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University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Department of Anthropology and Geography

Anthropology Program

Full Time Faculty

Effie Athanassopoulos Effie Athanassopoulos, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (1993)
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Classics
Subfield: Archaeology
Research interests: landscape archaeology, historical archaeology, Europe, archaeology and its role in national/ethnic identity formation. Documentary sources and archaeological evidence: relationship and interpretation

Mark Awakuni-Swetland Mark Awakuni-Swetland, Ph.D. University of Oklahoma (2003)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies (Native American Studies)
Subfields: Sociocultural anthropology, Anthropological linguistics
Research interests: Native Peoples: prairie/plains, California, Hawaii. ethnohistory, oral history, sociolinguistics, native language ideology, Siouan:Dhegiha:Omaha languages

Peter Bleed Peter Bleed, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin (1973)
Professor of Anthropology
Subfield: Archaeology
Research interests: theoretical analysis of technological systems and material culture, lithics, historic archaeology, battlefields and conflict sites, Japan, North America

Paul Demers Paul Demers, Ph.D Michigan State University (2001)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Subfield: Archaeology
Research interests: historical and industrial archaeology, borders and frontiers, transnationalism, utopian and communal societies, classical archaeology, method and theory in the social sciences

Patricia Draper Patricia Draper, Ph.D. Harvard University (1972)
Professor of Anthropology
Subfield: Sociocultural anthropology
Research interests: hunter-gatherers, biocultural bases of sex roles, adult development and aging, cultural ecology, peoples and cultures of Africa, anthropological methods

Raymond Hames Raymond Hames, Ph.D. University of California-Santa Barbara (1978)
Professor of Anthropology
Graduate Advisor
Subfield: Cultural anthropology
Research interests: behavioral ecology, economic exchange, time allocation

Martha McCollough Martha McCollough, Ph.D. University of Oklahoma (1996)
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Subfield: Cultural anthropology
Research interests: Native North Americans; Arctic, Great Plains

Daniel Osborne Daniel Osborne, Ph.D. Indiana University Bloomington (2007)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Subfield: Biological Anthropology
Research Interests: skeletal biology, nutrition, human adaptation, growth and development, medical anthropology, evolutionary medicine

Carleen Sanchez Carleen Sanchez, Ph.D. University of California - Santa Barbara (2003)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Subfield: Archaeology
Research Interests: Ancient Cultures of Mesoamerica and Central America; Latin American History and Political Systems; Feminism and Gender Theory; Violence in Contemporary Society; Human Rights in Central America; Globalization

LuAnn Wandsnider LuAnn Wandsnider, Ph.D. Anthropology, University of New Mexico (1989)
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Subfield: Archaeology
Research interests: archaeological method and theory, archaic-late prehistoric of the North American High Plains, traditional food preparation, spatial analysis, quantitative methods (GIS, EDA), formation of the archaeological landscape, pastoralist land use systems

Mary Willis Mary Willis, Ph.D. Washington University St. Louis (1995)
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Subfield: Dental anthropology, medical anthropology, applied anthropology
Research interests: refugee resettlement, Refugees from Sudan, cross-cultural health


Adjunct Graduate Faculty

Shimelis Beyene Shimelis Beyene, Ph.D. Washington University St. Louis (1998)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Subfield: Anthropology
Research Interests: development, applied, primatology, Africa, conservation, pastoralism.

John Bozell John R. Bozell, M.A., University of Nebraska (1981)
Adjunct Professor in Anthropology
Subfield: Archaeology
Research Interests: Late Prehistoric-Historic Culture Change, Subsistence Strategies, Paleoecological Reconstruction, Cultural Resource Management, Public Archaeology

Stephen Glazier Stephen Glazier, Ph.D. University of Connecticut (1981)
Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
Subfield: Cultural anthropology, Caribbean archaeology
Research interests: general anthropology, religion, race and race relations, ethnohistory, caribbean

William Hunt Jr. William J. Hunt Jr., Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (1989)
Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
Subfield: Archaeology
Research interests: American fur trade (focus on Fort Union National Historic Site), historical archaeology of tourism with a special interest in the development of tourism in Yellowstone National Park

Mark Lynott Mark Lynott, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
Subfield: Archaeology
Research interests: cultural resource management, cultural ecology, earthworks and mounds of the Midwestern United States

Vergil Noble Vergil Noble, Ph.D. Michigan State University (1983)
Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
Subfield: Archaeology
Historical archaeology, 18th-century French fur trade, 19th-century settlement and transportation systems, Great Lakes and Mississippi River valley, cultural resource management and heritage tourism

Doug Scott Doug Scott, Ph.D. University of Colorado, Boulder (1977)
Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
Subfield: Archaeology
Research interests: battlefield archaeology