Core Faculty

	E. Charles Adams Professor of Anthropology, Curator, Archaeology (ASM) ecadams@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520.621.2093 FAX: 520.621.2976 Office: Arizona State Museum North, Room 219 Since 1985, E. Charles Adams has been Curator of Archaeology, Arizona State Museum and Professor, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona. Since arriving at UA, he has directed the Homol’ovi Research Program for the Museum. Homol’ovi was a gathering place for many Hopi clans prior to... [more information]
	Ana Maria Alonso (On Leave for 2017-2018) Associate Professor of Anthropology alonso@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520.621.2305 FAX: 520.621.2088 Office: Emil W. Haury Building, Room 304 [more information]
	Maribel Alvarez Associate Professor of Anthropology, Associate Research Social Scientist, Southwest Center alvarezm@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-6755 Office: The Little Chapel (1401 E. First Street) Dr. Maribel Alvarez, Ph.D. is a Trustee of the Library of Congress’ American Folklife Center. In 2009-10, she was a Fulbright Fellow in Sonora, Mexico researching agricultural practices and regional foodways. A nationally recognized public scholar named by Community Arts a “bridge” between academia... [more information]
	Diane E. Austin Professor and Director, School of Anthropology, Research Anthropologist (BARA) daustin@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520.621.6298 FAX: 520.621.2088 Office: Haury Anthropology Building, Room 210F Diane Austin is an applied environmental anthropologist whose work focuses on community dynamics amid large-scale industrial activity, alternative technologies to address environmental and social problems, environmental education, impact assessment, and community-based, collaborative research and... [more information]
	Mamadou A. Baro Associate Professor of Anthropology, Associate Research Anthropologist (BARA) baro@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-2624 FAX: 520.621.2088 Office: Emil W. Haury Building, Room 318 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... [more information]
	Emma Blake Associate Professor of Anthropology ecblake@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520.626.4922 FAX: 520.621.2088 Office: Emil W. Haury Building, Room 227 Emma Blake is a Mediterranean archaeologist, focusing primarily on regional identities and networks in Italy in the second and first millennia BCE. She is the author of Social Networks and Regional Identity in Bronze Age Italy has been published by Cambridge University Press (2014), as well as... [more information]
	Megan Carney Assistant Professor mcarney@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520.621.5078 FAX: 520.621.2088 Office: Emil W. Haury Building, Room 318 I am a sociocultural and critical medical anthropologist with specializations in transnational and gendered migration, migrant health, food and food systems, and biopolitics. My research consists of fieldwork in the western United States with Latinx, Mexican, and Central American communities and in... [more information]
	T. J. Ferguson Professor of Anthropology; Coordinator (M.A. in Applied Archaeology); Chair, University Indian Ruins Preservation and Management Committee tjf@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520.626.9684 FAX: 520.621.2088 Office: Emil W. Haury Building, Room 408D T. J. Ferguson is an archaeologist in the School of Anthropology, where he coordinates the MA in Applied Archaeology program and serves as the editor of the Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona. Dr. Ferguson specializes in collaborative research with Native Americans needed for... [more information]
	Timothy J. Finan (On Sabbatical Fall 2017) Professor of Anthropology, Research Anthropologist (BARA) finan@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520.270.3346 Office: Geronimo 300 Tim Finan has been on the faculty of the University of Arizona since 1981, when he joined the then Bureau of Ethnic Studies (BER) as a research associate. He was part of the transition of BER to the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropologyd (BARA) in 1983 as an assistant research anthropologist... [more information]
	Lars Fogelin Associate Professor lfogelin@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520.621.6305 FAX: 520.621.2088 Office: Emil W. Haury Building, Room 312 Lars Fogelin studies the archaeology of Buddhism in South Asia. Fogelin also engages in broader research on the archaeology of religion, architecture and the application of the philosophy of science to archaeology. [more information]
	Linda Green Professor of Anthropology lbgreen@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-3258 FAX: 520.621.2088 Office: Emil W. Haury Building, Room 304 I am a socio-cutural and medical anthropologist. In my scholarship I draw on insights garnered from over two decades of field-based research that has centered on multi-dimensional aspects of violence, directed in particular, against indigenous peoples in three geographical regions,1. in the rural... [more information]
	James B. Greenberg Professor of Anthropology & Research Anthropologist (BARA) jgreenbe@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520.621.6316 FAX: 520.621.2088 Office: Geronimo Building, Room 324 James B. Greenberg is a Senior Research Professor in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA) and a Professor of Anthropology in the School of Anthropology. His current research uses a political ecology framework to examine the impact of global capital on the development and well-being... [more information]
	Eleni Hasaki (on Sabbatical Leave Fall 2018-Spring 2019) Associate Professor of Anthropology and Classics; Co-director, Laboratory for Traditional Technology hasakie@email.arizona.edu FAX: 520.621.8516 Office: Haury 314A Eleni Hasaki (Associate Professor, Anthropology/Classics) is a Mediterranean archaeologist whose research focuses on the craft technologies of Classical antiquity, the spatial organization of workshops, craft apprenticeship, and the negotiation of social status through crafts, especially ceramics... [more information]
	Vance T. Holliday Professor of Anthropology & Geosciences (Adjunct in Geography) vthollid@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520.621.4734 FAX: 520.621.2088 Office: Emil W. Haury Building, Room 406 Vance Holliday is both an archaeologist and geologist who has spent much of his career reconstructing and interpreting the landscapes and environments in which past societies lived, and how these conditions evolved. Most of his geoarchaeological research has focused on Paleoindian archaeology on... [more information]
	Takeshi Inomata Professor of Anthropology, Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in Environment and Social Justice inomata@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520.621.2961 FAX: 520.621.2088 Office: Emil W. Haury Building, Room 413 Takeshi Inomata is an archaeologist who studies Maya civilization, social change, warfare, architecture, and ceramics. He has worked at the Maya sites of Aguateca and Ceibal, Guatemala, and in the Middle Usumacinta region, Tabasco, Mexico. [more information]
	David Killick Professor of Anthropology killick@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520.621.8685 FAX: 520.621.2088 Office: Emil W. Haury Building, Room 310E I have taught at the University of Arizona since 1991. I was the first hire in W. David Kingery's Culture, Science and Technology Program and taught the history and sociology of technology in both the College of Social Sciences and the College of Engineering. At that time I did mostly... [more information]
	Steven L. Kuhn Fred A. Riecker Professor of Anthropology; Director (Center for Mediterranean Archaology and the Environment) skuhn@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520.626.9135 FAX: 520.621.2088 Office: Emil W. Haury Building, Room 409C I am a Professor in the School of Anthropology. My research interests center on the evolution of human technological and social behavior. My primary research tool is the study of stone artifacts. I am currently involved in collaborative archaeological fieldwork and laboratory projects... [more information]
	Janelle Lamoreaux Assistant Professor jlamoreaux@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-0373 Office: Haury 306 I am a sociocultural anthropologist who focuses on the anthropology of science & technology with an emphasis on reproduction, gender and the environment. My book manuscript in progress, Infertile Futures: Epigenetic Environments in a Toxic China, is an ethnograhpic study of epigenetic research... [more information]
	Evan MacLean Assistant Professor evanmaclean@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520.621.0386 Office: 313A2 I am an evolutionary anthropologist and comparative psychologist with research interests in how and why cognition evolves. My research program is motivated both by questions about what makes the human mind unique, and broader evolutionary questions regarding the proximate mechanisms and functional... [more information]
	Barbara Mills Regents' Professor of Anthropology, Curator of Archaeology (ASM), Professor (American Indian Studies) bmills@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-9671 FAX: (520) 621-2088 Office: Emil W. Haury Building, Room 408E I am an anthropological archaeologist with broad interests in archaeological method and theory, especially (but not exclusively) as applied to the North American Southwest. My work has focused on ceramic analysis as a tool for understanding production, distribution, and consumption but more... [more information]
	Lindsay M. Montgomery Assistant Professor of Anthropology lmmontgomery@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-5109 Office: Haury Building, 408D Lindsay Montgomery is a anthropological archaeologists whose work focuses on the material practices of nomadic groups during the Spanish colonial period. Her research employs a collaborative and multi-disciplinary approach, which brings together archaeological, archival, and ethnographic sources to... [more information]
	Mimi Nichter Professor of Anthropology, Joint Appointments in Public Health and Family and Consumer Resources mimin@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520.626.9067 FAX: 520.621.2088 Office: Geronimo Building, Room 318 I am a sociocultural anthropologist whose research focuses in the area of medical anthropology. I have long standing interests in health and development both in the United States as well as in South and Southeast Asia. I have an extensive background working in maternal and child health and women's... [more information]
	Mark Nichter (On Research Leave through December 2018) Regents' Professor and Professor of Anthropology, Public Health, Family Medicine mnichter@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520.621.2665 FAX: 520.621.2088 Office: Emil W. Haury Building, Room 214 I am a sociocultural anthropologist who specializes in medical anthropology and has considerable field experience in Global Health, health disparities, and ethnomedicine broadly defined. I have conducted research on a wide range of topics from child survival and reproductive health to emerging... [more information]
	Thomas K. Park Associate Professor of Anthropology, Associate Professor (MENAS), Assoc. Research Anthropologist (BARA) tpark@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520.621.2632 FAX: 520.621.2088 Office: Geronimo Building, Room 316 Education: University of Wisconsin - Madison: Ph.D. Anthropology and History 1983. M.A. Agricultural Economics 1982. M.A. Anthropology 1977. McGill University, Montreal, Canada: B.A. 1st Class Honors in Anthropology and Philosophy 1974. University of Bergen, Norway: Studied Anthropology 1971-2.... [more information]
	Ivy L. Pike (On Sabbatical Fall 2017–Spring 2018) Associate Professor of Anthropology ilpike@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520.626.2099 FAX: 520.621.2088 Office: Emil W. Haury Building, Room 302 My research blends the impacts of inequality on health with the acknowledgement that human biology is shaped by our evolutionary heritage. I am interested in blending evolution and embodiment - what evolutionary mechanisms allow us to track our social and physical environments to improve fitness... [more information]
	Eric Plemons (On Junior Professional Development Leave Spring 2019) Assistant Professor of Anthropology eplemons@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-3102 Office: Haury 315 I am a medical anthropologist focused on surgical practice and the production, circulation and application of expert knowledge on gendered bodies. My first book, The Look of a Woman (2017, Duke University Press), examines Facial Feminization Surgery, a series of bone and soft tissue reconstructive... [more information]
	David A. Raichlen (On Sabbatical Fall 2018) Associate Professor of Anthropology raichlen@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520.626.4543 Office: Emil W. Haury Building, Room 310D Our lab is focused on understanding how humans' unique evolutionary history explains modern human physiological variation and how we can use an evolutionary context to improve health and well-being today. Specifically, we believe a shift towards high levels of physical activity during our... [more information]
	David Gilman Romano Nicholas and Athena Karabots Professor of Greek Archaeology and Director, Archaeological Mapping Lab. GIDP Committee in Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis dgromano@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520.621.5343 FAX: 520.621.2088 Office: Emil W. Haury Anthropology Building, Room 122B Director, Archaeological Mapping Lab, http://archaeologicalmappinglab.org I am a Classical Archaeologist interested in both the Greek and Roman worlds. My specific interests include the study of ancient cities and sanctuaries, architecture,... [more information]
	Irene Bald Romano Professor, Anthropology ireneromano@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-1377 Office: Arizona State Museum North, Rm 316 Archaeologist Irene Bald Romano holds a joint appointment as Professor of Art History in the School of Art and Professor of Anthropology in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. She also has an affiliated appointment in the Department of Religious Studies and Classics and is the... [more information]
	Jennifer Roth-Gordon (On Research Leave 2018-2019) Associate Professor of Anthropology jenrothg@email.arizona.edu Jennifer Roth-Gordon is a linguistic and cultural anthropologist who has been conducting research in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil since 1995. Her book, Race and the Brazilian Body: Blackness, Whiteness, and Everyday Language in Rio de Janeiro (University of California Press, 2017) explores how racial... [more information]

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