Faculty List

James R. Denbow

Associate Professor

jdenbow@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-8512  |  SAC 4.152

Education   

Ph.D., University of Indiana

Interests

  Africa, prehistory, history, and social thought, archaeological method and theory

Richard R. Flores

Senior Associate Dean For Academic Affairs, Professor

rrflores@austin.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-9209  |  GEB 3.212

Education   

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  Folklore and expressive culture of Greater Mexico; anthropology of symbols; anthropology

Charles R. Hale

Professor

crhale@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-2409  |  LLILAS: SRH 1.314, Anthro: SAC 5.140

Interests

  Race/ethnicity, identity politics, consciousness and resistance, activist anthropology; Latin America, the Caribbean

John Hartigan

Professor

hartigan@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-9201  |  SAC 4.158

Education   

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz

Interests

  Urban cultures; Science, Technology, and Race; Social theory; Ethnography; Ethnicity in North America.

John W Kappelman Jr

Professor

jkappelman@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-0055  |  SAC 5.160

Education   

Ph.D., Harvard University

Elizabeth L Keating

Professor

ekeating@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-8518  |  SAC 4.156

Education   

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Interests

  Linguistic Anthropology, Micronesia, Language and Status, American Sign Language, New Communication Technologies, Computer-Mediated interaction, Multimodal Communication, Visual Anthropology

Martha Menchaca

Professor

mmen@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-7537  |  SAC 5.158

Education   

Ph.D., Stanford University

Interests

  Social anthropology, ethnicity, gender, oral history/oral traditions, legal anthropology, immigration, Chicano studies: US/Mexican culture, Latin America.

Liza J Shapiro

Professor

liza.shapiro@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-7533  |  SAC 5.128

Education   

Ph.D., SUNY-Stony Brook

Interests

  Primate evolution and functional morphology, locomotion.

Kathleen C Stewart

Department Chair

kstewart@austin.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-2183  |  SAC 4.102

Education   

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Interests

  Cultural generativity, affect, ordinary life, public culture, political imaginaries, ethnographic writing, narrative, ethnopoetics, post-structuralism, U.S. popular culture, Appalachia, Las Vegas.

Brian M. Stross

Professor

bstross@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-0059  |  SAC 4.124

Education   

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Interests

  Linguistic Anthropology, Indigenous Mesoamerica, Maya Iconography and Epigraphy, Anthropology of Food, Ethnobotany

Fred Valdez, Jr.

Professor

fredv@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-0060  |  SAC 4.162

Education   

Ph.D., Harvard University

Samuel M. Wilson

Professor

s.wilson@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-1176  |  SAC 4.154

Education   

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Interests

  Archaeology, ethnohistory; Caribbean, and U.S. Southeast

Kamran Asdar Ali

Associate Professor

asdar@austin.utexas.edu  |  471-7531  |  SAC 5.126

Education   

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Interests

  Gender, Health, Development, Labor History, Political Economy; Post-Colonialism;

Darrell G. Creel

Director, Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory (T.A.R.L.), Associate Professor

dcreel@tarl.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-6007  |  PRC BLDG 5

Education   

Ph.D., University of Arizona

Interests

  Archeology; Texas, Plains, Southwest, Southeast U.S.

Anthony Di Fiore

Associate Professor

anthony.difiore@mail.utexas.edu  |  SAC 5.150

Education   

Ph.D., University of California, Davis

Interests

  South American primates, social behavior, reproductive strategies, molecular ecology

Maria Franklin

Associate Professor

mfranklin@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-8513  |  SAC 4.150

Education   

Ph.D., 1997, Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley

Interests

  Historical archaeology, archaeological theory, African Diaspora studies, race and gender, feminist theory, colonialism and slavery.

Edmund T. Gordon

Chair and Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, Associate Professor Anthropology

etgordon@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-1784  |  GRG 340

Education   

Ph. D., Stanford University

Interests

   Culture and power in the African Diaspora, gender studies (particularly Black males), critical race theory, race education, and the racial economy of space and resources.

Ward Keeler

Associate Professor

ward.keeler@gmail.com  |  (512) 471-8520  |  SAC 4.128

Education   

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Interests

  Anthropology and expressive culture, including music, theatre, and literature; language and culture; postcoloniality; Java and Bali (Indonesia), and Burma.

Chris Kirk

Associate Professor

eckirk@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-0056  |  SAC 5.154

Education   

Ph.D., Duke University

Enrique R. Rodriguez-Alegría

Associate Professor

chanfle@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-0786  |  SAC 4.144

Education   

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Interests

  archaeology, history, ethnohistory, Mesoamerica, the Spanish empire in Latin America, Mexico, Puerto Rico, archaeometry (INAA and LA-ICP-MS), colonialism, religious conversion, food

Lok Siu

Associate Professor

lok.siu@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-3832  |  SAC 5.156

Education   

Ph.D., Stanford University

Interests

  Asians in the Americas, Diaspora, Transnationalism, Cultural Citizenship and Belonging, Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Food

Shannon Speed

Associate Professor

sspeed@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-0061  |  SAC 5.120

Interests

  Human rights, indigenous rights, gender, Mexico, and activist research; Latin America, Chiapas.

Pauline Strong

Director of Humanities Institute, Associate Professor of Anthropology

pstrong@austin.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-8524  |  SAC 4.130

Education   

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Interests

  Cultural, historical, feminist anthropology. Identity and difference. Politics of representation. Public culture. US, Indigenous North America.

Circe Sturm

Associate Professor

circe@austin.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-1561  |  SAC 5.122

Education   

Ph.D., University of California, Davis

João H. Costa Vargas

Associate Professor

costavargas@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-6591  |  SAC 5.144

Education   

Ph.D., 1999, Anthropolgy, University of California, San Diego

Interests

  Race, politics, and social inequality, cultural studies, social theory; U.S., Brazil, African diaspora.

Kamala Visweswaran

Associate Professor

kvis@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-8516  |  SAC 5.138

Education   

Ph.D., Stanford University

Mariah D Wade

Associate Professor

m.wade@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-4876  |  SAC 4.146

Cecilia Ballí

Assistant Professor

cballi@austin.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-8522  |  SAC 5.134

Education   

Ph.D., Rice University

Interests

  U.S.-Mexican borderlands, gender and violence, Latino expressive culture, narrative writing.

Deborah A. Bolnick

Assistant Professor

deborah.bolnick@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-7532  |  SAC 4.148

Education   

Ph.D., University of California, Davis

Interests

  Genomic anthropology, ancient DNA studies, human biological variation, race, population genetics, Native American prehistory, anthropology of science

Craig Campbell

Assistant Professor

craig.campbell@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-4342  |  SAC 4.122

Education   

Ph.D., University of Alberta

Kaushik Ghosh

Assistant Professor

cayocan@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-0052  |  SAC 5.142

Education   

Ph.D., Princeton University

Rebecca J Lewis

Assistant Professor

rjlewis@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-5386  |  SAC 5.152

Education   

Ph.D., Duke University

Sofian Merabet

Assistant Professor

sofian.merabet@austin.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-0057  |  SAC 5.164

Education   

Ph.D., Columbia University

Interests

  Socio-Cultural Theory/Psychoanalysis/Urban Studies/Gender Studies/Queer Theory/Middle East, North Africa, and Europe

Angela M Nonaka

Assistant Professor

angelanonaka@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-1942  |  SAC 4.138

Education   

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Denné N Reed

Assistant Professor

reedd@mail.utexas.edu  |  Office (512) 471-7529, Lab (512) 232-6380  |  SAC 5.146

Education   

Ph.D., Stony Brook University

Interests

  human evolution, micromammal paleoecology, taphonomy, GIS, remote sensing

Christen Smith

Assistant Professor

christen.smith@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-6332  |  SAC 5.136

Education   

Ph.D., Stanford University

Interests

  Performance, race, violence, the body, transnational racial formation, Brazil, Latin America, the African Diaspora, social protest theater, social movements, grassroots organizing, black and indigenous struggles

Suzanne Seriff

Sr Lecturer

sseriff@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-0816  |  SAC 4.126

Mariah E. Hopkins

Lecturer

hopkins@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-0054  |  SAC 5.148

Education   

Ph.D., UC Berkeley

Amelia Weinreb

Lecturer

amy.weinreb@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-1560  |  SAC 4.136

Education   

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Interests

  post-socialist transitions, consumer emotions, emergent and hidden publics, intimacy of state-citizen relationships, open public space and landscape; Cuba, Israel.

O. Frank Huffman

Research Fellow

huffmanof@mail.utexas.edu

Education   

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Interests

  Human evolution, particularly Homo erectus in Java

Mary C Maas

Research Fellow

Lawrence Todd

Research Fellow

lctodd@lamar.colostate.edu

Education   

Ph.D., University of New Mexico

Interests

  Forager Archaeology, North American Plains, Archaeological Site Formation, Archaeological vertebrate taphonomy and zooarchaeology, Montane Landuse, Archaeological methods

Richard N Adams

Professor Emeritus

rbadams@mail.utexas.edu  |  011-502-77652001

Education   

Ph.D., Yale University

Interests

  Latin America, especially Central America; anthropology theory, energy and evolution

Claud A Bramblett

Professor Emeritus

cbramblett@mail.utexas.edu

Education   

Ph.D., Berkeley

James Brow

Professor Emeritus

jbrow@mail.utexas.edu

Education   

Ph.D., University of Washington

Interests

  Social anthropology of South Asia, especially Sri Lanka; agrarian change, economic development, colonialism, nationalism, ethnicity, globalization.

Thomas R Hester

Professor Emeritus

secocreek@swtexas.net

James A Neely

Professor Emeritus

neely@mail.utexas.edu

Education   

Ph.D., University of Arizona

Joel F Sherzer

Professor Emeritus

jsherzer@mail.utexas.edu

Education   

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania