Washington Univ. Anthropology Faculty

Anthropology Faculty, Staff and Associates

Faculty

Lois C Beck (Prof; Sociocultural): Political anthropology, history, tribe-state relations, Nomadic Pastoralism, Islam, Gender; Iran, the Middle East.
John Baugh (Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts & Sciences; Linguistics): Sociolinguistics; Language, Equity and Environmental Change; Linguistic Profiling; Econolinguistics.
Peter Benson (Asst Prof; Sociocultural): Medical anthropology, public health, political economy, agriculture, tobacco, transnational migration, phenomenology, ethics and ethnography; United States, Latin America.
John R Bowen (Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences; Sociocultural): Religion and ritual, Islam, social theory, kinship and social organization, historical studies, culture and political change; Sumatra, Indonesia, Europe.
Pascal Boyer (Henry Luce Professor of Collective and Individual Memory; Sociocultural and Psychology): Cognitive processes, cultural transmission, cognitive development, evolutionary psychology, cross-cultural psychology, religion.
David L Browman (Prof; Archaeology): North and Latin American archaeology; origins of agricultural economies; development of complex societies; pastoralism; historical archaeology.
Robert L Canfield (Prof; Sociocultural): Political anthropology, peasant society, ethnicity and symbolism, historical anthropology; Afghanistan, Central Asia and Eastern Islamic World.
James Cheverud (Prof; Physical Anth and Anatomy): Quantitative genetics, evolutionary theory, human genetics, human and nonhuman primate biology.
Geoff Childs (Assoc Prof; Sociocultural): Anthropological demography, historical demography, fertility, ageing, family systems, research methodology; Tibet, Nepal.
Glenn Conroy (Prof; Physical Anth and Anatomy): Primate evolution and comparative anatomy, human evolution; Southern Africa.
Darla Dale (Lecturer; Archaeology): Archaeology; hunter-gatherers; socioeconomic inequality; East Africa.
David Freidel (Prof; Archaeology): (appointment starting Fall 2008)

Michael Frachetti (Asst. Prof; Archaeology): Eurasian prehistory, Bronze Age steppe pastoralism, landscape archaeology, paleo-environment and geographic information systems, ethnographic nomadism, Central Asia

Gayle J Fritz (Prof; Archaeology): Paleoethnobotany; development of agricultural systems; plant domestication; subsistence and culture change; North American prehistory.
Bret Gustafson (Asst Prof; Sociocultural): Anthropology of the state, social movements, and development flows; vernacular literacy and education; natural resource exploitation and territoriality; Latin America, Bolivia.
John Kelly (Lecturer; Archaeology): Archeology of eastern North America, Mississippian emergence and decline; North America.

T.R. Kidder (Prof; Archaeology; Dept Chair): North American archaeology, geoarchaeology, ceramic analysis, humans and climate change, plant domestication; Mississippi River, southeastern United States.
Rebecca Lester (Asst Prof; Sociocultural): Medical anthropology, gender, embodiment, religion and ritual, psychological anthropology, cross-cultural psychiatry; Mexico, United States.
Fiona B Marshall (Prof; Archaeology): Old World Prehistory, African Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, Zooarchaeology, Early food production, the archaeology of human origins.


Derek Pardue (Asst Prof, Sociocultural): Popular culture, everyday life, hip hop, race, ethnomusicology, urban anthropology, sports, violence, sociology of restaurants; Brazil, Latin America.
Herman Pontzer (Asst Prof, Physical Anth): Human evolution, locomotor biomechanics, energetics, experimental biology, primate ecomorphology, Dmanisi.
Shanti Parikh (Asst. Prof; Sociocultural): Sexuality and HIV/AIDS, social change, globalization, gender, popular culture, East Africa.
Jane Phillips-Conroy (Prof; Physical Anth and Anatomy): Behavior and ecology, primate biology; East Africa, South America.
D Tab Rasmussen (Prof; Physical Anth): Primate evolution, paleontology (on leave, Spring 2009).
Crickette Sanz (Asst Prof; Physical Anth): Primate behavioral ecology, social organization, tool technology and traditions, primate models of human evolution, conservation, Central Africa. (appointment starting Fall 2009)
Carolyn Sargent (Prof; Sociocultural): Medical anthropology, reproductive health, gender, ritual and religion, transnational migration, ethics, Africa, Europe
Richard J Smith (Ralph E. Morrow Distinguished University Professor; Physical Anth; Dean of Graduate College): Primate comparative and functional morphology, quantitative methods, biomechanics, Miocene hominids.
Glenn D Stone (Prof; Sociocultural and Env Studies): Political ecology; agricultural change and intensification; biotechnology; settlement patterns; subSaharan Africa, India.
Bradley P Stoner (Assoc. Prof; Sociocultural and Internal Medicine): Medical anthropology, epidemiology, anthropology of public health, sexually transmitted diseases; Peru, urban North America.
Robert W Sussman (Prof; Physical Anth): Primate ecology, behavior and evolution. Models of early human behavior. Conservation. Madagascar, Mauritius, Costa Rica, Guyana.
Erik Trinkaus (Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor in Arts & Sciences; Physical Anth): Human paleontology; skeletal biology; functional anatomy, Paleolithic archaeology.
Leonard Lewis Wall (Prof; Sociocultural and Ob-Gyn): Medical anthropology, maternal mortality and morbidity, medical ethics, birthing, West Africa (on leave, Fall 2008).


James V. Wertsch (Marshall S. Snow Professor in Arts & Sciences; Sociocultural and Education): Cultural psychology, national and transnational identity, Russia.

Staff
Kathleen Cook, Academic Coordinator Carrie Asmar-O'Guin, Administrative Asst.	Elaine M. Beffa, Business Manager Kirsten Jacobsen, Coordinator, Medicine and Society Program

Other Faculty
(emeriti, adjunct or in other departments)

Jane E. Buikstra (PhD U Chicago 1972; Adj Prof; Prof., Arizona State Univ): Skeletal biology, paleopathology, paleodemography, forensic anthropology, mortuary site archeology; North America, Peru
Charles Hildebolt (PhD Washington St Louis 1987; Adjunct Prof.; Prof., Radiology, WU Medical School): Dental anthropology, periodontal epidemiology, variation in head shape and form
Seena B Kohl (PhD Washington St Louis 1969; Adj Prof; Prof, Dept of Behav and Soc Sci, Webster U): Agriculture and rural society, women and family, social history; Canada, North America
Carolyn Lesorogol (PhD Washington U St. Louis 2002; Asst. Prof. of Social Work): International social development, social change, capacity building and participation, Africa
G. Edward Montgomery (PhD Columbia 1972; Assoc Prof Emeritus): Culture of food, health, alternative medicine; American Cultures; India
Shanta Pandey (PhD Case Western; Assoc Prof of Social Work): Social policy, rural development, gender, health care; Nepal, US
Thomas R Przbeck (PhD Washington St. Louis 1983; Res Instructor of Anthropology in Psychiatry): Psychiatry

Gwendolyn G Reich (PhD Washington St Louis 1978; Res Asst Prof of Anthropology in Psychiatry): Child psychology

M. Priscilla Stone (PhD U Arizona 1988; Adj Assoc Prof; Dir. of Undergraduate & Overseas Programs, International Studies): Ecological and economic anthropology, development, agriculture, gender; subsaharan Africa
Brian K Suarez (PhD UCLA 1974; Prof Psychiatry; Lect): Human genetics, human ecology, primate evolution
Gautam Yadama (PhD Case Western; Assoc Prof of Social Work): Social and economic development; NGO's; India.
Patty Jo Watson (PhD Chicago 1959; Distinguished Prof of Anth Emerita): Archaeological theory and method, archaeological ethnography, origins of food production, cave archaeology; Western Asia, Eastern Woodlands of North America.
Murray L Wax (PhD U Chicago 1959; Prof Emeritus): Applied, schools, religion and magic, ethics of research, ethnopsychology; North America
Luis E. Zayas Rivera (PhD Chicago 2002; Research Assistant Professor of Social Work: Medical anthropology, health education & promotion, health inequalities, anthropology of development, social/cultural change, tourism, religion; Latin America, Brazil, Caribbean, United States

Research Associates

Mary Des Chene (Ph.D. Stanford 1990): Cultural anthropology; South Asia; Nepal; historical ethnography; politics, social inequalities and development; colonial military history; history of Nepal.
Kathleen Cook (PhD, Washington U-St. Louis, 1993): Political anthropology, collective action, village politics, rural society; U.S.

Carol Diaz-Granados (PhD Washington St Louis 1993): Archaeology, petroglyphs/pictographs, Native American oral traditions, iconography, anthropology through the arts, World's Fair archaeology, North America
Fusun Ertug (PhD, Washington U-St. Louis, 1997): Archaeology and ethnoarchaeology; Turkey and southwest Asia
Elisabeth Hildebrand (PhD, Washington U-St. Louis, 2003): Archaeology, early food production, tropical crops, ethnoarchaeology; Africa
Lucretia Kelly (PhD, Washington U-St. Louis, 2000): North American archaeology
Jian Leng (PhD Washington St Louis 1992): Archaeology of China, lithic analyses
Margaret A. Perkinson (PhD UCSF 1989): Medical anthropology, social gerontology, chronic illness and disability, family caregiving; North America

Thomas K. Pilgram (PhD UCB 1982): Radiology, archeology, adaptation, location and environment, mathematical modeling, prehistory of North America and Africa
Deborah Ruscillo Cosmopoulos (PhD, U College London 2000): Archaeology, faunal analysis, marine remains; Greece, Near East, United Kingdom. druscill@artsci.wustl.edu
David Rudner (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1985): Social contexts of healthcare, culture and healthcare, development; South Asia
Charles Shannon (PhD, Washington U-St. Louis 2003): Sociocultural anthropology, political economy of education, cultural and ethnic influences on educational achievement, population patterns and political formations leading to state formation; U.S., England, China
Linda Sussman (PhD Washington St Louis 1983): Medical anthropology, epidemiology; Madagascar, Mauritius, US
Kathryn Elizabeth Townsend (PhD, Washington U-St. Louis 2004): Cenozoic mammalian evolution and paleoecology, mammalian paleontology in Late Miocene-early Pliocene, dietary reconstruction and ecomorphology of mammals; North and South America
Charles D Trombold (PhD Southern Illinois 1978): Archaeology, complex societies, transport networks, regional studies; Mesoamerica