Compiled July 2026 from department/institute websites and individual faculty bios and CVs.
A composite of reputational standing (US News graduate anthropology/archaeology, NRC history, program size and field-project footprint). Order is approximate, not a strict ranking.
| # | Institution | Unit | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Michigan | Dept. of Anthropology / Museum of Anthropological Archaeology | Public |
| 2 | UC Berkeley | Dept. of Anthropology / Archaeological Research Facility | Public |
| 3 | Harvard University | Dept. of Anthropology, Archaeology Program | Private |
| 4 | University of Arizona | School of Anthropology / Arizona State Museum | Public |
| 5 | UCLA | Cotsen Institute of Archaeology (interdepartmental) | Public |
| 6 | University of Chicago | Dept. of Anthropology | Private |
| 7 | University of Pennsylvania | Dept. of Anthropology / Penn Museum | Private |
| 8 | Stanford University | Dept. of Anthropology / Stanford Archaeology Center | Private |
| 9 | Yale University | Dept. of Anthropology / Council on Archaeological Studies | Private |
| 10 | Brown University | Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World | Private |
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 — many departments publish only the doctorate. Entries flagged (unconfirmed) had conflicting or single-source information.
| Name | Title | Undergraduate | Graduate | Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael L. Galaty | Professor of Anthropology; Director & Curator, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology; Archaeology Subfield Head | B.A. Anthropology (Honors), Grinnell College, 1991 | M.A. 1994, Ph.D. 1998 Anthropology, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison | Mediterranean & Balkan prehistory; origins of inequality; state formation; archaeometry (ICP-MS, pXRF, ceramic petrography); Albania, Greece, Kosovo |
| Joyce Marcus | Robert L. Carneiro Distinguished University Professor of Social Evolution; Curator of Latin American Archaeology | B.A. Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1969 | M.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1974, Harvard University | Mesoamerica; Zapotec and Maya; early writing systems; state formation and social evolution |
| Henry T. Wright | Albert Clanton Spaulding Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology; Curator of Near Eastern Archaeology | B.A. Univ. of Michigan, 1964 | M.A. 1965, Ph.D. 1967, Univ. of Chicago | Origins of early states; Mesopotamia/southern Iraq; Madagascar; comparative urbanism |
| Robin A. Beck | Professor of Anthropology; Curator of Eastern North American Archaeology | B.A. Political Science, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | M.A. Anthropology, Univ. of Alabama; Ph.D. Anthropology, Northwestern Univ., 2004 | Southeastern North America; early colonial encounters; complex societies; Andes (Bolivia/Peru) |
| Brian A. Stewart | Associate Professor of Anthropology; Curator of African Archaeology | B.A. Univ. of Vermont | M.St. and D.Phil., Univ. of Oxford, 2008 | Prehistoric hunter-gatherers of southern Africa; Stone Age; high-altitude adaptation |
| Alicia Ventresca-Miller | Associate Professor of Anthropology; Associate Curator of Archaeological Sciences | B.A. State Univ. of New York at Buffalo | M.A. New Mexico State Univ.; Ph.D. Univ. of Pittsburgh | Stable isotopes and ancient proteins; Eurasian steppe pastoralism; Ancient Protein and Isotope Laboratory |
| Tiffany C. Fryer | Assistant Professor of Anthropology; Assistant Curator of Historical & Contemporary Archaeology and of Ethnology | B.A. Archaeology, Stanford University | M.A. Anthropology, Stanford; Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of Pennsylvania | Historical and contemporary archaeology; political violence and colonial durabilities; Yucatán, Mexico |
| Raven Garvey | Associate Professor of Anthropology; Associate Curator, UMMAA | Not listed | Not listed | High-latitude and western North American archaeology; hunter-gatherer technology; Patagonia |
| Name | Title | Undergraduate | Graduate | Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sabrina C. Agarwal | Professor and Chair of Anthropology | B.A. Univ. of Toronto | M.Sc. and Ph.D., Univ. of Toronto | Bioarchaeology; bone biology and fragility; life-course theory; gender, aging, disability, inequality; paleopathology |
| Junko Habu | Professor of Anthropology | B.A. Keio University, 1982 | M.A. Keio 1984; Ph.D. Anthropology, McGill Univ., 1996 | Hunter-gatherer and small-scale societies; Jomon Japan; historical ecology; sedentism; North Pacific Rim |
| Laurie A. Wilkie | Professor of Anthropology | Not listed | Ph.D. Archaeology Program, UCLA, 1994 | Historical and contemporary archaeology; African diaspora; families and communities; U.S. and Caribbean |
| Lisa A. Maher | Associate Professor of Anthropology; Curator of Lithics, Hearst Museum | Not listed | Ph.D. Anthropology (Archaeology), Univ. of Toronto, 2005 | Epipalaeolithic Near East; geoarchaeology and micromorphology; hunter-gatherers; Jordan |
| Jun Sunseri | Associate Professor of Anthropology | B.A. and B.S. (institutions not listed) | Ph.D. Univ. of California, Santa Cruz | Colonialism, foodways, landscapes; zooarchaeology and GIS; California, New Mexico, Limpopo (South Africa) |
| William A. White III | Associate Professor of Anthropology | B.A. Anthropology, Boise State Univ., 2001 | M.A. Univ. of Idaho, 2005; Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of Arizona, 2017 | Historical archaeology of the African diaspora; historic preservation; community-based participatory research |
| Nicholas C. Laluk | Assistant Professor of Anthropology | Not listed | Ph.D. Anthropology (minor American Indian Studies), Univ. of Arizona | Indigenous archaeology and methodologies; decolonization and Indigenization; Western Apache homelands |
| Charlotte Williams | Assistant Professor of Anthropology | Not listed | M.Phil. Archaeology (Heritage & Museums), Univ. of Cambridge; Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of Pennsylvania | History of archaeology; museums and cultural heritage; U.S. empire and corporations (United Fruit Co., Panama Canal Zone) |
| Name | Title | Undergraduate | Graduate | Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew Liebmann | Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology; Harvard College Professor; Archaeology Program Director | B.A. English and Theology, Boston College, 1996 | Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2006 | U.S. Southwest; historical archaeology; Pueblo Revolt of 1680; Indigenous archaeology and NAGPRA |
| Rowan K. Flad | John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology; Director of Graduate Studies | A.B. Anthropology, Univ. of Chicago, 1994 | M.A. 1998, Ph.D. 2004, Interdisciplinary Program in Archaeology, UCLA | Late Neolithic and Bronze Age China; craft production; ritual and divination; animals in early Chinese society |
| Jason Ur | Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology | Not listed | Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago | Early urbanism; landscape archaeology; satellite and declassified-intelligence remote sensing; Mesopotamia, Iraqi Kurdistan |
| Christina (Tina) Warinner | Professor of Anthropology and of Human Evolutionary Biology | B.A. Univ. of Kansas | M.A. and Ph.D., Harvard University, 2010 | Archaeogenetics and ancient proteins; dental calculus; ancient diet, dairying, and the microbiome |
| Peter Der Manuelian | Barbara Bell Professor of Egyptology | A.B. Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, 1981 | Ph.D. Egyptology, Univ. of Chicago, 1990 | Egyptology; Giza necropolis; digital archaeology and 3D reconstruction; history of Egyptological archives |
| Amy E. Clark | Assistant Professor of Anthropology | B.A. New York University | M.A. and Ph.D., Univ. of Arizona | Paleolithic Europe and North African Middle/Later Stone Age; Neanderthals; lithic technology; spatial analysis of living space |
| Noreen Tuross | Landon T. Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology | Not listed | Not listed | Biogeochemistry in archaeology; ancient DNA and DNA damage; mass spectrometry; paleodiet, migration, seasonality |
| Richard H. Meadow | Senior Lecturer; Director, Zooarchaeology Laboratory | Not listed | Not listed | Zooarchaeology; animal domestication; South Asia (Harappa, Indus Valley) |
| Name | Title | Undergraduate | Graduate | Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Takeshi Inomata | Regents Professor, School of Anthropology | B.A. Archaeology, Univ. of Tokyo, 1986 | M.A. Anthropology, Univ. of Tokyo, 1988; Ph.D. Anthropology, Vanderbilt Univ., 1995 | Maya archaeology; Ceibal and Aguada Fénix; lidar survey; origins of ceremonial complexes |
| Daniela Triadan | Fred A. Riecker Distinguished Professor of Anthropology | Educated in Germany (institution not listed) | M.A. and Dr. phil. (summa cum laude), Freie Universität Berlin — American Archaeology, European Prehistory, Ethnology | Maya archaeology; ceramic analysis; U.S. Southwest |
| Terry L. Hunt | Professor, School of Anthropology; W.A. Franke Dean Emeritus | B.A. Univ. of Hawai'i–Hilo | M.A. Univ. of Auckland; Ph.D. Univ. of Washington | Pacific Islands; Rapa Nui (Easter Island); human–environment histories and island ecodynamics |
| Suzanne L. Eckert | Professor of Anthropology; Curator/Head of Collections, Arizona State Museum | Not listed | M.A. 1995, Ph.D. 2003, Arizona State Univ. | Southwest ceramic technology; migration; religious practice; gender and ethnic relations |
| James T. Watson | Professor of Anthropology; Curator of Bioarchaeology, Arizona State Museum | B.A. Anthropology, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1996 | Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2005 | Bioarchaeology; dental health and the agricultural transition; Sonora and northwest Mexico |
| Edward A. Jolie | Clara Lee Tanner Associate Professor of Anthropology; Associate Curator of Ethnology, ASM | Not listed | Not listed | Perishable material culture (basketry, cordage, textiles, footwear); Native North America; Chaco Canyon |
| María Nieves Zedeño | Professor of Anthropology; Research Anthropologist, BARA | Not listed | M.A. 1987, Ph.D. 1991, Southern Methodist Univ. | Landscape archaeology; Indigenous heritage and traditional cultural properties; Plains and Southwest |
| Robert Schon | Associate Professor of Anthropology and Classics | B.A. Classical Archaeology, Dartmouth College | M.A. and Ph.D. Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College | Mycenaean statecraft; landscape survey in western Sicily (Segesta); standardized measures |
| Eleni Hasaki | Professor of Anthropology and Classics; Co-Director, Laboratory for Traditional Technology | B.A. Univ. of Athens, Greece | Ph.D. Classics, Univ. of Cincinnati | Greek ceramic technology; workshops and apprenticeship; social network analysis; ethnoarchaeology in Tunisia |
| David Gilman Romano | Nicholas and Athena Karabots Professor of Greek Archaeology | A.B. Art and Archaeology, Washington Univ. in St. Louis, 1969 | M.A. Univ. of Oregon, 1972; Ph.D. Classical Archaeology, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1981 | Greek athletics and sanctuaries; Mt. Lykaion excavation; Roman Corinth GIS/computer mapping |
| Irene Bald Romano | Professor of Anthropology and Art History; Curator of Mediterranean Archaeology, ASM | B.A. Manhattanville College | Ph.D. Classical Archaeology, Univ. of Pennsylvania | Greek and Roman sculpture; museum collections history and provenance research |
| David Soren | Regents' Professor of Anthropology and Classics | B.A. Greek & Roman Studies, Dartmouth College | M.A. Fine Arts and Ph.D. Classical Archaeology, Harvard University | Roman Italy; Cyprus and Portugal excavations; Lugnano in Teverina infant cemetery and malaria |
| David J. Killick | Professor Emeritus of Anthropology (joint, Materials Science & Engineering) | Undergraduate study in geology, history and archaeology in South Africa (institution not listed) | Ph.D. Anthropology, Yale University, 1990 | Archaeometallurgy; archaeometry; history of technology; Africa |
| Mary C. Stiner | Regents' Professor Emerita of Anthropology; ASM Curator Emerita of Zooarchaeology; NAS member | B.A. Anthropology and B.F.A. Fine Arts, Univ. of Delaware, 1980 | Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of New Mexico, 1990 | Zooarchaeology and taphonomy; Paleolithic paleoeconomics; Mediterranean Basin |
| Steven L. Kuhn | Fred A. Riecker Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology; Director, CMATE | Not listed | Ph.D. Univ. of New Mexico (unconfirmed) | Paleolithic archaeology; lithic technology and mobility; northern and eastern Mediterranean |
| Vance T. Holliday | Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Geosciences; Exec. Director, Argonaut Archaeological Research Fund | B.A. Anthropology (honors), Univ. of Texas at Austin, 1972 | M.A. Museum Science, Texas Tech Univ., 1977; Ph.D. Geology, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, 1982 | Geoarchaeology; Paleoindian archaeology; soil geomorphology; U.S. Southwest and northwest Mexico |
| John W. Olsen | Regents' Professor Emeritus of Anthropology; Exec. Director, Je Tsongkhapa Endowment | B.A. Anthropology and Oriental Studies (Highest Distinction), Univ. of Arizona, 1976 | M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1980, Anthropology, Univ. of California, Berkeley | Paleolithic of Central and Inner Asia; Mongolia and China; lithic analysis |
| Barbara J. Mills | Regents' Professor Emerita of Anthropology; Curator of Archaeology, ASM | B.A. Anthropology, Univ. of Pennsylvania | M.A. and Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of New Mexico | U.S. Southwest; social network analysis; ceramics; migration and inequality; Zuni, Chaco, Mogollon Rim |
| T. J. Ferguson | Professor Emeritus of Anthropology | B.A. Univ. of Hawai'i at Hilo, 1973 | M.A. Anthropology, Univ. of Arizona, 1976; M.C.R.P. 1986 and Ph.D. Anthropology 1993, Univ. of New Mexico | Collaborative and Indigenous archaeology; Zuni and Hopi heritage; applied/CRM archaeology |
| Name | Title | Undergraduate | Graduate | Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason De León | Director, Cotsen Institute; Professor of Anthropology and Chicana/o Studies | B.A. Anthropology, UCLA, 2001 | M.A. 2004, Ph.D. 2008, Anthropology, Penn State Univ. | Undocumented migration; violence and materiality; taphonomy and site formation; contemporary archaeology |
| Stephen Acabado | Professor of Anthropology; Chair, Interdepartmental Archaeology Program; Director, Center for Southeast Asian Studies | B.A. Anthropology, Univ. of the Philippines Diliman | Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of Hawai'i at Mānoa, 2010 | Historical ecology; landscape archaeology; Ifugao rice terraces; agricultural systems; Southeast Asia |
| Richard G. Lesure | Professor of Anthropology | Not listed | Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of Michigan, 1995 | Early village societies; origins of social inequality; figurines; Mesoamerica (Formative period) |
| Monica L. Smith | Professor of Anthropology; Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair in Indian Studies | B.A. Classical Civilization (summa cum laude), UC Santa Barbara, 1985 | M.A. Archaeology, UCLA, 1988; Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of Michigan, 1997 | Urbanism; economic networks; consumption and material culture; anthropology of food; South Asia |
| Gregson Schachner | Professor of Anthropology | Not listed | Ph.D. Arizona State Univ., 2007 | North American Southwest; population movement; origins of villages and leadership; settlement systems |
| Justin Dunnavant | Assistant Professor of Anthropology; Joan Silsbee Chair in African Cultural Archaeology | B.A. Howard University, 2009 | Ph.D. Univ. of Florida, 2017 | Historical archaeology of Africa and the African diaspora; maritime/underwater archaeology; slavery and ecology |
| Li Min | Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Asian Languages and Cultures | Not listed (reported Peking Univ.) | Ph.D. Univ. of Michigan, 2008 | Neolithic and Bronze Age China; state formation; social memory; early modern global trade |
| P. Jeffrey Brantingham | Professor of Anthropology | Not listed | Ph.D. Univ. of Arizona, 1999 | Paleoanthropology; hunter-gatherers; stone technology; simulation modeling; carnivore ecology |
| Koji Lau-Ozawa | Assistant Professor of Anthropology | Not listed | Ph.D. Anthropology, Stanford University | Japanese diaspora; WWII Japanese American incarceration; settler colonialism and Indigenous lands |
| Thomas A. Wake | Associate Adjunct Professor of Anthropology; Director, Zooarchaeology Laboratory | B.A. Anthropology/History, Univ. of California, Berkeley | M.A. and Ph.D. Anthropology, UC Berkeley, 1995 | Zooarchaeology of the eastern Pacific Rim; food and ethnicity; Caribbean Panama and California |
| Caitlin R. O'Grady | Assistant Professor, Anthropology and UCLA/Getty Conservation Program | B.A. Art History (magna cum laude, minors Chemistry & Economics), Case Western Reserve Univ. | M.A. Art History + Advanced Certificate in Conservation, NYU; M.S. and Ph.D. Heritage Conservation Science, Univ. of Arizona | Objects conservation of archaeological materials; nondestructive analysis; manufacturing technology and deterioration |
| Glenn Wharton | Professor of Art History; Lore and Gerald Cunard Chair; Chair, UCLA/Getty Conservation Program | Not listed | M.A. Conservation, Cooperstown Graduate Program; Ph.D. Conservation and Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, UCL, 2005 | Archaeological conservation; illicit trade; cultural heritage management; contemporary art conservation |
| Aaron A. Burke | Professor of the Archaeology of Ancient Israel and the Levant (NELC); Kershaw Chair | B.A. Archaeology and Near Eastern Studies, Wheaton College, 1996 | M.A. 2000, Ph.D. 2004, Near Eastern Archaeology, Univ. of Chicago | Bronze and Iron Age Levant; archaeology of warfare; Egyptian imperialism in Canaan; Jaffa |
| Kathlyn (Kara) Cooney | Professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture; Chair, NELC | B.A. German and Humanities, Univ. of Texas at Austin, 1994 | Ph.D. Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Johns Hopkins Univ., 2002 | 21st Dynasty funerary practice and coffins; reuse, robbery, and innovation in crisis |
| Solange Ashby | Assistant Professor, NELC | B.A. Intercultural Studies, Bard College at Simon's Rock | Ph.D. Egyptology, Univ. of Chicago | Nubia; ancient Egyptian language (hieroglyphs, Demotic, Coptic); religious transformation in Northeast Africa |
| Lara Fabian | Assistant Professor of Iranian Archaeology, NELC | B.A. Classical Archaeology, Hunter College, CUNY, 2011 | Ph.D. Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2018 | Iron Age through Sasanian Iran and Southwest Asia; South Caucasus; mobile pastoralist/sedentary relations |
| John K. Papadopoulos | Distinguished Professor of Archaeology and Classics | B.A. Univ. of Sydney | M.A. and Ph.D., Univ. of Sydney | Aegean prehistory; Greek and Italian archaeology; colonization; Athenian Agora excavations |
| Sarah Beckmann | Assistant Professor of Classics | B.A. Classical Languages, Carleton College, 2007 | Ph.D. Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2016 | Domestic art and archaeology of the western Roman provinces; late antique villas of Hispania and Gaul |
| Lothar von Falkenhausen | Professor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History | Studied at Bonn Univ., Peking Univ., Kyoto Univ. (degree not listed) | Ph.D. Anthropology, Harvard University, 1988 | Chinese Bronze Age; East and Inner Asia; integration of archaeological and historical sources |
| Sharon E. J. Gerstel | Professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology; George P. Kolovos Family Centennial Term Chair | B.A. Bryn Mawr College | Ph.D. Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univ., 1993 | Byzantine art and archaeology; ritual and monumental painting; medieval Greece |
| Meredith Cohen | Professor of Art History | Not listed | Ph.D. Columbia University, 2004 | Medieval European art, architecture and urban development (c. 1000–1450); archaeology of buildings; Paris |
| Stella Nair | Associate Professor of Art History; Director, Andean Working Group | Not listed | Ph.D. (institution not listed) | Indigenous built environments of the Americas; Inca architecture; acoustics, gender, cultural landscapes |
| Nicholas Bartos | Adjunct Assistant Professor of Classics | Not listed | Not listed | Maritime economies; Roman history; western Indian Ocean; underwater archaeology |
| Kelly Nguyen | Faculty, Cotsen Institute | Not listed | Not listed | Histories of empire; forced displacement; race and ethnicity in global context |
| David H. Schneller | Assistant Professor | Not listed | Not listed | Ancient Greece and West Asia; mobility and interaction among Syrian, Egyptian, Cretan, Cypriot and Aegean artists |
| Name | Title | Undergraduate | Graduate | Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Dietler | Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College | B.A. Stanford University, 1974 | Ph.D. Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1990 | Colonialism and postcolonial studies; feasting, alcohol and foodways; material culture theory; Iron Age Europe, Africa |
| Alan L. Kolata | Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology | Not listed | Ph.D. Anthropology, Harvard University, 1978 | Preindustrial urbanism; agricultural systems; human–environment interactions; Andes, Mesoamerica, Cambodia |
| Sarah Newman | Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College | Not listed | Ph.D. Brown University | Maya and Mesoamerican archaeology; waste and reuse; human–animal relations; landscape transformation |
| François G. Richard | Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity | Not listed | Ph.D. Syracuse Univ. (unconfirmed) | Historical archaeology of West Africa; French colonialism and imperialism; Siin, Senegal; Atlantic world |
| Name | Title | Undergraduate | Graduate | Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen D. Morrison | Sally and Alvin V. Shoemaker Professor of Anthropology; Curator, Penn Museum | B.A. Univ. of Notre Dame, 1984 | M.A. Univ. of New Mexico, 1987; Ph.D. Anthropology, UC Berkeley, 1992 | South Asian archaeology; paleoecology and archaeobotany; agricultural intensification; long-term land use |
| Lynn Meskell | Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor; Richard D. Green Professor of Anthropology; Curator, Penn Museum | B.A. (First Class Honours, University Medal), Univ. of Sydney, 1994 | Ph.D. Archaeology, Univ. of Cambridge, 1997 | Heritage politics; UNESCO and World Heritage; Egypt, South Africa, South Asia; ethics of archaeology |
| Richard M. Leventhal | Professor of Anthropology; Executive Director, Penn Cultural Heritage Center | B.A. Anthropology (magna cum laude), Harvard University | Ph.D. Harvard University, 1979 | Maya archaeology; cultural heritage and community development; Tihosuco, Yucatán |
| Lauren Ristvet | Professor of Anthropology; Curator, Penn Museum | B.A. Anthropology, Yale University, 1999 | M.Phil. and Ph.D., Univ. of Cambridge, 2005 | Ancient Near East and Caucasus; Mesopotamia; ritual and political economy; Naxçivan, Azerbaijan |
| Megan C. Kassabaum | Associate Professor of Anthropology; Weingarten Associate Curator for North America | B.A. Anthropology and Philosophy, Beloit College, 2005 | Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2014 | Southeastern North America; mound construction and identity; foodways and politics; Natchez Bluffs |
| Katherine M. Moore | Practice Professor of Anthropology; Mainwaring Teaching Specialist for Zooarchaeology, CAAM | B.A. Washington Univ. in St. Louis | Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of Michigan, 1989 | Zooarchaeology; cultural ecology of animal production; camelid herding in the Andes; craft production in animal materials |
| Name | Title | Undergraduate | Graduate | Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew M. Bauer | Associate Professor of Anthropology; Director, Stanford Archaeology Center | Not listed | Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 2010 | Archaeological theory and method; geoarchaeology; environmental anthropology; landscape and inequality in South India |
| Barbara L. Voss | Professor of Anthropology | B.A. Stanford University, 1988 | M.A. 1997, Ph.D. 2002, Anthropology, UC Berkeley | Historical archaeology; Spanish colonization of the Americas; Overseas Chinese communities; gender and sexuality |
| Krish Seetah | Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Oceans (Doerr School of Sustainability) | Not listed | Ph.D. Archaeology, Univ. of Cambridge, 2007 | Environmental archaeology and zooarchaeology; Indian Ocean; Mauritius; historical ecology |
| Li Liu | Sir Robert Ho Tung Professor in Chinese Archaeology (East Asian Languages and Cultures) | B.A. History (Archaeology major), Northwest Univ., China | M.A. Anthropology, Temple Univ.; Ph.D. Anthropology, Harvard University | Neolithic and Bronze Age China; plant and animal domestication; ritual practice; state formation and urbanism |
| Justin Leidwanger | Associate Professor of Classics; Archaeology Center; Oceans Department | B.A. History and Classical Studies, Loyola Univ. Chicago | M.A. Nautical Archaeology/Anthropology, Texas A&M; Ph.D. Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2011 | Maritime networks and Roman socioeconomic life; Marzamemi shipwrecks, Sicily; maritime heritage |
| Name | Title | Undergraduate | Graduate | Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard L. Burger | Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of Anthropology; Curator, Peabody Museum | B.A. Archaeology, Yale College, 1972 | M.A. and Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1978 | Andean archaeology; Chavín and Peruvian Formative; obsidian sourcing and exchange |
| Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos | Professor of Anthropology | Not listed | Ph.D. Vanderbilt University | Mesoamerican art, religion and writing; Cotzumalhuapa, Guatemala; settlement patterns and sculpture |
| Anne P. Underhill | Professor of Anthropology; Curator, Peabody Museum | Not listed | Not listed | Archaeology of East Asia (China); regional survey and excavation in Shandong; late prehistoric economic organization |
| William Honeychurch | Professor of Anthropology | Not listed | Ph.D. Univ. of Michigan, 2004 | Inner Asia and Mongolia; nomadic states and political economy; pastoralist mobility |
| Jessica C. Thompson | Assistant Professor of Anthropology | Undergraduate coursework at Washington State Univ. (degree institution not confirmed) | M.Phil. Univ. of Cambridge, 2002; Ph.D. (institution reported inconsistently — Arizona State Univ. / Univ. of New Mexico) | Paleoanthropology and human origins; zooarchaeology and taphonomy; Malawi and southern Africa |
| Ellery Frahm | Senior Research Scientist and Lecturer; Director, Yale Initiative for the Study of Ancient Pyrotechnology | B.A. Physics and Anthropology, Grinnell College, 1999 | M.A. 2002, Ph.D. Anthropology 2010, Univ. of Minnesota | Obsidian sourcing; portable XRF and archaeological science; Near Eastern Bronze Age mobility and trade |
| Piphal Heng | Assistant Professor of Anthropology | Degree in Archaeology, Royal Univ. of Fine Arts, Cambodia, 2002 | M.A. and Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of Hawai'i at Mānoa, 2018 | Southeast Asian archaeology; Angkorian and post-Angkorian urbanism; lidar, remote sensing, geospatial analysis |
| Name | Title | Undergraduate | Graduate | Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew K. Scherer | Pierre and Patricia Bikai Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology; Director, Joukowsky Institute | B.A. Anthropology (Honors, summa cum laude), Hamline Univ., 1998 | Ph.D. Texas A&M Univ., 2004 | Maya bioarchaeology and mortuary archaeology; warfare and violence; Piedras Negras, Yaxchilan, Sak Tz'i' |
| Laurel Bestock | Joukowsky Family Associate Professor of Archaeology and the Ancient World and of Egyptology and Assyriology | B.A. Egyptology and Old World Art & Archaeology, Brown University, 1999 | M.A. and Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univ. | Egypt and the Nile Valley; kingship, monumentality and violence in art; Uronarti, Sudan |
| Yannis Hamilakis | Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology; Professor of Modern Greek Studies | B.A. History and Archaeology, Univ. of Crete | M.Sc. and Ph.D., Univ. of Sheffield | Mediterranean archaeology; archaeology of the senses and affect; nationalism, migration and borders |
| Peter van Dommelen | Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology; Professor of Anthropology and Italian Studies | Archaeology and Classics, Univ. of Leiden (undergraduate degree not separately listed) | M.A. 1990, Ph.D. (cum laude) 1998, Univ. of Leiden; further study in Anthropology and Material Culture, UCL, 1991 | Western Mediterranean; colonialism and rural settlement; Sardinia and Punic/Phoenician worlds |
| Felipe Rojas | Associate Professor of Archaeology and the Ancient World and of Egyptology and Assyriology | Not listed (trained as an architect) | M.A. New York Univ., 2002; M.A. Harvard Univ., 2004; Ph.D. Univ. of California, Berkeley, 2010 | Anatolia and the Roman East; indigenous archaeologies and the reception of the past; Lydia |
| Parker VanValkenburgh | Associate Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology | Not listed (undergraduate study at Stanford) | Ph.D. Harvard University, 2012 | Andean archaeology; late prehispanic and early colonial Peru; landscape, politics, digital archaeology and big data |
| Shanti Morell-Hart | Associate Professor of Anthropology; Director, Integrated Laboratory for Archaeological Sciences | Not listed | Ph.D. Anthropology, Univ. of California, Berkeley | Paleoethnobotany and archaeological science; ancient foodways; Mesoamerica (Honduras, Mexico) |
| Tyler V. Franconi | Assistant Professor of Archaeology and the Ancient World and of Classics | B.A. Classics and Anthropology, Hobart and William Smith Colleges | M.A. Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College; M.St. and D.Phil. Classical Archaeology, Univ. of Oxford | Roman economy and environment; river systems (Rhine basin); rural settlement in Sabina, Italy |
| Candace M. Rice | Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Classics | B.A. Classical Archaeology, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006 | M.Phil. 2008 and D.Phil. Archaeology 2012, Univ. of Oxford | Roman maritime trade and port economies; Mediterranean connectivity |
| Jana Mokrišová | Assistant Professor of Archaeology of the Ancient Greek World | B.A. Trent University, Ontario | Ph.D. Classical Art and Archaeology, Univ. of Michigan | Western Anatolia and Greece, Late Bronze Age–Classical; mobility, connectivity, identity and technology |