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

• cultural resource management, archaeobotany, and experimental archaeology
• Midwest
• email:  neallopinot@missouristate.edu 

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