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Blakey, Michael
National Endowment for the Humanities Professor
Office: Washington Hall 112
Phone: 757-221-7681
Email: [[mlblak]]
Areas of Specialization: Biological anthropology, biohistory, bioarchaeology; history and philosophy of science; White supremacy in science and society; publicly engaged archaeology; North America, African diaspora.
Anthropology Department Faculty
Connor, Kimberley
Assistant Teaching Professor (Collections Management)
Office: Ewell 208
Email: kgconnor@wm.edu
Phone: 757-221-3013
Areas of Specialization : Legacy Collections; Historical Archaeology; Food History; 19th Century, Immigration; Institutions; Material Culture Analysis; Australia; British Empire
Dicenta, Mara
Assistant Professor
Office: Washington Hall 116
Email: [[mdicentavilker]]
Website: www.afternatures.com
Areas of Specialization: Science & Technology Studies; Environmental Knowledges; Conservation; Race and Racialization; Multispecies ethnography; Feminist Epistemologies; Settler colonialism; Southern Cone
Fisher, William
Associate Professor
Office: Washington Hall 123
Phone: 757-221-1068
Email: [[whfish]]
Areas of Specialization: Social organization, indigenous Amazon, political economy and history of Amazonia, ethnoecology; Brazil
Gallivan, Martin
Professor
Office: Washington Hall 104
Phone: 757-221-3622
Email: [[mdgall]]
Areas of Specialization: Archaeology; American Indians; Colonial Encounters; Landscape and Spatiality; Cartography; Politics of Heritage; Quantitative Research Methods; Ceramic Analysis
Glasser, Jonathan
Chair, Associate Professor
Office: Washington Hall 122
Phone: 757-221-1058
Email: [[jglasser]]
Areas of specialization: History of anthropological theory; music and poetics; exchange and patrimony; Muslim-Jewish relations; language ideology; comparative colonialism; North Africa and the Middle East
Horning, Audrey
Arts & Sciences Vice Dean for Research & Graduate Studies, and Forrest D. Murden Professor
Office: Washington Hall Room 107a
Email: [[w|ajhorn]]
Phone: 757-221-1062
Areas of Specialization: Historical Archaeology; Atlantic World; Comparative Colonialism; Ireland; Chesapeake; Archaeological Ethics; Heritage and Conflict Transformation.
Jones, Joseph
Associate Teaching Professor
Office: Washington Hall Rm 118
Phone: 757-221-1064
Email: [[jljones01]]
Areas of Specialization: Publicly engaged anthropology; skeletal biology w/focus on African diaspora biohistory and health; trace element and stable isotope analysis; histories of race and scientific racism
Kahn, Jennifer
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies: Anthropology
Office: Rm 125 Washington Hall
Phone: 757-221-1054
E-mail: [[jgkahn01]]
Areas of Specialization: Archaeology; Oceania; Household Archaeology; House Societies; Social Complexity; Monumental Architecture and Ideology; Human-Landscape Interactions; Exchange and Geochemistry; Lithic Analysis; Chronometric Techniques
Lelièvre, Michelle
Associate Professor
Office: Room 102b Washington Hall and Samuel E Jones House Room 216
Phone: 757-221-1957
E-mail: [[malelievre]]
Areas of specialization: Mobility; Indigenous sovereignty; Political subjectivity; Socio-cultural theory; Space, place and landscape; Northeastern North America; Decolonizing pedagogies and collaborative research methods; Heritage and museum studies; History of anthropology and archaeology; Oral history
Malek, Amy
Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies
Office: Sam Jones House 213
Email: [[amymalek]]
Areas of Specialization: Migration; citizenship; memory; visual culture; diaspora and transnationalism; Iranian and Southwest Asian diasporas
Moretti-Langholtz, Danielle
Teaching Professor
Office: Washington Hall 105
Phone: 757-221-1112
Email: [[dmoret]]
Areas of Specialization: Cultural anthropology, American Indians, museology, life history; North America
Norman, Neil
Associate Professor
Office: Washington Hall 102a
Office Phone: 757-221-1960
Email: [[nlnorman]]
Areas of Specialization: African Archaeology, Archaeology of the African Diaspora, Hand-Built Low-Fired Ceramic Analysis, Urbanism, Archaeological Survey, Monumental Ditches, Archaeology of Emotions, Landscape Archaeology
Palencia, Sergio
Assistant Professor
Office: Washington Hall 119
Phone: 757-221-5834
Email: [[sergio.palenciaf]]
Areas of Specialization: Historical and Visual anthropology; Critical Theory; Indigenous memories of the Cold War; Caste, ground-rent, and state formation in Latin America; Mesoamerican studies; Revolution and Genocide in 20th century Latin America.
Weiss, Brad
Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies: Anthropology
Office: Washington Hall 121
Phone: 757-221-1209
Email: [[blweis]]
Areas of specialization: Africa; The Anthropology of Food; The Body; Space, place, and locality; Urban transformation; Popular Culture; Socio-cultural theory; Theories of Value; Ritual and Religious Practice
Woodard, Buck
Assistant Professor
Office: Washington Hall 109
Phone: 757-221-4915
Email: [[bwwood]]
Areas of Specialization: Cultural and historical anthropology; Indigenous/Native Studies; kinship; material culture; cosmology & ritual life; political economy
Wright, Andrea
Class of 1952 Distinguished Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Office: Washington Hall Room 120
Appointments and office hours may be booked online: {{ https://andreawright.youcanbook.me/}}
Email: [[w|agwright]]
Research Interests: : Anthro-history, cultural anthropology, citizenship, energy production, governance, kinship, labor, migration, rights, South Asia, the Arabian Peninsula