Primary Contact Veronica Little Organization:Boston University, Department of Anthropology Veronica Little Email: vclittle@bu.edu Position: Staff Individual Type: Leadership Faculty/Staff
Curtis Runnels Affiliated Title:Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology Organization:Boston University, Department of Anthropology Curtis Runnels Email: runnels@bu.edu Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Matt Cartmill Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:Boston University, Department of Anthropology Matt Cartmill Email: cartmill@bu.edu Area of Expertise: Physical anthropology, human anatomy, theoretical systematics, mammalian evolutionary biology, primate paleontology, evolution, philosophy of science, history of ideas Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
David Carballo Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:Boston University, Department of Anthropology Other Department Lead David Carballo Area of Expertise: Mesoamerican archaeology; households; ritual; political evolution; urbanism; cooperation and conflict; craft production and exchange; GIS; archaeometry; lithic analysis Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Other: Assistant Provost for General Education
Cheryl D Knott Affiliated Title:Professor; Associate Chair & Director of Undergraduate Studies Organization:Boston University, Department of Anthropology Department Lead Cheryl D Knott Email: knott@bu.edu Area of Expertise: Biological anthropology, endocrinological research, orangutans, human evolution Individual Type: Leadership Faculty/Staff
Eva Garrett Affiliated Title:Assistant Professor Organization:Boston University, Department of Anthropology Eva Garrett Email: garrette@bu.edu Area of Expertise: Biological anthropology, olfactory sensory evolution Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Fallou Ngom Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:Boston University, Department of Anthropology Fallou Ngom Email: fngom@bu.edu Area of Expertise: Linguistics, forensic linguistics, West African languages Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Frank J Korom Affiliated Title:Professor of Religion and Anthropology Organization:Boston University, Department of Anthropology Frank J Korom Email: korom@bu.edu Area of Expertise: Folklore, religion, ritual and performance, diaspora studies Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Joanna Davidson Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:Boston University, Department of Anthropology Other Department Lead Joanna Davidson Area of Expertise: Land and labor practices among Diola, environment, development, NGOs, water and food security Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Other: Associate Director of the Kilachand Honors College
Merav Shohet Affiliated Title:Assistant Professor Organization:Boston University, Department of Anthropology Merav Shohet Area of Expertise: Subjectivity, language, culture, and emotion, psychological and medical anthropology, linguistic anthropology Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Merry White Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:Boston University, Department of Anthropology Merry White Email: corky@bu.edu Area of Expertise: Current population issues in Japan, social construction of adolescence in Japan and US, group membership and marginality in Japan, education, family policy and reform, social control and deviance in J...Read More Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Parker Shipton Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:Boston University, Department of Anthropology Parker Shipton Email: shipton@bu.edu Area of Expertise: Economic and symbolic anthropology, land tenure, finance, kinship, history of social theory Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Robert W Hefner Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:Boston University, Department of Anthropology Robert W Hefner Email: rhefner@bu.edu Area of Expertise: Cultural theory, psychological anthropology, political and democratic theory, religion and modernity, economic anthropology, Islam, Hinduism Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Robert P Weller Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:Boston University, Department of Anthropology Department Lead Robert P Weller Email: rpweller@bu.edu Area of Expertise: Religion and ritual, politics, anthropological theory, environment Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Shahla Haeri Affiliated Title:Professor Organization:Boston University, Department of Anthropology Shahla Haeri Email: shaeri@bu.edu Area of Expertise: Social/cultural anthropology, gender, law, religion, women's studies Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Thomas J Barfield Affiliated Title:Professor; Director of Graduate Studies Organization:Boston University, Department of Anthropology Department Lead Thomas J Barfield Email: barfield@bu.edu Area of Expertise: Social anthropology, political economy, anthropology and history, pastoral nomadism Individual Type: Leadership Faculty/Staff
Ayse Parla Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:Boston University, Department of Anthropology Ayse Parla Email: parlaa@bu.edu Area of Expertise: Political anthropology; migration and citizenship; anthropologies of emotion; hope and political hope; gendered moralities; precarity and privilege; genocide & dispossession; necropower Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Carolyn Hodges-Simeon Affiliated Title:Assistant Professor Organization:Boston University, Department of Anthropology Carolyn Hodges-Simeon Area of Expertise: From the endocrine correlates of mucosal immunity in Amazonian Native Americans to acoustic changes in the male voice at puberty and their social and psychological effects, her diverse work has a sing...Read More Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
Christopher Schmitt Affiliated Title:Assistant Professor Organization:Boston University, Department of Anthropology Christopher Schmitt Email: caschmit@bu.edu Area of Expertise: Mechanistic and adaptive aspects of developmental variation in primates, behavioral ecology, physiology, morphometrics, and genomics Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff
John Marston Affiliated Title:Associate Professor Organization:Boston University, Department of Anthropology Other Department Lead John Marston Email: marston@bu.edu Area of Expertise: Environmental archaeology; paleoethnobotany; sustainability and resilience; agricultural risk management; Mediterranean and Near Eastern archaeology; stable isotope biogeochemistry; paleoenvironmenta...Read More Individual Type: Core Faculty/Staff Other: Director of Archaeology Program