Faculty
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Spring 2010 Office Hours
Ana
Mariella Bacigalupo
Associate Professor
Ethnomedicine, anthropology of the body, anthropology of religion,
ritual, and healing, shamanism, gender and sexuality, 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
Social anthropology, kinship, culture, historical methods, contemporary
social change; Southeast Asia, Malaya
Warren
Barbour
Associate Professor
Prehistory, comparative early civilizations, historical archaeology; Mesoamerica
Carol
M. Berman
Professor
Primate behavior, primate social development, animal behavior, evolution
of behavior, ethological methods
Peter F. Biehl
Associate Professor
Neolithic and Copper Age Europe and Middle East, Archaeological Method and Theory, Cognitive Archaeology and the Social Meaning of Visual Imagery and Representation, Archaeology of Cult and Religion, Multimedia in Archaeology
Christine
R. Duggleby
Associate Professor
Physical anthropology, population biology, genetics, evolutionary theory
Tilman Lanz
Visiting Assistant Professor
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, North America.
Ann
P. McElroy
Associate Professor
Medical Anthropology, disability studies, Arctic ethnology, U.S. migrant
farm workers; Canadian arctic, urban and rural US
Sarunas
Milisauskas
Professor
Old World archaeology, European prehistory; Neolithic, Bronze Age
Vasiliki
Neofotistos
Assistant Professor
Political anthropology, violence, and the anthropology of war and peace
Douglas
Perrelli
Director, Archaeological Survey
Ph.D. University at Buffalo 2001
Donald
Pollock
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
Transnationalism and Citizenship, Sociocultural Theory, 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.
Joyce
E. Sirianni
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Physical anthropology, craniofacial growth and development, physical anthropology,
dental anthropology
Phillips
Stevens Jr.
Associate Professor
Cultural anthropology, religion, cultural change; West Africa, Caribbean
Barbara
Tedlock
Professor
Psychological and cognitive anthropology, anthropology of art and aesthetics,
ethnomedicine, shamanism; American Southwest and Mesoamerica
Tina L. Thurston
Associate Professor
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
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
Adjunct Appointments
Raymond P. Dannenhoffer (PhD, SUNY at Buffalo, 1987; Adj Asst Prof, Supervisor, Gross Anatomy Lab, Anatomical Sciences)
Physical anthropology, demography, heritability of infertility, US
Stephen Dyson (PhD, Yale U, 1963; Prof of Classics, Adj Prof)
Roman Italy, Sardinia
Sara M. Elder (MA, Brandeis U, 1972; Adj Assoc Prof)
Ethnographic films, Native Americans, Eskimos
David M. Engel
Professor, Law School
J.D., University of Michigan, 1973
Law and society, comparative law; Southeast Asia
William Engelbrecht (PhD, U Michigan, 1971; Adj Assoc Prof)
Archeology, Iroquois ceramic style North America
Rebecca R. French (PhD, Yale, 1990; JD, University of Washington, 1974; Professor,
Law, Adj Prof Anthro) Buddhism and law; Asian legal systems. Tibet, Nepal
Jennifer Gaynor (PhD, University of Michigan, 2005; Asst Prof of History. Adj Asst Prof. Anthro)
Social and cultural history of modern Indonesia and Maritime SE Asia; historiography and the intersections of history and anthropology Indonesia, SE Asia
Richard V. Lee (MD, Yale U, 1964; Prof of Medicine, Adj Prof)
Health care delivery systems in third-world countries
Frank Mendel (PhD, U California-Santa Barbara, 1973; Assoc Prof, Anat Sci)
Paleoprimatology, functional primate anatomy, hominoid evolution
Douglas Perrelli (PhD, SUNY at Buffalo, 2001; Adj Asst. Prof. Director, Archaeology Survey)
North American prehistory; Western New York; Iroquoian archaeology. Historical archaeology.
Henry Schwarcz (PhD, CIT, 1960; Adj Prof)
Archaeometry, paleoclimate and chronology of the quaternary, paleodiet
Mateo Taussig-Rubbo (PhD, Chicago, 2007; JD, Yale, 2001; Assoc. Prof. Law; Adj Assoc Prof Anthro)
Gift, sacrifice and consecration as applied to modern political and legal situations. U.S. immigrants
Dennis Tedlock (PhD, Tulane U, 1968; James H McNulty Prof, English, Res Prof of Anth)
Interpretive anthropological dialogue, ethnopoetics, translation North and Middle American Indians
Patricia K. Townsend (PhD, U Michigan, 1969; Adj Assoc Prof)
Interests: Papua New Guinea Refugee studies, medical anthropology Papua New Guinea
Livingston Vance Watrous (PhD, U Pennsylvania, 1974; Prof of Art History, Adj Prof)
Eastern Mediterranean archaeology, Bronze Age Greece
Emeritus Professors
Robert
K. Dentan
Professor Emeritus
Cultural anthropology, social organization, ecology, (non)violence; Southeast
Asia.
Charles
O. Frake
Professor, Samuel P. Capen Chair of Anthropology
Linguistic anthropology, cognitive anthropology; political and historical
anthropology, Southeast Asia, the Pacific, Europe
Frederick
Gearing
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. Chicago 1956
Social Anthropology, ethnographic theory and method, anthropology of education;
North American Indians, contemporary village Greece, U.S.
Keith
F. Otterbein
Professor
Political anthropology, warfare, social structure, family organization,
folk housing, cross-cultural research, ecology; American South, Caribbean,
West Africa
Gerard
Rosenfeld
Professor
Cultural and applied anthropology (urban anthropology, education, justice,
inequality, aging) Africa, Southeast Asia.
Stuart
Scott
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. Arizona 1963
Archaeology, dendrochronology, environmental studies, historical archaeology;
Mesoamerica, Polynesia
A.
T. Steegmann Jr.
Professor Emeritus
Adaptive human biology, physical anthropology; Subarctic, China, Canada
Administrative Staff
Chair: Donald Pollock
Department Administrator: Anastasia
Johnson (716) 645-3960
Graduate Program Coordinator: Margaret
Kasprzyk (716) 645-6242
Undergraduate Program Coordinator: Mary Anne Lang (716) 645-6890