Part-Time and Visiting Faculty
Administrative and Support Staff
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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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Ph.D., SUNY Binghamton Biocultural and evolutionary models in anthropology, particularly in human nutrition, growth and development |
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Ph.D., University of Connecticut Native North America, Native land rights, and the construction of “race” in southern New England |
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Jose E. Martinez-Reyes |
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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 |
Colleen Nyberg |
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Ph.D., New York University Childhood, urban anthropology, applied anthropology, the culture history of Amazonia, and immigrant and minority education. On leave, Fall 2009 |
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Ph.D., University of California Berkeley Theories of identity and labor, collaborative methods with indigenous communities, and the impact of post-Columbian colonialism |
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Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin Maya lowlands; development of complex society in northern Belize with a focus on Preclassic architecture and ceramics |
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Ph.D., University of Connecticut Director, Gaston Institute, Joint appointment in Anthropology and the Department of Public Policy. |
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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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Ph.D., Columbia University Matrilineal ideology, cultural ecology, ritual, and gift exchange among Muslim Tuareg nomads in Africa, and linguistics |
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Ph.D., Yale University Contact and colonial period native societies of Latin America, especially the dynamics of cultural change and persistence |
Part-time and Visiting Faculty
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Tara Devi S. Ashok Ph.D. Delhi, India |
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Douglas Bolender 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 Race, nationalism, hybridity, museums, settler societies, archaeology, Mesoamerica, United States, Hawai`i, China and Sub-Saharan Africa |
Claire L. Gold |
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Ph.D., Cornell University Religion, language, ethnicity, archaeology and nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Orientalism and post-colonialism, American-Italian studies |
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Ph.D. Brandeis Urban anthropology, marketplace systems in Oaxaca, Mexico, Mesoamerica, bioloigical anthropology |
Administrative and Support Staff
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MA University of Massachusetts Boston Laboratory Coordinator in the Anthropology Department and the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research. |
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Ph.D., Boston University Senior Scientist in the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research |
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Ph.D., Boston University Associate Director of the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research |
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Archaeological conservator for the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research |
Virginia Popper Ph.D. Michigan Research Associate with the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research |
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Ph.D., University of Michigan Senior Scientist in the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research |
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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 |
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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 |
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Ph.D., Yale University Forensic analysis of human remains, evolution of speech |
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Ph.D., Columbia University Cultural and medical anthropology |



































