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Affiliated Faculty

Affiliated faculty are reviewed and renewed by the Department on an annual basis persuant to Policy 6-310.

Career-Line Faculty

Joan Brenner Coltrain Adj. Assoc. Prof. (Ph.D. University of Utah, 1997) Archaeological method and theory, stable isotope chemistry, Great Basin, eastern Arctic.
 
Bojka Milicic  Adj. Assoc. Prof. (Ph.D. University of Utah) Cultural anthropology, kinship, gender, ethnohistory, social networks; Mediterranean and India.
 
 
 

Adjunct Faculty (teaching)

Shannon Arnold BoomgardenAdj. Asst. Prof. (Ph.D. University of Utah, 2015) Archaeology. Paleoecology. Fremont agricultural productivity, irrigation & infrastructure. Fremont maize caching. Great Basin (Range Creek, Utah).

Shawn W. Carlyle Adj. Asst. Prof. (Ph.D. University of Utah, 2003) Biological anthropology, molecular archaeology of the US Southwest.

Tom Flanigan  Adj. Asst. Prof. (Ph.D. University of Utah, 2019) Archaeology. 

Derinna Kopp Adj. Asst. Prof. (Ph.D. University of Utah) Forensic Anthropology

Rebecca Olsen Adj. Asst. Prof. (MA University of Utah) Cultural anthropology, women cross-culturally.

Renee Pennington Adj. Asst. Prof. (Ph.D. Penn State) Demography, pastoralists, evolutionary ecology; Africa.

Meghan E. Banton Adj. Asst. Prof. (Ph.D. University College London) Skeletal & Dental Bioarchaeology, Forensic Death Investigation

 

Other Affiliated Faculty

 

Jerry Spangler Adj Asst Prof. (Master' Degree, Anthropology. Brigham Young University)

Christina Cloutier-Barbour Adj. Asst. Prof. (Ph.D. University of Utah, 2018) Curator of Conservation, Research & Chimpanzees at Lion Country Safari

Celeste Henrickson Adj. Assoc. Prof. (Phd UC Berkeley, 2013) Archaeology. Historic archaeology. Geoarchaeology of rockshelters and caves. Prehistoric textile production and technology. Baja California and Baja California Sur, Mexico.

Andrew Ugan Adj. Asst. Prof. (Phd U Utah, 2005) Archaeology. Archaeofaunal analysis. Paleoecology and stable isotope analysis. Fremont prey choice and prehistoric foraging behavior. Great Basin and South America (Argentina).

Gregory R. Burns Adj. Asst. Prof. (Ph.D. University of California, Davis, 2019) California, Great Basin, and Southwest culture areas. Stable isotopes, XRF, and other archaeometric and traditional methods to explore the role of trade as an adaption to environmental and cultural factors. The role of violence and intergroup conflict in ethnogenesis.

Russell D. Greaves Adj. Assoc. Prof. (Ph.D. U New Mexico, 1997) Hunter-gatherers, ethnoarchaeology, technology subsistence, North American archaeology, geoarchaeology, comparative ethnology, museum studies.

Kate Magargal Adj. Asst. Prof. (Ph.D. University of Utah, 2019) Archaeology

D. Craig Young Adj. Asst. Prof. (Ph.D. University of Nevada, Reno, 1998) Archaeology

David Zeanah Adj. Asst. Prof. (Ph.D. University of Utah, 1996) Archaeology

Last Updated: 1/16/26