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	Daniel Adler (Ph.D. Harvard 2002; Assistant Professor). Neanderthal behavioral, economic, and technological evolution in Eurasia; Neanderthal settlement, subsistence, and land use; the nature of the interactions between Neanderthal and Upper Palaeolithic groups. Office: BH 441 Phone Number: 6-1737 Email: DANIEL.ADLER@UCONN.EDU

	Kroum Batchvarov (Ph.D. Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University 2009; Assistant Professor). Dr. Batchvarov’s main research focus is in maritime archaeology of 17th-century seafaring. He specializes in English and Dutch ship construction. While employed by the Swedish National Maritime Museums, Division Vasa, he developed and implemented a method for recording the frames of the Swedish warship Vasa which sank on its maiden voyage in 1628. Batchvarov recently used the same method to record the framing on the English ship Warwick, lost in Bermuda in 1619. Between 2000 and 2001 he organized and directed the first complete excavation of a Black Sea shipwreck, in the southern bay of Kitten, Bulgaria. Office: Avery Point Campus Phone Number: Email: KROUM.BATCHVAROV@UCONN.EDU

	James S. Boster (Ph.D. Berkeley 1981; Professor). Cognitive anthropology, intracultural variation, methods, ethnopsychology, ethnobiology, social networks, human ecology, ethnology of South America; South America. Office: BH 439 Phone Number: 6-2795 Email: JAMES.BOSTER@UCONN.EDU ON SABBATICAL 2011-12 Ay

	Bruchac, Margaret M. (Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Amherst 2007; Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Native American & Indigenous Studies at Avery Point). Museum anthropology, cultural property, representation, and repatriation; Native American studies, colonial encounters and ethnohistory; cultural performance and oral traditions; transculturalism and transnationalism; Indigenous archaeologies and decolonizing methodologies. Office: 114 A Academic Building, Avery Point Campus Phone Number: 860-405-9059 Email: MARGARET.BRUCHAC@UCONN.EDU ON ACADEMIC LEAVE 2011-12 Ay

	Françoise Dussart (Ph.D. Australian National 1989; Professor). Social anthropology, aesthetics, indigenous cultures, contemporary hunters and gatherers, religion, ritual and social organization, ethnolinguistics, gender and identity, and applied anthropology; Australia. Office: BH 428 Phone Number: 6-4517 Email: FRANCOISE.DUSSART@UCONN.EDU

	Pamela I. Erickson (Dr.P.H. UCLA 1988; Ph.D. SUNY Buffalo 1993; Professor of Anthropology & Public Health) Influence of cultural, social, economic, and political factors on health and disease in human populations; ethnomedicine; human reproduction; maternal and child health; adolescence; women, health, and development; minority health; international health; epidemiology; research methods; South America. Office: BH 431 Phone Number: 6-1736 Email: PAMELA.ERICKSON@UCONN.EDU

	W. Penn Handwerker (Ph.D. Oregon 1971; Professor of Anthropology & Public Health). Power, culture, and social relations; evolutionary theory; culture theory; cultural evolution and social change; health transition; research methods; West Africa, West Indies, Arctic, and contemporary U.S. Office: BH 445 Phone Number: 6-0071 Email: W.HANDWERKER@UCONN.EDU

	Gideon Hartman (Ph.D. Harvard 2008; Assistant Professor). Light stable isotopes, eco-physiology of plants and animals along aridity gradients in the Eastern Mediterranean, paleoenvironment, paleoclimate, archaeological applications. Office: BH401 Phone Number: 6-0076 Email: GIDEON.HARTMAN@UCONN.EDU

	Jocelyn Linnekin (Ph.D. Michigan 1980; Professor). Ethnological theory, gender, cultural identity and nationalism, historical anthropology, comparative politics; Pacific Islands, Latin America and the Caribbean. Office: BH 429 Phone Number: 6-0067 Email: JOCELYN.LINNEKIN@UCONN.EDU

	Samuel Martinez (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins 1991; Associate Professor). African diaspora, agrarian societies, migration, human rights, economic anthropology, social meanings of space, time, and commodities, race and ethnicity, local/global interactions, history and anthropology; Latin America and the Caribbean. Office: BH 430 Phone Number: 6-4515 Email: SAMUEL.MARTINEZ@UCONN.EDU ON SABBATICAL 2011-12 Ay

	Sally McBrearty (Ph.D. Illinois 1986; Professor, DEPARTMENT HEAD). Human evolution, particularly the origin of Homo sapiens, paleolithic archaeology, African prehistory, lithic technology, taphonomy and geoarchaeology; Africa. Office: BH 449 Phone Number: 6-2857 Email: SALLY.MCBREARTY@UCONN.EDU

	Kevin McBride (Ph.D. Connecticut 1984; Associate Professor). Public archaeology, New England ethnohistory and archaeology; New England. Office: BH 444 Phone Number: 6-4511 Email: KEVIN.MCBRIDE@UCONN.EDU

	Natalie Munro (Ph.D. Arizona 2001; Associate Professor). The transition to agriculture, Epipaleolithic and Neolithic societies of Southwest Asia and the Mediterranean basin, zooarchaeology and taphonomy, Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene human foraging ecology, predator-prey dynamics, major subsistence transitions, population and behavioral ecology, human hunting strategies, and animal domestication. Office: BH 434 Phone Number: 6-0090 Email: NATALIE.MUNRO@UCONN.EDU

	Merrill Singer (Ph.D. Utah, 1979; Professor of Anthropology and Public Health). Also Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention (CHIP). Medical anthropology, health disparities, substance abuse, AIDS, violence, health and global warming, ethical issues in research. North America, Brazil, Haiti, and China Office: BH 437, and CHIP: 2006 Hillside Road, Unit 1248 Phone Number: 6-0093 and 6-5833 Email: MERRILL.SINGER@UCONN.EDU

	Alexia Smith (Ph.D. Boston 2005; Assistant Professor). Agriculture, agricultural development, palaeoethnobotany, climate change and landscape use, ecological anthropology; Bronze and Iron Age archaeology of the Near East. Office: BH 406 Phone Number: 6-4264 Email: ALEXIA.SMITH@UCONN.EDU

	Richard Sosis (Ph.D. New Mexico 1997; Professor). Behavioral ecology, collective action problems, evolution of cooperation, economic anthropology, foraging theory, evolution of religion, kibbutzim, and utopian societies; Micronesia, Israel, Middle East. Office: BH 432 Phone Number: 6-4514 Email: RICHARD.SOSIS@UCONN.EDU

	Robert Thorson (Ph.D. University of Washington 1979; Professor). Archaeological geology, surficial geology (stratigraphy, geomorphology, geochronology), and cultural geology; New England, Alaska, Pacific Northwest. Office: BH 446 Phone Number: 6-1396 Email: ROBERT.THORSON@UCONN.EDU

	Sarah S. Willen (Ph.D. MPH, Emory, 2006; Assistant Professor). Medical and sociocultural anthropology, transnational migration and migrant “illegality,” immigration and health, biopolitics and social exclusion, health and human rights, reproductive health, embodiment and experience, moral economies of "deservingness", the American “cultural competence” movement; Middle East. Office: BH 401 Email: SARAH.WILLEN@UCONN.EDU

	Richard A. Wilson (Ph.D. London School of Economics 1990; Professor, Gladstein Chair of Human Rights, Director of Human Rights Institute). Political and legal anthropology, human rights, political violence, history and memory, anthropological and social theory; South Africa and Central America. Office: BH 405 Phone Number: 6-3851 Email: RICHARD.WILSON@UCONN.EDU

	Affiliated Faculty

	Rebecca Beebe (Ph.D. Uconn 2010; Adjunct) REBECCA.BEEBE@UCONN.EDU

	Nicholas Bellantoni (Ph.D. UConn 1987; Associate Professor and State Archaeologist). Northeastern prehistory, faunal analyses, human osteological analysis. NICHOLAS.BELLANTONI@UCONN.EDU

	Bruce Bernstein (Ph.D. UConn 1988; Associate Professor). Director of Research, Department of Pediatrics, St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center and Asst Prof, Department of Pediatrics, UConn School of Medicine.

	Georgine Burke (Ph.D. UConn 1987; Associate Professor). Director, Child Health Data Center, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, and Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, UConn Health Center.

	Susie DiVietro (Ph.D.Uconn 2010; Adjunct). Research interests: Gender, power, and violence; interpersonal violence, health care and social support; prostitution; behavioral ecology; healing; feminist perspectives; cultural models;interventions; evolution and cognition; sexual health; prison populations. Cultural areas: North America and the West Indies. SUSAN.DIVIETRO@UCONN.EDU

	Sara Harkness (Ph.D. Harvard 1975; Professor). The cultural structuring of human development, parents' cultural belief systems and parenting, cognitive, affective, and social development in early childhood, child language socialization, theories of culture and human development, cultural influences on health at the household and community levels, family policy; East Africa, United States, Europe.

	Timothy Ives (Ph.D. Uconn 2011; Adjunct) TIMOTHY.IVES@UCONN.EDU

	Kateryna Maltseva (Ph.D.Uconn 2010; Adjunct). Norms, primary socialization in families, normative pressures and health, internalization of norms, networks and social support, depression, benevolence, optimism, acculturative pressures and mental disorders in migrant populations; parenting strategies and attachment security; social learning, social intelligence, co-evolution of language, brain and culture, evolution of morality; methods in anthropology and psychology; anthropological theory; attachment theory. Cultural areas: Scandinavia, post-USSR territories, the United States. KATERYNA.MALTSEVA@UCONN.EDU

	Eleanor Ouimet (Ph.D. Adjunct). ELEANOR.OUIMET@UCONN.EDU

	Lee Pachter (DO Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine 1983; Associate Professor). Associate Director of Pediatric Inpatient Services, St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center and Assoc Prof, Department of Pediatrics, UConn School of Medicine. Hispanic populations in the U.S., pediatrics, folk illness.

	Jean Schensul (Ph.D. U. Minnesota 1974; Professor). Institute for Community Research. Medical anthropology, educational anthropology; Contemporary United Sates.

	Asha Shipman (Ph.D. Uconn 2011; Adjunct). My MA research into how tree experts and novices categorized trees served as a bridge from my academic training in Biology to Anthropology. My PhD coursework focused mainly on psychological and medical anthropology. I conducted dissertation research in Bangalore, India where I examined the effects of Globalization on cultural models of mate selection and marriage. I have also done research on religious beliefs among the Asian Indian population living in Connecticut. ASHA.SHIPMAN@UCONN.EDU

	Stephen L. Schensul (Ph.D. Minnesota 1969; Professor). Director, Center for International Community Health Studies, UConn School of Community Medicine.

	Charles Super (Ph.D. Harvard 1972; Professor and Dean). School of Family Studies. The cultural regulation of human development, parental and professional ethnotheories of child development and behavior, cognitive, affective, social, and physiological development in infancy and childhood, physical interventions to promote the physical and mental health of children and families.

	Peter Turchin (Ph.D. Duke University 1985; Professor). I work at the interface between biological, mathematical, and social sciences. The general area of interest is human history and evolution. PETER.TURCHIN@UCONN.EDU

	Postdoctoral Fellow

	Philip Graham (Ph.D. Uconn 2011). Archaeobotany and household archaeology. Ancient agriculture and the prehistory of the Near East from the Neolithic to the Ubaid period. Office: Beach Hall 451 Office Phone: 6-4516 PHILIP.GRAHAM@UCONN.EDU

	Cara Roure Johnson (Ph.D. Uconn 2007). Human evolution, geoarchaeology, Paleolithic archaeology, human osteology, lithic technology and site formation processes. Office: BH 448 Phone Number: 6-1193 CARA.JOHNSON@UCONN.EDU

	Emeritus Faculty

	Robert L. Bee (Ph.D. Kansas 1967) Riva Berleant-Schiller (Ph.D. SUNY-Stony Brook 1974) Norman A. Chance (Ph.D. Cornell 1957) Scott Cook (Ph.D. Pittsburgh 1968) Roy G. D'Andrade (Ph.D. Harvard 1962; Professor). Robert Dewar (Ph.D. Yale 1977) James C. Faris (Ph.D. Cambridge 1966) Douglas F. Jordon (Ph.D. Harvard 1960) Seth Leacock (Ph.D. Berkley 1958) Bernard Magubane (Ph.D. UCLA 1967) Dennison J. Nash (Ph.D. Pennsylvania 1954) Gretel H. Pelto (Ph.D. Minnesota 1970) Pertti J. Pelto (Ph.D. Berkley 1960) Ron Rohner (Ph.D. Stanford 1964) Anita Walker (Ph.D. Harvard 1970)