Compiled July 2026 from department/institute websites and individual faculty bios and CVs. Companion to the Departments 1–10 file.
Selected on the same basis as the first ten — reputational standing (US News graduate anthropology/archaeology, program size, field-project footprint) — from the tier immediately below. Order is approximate, not a strict ranking.
| # | Institution | Unit | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Arizona State University | School of Human Evolution and Social Change / Center for Archaeology and Society | Public |
| 12 | University of Washington | Dept. of Anthropology / Burke Museum | Public |
| 13 | Northwestern University | Dept. of Anthropology | Private |
| 14 | University of Wisconsin–Madison | Dept. of Anthropology | Public |
| 15 | University of New Mexico | Dept. of Anthropology / Maxwell Museum | Public |
| 16 | Washington University in St. Louis | Dept. of Anthropology | Private |
| 17 | UC Santa Barbara | Dept. of Anthropology | Public |
| 18 | Boston University | Dept. of Archaeology (standalone) | Private |
| 19 | Cornell University | Dept. of Anthropology / Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies (CIAMS) | Private |
| 20 | University of Texas at Austin | Dept. of Anthropology / Texas Archeological Research Laboratory | Public |
Notes on the data. Where a field reads "Not listed," the degree or institution was not published on the department profile, personal page, CV, or other public source consulted. Undergraduate institutions are the most frequently omitted item. Entries flagged (unconfirmed) had conflicting or single-source information. Rosters cover core archaeology faculty including emeriti, matching the convention of the Departments 1–10 file; lecturers, adjuncts, postdocs and CRM staff are excluded.
| Name | Title | Undergraduate | Graduate | Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew A. Peeples | Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for Archaeology and Society | B.A. Anthropology, Univ. of Texas at Austin, 2003 | M.A. 2006, Ph.D. 2011 Anthropology, Arizona State Univ. | U.S. Southwest (Zuni/Cibola, Mimbres); social network analysis; ceramics; quantitative methods |
| Michael E. Smith | Professor of Archaeology | B.A. Anthropology, Brandeis Univ., 1975 | M.A. 1979, Ph.D. 1983 Anthropology, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Aztec and Postclassic Mesoamerica; ancient and comparative urbanism; households and neighborhoods |
| Jane E. Buikstra | Regents Professor; Director, Center for Bioarchaeological Research; NAS member | B.A. Anthropology, DePauw Univ., 1967 | M.A. 1969, Ph.D. 1972, Univ. of Chicago | Bioarchaeology (coined the term); paleopathology; ancient tuberculosis DNA; forensic anthropology |
| C. Michael Barton | Professor, SHESC and School of Complex Adaptive Systems | B.A. Anthropology, Univ. of Kansas | M.A. and Ph.D. Anthropology (minor Geosciences), Univ. of Arizona | Long-term human ecology; computational modeling; Mediterranean landscape dynamics; lithics |
| David R. Abbott | Associate Professor of Anthropology | Not listed | M.A. Anthropology, Arizona State Univ.; M.S. Statistics, Univ. of Arizona; Ph.D. Anthropology, Arizona State Univ. | Hohokam ceramics; exchange and social networks; irrigation and the Phoenix Basin |
| Christopher T. Morehart | Associate Professor of Anthropology | Ohio Univ. (degree not listed) | M.A. Florida State Univ.; Ph.D. Anthropology, Northwestern Univ., 2010 | Paleoethnobotany; political ecology; Xaltocan and the Basin of Mexico |
| Michelle Hegmon | Professor Emerita of Anthropology | Not listed | Ph.D. Univ. of Michigan | Mimbres and the U.S. Southwest; social transformations; archaeology of the human experience |
| Keith W. Kintigh | Professor Emeritus of Anthropology | A.B. Sociology (honors), Stanford Univ., 1974 | M.S. Computer Science, Stanford, 1974; Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of Michigan, 1982 | Cíbola/Zuni; quantitative and spatial analysis; digital archiving and tDAR |
| Margaret C. Nelson | President's Professor; Vice Dean, Barrett Honors College | B.A. Anthropology, Occidental College | Ph.D. Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara | Mogollon and Mimbres; land use and long-term cycles of aggregation and dispersion |
| Ben A. Nelson | Professor Emeritus of Anthropology | B.A. Florida State Univ., 1971 | M.A. Florida State, 1976; Ph.D. Southern Illinois Univ., 1980 | Northwest Mexico and the Southwest; social complexity; long-distance exchange; La Quemada |
| Barbara L. Stark | Professor Emerita of Anthropology | B.A. Anthropology and History, Rice Univ., 1966 | M.Phil. 1970 and Ph.D., Yale University | Gulf lowlands of Veracruz; settlement patterns; market exchange; Mesoamerican urbanism |
| Katherine A. Spielmann | Professor Emerita of Anthropology | Not listed | Ph.D. Univ. of Michigan | Southwest and Plains interaction; exchange; ritual economy and craft production |
| Name | Title | Undergraduate | Graduate | Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Fitzhugh | Professor of Anthropology | Not listed | Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of Michigan, 1996 | North Pacific and Arctic maritime hunter-gatherers; historical ecology; Kodiak, Alaska |
| Ben Marwick | Professor of Anthropology | Not listed | M.A. Archaeology, Univ. of Western Australia, 2002; Ph.D. Archaeology and Natural History, Australian National Univ., 2008 | Mainland Southeast and East Asia; lithic technology; computational and reproducible archaeology |
| Sara L. Gonzalez | Associate Professor of Anthropology; Curator of Archaeology, Burke Museum | Not listed | Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 2011 | Indigenous and community-based archaeology; colonialism; decolonizing methodologies |
| Marcos Llobera | Associate Professor of Anthropology; Director, DigAR Lab | B.A. Mathematics, Southern Illinois Univ. Edwardsville | M.S. Univ. of Leicester; D.Phil. Univ. of Oxford | Landscape and computational archaeology; GIS and visibility analysis; Corsica and Mallorca |
| Sven D. Haakanson | Professor of Anthropology; Department Chair; Curator, Burke Museum | B.A. English, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, 1992 | Ph.D. Anthropology, Harvard University | Alutiiq/Sugpiaq heritage and material culture; petroglyphs; museums and repatriation |
| Name | Title | Undergraduate | Graduate | Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark W. Hauser | Professor of Anthropology; Director, Weinberg Center for Global Studies | Not listed | Ph.D. Anthropology, Syracuse Univ., 2001 | African diaspora in the Caribbean; local ceramics and informal economies; Jamaica, Dominica |
| Matthew H. Johnson | Kenneth F. Burgess Professor of Anthropology | B.A. 1985, St John's College, Univ. of Cambridge | Ph.D. 1990, Univ. of Cambridge | Medieval and early modern Britain and Europe; landscape and buildings; archaeological theory |
| Amanda Logan | Associate Professor of Anthropology; 2022 Carnegie Fellow | B.A. Simon Fraser Univ. | M.A. Univ. of Missouri; Ph.D. Univ. of Michigan | West Africa; archaeology of food security and hunger; Banda, Ghana |
| Cynthia Robin | Professor of Anthropology | Not listed | Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1999 | Maya households and everyday life; Chan and Aventura, Belize; gender |
| Melissa S. Rosenzweig | Associate Professor of Instruction, Anthropology and Environmental Policy & Culture | Not listed | Not listed | Environmental archaeology of the ancient Near East; archaeobotany; northern Mesopotamia and the Levant |
| Zachary A. Nissen | Assistant Professor of Instruction, Anthropology | B.A. Anthropology, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | M.A. and Ph.D. Anthropology, Northwestern Univ. | Maya households; inequality and urban longevity; Aventura, Belize; gender and sexuality studies |
| Name | Title | Undergraduate | Graduate | Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry T. Bunn | Glynn Ll. Isaac Professor of African Paleoanthropology | Not listed | Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1982 | Plio-Pleistocene hominin diet; taphonomy and butchery marks; Olduvai, Koobi Fora; Hadza foragers |
| Sarah Clayton | Professor of Anthropology; Associate Chair | B.A. Anthropology/Art History, Univ. of Washington, 1998 | M.A. 2003, Ph.D. 2009 Anthropology, Arizona State Univ. | Teotihuacan; early urbanism; abandonment and social change in central Mexico |
| Fumie Iizuka | Assistant Professor of Anthropology | B.A. Anthropology (Distinction), Univ. of Michigan, 1998 | M.A. UC Santa Barbara, 2005; Ph.D. Anthropology (Archaeology and Materials Science), Univ. of Arizona, 2013 | Earliest pottery in the tropics; Panama; ceramic production and diagenesis |
| J. Mark Kenoyer | George F. Dales Jr. and Barbara A. Dales Professor of Anthropology | B.A. Anthropology, Univ. of California, Berkeley | M.A. and Ph.D. South Asian Archaeology, UC Berkeley, 1983 | Indus civilization; Harappa (HARP); ancient technology, beads and craft production |
| Nam C. Kim | Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for Southeast Asian Studies | B.A. International Relations, Univ. of Pennsylvania | M.A. Political Science, New York Univ.; Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago | Vietnam and Southeast Asia; Co Loa; emergence of warfare and early states |
| Sissel Schroeder | Bradshaw Knight Professor of Environmental Humanities | Not listed | Ph.D. Pennsylvania State Univ. | Mississippian societies; Cahokia; architectural variation; historical ecology; history of archaeology |
| Name | Title | Undergraduate | Graduate | Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael W. Graves | Professor of Anthropology; Director, Alfonso Ortiz Center | Not listed | Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of Arizona, 1981 | Oceania (Hawai'i, Micronesia) and the U.S. Southwest; prehistoric agriculture; ceramic style |
| Frances M. Hayashida | Professor of Anthropology; Director, Latin American and Iberian Institute | B.A. Stanford University | M.A. Stanford; Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of Michigan | Andean political economy and ecology; Inka agriculture and water management; beer brewing; Peru and Chile |
| Emily Lena Jones | Professor and Regents' Lecturer; Director, Zooarchaeology Lab | B.A. Vassar College | M.A. and Ph.D. Univ. of Washington, 2004 | Zooarchaeology; human-environment interactions; historical biogeography; Stone Age Europe and the Southwest |
| Hannah V. Mattson | Associate Professor of Anthropology; Associate Chair | B.A. Oregon State Univ. | M.A. and Ph.D. Univ. of New Mexico, 2015 | Personal adornment and materiality; Chaco Canyon and Pueblo Bonito; ceramic technology |
| Keith M. Prufer | Professor of Anthropology; Director, Environmental Archaeology Lab | Not listed | Ph.D. Southern Illinois Univ. Carbondale, 2002 | Environmental archaeology of the Neotropics; Maya caves and ritual; paleoclimate and isotopes; Belize |
| Kari L. Schleher | Assistant Professor of Anthropology; Curator of Archaeology, Maxwell Museum | Not listed | Ph.D. Univ. of New Mexico, 2010 | Southwest ceramics; standardization and craft specialization; northern Rio Grande and Mesa Verde |
| Carla M. Sinopoli | Professor of Anthropology; Director, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology | B.A. Binghamton Univ. (SUNY) | M.A. and Ph.D. Univ. of Michigan | South Asia; Vijayanagara; empires and political economy; ceramics; museum studies |
| Loa P. Traxler | Associate Professor of Anthropology; Director, Museum Studies Program | Not listed | Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2004 | Maya architecture and the built environment; Copán acropolis; museums and cultural heritage |
| Name | Title | Undergraduate | Graduate | Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tristram R. Kidder | Edward S. and Tedi Macias Professor; Chair of Anthropology | B.A. Anthropology, Tulane Univ., 1982 | M.A. 1987, Ph.D. 1988, Harvard University | Geoarchaeology; Lower Mississippi Valley and Poverty Point; Yellow River, China; climate and society |
| Natalie G. Mueller | Assistant Professor of Anthropology | Not listed | Ph.D. Washington Univ. in St. Louis, 2017 | Paleoethnobotany; the "lost crops" and Eastern Agricultural Complex; domestication and agrobiodiversity |
| Ilaria Patania | Assistant Professor of Anthropology | Not listed | Ph.D. Archaeology and Geoarchaeology, Boston Univ., 2017 | Micromorphology and site formation; cave sites in China; early occupation of Sicily; island environments |
| Helina S. Woldekiros | Associate Professor of Anthropology | Addis Ababa Univ. (degree not listed) | Ph.D. Washington Univ. in St. Louis | Zooarchaeology and foodways; Horn of Africa; ancient trade routes; Ethiopia |
| Fiona B. Marshall | James W. and Jean L. Davis Professor Emerita in Arts & Sciences | Not listed | Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1986 | African pastoralism and animal domestication; donkeys and cats; zooarchaeology and ethnoarchaeology |
| Gayle J. Fritz | Professor Emerita of Anthropology | Not listed | M.A. Univ. of Texas at Austin, 1975; Ph.D. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986 | Paleoethnobotany; Eastern Agricultural Complex; Ozark and Cahokia plant use |
| David L. Browman | Professor Emeritus of Anthropology | Not listed | Not listed | Andean plant and animal domestication; history and philosophy of archaeology; sociopolitical complexity |
| Name | Title | Undergraduate | Graduate | Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amber M. VanDerwarker | Professor of Anthropology | Not listed | Ph.D. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Paleoethnobotany and zooarchaeology; foodways, gender and warfare; Mesoamerica and the southeastern U.S. |
| Stuart Tyson Smith | Professor of Anthropology; Director, ISBER | B.A. Near Eastern History and Archaeology, Univ. of California, Berkeley | M.A. and Ph.D. Archaeology, UCLA | Egypt and Nubia; Tombos, Sudan; ethnicity, imperialism and colonial encounters; funerary practice |
| Gregory D. Wilson | Professor of Anthropology | B.A. Southern Illinois Univ. Carbondale, 1994 | M.A. Univ. of Oklahoma, 1998; Ph.D. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005 | Mississippian societies and the Cahokia frontier; social inequality, identity politics and violence |
| Lynn H. Gamble | Professor Emerita of Anthropology | B.A. Univ. of California, Berkeley | Ph.D. Univ. of California, Santa Barbara | Chumash and southern California; hunter-gatherer sociopolitical complexity; shell bead money and feasting |
| Katharina J. Schreiber | Professor Emerita of Anthropology | Not listed | Ph.D. SUNY Binghamton | Wari empire and Andean South America; imperial expansion; settlement patterns |
| Michael A. Jochim | Professor Emeritus of Anthropology | Not listed | Ph.D. Univ. of Michigan | European Mesolithic and prehistory; hunter-gatherer settlement models; method and theory |
| Danielle S. Kurin | Associate Professor of Anthropology | Not listed | Ph.D. Vanderbilt University | Bioarchaeology of the Andes; Wari collapse and its aftermath; violence and trauma; Peru |
| Name | Title | Undergraduate | Graduate | Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrea M. Berlin | James R. Wiseman Chair in Classical Archaeology; Professor of Archaeology and Religion | A.B. Classical Art and Archaeology, Univ. of Michigan | A.M. Univ. of Chicago; Ph.D. Classical Art and Archaeology, Univ. of Michigan, 1988 | Achaemenid, Hellenistic and Roman East; ceramics; Israel, Turkey and Egypt |
| Wade Campbell | Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology | B.A. Archaeological Studies (Distinction), Yale University, 2011 | A.M. 2016, Ph.D. 2022 Anthropology, Harvard University | Diné (Navajo) historical archaeology; early pastoral landscapes; U.S. Southwest |
| David M. Carballo | Professor of Archaeology, Anthropology and Latin American Studies | B.A. Political Science, Colgate Univ., 1995 | M.A. 2001, Ph.D. 2005 Anthropology, UCLA | Teotihuacan and central Mexico; households, urbanism, religion and social inequality |
| Andreana S. Cunningham | Assistant Professor of Archaeology, Anthropology and African American & Black Diaspora Studies | B.A. Univ. of Florida | M.A. and Ph.D. Univ. of Florida | African diaspora archaeology; archaeological materials and materiality |
| John M. (Mac) Marston | Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology; Director, Archaeology Program | Not listed | Ph.D. UCLA | Paleoethnobotany; agricultural sustainability and land use; Mediterranean and western/central Asia |
| S. Rebecca Martin | Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture and Archaeology | B.A. Smith College | Ph.D. Univ. of California, Berkeley | Greek and Phoenician art and archaeology; ethnicity and identity; Tel Dor, Israel |
| Curtis Runnels | Professor of Archaeology, Anthropology and Classical Studies | B.A. Univ. of Kansas | M.A. and Ph.D. Indiana Univ., 1981 | Greek prehistory; Paleolithic and Neolithic Aegean; lithic technology; landscape survey |
| Catherine F. West | Research Associate Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology; Director of Graduate Studies | B.A. Bryn Mawr College | Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of Washington, 2009 | Zooarchaeology and environmental archaeology; Arctic and subarctic; coastal Alaska; conservation |
| Carolyn L. White | Director, Preservation Studies Program; Professor of Archaeology and History of Art & Architecture | B.A. Oberlin College | Ph.D. Archaeology, Boston University | Historical archaeology and material culture; contemporary and active-site archaeology; Burning Man |
| Name | Title | Undergraduate | Graduate | Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adam T. Smith | Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Anthropology; Director, CIAMS | A.B. Brown University, 1990 | M.Phil. Univ. of Cambridge, 1991; M.A. 1993, Ph.D. 1996, Univ. of Arizona | Bronze and Iron Age South Caucasus; Armenia (Project ArAGATS); politics and materiality |
| Sturt W. Manning | Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Classics; Director, Cornell Tree-Ring Laboratory | Not listed | Ph.D. Univ. of Cambridge | Aegean and East Mediterranean prehistory; dendrochronology; radiocarbon; climate and history |
| Caitlín E. Barrett | Professor of Classics | A.B. Harvard University | Ph.D. Yale University, 2009 | Archaeology of religion and ritual; households and material culture; Egypt, Italy, Pompeii |
| Nerissa Russell | Professor of Anthropology | Not listed | Ph.D. Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1993 | Zooarchaeology; Çatalhöyük and the Neolithic; human-animal relations; feasting |
| Lori Khatchadourian | Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies | B.A. Classics and Government, Georgetown Univ. | M.Sc. London School of Economics; Ph.D. Classical Art and Archaeology, Univ. of Michigan | Armenia and the South Caucasus; imperialism and satrapal politics; things and political life |
| Kathryn L. Gleason | Professor Emerita of Landscape Architecture | B.S. Landscape Architecture, Cornell Univ., 1979 | M.L.A. Harvard Univ., 1981; D.Phil. Archaeology, Univ. of Oxford, 1991 | Roman designed landscapes; garden archaeology; ancient horticultural technology |
| Name | Title | Undergraduate | Graduate | Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iyaxel Cojti Ren | Assistant Professor of Anthropology | Not listed | Ph.D. Vanderbilt University | Highland Maya of Guatemala; K'iche' and Kaqchikel polities; Postclassic political organization |
| R. Alan Covey | Professor of Anthropology | A.B. Anthropology and Classical Archaeology, Dartmouth College | M.A. and Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of Michigan, 2003 | Inca empire and Cusco; regional survey; early colonial Peru |
| Maria Franklin | Professor of Anthropology and of African and African Diaspora Studies | B.A. Anthropology, Auburn Univ. | M.A. and Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1997 | African diaspora archaeology; Black feminist theory; race and gender; Texas freedom colonies |
| Enrique R. Rodríguez-Alegría | Professor of Anthropology | Not listed | Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of Chicago | Colonial Mexico; Xaltocan; ceramics, class stratification and consumption |
| Arlene M. Rosen | Professor of Anthropology; Director, Laboratory for Environmental Archaeology | Not listed | Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago | Geoarchaeology and phytolith analysis; origins of agriculture; Near East, China and Mongolia |
| Fred Valdez, Jr. | Professor of Anthropology; Director, Texas Archeological Research Laboratory | Not listed | Ph.D. Harvard University (unconfirmed) | Maya lowlands; Programme for Belize; ceramic and lithic technology; emergence of complexity |