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Postal Address
School of Anthropology
University of Arizona
P.O. Box 210030
Tucson, AZ 85721-00030
Delivery Address
School of Anthropology
1009 East South Campus Drive
Tucson, AZ 85721
Tel: 520.621.2585
Fax: 520.621.2088
Anthro@email.arizona.edu
School Director
Dr. Barbara Mills
Haury Anthropology Building,
Room 210
Tel: 520.621.6298
Fax: 520.621.2088
bmills@arizona.edu
School Directory
Ph.D. Program
I am originally from Japan, and I used to study earth science and physics at Yamaguchi University, Japan. My interests in astronomy brought me to the University of Arizona which is well known for one of the best astronomy programs in the world. A series of encounters with friends from various parts of the world, however, made me want to study and understand different cultures other than that of...
Professor of Anthropology, Curator, Archaeology (ASM)
520.621.2093
520.621.2976
Arizona State Museum North, Room 219
Curator of Archaeology, Arizona State Museum.
Director of Homolovi Research Program.
Associate Professor of Anthropology
520.621.2305
520.621.2088
Emil W. Haury Building, Room 304
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Associate Research Social Scientist, Southwest Center
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology
(520) 243-8633
Forensic Anthropologist for the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner. Mentor for the Forensic Anthropology Internship Program.
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Associate Research Anthropologist, Research Chair (BARA)
520.626.3879
520.621.9608
Geronimo Building, Room 350C
Diane Austin is an applied environmental anthropologist who specializes in environmental education, community development, industry-community relations, environmental justice, and social impact assessment. She spent seven years as a public school teacher and has over 15 years experience managing large interdisciplinary and multiyear projects and in developing and implementing participatory...
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Research Interests:
Hunter-gatherer studies, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, extinctions, lithic technology, geochronology, CRM/global heritage management, experimental archaeology
Dissertation Title:
Late Quaternary Paleoenvironments and Archaeology in the San Pedro River Basin, Southeastern Arizona, U.S.A.
Geographic Areas of Concentration:
American Southwest
Great Plains
Southwest Asia (...
Ph.D. Program
My research focuses on the formation of social identity in areas of cultural contact; how communities undergoing migration or aggregation consciously and subconsciously express social and ethnic identity through material culture, specifically ceramics. I am interested in the creation and maintenance of cultural identity through exchange networks, the expression of identity through material...
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Associate Research Anthropologist (BARA)
520.621.2624
520.621.2088
Emil W. Haury Building, Room 316A
Mamadou Baro is a faculty member of BARA (Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology) which is responsible for many successes in research and outreach presences in sub-Saharan Africa, primarily Senegal, Mauritania, Niger and Tanzania. The African Partnerships Initiative has developed an innovative platform for channeling international assistance to poor Africans in rural and urban settings. BARA...
Ph.D. Program
520-248-4103
As an international student from Brazil, with an undergraduate degree in economics, I was surprised to find at the University of Arizona a space to explore and engage with other disciplines. I began my graduate career in 2006 at the Center for Latin American Studies and was fortunate to be accepted in 2008 as a PhD student at the School of Anthropology. My major is Sociocultural Anthropology.
Ph.D. Program
Haury 316
Brandi Bethke is from Sioux Falls, SD where she completed her BA in anthropology, classics, and history at Augustana College in 2010. She then went on to receive her MA degree in classical archaeology from the University of Exeter with a thesis that explored the relationship between humans and animals during the Roman Period, focusing particularly on dogs and their incorporation into human...
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
520.626.4922
520.621.2088
Emil W. Haury Building, Room 227
On Leave for Fall 2012 and Spring 2013
Emma Blake is an archaeologist who studies Italy in the second and first millennia BCE. Her doctoral dissertation focused on monumentality on Sardinia in the Bronze Age, but since then she has shifted her fieldwork to northwest Sicily, where she has worked for many years, first as an Assistant Director on the Monte Polizzo excavations, and since 2008 as...
Ph.D. Program
Archaeology Southwest
Lewis Borck is a PhD student. He studies frontiers and forms of resistance in the archaeological record, often by focusing on the social, cultural, and spatial interactions of marginal groups with their more powerful neighbors. He is interested in combining anarchist theory with standard archaeological, historical, and anthropological theories of historical change and testing these ideas using a...
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology
520-621-0175
Dr. Victor Braitberg is a Cultural Anthropologist whose research lies at the intersection of medical anthropology and Science and Technology Studies. His work is broadly concerned with the ethnographic and historical study of the ways that biomedical knowledge and technological practices are used as political and ideological resources for mediating social inequalities. For the last 13 years...
M.A. Program
I am graduate student in Applied Archaeology with a focus on historical archaeology in the American West. My research centers on the use of archaeological evidence to interpret historic structures and ruins, to aid in the technical aspects of preservation, and to supplement the promotion of historic structures and ruins for cultural tourism and the benefit of the local community. I am...