Core Faculty
Karen Bassi, Literature
Research interests:
Greek and Latin literatures, gender; literary and cultural theory, pre- and early modern studies, historiography, visual and performance studies.Elisabeth Cameron, History of Art and Visual Culture
Research interests:
visual cultures of Central Africa, issues of gender, colonialism, post-colonialism and iconoclasm.Jon Daehnke, Anthropology
Research interests:
cultural heritage stewardship and law, and the archaeology of the North American Pacific CoastCarolyn Dean, History of Art and Visual Culture
Research interests:
Inka (Inca) visual and performance culture before and after Spanish colonization. Indigenous adaptations of Roman Catholicism. Inka stonework in the pre-Hispanic and colonial Andes, as well as the modern imagination.Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Anthropology
Research interests:
human palaeogenomics & molecular anthropology, the AndesDiane Gifford-Gonzalez, Anthropology, Emerita
Research interests:
zooarchaeology, African archaeology, pastoralism, colonial New Mexico, Holocene Monterey Bay historical ecology, interpretive theory, visual anthropology, emergence of pastoralism in East Africa, foodways as cultural practices in colonial encounters.Richard Edward Green
Research Interests:
Genomics, computational molecular biology, genome assembly, human evolutionary genetics, ancient DNA, high-throughput sequencing, mRNA-processing and alternative splicingJudith Habicht-Mauche, Anthropology
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the archaeology of middle-range societies, culture contact and trade, material culture and technology, ethnicity and gender, Great Plains and American Southwest.Charles Hedrick, History
Research interests:
Ancient Greek and Roman HistoryPaul Koch, Physical and Biological Sciences
Research interests:
vertebrate paleoecology and evolution, isotopic or biochemical analysis of animal tissues (teeth, bones, fur, skin, etc.) or environmental samples (soil minerals, fossil plants, etc.).J. Cameron Monroe, Anthropology
Research interests:
archaeology of West Africa and the African Diaspora, historical anthropology, social complexity and the state, urbanism, space, landscape and monumentality, culture contact and change, spatial analysis and GIS, West Africa (Bénin) and the Caribbean (Haiti).Eréndira Quintana Morales, Anthropology
Research interests:
Human-environment interactions, coastal and island archaeology, zooarchaeology, historical ecology, ethnoarchaeology, foodways, urbanism, co-produced research, archaeology of eastern Africa (Kenya, Tanzania) and the Western Indian Ocean
Vicky M. Oelze, Anthropology
Research interests:
feeding ecology of extant apes and fossil hominins, developing novel biochemical markers for insectivory and meat consumption in great apes, reconstruction of diet and migration in great apes and prehistoric humans, isotope biochemistry and ecology (carbon, nitrogen, sulphur, strontium, oxygen)Tsim D. Schneider, Anthropology
Research interests:
California archaeology, colonialism, missions, Indigenous refuge and resiliency, landscape and place
Beth Shapiro, Physical and Biological Sciences
Research interests:
Molecular evolution; Genome evolution; Ancient DNA, Evolutionary Biology, Molecular Ecology, PaleogenomicsElaine Sullivan, History
Research interests:
landscape, construction of communal memory, temples, women and gender, and the use of digital toolkits in historical research, Ancient Egypt