Faculty
For more information about a faculty member, please click on their name.
Ana
Mariella Bacigalupo
Associate Professor
Religion, ritual and healing, shamanism, gender and sexuality,
discourses and practices of power, tradition and modernity, identity
politics, local intersections with nationalism, transnationalism and
global culture, social memory and alternative histories, performance,
ethnography, indigenous highland South America, Chile,
Mapuche
David
J. Banks
Professor
Social anthropology, kinship, culture, historical methods, contemporary
social change; Southeast Asia, Malaya
Warren
Barbour
Associate Professor
Prehistory, comparative early civilizations, historical archaeology; Mesoamerica
Carol
M. Berman
Professor
Primate behavior, primate social development, animal behavior, evolution
of behavior, ethological methods
Peter F. Biehl
Assistant Professor
Neolithic and Copper Age Europe and Middle East, Archaeological Method and Theory, Cognitive Archaeology and the Social Meaning of Visual Imagery and Representation, Archaeology of Cult and Religion, Multimedia in Archaeology
Christine
R. Duggleby
Associate Professor
Physical anthropology, population biology, genetics, evolutionary theory
Charles
O. Frake
Professor, Samuel P. Capen Chair of Anthropology
Linguistic anthropology, cognitive anthropology; political and historical
anthropology, Southeast Asia, the Pacific, Europe
Tilman Lanz
Visiting Assistant Professor
Islam in Europe and North America, psychological anthropology, culture
concept, concepts of time, linguistic and symbolic anthropology, tradition
and modernity, local-global interface, subjectivity, psychoanalysis; Europe,
Turkey, Middle East, North America.
Ann
P. McElroy
Associate Professor
Medical Anthropology, disability studies, Arctic ethnology, U.S. migrant
farm workers; Canadian arctic, urban and rural US
Sarunas
Milisauskas
Professor
Old World archaeology, European prehistory; Neolithic, Bronze Age
Vasiliki
Neofotistos
Assistant Professor
Political anthropology, violence, and the anthropology of war and peace
Douglas
Perrelli
Director, Archaeology Survey
Ph.D. University at Buffalo 2001
Donald
Pollock
Current research interests fall into two broad topics: the culture
of contemporary medicine (including the social history of physician autobiography,
the culture of tertiary care medicine, and health disparities); and traditional
healing, shamanism, and personhood in Amazonian communities.
Deborah E. Reed-Danahay
Transnationalism and Citizenship, Sociocultural Theory, Anthropology and Education, Childhood and Youth, Ethnography and Personal Narrative, Autoethnography, Europe (including the European Union), France, Vietnamese diaspora communities in the U.S. and France.
Joyce
E. Sirianni
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Physical anthropology, craniofacial growth and development, physical anthropology,
dental anthropology
Phillips
Stevens Jr.
Associate Professor
Cultural anthropology, religion, cultural change; West Africa, Caribbean
Barbara
Tedlock
Professor
Psychological and cognitive anthropology, anthropology of art and aesthetics,
ethnomedicine, shamanism; American Southwest and Mesoamerica
Tina L. Thurston
Associate Professor
Archaeological theory, European archaeology, Iron Age and Medieval Scandinavia and Ireland, complex societies,
ethnicity and identity, conflict and conflict resolution, agriculture, intensification, landscape archaeology, ethnohistory, regional
analysis, archaeological chemistry
Everett
Yuehong Zhang
Assistant Professor
Medical anthropology, governance, Chinese medicine, cultural psychiatry,
the body, Daoism and religion, sexuality, masculinity, the media, China,
Taiwan, Chinese immigrants.
Ezra
B. Zubrow
Professor
Anthropological and Archaeological theory and method, social policy of
heritage and disability, Nordic archaeology, ecology, simulation methods,
demography, marginal cultural areas; Finland, Norway, England, Northeast
Adjunct Appointments
Stephen Dyson
Professor, Classics
Ph.D., Yale University, 1963
Roman Italy, Sardinia
David M. Engel
Professor, Law School
J.D., University of Michigan, 1973
Law and society, comparative law; Southeast Asia
Frank Mendel
Associate Professor, Anatomical Sciences
Ph.D., University of California/Santa Barbara, 1973
Paleoprimatology, functional primate anatomy, hominoid evolution
J. Theodore Peña
Associate Professor, Classics
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1987
Art and archaeology of Roman and pre-Roman Italy, settlement archaeology,
ceramic technology, archaeology materials analysis
Dennis Tedlock
James H. McNulty Professor, English; Research Professor, Anthropology
Ph.D., Tulane University, 1968
Interpretive anthropological dialogue, ethnopoetics, translation, North
and Middle American Indians
Livingston Vance Watrous
Professor, Art History
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1974
Eastern Mediterranean archaeology, Bronze Age; Greece.
Emeritus Professors
Robert
K. Dentan
Professor Emeritus
Cultural anthropology, social organization, ecology, (non)violence; Southeast
Asia.
Frederick
Gearing
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. Chicago 1956
Social Anthropology, ethnographic theory and method, anthropology of education;
North American Indians, contemporary village Greece, U.S.
Keith
F. Otterbein
Professor
Political anthropology, warfare, social structure, family organization,
folk housing, cross-cultural research, ecology; American South, Caribbean,
West Africa
Gerard
Rosenfeld
Professor
Cultural and applied anthropology (urban anthropology, education, justice,
inequality, aging) Africa, Southeast Asia.
Stuart
Scott
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. Arizona 1963
Archaeology, dendrochronology, environmental studies, historical archaeology;
Mesoamerica, Polynesia
A.
T. Steegmann Jr.
Professor Emeritus
Adaptive human biology, physical anthropology; Subarctic, China, Canada
Administrative Staff
Chair: Donald Pollock
Department Administrator: Anastasia
Johnson (716) 645-3960
Graduate Program Coordinator: Margaret
Kasprzyk (716) 645-6242
Undergraduate Program Coordinator: Phyllis
Hartrich (716) 645-2416