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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
(814) 863-2391
Human-environment interactions, Hunter gatherer socio-ecology, human behavioral ecology, costly signaling, gender
José M. Capriles
Associate Professor of Anthropology
(814) 865-7835
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 and Film Production/Media Studies
Sagan Friant
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
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Evolutionary anthropology of human health, disease ecology, nutrition, socio-ecological systems, bushmeat hunting, Nigeria
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Anthropology
Ken Hirth
Professor of Anthropology
(814) 863-9647
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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Assistant Professor
Kazuhiko Kawasaki
Associate Research Professor of Anthropology
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Evolution of mineralized tissues, Evo-devo of the skull, Biomineralization, Evolution of genomes
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
(814) 863-7654
Impact-driven science, human evolutionary medicine, human impacts on non-human evolutionary biology
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Assistant Professor
Social Science Research Institute Co-funded Faculty Member
Climate adaptation, public health, livelihoods, intergroup relations, evolution of cooperation, human behavioral ecology, evolutionary social science, anthropology and industry, East Africa
David Puts
Professor of Anthropology
(814) 867-0453
behavioral endocrinology, evolutionary psychology, sex differences, sexual selection, sexuality
Erick Rochette
Associate Teaching Professor of Anthropology
Asher Yoel Rosinger
Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health and Anthropology. Environmental Health Sciences Program Area Leader
Director of Water, Health and Nutrition Lab
On sabbatical for the 24-25 academic year
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
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Assistant Research Professor
Laura Weyrich
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Bioethics
(814) 867-0016
Microbiome adaptation and evolution; medical microbiology; anthropological genetics; ancient DNA; paleomicrobiology; paleoecology; bioethics; dentistry; and Indigenous health
America Campillo
Postdoctoral Scholar
(814) 865-0796
Human evolution, bipedalism, functional morphology, bone biomechanics, trabecular bone, microCT, human osteology
Fred Foster
Post Doctoral Scholar
Ham, Allison
NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Research Technologist
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Researcher in Ancient DNA
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Postdoctoral Scholar
My research interests fit within the fields of Planetary Health and One Health with a particular focus on the effect of anthropogenic change on the risks of zoonotic infectious disease emergence and subsequent spread. I use whole systems approaches to understand the interaction between human and biological factors on these risks.
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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
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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
Jennifer C. Chen
Ph.D. Graduate Student
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Ph.D. Graduate Student
Ebony Creswell
Ph.D. Graduate Student
(814) 867-0456
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Ph.D. Graduate Student
Patrick  Druggan
Ph.D. Graduate Student
Human-environmental interactions, isotope biogeochemistry, GIS, paleoclimatology, modeling
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IUG Graduate Student
Tori D. Gamel
Ph.D. Graduate Student
human behavioral ecology, costly-signaling, anthropology, ancient historical ecology, warfare and violence, collective behavior, social organization
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Ph.D. Graduate Student
Joon Hwang
Ph.D. Graduate Student
Economic anthropology, market integration, social and economic inequality, social network analysis
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Ph.D. Graduate Student
Makenna Lenover
Ph.D. Graduate Student
Evolutionary medicine, human biology, irritable bowel syndrome, public health, non-communicable diseases
Kenzie may
Ph.D. Graduate Student
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
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Ph.D. Graduate Student
Southeastern Archaeology, Zooarchaeology, Ceramic Analysis, Environmental Archaeology, Coastal Archaeology, human-environmental interactions, descendant community collaboration
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Ph.D. Graduate Student
Rachel Palkovitz
Ph.D. Graduate Student
University Graduate Fellow
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Ph.D. Graduate Student
Human Evolution, Functional Morphology, Human Biomechanics, and Musculoskeletal Modeling
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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
Ph.D. Graduate Student
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
Dr. Joan T. Richtsmeier and Dr. Tim Ryan (co-advisors)
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Graduate Student
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
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PhD Graduate Student
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
Ecology, zooarchaeology, human-environmental interactions, genomics
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
George Milner
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
(814) 865-2509
Eastern North American archaeology; Small-scale society warfare; Paleodemography; Paleoepidemiology; Skeletal age estimation
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
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
(814) 865-2509
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Department Head, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Professor of Genomics in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Anthropology
(814) 867-4373
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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
(814) 863-9773
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Associate Professor, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies, and Anthropology
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
(814) 865-4883
Nicole Squyres
Assistant Teaching Professor of Biology and Anthropology
(814) 863-8019
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
(814) 863-1154
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
America Campillo
Postdoctoral Scholar
(814) 865-0796
Human evolution, bipedalism, functional morphology, bone biomechanics, trabecular bone, microCT, human osteology
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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