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Faculty

Lynnette Arnold

Lynnette Arnold
Title: 
Assistant Professor
Contact: 
larnold@umass.edu
Research Interests: 
linguistic anthropology, care and communication, migration and transnationalism, global health, language and social justice, language and racism, digital communication and media, embodied communication. El Salvador, Central America, and the United States
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Sonya Atalay

Sonya Atalay
Title: 
Provost Professor
Contact: 
satalay@umass.edu
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Felicity Aulino

Felicity Aulino
Title: 
Associate 5 College Professor
Contact: 
felicity@anthro.umass.edu
Research Interests: 
Medical anthropology, global health, critical phenomenology, Buddhism, psychological anthropology, care and caregiver subjectivity, ethnographic film, humanitarian interventions, participatory action research, Thailand
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Whitney Battle-Baptiste

Whitney Battle-Baptiste
Title: 
Professor
Contact: 
wbbaptiste@anthro.umass.edu
Research Interests: 
African diaspora theory, Black Feminist theory, African American expressive and material culture, historical archaeology, African diaspora archaeology, critical heritage studies, cultural landscapes. North America & Caribbean
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Nicholas Caverly

Nicholas Caverly
Title: 
Assistant Professor
Contact: 
ncaverly@umass.edu
Research Interests: 
STS, Racism + Racial Capitalism, Cities, Techno-Politics, Design Justice
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Todd Disotell

Todd Disotell
Title: 
Professor
Contact: 
tdisotell@umass.edu
Research Interests: 
Primate evolution, molecular evolution, analytical techniques of phylogenetic systematics, history of biological anthropology, human variation.
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Achsah Dorsey

Achsah Dorsey
Title: 
Assistant Professor (On Leave Spring 2023)
Contact: 
adorsey@umass.edu
Research Interests: 
human biology, global health, child growth and development, nutrition, immune function, evolutionary medicine, disease and reproductive ecology, life-history theory, biocultural perspectives on health and human development, South America and Sub-Saharan Africa
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Krista Harper

Krista Harper
Title: 
Professor (On Leave Spring 2023)
Contact: 
kharper@umass.edu
Research Interests: 
Mobilizations around the environment, urban infrastructure, food justice, and placemaking
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Julie Hemment

Julie Hemment
Title: 
Chair and Professor of Anthropology
Contact: 
jhemment@anthro.umass.edu
Research Interests: 
Russia, post-socialism, gender and transition, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and global civil society, feminist anthropology, Participatory Action Research Methodology and public anthropology
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Brigitte Holt

Brigitte Holt
Title: 
Professor
Contact: 
holtb@anthro.umass.edu
Research Interests: 
Human evolution, bicultural evolution of the genus Homo, functional morphology and biomechanics of the postcranial skeleton, paleoecology, Ice Age, Europe
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Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson
Title: 
Lecturer (retired)
Contact: 
ericjohnson@anthro.umass.edu
Research Interests: 
Archaeology, Eastern North America, cultural resource management, indigenous histories, ancient technology, human ecology.
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Jason Kamilar

Jason Kamilar
Title: 
Professor and Graduate Program Director, Director of ISSR
Contact: 
jkamilar@anthro.umass.edu
Research Interests: 
Primatology, evolutionary ecology, microbiome diversity, hair evolution, biogeography, community ecology, quantitative methods. Africa, Madagascar
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Elizabeth Krause

Elizabeth Krause
Title: 
Professor
Contact: 
ekrause@anthro.umass.edu
Research Interests: 
Sociocultural anthropology: population politics, especially reproduction and migration; medical anthropology; political economy and economic anthropology; historical anthropology and social memory; globalization and global families; fast fashion; food and culture; transregional connections and place-based practices; ethnography & writing; digital storytelling; Italy and United States.
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Thomas Leatherman

Thomas Leatherman
Title: 
Professor (Sabbatical FA22-SP23)
Contact: 
tleatherman@anthro.umass.edu
Research Interests: 
Critical Biocultural anthropology, political ecology, health and nutrition, medical and nutritional anthropology, human adaptability. Peru, Mexico
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Johanna Pacyga

Johanna Pacyga
Title: 
Lecturer
Contact: 
jpacyga@umass.edu
Research Interests: 
Her research explores gender and missionization in colonial Senegal, and she has additional research and teaching interests in human/plant relationships, historical ecology, inequality and the power dynamics of knowledge production.
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Ventura Perez

Ventura Perez Tan vest
Title: 
Associate Professor
Contact: 
vrperez@anthro.umass.edu
Research Interests: 
Interpersonal and institutionalized violence, paleopathology, etiology of diseases affecting the skeleton, NAGPRA compliance, forensics. American Southwest, Mexico
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Sarah Reedy

Sarah Reedy
Title: 
Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Advising
Contact: 
sreedy@umass.edu
Research Interests: 
Bioarchaeology of childhood, growth and development under stress, Industrial Era Europe
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Jennifer Sandler

Jennifer Sandler
Title: 
Sr. Lecturer
Contact: 
jsandler@anthro.umass.edu
Research Interests: 
Participatory ethnography, activist communities and organizations, social-change in U.S. and Mexico, private money in U.S. public education, ethnography of knowledge practices of social change movements and coalitions, critical pedagogy, relational organizing, neoliberalism. U.S., Mexico
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Boone Shear

Boone Shear
Title: 
Sr. Lecturer and Undergraduate Program Director
Contact: 
bshear@umass.edu
Research Interests: 
Solidarity and Community Economies, Higher Education, Engaged Research and Pedagogy, Activism and Organizing, Political Ecology, Ontological Politics
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Lynnette Leidy Sievert

Lynnette Leidy Sievert
Title: 
Professor
Contact: 
leidy@anthro.umass.edu
Research Interests: 
Biological anthropology, reproductive ecology, evolutionary medicine, human variation, menopause, women's health. U.S., Mexico.
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Haeden Stewart

Haeden Stewart
Title: 
Assistant Professor (On Leave Spring 2023)
Contact: 
hestewart@umass.edu
Research Interests: 
Archaeology of the contemporary, historical archaeology, political ecology
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Jacqueline Urla

Jacqueline Urla
Title: 
Professor
Contact: 
jurla@anthro.umass.edu
Research Interests: 
language activism, minority languages
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Amanda Walker-Johnson

Amanda Walker-Johnson
Title: 
Associate Professor
Contact: 
awjohnson@anthro.umass.edu
Research Interests: 
Racial politics of education, critical race theory, intersectionality, cultural studies of science, politics of genealogies
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