People
- Department Head
- Faculty
- Researchers
- Staff
- Graduate Students
- Affiliated Graduate Students
- Emeritus
- Courtesy Appointments
- Alumni
Department Head
Human evolution, trabecular bone, biomechanics, skeletal biology microCT
Faculty
Ethnoarchaeology, socio-ecological systems, livelihoods in arid lands, behavioral ecology, Aboriginal Australia
Human-environment interactions, Hunter gatherer socio-ecology, human behavioral ecology, costly signaling, gender
Environmental archaeology, human ecology, pastoralism, South American archaeology, zooarchaeology
Kristina G. Douglass
- Joyce and Doug Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute and Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies
(814) 865-2937
Human-environment interaction, anthropology and archaeology of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean, coastal and island archaeology, ethnohistory, ethnoarchaeology, historical ecology, extinction, migration, ethnogenesis
Archaeology of the Americas, material and visual culture, museum studies, decolonization/indigenization, ancient politics, Maya civilization
Social and Economic Impacts of Alcohol, Documentary Film
Evolutionary anthropology of human health, disease ecology, nutrition, socio-ecological systems, bushmeat hunting, Nigeria
Ancient economy, Mesoamerican archaeology, cultural complexity, household archaeology, craft production
Paleoanthropology, Human adaptation, Evolution of human skin, Skin pigmentation, Human diversity, Race and racism, STEM education
Evolution of mineralized tissues, Evo-devo of the skull, Biomineralization, Evolution of genomes
Stephen A. Matthews
- Liberal Arts Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, Demography, and Geography
- Courtesy School of International Affairs
- Director, Graduate Program in Demography
(814) 863-9721
Demography, Spatial Inequality, Population Health, Ecologic Exposure, Spatial Analysis
Eastern North American archaeology; Small-scale society warfare; Paleodemography; Paleoepidemiology; Skeletal age estimation
Abderrahim Ouarghidi
- Assistant Teaching Professor of African Studies and Anthropology
(814) 865-5406
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
behavioral endocrinology, evolutionary psychology, sex differences, sexual selection, sexuality
Craniofacial development, Craniosynostosis, Genetics of craniofacial development, and Genotype-phenotype correspondence
Asher Yoel Rosinger
- Ann Atherton Hertzler Early Career Professor in Global Health
- Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health and Anthropology
- 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
- Faculty Associate, Population Research Institute
- Faculty Affiliate, Center for Human Ecology
(814) 863-1045
Human behavioral ecology, anthropological demography, evolutionary demography, fertility, parental investment, marriage, kinship, inequality, India, Bangladesh
Human Genetics, Population Genetics, Population Genomics, Sexually Dimorphism, Pigmentation, Hair Form, Facial Features, Predictive Biometrics, Molecular Photofitting, DNA Phenotyping
Microbiome adaptation and evolution; medical microbiology; anthropological genetics; ancient DNA; paleomicrobiology; paleoecology; bioethics; dentistry; and Indigenous health
Researchers
Ancient DNA, Human Evolutionary Genomics
Human evolution, skeletal biology, bone biomechanics, physical activity, diet, trabecular bone, microCT
Emily Durham
- Post Doctoral Scholar in Craniofacial Development, Disease, and Evolution
(814) 865-2066
Human variation, hair morphology, evolution, pigmentation
Graduate Students
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
Human evolution, bipedalism, functional morphology, bone biomechanics, trabecular bone, microCT, human osteology
Human-environmental interaction, settlement patterns, GIS, remote sensing, human behavioral ecology, evolutionary theory, spatial analysis, coastal & island archaeology, climate change
Human-environmental interactions, isotope biogeochemistry, GIS, paleoclimatology, modeling
human behavioral ecology, costly-signaling, anthropology, ancient historical ecology, warfare and violence, collective behavior, social organization
Bioarchaeology, Paleodemography, Paleoepidemiology, Paleopathology, aDNA, Human-environmental interactions
Cultural Resource Management, Experimental Archaeology, Public Outreach, Mongolian History and Culture, Classical and Mediterranean History and Archaeology
Biocultural anthropology, genomics, public health, Latinx health, structural racism, health disparities
Economic anthropology, market integration, social and economic inequality, social network analysis
Catherine Mendel, (she/her)
- Ph.D. Graduate Student
- NSF Research Trainee (LandscapeU Program)
Avian-human interactions, behavioral ecology, socio-ecological systems, domestication, zooarchaeology, and ethnoarchaeology.
archaeology, historical ecology, human-environmental interaction, marine resource use, coral, coral harvesting, zooarchaeology
Primatology, evolution, endocrinology, agent-based modeling, data science, machine learning
human-animal interactions, domestication, hunter-gatherers, ecology, animal behavior and cognition
Megan F. Veltri
- Ph.D. Graduate Student
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
Sterling Wright
- Ph.D. Graduate Student
- NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium Fellow
(814) 865-2509
Ancient DNA, paleomicrobiology, bioarchaeology, urbanization, Classical and Mesoamerican archaeology, paleoecology
Affiliated Graduate Students
Christian E. Herrera
- Ph.D. Graduate Student in Molecular, Cellular and Intregrative Biosciences (MCIBS)
Evolutionary biology, genomics, morphology, body size, and human hunting
Emeritus
Patricia Johnson
- Associate Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Demography, and Women's Studies
Human ecology, Paleoethnobotany, Paleoecology, Environmental Archaeology, Wood Anatomy
Courtesy Appointments
Santhosh Girirajan
- Associate Professor of Genomics in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Anthropology
(814) 867-4373
Carter Hunt
- Associate Professor in Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management and Anthropology
(814) 863-9773
Ann E. Killebrew
- Associate Professor, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies, and Anthropology
(814) 865-1686
Matthew B. Restall
- Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Colonial Latin American History, Anthropology and Women's Studies
Biological anthropology, human anatomy, functional morphology, evolution of bipedalism, body mass estimation, geometric morphometric analysis
Alumni
Landscape Archaeology and GIS
Isotope Analysis, Bioarchaeology, Mesoamerican Archaeology, Mortuary Rituals, Urbanization, Paleodemography, Migration
Evolution of human sexuality and applied social dynamics
Evolutionary psychology and human sex differences
Economic Anthropology, Interregional Interaction, Craft Production, Geochemical Sourcing, Shellworking, Obsidian
Claire Ebert
- Visiting Scholar, Center for Comparative Archaeology (University of Pittsburgh)
Emergence of complexity, Human-environment interaction, Formative Mesoamerica, Household and settlement archaeology, Ancient economies, Radiocarbon dating, Stable isotope analysis, geochemical sourcing, GIS and remote sensing
Craniofacial Development and Morphology
Skeletal Age Estimation, Human Variation, Bioarchaeology, Forensic Anthropology
Paleoethnobotany, Anthropogenic Landscapes
Pre-Columbian Caribbean (Lesser Antilles), Geoarchaeology, Community Archaeology, Human Behavioral Ecology, Ancient Maya (Belize)
Mesoamerican archaeology and textiles
behavioral biology, biological anthropology, primatology, sexual selection, vocalization
Coastal Human Paleoecology, Archaeometry
Mesoamerican Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Paleodemography, and Migration Studies
Kirsten (Saige) Kelmelis
- Alumni Ph.D.
bioarchaeology, paleoepidemiology, paleodemography
Human Evolutionary and Developmental Biology
Human variation with a focus on hair microstructure and morphology, TEM, microscopy, forensic analysis
Human Anatomy; Skeletal Biology; Morphological and Genetic Variation in Modern Humans; Forensic Anthropology; Geometric Morphometrics
Mesoamerica, Chinampa Agriculture, GIS
Anatomy, Functional Morphology, and Developmental Biology
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
disease ecology, anthropological demography, molecular epidemiology, spatial demography and epidemiology
Functional Morphology
Evolutionary Biological Anthropology and Sexual Selection
Functional Morphology
Vitamin D and Bone Microstructure
human-environment interactions, cooperation, collective action, GIS & GIScience, geoinformatics, spatial cognition, complex adaptive systems, data visualization, museum studies
Human-Environmental Interaction, Colonization Events, Zooarchaeology, Morphometrics, Species Introductions, Environmental Modification/Land Use, Evolutionary Ecology, Human Behavioral Ecology
Evolution of Human Sexuality
Human facial variation and health; dysmorphological facial phenotypes; evolution of facial features; human skin pigmentation
Mesoamerican Archaeology
Mesoamerican archaeology, ceramic analysis, linguistics, burial sites
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