IMS Faculty Board of Directors

• George Aaron Broadwell (PhD, UCLA, 1990)
  Linguistics, syntax, historical linguistics; North America, Mexico
  http://www.albany.edu/anthro/fac/broadwell.htm
• Louise M. Burkhart (PhD, Yale, 1986).
  Historical Ethnography, interpretive anthropology, religion, folk literature, theater; Mexico.
  http://www.albany.edu/anthro/fac/burkhart.htm
• Jennifer Burrell (PhD, New School for Social Research, 2005).
  Political economy, structural and political violence, human rights, forensic anthropology, transitional states, migration, development, gender, anthropology and history.
  http://www.albany.edu/anthro/fac/burrell.htm
  
• Robert M. Carmack (PhD, UCLA, 1956).
  Social anthropology, ethnohistory, Mesoamerican studies, social theory, Central America.
  http://www.albany.edu/anthro/fac/carmack.htm

• Robert W. Jarvenpa (PhD, Minnesota, 1975).
  Socio-cultural anthropology, ecology, social change, interethnic relations, ethnographic methods, Circumpolar societies, Native North Americans; Northern Europe, Central America.
  http://www.albany.edu/anthro/fac/jarvenpa.htm
• John S. Justeson (PhD, Stanford, 1978; MS in Computer Science, Stanford, 1988).
  Linguistics, historical linguistics, language and prehistory, variation and change, writing systems, probabilistic and simulation models, Mesoamerican languages and hieroglyphic writing, Elamite, Indus Valley writing.
  http://www.albany.edu/anthro/fac/justeson.htm
• Walter E. Little (PhD, University of Illinois, 2001)
  Mesoamerica, Cultural and Ethnic Identity, Cultural Performance, Gender Relations, Marketplace and Household Economics, Transcultural Studies - Tourism, Urban Anthropology
  http://www.albany.edu/anthro/fac/little.htm
• Marilyn A. Masson (PhD, University of Texas, 1993).
  Archaeology, cultural evolution, Precolumbian religion, zooarchaeology, lithic analysis, Mesoamerica, North America.
  http://www.albany.edu/anthro/fac/masson.htm
  
• Robert M. Rosenswig (PhD, Yale University, 2005).
  Anthropological Archaeology; Development of Complexity; Origins of Agriculture; Settlement Patterns; Ceramic Analysis
  http://www.albany.edu/anthro/fac/rosenswig.htm
• Michael E. Smith (PhD, University of Illinois, 1983).
  Archaeology of complex societies, economic anthropology, ancient urbanism, ethnohistory, archaeological method and theory; Mesoamerica.
  http://www.albany.edu/~mesmith
• James W. Wessman (PhD, University of Connecticut, 1976).
  Economic anthropology, political economy; Caribbean, Latin America.
  http://www.albany.edu/anthro/fac/wessman.htm

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