PhD Alumni
Rob Beck
Professor of Anthropology & Curator of North American Archaeology, University of Michigan
Expertise: Archaeology of Colonialism, Origins of Social Complexity, North America, Andes
Douglas Bolender
Senior Lecturer & Research Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology & Fiske Center for Archaeological Research, University of Massachusetts Boston
Expertise: Archaeology; Property and social inequality; households and agricultural production; North Atlantic Viking Age; geochemistry; landscape archaeology; and geographic information systems
V Varun Chaudhry
Assistant Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University
Expertise: Cultural Anthropology, Transgender studies, queer of color critique, Black feminism, critical NGO studies, United States
Andrew T. (Andy) Creekmore III
Professor & Department Chair of Anthropology, University of Northern Colorado
Expertise: Archaeology, ancient cities, geophysics, Bronze-Iron Age Near East
Kristin De Lucia
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Colgate University
Expertise: Aztecs, household archaeology, identity, Mesoamerica, Central America
Beth Derderian
Assistant Professor, Sociology & Anthropology, Middle East North Africa Studies, Museum Studies, Wooster College
Expertise: Cultural Anthropology, Politics of representations, museums, art, migration/transnationalism, Middle East Studies, museum studies, Arab Gulf, United Arab Emirates
Michael Diamond
President, World Resources Chicago & Senior Professional Lecturer/Coordinator Internships and Professional Development, School of Public Service, DePaul University; Global Health Studies, Adjunct Lecturer, Northwesern University
Expertise: Medical Anthropology; Consulting; Assessment of programmatic impact on health outcomes; Improving health outcomes; Immunization; Global health; Sustainable development; Cultural competency; Chicago, Illinois, Cape Town, South Africa, Guatemala
John F. Doershuk
State Archaeologist of Iowa, Director, Office of the State Archaeologist; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa
Expertise: Archaeology, Iowa, Mid-continent USA
Dan Eisenberg
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington
Expertise: Biological Anthropology
Alana Glaser
Assistant Professor, Sociology & Anthropology, St. John's University
Expertise: Cultural Anthropology, care work, migration, United States, political economy
Chris Hernandez
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Loyola University-Chicago
Expertise: Archaeology, Community Archaeology, Warfare, Maya, Mesoamerica
Jean Hunleath
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis
Expertise: Cultural Anthropology, caregiving, anthropology of childhood, Southern Africa, US Midwest
Kathryn Catlin
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology in the Department of Chemistry and Geosciences, Jacksonville State University
Expertise: Archaeology, Human Ecodynamics, North Atlantic
Katherine S. Kanne
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter
Expertise: Archaeology, Human-Animal-Environment Interactions, Archaeology of Equestrianism, Bronze Age Europe
Elisa Lanari
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Expertise: Cultural Anthropology, US ethnography; urban anthropology; racism, whiteness, and racial capitalism; Latinxs in the US South; inequality and the politics of "diversity" in new US and European migratory contexts; space, place, and community activism, Europe (Italy)
Kristin Landau
Assistant Professor, Sociology & Anthropology, Alma College
Expertise: Archaeology, Maya, Central America
Stephanie Levy
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, City University of New York (CUNY) Hunter College
Expertise: Biological Anthropology, human energetics, biological adaptation, life history theory, developmental origins of health and disease, social influences on health disparities, cardio-metabolic health, climate change, brown adipose tissue, Siberia
Emily Mendenhall
Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Expertise: Medical and Pyschological Anthropology; global health; Kenya, India, South Africa, United States
Aaron Miller
Lab Manager & Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
Expertise: Biological Anthropology, Energetics, Reproduction, Methods
John Millhauser
Associate Professor, Sociology & Anthropology, North Carolina State University
Expertise: Archaeology, Economic Anthropology, Mesoamerica
Chris Morehart
Associate Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University
Expertise: Archaeology, Environmental and Economic Anthropology, Mexico and Latin America
José Maria Muñoz
Senior Lecturer, Centre of African Studies, University of Ediburgh
Expertise: Cultural Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, Cameroon, West-Central Africa
Lisa Overholtzer
Assistant Professor and William Dawson Chair of Anthropology, McGill University
Expertise: Archaeology, household archaeology, ceramics, social identity, imperialism and colonialism, collaborative/Indigenous archaeology, Mesoamerica, central America
Rana Özbal
Associate Professor, Archaeology and the History of Art, Koç University
Expertise: Archaeololgy, Prehistoric Periods of Anatolia
Nazlı Özkan
Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Visual Arts, Koç University
Expertise: Cultural Anthropology, Media Inequality
Elizabeth (EA) Quinn
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
Expertise: Biological Anthropology, Human Milk, Lactation, High Altitude Adaptation, Nepal
Mark Schwartz
Professor of Anthropology, Grand Valley State University
Expertise: Archaeology, Complex societies, trade and exchange, early Mesopotamian civilization, Near East
Heidi Swank
Executive Director, Rethos: Places Reimagined
Expertise: Linguistic Anthropology, Historic Preservation, Central United States, State Legislative Experience
Paula Tallman
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Loyola University Chicago
Expertise: Biological Anthropology; Human Biology; Critical Medical Anthropology; Biocultural Approach; Indigenous studies; Health; Well-Being; Conservation; Environmental Justice; Vulnerability; Food Insecurity; Water Insecurity
Zaneta Thayer
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth College
Expertise: Biological Anthropology; Human Biology; Health Inequities; Developmental Origins of Health and Disease; Oceania, North America
Dario Valles
Teaching Fellow, Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality and the Anthropology Department, Columbia University
Expertise: Cultural Anthropology; Queer/Gendered Migration, State Abandonment, Mutual Aid, Ritual Kinship, Digital Technology, Violence and Healing; Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, California
Ella Wilhoit
Earl S. Johnson Instructor in Anthropology, Master of Arts in the Social Sciences, University of Chicago
Expertise: Cultural Anthropology, Gender, labor, kinship and political subjectivity, Latin America