Full Time Faculty

Effie Athanassopoulos, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (1993)
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Classics
Graduate Advisor
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, Ph.D. University of Oklahoma (2003)
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies (Native American Studies)
Subfields: Sociocultural anthropology, Anthropological linguistics
Research interests: Native Peoples: prairie/plains, California, Hawaii. ethnohistory & material culture, oral history, sociolinguistics, native language ideology, Siouan:Dhegiha:Omaha languages

Shimelis Beyene, Ph.D. Washington University St. Louis (1998)
Lecturer
Subfield: Anthropology
Research Interests: development, applied, primatology, Africa,

Peter Bleed, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin (1973)
Emeritus 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

Patricia Draper, Ph.D. Harvard University (1972)
Emeritus 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, Ph.D. University of California-Santa Barbara (1978)
Professor of Anthropology
Subfield: Cultural anthropology
Research interests: behavioral ecology, economic exchange, time allocation

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, 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

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, 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

Wayne Babchuk, Ph.D. University of Nebraska (1997)
Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
Subfield: Anthropology
Research Interests: qualitative research methods, indigenous land rights and resource use

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

Matthew Douglass, Ph.D. University of Auckland (2010)
Lecturer
Subfield: Archaeology
Major Research Interests: Stone artifact analysis, Human environmental interaction, Hunter-Gatherers of the North American Great Plains and Australia, Experimental archaeology

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

Emily Hammerl, ABD (PhD) – University at Buffalo (degree conferral exp. 5/2011)
Lecturer
Subfield: Physical Anthropology
Major research interests: Dental development, Life history theory, Paleoanthropology, Skeletal biology, Primate comparative anatomy, Human gross anatomy, Growth and development, Evolution of human childbirth

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

Naomi Leite, Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley (2011)
Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
Subfield: Cultural anthropology
Research interests: Cultural globalization and global interconnection; social identities; anthropology of tourism; mobility; heritage; kinship and relatedness; language and thought; material culture and and materiality; museums; ethnographic methods

Mark Lynott, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
Subfield: Archaeology
Research interests: cultural resource management, cultural ecology,

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