Faculty

Anthropolgy Faculty

Affiliated Faculty

Emeritus Faculty

Anthropology Faculty

headshot of Elizabeth DiGangi

Elizabeth DiGangi

Associate Professor

Anthropology
S1 142B

Research Interests

  • Forensic anthropology
  • Population-specific standards
  • Age-at-death estimation
  • Trauma analysis
  • Prehistoric and historic health; stress; and well-being
  • Latin America; Caribbean; Europe Bioarchaeology; Paleopathology
  • North Africa
  • North America
  • Ancestry and social race
View Full Profile
headshot of Douglas R. Holmes

Douglas R. Holmes

Distinguished Professor

Anthropology
AB G12

Research Interests

  • Contemporary fascism
  • Central banks and monetary policy
  • Technologies of money
  • Sovereign wealth funds
  • Experimental ethnography
View Full Profile
headshot of Carl P. Lipo

Carl P. Lipo

Professor; Associate Dean for Research and Programs

Anthropology; Harpur College of Arts and Sciences
S1 166

Research Interests

  • Evolution of Past Human Populations
  • Models of Cultural Transmission
  • Methods in Remote Sensing, Geophysics
  • North American Prehistory, Prehistory of the Pacific
View Full Profile
headshot of Sebastien C.P. Lacombe

Sebastien C.P. Lacombe

Research Assistant Professor/Director of Undergraduate Studies

Anthropology
S1 108

Research Interests

  • Archaeopetrography
  • lithic analysis and sourcing
  • landscape archaeology
  • experimental archaeology
  • CRM
  • Prehistoric Europe
View Full Profile
headshot of D. Andrew Merriwether

D. Andrew Merriwether

Professor; Collegiate Professor for College in the Woods

Anthropology; Residential Life
S1 102

Research Interests

  • Ancient DNA/PaleoGenomics
  • Molecular Anthropology
  • Peopling of the New World and The Pacific
  • Plant and Animal Domestication
  • Population Genetics/Phylogenetics
  • Forensic DNA
  • Molecular Epidemiology
  • Biomedical Anthropology
  • Evolutionary Biology/Molecular Evolution
  • Paleodemography
View Full Profile
headshot of Sabina Perrino

Sabina Perrino

Professor; Director of the Linguistics Program; TRIP Courtesy Title

Anthropology; The Linguistics Program; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
S1 215

Research Interests

  • Intimacy in Interaction
  • Language use in Ethnomedical Encounters & Political Speeches
  • Oral Narratives as Discursive Practices
  • Racialized Language in Everyday Conversation
  • Spatiotemporal Relations (Chronotope)
  • Research Methods in Linguistic Anthropology
  • Fitness Culture and Practices
View Full Profile
headshot of Joshua Reno

Joshua Reno

Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives; Professor

Graduate School; Anthropology

Research Interests

  • Environmental anthropology
  • Semiotics and language
  • Critical disability studies
  • Science and technology studies
  • Gaming, games and play
View Full Profile
headshot of Deborah Schechter

Deborah Schechter

Instructor/Director of Graduate Program in Biomedical Anthropology

Anthropology
AB S1 239/ AB G16

Research Interests

  • Health disparities
  • Risk-taking behavior
  • Biocultural models of health and disease
  • Community-based research methods
View Full Profile
headshot of Thomas M. Wilson

Thomas M. Wilson

Professor

Anthropology
S1 204

Research Interests

  • National identity and nationalism; international borders and frontiers; ethnicity and ethnic conflict; political ritual and symbolism; commercial farming; agrarian economic strategies and politics; public policy and interest group formation; local government and political parties; cinema and popular culture; European integration; the borderlands of the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hungary, Canada, and the United States.
View Full Profile

Affiliated Faculty

Emeritus Faculty