Anthropology Faculty

Louis C. Alvarado, PRODiG Research Fellow

PhD, University of New Mexico

Affiliated: Biomedical Anthropology Program

Specialty: Human evolutionary ecology; Social endocrinology; Health disparities

Reinhard W. Bernbeck, Professor Emeritus

PhD, Freie Universit盲t, Berlin

 

Abagail Breidenstein, Lecturer

PhD. University of Michigan

Specialty: bioarchaeology of the Nile Valley, growth and development, ancient DNA

Charles R. Cobb, Professor Emeritus

PhD, Southern Illinois University

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2004-2005

Elizabeth A. DiGangi, Associate Professor

BS, MS, University at Buffalo (SUNY); PhD, University of Tennessee

Affiliated: Biomedical Anthropology Program; Human Rights Institute (HRI); Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP); Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program (LACAS)

Specialty: Health and disease; biological standards validation/development in forensic anthropology; human rights; bioarchaeology of impairment; Columbia; Prehistoric Andes; Southeast US

Deborah A. Elliston, Assistant Professor

BA, Macalester College; MA, PhD, New York University

Affiliated: Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls; Human Rights Institute (HRI); Religious Studies; Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS)

Specialty: Feminist anthropology; sexuality studies; queer theory; postcolonial theory; nationalism; modernity; Oceania/Pacific

Matthew V. Emery, Research Assistant Professor

BA, Western University; MA, PhD, McMaster University

Affiliated: Biomedical Anthropology Program

Specialty: ancient DNA, forensic genomics, bioarcheology, stable isotopes, mobility and migration, molecular anthropology

Carmen A. Ferrad谩s, Associate Professor

MPhil, PhD, The City University of New York (CUNY)

Affiliated: Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program (LACAS); Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS)

Specialty: Anthropology and development; communication and power; social movements; urban anthropology; Latin America

Ralph M. Garruto, SUNY Honorary Distinguished Professor

BS, MA, PhD, Pennsylvania State University

Affiliated: Biomedical Anthropology Program; Evolutionary Studies Program (EvoS); First-Year Research Immersion (FRI); Master of Public Health Program (MPH); Tick-borne Diseases Research Center

Specialty: Biomedical anthropology and neurosciences

Provost's Award for Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring, 2015-2016

Douglas J. Glick, Associate Professor

BA, Hamilton College; MA, PhD, University of Chicago

Affiliated: Center for Israel Studies (CIS-ISR); Evolutionary Studies Program (EvoS); Linguistics Program; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Specialty: Linguistic anthropology; semiotics; mass media

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2012-2013

Douglas R. Holmes, SUNY Distinguished Professor

BA, Bennington College; MA, PhD, Stony Brook University (SUNY)

Affiliated: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH); Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP)

Specialty: Political economy of European integration; central banking in the US and Europe

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2013-2014

William H. Isbell, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of Illinois

 

Sebastien C.P. Lacombe, Research Assistant Professor

BS, MS, PhD, Universit茅 de Toulouse-Le Mirail

Specialty: Archaeopetrography; lithic analysis and sourcing; landscape archaeology; experimental archaeology; CRM; prehistoric Europe

BrieAnna S. Langlie Mixter, Associate Professor

BA, University of California at Berkeley; MA, PhD, Washington University in Saint Louis

Affiliated: Environmental Studies Program; Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program (LACAS); Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS)

Specialty: Paleoethnobotany and landscape archaeology in the Andes Mountains of South America

Carl P. Lipo, Professor

PhD, University of Washington

Affiliated: Center for Collective Dynamics of Complex Systems (CoCo); Center for Imaging, Acoustics and Perception Science (CIAPS); Center for Integrated Watershed Studies (CIWS); Environmental Studies Program; Evolutionary Studies Program (EvoS); First-Year Research Immersion (FRI)

Specialty: Cultural change of human populations

Michael A. Little, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus

PhD, Pennsylvania State University

 

Jeffrey K. Lum, Professor

BA, University of California at Berkeley; PhD, University of Hawai'i at M膩noa

Affiliated: Biochemistry Program; Biomedical Anthropology Program; Center for Korean Studies (CKS); First-Year Research Immersion (FRI)

Specialty: Molecular anthropology; forensic genetics; malaria; epidemiology

Randall H. McGuire, SUNY Distinguished Professor

BA, University of Texas; MA, PhD, University of Arizona

Affiliated: Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program (LACAS)

Specialty: Archaeology; social theory; historical archaeology; US Southwest; Northern Mexico

University Award for Excellence in Research, 1996-1997; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1991-1992

D. Andrew Merriwether, Professor

BA, BS, MA, Pennsylvania State University; PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Affiliated: Biomedical Anthropology Program; Evolutionary Studies Program (EvoS); First-Year Research Immersion (FRI); Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP); Master of Public Health Program (MPH)

Specialty: Molecular anthropology; ancient DNA; origins of domestication; peopling of new landscapes; forensic DNA; population genetics; molecular evolution

David Mixter, Research Assistant Professor

BA, Yale University; PhD, Washington University - St. Louis

Affiliated: Environmental Studies Program

Specialty: Societal collapse and regeneration; collective memory; archaeology of communities; ancient Maya; geographic information systems (GIS)

Richard U. Moench, Associate Professor Emeritus

PhD, Harvard University

 

Safia K. Mohsen, Associate Professor Emerita

PhD, Michigan State University

 

Maria J. O'Donovan, Adjunct Lecturer

BA, 黑料视频 (SUNY); MA, University of Arizona; PhD, 黑料视频 (SUNY)

Affiliated: Public Archaeology Facility (PAF)

Specialty: Cultural Resource Management and Heritage, Historical and Contemporary Archaeology, Northeastern United States, Social Theory, Landscape

Lubna Omar Olesch, Lecturer

BA, Damascus University; MA, PhD, Kyoto University

Affiliated: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS); Human Rights Institute (HRI)

Specialty: Zooarchaeology; Near East archaeology; animal-human relationships; early Urbanism and Paleo-economies

William V. Pavlovich, Lecturer

BA, University at Buffalo; MA, 黑料视频

Affiliated: Global Studies Program

Specialty: Global studies, anthropology

Sabina M. Perrino, Associate Professor

PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Affiliated: Human Rights Institute (HRI); Linguistics Program; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Specialty: Language use in ethnomedical encounters and political speeches; Oral narratives as discursive practices; Racialized language in everyday conversation; Spatiotemporal relations (chronotope); Research methods in Linguistic Anthropology; Fitness Cultures and Practices

Susan Pollock, Professor Emerita

PhD, University of Michigan

 

Rolf Quam, Professor

BA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; MA, Northern Illinois University; PhD, 黑料视频 (SUNY)

Affiliated: Biomedical Anthropology Program; Evolutionary Studies Program (EvoS)

Specialty: Paleoanthropology

Joshua Reno, Professor

BA, Cornell University; PhD, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Affiliated: Environmental Studies Program; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Specialty: Environment, science and technology studies; semiotics; material culture; North America; United Kingdom

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2020-2021

Philip G. Rightmire, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of Wisconsin

University Award for Excellence in Research, 1990-1991

Deborah Schechter, Instructor

BS, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; PhD, University of Washington

Affiliated: Biomedical Anthropology Program

Laure Spake, Assistant Professor

PhD, Simon Fraser University

Specialty: Growth and development, skeletal biology, quantitative methods

Peter W. Stahl, Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Ann B. Stahl, Professor Emerita

PhD, University of California at Berkeley

Chancellor鈥檚 Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1996-1997

Kathleen A. Sterling, Associate Professor

BA, Harvard University; MA, PhD, University of California at Berkeley

Affiliated: Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls; Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS)

Specialty: Lithic analysis; feminism and gender; communities of practice; sociopolitics of archaeology; ethics of archaeology; Prehistoric Europe

Provost's Award for Outstanding Graduate Director, 2020-2021

H. Stephen Straight, Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of Chicago

Council/Foundation Award, 2009; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1995-1996

Ruth M. VanDyke, Professor

BA, University of Texas at Austin; MA, PhD, University of Arizona

Specialty: Archaeology of the indigenous Southwest US; power; ideology; social memory; North America

Katherine S. Wander, Associate Professor

BA, The Ohio State University; MPH, PhD, University of Washington

Affiliated: Biomedical Anthropology Program; Institute for Justice and Well-Being (IJWB); Master of Public Health Program (MPH)

Specialty: Epidemiology and global health; infectious disease ecology; immune function; growth and development, nutrition; female circumcision; East Africa; West Africa

Thomas M. Wilson, Professor

BA, Fordham University; MA, New York University; MPhil, PhD, The City University of New York (CUNY)

Affiliated: Center for Korean Studies (CKS); Evolutionary Studies Program (EvoS)

Specialty: Political anthropology; international borders; European integration

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2011-2012

Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, Associate Professor

BA, Oakland University; MA, University of Liverpool, MA Bowling Green State University; PhD, University of Minnesota

Specialty: Cultural anthropology