Primary Contact Walter E. Little Affiliated Title:Professor of Cultural Anthropology Organization:SUNY - Albany Department Lead Walter E. Little Professor of Cultural Anthropology SUNY - Albany Email: wlittle@albany.edu Area of Expertise: Guatemala and Mexico. Mesoamerica. Cultural and Ethnic Identity, Cultural Performance, Gender Relations, Marketplace and Household Economics, Transcultural Studies - Tourism, Urban Anthropology. Position: Department Chair Individual Type: Professor
Elise L. Andaya Affiliated Title:Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology Organization:SUNY - Albany Affiliated Contact Elise L. Andaya Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology SUNY - Albany Email: eandaya@albany.edu Area of Expertise: Gender; kinship and reproduction; populational change; medical anthropology; health and healthcare; cultures of socialist and post-socialist states; race; migration and transnationalism; personhood an...Read More Individual Type: Associate Professor
Louise M. Burkhart Affiliated Title:Professor of Cultural Anthropology Organization:SUNY - Albany Affiliated Contact Louise M. Burkhart Professor of Cultural Anthropology SUNY - Albany Email: Lburkhart@albany.edu Area of Expertise: Ethnohistory/Historical ethnography; colonialism and evangelization; symbolic, interpretive, and postmodern anthropology; Mesoamerican religions (pre-Columbian, colonial, and contemporary); textual an...Read More Individual Type: Professor
Jennifer L. Burrell Affiliated Title:Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology Organization:SUNY - Albany Affiliated Contact Jennifer L. Burrell Associate Professor of Cultual Anthropology SUNY - Albany Email: jburrell@albany.edu Area of Expertise: Structural and political violence, development, gender, migration, human rights Position: Chair, Graduate Advisory Committee Individual Type: Associate Professor
Lee S. Bickmore Affiliated Title:Professor of Linguistic Anthropology Organization:SUNY - Albany Affiliated Contact Lee S. Bickmore Professor of Linguistic Anthropology SUNY - Albany Email: Lbickmore@albany.edu Area of Expertise: Linguistics, phonology, tone, stress Position: Chair of Linguistics Program Individual Type: Professor
Lauren E. Clemens Affiliated Title:Assistant Professor of Linguistic Anthropology Organization:SUNY - Albany Affiliated Contact Lauren E. Clemens Assistant Professor of Linguistic Anthropology SUNY - Albany Email: lclemens@albany.edu Area of Expertise: Linguistic theory, syntax, prosody, syntax-prosody interface Individual Type: Assistant Professor
James P. Collins Affiliated Title:Professor of Linguistic Anthropology Organization:SUNY - Albany Affiliated Contact James P. Collins Professor of Linguistic Anthropology SUNY - Albany Email: jcollins@albany.edu Area of Expertise: Sociolinguistics, social theory, educational anthropology Position: Professor of Linguistic Anthropology Individual Type: Professor
John S. Justeson Affiliated Title:Professor of Linguistic Anthropology Organization:SUNY - Albany Affiliated Contact John S. Justeson Professor of Linguistic Anthropology SUNY - Albany Email: jjusteson@albany.edu Area of Expertise: Linguistics, historical linguistics, language and prehistory, variation and change, writing systems, probabilistic and simulation models, Mesoamerican languages and hieroglyphic writing, Elamite, Indu...Read More Individual Type: Professor
Marilyn A. Masson Affiliated Title:Professor of Archaeology Organization:SUNY - Albany Affiliated Contact Marilyn A. Masson Professor of Archaeology SUNY - Albany Email: mmasson@albany.edu Area of Expertise: Archaeology, ancient economies and urbanism, political organization, human ecology, ancient religion, zooarchaeology, lithic analysis Individual Type: Professor
Verónica Pérez-Rodríguez Affiliated Title:Assistant Professor of Archaeology Organization:SUNY - Albany Affiliated Contact Verónica Pérez-Rodríguez Associate Professor of Archaeology SUNY - Albany Email: vperezrodriguez@albany.edu Area of Expertise: Ecological and Environmental Anthropology; Mesoamerican Archaeology; Complex Societies and Urbanism; Landscape and Regional Studies; Agriculture and Terracing. Position: Director, Institute of Mesoamerican Studies (IMS) Individual Type: Associate Professor
Sean M. Rafferty Affiliated Title:Associate Professor of Archaeology Organization:SUNY - Albany Affiliated Contact Sean M. Rafferty Associate Professor of Archaeology SUNY - Albany Email: srafferty@albany.edu Area of Expertise: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Eastern Woodlands, Archaeometry, Early Woodland and Adena Period Archaeology, Prehistoric Use of Medicinal and Psychoactive Plants, Public Outreach in Archaeology, Sham...Read More Position: Editor, Individual Type: Associate Professor
Robert M. Rosenswig Affiliated Title:Associate Professor of Archaeology Organization:SUNY - Albany Affiliated Contact Robert M. Rosenswig Associate Professor of Archaeology SUNY - Albany Email: rrosenswig@albany.edu Area of Expertise: Anthropological Archaeology; Development of Complexity; Origins of Agriculture; Settlement Patterns; Ceramic Analysis Individual Type: Associate Professor
Christopher B. Wolff Affiliated Title:Assistant Professor of Archaeology Organization:SUNY - Albany Affiliated Contact Christopher B. Wolff Assistant Professor of Archaeology SUNY - Albany Email: cwolff@albany.edu Area of Expertise: Northern Cultures and Ecology, Coastal Hunter-Gatherers, Prehistoric Technology, Prehistoric Cultural Interaction, Arctic/Subarctic Drums, The Archaeology of Fear, Peopling of the Americas. Position: Chair, Undergraduate Advisory Committee Individual Type: Assistant Professor
Mercedes L. Fabian Affiliated Title:Lecturer and Lab Director Organization:SUNY - Albany Affiliated Contact Mercedes L. Fabian Lab Director SUNY - Albany Email: mfabian@albany.edu Area of Expertise: Biological Anthropology, criminal justice, human anatomy, forensics Position: Lab Director Individual Type: Lecturer
Adam D. Gordon Affiliated Title:Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology Organization:SUNY - Albany Affiliated Contact Adam D. Gordon Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology SUNY - Albany Email: agordon@albany.edu Area of Expertise: Primate evolutionary biology, hominin evolution Position: Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology Individual Type: Associate Professor
Julia A. Jennings Affiliated Title:Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology Organization:SUNY - Albany Affiliated Contact Julia A. Jennings Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology SUNY - Albany Email: jjennings2@albany.edu Area of Expertise: Human demography, aging and the life course, quantitative methods, household ecology, historical demography Position: Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology Individual Type: Associate Professor
John J. Rowan Affiliated Title:Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology Organization:SUNY - Albany Affiliated Contact John J. Rowan Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology SUNY - Albany Area of Expertise: The paleoecology of early hominins and African terrestrial ecosystems. Position: Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology Individual Type: Assistant Professor
Lawrence M. Schell Affiliated Title:Distinguished Professor of Biological Anthropology Organization:SUNY - Albany Affiliated Contact Lawrence M. Schell Distinguished Professor of Biological Anthropology SUNY - Albany Email: lmschell@albany.edu Area of Expertise: Biological anthropology, medical anthropology, human growth and development, cities and health. Position: Director-Ctr. for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities-518-442-4904 Individual Type: Faculty
Amanda N. Spriggs Affiliated Title:Assistant Clinical Professor Organization:SUNY - Albany Affiliated Contact Amanda N. Spriggs Assistant Clinical Professor of Biological Anthropology SUNY - Albany Email: aspriggs@albany.edu Area of Expertise: Primate pelage visual signals, color quantification methods, primate visual systems, functional morphology, natural history collections Individual Type: Faculty