Affiliated Faculty

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Grace Aneiza Ali

Curator with a focus on practices that counter under-examined peoples and places.

Michael Carrasco

Michael Carrasco

Precolumbian Art and Architecture, particularly the Maya and Formative period Gulf Coast

Elizabeth Cecil

Elizabeth Cecil

Ethnohistorian of religion and material culture with a focus on Hindu traditions in South and Southeast Asia

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Kathleen Powers Conti

Historian of the buildings, landscapes, and cultures of North America

Kristin Dowell

Kristin Dowell

Art of Native North America with emphasis on global Indigenous cinema and contemporary art

Sarah Eyerly

Sarah Eyerly

Musicologist with a specialty in the soundscapes of Indigenous North America

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Andrew K. Frank

Historian of the Seminoles, Indigenous Florida, and the Native South

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Juan Carlos Galeano

Poet, translator, and scholar of Amazonia. 

Carolina Gonzalez

Carolina Gonzalez

Phonetics and phonology, their acquisition, and their interface with morphology and syntax, language endangerment and revitalization

Sonia Hazard

Sonia Hazard

North American religious history, Indigenous media and communication, Cherokee language and literature

Joseph Hellweg

Joseph Hellweg

Islam, politics, performance, and health in West Africa

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K. Ann Horsburgh

Biological anthropologist with an interest health and disease, in particular interrogating the role of stress in well-being. 

Katie McCormick

Katie McCormick

Archivist & Librarian focused on community partnership development and ethical practices for collecting, access, and digitization practices

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Mark McCoy

Anthropological archaeologist who explores ancient societies on Pacific Islands—including Hawai‘i, New Zealand, and Rapa Nui—and the relationship between people and their island environments

Tyler McCreary

Tyler McCreary

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Settler colonialism and environmental governance, Indigenous peoples of Pacific Northwest

Jayur Mehta

Jayur Madhusudan Mehta

Archaeology of North American Native Americans, human-environment relationships, and the consequences of French and Spanish colonization in the Gulf South

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Eugenia Millender

Scholar of mental health disparities among indigenous and vulnerable populations that result from stress and trauma

Antje Muntendam

Antje Muntendam

Indigenous (especially Quechua) languages in Latin America and the linguistic outcomes of language contact with Spanish speakers

Paul Niell

Paul Niell

Scholar of architecture and cultural landscapes of the Hispanophone Caribbean

Tanya Peres

Tanya Peres

Zooarchaeologist with a focus on foodways in ancient America and non-food roles of animals in Indigenous cultures

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Tanya Renn

The relational pathways that exist between stress, trauma, substance use, and well-being among marginalized populations, specifically those involved in the criminal justice system. 

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Christine Rizzi

Native Americans and African Americans in Florida and the South; Mobility; and Settler Colonialism.

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Theresa Schober

Anthropologist with a focus on community archaeology, repatriation, and Indigenous representation in museum settings.

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Eric C. Shattuck

Biocultural anthropologist working on Indigenous health disparities

Geoffrey Thomas

Geoffrey Thomas

Physical archaeology

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Brendan Weaver

Historical archaeologist of material and visual culture among Afro-Andeans.