Distinguished Professor
Evolutionary Ecology
Tenure Line Faculty
(Ph.D. UC Davis, 2011; Prof). Human ecology, evolutionary game theory and social evolution,
economics of small-scale societies, Oceania
(Ph.D. U Washington 1995; Prof). Zooarchaeology, evolutionary ecology, human paleoecology,
North American Prehistory (especially California and the Great Basin)
(Ph.D. Stanford U; . Prof). Human behavioral ecology, foraging economies, anthropogenic
fire, gender division of labor, ethnoarchaeology, ethno-ecology, data analysis, GIS;
Australia & North America
(Ph.D. U of Michigan, 1995; Prof.).Life History Evolution, Stress and Health, Fatherhood,
Family Relationships: Theory and Research, Early Childehood Development, Developmental
Psychology
(Ph.D. George Washington U, 2011; Prof.). Quaternary paleoecology, vertebrate paleontology,
zooarchaeology, paleoanthropology, modern human origins, extinctions, Africa
(Ph.D. UC Davis, 2017; Assist. Prof.). North American prehistoric archaeology and
ethnography, human behavioral ecology, biological anthropology, and bioarchaeology.
(Ph.D. U Washington 1976; Dist. Prof). Human evolution, behavioral ecology, sociobiology,
hunter-gatherers
(Ph.D. U Michigan; Assoc. Prof). Biocultural perspectives on mate choice, human behavioral
ecology, evolutionary psychology, kinship; Brazil
(Ph.D.; UCLA, 1994; Prof). Primate immunogenetics and molecular ecology
(Ph.D. Dartmouth College 2017; Assist. Prof). Behavioral ecology; how human health and life history are shaped by the interactions between social behavior, culture, and the environment
(Ph.D. U New Mexico 1998; Professor). Human behavioral ecology, demography, cooperative
breeding, evolution and economics of childhood & parenting; hunter-gatherers (Pume,
South America) and agriculturalists (Maya)
(Ph.D. University of Washington 2014; Assoc. Prof.) North American pre-history; Arid
West; Quaternary paleoecology; Archaeobotany; Palynology, Starch grain analysis
(Ph.D. Washington State U 2010; Assoc. Prof). Evolutionary Anthropology; Social psychology;
Political Economy; Political and Behavioral Ecology; Inequality; Ritual Society and
Labor Exchange; Ethno-History
(Ph.D. Yale University 2015; Assist. Prof). Biological anthropology; primatology; evolutionary and population genomics; sex chromosome
evolution
Career-Line Faculty
(Ph.D. University of Utah 1997; Research Assoc. Prof). Archaeological method and theory, stable isotope chemistry, Great Basin, eastern Arctic.
(Ph.D. University of Utah 1992; Assoc. Prof - Lect). A native of Croatia, I studied ethnology and Indology at the University of Zagreb, Croatia (former Yugoslavia), and received my M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Utah. I have done fieldwork in Croatia, India, and in the Andean region of Peru. My topics of research are primarily focused on kinship and kinship terminology; gender; ethnohistory; network analysis
; symbolic anthropology: symbolism of the body, menstrual beliefs and taboos, color symbolism, the structure of cosmological systems; cognitive anthropology: modularity of the mind; origin of language; children's acquisition of language; literary theory; travel writing as genre. My methods include qualitative and quantitative research: concepts of graph theory and the application of graph-theoretic models on trade networks, symbolic systems, kinship structures, gender and intra-family relationships.
(Ph.D. University of Arizona - Tucson 2023; Asst. Prof - Lect). Archaeology
*Career-line faculty are reviewed and renewed by the Department on an annual basis persuant to Policy 6-310.
Emeritus Faculty
Elizabeth Cashdan
Professor Emeritus
Evolutionary Psychology
(Ph.D. U New Mexico 1979; Prof Emeritus). Evolutionary psychology, behavioral ecology,
hunter-gatherers
Laurence D. Loeb
Associate Professor Emeritus
Cultural Anthropology
(Ph.D. Columbia 1970; Assoc. Prof Emeritus). Middle East ethnology, social organization,
religion, ethnomusicology, sociocultural reconstruction, culture change; Old World
Jewry
John M. McCullough
Professor Emeritus
Biological Anthropology
(Ph.D. U Illinois 1972; Prof Emeritus). Physical anthropology, ecological genetics, human variation; the Americas, Yucatan, Europe
James F. O'Connell
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Archaeology
(Ph.D. UC Berkeley 1971; Dist. Prof Emeritus). Hunter-gatherer ecology, archaeological method and theory; Australia, Africa, North America
Duncan Metcalfe
Associate Professor Emeritus
Archaeology
(Ph.D. U Utah 1987; Assoc. Prof Emeritus). Archaeological method and theory, evolutionary ecology; western North America
Dennis H. O'Rourke
Professor Emeritus
Biological Anthropology
(Ph.D. U Kansas 1980; Prof Emeritus). Population and evolutionary genetics, genetic epidemiology, quantitative methods, native America, Arctic regions and Siberia
Marianna Di Paolo
Associate Professor Emeritus
Linguistic Anthropology
(Ph.D. U Texas at Austin 1986; Assoc. Professor Emeritus). Sociolinguistics, sociophenetics, Native American linguistics (Shoshoni)
Alan R. Rogers
Professor Emeritus
Population Genetics
(Ph.D. U New Mexico 1982; Prof Emeritus). Population genetics, evolutionary ecology