Alumni

Landscape Archaeology and GIS

Isotope Analysis, Bioarchaeology, Mesoamerican Archaeology, Mortuary Rituals, Urbanization, Paleodemography, Migration

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

Evolution of human sexuality and applied social dynamics

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

Evolutionary psychology and human sex differences

Ken Hirth

Dr. Douglas Kennett

Craniofacial Development and Morphology

Bioarchaeology, Paleodemography, Paleoepidemiology, Paleopathology, aDNA, Human-environmental interactions

George Milner

Near Eastern Archaeology, Political Ecology, GIS

David Webster

Cultural Resource Management, Experimental Archaeology, Public Outreach, Mongolian History and Culture, Classical and Mediterranean History and Archaeology

Paleoethnobotany, Anthropogenic Landscapes

Doug Kennett

Mesoamerican archaeology and textiles

Dr. George (PJ) Perry

David Puts

Economic anthropology, market integration, social and economic inequality, social network analysis

Douglas Kennett

Mesoamerican Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Paleodemography, and Migration Studies

James Wood

Lee Newsom

Human Evolutionary and Developmental Biology

Nina Jablonski

Evolutionary medicine, human biology, irritable bowel syndrome, public health, non-communicable diseases

Dr. Joan T. Richtsmeier

Mark Shriver

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

James Wood

Functional Morphology

Evolutionary Biological Anthropology and Sexual Selection

David Puts

Human-animal interactions, domestication, hunter-gatherers, ecology, animal behavior and cognition

Joan Richtsmeier

Functional Morphology

Evolutionary biology, genomics, morphology, body size, and human hunting

Vitamin D and Bone Microstructure

human-environment interactions, cooperation, collective action, GIS & GIScience, geoinformatics, spatial cognition, complex adaptive systems, data visualization, museum studies

Dr. Joan T. Richtsmeier and Dr. Tim Ryan (co-advisors)

Dr. Kenneth Weiss

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

Laura Weyrich

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