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Full-time Faculty

addo  

Ping-Ann Addo

Ph.D., Yale University

Socio-cultural anthropology, Tongan/Pacific Islander material culture, and contemporary cultural migration to New Zealand and the U.S.

 

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Patrick Clarkin

Ph.D., SUNY Binghamton

Biocultural and evolutionary models in anthropology, particularly in human nutrition, growth and development

 

den ouden  

Amy Den Ouden

Ph.D., University of Connecticut

Native North America, Native land rights, and the construction of “race” in southern New England

 

Jose Martines-Reyes  

Jose E. Martinez-Reyes
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Environmental Anthropology, Political Ecology, Globalization, Social Movements, Ethnoecology, Social Theory, Indigenous People, Mesoamerica, Latin America/Caribbean

 

mrozo  

Stephen Mrozowski, Chair

Ph.D., Brown University

Department Chair and Director, the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research; social theory, historical archaeology, environmental and urban archaeology

 

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Rosalyn Negron Goldbarg
Ph.D. University of Florida.
Cultural and linguistic anthropology, situational ethnicity, international migration, social network analysis, research methods

 

   

Colleen Nyberg
ABD, Northwestern
Biocultural anthropology,human biology, acculturaltion and health, psychobiology of stress, growth and development, life history theory, statistical methods to assess hierarchical data and longitudinal change.

 

sieber  

Tim Sieber

Ph.D., New York University

Childhood, urban anthropology, applied anthropology, the culture history of Amazonia, and immigrant and minority education. On leave, Fall 2009

 

silliman  

Stephen Silliman

Ph.D., University of California Berkeley

Theories of identity and labor, collaborative methods with indigenous communities, and the impact of post-Columbian colonialism

 

sullivan  

Lauren Sullivan

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Maya lowlands; development of complex society in northern Belize with a focus on Preclassic architecture and ceramics

 

Maria Idali Torres  

Maria Idali Torres

Ph.D., University of Connecticut

Director, Gaston Institute, Joint appointment in Anthropology and the Department of Public Policy.

 

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Alan Waters

M.A., University of Chicago

Ethnomusicology, the anthropology of art and religion, Africa, the Caribbean, and contemporary American culture, as well as the history of social theory

 

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Barbara Worley

Ph.D., Columbia University

Matrilineal ideology, cultural ecology, ritual, and gift exchange among Muslim Tuareg nomads in Africa, and linguistics

 

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Judith Zeitlin

Ph.D., Yale University

Contact and colonial period native societies of Latin America, especially the dynamics of cultural change and persistence

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Part-time and Visiting Faculty

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Tara Devi S. Ashok

Ph.D. Delhi, India
Biochemical genetics of mental retardation, hemoglobinopathies at clinical and population levels, cancer genetics, molecular anthropological studies of South Indian tribal populations, evolutionary developmental biology and human origins

 

Doug Bolender  

Douglas Bolender
Ph.D. Northwestern University

Property and social inequality; households and agricultural production; Scandinavian and North Atlantic archaeology and history; geochemistry; landscape archaeology; and geographic information systems.

 

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Christpher Fung
Ph.D. Harvard

Race, nationalism, hybridity, museums, settler societies, archaeology, Mesoamerica, United States, Hawai`i, China and Sub-Saharan Africa

 

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Claire L. Gold
MA., Binghamton University
Cross-cultural incidence of breast cancer, lifetime menstrual activity, life history patterns of hominids, evolutionary medicine. On leave, Fall 2009

 

pasto  

James Pasto

Ph.D., Cornell University

Religion, language, ethnicity, archaeology and nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Orientalism and post-colonialism, American-Italian studies

 

Amy Todd

 

Amy Todd

Ph.D. Brandeis

Urban anthropology, marketplace systems in Oaxaca, Mexico, Mesoamerica, bioloigical anthropology

 

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Administrative and Support Staff

Barbara Davis  

Barbara Davis

BA University of Massachusetts Boston

Administrative Assistant in the Anthropology Department

 

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Melody Henkel

MA University of Massachusetts Boston

Laboratory Coordinator in the Anthropology Department and the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research.

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Research Staff

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Christa Beranek

Ph.D., Boston University

Senior Scientist in the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research

 

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David Landon

Ph.D., Boston University

Associate Director of the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research

 

piechota  

Dennis Piechota

Archaeological conservator for the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research

 

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Leith Smith

M.A., Public Service Archaeology, University of South Carolina

Staff Archaeologist with the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research, Project Archaeologist for Boston’s Central Artery/Tunnel Construction Project

   

Virginia Popper

Ph.D. Michigan

Research Associate with the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research

 

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John Steinberg

Ph.D., UCLA
Research Scientist in the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research

 

trigg  

Heather Trigg

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Senior Scientist in the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research

 

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Retired Faculty

fazel  

Reza Fazell

Ph.D., University of California Berkeley

Ecology and political economy of agropastoral tribes in Iran, livestock marketing in Somalia, and refugees and migrant workers in Greece

 

gamst  

Frederick Gamst

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Industrial and organizational ethnology; social and industrial relations of railroad work; social organization, economy, and culture of the Horn of Africa

 

gibbons  

Michael Gibbons

Ph.D., Yale University

Forensic analysis of human remains, evolution of speech

 

harwood  

Alan Harwood

Ph.D., Columbia University

Cultural and medical anthropology

 

 

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