Department Faculty

Full Time Faculty

Tom D. Brutsaert (PhD, Cornell University, 1997)
Associate Professor
Interests: Biological anthropology, adaptation to high altitude, exercise and energetics, nutrition
Areas: the Andes
E-mail:  tbrutsae@albany.edu

Sharon N. DeWitte (PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 2006)
Assistant Professor
Interests: Human Biology, Osteology, Paleopathology, Paleodemography
Areas: Europe
E-mail: sdewitte@albany.edu

Timothy B. Gage (PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 1982)
Professor
Director, Center for Social and Demographic Analysis
Interests: Human biology, demography, population genetics, quantitative methods
Areas: Oceania
E-mail:  tbg97@albany.edu

Adam D. Gordon (PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2004)
Assistant Professor
Interests: Paleoanthropology, primate evolutionary morphology, primate ecology
Areas:Madagascar, Africa, Asia, Neotropics
E-mail:  agordon@albany.edu

Lawrence M. Schell (PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1980)
Professor
Director, Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities
Interests: Biological anthropology, medical anthropology
Areas: urban North America
E-mail:  l.schell@albany.edu

David S. Strait (PhD, SUNY Stony Brook, 1998)
Associate Professor
Co-Director, Human Biology Program
Interests: Biological Anthropology, Hominid Evolution
Areas: Africa
E-mail: dstrait@albany.edu

Adjunct Faculty

Daniel D. White (PhD, University at Albany, 2005)
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Interests: Human paleontology, evolution and human behavior
Areas: Africa, Western Europe, Costa Rica
E-mail: dwhite@uamail.albany.edu