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ABRAHAM, Traci
 
Research Interests: medical anthropology (specifically, barriers to immigrant health and culturally appropriate health care).
Cultural Areas: Mediterranean
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BEEBE, Rebecca
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Office: Beach Hall 3044
Office Phone: 6-1935
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BENNETT, Elaine
Research Interests: Health decision making, public health, ethics/bioethics, health education, medical anthropology
Cultural Areas: Latin America (Guatemala), United States
Office: In the Field
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BLEGEN, Nicholas
Research Interests: human evolution, archaeology of the African Stone Age and Eurasian Paleolithic, lithic technology, geoarchaeology, and experimental archaeology.
Cultural Areas: Africa
Office: Beach Hall 448
Office Phone: 6-1933
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BOOTH, Robert
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Office: Beach Hall 436
Office Phone: 6-0069
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BROSSARD-PARENT, Nancy
Research Interests: American Indian Education, Educational Anthropology in K-12 settings, Environmental Education, American Indian Identities in Contemporary U.S.
Cultural Areas: Northeast and Southwest Native America
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BROWN, Shan-Estelle
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Office: Beach Hall 442
Office Phone: 6-4850
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BULLED, Nicola Research Interests: Applied Medical Anthropology, health seeking behaviors, HIV/STIs, tuberculosis
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Office: Beach Hall 442
Office Phone: 6-4850
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BUERGER, Catherine        

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BURMEISTER, Laura Kat
Research Interests: Social anthropology, indigenous cultures, globalization and conflatation of capitalist and moral economic frameworks, interracial unions, negotiation and conceptualization of social identities.
Cultural Areas: Australia
Office: Beach Hall 435
Office Phone: 6-0072
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CHENEY, Ann
Research Interests: Medical Anthropology, nutrition and diet, gender relations, womens studies.
Cultural Areas: North America, Italy
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COBLYIN, Summer Research Interests:
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COLON, Richard
Research Interests: Medical Anthropology Focusing on HIV/AIDS research.
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CRUZ, Heather Cowan Research Interests: North American prehistoric archaeology,lithic technology, experimental archaeology, GIS and archaeology, trade and exchange
Cultural Areas: New England, Illinois Valley
Office: Beach Hall 436
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DIAZ, Rosemary
Research Interests: Evolutionary Psychology, Stress Disorders, Culture-bound Illness, and Psychogenic Health
Cultural Areas: Latino Populations in the Caribbean (Dominican Republic), Latin America (Ecuador, Mexico), and U.S. Mainland Puerto Ricans
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DIVIETRO, Susan
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Office: Beach Hall
Office Phone: 6-1935
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FINKEL, Daniel
Research Interests: Human evolution and behavior, social cognition, morality, music
Cultural Areas: Israel
Office: Beach Hall 401
Office Phone: 6-0076
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FRANK, Cynthia
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GARCIA, Vanessa

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Office: Beach Hall 442
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GIBEAU, Edward           

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GLAUBERMAN, Philip
Research Interests: Lithic technology, Palaeolithic Archaeology, loess Geology, Geoarchaeology, GIS, Hominin Evolution, Palaeoclimatic reconstruction, Archaeological theory, Epistemology of Anthropology/Archaeology.
Cultural Areas: Northwest Europe.
Office: Beach Hall 450
Office Phone: 6-4513
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GOULD (NIPMUC), D Rae
Research Interests: Archaeology
Cultural Areas: New England Native American
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GRAHAM, Philip
Research Interests:Archaeobotany and household archaeology. Ancient agriculture and the prehistory of the Near East from the Neolithic to the Ubaid period.
Cultural Areas: Southwest Asia and Egypt
Office: Beach Hall 451
Office Phone: 6-4516
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GRANT, Jaime
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Cultural Areas: New England, GIS.
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GUELAKIS, Peg
Research Interests: Native Americans, gender, ethnicity, religion, media, pop culture
Cultural Areas: New England
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HART, Thomas

Research Interests: Palaeoethnobotany, phytoliths, starch grains, the interaction between humans and their environment, the spread of agriculture into Europe, the domestication process, early state level societies, the role of plants in hominin diet and evolution.
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Office: Beach Hall 403
Office Phone: 6-0092
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HAWKINS, Katharine
Research Interests: Human behavioral ecology, evolution of cooperation, altruism, revenge, reciprocity.
Cultural Areas: Africa, Europe, India
Office: In the Field
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HILL, Austin (Chad)
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Office:Beach Hall 451
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IVES, Timothy Research Interests: Cultural Resource Management, Ethnohistory, Experimental Archaeology, Material Culture Analysis
Cultural Areas: New England
Office: Beach Hall 403
Office Phone: 6-0092
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KASPER, Kimberly          

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KENNERTY, Michael Research Interests: I study animal remains (zooarchaeology) to learn if food preference was an expression of social identity during the early Neolithic time period. Also, I am interested in policy issues involving anthropology: how federal agencies fund anthropological studies, the role of anthropology in the judicial system, and anthropologists' influence on policy makers.
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Office: Beach Hall 451
Office Phone: 6-4516
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KIPER, Jordan               

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LESLIE, David Research Interests: lithic technology of the Middle Stone Age and Middle Paleolithic, projectile technology, lithic reduction sequences, human evolution, GIS applications in archaeology, and evolution education and outreach.
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Office: Beach Hall 448
Office Phone: 6-1933
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LETENDRE, Denise Research Interests: Culture and religion; psychological anthropology and social psychology; religious counter-cultures and socio-spiritual movements; early Christianities and Christian cultural history; comparative religion, mythology and symbolism; anthropology of myth and metaphor; varieties of spiritual experience and expression; women’s spiritualities and the Divine Feminine; woman-centered group psychotherapies, ritual healing, and empowerment therapy
Cultural Areas: North America; North America; Middle East
Office: Beach Hall 420
Office Phone: 6-3702
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MAGNUS, Barry
Research Interests: Medical Anthropology.
Cultural Areas: United States
Office: Beach Hall 401
Office Phone: 6-0076
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MALTSEVA, Kateryna
Research Interests: Cognitive anthropology; structure of human values, value transmission in families, dynamics of value systems; evolutionary psychology
Cultural Areas: Scandinavia
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MATARAZZO, Tiziana
Research Interests: Early Bronze Age cultures in Southern Italy from a micromorphological and geoarchaeological perspective.
Cultural Areas: Southern Europe, Italy.
Office: Beach Hall 451
Office Phone: 6-4516
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MCDUFF, Matthew
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Office: Beach Hall 442
Office Phone: 6-4850
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MEIER, Jacqueline         

Research Interests: Zooarchaeology of the Near East, migration, the process of domestication, human-animal relationships, bone tool technology, GIS spatial analysis.
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Office: Beach Hall 451
Office Phone: 6-4516
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MMAO, Albina Research Interests: Medical Anthropology; Combating HIV/AIDS in Tanzania: How can the Traditional Healers be Effectively Utilized?
Cultural Areas: Tanzania; East Africa
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NELSON, Rebecca Research Interests: globalization, material culture, the invention of tradition, cultural commoditization, tourism and tourist art, and women's cooperatives.
Cultural Areas: Central and South America.
Office: Beach Hall 407
Office Phone: 6-0068
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NICOLAYSEN, Anna Marie
Research Interests: Organic agriculture, Food and nutrition, Fair Trade, Biodiversity, Political economy, Sustainable development, Migrant farmworkers and Drinking behavior, HIV-prevention.
Cultural Areas: Ecuador, India, Norway and the United States.
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OFFIAELI, Rita
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ORTIZ, Dugeidy
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PICAGLI, Jennifer
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PROSSER, Marisa
Research Interests: Migration, Cultural Identity, Families & Childrearing practices.
Cultural Areas: Central America(Costa Rica & Nicaragua) & United States.
Office: In the Field
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PURZYCKI, Benjamin
Research Interests: evolutionary psychology and cognitive science of religion, humor, and myth, evolution of religious behavior and beliefs; colonialism and Fourth World studies.
Cultural Areas: Tuva Republic and Native North America
Office: Beach Hall 440
Office Phone: 6-0075
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ROBINSON, David
Research Interests: applied marine geophysics, artifact conservation, cultural resource management, ethnohistory, geographic information systems, geoarchaeology, landscape archaeology, nautical archaeology, peopling of the Americas, submerged settlements archaeology
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SAMSONENKO, Lena
Research Interests: Ethnobiology, traditional ecological knowledge,sustainable natural resource use
Cultural Areas: Central and South America
Office: Beach Hall 440
Office Phone: 6-0075
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SCHINDLER, Diane
Research Interests: Parent-child interactions, infant health, gender issues, economics, family dynamics.
Cultural Areas: Latin America, South America
Office: Beach Hall 440
Office Phone: 6-0075
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SHAVER, John
Research Interests:The evolution of cooperation,social learning,cultural evolution, child development, behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology.
Cultural Areas: Fiji, United States
Office: Beach Hall 440
Office Phone: 6-0075
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SHIPMAN, Asha
Research Interests: Cognitive anthropology; medical anthropology
Cultural Areas: India
Office: Beach Hall 440
Office Phone: 6-0075
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SCHMIDT, Beverly Research Interests: Paleolithic archaeology, Neandertals, lithic technology, human origins and behavioral evolution, quantitative methods, Pleistocene geology, GIS and spatial analysis, and computer applications in archaeological fieldwork.
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Office: Beach Hall 403
Office Phone: 6-0092
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SPORTMAN, Sarah
Research Interests: Archaeology, zooarchaeology, the Contact Period in the northeast, the relationships between humans and animals.
Cultural Areas: Northeastern North America and Canada
Office: Beach Hall 403
Office Phone: 6-0092
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SWARTWOUT, Paul Research Interests: I am interested in applying Darwinian theory to religion. I want to understand the origin of religious beliefs and behaviors, their possible adaptiveness, and their effects on cooperation and group cohesion
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WALES, Nathan
Research Interests: human evolution, the Middle and Upper Paleolithic, GIS, and ancient DNA preservation and extraction.
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Office: Beach Hall 450
Office Phone: 6-4513
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WARREN, Rebecca          

Research Interests: lithic technology, functional analyses (microscopic residue analysis and use-wear), diet and subsistence, experimental archaeology, Paleolithic archaeology.
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Office:Beach Hall 450
Office Phone:6-4513
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WATKINS, Lara
Research Interests: medical anthropology, applied anthropology, chronic disease, mental health
Cultural Areas: United States and Cambodia
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WILLIAMS, Scott
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WITTSTEIN, Jeanette

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