Faculty
Faculty are listed in alphabetical order under one of the following
designations. Clicking on a name will call up your email program
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Full-Time Faculty
Emeritus Faculty
Part-Time Faculty and Lecturers
Adjunct Faculty
Affiliate Faculty
Full Time Faculty
Dr. Stephen Brighton,
Assistant Professor
Interests : Diaspora studies, social identity, heritage formation,
contemporary archaeological theory; Northeastern USA, rural Ireland,
trans-Atlantic region.
Office telephone : 301-405-3700
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Dr. Erve Chambers,
Professor
Department Chair
Interests : Applied anthropology, policy research, evaluation, tourism,
housing and community development, cultural studies
Office telephone : 301-405-1425
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Dr. Janet Chernela,
Professor
Interests : Cultural anthropology, ethnography of the Amazon basin,
socio-linguistics, environment, NGOs, Latin American studies
Current research : Heritage sites in Laos and Cambodia
Office telephone : 301-405-1421
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Dr. Judith Freidenberg,
Associate Professor
Interests : Urban health and community development, immigrant
health and social supports, aging and latino culture, ethnicity
and health care
Current research : Anthropology
of the Immigrant Life Course Research Program
Office telephone : 301-405-1420
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Dr. Fatimah Jackson,
Professor
Interests : Experimental bioanthropology, human parasitology, population
genetics, human-plant co-evolution, biohistory of african peoples,
biocultural approaches to disease
Office telephone : 301-405-1431
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Dr. Mark Leone, Professor
Director, Archaeology in Annapolis
Interests : Historical archaeology and interpretation, critical
theory, outdoor history museums, african-american archaeology
Office telephone : 301-405-8767
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Dr. Michael Paolisso,
Associate Professor
Graduate Director
Interests : Environmental anthropology, economic anthropology, research
methods and gender
Office telephone : 301-405-1433
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Dr. Paul Shackel,
Professor
Associate Chair, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Director, Center for Heritage Resource Studies
Interests : Historical archaeology, industrial archaeology, complex
societies, labor history, consumer behavior, public history
Current research : Archaeological exploration of New Philadelphia,
Illinois
Office telephone : 301-405-1422
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Dr. William Stuart, Assistant
Professor
Director, Undergraduate Honors Program
Interests : Social anthropology, history and philosophy of anthropological
theory, comparative religion, cultural ecology
Office telephone : 301-405-1435
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Dr. Tony Whitehead,
Professor
Director, Cultural Systems Analysis Group
Interests : Medical anthropology, community ethnography, multidisciplinary
health research, community health development and education,
AIDS,
substance abuse
Office telephone : 301-405-1419
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Dr. Aubrey Williams,
Professor
Interests : Anthropological theory, transnational migration, New
World native cultures, cultural history
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Emeritus Faculty
Dr. Michael Agar, Professor
Emeritus
Interests : Anthropology of communication, ethnographic methods,
discourse analysis / theory, language and politics, drug research,
transportation
Dr. Nancie Gonzalez,
Professor Emerita
Interests : Social anthropology, urbanization, agricultural development,
complex societies, conflict management, Latin America, Caribbean,
Guatemala, Middle East
Part-Time Faculty and Lecturers
Mr. David Gadsby
Assistant Director, Center for Heritage Resource Studies
Interests : Heritage, archaeology
Office telephone : 301-405-0085
Dr. Teresa Leslie
Interests : Middle passage, biological anthropology, diaspora studies, infectious disease, global health, health disparities
Office telephone : 301-405-8768
Ms. Marilyn London
Interests : Skeletal biology, growth and development, forensic anthropology,
paleopathology
Office telephone : 301-405-8768
Mr. Matthew Palus, Lecturer
Interests : Historical archaeology, public utilities and infrastructure,
modernization, planning, critical theory, labor history
Office Telephone : 301-405-1429
Adjunct Professors
Dr. Susan Abbott-Jamieson
(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Interests : Fisheries anthropology and environmental policy, psychological
anthropology, medical anthropology, adolescent behavior, gender,
African development, Appalachia and rural USA
Ms. Cathleen Crain
(LTG Associates)
Interests : Sociocultural anthropology, medical anthropology, community
health and development, health care, Asia, North America
Dr. Shirley Fiske
(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Sea Grant College Program)
Interests : Global practice of anthropology, anthropology and public
policy, U.S. arctic research, marine aquaculture, ocean and coastal
management
Office telephone : 301-713-2431
Dr. Alain Froment
Interests : Epidemiology of tropical diseases and the biology
of human variation
Office telephone : 301-405-8768
Dr. Linda Kaljee
Interests : HIV prevention; adolescent health issues; international
health; Viet Nam
Office telephone : 410-706-0204
Dr. Barbara J. Little
(National Park Service)
Interests : Public archaeology and public history; historical archaeology;
method and theory; feminist archaeology; North America, other parts
of the British colonial world
Dr. Francis McManamon
(National Center for Cultural Resource Stewardship and Partnerships,
National Park Service)
Interests : CRM, lithic technology, quantitative analysis, eastern
US, Pacific
Office telephone : 202-343-4101
Ms. Magdalena Mieri
(Sr. Fellow, Smithsonian Institution)
Interests : Interpretation, presentation of Latino cultures and
immigrant communities; Latin America
Dr. Stephen Potter
(National Park Service)
Interests : Prehistoric and historic archaeology of the Eastern
U.S., contact period research, ethnohistory, southern Algonquian
indians, archaeology and history of state-level warfare
Office telephone : 202-619-7280
Ms. Cristina Puentes-Markides
Interests : Sociocultural anthropology, community health and development,
health care, women in developing nations, Latin America, Caribbean,
North America
Dr. Nathaniel Tashima
(LTG Associates)
Interests : Sociocultural anthropology, medical anthropology, psychological
anthropology, community health and development, health care, AIDS,
Asia, North America
Affiliate Faculty
Dr. A. Lynn Bolles
(Prof., Womens Studies, Univ. of Maryland)
Interests : Economic / sustainable development, gender issues,
women's studies; the Caribbean
Office telephone : 301-405-6879
Dr. John Caughey
(Prof., Chair American Studies, Univ. of Maryland)
Interests : Life history research, cognitive and psychological
anthropology, culture theory, culture and mental health
Office telephone : 301-405-1358
Dr. Regina Harrison
(Prof., Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Univ. of Maryland)
Interests : Latin American cultural studies, eco-tourism, colonial
and contemporary literature; the Andes
Office telephone : 301-405-0497
Dr. Seung-Kyung Kim
(Associate Prof., Women's Studies, Univ. of Maryland)
Interests : Political economy, gender, women and development,
East Asia
Office telephone : 301-405-7293
Dr. Donald Linebaugh
(Assoc. Prof., Director, Historic Preservation, Univ. of Maryland)
Interests : Historical archaeology, public interpretation
Office telephone : 301-405-6309
Dr. Angel Nieves
(Asst. Prof., Historic Preservation, Univ. of Maryland)
Interests : African American urban history, comparative women's
studies, American architectural history, theory, and criticism
Office telephone : 301-405-0753
Dr. Carol Robertson
(Prof., Ethnomusicology)
Interests : Ethnomusicology, cognitive anthropology, music
Office telephone : 301-405-5502
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