Primary Contact Beverly Morrison Affiliated Title:Administrator Organization:University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Beverly Morrison Email: bmorrison@umass.edu Area of Expertise: Business Administration, human resources management and strategic staffing Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Primary Contact Shelley Silva Affiliated Title:Academic Programs Manager Organization:University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Shelley Silva Email: sbellor@anthro.umass.edu Position: Staff Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Grace Rock Affiliated Title:Accountant Organization:University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Grace Rock Email: grace@anthro.umass.edu Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Jacqueline Urla Affiliated Title:Professor; Dean of UMass Graduate School Organization:University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Jacqueline Urla Email: jurla@anthro.umass.edu Area of Expertise: Cultural activism, minority language politics, nationalism, linguistic ideology, governmentality, visual anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Boone W Shear Affiliated Title:Lecturer Organization:University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Anthropology Other Department Lead Boone W Shear Email: bshear@umass.edu Area of Expertise: critical investigations of capitalism; efforts to imagine and organize around hidden, suppressed, unrealized ways of being in the world;economic subjectivity, neoliberal development, post-capitalism ...Read More Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Elizabeth L Krause Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Anthropology Other Department Lead Elizabeth L Krause Email: ekrause@anthro.umass.edu Area of Expertise: Sociocultural anthropology, reproductive politics, medical anthropology, economic anthropology, social memory and historical anthropology, ethnography, immigration, globalization, digital storytelling Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Jennifer Dori Sandler Affiliated Title:Lecturer Organization:University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Anthropology Other Department Lead Jennifer Dori Sandler Email: jsandler@anthro.umass.edu Area of Expertise: Participatory ethnography with diverse activist communities and organizations, politics of knowledge in contemporary activism, social-change-focused organizations in US and Mexico, private money in US...Read More Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Krista Harper Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Anthropology Other Department Lead Krista Harper Email: kharper@anthro.umass.edu Area of Expertise: Cultural anthropology and ethnographic and participatory visual and digital research methods, applied anthropology and public policy, and urban mobilizations around the environment, food justice, and ...Read More Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Sonya Atalay Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Anthropology Other Department Lead Sonya Atalay Email: satalay@anthro.umass.edu Area of Expertise: Community-based research, indigenous archaeology, activist scholarship and public anthropology, research ethics, NAGPRA, protecting intellectual property issues Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Thomas Leatherman Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Anthropology Other Department Lead Thomas Leatherman Email: tleatherman@anthro.umass.edu Area of Expertise: Biocultural anthropology, political ecology, health and nutrition, medical anthropology, human adaptability Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Ventura R Perez Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Anthropology Other Department Lead Ventura R Perez Email: vrperez@anthro.umass.edu Area of Expertise: Interpersonal and institutionalized violence, paleopathology, etiology of diseases affecting the skeleton, NAGPRA compliance, forensics Position: Other Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Whitney Battle-Baptiste Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Anthropology Other Department Lead Whitney Battle-Baptiste Email: wbbaptiste@anthro.umass.edu Area of Expertise: African diaspora theory, Black Feminist theory, African American expressive and material culture, historical archaeology, African diaspora archaeology, critical heritage studies, cultural landscapes Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Amanda Walker Johnson Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Amanda Walker Johnson Email: awjohnson@anthro.umass.edu Area of Expertise: Critical race theory, anthropology of science, critical education theory, high stakes testing in public schools Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Brigitte M Holt Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Brigitte M Holt Email: holtb@anthro.umass.edu Area of Expertise: Human evolution, biocultural evolution of the genus Homo, functional morphology and biomechanics of the appendicular skeleton, paleoecology Position: Other Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Eric Johnson Affiliated Title:Lecturer Organization:University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Eric Johnson Email: ericjohnson@anthro.umass.edu Area of Expertise: Archaeology and Archaeological Project/Contract Management, Eastern North America, cultural resource management, ethnohistory, Native American history and culture, technology, historical archaeology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Felicity Aulino Affiliated Title:Assistant Professor Organization:University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Felicity Aulino Email: felicity@umass.edu Area of Expertise: Medical anthropology, global health, critical phenomenology, Buddhism, psychological anthropology, care and care giver subjectivity, ethnographic film, humanitarian intervention, participatory action ...Read More Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Haeden Stewart Affiliated Title:Assistant Professor Organization:University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Haeden Stewart Email: hestewart@umass.edu Area of Expertise: Historical archaeology, political ecology, settler colonialism, human/environment interactions, material culture, industrial archaeology, GIS Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Jason Kamilar Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Jason Kamilar Email: jkamilar@umass.edu Area of Expertise: Primatology, evolutionary ecology, life history evolution, hair evolution, biogeography, community ecology, phylogeny, quantitative methods Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Julie Hemment Affiliated Title:Professor; Department Chair Organization:University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Anthropology Department Lead Julie Hemment Email: jhemment@anthro.umass.edu Area of Expertise: Gender, youth and post-socialism, NGOs and global civil society, social welfare and citizenship, and feminist, participatory and collaborative methodologies Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Lynnette Arnold Affiliated Title:Assistant Professor Organization:University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Lynnette Arnold Email: larnold@anthro.umass.edu Area of Expertise: language and transnational migration; care; language, power and social justice; language and global health; interaction; narrative and discourse analysis; digital communication and media; language an...Read More Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff