Primary Contact Anthony Di Fiore Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of Texas, Austin, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Anthony Di Fiore Email: anthony.difiore@austin.utexas.edu Area of Expertise: Population genetics, comparative socioecology, mating systems, molecular ecology, phylogenetics, tropical ecology, computational modeling, South and Central American primates Position: Department Chair through August, 2021 Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Courtney Handman Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of Texas, Austin, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Courtney Handman Email: chandman@austin.utexas.edu Area of Expertise: Linguistic anthropology, politics of translation, anthropology of Christianity, Christian denominational institutions and infrastructures, missionaries and evangelization, media and semiotic mediation...Read More Position: Associate Chair through August, 2021 Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Anthony K Webster Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of Texas, Austin, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Anthony K Webster Email: awebster@utexas.edu Area of Expertise: Linguistic anthropology, ethnopoetics, speech play and verbal art, iconicity, Navajo, Athabaskan, sound, translation Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Arlene Rosen Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of Texas, Austin, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Arlene Rosen Email: amrosen@austin.utexas.edu Area of Expertise: Environmental archaeology, early cultivation, small-scale societies, phytoliths, geoarchaeology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Chris Kirk Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of Texas, Austin, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Chris Kirk Email: eckirk@austin.utexas.edu Area of Expertise: Primate evolution, functional anatomy, and primate sensory systems Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Circe Sturm Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of Texas, Austin, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Circe Sturm Email: circe@austin.utexas.edu Area of Expertise: Race, sovereignty, and citizenship, comparative colonialisms, race and indigeneity, dominance, resistance, and subjectivity Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Craig Campbell Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of Texas, Austin, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Craig Campbell Email: craig.campbell@utexas.edu Area of Expertise: Visual/intermedia/sensory ethnography, Soviet culture, Evenki peoples, travel and mobility, cultural history, archives, photography Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Denné N Reed Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of Texas, Austin, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Denné N Reed Email: reedd@austin.utexas.edu Area of Expertise: Human evolution, micromammal paleoecology, taphonomy, GIS, remote sensing Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Elizabeth Keating Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of Texas, Austin, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Elizabeth Keating Email: elizabeth.keating@austin.utexas.edu Area of Expertise: Linguistic anthropology, language and status, sign language, new communication technologies, cross-cultural communication, narrative Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Enrique R Rodríguez-Alegría Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of Texas, Austin, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Enrique R Rodríguez-Alegría Email: chanfle@austin.utexas.edu Area of Expertise: Archaeology, history, ethnohistory, Spanish empire in Latin America, archaeometry (INAA and LA-ICP-MS), colonialism, religious conversion, food Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Fred Valdez Jr Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of Texas, Austin, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Fred Valdez Jr Email: fredv@mail.utexas.edu Area of Expertise: Mesoamerica, Texas; hunter-gatherers, Maya, Huastec; material culture and technologies. Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
James R Denbow Affiliated Title:Professor Emeritus Organization:University of Texas, Austin, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact James R Denbow Email: jdenbow@austin.utexas.edu Area of Expertise: Archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, rock art, Later Stone Age and Iron Age studies in West, Central, and Southern Africa Individual Type: Emeriti or Retired Faculty/Staff
James Slotta Affiliated Title:Assistant Professor Organization:University of Texas, Austin, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact James Slotta Email: jslotta@utexas.edu Area of Expertise: Language and knowledge, political communication, cultural epistemologies, circulation, semantics-pragmatics interface Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Jason Cons Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:University of Texas, Austin, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Jason Cons Email: jasoncons@utexas.edu Area of Expertise: Borders, security, climate change, agrarian change, development, political ecology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
John Hartigan Jr Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of Texas, Austin, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact John Hartigan Jr Email: hartigan@mail.utexas.edu Area of Expertise: Urban cultures, science, technology, and race, social theory, ethnography, ethnicity Position: Director, Americo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
John Kappelman Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of Texas, Austin, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact John Kappelman Email: jkappelman@austin.utexas.edu Area of Expertise: Hominin and hominoid paleobiology and evolution, functional morphology, Middle Stone Age archaeology, sedimentology and stratigraphy, paleomagnetism, computer imaging Position: Professor, Department of Geological Sciences Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Primary Contact Kamran A Ali Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of Texas, Austin, Department of Anthropology Department Lead Affiliated Contact Kamran A Ali Email: asdar@austin.utexas.edu Area of Expertise: Gender, health, political economy, post-colonialism, labor history, popular culture Position: Department Chair effective January, 2022 Individual Type: Leadership Faculty/Staff
Kathleen Stewart Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of Texas, Austin, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Kathleen Stewart Email: kstewart@austin.utexas.edu Area of Expertise: Affect, experimental ethnographic writing, non-representational theory, post-phenomenology, new materialisms, worldings, place Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Liza J Shapiro Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of Texas, Austin, Department of Anthropology Department Lead Liza J Shapiro Email: liza.shapiro@austin.utexas.edu Area of Expertise: Primate evolution and functional morphology, locomotion Position: Acting Chair (fall 2021) Individual Type: Leadership Faculty/Staff
Maria Franklin Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:University of Texas, Austin, Department of Anthropology Affiliated Contact Maria Franklin Email: mfranklin@austin.utexas.edu Area of Expertise: Historical archaeology, community archaeology, archaeological theory, race and gender, feminist theory, archaeology of African diaspora Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff