Faculty Profiles

Anna Agbe-Davies (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2004; Associate Professor of Anthropology). Historical archaeology, archaeology of the African diaspora; North America.

Benjamin S. Arbuckle (PhD, Harvard University, 2006; Assistant Professor of Anthropology). Zooarchaeology, Neolithic transition, animal domestication, provisioning systems, pastoralism, symbolic uses of animals, animals as comodities; SW Asia, Turkey.

Brian Billman (Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara, 1996; Associate Professor of Anthropology). Archaeology, origins and development of complex societies, warfare, settlement pattern analysis, cultural resource management; central Andes, southwestern North America.

Carole L. Crumley (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1972; Professor Emerita of Anthropology). European (especially Iron Age/Celtic) archaeology; archaeological theories of complex societies; ethnohistory; historical ecology; regional archaeology.

R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr. (Ph.D., University of Tennessee, 1986; Associate Director and Research Archaeologist, Research Laboratories of Archaeology; Adjunct Professor of Anthropology). Archaeology, quantitative methods, computer applications, ceramic analysis, settlement systems, contact period; southeastern United States.

Jennifer E. Gates-Foster (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2005; Assistant Professor of Classics). Hellenistic and Roman Egypt and the Near East, Achaemenid Empire, archaeological ceramics, regional survey, ancient seals and gemstones, ancient imperialism, frontier and border studies; northern Africa, southwestern Asia.

Donald C. Haggis (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1992; Nicholas A. Cassas Term Professor of Greek Studies). Bronze Age Aegean; Greek Early Iron Age; early state formation in the Aegean.

Dale L. Hutchinson (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1991; Professor of Anthropology). Physical anthropology, skeletal anthropology, forensic anthropology, disease and nutrition, transition to agriculture, coastal adaptations; southeastern United States, Bolivia.

Scott Madry (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1986; Research Associate Professor of Archaeology) Regional archaeological research, settlement pattern analysis, predictive modeling; applications of GIS, GPS, remote sensing; visualization and simulation in archaeology; western Europe, southeastern United States.

Jodi Magness (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1989; Kenan Distinguished Professor, Department of Religious Studies). Archaeology of Palestine; early Judaism; ancient Mediterranean religions.

Patricia McAnany (Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 1986; Kenan Eminent Professor, Department of Anthropology). Cultural heritage and descendant communities; ancestor veneration; cultural logic of noncapitalist economies; identity and gender Constructs; cacao production and use; social reproduction of technology; Maya studies; Mesoamerica.

David Mora-Marín (Ph.D., SUNY-Albany, 2001; Associate Professor of Linguistics, Archaeology, and Latin American Studies). Linguistic anthropology; historical linguistics, discourse structure, language and power; linguistic formalism vs. relativism; Weber, Wallerstein, interaction and civilization studies; Mesoamerican (specially Mayan) linguistics and epigraphy; prehispanic Costa Rican and Chibchan traditions, jade and gold exchange networks.

John G. Pleasants, Jr. (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009; Visiting Scholar) Archaeology, origins and development of complex societies, archaeological theories of complex societies, architecture and culture, the Central Andes, GIS systems.

Brett H. Riggs (Ph.D., University of Tennessee, 1999; Research Archaeologist, Research Laboratories of Archaeology; Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology) Archaeology, ethnohistory, Cherokee cultural history; southeastern United States.

G. Kenneth Sams (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1971; Professor of Classical Archaeology). Greek archaeology, Iron Age Near Eastern archaeology.

John F. Scarry (Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 1984; Lecturer in Anthropology). Archaeological theory, cultural ecology, development and operation of hierarchical societies, prehistory, quantitative methods, Spanish colonial period archaeology; eastern United States.

C. Margaret Scarry (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1986; Professor of Anthropology). Paleoethnobotany, archaeological theory and method, development and operation of chiefdoms, archaeology of contact period in southeastern United States; eastern United States.

Laurie Cameron Steponaitis (Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1987; Research Assistant Professor of Archaeology). Archaeology, hunter-gatherers, settlement systems, coastal adaptations; eastern North America.

Vincas P. Steponaitis (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1980; Professor of Anthropology; Director, Research Laboratories of Archaeology). Archaeology, complex societies, ceramic analysis, quantitative methods, locational analysis; North America.

Mary C. Sturgeon (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, 1971; Professor Emerita of Classical Art). Greek and Roman sculpture and Greek painting.

Silvia Tomášková (Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1995; Professor of Women's Studies and Anthropology). Paleolithic archaeology, human evolution, gender and science, women in science, lithic technology, microscopic use wear; Eurasia, central and eastern Europe.