The 2023-2024 AnthroGuide is the last print version. Edits for graduate programs are due July 31, 2023.

Michael J Kolb

http://www.msudenver.edu/ant/

Professor| Metropolitan State University of Denver, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

http://www.msudenver.edu/ant/

Professor, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

E-mail	mkolb5@msudenver.edu
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Knowledge / Expertise

Interest/Specialty Areas

Complex societies, monumental architecture, archaeology of power and ritual

Biography

Michael J. Kolb is Professor of Anthropology at Metropolitan State University of Denver, and Presidential Teaching Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University. His scholarship focuses on the political economy of emerging societies, and has conducted field research around the world. He has examined the energetics of monumental building for thirty years in both the Pacific and the Mediterranean.