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Professors

James R. Denbow

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

flores@austin.utexas.edu | (512) 471-9209 | GEB 3.210

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

Education

PhD, Stanford University

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

elizabeth.keating@austin.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.

Arlene Rosen

Professor

amrosen@austin.utexas.edu | (512) 471-5689 | SAC 4.132

Education

Ph.D., University of Chicago

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

Associate Professors

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@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-2318 | 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; Buddhism and meditation; language and culture; postcoloniality; Java and Bali (Indonesia), and Burma.

Chris Kirk

Associate Professor

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

Education

Ph.D., Duke University

Rebecca J Lewis

Associate Professor

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

Education

Ph.D., University Biological Anthropology and Anatomy (2004), Duke University

Denné N Reed

Associate 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

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

Shannon Speed

Associate Professor

sspeed@mail.utexas.edu | (512) 471-0061 | SAC 5.120 and CLA 2.106B

Interests

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

Pauline Strong

Director of Humanities Institute, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies

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. Youth organizations. Museum studies. 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., 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 5.156

Education

Ph.D., Stanford University

Mariah D. Wade

Associate Professor

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

Education

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Assistant Professors

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@austin.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

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 5.166

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

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

Senior Lecturers

Suzanne Seriff

Sr Lecturer

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

Lecturers

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 | CLA 4.412

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.

Affiliated Scholars

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

Kimberly TallBear

Harrington Faculty Fellow

kim.tallbear@austin.utexas.edu | (512) 232-3832 | 5.138

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz

Interests

Cultural studies of science and technology, indigenous studies

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