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Department Head

Timothy Ryan
Head and Professor of Anthropology
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Human evolution, trabecular bone, biomechanics, skeletal biology microCT
Douglas Bird
Professor of Anthropology
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Ethnoarchaeology, socio-ecological systems, livelihoods in arid lands, behavioral ecology, Aboriginal Australia
Rebecca Bliege Bird
Professor of Anthropology
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Human-environment interactions, Hunter gatherer socio-ecology, human behavioral ecology, costly signaling, gender
José M. Capriles
Associate Professor of Anthropology
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Environmental archaeology, human ecology, pastoralism, South American archaeology, zooarchaeology
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Assistant Research Professor in the Institutes of Energy and Environment, and Assistant Research Professor of Anthropology
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Alejandra Domic
Assistant Research Professor
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Director of the Matson Museum of Anthropology
Associate Research Professor of Anthropology
Affiliate Professor of Art History
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Archaeology of the Americas, Mesoamerican Art and Architecture, Maya civilization, material and visual culture, museum studies, decolonization/indigenization, ancient politics
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Sagan Friant
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
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Evolutionary anthropology of human health, disease ecology, nutrition, socio-ecological systems, bushmeat hunting, Nigeria
Ken Hirth
Professor of Anthropology
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Ancient economy, Mesoamerican archaeology, cultural complexity, household archaeology, craft production
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology
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Kazuhiko Kawasaki
Associate Research Professor of Anthropology
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Evolution of mineralized tissues, Evo-devo of the skull, Biomineralization, Evolution of genomes
George Milner
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology
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Eastern North American archaeology; Small-scale society warfare; Paleodemography; Paleoepidemiology; Skeletal age estimation
Susan Perrine-2
Associate Research Professor of Anthropology
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Assistant Teaching Professor of African Studies and Anthropology
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Laurel Pearson
Associate Teaching Professor of Anthropology
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George (PJ) Perry
Professor of Anthropology and Biology
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Anthropological genomics, Paleogenomics (ancient DNA), Human rainforest hunter-gatherers, Human impacts on non-human evolutionary biology, Parasites as proxies for human evolution, Madagascar people and lemurs
David Puts
Professor of Anthropology
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behavioral endocrinology, evolutionary psychology, sex differences, sexual selection, sexuality
Erick Rochette
Associate Teaching Professor of Anthropology
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Asher Yoel Rosinger
Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health and Anthropology. Environmental Health Sciences Program Area Leader
Director of Water, Health and Nutrition Lab
Water and dietary intake, water insecurity, hydration status, environmental and lifestyle transitions, anthropometrics, global health
Mary K. Shenk
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Demography, and Asian Studies
Faculty Associate, Population Research Institute
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Human Ecology
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Human behavioral ecology, anthropological demography, evolutionary demography, fertility, parental investment, marriage, kinship, inequality, India, Bangladesh
Mark Shriver
Professor of Anthropology
(814) 863-1078
Human Genetics, Population Genetics, Population Genomics, Sexually Dimorphism, Pigmentation, Hair Form, Facial Features, Predictive Biometrics, Molecular Photofitting, DNA Phenotyping
Laura Weyrich
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Bioethics
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Microbiome adaptation and evolution; medical microbiology; anthropological genetics; ancient DNA; paleomicrobiology; paleoecology; bioethics; dentistry; and Indigenous health
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Research Technologist
Lily DeMars
Post Doctoral Scholar
Dr. Tim Ryan
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Research Technologist
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Fred Foster
Post Doctoral Scholar
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Research Technologist
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Researcher in Ancient DNA
Human Research Technologist
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Presidential Postdoctoral Scholar
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Research Technologist
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Post Doctoral Scholar
Audrey Chambers-2
Graduate Administrative Support Assistant
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Administrative Support Coordinator
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Devin Sherman
Administrative Support Assistant
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Administrative Support Coordinator
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Ph.D. Graduate Student
Dani Buffa
Ph.D. Graduate Student in Anthropology and Climate Science
(814) 867-0003
Human-environment interactions, socioecological regime shifts, island and coastal archaeology, estuarine and marine resource use, Mid-late Holocene climate, paleoecology, ecotones, conservation policy, ethnoarchaeology, zooarchaeology, geoarchaeology, GIS
America Campillo
Ph.D. Graduate Student
(814) 865-0796
Human evolution, bipedalism, functional morphology, bone biomechanics, trabecular bone, microCT, human osteology
Jennifer C. Chen
Ph.D. Graduate Student
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Ph.D. Graduate Student
Ebony Creswell
Ph.D. Graduate Student
(814) 867-0456
Patrick  Druggan
Ph.D. Graduate Student
Human-environmental interactions, isotope biogeochemistry, GIS, paleoclimatology, modeling
Abigail Shahar Gancz
Ph.D. Graduate Student
Bioarchaeology, Paleodemography, Paleoepidemiology, Paleopathology, aDNA, Human-environmental interactions
Dr. George (PJ) Perry
Joon Hwang
Ph.D. Graduate Student
Economic anthropology, market integration, social and economic inequality, social network analysis
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Graduate Student
Makenna Lenover
Ph.D. Graduate Student
Evolutionary medicine, human biology, irritable bowel syndrome, public health, non-communicable diseases
Southeastern archaeology, historical archaeology, Civil War Era archaeology, landscape archaeology, human and environmental relationships, GIS, descendant community collaborative archaeology and research, social networks
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Ph.D. Graduate Student
Catherine  Mendel
Ph.D. Graduate Student
NSF Research Trainee (LandscapeU Program)
Avian-human interactions, behavioral ecology, socio-ecological systems, domestication, zooarchaeology, and ethnoarchaeology.
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Ph.D. Graduate Student
Southeastern Archaeology, Zooarchaeology, Ceramic Analysis, Environmental Archaeology, Coastal Archaeology, human-environmental interactions, descendant community collaboration
Rachel Palkovitz
Ph.D. Graduate Student
University Graduate Fellow
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M.D./Ph.D. Graduate Student
Southeastern Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Coastal Archaeology, Shell Middens, Zooarchaeology, Cultural Resource Management
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Ph.D. Graduate Student
Human-animal interactions, domestication, hunter-gatherers, ecology, animal behavior and cognition
Laura Stelson
Ph.D. Graduate Student
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Christine Ta
Ph.D. Graduate Student
Megan F.  Veltri
Ph.D. Graduate Student
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
Dr. Joan T. Richtsmeier
Sterling Wright
Ph.D. Graduate Student
NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium Fellow
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Laura Weyrich
Emily Gagne
Ph.D. Graduate Student in Ecology
Christian E. Herrera
Ph.D. Graduate Student in Molecular, Cellular and Intregrative Biosciences (MCIBS)
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Ph.D. Graduate Student in Bioinformatics and Genomics Program
Amy Wrobleski
Ph.D. Graduate Student in Ecology
Stephen Beckerman
Associate Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Paul Durrenberger
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Nina Jablonski
Atherton Professor, Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Paleoanthropology, Human adaptation, Evolution of human skin, Skin pigmentation, Human diversity, Race and racism, STEM education
Patricia Johnson
Associate Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Demography, and Women's Studies
Stephen A. Matthews
Liberal Arts Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, Demography, and Geography
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Demography, Spatial Inequality, Population Health, Ecologic Exposure, Spatial Analysis
Joseph Michels
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Claire Milner
Associate Research Professor and Curator & Director of Exhibits
Warren Morrill
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Lee Newsom
Associate Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Human ecology, Paleoethnobotany, Paleoecology, Environmental Archaeology, Wood Anatomy
Joan Richtsmeier
Distinguished Emerita Professor of Anthropology
(814) 863-0562
Craniofacial development, Craniosynostosis, Genetics of craniofacial development, and Genotype-phenotype correspondence
Dean Snow
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
David Webster
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Kenneth Weiss
Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Genetics
James Wood
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Demography
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Series Editor, Occasional Papers in Anthropology
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Associate Professor of Genomics in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Anthropology
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Professor of Landscape Architecture, Geography, African Studies, and Anthropology
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Carter Hunt
Associate Professor in Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management and Anthropology
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Associate Professor, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies, and Anthropology
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Bronwen Powell
Assistant Professor of Geography, African Studies, and Anthropology
(814) 865-1187
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Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Colonial Latin American History, Anthropology and Women's Studies
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Professor of Art History and Anthropology
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Nicole Squyres
Assistant Teaching Professor of Biology and Anthropology
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Biological anthropology, human anatomy, functional morphology, evolution of bipedalism, body mass estimation, geometric morphometric analysis
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Assistant Professor of Law, Policy and Engineering and Anthropology
Catherine Wanner
Professor of History, Anthropology and Religious Studies
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Teaching Professor of Biology and Anthropology
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Landscape Archaeology and GIS
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Alumni Ph.D.
Richard Bankoff
Ph.D. Graduate, 2020
Gina M. Buckley
Ph.D. Graduate Student
Isotope Analysis, Bioarchaeology, Mesoamerican Archaeology, Mortuary Rituals, Urbanization, Paleodemography, Migration
Evolution of human sexuality and applied social dynamics
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IUG Graduate Student
Rebecca Coleman
Graduate Student
Human-environmental interaction, settlement patterns, GIS, remote sensing, human behavioral ecology, evolutionary theory, spatial analysis, coastal & island archaeology, climate change
Evolutionary psychology and human sex differences
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IUG Graduate Student
Eric Dyrdahl
Profesor Auxiliar, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Ken Hirth
Claire Ebert
Visiting Scholar, Center for Comparative Archaeology (University of Pittsburgh)
Dr. Douglas Kennett
Kevin V Flaherty
Ph.D. Graduate 2018
Craniofacial Development and Morphology
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Alumni
Tori D. Gamel
IUG Graduate Student
human behavioral ecology, costly-signaling, anthropology, ancient historical ecology, warfare and violence, collective behavior, social organization
Lia Gavazzi
IUG Graduate Student
Bianca L. Gentil
Ph.D. Graduate Student
Richard J. George
Ph.D. Graduate 2020
Near Eastern Archaeology, Political Ecology, GIS
David Webster
Jeffrey Grossi
IUG Graduate Student
Cultural Resource Management, Experimental Archaeology, Public Outreach, Mongolian History and Culture, Classical and Mediterranean History and Archaeology
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Ph.D. Graduate Student
Paleoethnobotany, Anthropogenic Landscapes
Doug Kennett
Mesoamerican archaeology and textiles
Elijah Hermitt
IUG Graduate Student
Alex Hill
Lecturer
Biocultural Anthropology
University of Washington
David Puts
Sean Hixon
Ph.D. Graduate Student
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Christopher Jazwa
Post Doctoral Scholar
(814) 863-2244
Douglas Kennett
Nadia Johnson
Ph.D. Graduate 2020
Eric Jones
Ph.D. Graduate, 2008
Emily  Kate
Ph.D. Graduate Student
Mesoamerican Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Paleodemography, and Migration Studies
James Wood
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Senior Research Fellow
Lee Newsom
Kelsey Kjosness
Ph.D. Graduate, 2017
Human Evolutionary and Developmental Biology
Sandra Koch
Ph.D.Graduate 2018
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Nina Jablonski
Kate M.  Lesciotto
Ph.D. Graduate 2020
Dr. Joan T. Richtsmeier
Denise Liberton
Ph.D. Graduate, 2012
Mark Shriver
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Lecturer of Anthropology
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Mesoamerica, Chinampa Agriculture, GIS
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Ph.D. Penn State - 2017
Anatomy, Functional Morphology, and Developmental Biology
Kendall McGill
Graduate Student
Violence and Warfare, Osteology, Viking Age, Early Medieval NW Europe, GIS
Archaeometry, Geophysics, Paleohydrology, Agricultural Intensification, Mesoamerica, Remote Sensing, Complex Societies, Urbanism, Environmental Change, State Formation
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IUG Graduate Student
James Wood
Functional Morphology
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Post Doctoral Researcher
Lauramarie Pope
Graduate Student
Evolutionary Biological Anthropology and Sexual Selection
David Puts
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IUG Graduate Student
Casey Sennett_Florence
IUG Graduate Student
Corey Sparks
Associate Professor
John Starbuck
Ph.D. Graduate, Spring 2012
Joan Richtsmeier
Functional Morphology
Evolutionary biology, genomics, morphology, body size, and human hunting
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human-environment interactions, cooperation, collective action, GIS & GIScience, geoinformatics, spatial cognition, complex adaptive systems, data visualization, museum studies
Jennifer Wagner
Academic Affiliate and Ph.D. Graduate 2010
Dr. Kenneth Weiss
Ziyu (Raining) Wang
Ph.D. Graduate Student
Martin Welker
Ph.D. Graduate, 2018
Human-Environmental Interaction, Colonization Events, Zooarchaeology, Morphometrics, Species Introductions, Environmental Modification/Land Use, Evolutionary Ecology, Human Behavioral Ecology
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Graduate Student
Evolution of Human Sexuality
Julie White
Ph.D. Graduate 2019
Human facial variation and health; dysmorphological facial phenotypes; evolution of facial features; human skin pigmentation
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Graduate Student
Mesoamerican Archaeology
Mesoamerican archaeology, ceramic analysis, linguistics, burial sites
Arslan Zaidi
Genetics Program Graduate Student
Human-Environment Interaction, Emergence of Social Complexity, European Prehistory, Faunal Analysis, Stable Isotopes, Human & Animal Diet Modeling, Spread of Agriculture & Animal Husbandry, Mortuary Archaeology, Warfare