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
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS)
pcanova@utexas.edu |
(512) 471-2762 |
WCP 5.144
Education: PhD, 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
Interests: Indigeneity, Hawaiʻi, decolonization, politics, settler colonialism, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, capitalism, popular culture, science and technology
Iyaxel Cojti Ren
Assistant Professor
iyaxel.cojtiren@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-8512 |
WCP 4.152
Education: Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Interests: Postclassic Maya archaeology, Postclassic Mesoamerica, Maya Epigraphy, Maya iconography, Mesoamerica oral and historical tradition, historical memory in Guatemala.
Jason Cons
Associate Professor
jasoncons@utexas.edu |
(512) 232-3832 |
WCP 5.138
Education: PhD, Cornell University
Interests: Borders, security, climate change, agrarian change, deltas, development, political ecology, South Asia, Bangladesh
R. Alan Covey
Professor
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
Celina de Sá
Assistant Professor
celina.desa@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-9209 |
WCP 5.132
Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Anthony Di Fiore
Professor
anthony.difiore@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-2318 |
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
Deputy to the President for Academic Priorities; Professor
flores@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-6080 |
MAI 400
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Folklore and expressive culture of Greater Mexico; anthropology of symbols; anthropology
Maria Franklin
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
Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Ibarrola
Assistant Professor
mary.ibarrola@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-0052 |
WCP 5.142
Education: Ph.D., University of Florida
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@austin.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
Interim Chair (through 1/15/22); 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: political communication, knowledge and power, expertise, communicative infrastructures and imaginaries, the social life of information, cultural epistemologies, anarchic politics; Papua New Guinea, North America
Christen Smith, PhD
Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology
christen.smith@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-6332 |
GWB 3.112
Education: Ph.D., Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University
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; Undergraduate Advisor
pstrong@.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, literacies/graphic pluralism, languages and inequalities, 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
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
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
Thomas Garrison
Faculty
thomas.garrison@austin.utexas.edu |
RLP
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Lyndon K. Gill
Associate Professor, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies
lyndonkgill@utexas.edu |
BEL 214D
Education: Ph.D., African American Studies and Anthropology, Harvard University
Interests: Queer aesthetics in the African Diaspora, the erotic, LGBT art and activism in Caribbean cultures, African-based spiritual traditions in the Americas, subjectivity and community building
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
Ashanté Reese
Assistant Professor
ashante.reese@austin.utexas.edu |
GWB
Education: Ph.D., Anthropology, American University
Maria Sidorkina
Faculty
maria.sidorkina@austin.utexas.edu
Education: Ph.D. 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 |
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
Darrell G. Creel
Professor Emeritus; Former Director of Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory (TARL)
Education: Ph.D., University of Arizona
Interests: Archeology; Texas, Plains, Southwest, Southeast U.S.
James R. Denbow
Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University
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
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.
Nora C. England
Professor, Department of Linguistics
Education: Ph.D., University of Florida
Interests: Linguistic description, grammar writing, language and identity, language politics, language ideologies, Mayan linguistics, American languages
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.
