Faculty
Spring 2012 Office Hours [in .pdf format]
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
Associate Professor
Office: 363 MFAC
Phone: (716) 645-3241
Email: anab@buffalo.edu
Research Interests: Ethnomedicine; anthropology of the body; anthropology of religion, ritual, and healing, shamanism, gender and sexuality; indigenous experts and non-experts, discourses and practices of power; the politics of tradition and modernity; indigenous identity; politics and the state; self and personhood; social memory and history; indigenous Latin America, Chile, Mapuche.
David J. Banks
Professor
Office: 177 and 174 Spaulding
Phone: (716) 645-0421
Email: dbanks@buffalo.edu
Research Interests: Social anthropology; kinship; culture; historical methods; contemporary social change; Southeast Asia, Malaya.
Warren Barbour
Associate Professor
Office: 278 Spaulding, Bldg 5
Phone: (716) 645-0423
Email: barbour@buffalo.edu
Research Interests: Prehistory; comparative early civilizations; historical archaeology; Mesoamerica.
Carol M. Berman
Professor
Office: 165 Spaulding, Bldg 6
Phone: (716) 645-0429
Email: cberman@buffalo.edu
Research Interests: Primate behavior; primate social development; animal behavior; evolution of behavior; ethological methods.
Peter F. Biehl
Department Chair
Associate Professor
Office: 380 MFAC
Phone: (716) 645-0402
Email: pbiehl@buffalo.edu
Research Interests: Neolithic and Copper Age Europe and Near East; Archaeological Method and Theory; Cognitive Archaeology and the Social Meaning of Visual Imagery and Representation; Archaeology of Cult and Religion; Multimedia in Archaeology; Cultural Heritage.
Christine R. Duggleby
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor
Office: 161 Spaulding, Bldg 6
Phone: (716) 645-0427
Email: duggleby@buffalo.edu
Research Interests: Physical anthropology; population biology; genetics; evolutionary theory.
Jaume Franquesa
Assistant Professor
Office:
375 MFAC
Phone:
(716) 645-0404
Email:
jaume@buffalo.edu
Research Interests: Economic anthropology; urban anthropology; anthropology of energy, tourism and cultural heritage; urban renewal and gentrification; wind farms and the political economy of alternative energy; Spain, Southern Europe.
Tilman Lanz
Visiting Assistant Professor
Office: 378 Spaulding, Bldg 4
Phone: (716) 645-0492
Email: tlanz@buffalo.edu
Research Interests: Islam in Europe and North America; psychological anthropology; culture concept; concepts of time, linguistic and symbolic anthropology; tradition and modernity; local-global interface; subjectivity; psychoanalysis; Europe, Turkey, Middle East, and North America.
Ann P. McElroy
Associate Professor
Office: 376 Spaulding, Bldg 4
Phone: (716) 645-0420
Email: mcelroy@buffalo.edu
Research Interests: Applied medical anthropology; Disability studies; Culture and reproduction; Political and health change in arctic populations; Health care delivery to underserved populations in urban/rural U.S.
Sarunas Milisauskas
Professor
Office: 467 Richmond, Bldg 4
Phone: (716) 645-0412
Email: smilis@buffalo.edu
Research Interests: Old World archaeology; European prehistory; Neolithic; Bronze Age.
Vasiliki Neofotistos
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Assistant Professor
Office: 370 MFAC
Phone: (716) 645-0405
Email: neofotis@buffalo.edu
Research Interests: Political anthropology; violence; the anthropology of war and peace.
Douglas Perrelli
Director of Archaeological Survey
Adjunct Professor
Office: 262 MFAC
Phone: (716) 645-2297
Email: perrelli@buffalo.edu
Research Interests: Lithic Analysis; Iroquoian Studies; Gender Archaeology; Cultural Resource Management and Historic Preservation; Northeastern North America.
Donald Pollock
Associate Professor
Office: 365 MFAC
Phone: (716) 645-0402
Email: dpollock@buffalo.edu
Current research interests fall into two broad topics: the culture of contemporary medicine (including the social history of physician autobiography, the culture of tertiary care medicine, and health disparities); and traditional healing, shamanism, and personhood in Amazonian communities.
Deborah Reed-Danahay
Professor
Office: 377 MFAC
Phone: (716) 645-0406
Email: der5@buffalo.edu
Research Interests: Sociocultural Theory; citizenship; Anthropology and education; childhood and youth; ethnography and personal narrative; autoethnography; Europe (including the European Union), France, Vietnamese diaspora communities in the U.S. and France.
You can read Dr. Reed-Danahay's profile in the UB Reporter here.
Joyce E. Sirianni
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Office: 134 Spaulding, Bldg 6
Phone: (716) 645-0425
Email: jsiriann@buffalo.edu
Research Interests: Physical anthropology; craniofacial growth and development; physical anthropology; dental anthropology.
Phillips Stevens Jr.
Associate Professor
- On leave Spring 2012
Office: 171 Spaulding, Bldg 3
Phone: (716) 645-0416
Email: pstevens@buffalo.edu
Research Interests: Cultural anthropology; religion; cultural change; West Africa, Caribbean.
Barbara Tedlock
Professor
Office: 362 MFAC
Phone: (716) 645-0399
Email: tedlockb@buffalo.edu
Research Interests: Psychological and cognitive anthropology; anthropology of art and aesthetics; ethnomedicine; shamanism; American Southwest and Mesoamerica.
Tina L. Thurston
Associate Professor
Office: 363 Richmond, Bldg 4
Phone: (716) 645-0408
Email: tt27@buffalo.edu
Research Interests: Archaeological theory; complex societies; colonialism; ethnicity and identity; conflict and conflict resolution; political ecology; pastoralism; agricultural intensification; landscape archaeology; regional analysis; ethnohistory; archaeological chemistry; European archaeology; Iron Age, Medieval, and Early Modern Scandinavia and Ireland.
Ezra B. Zubrow
Professor
Office: 466 Richmond, Bldg 4
Phone: (716) 645-0411
Email: zubrow@buffalo.edu
Research Interests: Anthropological and Archaeological theory and method; social policy of heritage and disability; Nordic archaeology; ecology; simulation methods; demography; marginal cultural areas; Finland, Norway, England, Northeast.