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Anthropology faculty

 

Department faculty:

Margaret Buckner, professor (PhD 1993, University of Paris X)

  • Linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, ethnomusicology
  • Central and West Africa
  • e-mail: mbuckner@missouristate.edu


David Byers, assistant professor (PhD University of Utah)

  • zooarchaeology, lithic analysis, geoarchaeology, Quaternary paleontology an dpaleoecology
  • Great Basin, Aleutian Islands


Holly Jones, instructor (PhD 1999 University of Missouri-Columbia)

  • historical archaeology, particularly of the fur trade and early exploration era, effects of competition on social dynamics and technology, cultural resource management 
  • Great Plains
  • email:  hollyjones@missouristate.edu


William Meadows, associate professor (PhD 1995, University of Oklahoma)

  • Cultural anthropology, ethnography, ethnohistory, ethnographic fieldwork, language and culture
  • Native North America, Plains, Southeast; Midwestern archaeology; Japan
  • e-mail: williammeadows@missouristate.edu


Elizabeth Sobel, assistant professor (PhD 2004, University of Michigan)

  • Archaeology, ethnohistory, hunter-gatherers, complexity, exchange, stone technologies, public archaeology
  • Pacific Northwest
  • e-mail:  esobel@missouristate.edu


Suzanne Walker, associate professor (PhD 1993, City University of New York)

  • Biological anthropology, primatology, primate locomotion, New World monkeys, forensic anthropology, Hispanic health
  • e-mail: suzannewalker@missouristate.edu


William Wedenoja, professor (PhD 1978, University of California at San Diego), Coordinator of Anthropology

  • Cultural anthropology, psychological anthropology, transcultural psychiatry, religion, community development, tourism
  • African-Caribbean society, Jamaica
  • e-mail: billwedenoja@missouristate.edu

 

Anthropologists in other units:

Neal Lopinot, associate research professor (PhD 1984, Southern Illinois University), Director of Center for Archaeological Research


Jack Ray, research archaeologist ( MA 1981, University of Missouri), Center for Archaeological Research

  • early prehistoric cultures, geoarchaeology, and lithic analysis, especially identification and analysis of Ozark chipped-stone resources
  • Missouri and adjacent states
  • email:  jackray@missouristate.edu

 

Emeritus faculty:

Burton Purrington, professor emeritus (PhD 1971, University of Wisconsin-Madison) 

  • Archaeology, ethnohistory, cultural ecology, infant nutrition
  • Rural and Native America, Southeastern US, Appalachians, Haiti
  • e-mail: blp331f@charter.net


Juris Zarins, professor (PhD 1974, University of Chicago)

  • Archaeology, origins of civilization and domestication, desert adaptation
  • Ancient Near East, Oman, Yemen, Saudi Arabia