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Dr. Stephen Brighton, Associate Professor
Interests: diaspora studies, social identity, heritage formation, contemporary archaeological theory; Northeastern USA, rural Ireland, trans-Atlantic region

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Dr. Erve Chambers, Professor
Interests: tourism and travel; heritage resource studies; applied anthropology; ethnographic writing; SE Asia; US estuarine communities and places

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Dr. Janet Chernela, Professor
Interests: cultural anthropology, ethnography of the Amazon basin, socio-linguistics, environment, NGOs, Latin American studies

 

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Dr. Sean Downey, Assistant Professor

Interests: ecological anthropology; swidden agriculture, common-property resources, Q'eqchi' Maya ethnoecology, neolithic prehistory in Europe and Indonesia, computational linguistics, computational social science (ABM, SNA, GIS, and phylogenetics).

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Dr. Judith Freidenberg, Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Interests: urban health and community development, immigrant health and social supports, aging and Latino culture, ethnicity and health care

Current research: Anthropology of the Immigrant Life Course Research Program

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Dr. George Hambrecht, Assistant Professor

Interests: zooarchaeology, with a focus on historical archaeology, medieval era,dynamics between humans and natural systems

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Dr. Mark Leone, Professor
Director, Archaeology in Annapolis
Interests: historical archaeology and interpretation, critical theory, outdoor history museums, African-American archaeology

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Dr. Michael Paolisso, Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Interests: environmental anthropology, economic anthropology, research methods

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Dr. Thurka Sangaramoorthy, Assistant Professor (August 2012)
Interests: HIV/AIDS, social and medical constructions of risk, health
disparities, global public health; transnationalism, immigration,
citizenship, governmentality, structural violence, race and ethnicity;
science and technology studies.
 

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Dr. Paul Shackel, Professor
Department Chair
Director, Center for Heritage Resource Studies

Interests: historical archaeology, labor history, public history, civic engagement

Current research:

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Dr. L. Jen Shaffer, Assistant Professor
Interests: human-environment interactions, historical ecology, indigenous knowledge, rural livelihoods, conservation, climate change adaptation and resilience, Southern and Eastern Africa

 

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Dr. William Stuart, Assistant Professor
Director, Undergraduate Honors Program
Interests: social anthropology, history and philosophy of anthropological theory, comparative religion, cultural ecology

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Dr. Tony Whitehead, Professor
Director, Cultural Systems Analysis Group
Interests: medical anthropology, community ethnography, multidisciplinary health research, community health development and education, AIDS, substance abuse