Anthropology Faculty
Kamran Asdar Ali
Professor
asdar@austin.utexas.edu |
471-7531 |
WCP 5.126
Education: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Interests: Gender, sexuality, health, political economy, post-colonialism, labor history, popular culture; Middle East, South Asia
Craig Campbell
Associate Professor
craig.campbell@utexas.edu |
(512) 232-4342 |
WCP 4.122
Education: Ph.D., University of Alberta
Interests: Visual/intermedia/sensory ethnography, Soviet culture, Evenki peoples, travel and mobility, cultural history, archives, photography; Siberia
Paola Canova
(on leave)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS)
pcanova@utexas.edu |
(512) 471-2762 |
WCP 5.144
Education: Ph.D., University of Arizona
Interests: Gender and sexuality, indigeneity, ethics, political ecology; Latin America, Paraguay
Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar
Assistant Professor
iokepa@austin.utexas.edu |
471-0061 |
WCP 5.120
Education: Ph.D., University of Hawai‘i–Mānoa
Jason Cons
Associate Professor
jasoncons@utexas.edu |
(512) 232-3832 |
WCP 5.138
Education: PhD, Cornell University
Interests: Borders, security, climate change, agrarian change, development, political ecology, South Asia, Bangladesh
R. Alan Covey
Professor; Undergraduate Advisor
r.alan.covey@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-2084 |
RLP 4.406
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Interests: Archaeology, ethnohistory, Andes, Inca empire, early Colonial Peru, archaeological theory
Anthony Di Fiore
Department Chair and Professor
anthony.difiore@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-2183 (Chair's Office); (512) 471-2318 |
WCP 4.102H (Chair's Office); WCP 5.150
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Interests: Population genetics, comparative socioecology, mating systems, molecular ecology, phylogenetics, tropical ecology, computational modeling; South and Central American primates
Richard R. Flores
Senior Associate Dean For Academic Affairs; Professor
flores@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-9209 |
GEB 3.210
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Folklore and expressive culture of Greater Mexico; anthropology of symbols; anthropology
Maria Franklin
Associate Professor
mfranklin@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-8513 |
WCP 4.150
Education: Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley
Interests: Historical archaeology, archaeological theory, African Diaspora studies, race and gender, feminist theory
Courtney Handman
Department Associate Chair; Associate Professor
chandman@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-0059 |
WCP 4.124
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: Linguistic anthropology, the anthropology of Christianity, translation, religion and media, circulation, infrastructures, decolonization, Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, the Pacific
John Hartigan
Director of Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies; Professor; Faculty Graduate Advisor for Cultural Forms
johnhartigan@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-9201 |
WCP 4.158
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
Interests: Multispecies ethnography (wild horses in Spain); anthropology of science (botany & plant genomics in Mexico and Spain); bullfighting in Peru, Colombia & Mexico; ethnography of race (theories, methods, and practice, with an attention to cultural articulations of whiteness)
Hi'ilei Hobart
Assistant Professor
hiilei.hobart@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-6332 |
WCP 5.136
Education: PhD, Food Studies, New York University
Interests: Food, Temperature, Settler Colonialism, Embodiment, Aesthetics, Indigeneity, Hawaiʻi, Everyday Life
John W. Kappelman Jr
Professor
jkappelman@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-0055 |
WCP 5.160
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests: The primary focus of my research is hominoid evolution and human origins and evolution, with particular emphasis in paleoecology and functional morphology, and stratigraphy and geochronology. I conduct field and laboratory research in paleontology, stratigraphy, and paleomagnetism, and laboratory research in functional morphology and computer imaging. Africa, Asia
Elizabeth L. Keating
Professor
elizabeth.keating@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-8518 |
WCP 4.156
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Interests: Linguistic anthropology, language and status, American Sign Language, new communication technologies, computer-mediated interaction, multimodal communication, visual anthropology; Oceania, Micronesia, US
Ward Keeler
Professor
ward.keeler@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-8520 |
WCP 4.128
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Interests: Anthropology and expressive culture (performing arts and literature); hierarchy; gender; Buddhism; Indonesia and Burma
Chris Kirk
Professor
eckirk -at- austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-0056 |
WCP 5.154
Education: Ph.D., Duke University
Interests: Primate evolution, primate sensory systems, evolutionary and functional anatomy of the head and neck, sensory ecology
Rebecca J. Lewis
Professor
rjlewis@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-5386 |
WCP 5.152
Education: Ph.D., University Biological Anthropology and Anatomy (2004), Duke University
Interests: Evolution of primate social behavior, intersexual conflict, social relationships, power dynamics, socioecology, biological markets, fire ecology, cyclone ecology; Madagascar
Martha Menchaca
Professor
mmen@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-7537 |
WCP 5.158
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Interests: Social anthropology, ethnicity, gender, oral history/oral traditions, legal anthropology, immigration, Chicano studies: US/Mexican culture, Latin America.
Sofian Merabet
Associate Professor
sofian.merabet@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-0057 |
WCP 5.156
Education: Ph.D., Columbia University
Interests: Socio-Cultural Theory/Urban Studies/Gender Studies/Queer Theory/Muslim World, Europe, South America
Marina Peterson
Associate Professor
marina.peterson@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-0054 |
WCP 5.148
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: Sound, cities, sensory ethnography, materialities, infrastructure; US (Los Angeles, Appalachian Ohio)
Denné N. Reed
Associate Professor; Faculty Graduate Advisor
reedd@mail.utexas.edu |
Office (512) 471-7529, Lab (512) 232-6380 |
WCP 4.148
Education: Ph.D., Stony Brook University
Interests: Human evolution, micromammal paleoecology, taphonomy, GIS, remote sensing; Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya, Morocco
Enrique R. Rodríguez-Alegría
Professor
chanfle@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-0786 |
WCP 4.144
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: archaeology, history, ethnohistory, Mesoamerica, the Spanish empire in Latin America, Mexico, Puerto Rico, archaeometry (INAA and LA-ICP-MS), colonialism, religious conversion, food
Arlene Rosen
(on leave)
Professor
amrosen@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-2081 |
RLP 4.402
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: Environmental archaeology, Prehistory of the Near East and China, origins of agriculture, climate change and society, phytoliths, geoarchaeology.
Aaron Sandel
Assistant Professor
aaron.sandel@austin.utexas.edu |
WCP 5.146
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Interests: chimpanzees, friendship, primates, life history, physiology, conservation, comparative methods, cognition
Suzanne Seriff
Senior Lecturer
sseriff@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-0816 |
WCP 4.126
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: issues of museum representation, public folklore and folklife, Jewish museums and material multure, folk arts and social change, public culture; global folk arts,
Liza J. Shapiro
Professor
liza.shapiro@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-7533 |
WCP 5.128
Education: Ph.D., SUNY-Stony Brook
Interests: Primate evolution and functional morphology, locomotion.
James Slotta
Assistant Professor
jslotta@utexas.edu |
WCP 5.134
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: language and knowledge, political communication, epistemologies and politics, cultures of circulation, semantics-pragmatics interface; Melanesia, Papua New Guinea
Christen Smith, PhD
Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology
christen.smith@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-6332 |
GWB 3.112
Interests: Blackness, performance, racial formation, violence, Black women and transnational struggle, Black liberation and resistance in the Americas (particularly Brazil and the United States)
Kathleen C. Stewart
Professor
kstewart@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-8521 |
RLP 4.408
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Interests: Affect, experimental ethnographic writing, non-representational theory, post-phenomenology, new materialisms, worldings, place; United States, New England.
Pauline Strong
Professor of Anthropology and Women's & Gender Studies; Director of the Humanities Institute;
pstrong@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-8524 |
RLP 4.404, WCP 4.136
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: Cultural, historical, feminist anthropology. Identity and difference. Politics of representation. Public culture. Youth organizations. Museum studies. Public humanities. Medical humanities. US, Indigenous North America.
Circe Sturm
Professor
circe@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-1561 |
WCP 5.122
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Interests: Race, sovereignty, and citizenship; comparative colonialisms; race and indigeneity; dominance, resistance, and subjectivity; Native North America, Central America, and Europe
Fred Valdez, Jr.
Professor
fredv@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-0060 |
WCP 4.162
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests: Archaeology, ceramic technology; Texas, Mesoamerica
Mariah D. Wade
Associate Professor
m.wade@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-4876 |
WCP 4.146
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Archaeology and ethnohistory of North America, colonial and post-colonial American Southwest, Iberian Bronze and Iron Ages and Roman Period; Portugal, North America
Anthony K. Webster
(on leave)
Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Linguistic anthropology, ethnopoetics, (Southern) Athabaskan languages, Navajo English, translation, iconicity, linguistic relativity, sounds, moral imagination, discursive discrimination, history of anthropology
Research Fellows
Affiliated Faculty
J. Brent Crosson
Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies
brent.crosson@utexas.edu |
BUR 514
Education: Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz
Interests: Anthropology of religion and secularity, anthropology of science, Caribbean and Latin American studies, African diasporas, South Asian diasporas, Atlantic modernities, anthropology of/and race, anthropology of energy, colonial regulation of religion
Nora C. England
Professor, Department of Linguistics
nengland@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-9014 |
CLA 4.732
Education: Ph.D., University of Florida
Interests: Linguistic description, grammar writing, language and identity, language politics, language ideologies, Mayan linguistics, American languages
Veit Erlmann
Professor, Endowed Chair of Music History, School of Music
erlmann@utexas.edu |
(512) 232-2092 |
MRH 3.832
Education: Ph.D., University of Cologne
Interests: South African popular music, music and globalization, history of sound, intellectual property; South Africa, Indonesia
Kevin Foster, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies
kmfoster@mail.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-4362 |
BEL 242
Interests: African American student achievement; intersection of sports and academics; impact of race and gender on student academic outcomes; cultural theory in education
Heather Hindman
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies
h.hindman@mail.utexas.edu |
WCH 4.104G
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: Anthropology; Gender Studies; South Asia; Globalization Critical development, expatriate communities, tourism, social theory, global labor and gender, bureaucracy, entrepreneurialism, social aspects of economics, mobilities, transnational financial practice
Randolph Lewis
Professor, Department of American Studies
randolph.lewis@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 475-7783 |
BUR 456
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Cinema studies, media studies, documentary film, indigenous media, American cultural history, especially of the twentieth century
Chelsi West Ohueri
Faculty
chelsiwestohueri@austin.utexas.edu
Education: Ph.D., Sociocultural Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin
Robert M Oppenheim
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies
rmo@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-7279 |
WCH 5.134
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: Korean culture and history, objects/space/place, history of anthropology
Maria Sidorkina
Faculty
maria.sidorkina@austin.utexas.edu
Education: Ph.D. Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology, Yale University
Jürgen Streeck
Professor, Department of Communication Studies
jstreeck@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-1955 |
CMA 7.118A
Education: Ph.D., Freie Universität Berlin
Interests: Language & culture; interaction theory; visual research; human interaction as cultural practice; gesture; hip hop and what it knows about human language
David Stuart
Professor, Department of Art and Art History
davidstuart@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-2363 |
ART 1.412
Education: Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Interests: Archaeology, art, linguistics and epigraphy; Mesoamerica, Mexico and Central America
John W. Traphagan
Professor
jtrap@utexas.edu |
(512) 232-0874 |
BUR 520
Education: Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Interests: Astrobiology | Japanese religion & society | ritual | medical anthropology | science, technology, and culture | ruralities and eneurship in Japan
Anthony C. Woodbury
Professor, Department of Linguistics
woodbury@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-1701 |
CLA 4.728
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Documentary and descriptive linguistics; language endangerment; grammatical analysis and theory; natural discourse and oral literature; Chatino linguistics and language preservation; Yupik-Inuit-Aleut languages and speech communities
Professors Emeriti
Claud A. Bramblett
Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., Berkeley
Interests: Physical anthropology, primatology; East Africa
James Brow
Professor Emeritus
Education: PhD, University of Washington
Interests: Social anthropology of South Asia, especially Sri Lanka; agrarian change, economic development, colonialism, nationalism, ethnicity, globalization.
Darrell G. Creel
Director of Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory (TARL); Associate Professor Emeritus
dcreel@tarl.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-6007 |
PRC BLDG 5
Education: Ph.D., University of Arizona
Interests: Archeology; Texas, Plains, Southwest, Southeast U.S.
James R. Denbow
Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., University of Indiana
Interests: Archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, rock art; Later Stone Age and Iron Age studies in Southern and Central Africa
Thomas R. Hester
Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Archaeology, prehistoric technology, lithics, hunter-gatherers; North America, Mesoamerica
James A. Neely
Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., University of Arizona
Interests: Archaeology of the Middle East, Mesoamerica, and the American Southwest, with a focus on prehistoric and early historic agricultural strategies, agricultural intensification, as well as water management and technology.
Henry A. Selby
Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., Stanford
Interests: Social organization, economic anthropology, development studies; Mesoamerica, Latin America, Canada
Joel F. Sherzer
Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Linguistic anthropology, ethnography of speaking, archival and documentary linguistics; North and South America
Samuel M. Wilson
Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: Archaeology, ethnohistory; Caribbean, US Southeast
In Memoriam
Richard N. Adams
Professor
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Interests: Latin America, especially Central America; anthropology theory, energy and evolution
Robert A. Fernea
Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: Cultural anthropology, ethnography, gender studies, peasant societies; Arab world, Middle East
Brian M. Stross
Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Linguistic Anthropology, Indigenous Mesoamerica, Maya Iconography and Epigraphy, Anthropology of Food, Ethnobotany, Cultural Forms.
