Our Faculty
Boulos A. Ayad |
(Ph.D., U. of Cairo, 1964; Professor) Ancient Egypt and Ancient Near East archaeology and civilization, with special attention given to Ancient Egypt, Coptic language and archaeology. |
| (Ph.D., U. of California, Santa Barbara, 1986; Professor) Pre-contact archaeology of the North American Great Plains and adjacent mountains, analysis of stone tools. | |
| (Ph.D., U. of Arizona, 1991; Professor) Archaeology of the American Southwest with current emphasis on the study of abandonment and population movement during the Puebloan period. | |
| (Ph.D., Duke, 1985; Professor) Biology of the earliest primates of North America, Europe, North Africa, and Southeast Asia with emphasis on their adaptations and phylogenetic relationships. | |
Darna L. Dufour |
(Ph.D., SUNY-Binghamton, 1981; Professor) Biological and behavioral responses of human populations to nutritional problems with special emphasis on responses to food shortages and the presence of toxins in foods. |
| (Ph.D., U. of California, Berkeley, 1994; Associate Professor) Ethnography, political economy, gender and sexuality, poststructuralism, human rights, ethno-nationalism and globalization. | |
| (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley; Associate Professor Attendant Rank) Linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and socially oriented discourse analysis. | |
| (Ph.D. U.N.C. Chapel Hill 2001; Assistant Professor) Theoretical questions about gender, class and subjectivity in the context of contemporary urban Indonesia. | |
| (Ph.D., Rutgers U., 1991; Associate Professor) Origins and development of complex societies of Mesoamerica, social theories of power, ideology, and identity along with environmental archaeology, ceramic analysis, and interregional interaction. | |
| (Ph.D., U. of New Mexico, 1988; Professor and Curator of Anthropology, University Museum) Archaeology of the North American Southwest. His research interests are in the origins of government, regional patterning, and architecture. | |
| (Ph.D., SUNY-Binghamton, 1985; Professor) McCabe researches human adaptations to arid land and savanna ecosystems, with a special emphasis on nomadic pastoralism. | |
| (PhD, U of Chicago, 1974; Professor) South Asia, with a research focus on south India and Sri Lanka. | |
| (Ph.D., U. of Texas-Austin, 1973; Professor) McGoodwin's research concerns fishing people and cultures, the human dynamics that drive resource-management policies, and the impacts of climatic and global change. | |
| (Ph.D., Michigan, 2001; Assistant Professor) McGranahan's research focuses on Tibet and the Himalayas, especially issues of power in local, global, and historical contexts. | |
| (Ph.D., Duke University, 2004; Assistant Professor) Roland’s research is in the area of cultural anthropology and her interests include: tourism, national identity, racial and gender constructions, and critiques of capitalism. | |
| (Ph.D., Washington University, 1992; Associate Professor) Sauther's research focuses on the socioecology and biology of nonhuman primates, including studies of chimpanzee growth and development, prosimian feeding ecology, lemur life history, biometrics and sexual dimorphism, and dental and general health of wild lemurs. | |
| (Ph.D., Harvard, 1973; Professor) Shankman's research interests include theory, economic anthropology, and ecological anthropology with areal specialization in Oceania and contemporary America. | |
| (Ph.D., U. of Pennsylvania, 1974; Professor) Sheets’ research interests include the archaeology of Mesoamerica and the Intermediate Area of lower Central America, focusing on the interrelationships between human societies and volcanic processes in tropical climates. Ceren website. | |
| (Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1999; Associate Professor) Sponheimer’s research focuses on the ecology of early human ancestors in Africa. | |
Dennis P. Van Gerven |
(Ph.D., U. of Massachusetts, 1971; Professor) Van Gerven's research interests have focused on ancient populations of the Nile Valley, most particularly Sudanese Nubia. |
| (Ph.D., Oregon, 1964; Professor) Walker's research interests include ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and applied research among Native Americans of Western North America. |