Anthropologists

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Department of Anthropology Faculty

JANE H. ADAMS (PhD University of Illinois-Urbana 1987; Prof)
Sociocultural anthropology, political economy, social movements, agricultural systems, history, gender roles, race, class; rural US, Latin America. Telephone: 618-453-5019. Email: jadams@siu.edu.

ANDREW BALKANSKY (PhD University of Wisconsin 1997; Asst Prof)
Archaeology, urbanism, settlement patterns, social evolution; Mexico and Central America. Telephone: 618-453-5083.  Email: abalkan@siu.edu.

ROBERTO E. BARRIOS (PhD Florida 2004; Asst Prof)
Public anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropology of disasters, science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, Mesoamerican ethnography. Telephone: 618-453-5043. Email: rbarrios@siu.edu

ROBERT S. CORRUCCINI (PhD University California-Berkeley 1975; Dist Prof)
Physical anthropology, paleontology, osteology, multivariate methods, dental anthropology, epidemiology; India, Italy, Caribbean. Telephone: 618-453-5022. Email: rcorrucc@siu.edu.

MICHELLE M. CROISSIER (PhD Illinois 2007; Vstg Asst Prof)
Archaeology, Mesoamerica, ceramic technology, migration and ancient cities. Telephone: 618-453-5830, Email: mcroiss@siu.edu.

SUSAN M. FORD (PhD University Pittsburgh 1980; Assoc Prof)
Physical anthropology, primate paleontology and systematics (especially New World monkeys and early anthropoids), evolutionary theory, functional and comparative anatomy; South America. Telephone: 618-453-5013. Email: sford@siu.edu.

JANET M. FULLER (PhD U South Carolina 1997; Assoc Prof)
Sociolinguistics; social and structural consequences of bilingualism and language contact; discourse markers and their use and development in English and Pennsylvania German; language and gender; North America.  Telephone: (618) 453-5057.  Email: jmfuller@siu.edu.

JONATHAN D. HILL (PhD Indiana 1983; Prof)
Ethnology, ecology, and history of Lowland South America; , ethnomusicology and performance studies; symbolic and semiotic anthropology; nationalism and ethnicity; critical studies of culture, power, and history. Telephone: 618-453-4084. Email: jhill@siu.edu.  Editor of the journal  Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Journal office telephone: 618-453-5026.

C. ANDREW HOFLING (PhD Washington U 1982; Prof)
Linguistics; discourse analysis, Maya; Mesoamerica. Telephone: 618-453-5014. Email: ahofling@siu.edu.

JOHN MCCALL (PhD Indiana 1992; Assoc Prof)
Sociocultural anthropology, history of anthropology, ethnography, African film and video, African popular culture, African music, dance & art, Nigeria. Telephone: 618-453-5324. Email: jmccall@siu.edu.

ALICIA PRADO-CHAVIRA (PhD UCLA; Vstg Asst Prof)
Sociocultural anthropology, Latino studies, transnational migration. Telephone: 618-536-6651.

TRACY L. PROWSE (PhD McMaster 2001; Asst Prof)
Physical anthropology, bioarchaeology, osteology, palaeonutrition, stable isotopes, Roman archaeology, forensic anthropology; Italy, Mediterranean. Telephone: 618-453-3298. Email: tprowse@siu.edu

ULRICH H. REICHARD (PhD U Goettingen 1995; Asst Prof)
Physical anthropology; primate behavior, evolution and cognition. White-handed gibbon field
project; Asia. Telephone: 618-453-5052. Email: ureich@siu.edu

DON S. RICE (PhD Pennsylvania State 1976; Prof; Associate Provost for Academic Administration)
Archaeology, ethnohistory, tropical ecology, development of complex societies; Middle America, Andes. Telephone: 618-536-5535. Email: drice@siu.edu.

PRUDENCE M. RICE (PhD Pennsylvania State 1976; Dist Prof; Director, Office of Research Development and Administration, and Assoc Vice Chancellor for Research)
Archaeology, ceramics; Mesoamerica, Andes. Telephone: 618-453-4531. Email: price@siu.edu.

IZUMI SHIMADA (PhD Arizona 1976; Dist Prof)
Archaeology, complex societies, technology and craft production, urban and ceremonial centers, experimental archaeology; Andes. Telephone: 618-453-5023. Email: ishimada@siu.edu.

DAVID SUTTON (PhD U Chicago 1995; Assoc Prof)
Sociocultural anthropology, historical consciousness, kinship and gender, food, memory; Greece, Europe. Telephone: 618-453-5017. Email: dsutton@siu.edu.

ANTHONY WEBSTER (PhD Texas  2004; Asst Prof)
Ethnopoetics, Athabaskan linguistics, orality and literacy, identity, Navajo poetry, Coyote, phonology, historical linguistics, language maintenance.  Telephone: 618-453-5027. Email: awebster@siu.edu.

PAUL D. WELCH (PhD U Michigan 1986; Assoc Prof)
Archaeology, politics and economics in midrange societies, eastern U.S.; quantitative methods. Telephone: 618-453-4740. Email: pwelch@siu.edu.

Adjunct Faculty

BRIAN M. BUTLER (PhD SIUC 1977; Adj Prof; Senior Scientist and Director, CAI)
Archaeology, cultural resource management, prehistoric subsistence and settlement systems; southeastern and midwestern US, Micronesia. Telephone: 618-453-5031. Email: bbutler@siu.edu.

ROBERT DeHOET (MFA Iowa 1984; Adj Instr; Museum Ed Coord, Univ Museum)
Art education, museology, art history, sculpture.   Telephone: 618-453-5388.  Email: drhoet@siu.edu.

GLENN GILBERT (PhD Linguistics Harvard U 1963 Adj Prof; Chair, Dept of Linguistics)
Historical linguistics, creole languages, sociolinguistics, social dialectology and linguistic geography, bilinguilism, German linguistics, second language acquisition; ethnic languages in the US, American Indian English; US, Germany.  Telephone: 618-453-3414 .  Email: ggilbert@siu.edu.

SABRINA H. B. HARDENBERGH (PhD U Massachusetts Amherst 1993; Adj Asst Prof)
Medical anthropology, nutritional anthropology, political ecology, political economic policy and health; Madagascar, Africa, southern Illinois.

HEATHER LAPHAM (PhD U Virginia 2002; Curator, CAI; Adj Asst Prof)  
Archaeology of trade and exchange, European-Indian interaction, faunal analysis, beads; eastern US. Telephone: 618-453-5033. Email: hlapham@siu.edu.

KRISTRINA SHULER (PhD Southern Illinois U 2005; Adj Asst Prof)  
Bioarchaeology of the African Diaspora; paleopathology, Cultural Resources Management. Telephone: 843-860-0191. Email: kshuler@siu.edu.

NATE STEINBRINK (More information is coming soon)

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Staff

TEDI THOMAS  Administrative Secretary and Office Manager.
Telephone: 618-453-5012. Email: tthomas@siu.edu.

REBECCA BONDI  Graduate Secretary.
Telephone: 618-453-5037. Email: bondi@siu.edu.

Anthropologists in the Center for Archaeological Investigations

BRIAN M. BUTLER (PhD SIUC 1977; Senior Scientist and Director, CAI; Adj Prof of Anthropology)
Archaeology, cultural resource management, prehistoric subsistence and settlement systems; southeastern and midwestern US, Micronesia. Telephone: 618-453-5031. Email: bbutler@siu.edu.

REBECCA DEAN (PhD U Arizona 2003; Visiting Scholar 2006-2007) Archaeology,
early farming societies, zooarchaeology, Southwestern United States,
Mediterranean Europe and Asia. Telephone: (618) 453-5031. Email: rdean@siu.edu

HEATHER LAPHAM (PhD U Virginia 2002; Curator; Adj Asst Prof of Anthropology)  
Archaeology of trade and exchange, European-Indian interaction, faunal analysis, beads; eastern US. Telephone: 618-453-5033. Email: hlapham@siu.edu.

MARK WAGNER (MA University of Tennessee-Knoxville 1980; Staff Archaeologist)
Cultural resource management, historical archaeology, prehistory of the Midwest; Midwest US. Telephone: 618-453-5035. Email mjwagner@siu.edu.

Emeritus Faculty

PHILIP DARK (PhD Yale 1954; Emeritus Prof)
Ethnology, art and technology, visual anthropology; New Guinea, Africa (No longer in residence).

GEORGE J. GUMERMAN (PhD Arizona 1968; Emeritus Prof; Past Dir, Cntr for Arch Investigations)
Archaeology, archaeological cooperatives, paleoenvironmental reconstructions, conservation archaeology; US Southwest, Micronesia (No longer in residence).

JEROME S. HANDLER (PhD Brandeis 1965; Emeritus Prof)
Cultural anthropology, ethnohistory, African-American studies, slavery, plantation and peasant communities, historical archaeology; Caribbean, West Africa (No longer in residence).

ESTER G. MARING (PhD Indiana 1969; Emerita Asst Prof)
Folklore, ethnology, acculturation, anthropology of religion, customary law, and ethics; Southeast Asia, US Pueblos. Telephone: 618-453-5018.

JOEL M. MARING (PhD Indiana 1967; Emeritus Assoc Prof)
Linguistics, educational anthropology, ethomusic; US Southwest, Southeast Asia, New Guinea.

JON MULLER (PhD Harvard 1967; Emeritus Prof)
Archaeology, political economy, art analysis and culture theory; eastern US. Email: jmuller@ll.net.

ROBERT L. RANDS (PhD Columbia 1952; Emeritus Prof)
Archaeology, ceramic technology, trace-element analysis, comparative art; Mesoamerica (No longer in residence).

CARROLL L. RILEY (PhD New Mexico 1952; Distinguished Prof Emeritus)
Ethnohistory, archaeology, ethnology; northern Mexico, US Southwest (No longer in residence).