Washington Univ. Arts & Sciences
Washington Univ. Dept. of Anthropology

FACULTY, STAFF AND ASSOCIATES

Faculty
Lois C Beck (Sociocultural) Political anthropology, history, tribe-state relations, Nomadic Pastoralism, Islam, Gender; Iran, the Middle East.

John Baugh (Linguistics) Sociolinguistics; Language, Equity and Environmental Change; Linguistic Profiling; Econolinguistics.
Peter Benson (Sociocultural) Medical anthropology, public health, political economy, agriculture, tobacco, transnational migration, phenomenology, ethics and ethnography; United States, Latin America. (on leave 2007-08)

John R Bowen (Sociocultural)  Religion and ritual, Islam, social theory, kinship and social organization, historical studies, culture and political change; Sumatra, Indonesia, Europe.

Pascal Boyer (Sociocultural and Psychology) Cognitive processes, cultural transmission, cognitive development, evolutionary psychology, cross-cultural psychology, religion.

David L Browman (Archaeology)  North and Latin American archaeology; origins of agricultural economies; development of complex societies; pastoralism; historical archaeology. 

Robert L Canfield (Sociocultural)  Political anthropology, peasant society, ethnicity and symbolism, historical anthropology; Afghanistan, Central Asia and Eastern Islamic World. 

James Cheverud (Physical Anth and Anatomy)  Quantitative genetics, evolutionary theory, human genetics, human and nonhuman primate biology. 

Geoff Childs (Sociocultural)  Anthropological demography, historical demography, fertility, ageing, family systems, research methodology; Tibet, Nepal.

Glenn Conroy (Physical Anth and Anatomy)  Primate evolution and comparative anatomy, human evolution; Southern Africa. 

Darla Dale (Archaeology) Archaeology; hunter-gatherers; socioeconomic inequality; East Africa.

Patrick Eisenlohr (Linguistic)  Linguistic anthropology, diasporas, nationalism, creolization, religion and media, ethnicization of language, South Asia, Mauritius.

Michael Frachetti (Archaeology) Eurasian prehistory, Bronze Age steppe pastoralism, landscape archaeology, paleo-environment and geographic information systems, ethnographic nomadism, Central Asia

Gayle J Fritz (Archaeology)  Paleoethnobotany; development of agricultural systems; plant domestication; subsistence and culture change; North American prehistory. 

Bret Gustafson (Sociocultural) Anthropology of the state, social movements, and development flows; vernacular literacy and education; natural resource exploitation and territoriality; Latin America, Bolivia.

Carrie Hritz (Archaeology) Archaeology, geographical information systems, Mesopotamia.
Jason Kamilar (Physical Anth) Primate behavioral, ecological and morphological diversity; biogeography; community ecology; conservation, quantitative methods; Old World.

John Kelly (Archaeology) Archeology of eastern North America, Mississippian emergence and decline; North America. 

T.R. Kidder (Archaeology) North American archaeology, geoarchaeology, ceramic analysis, humans and climate change, plant domestication; Mississippi River, southeastern United States.

Rebecca Lester (Sociocultural) Medical anthropology, gender, embodiment, religion and ritual, psychological anthropology, cross-cultural psychiatry; Mexico, United States.

Fiona B Marshall (Archaeology) Old World Prehistory, African Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, Zooarchaeology, Early food production, the archaeology of human origins.

Derek Pardue (Sociocultural) Popular culture, everyday life, hip hop, race, ethnomusicology, urban anthropology, sports, violence, sociology of restaurants; Brazil, Latin America.

Herman Pontzer (Physical Anth) Human evolution, locomotor biomechanics, energetics, experimental biology, primate ecomorphology, Dmanisi.

Shanti Parikh (Sociocultural) Sexuality and HIV/AIDS, social change, globalization, gender, popular culture, East Africa.

Jane Phillips-Conroy (Physical Anth and Anatomy)  Behavior and ecology, primate biology; East Africa, South America.

D Tab Rasmussen (Physical Anth)  Primate evolution, paleontology. 

Richard J Smith (Physical Anth; Dept Chair)  Primate comparative and functional morphology, quantitative methods, biomechanics, Miocene hominids.

Glenn D Stone (Sociocultural and Env Studies)  Political ecology; agricultural change and intensification; biotechnology; settlement patterns; subSaharan Africa, India, prehistoric US Southwest.

Bradley P Stoner (Sociocultural and Internal Medicine) Medical anthropology, epidemiology, anthropology of public health, sexually transmitted diseases; Peru, urban North America.

Robert W Sussman (Physical Anth)  Primate ecology, behavior and evolution. Models of early human behavior. Conservation. Madagascar, Mauritius, Costa Rica, Guyana. 

Erik Trinkaus ( Physical Anth) Human paleontology; skeletal biology; functional anatomy, Paleolithic archaeology.

Leonard Lewis Wall (Sociocultural and Ob-Gyn) Medical anthropology, maternal mortality and morbidity, medical ethics, birthing, West Africa.

James V. Wertsch (Sociocultural and Education) Cultural psychology, national and transnational identity, Russia. 
Staff
Kathleen Cook, Academic Coordinator

Carrie Asmar-O'Guin, Administrative Asst.

Elaine M. Beffa, Business Manager

Kirsten Jacobsen, Coordinator, Medicine and Society Program
Other Faculty (emeriti, adjunct or in other departments)

Margaret L Brown (Sociocultural) Equality and hierarchy, kinship and social organization, economic and political development, Madagascar, Indian Ocean. 

Jane E. Buikstra (Physical and Archaeology)  Skeletal biology, paleopathology, paleodemography, forensic anthropology, mortuary site archeology; North America, Peru 

Charles Hildebolt (Physical)  Dental anthropology, periodontal epidemiology, variation in head shape and form 

Seena B Kohl (Sociocultural)  Agriculture and rural society, women and family, social history; Canada, North America 

Carolyn Lesorogol (Sociocultural, Social Work) International social development, social change, capacity building and participation, Africa

G. Edward Montgomery (Sociocultural) Culture of food, health, alternative medicine; American Cultures; India

Shanta Pandey (Social Work) Social policy, rural development, gender, health care; Nepal, US 
Thomas R Przbeck (Anthropology and Psychiatry) Psychiatry 

Gwendolyn G Reich (Anthropology and Psychiatry)  Child psychology 

M. Priscilla Stone (Sociocultural) Ecological and economic anthropology, development, agriculture, gender; subsaharan Africa 

Brian K Suarez (Physical)  Human genetics, human ecology, primate evolution 

Gautam Yadama (Social Work) Social and economic development; NGO's; India.

Patty Jo Watson (Archaeology)  Archaeological theory and method, archaeological ethnography, origins of food production, cave archaeology; Western Asia, Eastern Woodlands of North America.

Murray L Wax (Sociocultural) Applied, schools, religion and magic, ethics of research, ethnopsychology; North America 

Research Associates

Mary Des Chene (Sociocultural) Cultural anthropology; South Asia; Nepal; historical ethnography; politics, social inequalities and development; colonial military history; history of Nepal.

Kathleen Cook (Sociocultural) Political anthropology, collective action, village politics, rural society; U.S.
 
Carol Diaz-Granados (Archaeology) Archaeology, petroglyphs/pictographs, Native American oral traditions, iconography, anthropology through the arts, World's Fair archaeology, North America

Fusun Ertug (Archaeology) Archaeology and ethnoarchaeology; Turkey and southwest Asia

Elisabeth Hildebrand (Archaeology) Archaeology, early food production, tropical crops, ethnoarchaeology; Africa

Lucretia Kelly (Archaeology) North American archaeology

Jian Leng (Archaeology) Archaeology of China, lithic analyses 

Margaret A. Perkinson (Sociocultural) Medical anthropology, social gerontology, chronic illness and disability, family caregiving; North America
 

Thomas K. Pilgram (Archaeology)  Radiology, archeology, adaptation, location and environment, mathematical modeling, prehistory of North America and Africa 

Deborah Ruscillo Cosmopoulos (Archaeology) Archaeology, faunal analysis, marine remains; Greece, Near East, United Kingdom. druscill@artsci.wustl.edu

David Rudner (Sociocultural) Social contexts of healthcare, culture and healthcare, development; South Asia

Charles Shannon (Sociocultural) Sociocultural anthropology, political economy of education, cultural and ethnic influences on educational achievement, population patterns and political formations leading to state formation; U.S., England, China

Linda Sussman (Sociocultural) Medical anthropology, epidemiology; Madagascar, Mauritius, US 

Kathryn Elizabeth Townsend (Physical) Cenozoic mammalian evolution and paleoecology, mammalian paleontology in Late Miocene-early Pliocene, dietary reconstruction and ecomorphology of mammals; North and South America

Charles D Trombold Archaeology) Archaeology, complex societies, transport networks, regional studies; Mesoamerica