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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
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Satoshi Abe
PhD Student (in-field)
Profile 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...
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E. Charles Adams
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.
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W. Ben Adams
PhD Student (pre-fieldwork)
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Mark Aldenderfer
Adjunct Professor, Anthropology
Off Campus at University of California - Merced
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Ana Maria Alonso
Associate Professor of Anthropology
520.621.2305
520.621.2088
Emil W. Haury Building, Room 304
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Bruce Anderson
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology
(520) 243-8633
Fax: (520) 621-2088
Emil W. Haury Building, Room 210
Forensic Anthropologist for the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner. Mentor for the Forensic Anthropology Internship Program.
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Donald Nathan Anderson
PhD Student (pre-fieldwork)
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Julie S. Armin
PhD Candidate (in the field)
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Diane E. Austin
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...
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James E. Ayres
Adjunct Lecturer of Anthropology
jammar@post.com
520.621.2585
Emil W. Haury Building, Room 210
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Claire S. Barker
In Progress: Ph.D, Archaeology, University of Arizona 2010: M.A., Museum Studies, George Washington  University 2008: B.A. Anthropology, University of Michigan Classical Archaeology, University of Michigan     My research focuses on the formation of social identity in areas of cultural contact; how communities undergoing migration or aggregation consciously and subconsciously...
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Mamadou A. Baro
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...
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Luis Barros
PhD Student (pre-fieldwork)
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.
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Ben Beshaw
Administrative Assistant
520.626.1691
Emil W. Haury Building, Room 223
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Brandi Bethke
Haury 319A
MA - University of Exeter, UK (Classical Archaeology)  BA - Augustana College, SD (Anthropology, Classics, History)    Brandi Bethke is from Sioux Falls, SD where she completed her BA in Anthropology, Classics, and History from Augustana College in 2010. While at Augustana she worked as a laboratory technician for the Augustana Archaeology Laboratory. She then went on to receive...
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Emma Blake
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
520.626.4922
520.621.2088
Emil W. Haury Building, Room 227
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 Co-Director of the Marsala Hinterland...
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Lewis Borck
MA Student
Southwest Laboratory
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 also interested in combining GIS and social network analysis. His master’s research applied these theoretical and methodological interests to the Gallina region of...
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Micah Boyer
PhD Student (in-field)
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Victor Braitberg
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology
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...
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Tammy Buonasera
PhD Student (pre-fieldwork)
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Laura Burghardt
M.A. Student in Applied Archaeology
2009 M.S. Historic Preservation, College of Charleston & Clemson University 2007 B.A. Anthropology, Arizona State University 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...
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Brian J. Burke
PhD Student
A native of Miami and Washington, DC, Tucson has quickly become my home thanks largely to the great bunch of students in the School of Anthropology. While at the U of A, I've participated in several BARA research projects: the study of Latin American rural cooperatives, which took me to Brazil and Paraguay in the summer of 2005 and formed the basis for my thesis; Diane Austin's environmental...
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Rachael Byrd
MA student
My academic focus involves bioarchaeology of early agricultural populations.  Currently my research is geared toward working with cranial morphology, microevolutionary processes, and quantitative genetics to understand the biological variation of a large forager-farmer skeletal population at the site of La Playa, Sonora. 
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Jacob Campbell
PhD Candidate
MA Thesis/PhD Dissertation Title: MA Title:  Technologies of Governance in a Trinidadian Company Town
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Paola Canova
PhD Dissertator
2009 - 2010 Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant to conduct research among the Ayoreo people the Paraguayan Chaco.