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