First name,Last name,Preferred title,Overview,Position,Department,Individual
Katie,Bojakowski,Instructional Assistant Professor,,Instructional Assistant Professor,Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n188d819c
Jeffrey,Winking,Associate Professor,"My research focuses on human evolutionary ecology, parental investment, marriage, cooperation, and altruism.",Associate Professor,Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n2753cfb8
David,Carlson,Professor Emeritus,,Professor,Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n299840b9
Cemalettin,Pulak,Professor,,Professor,Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n303dcdac
Thomas,Green,Associate Professor,"My research focuses on the expressive culture/folklore with particular emphasis on festival, ritual and narrative as vehicles for the preservation of group cohesion in situations of cultural conflict; the symbolic analysis of martial culture; African-American folk culture; and Chinese culture.",Associate Professor,Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n306edae9
Sheela,Athreya,Associate Professor,"I have research interests in Hominin Evolution and Systematics, Asia, Human Variation, Quantitative Methods, Craniofacial Biology, and History of Physical Anthropology.",Professor,Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n35699060
Sharon,Gursky,Professor,"My research focuses on Biological Anthropology, Primate Behavior, Primate Ecology, and Conservation.",Professor,Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n39923b01
Michael,Waters,Professor,My research focuses on the following topics: Peopling of the Americas; Geoarchaeology; Late Quaternary history; and Americas and Northeast Asia.,Professor||Professor,Anthropology||Geography,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n3f6d9098
Darrell,Lynch,Lecturer,,Lecturer,Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n423c982b
Darryl,de Ruiter,Professor,"I am a paleoanthropologist whose research focuses on the ecology and evolution of the early hominins of Africa. My research centers on the origin of the genus Homo, and on early representatives of that genus. In 2010, my research team and I announced the discovery of a new hominin species - Australopithecus sediba - from the site of Malapa in South Africa. Australopithecus sediba represents a curious mixture of both australopith-like and Homo-like morphologies, and based on this mosaic of characters, we hypothesized that it represents the australopith ancestor of the genus Homo. In 2015 my research team and I announced the discovery of another new hominin species - Homo naledi - from the site of Rising Star, also in South Africa. This species is especially fascinating in that it was likely contemporaneous with the earliest representatives of Homo sapiens, and, perhaps even more remarkable, that they appear to have deliberately disposed of their dead. I am also involved in a series of studies investigating the isotope ecology of modern South Africa in order to better contextualize the isotope ecology of the extinct hominins of South Africa.
I originally arrived at Texas A&M University in 2003, after receiving my PhD in Anatomical Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 2001. In 2009 I was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, and was appointed to a Ray A. Rothrock '77 Fellowship for my efforts in research, teaching, and service leading up to tenure. In 2013 I was promoted to Full Professor, and in 2014 I was appointed to a Cornerstone Faculty Fellowship in Liberal Arts. In 2016 I was honored to receive a Distinguished Achievement Award in Research from the Association of Former Students at Texas A&M. I have been serving as the Department Head of Anthropology since July of 2019.",Professor||Department Head,Anthropology||Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n5ce75bd8
Deborah,Carlson,Associate Professor,"My research focuses on Greek archaeology, Roman archaeology, ancient seafaring, Greek & Roman pottery, Latin, and field archaeology.",Associate Professor,Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n60a1bfb8
Christopher,Dostal,Assistant Professor,,Assistant Professor,Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n6571bdd5
Catharina,Laporte,Instructional Associate Professor,,Instructional Associate Professor||Director of Undergraduate Studies,Anthropology||Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n6fd17e7d
Michael,Alvard,Associate Professor,"My research focuses on culture and biology, cooperation, human evolutionary ecology, horticulturalists; hunters and gatherers, local people and environmental issues, and adaptation to the tropics.",Associate Professor,Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n7e0dd366
Lori,Wright,Professor,,Professor,Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na5354f30
Monya,Anderson,Lecturer,,Lecturer,Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na7148b58
Luis,Vieira-De-Castro,Professor,,Professor,Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na9aec024
Heather,Thakar,Assistant Professor,"Archaeological Theory, Evolutionary Ecology, Foraging and Proto-agricultural Societies
Coastal, North and Central American Archaeology (California, Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua)
Isotope Geochemistry, Radiocarbon Dating, ZooMS Collagen Fingerprinting
Archaeobotany, Palynology, Zooarchaeology (specialized expertise in fish & shellfish analysis)
Archaeological Ethics, Rematriation/Repatriation, Curation and Collections Management",NAGPRA Coordinator||Assistant Professor,Anthropology||Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nb51fbd92
Donny,Hamilton,Professor,,Professor,Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nc7bf3d23
Angela,Perri,Assistant Professor,,Assistant Professor,Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nce32c1da
Allison,Hopkins,Assistant Professor,"Dr. Hopkins is a medical and ecological anthropologist specializing in interdisciplinary research on the connections between globalization and/or social relationships and human health. Specifically, she focuses on understanding the knowledge people have about local resources, how that knowledge relates to their behavior, what factors are associated with variation in their knowledge and behavior, and ultimately how that relates to health. She researches these issues in varying contexts, with different populations, types of knowledge and factors at play. Additionally, the theoretical and methodological approaches she uses are varied and depend on the research question and the strengths of the research team. For example, Hopkins is collaborating with colleagues on a study focused on smoking relapse prevention. She is using social network theory and methods to capture the composition and changes in the social networks of recently quit smokers in the United States, how their networks relate to their ability to stay quit, and how information on smoking cessation spreads through their networks. Most recently Dr. Hopkins started a mixed-methods project guided theoretical by cognitive anthropology to examine the conditions under which different models of social change, including educational models, are effective at reducing poverty and increasing wellbeing and food sovereignty in the Yucatan.",Assistant Professor||Faculty Fellow,Center for Health Systems and Design||Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nd78cbf7f
Carolyn,Kennedy,,"Dr. Carolyn Kennedy is a nautical archaeologist specializing in shipbuilding of Europe and North America over the past five hundred years. Dr. Kennedy has worked on underwater archaeology projects around the world, including in Spain, Canada, the US, and the Marshall Islands, and she has directed two nautical archaeology projects: the Shelburne Shipyard project in Lake Champlain, Vermont, and the Gaspe Maritime Archaeology Project in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence, eastern Canada. Her research interests include wooden shipbuilding technologies, ship design and construction, eastern North American maritime history, and conservation of waterlogged archaeological materials.",Instructional Assistant Professor,Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne9ad13e0
Shelley,Wachsmann,Professor,"I am fascinated by ships and the sea and how cultures interacted through them. My regional focus is mainly, although not solely, the eastern Mediterranean during its earlier formative period. The cultic use of ships--or their facsimiles--many of which never saw water beneath their hulls, intrigues me. Due to the paucity of actual shipwrecks from the times that most interest me, I have focused on the interpretation of ancient ship iconography. Around the turn of the millennium I became interested in the potential of deep-submergence archaeology.
My recent field projects reflect these interests. In 2002 I directed a paleo-environmental study of three possible Phoenician anchorages in Portugal. In 2003-2006, I directed the Canadian team of a joint Canadian-Greek expedition in search of fleets lost during the Persian War in the early fifth century B.C. and in 2007-2009 I led the Danaos Project, a deep-water survey studying the Crete-to-Egypt trade route in antiquity. Following a long fascination with the culture of Easter Island, in March 2012 I organized the first maritime remote-sensing survey of the crater lake of Rano Raraku and a survey of maritime aspects of the Rapanui Culture, in collaboration with Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilburg's Easter Island Statue Project. Most recently, under the aegis of the Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project and with the goal of better understanding the maritime dimensions of the port of Jaffa, Israel, I directed The 2014 Ioppa Maritima Project, which combined a geoarchaeological/geophysical land survey together with a deep-water Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) examination of multibeam survey anomalies at depths of 50-250 meters.
My fifth book (2013) deals with a wooden ship-cart model discovered in 1920 by W.M.F. Petrie at Gurob, in middle Egypt. The prototype of the Gurob model was clearly an Aegean-style galley--probably a pentakonter of a type used by both the Mycenaeans and the Sea Peoples. This model is the most detailed known representation of this galley type, for which no actual ships have been discovered. Put simply, if Helen's face launched a thousand ships, this is the most detailed existent example of that ship type.
My sixth and most recent (2015) book is a short guide to seafaring on the Sea of Galilee in antiquity.",Professor,Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nf3fe0161
Kevin,Crisman,Professor,"My research focuses on: Nautical archaeology of the Early Modern era (15th to 20th Centuries); construction and outfitting of ships; seafaring, shipboard life, and maritime communities; North American river, lake, and canal navigation; 19th century steamboats and ship propulsion technology; Warships and naval technology, 1450-1950; War of 1812 naval design and construction.",Professor,Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nf62156ef
Sergio,Lemus Sevilla,Visiting Assistant Professor,,Visiting Assistant Professor,Anthropology,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nfc42216f