Faculty

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.

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.

Roy G. D'Andrade (Ph.D. Harvard 1962; Professor). Cognitive anthropology, quantitative methods, general theory, and American culture.

Françoise Dussart (Ph.D. Australian National 1989; Professor and Associate Director, CLAS Humanities Institute). Social anthropology, aesthetics, indigenous cultures, contemporary hunters and gatherers, religion, ritual and social organization, ethnolinguistics, gender and identity, and applied anthropology; Australia.

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.

W. Penn Handwerker (Ph.D. Oregon 1971; Professor of Anthropology & Public Health, and Department Head). 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.

Sara Harkness (Ph.D. Harvard 1975; Professor of Anthropology & Family Studies). 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.

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.

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.

Sally McBrearty (Ph.D. Illinois 1986; Professor). Human evolution, particularly the origin of Homo sapiens, paleolithic archaeology, African prehistory, lithic technology, taphonomy and geoarchaeology; Africa.

Kevin McBride (Ph.D. Connecticut 1984; Associate Professor). Public archaeology, New England ethnohistory and archaeology; New England.

Natalie Munro (Ph.D. Arizona 2001; Assistant 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.

Igor Ovtchinnikov (Ph.D. Moscow, Russia 1993; Associate Professor of Anthropology and Molecular & Cell Biology). Anthropological genetics, ancient DNA, human and ape evolution, animal and plant domestication, forensic DNA, environmental genomics; Eurasia.

Alexia Smith (Ph.D. Boston 2005; Assistant Professor in Residence). Agriculture, agricultural development, palaeoethnobotany, climate change and landscape use, ecological anthropology; Bronze and Iron Age archaeology of the Near East.

Richard Sosis (Ph.D. New Mexico 1997; Associate Professor). Behavioral ecology, collective action problems, evolution of cooperation, economic anthropology, foraging theory, evolution of religion, kibbutzim, and utopian societies; Micronesia, Israel, Middle East.

Robert Thorson (Ph.D University of Washington 1979; Professor). Geology and Geophysics.

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.

Affiliated Faculty

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

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

Georgina Burke (Ph.D. UConn 1987; Assistant Professor). Director, Child Health Data Center, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, and Assistant Professor, Departments of Community Medicine and Pediatrics, UConn Health Center.

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; Adjunct Professor). Institute for Community Research. Medical anthropology, educational anthropology; Contemporary United Sates.

Steve Schensul (Ph.D. Minnesota 1969; Associate 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.

Adjunct Faculty

Luci Fernandes (Ph.D. UConn 2004). Latin America; Ecuador, Kichwa Indians; Cuba; social medicine; sustainable economic development, plural medicine, social movements, human rights.

Cara Roure Johnson (Ph.D., Uconn 2007). Human evolution, geoarchaeology, Paleolithic archaeology, human osteology, lithic technology and site formation processes.

Brian D. Jones (Ph.D. UConn 1998). Senior Archaeologist, Public Archaeology Survey Team, Inc. Northeastern prehistory, late Pleistocene and early Holocene human foraging ecology, cultural resource management, geoarchaeology, lithic analysis.

Christine McDonnell (Ph.D. UConn 2002). Complex societies/state development; paleoenvironmental reconstruction (pollen & phytoliths); ethnohistory; Native Americans (New England, Southwest); Federal Indian Law and contemporary Native American struggles including human rights issues.

Merrill Singer (Ph.D. Utah; Senior Research Scientist). Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention (CHIP) and the Center for Health Communication and Marketing, UConn. Medical anthropology, health disparities, substance abuse, AIDS, violence, health and global warming, ethical issues in research. North America, Brazil, Haiti, and China.

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)

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)