global Energy Flows; Indigenous Languages and Movements; Education, Inequality, and Democracy; Latin America, Bolivia, Brazil
John E. Kelly Senior Lecturer, Archaeology
Archeology of Eastern North America, Mississippian Emergence and Decline; North America
Rebecca Lester Associate Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology
Medical Anthropology, Gender, Embodiment, Religion and Ritual, Psychological Anthropology, Cross-Cultural Psychiatry; Mexico, United States
Fiona Marshall Professor, Archaeology
On Leave Spring 2013
Old World Prehistory, African Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, Zooarchaeology, Early Food Production, Archaeology of Human Origins
Derek Pardue Assistant Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology
Popular Culture, Creole Citizenship, Ethnomusicology, Cities, Sports, Violence, Sociology of Restaurants; Brazil, Portugal, Cape Verde, Latin America

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