| FULL-TIME FACULTY |
Office Location |
| Nancy Abelmann (PhD UCB 1990; Prof; jt appt with Dept of E Asian Languages and Cultures and Women's Studies) Asian America; Korea, Japan | ON LEAVE nabelman@illinois.edu |
| Stanley H Ambrose (PhD UCB 1984; Prof) African archeology, lithic technology, stable isotope analysis of diet, hominid evolution, modern human evolution, evolutionary ecology; East Africa | 381 Davenport 244-3504 M 2-3:30 & Tu 2-4 ambrose@illinois.edu |
| Douglas J Brewer (PhD U Tennessee 1986; Prof; Dir, Spurlock Museum) Faunal analysis, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, archeology; Egypt, Middle East | 202 Office of Continuing Ed d-brewer@illinois.edu |
| Matti Bunzl (PhD U Chicago 1998; Prof) Anthropology of Jews and Judaism; modernity, the nation-state, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, historical ethnography, history of anth; Central Europe | 386B Davenport M 1-3 & by appt. bunzl@illinois.edu |
| Kathryn Clancy (PhD Yale 2007; Asst Prof) Reproductive ecology, human biological variation, endometrial function, fetal growth and brain development, reproductive illness and prevention | Th 9:30-12:30 kclancy@illinois.edu |
| Jane Desmond (PhD Yale U 1993; Prof; jt appt with Gender and Women's Studies Program) Cultural theory; feminist theory; contemporary arts; popular culture; media and live performance; physicality and social identity | 385 Davenport 244-4470 W 2-5 desmondj@illinois.edu |
| Virginia R Dominguez (PhD Yale U 1979; Prof) Cultural politics, ethnicity, semiotics, critical discourses; Middle East (especially Israel), Caribbean, US | 193 Davenport |
| Brenda Farnell (PhD Indiana 1990; Assoc Prof) Linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, anthropology of the body and human movement, expressive culture, multimedia ethnography; Native North America | 209E Davenport 244-9226 M/W 12-1:30 & by appt. bfarnell@illinois.edu |
| Christopher C. Fennell (PhD U Virginia 2003; JD Georgetown U 1989; Asst Prof) Historical archaeology, African diaspora, ethnicities and racialization; Eastern and Midwest US | 296
Davenport 244-7309 ON LEAVE cfennell@illinois.edu |
| Paul A Garber (PhD Washington St Louis 1980; Prof) Biological anthropology, primate behavior and ecology, primate locomotor anatomy, spatial learning, cognition; Central and South America | 309K Davenport 333-0075 Tu 11-12, W 10-12 p-garber@illinois.edu |
| Alma Gottlieb (PhD U Virginia 1983; Prof) Cultural anthropology, interpretive theory, religion, gender, epistemology of fieldwork, infants and young children, anthropology of the body, ethnogrphic writing practices; West Africa | 386C Davenport 244-3515 W 2-3, Th 1-3 ajgottli@illinois.edu |
| Christina T. Halperin (PhD U California Riverside, 2007, Visiting Assistant Professor) archaeology and materiality, the articulation of politics and religion in prehistory, iconography, political economy, caves and sacred landscapes, ancient Maya, Mesoamerica | 185 Davenport 333-9694 M/W 10-11:30 cthalp@illinois.edu |
| Janet D Keller (PhD UCB 1975; Prof) Linguistic anthropology, cognition and symbolism, narrative, language and visualization, activity and practice theories; Oceania and contemporary US | 395 Davenport 333-3529 m 11-1 & by appt. jdkeller@illinois.edu |
| Karen Kelsky (PhD U Hawai'i 1996, Assoc Prof) Global cultures, race, gender, identity, media, narratives; Japan | 2090 FLB 244-5920 Th 12-1:30 & by appt. kelsky@iuc.edu |
| Lyle Konigsberg (PhD Northwestern 1987; Prof) Physical anthropology, human osteology, human anatomy, population genetics, demography | 309H Davenport
Tu 9:30-10:30 W 9:30-11:30 lylek@illinois.edu |
| Frederic K Lehman (PhD Columbia 1959; Prof; jt appt with Ling) Linguistics, ethnography, ethnology, cognitive theory, formal analysis of cultural and social systems, kinship; Southeast Asia, India | 209H Davenport 333-8423 M/W/F 11-12 f-lehman@illinois.edu |
| Steven R Leigh (PhD Northwestern 1992; Prof) Physical anthropology, ontogeny, paleoanthropology, primate adaptation and evolution, morphometrics | 109B & 209J Davenport
by appt. sleigh@illinois.edu |
| Lisa J. Lucero (PhD UCLA, 1994, Associate Professor) Complex societies, political systems, ritual and politics, water management; ancient Maya, Mesoamerican cultures | 191 Davenport |
| Alejandro Lugo (PhD Stanford U 1995; Assoc Prof) Culture theory, postcolonial theory, maquiladoras, gender, political economy, Latinos; US Southwest, Mexico, Latin America | 396C Davenport 333-0823 W 10-1 a-lugo@illinois.edu |
| Ripan Malhi (PhD UC Davis 2001; Asst Prof) Integrates population genetics, phylogenetics, ancient DNA analysis, and field research in collaboration with Native American communities. Using of tools from molecular biology and population genetics; American Southwest and Central Mexico | 185 Davenport 265-0721 ON LEAVE malhi@illinois.edu |
| Martin F Manalansan IV (PhD U Rochester 1997; Assoc Prof) Sociocultural Anthropology, sexuality and gender, anthropology of the body, cities, foodways, death narratives, immigration and diaspora, globalization, health and culture, Asian Americans; Southeast Asia, Philippines. | 387 Davenport 244-3500 Tu 3:30-6:30 & by appt. manalans@illinois.edu |
| Ellen Moodie (PhD U Michigan 2002; Asst Prof) Semiotics, narrative and mass media, violence, death and human rights, post-conflict transition; Central America, El Salvador | 391 Davenport ON LEAVE emoodie@illinois.edu |
| Andrew Orta (PhD U Chicago 1996; Assoc Prof) Sociocultural anthropology, colonial/postcolonial studies, missionization,ethnicity and nationalism, memory and history, personhood; Latin America, Andes | 382 Davenport 244-7108 Tu 2-3, W 10-12 andyorta@illinois.edu |
| Timothy R Pauketat (PhD U Michigan 1991; Prof) Archaeology, Agency, History, Materiality, Migration, Power, and Centralization North America, especially the Mississippi valley | 123 Davenport 244-8818 ON LEAVE pauketat@illinois.edu |
| Marc D Perry (PhD U Texas Austin 2004; Asst Prof; jt appt with African American Studies) African Diaspora and black transnationalisms; race and ethnicity in Latin Armerica and the Caribbean; racial identity formation; new social movements/ neoliberal subject formation; expressive culture, Cuba | 393 Davenport 265-6491 ON LEAVE mdp@illinois.edu |
| John Polk (PhD SUNY Stony Brook 2001, Asst Prof) Biological anthropology, bipedalism, primate locomotion, biomechanics, allometry | 188 Davenport 333-3676 M/W/F 2-3 & by appt. jdpolk@illinois.edu |
| Gilberto Rosas (PhD U Texas Austin, 2004, Asst Prof, jt appt with Latina/o Studies) US-Mexico borderlands; Latin America, migrations and immigrations, state, political economy, violence, policing, bad subjects, social movements, transpolitics | 389 Davenport 244-4117 ON LEAVE grosas2@illinois.edu |
| Charles Roseman (PhD Stanford U 2005, Asst Prof) Biological anthropology, anthropolocial genetics, phenotypic evolution, and modern human origins. | 209G Davenport 244-3513 ON LEAVE croseman@illinois.edu |
| Mahir Saul (PhD Indiana 1982; Assoc Prof) Historical and economic anthropology, colonialism, African film, Islam, Catholicism and African religions, agriculture and ecology; Africa, Middle East | 309J Davenport 244-3502 W 3-5 & by appt. m-saul@illinois.edu |
| Shackelford, Laura (PhD Washington St Louis 2005) | 309C Davenport |
| Helaine Silverman (PhD U Texas 1986; Prof) Archeology, complex societies, Andes, urbanism, spatial theory, cultural heritage management, museum studies, tourism | 295 Davenport
ON LEAVE helaine@illinois.edu |
| Rebecca Stumpf (PhD SUNY Stony Brook 2004, Asst Prof) Biological anthropology, primate behavior, sexual selection, mating system, chimps; West Africa | 189 Davenport 333-8072 ON LEAVE rstumpf@illinois.edu |
| Arlene Torres (MA U Illinois 1987, PhD U Illinois 1995; Assoc Prof) Cultural anthropology, symbolism, social organization, race relations, gender and class, African American peoples, Latinos in the US; Caribbean, Latin America, US | 383 Davenport 244-3511 Tu 1-3 & by appt. atorres2@illinois.edu |
| ADJUNCT, VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSORS, AND DEPARTMENT AFFILIATES |
Office Location |
| Elizabeth R. Arnold (PhD University of Calgary, 2006) Zooarchaeology, stable isotope analysis, African archaeology, pastoralism and animal mobility, palaeobotany | 381A Davenport erarnold@illinois.edu |
| Thomas E Emerson (PhD Wisconsin 1995; Adj Prof; Acting Dir, Lab of Anthro; Dir, ITARP) Archaeology, hierarchical societies, ethnicity, symbolism, heritage management; Mississippian societies, eastern North America | 209 Nuclear Physics Laboratory teee@illinois.edu |
| Soo Hyun Jang (PhD UIUC 1998), visiting professor from Kwangwoon University (Seoul, Republic of Korea), hosted by Professor Mahir Saul Fall 2008 | |
| John A Walthall (PhD U N Carolina 1973; Adj Prof) Archeology, hunter-gathers; Pleistocene/Holocene transiton, ceramic analysis, French Colonial history; eastern North America,US Southeast | walthallja@nt.dot.state.il.us |
| Robert Wood (George A Miller Visiting Professor, Artistic Director/Choreographer), hosted by Dr. Brenda Farnell. |
| EMERITUS FACULTY |
Office Location |
| Edward M Bruner (PhD U Chicago 1954; Prof Emeritus) Cultural anthropology, culture change, ethnicity, postmodernism, tourism, interpretive social science; Indonesia, North America | 282 Davenport ebruner@illinois.edu |
| Clark E Cunningham (DPhil Oxford 1963; Prof Emeritus) Social anthropology, social change, medical systems; Southeast Asia | 282 Davenport ccunn@illinois.edu |
| Eugene Giles (PhD Harvard 1966; Prof Emeritus) Physical anthropological genetics, comparative human osteology, forensic anthropology; Oceania | 209K Davenport e-giles1@illinois.edu |
| Harold A Gould (PhD Washington U-St Louis 1959; Prof Emeritus) Cultural ant, social stratification, political anth; South Asia | |
| David C Grove (PhD UCLA 1968; Jubilee Professor; Prof Emeritus) Archeology, Mesoamerica, rise of complex societies, iconography | dcgrove@ufl.edu |
| Jacquetta Hill (PhD Columbia 1964; Prof Emeritus; jt appt with D of Educ) Psychological, social and applied anthropology, education, socialization, literacy, cognition, ethnicity; ethnography and research design; North America, Caribbean, Thailand | 210A Education j-hill@illinois.edu |
| Charles M Keller (PhD UCB 1966; Assoc Prof Emeritus) Cognition and technology, museum studies; Euro-American technology of the 18th and 19th centuries | ckeller@illinois.edu |
| Linda L Klepinger (PhD U Kansas 1972; Prof Emerita) Physical anthropology, human osteology, paleopathology, forensic anthropology, skeletal biology and chemistry, paleonutrition | 282 Davenport 333-1302 klepinge@illinois.edu |
| R Barry Lewis (PhD U Illinois 1979; Prof) Archeology, anthropological research design, qualitative and quantitative methods; southeastern US, south India | 209F Davenport 244-3501 M/W/F 9-10 blewis@illinois.edu |
| Bruno Nettl (PhD Indiana 1953; Prof Emeritus; jt appt with Sch of Music) Ethnomusicology; North America, Iran | 4034 Music W 10-11 333-9613 b-nettl@illinois.edu |
| David W Plath (PhD Harvard 1962; Prof Emeritus; jt appt with Dept of E Asian Languages and Cultures) Cultural anthropology, human development and aging, maritime cultures, visual ethnography; Japan | 282 Davenport d-plath@illinois.edu |
| Olga Soffer (PhD CUNY 1984; Prof) Archeology, Old World prehistory, hunter-gatherer adaptations, Pleistocene, ecology, archeology; Central, Eastern and Western Europe | o-soffer@illinois.edu |
| Norman E Whitten Jr (PhD U N Carolina 1964; Prof Emeritus, Spurlock Curator Emeritus) Cultural anthropology, ethnography, social organization, ritual, power, symbolism, ethnicity, nationalism, modernity and magicality, Afro-American and indigenous cultures; northern South America, Ecuador | 421 Nat Hist Bldg 244-3514 nwhitten@illinois.edu |
| R T Zuidema (PhD Madrid 1953; PhD Leiden 1962; Prof Emeritus) Social anthropology, ethnohistory, religion, symbolic systems, calendars; Peru, South America | 101C Center for Advanced Study rtzuidem@illinois.edu |
| PART-TIME RESEARCH AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES |
Office Location |
| Steven Ahler (PhD Wisconsin 1984; Res Assoc) Lithic analysis, settlement studies, archaic late woodland; Eastern North America | ahler@illinois.edu |
| Julio Bicca-Marques (PhD U Illinois 2000; Res Assoc) Biolocgical Anthropology, primate cognition, behavior and ecology; South America | jcbicca@zaz.com.br |
| Jill Bullington (PhD Northwestern 1988; Res Assoc) Bioarcheology, prehistoric diet, paleodemography, dental microwear; North America | bullngtn@illinois.edu |
| Ann Cyphers (PhD UNAM 1987; Res Assoc) Mesoamerica, Olmec archaeology | cyphers@servidor.unam.mx |
| Ruth M Lewis (MA Columbia 1938; Res Assoc) Social anthropology, family studies, special education; Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, US | rmlewis@illinois.edu |
| Diane Mann (PhD U Illinois 1981; Res Assoc) Biological anthropology. osteology, cultural resources management, NAGPRA consultation; US, Panama, Azores, England | dk-mann@cecer.army.mil |
| C S Patil (PhD Karnatak 1990; Res Assoc) Archaelogy, epigraphy, art, architecture; south India | |
| Diego Quiroga (PhD U Illinois 1994; Res Assoc) Medical anthropology, cosmology and symbolism, cultural ecology; South America, Ecuador | diego@illinois.edu |
| Susan M Rigdon (PhD U Illinois 1971; Res Assoc) Political anthropology; China, Cuba, Puerto Rico | smrigdon@illinois.edu |
| Patrick Royer (PhD U Illinois 1996; Res Assoc) | proyer@tome.cbs.univ-montpl.fr |
| Charles Stout (PhD U Illinois 1989; Res Assoc) Archeology, settlement patterns and community structure, preindustrial technologies, traditional arts/crafts, museum collections; North American | c-stout@illinois.edu |
| Charles Varela (PhD NY University 1973; Res Assoc) Philosophy of the social sciences, history of social scientific theory, science ahd humanism, problems of deterministic structure and embodied agency, psychoanalysis and social theory | varela@illinois.edu |
| ADMINISTRATION |
Office Location |
| Steven R Leigh, Department Head | 109B Davenport sleigh@illinois.edu |
| Alejandro Lugo, Associate Head and Director of Graduate Studies | 396C Davenport 333-0823 a-lugo@illinois.edu |
| Ellen Moodie, Coordinator of Undergraduate Programs | 391 Davenport 244-7849 emoodie@illinois.edu |
| Frankenberg, Susan (Program Coordinator, Museum Studies) | 309A Davenport 244-1984 |
| SUPPORT STAFF |
Office Location |
| Sarah Rowe, Undergraduate Advisor | 109F Davenport 244-3497 smrowe@illinois.edu |
| Julia Spitz, Staff Clerk | 109D Davenport 265-0604 spitz@illinois.edu |
| Karla Harmon, Administrative Assistant/Faculty and Curriculum | 109C Davenport 244-3492 kharmon@illinois.edu |
| Liz Spears, Graduate Secretary | 109D Davenport 244-0296 espears@illinois.edu |
| Barbara McCall, Systems Administrator | 396 Davenport 244-5942 bmccall@illinois.edu |
| ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND SPECIALISTS IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS, SCHOOLS OR INSTITUTES |
Office Location |
| M Jocelyn Armstrong (PhD U Illinois 1971; Assoc Prof, Dept of Comm Hlth; Dept of Human and Comm Devel) Social anthropology ethnicity, gender, aging, disability; Southeast Asia, Pacific, US | jocelyn@illinois.edu |
| Charles Capwell (PhD Harvard 1981; Assoc Prof, Sch of Music) Ethnomusicology; India, Indonesia | capwell@illinois.edu |
| Alyce Taylor Cheska (EdD UCB 1960; Prof Emerita) Social anthropology, anthropology of play and sport, North American Indians | |
| Barton M Clark (MS U Illinois 1970; Prof, Library Admin) Anthropological information systems, bibliography | b-clark@illinois.edu |
| Angelina Cotler (PhD University of Illinois 2005; Assoc Director, Center for Latin American and Carribean Studies) Social anthropology and economic anthropology, social movements and women's organizations, ethnic nationalism, anthropology of politics and processes of democracy, conflict and violence; Andean region and Latin America | cotler@illinois.edu |
| Jeremy Geller (PhD Washington University 1992; Director, Student International Academic Affairs) Anthropology Instruction, Egypt, Southwestern US, archaeology, Prehistoric Brewing, Early Complex Societies | jgeller@illinois.edu |
| Tony Lawrence Goldberg (DVM U Illinois 2000, PhD Harvard1996; Asst Prof Dept Veterinary Pathobiology) Primate genetics, conservation medicine, phyogeography of chimpanzees; East Africa | tlgoldbe@illinois.edu |
| Michael Hargrave (PhD, CERL) | 373-4518 m-hargrave@cecer.army.mil |
| Joann Jacoby (MS U Illinois 1997, MA So. Illinois 1997, Asst Prof Library Admin, Anthropology Section Librarian) | 100 Library 244-1869 jacoby@illinois.edu |
| Josephine Z Kibbee (MA W Kentucky 1985; MLS Indiana 1976; Assoc Prof, Libr Admin) Anthropological information sources, folklore | j-kibbee@illinois.edu |
| Andrienne Shiu-Ming Lo (PhD UCLA 2006; Asst Prof Dept of Educ Psychology) Linguistic anthropology and anthropology of education; Korea | adrienlo@illinois.edu |
| Howard S Maclay (PhD U New Mexico 1956; Prof Emeritus, Ling, C of Educ, and Div of English and Internatl Lang; Res Prof, Inst of Communications Res)Psycholinguistics | h-maclay@illinois.edu |
| Erica F McClure (PhD UCB 1972; Assoc Prof, C of Educ) Sociolinguistics, cognitive anthropology, acquisition of communicative competence, discourse analysis, bilingualism; Mexico, Romania, Bulgaria | gato@illinois.edu |
| Ann Mester (PhD U Illinois 1990; Res Assoc, Asst Dean in LAS) Mesoamerica, South America | mester@illinois.edu |
| Junaid Rana (PhD U Texas Austin, 2003, Asst Prof of Asian American Studies) transnational cultural studies, diaspora studies; community organizing and social movements; comparative race studies, political economy, the postcolonial state; South Asia, Pakistan, US | 1208 W. Nevada St. 333-3679 jrana@illinois.edu |
| Sonya Salamon (PhD U Illinois 1974; Prof, Dept of Human Comm Devel) Cultural anthropology, agriculture, rural and small town communities, family studies, ethnicity; US Japan | ssalamon@illinois.edu |
| Mark Simon (PhD, Vet Medicine) | 3633 Vet Med Sci Bldg 333-6152 mrsimon@illinois.edu |
| Ronald P Toby (PhD Columbia 1977; Prof, History & E Asian Languages and Cultures) Historical, international, and interethnic relations, ethnicity and the alien, construction of ethnicity in ceremonial performance and art, credit in preindustrial agrarian society; Japan, Korea | rptoby@illinois.edu |
| Thomas Turino (PhD U Texas Austin 1987; Assoc Prof; jt appt with Sch of Music) Ethnomusicology; Latin America, esp. Peru, S Africa, Zimbabwe | 4068 Music t-turino@illinois.edu |
| Sarah Wisseman (PhD Bryn Mawr 1981; Dir, Ancient Technologies) Archaeometry with an emphasis on ceramic analysis, and Classical and Near Eastern archaeology | 78 Bevier Hall by appt. wisarc@illinois.edu |