Faculty & Staff
| Ping-Ann Addo Department Chair, Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617.287.6845 ping-ann.addo@umb.edu Expertise: Socio-cultural anthropology, Tongan/Pacific Islander material culture, and contemporary cultural migration to New Zealand and the U.S.
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| Daniela Balanzátegui Assistant Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617.287.6851 Daniela.Balanzategui@umb.edu Expertise: Archaeology of the African Diaspora in Latin America, Community-based and Collaborative Archaeology, History of Slavery and Racial Thinking in Latin America, Afro-descendant Women and Archaeology.
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| Jean-Philippe Belleau Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617.794.5998 Jeanphilippe.Belleau@umb.edu Expertise: Lowland indigenous societies, hunters-gatherers, human rights, anthropology of becoming, Amerindian perspectivism, mass violence, Brazilian cinema, raw art
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| Douglas Bolender Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617.287.6828 Douglas.Bolender@umb.edu Expertise: Archaeology of the North Atlantic, landscapes and geographic information systems, property and social inequality, Viking Age and medieval archaeology.
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| Patrick Clarkin Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617-287-6858 Patrick.Clarkin@umb.edu Expertise: Biocultural and evolutionary models in anthropology, effects of war on nutrition and growth; developmental origins of chronic disease; SE Asian diaspora
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| Christopher Fung Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617.287.6845 Christopher.Fung@umb.edu Expertise: Race, nationalism, hybridity, museums, settler societies, archaeology, Mesoamerica, United States, Hawai`i, China and Sub-Saharan Africa
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| Eric Michael Kelley Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts N/A Eric.Kelley@umb.edu
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| Nedra Lee Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617.287.5177 nedra.lee@umb.edu Expertise: Historical archaeology, African Diaspora, Critical Race Theory, and Intersectionality
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| Jose E. Martinez-Reyes Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and School for the Environment 617.287.4871 Jose.Martinez-Reyes@umb.edu Expertise: Environmental Anthropology, Political Ecology, Agroforestry, Biocultural Diversity Conservation, Material Culture, Social and Critical Theory, Ecomusicology, Mexico, Caribbean, Fiji, Galicia
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| Stephen Mrozowski University Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617.287.6842 Stephen.Mrozowski@umb.edu Expertise: Social theory, historical archaeology, environmental and urban archaeology
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| Rosalyn Negrón Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617.287.6812 Rosalyn.Negron@umb.edu Expertise: Major areas & specializations: Urban anthropology, linguistic anthropology, medical anthropology, United States, Latinos, diversity, ethno-racial relations, immigration, health disparities, research methods, social networks. Other major interests: language & identity, decision-making, equity in STEM, climate equity, transdisciplinarity, public policy, documentary filmmaking.
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| James Pasto Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617-287-6855 james.pasto@umb.edu Expertise: Religion, language, ethnicity, archaeology and nationalism in the Israeli- Palestinian conflict, Orientalism and post-colonialism, American-Italian studies
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| Meredith Reiches Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617.287.5752 Meredith.Reiches@umb.edu Expertise: Biocultural anthropology, feminist science studies, human life history, evolutionary and literary narrative
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| John Schoenfelder Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617-287-6846 John.Schoenfelder@umb.edu Expertise: Prehistoric and historical archaeology, complex societies, agriculture, ideology, GIS, aerial photography
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| Rita Shepard Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617.287.6846 Rita.Shepard@umb.edu Expertise: Arctic and subarctic archaeology, ethnohistory, historical archaeology, colonialism and culture contact, household archaeology, gender
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| Stephen Silliman Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617.287.6854 Stephen.Silliman@umb.edu Expertise: Historical archaeology, colonialism, identity, labor, collaborative methods with indigenous communities, North American archaeology.
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| Lauren Sullivan Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617.287.6855 Lauren.Sullivan@umb.edu Expertise: Mesoamerican Archaeology; Maya lowlands; development of complex society; ceramic analysis
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| Elizabeth Sweet Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts N/A Elizabeth.Sweet@umb.edu Expertise: Biocultural Anthropology
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| Amy Todd Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617.287.6828 Amy.Todd@umb.edu Expertise: Urban anthropology, marketplace systems in Oaxaca, Mexico, Mesoamerica, biological anthropology
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| Alan Waters Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617.287.6855 Alan.Waters@umb.edu Expertise: 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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| J. Cedric Woods Director, Institute for New England Native American Studies Director, Critical Ethnic and Community Studies Program 617.287.5784 Cedric.Woods@umb.edu Expertise: Tribal government, American Indian education, economic development, chronic disease prevention
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| Barbara Worley Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617.287.6851 barbara.worley@umb.edu Expertise: Africa and Islamic societies; Sahel, Sahara, North Africa, West Africa; Tuareg pastoral nomads; asymmetric warfare; climate change; biological anthropology; linguistics; gender, ethnicity, race; religion, ritual; classical civilizations.
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Fiske Center Staff
| Christa Beranek Research Scientist I for the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617.287.6859 Christa.Beranek@umb.edu Expertise: Eastern North American material culture studies, vernacular architecture, and archaeological writing.
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| David Landon Associate Director of the Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617-287-6835 David.Landon@umb.edu Expertise: Archaeology of historic and industrial sites, environmental archaeology, zooarchaeology, and archaeological science
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| Dennis Piechota Archaeological Conservator of the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617-287-6829 Dennis.Piechota@umb.edu Expertise: Conservation, micro-analysis, soil micromorphology
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| Virginia Popper Anthropology Department, College of Liberal Arts N/A virginia.popper@umb.edu Expertise: Paleoethnobotany
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| John Steinberg Research Scientist II for the Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617.287.6824 John.Steinberg@umb.edu Expertise: Prehistoric and historic archaeology, economic anthropology, methodology, regional analysis, remote sensing; Northern Europe, Northeast US
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| Heather Trigg Research Scientist II in the Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617.287.6838 Heather.Trigg@umb.edu Expertise: Social and economic effects of colonization, paleoethnobotany
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Emeritae & Retired Faculty
| Tim Sieber Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617-287-6853 Tim.Sieber@umb.edu Expertise: Childhood, urban anthropology, applied anthropology, the culture history of Amazonia, and immigrant and minority education.
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| Maria Idalí Torres Associate Professor of Anthropology 617.287.5790 Idali.Torres@umb.edu
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| Judith Zeitlin Professor Emerita of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts 617.287.6836 Judith.Zeitlin@umb.edu Expertise: Archaeology - Prehistoric and historical archaeology, ethnohistory, complex societies, New World colonialism. Geographical area: Mesoamerica, Andean South America.
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Staff
Administrative and Support Staff
Melody Henkel
Office Location: McCormack Hall 02-331
Phone: 617.287.6833
MA, University of Massachusetts Boston
Laboratory Coordinator in the Anthropology Department and the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research.
Melody received a BFA in Graphic Design with a concentration in photography from Southeastern Massachusetts University in 1980. She received a BS in public archaeology with a minor in earth sciences from Bridgewater State College in 1992. She began working for the Anthropology Department while working on her MA in historical archaeology at UMass Boston. She received her MA in 2001. She brings her skills of design and photography along with public and historical archaeology to her job as lab manager for the Anthropology Department.
Dagny McKinley
Office Location: McCormack Hall M-04-434
Phone: 617.287.6851
Administrative Assistant, Department of Anthropology
Dagny received a B.A. in Psychology in 2022 from the University of Connecticut.
Marisa D. Patalano
Office Location: McCormack Hall M-01-517
Phone: 617.287.6856
Graduate Program Coordinator, Historical Archaeology, Department of Anthropology
Marisa received a B.A. in History and Archaeology in 2005 and an M.A. in Historical Archaeology in 2009, both at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is passionate about recruitment planning and outreach, dedicated to ensuring positive cohort experience and retention, and committed to providing quality student support.