UW Anthropology Faculty
FULL-TIME PART-TIME & RESEARCH FACULTY
Note: Faculty may appear in more than one program
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ARCHAEOLOGY
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Close, Angela E.
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(PhD Cambridge 1975; Prof) Archaeology, lithic analysis,
Paleolithic; North Africa, Europe [email]
[more info]
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De León, Jason P.
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(PhD Penn State 2008, Full-Time Lecturer) Economic anthropology (ancient and modern), migration, material culture, ethnoarchaeology, ethnicity, sexual behavior, Mesoamerica, Southern US/Mexico border. [email]
[more info]
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Feathers, James K.
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(PhD Washington 1990; Res Assoc Prof) Prehistoric ceramic
technology, archaeometry; Southeast, Southwest US [email]
[more info]
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Fitzhugh, J. Benjamin
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(PhD Michigan 1996; Assoc Prof) Archaeology, evolutionary ecological theory, complex hunter-gatherers in North Pacific, social evolution, settlement systems; Alaska, Russian Far East [email]
[more info]
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Grayson, Donald K.
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PhD Oregon 1973; Prof) Archaeology, paleobiology, faunal
analysis, history of archaeology; North America, Western US, European
Paleolithic [email]
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Lape, Peter
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(PhD Brown 2000; Assoc Prof; Curator of Archaeology, Burke Museum) Archaeology and history, culture contact/colonialism, trade and exchange, settlement patterns, landscapes, religious change; Island Southeast Asia, Pacific and western North America.
[email]
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Llobera, Marcos
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(PhD Oxford 1999; Asst Prof) Landscape archaeology, GIS, computer and mathematical spatial modeling archaeological theory, cognition and perception; Western Mediterranean
[email]
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Marwick, Ben
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(PhD Australian National University 2008; Asst Prof) Evolutionary ecology, archaeology, stone artefact technology; Mainland Southeast Asia and Australia
[email]
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Shaw, Jennie Deo
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(PhD Washington 2008; Lecturer) Subarctic economies, paleoethnobotany, driftwood harvesting, ethnoarchaeology; Alaska, North Pacific rim
[email]
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Stein, Julie K.
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(PhD Minnesota 1980; Prof; Director, Burke Museum) Archaeology, geoarchaeology, archaeological sediments, site formation processes, shell middens, collection management, and museum studies; Northwest Coast
[email]
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Wylie, Alison
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(PhD SUNY Binghampton 1982; Prof) Philosophy of the social and historical sciences; history and philosophy of archaeology; archaeological research ethics; feminist theory and feminist philosophy of science
[email]
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BIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
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Goodreau, Steven M.
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(PhD Pennsylvania State 2001; Asst Prof) Human social networks,
HIV, sexual identity and behavior, human/pathogen co-evolution, population
genetics, infectious disease epidemiology [email]
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Holman, Darryl
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(PhD Pennsylvania State 1996; Assoc Prof) Anthropological demography, human reproductive ecology, paleodemography [email]
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Kramer, Patricia
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(PhD Washington 1998; Res Asst Prof) Human and non-human primate
fossils and locomotion; osteoarthritis and aging of the musculoskeletal
system; biomechanics and energetics of locomotion [email]
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Kushnick, Geoff
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(PhD Washington 2006; Lecturer) Human behavioral ecology; demography, parenting, and health; human evolution, adaptation, and culture; mathematical and statistical modeling and analysis; peoples and cultures of SE Asia, particularly Indonesia
[email] [more info]
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Leonetti, Donna L.
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(PhD Washington 1976; Prof) Biocultural anthropology, human behavioral ecology and anthropological demography; fertility, child mortality and growth; intergenerational effects; kinship; aging; social epidemiology; NE India, Asian Americans [email]
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Newell, Laura L.
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(PhD Washington 1967; Prof) Physical anthropology, non-human
primates, growth & development, disease & body composition [email]
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O'Connor, Kathleen
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(PhD SUNY Albany 1995; Assoc Prof) Biodemography; human reproductive biology and ecology, human mortality patterns and correlates, paleodemography, men’s health [email]
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Shell-Duncan, Bettina
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(PhD Pennsylvania State 1994; Prof) Epidemiology, disease
ecology, demography, maternal & child morbidity & mortality; East
Africa [email]
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Smith, Eric A.
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(PhD Cornell 1980; Prof) Behavioral ecology, ecological demography; arctic North America, indigenous Australia [email]
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SOCIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
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Amrute, Sareeta B.
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(PhD, U Chicago 2008, Asst Prof) Sociocultural anthropology and science and technology studies, Information Technology, history of the present, theories of circulation, race and gender; South Asia
[email] [more info]
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Anagnost, Ann S.
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(PhD Michigan 1985; Prof) Ethnography of the state, ideology & popular culture, peasant society; China [email]
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Barker, Holly
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(PhD American University 2000; Lecturer) Applied anthropology
[email] [more info]
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Bilaniuk, Laada
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(PhD Michigan 1998; Assoc Prof) Linguistic anthropology, language ideology, language politics, nationalism, popular culture, gender; Ukraine, post-Soviet states [email]
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Chapman, Rachel R.
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(PhD UC Los Angeles 1998; Asst Prof) Medical Anthropology, racial and ethnic disparities in health, urban and reproductive health, applied international health, and political economy; US, Mozambique [email] [more info]
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De León, Jason P.
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(PhD Penn State 2008, Full-Time Lecturer) Economic anthropology (ancient and modern), migration, material culture, ethnoarchaeology, ethnicity, sexual behavior, Mesoamerica, Southern US/Mexico border. [email]
[more info]
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Harrell, Stevan
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(Ph.D. Stanford 1974, Prof; Adjunct Professor, Asian Languages and Literature) Environmental anthropology, ecosystem resilience, demography, family, ethnicity, education, material culture; China and Taiwan [email]
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Hoffman, Daniel
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(PhD Duke 2004; Asst Prof) Visual anthropology, violence and militarism, experimental ethnography; West Africa [email] [more
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Jolles, Carol
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(PhD Washington 1990; Res Assoc Prof) Culture Change, gender,
ethnohistory, modern hunters-gathers, Alaskan Inuit and Yupik societies,
Native North America [email]
[more info]
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Kahn, Miriam
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(PhD Bryn Mawr 1980; Prof) Anthropology of place, colonial and postcolonial politics, nuclear testing, tourism and travel, museum representation; Oceania (French Polynesia, Papua New Guinea) [email]
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Lowe, Celia
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(PhD Yale 1999; Assoc Prof) Anthropology of reason, biosecurity, post-colonial theory, science studies, nationalism, identity; Southeast Asia, Indonesia [email]
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Peña, Devon
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(PhD Texas-Austin 1983; Prof) Agroecology, bioregionalism,
ethnoecology, social movements, labor process theory, workplace politics [email]
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Rhodes, Lorna Amarasingham
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(PhD Cornell 1973; Prof) Cultural anthropology, culture
& psychiatry; medical anthropology, religion; South Asia, Sri Lanka, US [email]
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Taylor, Janelle S.
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(PhD Chicago 1999; Assoc Prof) Medicine and medical education, dementia, technology, commodification and consumer culture, reproduction, science studies; US [email]
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Welland, Sasha
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(PhD UC Santa Cruz 2006; Asst Prof) Gender, feminist ethnography, anthropology of art, visual/expressive culture; China, East Asia, Asian America
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