Graduate Bulletin

FACULTY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY

Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus

William N. Fenton, Ph.D., Yale University

Professor Emeritus

Peter T. Furst, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Gary H. Gossen, Ph.D., Harvard University
Social Anthropology, Folklore, Oral History, Ritual, Religion, Structural and Poststructural Theory; Mesoamerica

Associate Professors Emeriti

George J. Klima, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Dwight T. Wallace, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Professors

Robert M. Carmack, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Political Anthropology, Historical Anthropology; Mesoamerica

James Collins, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Linguistic Anthropology, Anthropology and Education; North America, Native American Societies

Dean Falk, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Primate and Human Brain Evolution, Neuroanatomy, Osteology

Timothy B. Gage, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Human Biology; Demography, Population Genetics, Quantitative Methods; Oceania, Mesoamerica

Robert W. Jarvenpa, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Ecology, Social Change, Interethnic Relations, Ethnoarchaeology; Native North America, Circumpolar, Central America

Lawrence M. Schell, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Medical Anthropology, Growth, Adaptability, Urbanism

Michael E. Smith, Ph.D., University of Illinois
Complex Socities, Economic Anthropology, Ancient Urbanism, Ethnohistory, Method and Theory; Mesoamerica

Richard G. Wilkinson, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Osteology, Bioarchaeology; North America, Mesoamerica

Gary A. Wright, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Symbolic Ecology; Middle East, North America

Walter P. Zenner, Ph.D., Columbia University
Urban Anthropology, Ethnicity; Middle East, North America, Jewish Communities

Associate Professors

Lee S. Bickmore, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Phonology, Tone, Historical Linguistics; Africa, Polynesia

G. Aaron Broadwell, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Syntax, Historical Linguistics; North America, Mesoamerica

Louise Burkhart, Ph.D., Yale University
Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology, Historical Ethnography, Religion and Literature; Mesoamerica

Liliana R. Goldin, Ph.D., University at Albany, SUNY
Economic and Symbolic Anthropology, Peasant Societies, Work and Social Change; Mesoamerica, U.S.

John S. Justeson, Ph.D., Stanford University
Epigraphy, Historical Linguistics, Language and Prehistory, Computer Modelling; Mesoamerica

Gail H. Landsman, Ph.D., Catholic University of America
Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology, Reproduction, Disability, Gender, Social Movements; U.S., Contemporary Native America

James W. Wessman, Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Political Economy, Economic Anthropology; Latin America, Caribbean

Assistant Professor

Tom Brutsaert, Ph.D., Cornell University
Human Adaptation - altitude, exercise

Marilyn A. Masson, Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin
Archaeology of Complex Societies, Precolumbian Religion, Economic Archaeology, Zooarchaeology, Lithic Analysis; Mesoamerica, Southern U.S. Plains, Southeastern U.S.

Associate Curator of Anthropology

Hetty Jo Brumbach, Ph.D., University at Albany, SUNY
Ecology, Ethnoarchaeology, Museum Studies; North America

Adjunct Faculty

Henry Chaya, M.S., Purdue University
Chemistry, Archeometry, North America

Edward Fitzgerald, Ph.D., Yale University
Epidemiology

Robert E. Funk, Ph.D., Columbia University
Prehistory; Northeastern North America

Karen Hartgen,
Cultural Resource management, Northeastern North America

Robert Kuhn, Ph.D., University at Albany, SUNY
Cultural Resource Management, Historic Preservation; Northeastern North America

Elizabeth Marshall, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Epidemiology

Carolyn L. Olsen, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Demography, Population Genetics; Ecology; Epidemiology

Carol A. Raemsch, Ph.D., University at Albany, SUNY
Osteology, Northeast Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Genetic Variation, North America

Brenda Rosenbaum, Ph.D., University at Albany, SUNY
Gender, Ethnicity; Mesoamerica