Full-time Faculty

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Regions: The Caribbean, specifically Haiti. Research Interest / Specialization: Crisis; disaster and trauma; responses to crisis; humanitarian intervention.

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Regions: Alaska, Northern Canada, and Finland. Research Interest / Specialization: Language; political economy; the circumpolar world; natural resource development; visual and ethnographic methods; Aboriginal/Indigenous-state relations.

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Regions: Brazil, the United States, and Canada. Research Interest / Specialization: Disability culture and cultural perceptions of disability; movements of disability liberation (justice and rights); disability oppression (eugenics, sterilization, mass-incarceration, and killing); intersections of gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, poverty, and disability; emergence of autistic and disability studies in Brazil and other Global South countries.

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Region: Ecuador. Research Interest / Specialization: Political anthropology; historical anthropology; anthropology of the state.

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Regions: Canada and Italy. Research Interest / Specialization: Urban life; migration studies; critical perspectives on global processes.

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Regions: Latin America, the Caribbean, and Colombia. Research Interest / Specialization: Sociocultural anthropology; Black geographies; historical anthropology; political mobilization; political ecologies; racial formations; youth; Black feminist thought; African diaspora.

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Region: North America. Research Interest / Specialization: Environmental anthropology; anthropology of science and technology; water and watershed governance; settler colonial landscapes; infrastructure; climate justice.

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Region: Madagascar. Research Interest / Specialization: Artisanal mining communities; conservation and ecotourism; and commodity production and consumption.

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Regions: Lowland Amazonia, Venezuela, and Latin America. Research Interest / Specialization: Linguistic anthropology and linguistics; endangered languages; language ideologies; language documentation; and language and culture.

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Regions: Northeast Brazil and Canada. Research Interest / Specialization: Linguistic anthropology; linguistics; language and identity; names and naming; immigration and belonging; and work and rural identity.

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Regions: Great Lakes: Eastern North America, and North-Atlantic. Research Interest / Specialization: Colonialism archaeology; Woodland; historical archaeology; and colonialisms, contemporary practice, and praxis.

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Regions: Canadian Arctic and Subarctic. Research Interest / Specialization: Community archaeology; digital heritage; zooarchaeology; and equity and diversity in archaeological practice.

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Regions: Texas and the American West. Research Interest / Specialization: Historical archaeology; oral history; placemaking; migration and settler colonialism in North America; linguistic and narrative analysis; archaeological ethics; archives and museums; and community-based archaeology.

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Colonial interactions; settlement patterns; landscape archaeology; spatial analysis; Geographic Information Systems (GIS); cultural ecology; palaeoclimatology; early complex societies; archaeology of the Americas; and ancient Maya archaeology.

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Regions: Peru (North Coast) and Egypt. Research Interest / Specialization: Bioarchaeology; human skeletal biology; paleoradiology; hominin evolution; paleopathology; archaeometry; and mummy studies.

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Regions: Jordan, Malta, Sri Lanka, Japan, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Bioarchaeology; skeletal biology; phenotypic plasticity; human variation; growth and development; evolutionary ecology; biomechanics and behaviour; hunter-gatherers; origins of agriculture; and human athletic palaeobiology.

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Regions: Siberia, The Netherlands, Nicaraguann. Research Interest / Specialization: Human osteoarchaeology; paleodiet; infant feeding practices; paleopathology; dental anthropology; growth and development; hunter-fisher-gatherers; stable isotopes; trace elements; and synchrotron light technology.