faculty

Brian Billman, Associate Professor--Archaeology of Chiefdoms and States, Political Economy, Settlement Pattern Analysis, Cultural Resource Management, Andes and US Southwest

Carole L. Crumley, Professor--Historical ecology, state societies, complex systems theory, global environmental change; ethnography, ethnohistory, and archaeology of Europe.

Robert E. Daniels, Distinguished Associate Professor --Social Anthropology, Culture and Personality, Africa

Arturo Escobar, Distinguished Professor-- Anthropology of development, social movements, science and technology, political ecology; Latin America

Terence M. S. Evens, Professor-- Social Anthropology, Social Theory, Phenomenology, Ethics, Philosophical Anthropology, Collectivist Settlements

Kaja Finkler, Professor--Medical Anthropology, Gender and Health, Peasants, Latin America

Glenn D. Hinson, Associate Professor--Folklore, Ethnography of Communication, Belief Studies, Southern United States

Dorothy C. Holland, Distinguished Professor, --Identity and Social Movements, Anthropology of Schooling and Work, Cultural Studies, Gender, the United States and Nepal

Flora L. Holt, Assistant Professor--Ecological anthropology, human behavioral & political ecology, rainforest conservation, indigenous resource management, Amazonia, Ecuador

Matthew Hull, Assistant Professor--Semiotics, bureaucracy and governance, information technology, urban planning, material culture, science and technology, South Asia

Dale Hutchinson, Associate Professor--Bioarchaeology; Human Osteology; Forensic Anthropology; Paleopathology; Health and Nutrition; Agricultural Origins and Consequences; Southeastern & Mid-Atlantic United States; South America

Norris B. Johnson, Professor--Architecture, Art and Aesthetics, Religious Landscape, Japan

Valerie L. Lambert, Assistant Professor--American Indians, United States, ethnography, political and legal anthropology, identity, race and racism, elites.
Paul W. Leslie, Professor--(Chair) Biological Anthropology, Human Ecology, Demography, Population Genetics, Reproduction, East Africa, Caribbean

Christopher Nelson , Assistant Professor--History and Memory; Everyday Life; Ethnography; Critical Theory; Storytelling, Ritual and Performance; Japan and Okinawa

Donald M. Nonini, Professor--Historical Anthropology, Critical Theory, Political Economy, Southeast Asia

James L. Peacock, Distinguished Professor--Culture, History, and Self, Southeast Asia and the United States

Charles Price-- Assistant Professor--Black Identity; Social Identity , Welfare and Higher Education Policies, Oral History, Advocacy Research, Jamaica and the Anglophone Caribbean, the United States

Peter Redfield, Associate Professor--Anthropology of Science and Technology; Colonial History and Postcolonial Relations; Space and Ecology; Humanitarianism and Human Rights; Transnational Experts; Europe; French Guiana; Uganda

Patricia Sawin, Associate Professor--Narrative, Festival, Gender Theory, Performance and Poetics, Ethnography of Speaking, Politics of Culture, Appalachia, Francophone Southwest Louisiana

Margaret Scarry, Associate Professor--(Assoc. Chair) Paleoethnobotany, Archaeological Theory and Method, Eastern United States

Karla Slocum, Assistant Professor-- Globalization, social movements/resistance, political economy, gender, critical development studies; the Caribbean, North America

Mark Sorensen-- Assistant Professor-- Biological Anthropology; Health and Culture Change; International Health; Adaptability; Energetics; Nutrition; Statistical methods; Russia; Siberia

Vincas P. Steponaitis, Professor-- Archaeology, Complex Societies, Southeastern United States

Silvia Tomaskova, Assistant Professor--Archaeology, Palaeolithic Europe, Archaeological method and theory, history of science, Gender and science, Hunter, gatherer, forager studies

Margaret J. Wiener, Associate Professor-- History & Memory, Colonialism & Postcolonialism, Anthropology of Knowledge & Science Studies, Politics of Culture, Poststructuralism, Material Culture, Indonesia, Southeast Asia

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affiliated faculty and emeriti

Lorraine Aragon, Adjunct Associate Professor-- Religion & states, ethnonationalist conflicts, land use & place identities, arts, linguistic anthropology, Southeast Asia, Indonesia

Donald Brockington, Professor Emeritus-- Archaeology, Latin America, Middle America

Nila Chatterjee, Adjunct Assistant Professor--Political and Historical Anthropology, Migration, Gender, Post-Colonial Issues, South Asia and Diaspora

M. Jean Black, Research Professor-- Ethnohistory, Cultural Ecology, Ethnography, North America

R. P. Stephen Davis, Adjunct Professor-- Archaeology

Virginia Dickie, Faculty Associate, Anth, Associate Professor in Occupational Science-- Daily occupations, craft work, quilt making in North Carolina, anthropology of work.

Sue E. Estroff, Adjunct Professor -- Medical Anthropology, Psychiatric Anthropology, Chronic Illness, Qualitative Methods, Health Policy as a Cultural System

Erich Fox Tree, Post Doctoral Research Fellow -- Political Economy of Language; Pan-Native cultural identity in the Americas; Indigenous Social Movements; Mesoamerica; Maya ethnohistory, languages, ideology, and feuding. Guatemala

John Gulick, Professor Emeritus--Social Organization, Sex Roles and Identities, Fertility Behavior, Urban Cultures, Middle East

William H. Jansen II, Research Associate Professor--Applied Anthropology; Behavioral Factors in Public Health; Public Policy; Health Service Delivery Systems; Health-Care Seeking Behavior; Diplomacy; Culture Change; Circumpolar Peoples; South and Southeast Asia; Middle-East.

Fred Klaits, Visiting Assistant Professor--Care and Kinship; Medical Anthropology; Comparative Christianity; Sub-Saharan Africa; Botswana

Michael C. Lambert, Adjunct Associate Professor-- Political anthropology, economic anthropology; Africa

William S. Lachicotte, Jr, Adjunct Assistant Professor.-- Social theory professions and public life, mental illness, ethnography of psychiatry, sociality and identity; U.S.

Scott L. H. Madry, Research Associate Professor-- Spatial analysis, remote sensing, geographic information systems, GPS, modeling, Old World prehistory

Brett Riggs, Adjunct Assistant Professor -- Archaeology, ethnohistory, Cherokee culture history; southeastern United States

Karaleah Reichart, Adjunct Assistant Professor-- Economic anthropology; coalition building and dispute resolution; gender, ethnicity and class; United States

Barry Saunders, Adjunct Assistant Professor--Anthropology of biomedicine; technologies and embodiment

John F. Scarry, Adjunct Associate Professor-- Method and Theory, Cultural/Resource Management, Complex Societies, European-Native American Interaction

Beverly Sizemore, Faculty Associate -- Education, Literacy, Cultural Outreach, Iceland, Eritrea

Debra Skinner, Adjunct Associate Professor-- Culture and Human Development, Disability Studies, Cultural Production and Identity, Cultural Implications Of Genetic Research, Nepal, United States

Sandy Smith-Nonini, Research Assistant Professor--Medical Anthropology, professional knowledge, health policy, military violence and health, international development, social movements, Latino immigrants to U.S.; Central America

Laurie C. Steponaitis, Adjunct Assistant Professor--Archaeology, Coastal Settlement Systems, North America

Richard A. Yarnell, Professor Emeritus--Ecology, Evolution, Ethnobotany, North America

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