Faculty
Anna Agbe-Davies
Associate Professor
agbe-davies(@)unc.edu
919-962-5267
Historical archaeology, plantation societies of the colonial southeastern US and Caribbean, towns and cities of the 19th and 20th century Midwest, African diaspora.
Benjamin Arbuckle
Professor and Associate Chair
bsarbu(@)email.unc.edu
Near Eastern Archaeology, Turkey, origins and evolution of animal economies, animals in complex societies
Florence E Babb
Harrington Distinguished Professor
fbabb(@)unc.edu
(919) 962-1242
Cultural/economic/feminist anthropology; gender, race, and sexuality; critical development studies; urbanization in the global South; tourism studies; Latin American studies; Central Andes, Central America.
Brian Billman
Associate Professor
bbillman(@)email.unc.edu
(919) 962-9348
Archaeology of Chiefdoms and States, Political Economy, Human Violence, the Evolution of Human Behavior, Heritage Preservation, Settlement Pattern Analysis, the prehistory of the Andes and the American Southwest
Rachel Briggs
Teaching Assistant Professor
rvbriggs(@)email.unc.edu
Foodways (the anthropology of food), gender, and identity; social complexity and the emergence of complex societies; hominy and maize; infographics; Mississippian, proto-historic, and historic periods in the Southeastern United States; historic Creek Indian archaeology; Moundville and westcentral Alabama; Burke phase (A.D. 1400-1650) and western North Carolina; protohistoric and historic Catawba Indians; embodied cognition and practice theory; historical anthropology (sensu Marshall Sahlins).
Jocelyn Lim Chua
Associate Professor
jlchua(@)email.unc.edu
(919) 962-1145
Anthropologies and politics of health and well-being; globalization of psychiatry; mental health and illness; politics of life and death; suicide; ontologies of the body; kinship and care; South Asia; Kerala
Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld
Professor
rudi-colloredo(@)unc.edu
Indigenous peoples, artisan economies, competition, commodities, consumer cultures, producer associations, local food systems
*On Leave Fall 2023*
Emily Curtin
Teaching Assistant Professor
ejcurtin@unc.edu
Jackie Feldman
Adjunct Professor
jacfeld@unc.edu
Pilgrimage, tourism, anthropology of religion, Holocaust memory, collective memory, Jewish-Christian relations, ethnographic writing, heritagization and comparative study of museums.
Mary Beth Fitts
Adjunct Assistant Professor
marybeth.fitts@unc.edu
Archaeology, foodways, coalescence, heritage management, southeastern United States
Charles Hilton
Teaching Assistant Professor
hiltonch(@)email.unc.edu
Human evolutionary anatomy, Postcranial evolution of the genus Homo, Hunter-gatherer and pastoralist behavioral ecology, Human paleopathology, Epidemiology
Glenn D Hinson
Associate Professor
ghinson(@)unc.edu
(919) 962-1661
Ethnography, Belief Studies, Folklife, Public Folklore, Trauma-Informed Ethnographic Practice, Experience-Centered Anthropology, African American Expressive Culture, Vernacular Poetry, Vernacular Art; African Diaspora, The North American South
*On Leave Spring 2024*
Morgan Hoke
Assistant Professor
mkhoke@unc.edu
Biological anthropology, medical anthropology, human biology, inequality, embodiment, maternal and child health, gut health, nutrition, housing and resource security, Latin America, the Andes, North America
Martha King
Teaching Associate Professor
marthae(@)live.unc.edu
Ontologies of the body; belief systems; cultures of biomedicine; genomics & society / ELSI; clinical encounters; epistemologies of pluralism; identity; folk practice; Anabaptists, the Amish; the US South
Valerie Lambert
Professor
vlambert(@)unc.edu
919-933-8910
American Indians; tribal sovereignty; tribal nation building and tribal governance; federal-tribal relations and tribal-state relations; bureaucracy and the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
*On Leave Spring 2024*
Heather Lapham
Adjunct Associate Professor, Associate Director of RLA
hlapham(@)unc.edu
(919) 962-3843
Archaeology, zooarchaeology, colonial-era deerskin trade, urban animal economies, creation and use of secondary animal products, southeastern United States, southern Mexico
Paul W Leslie
Pardue Distinguished Professor
pwleslie(@)unc.edu
(919) 962-1564
Biological Anthropology, Human Ecology, Demography, Population Genetics, Reproduction, East Africa
Patricia A. McAnany
Kenan Eminent Professor
mcanany(@)email.unc.edu
(919) 843-8978
Cultural Heritage and Indigenous Communities; Ancestor Veneration; Archaeological Understanding of Detachment from Place; Cultural Logic of Noncapitalist Economies; Identity and Gender Constructs; Cacao Production and Use; Social Reproduction of Technology; Maya Studies; Archaeology of Mesoamerica.
*On Leave Fall 2023*
Townsend Middleton
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
ctm22(@)email.unc.edu
919 962-2683
Political Anthropology; Recognition, Autonomy, Belonging; Bureaucracy & the State; Chokepoints, Logistics and Infrastructure; Cinchona/Quinine; Colonialism & Postcolonial Theory; South Asia; Himalayas, India
Christopher T Nelson
Associate Professor
ctnelson(@)email.unc.edu
History and Memory; Everyday Life; Ethnography; Critical Theory; Storytelling, Ritual and Performance; Japan and Okinawa
Caela O’Connell
Assistant Professor
caela(@)email.unc.edu
Environmental anthropology; human-environment relationships; socio-ecological interdependencies; risk; crisis; change; anthropologies of water, economics, disaster, and engagement; interdisciplinary and mixed research methodologies; food and agricultural studies; rural and agrarian communities; the Caribbean and the Americas
*On Leave Spring 2024*
Michele Rivkin-Fish
Associate Professor
mrfish(@)unc.edu
Medical anthropology, moral economies of medicine and health, gender and health, reproductive politics, health care reform, Russia, United States
Aalyia Sadruddin
Assistant Professor
aalyia(@)unc.edu
(919) 962-1243
Medical Anthropology; Aging; Care; Disability; Demographic Transitions; Emergent Biomedical Technologies; Health; Political Culture; Violence; Contemporary Social Theory; Paraethnography; Storytelling; Africa, with a special focus on Rwanda.
*On Leave Fall 2023 and Spring 2024*
C. Margaret Scarry
Professor, Chair of Curriculum in Archaeology, and Director of Research Labs of Archaeology
scarry(@)email.unc.edu
(919) 962-3841
Archaeology, Paleoethnobotany, Subsistence Economies, Foodways, North America, Greek Aegean, Complex Societies
Karla Slocum
Professor; Associate Dean-Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair in Public Policy
kslocum(@)unc.edu
(919) 962-2438
Place, Race and History; Globalization; Rurality; Social Movements; the Caribbean; the U.S. Southwest
Doug Smit
Teaching Assistant Professor
dksmit@unc.edu
Mark Sorensen
Associate Professor
msorensen(@)unc.edu
Biological Anthropology; Health and Culture Change; Adaptability; Energetics; Nutrition; Russia; Siberia; Ecuador
Vincas P Steponaitis
Professor
Vin@unc.edu
(919) 962-6574
Archaeology, Political Economy, Chiefdoms, Quantitative Methods, North America.
Angela Stuesse
Associate Professor
astuesse(@)unc.edu
(919) 843-7393
Neoliberal globalization; race, ethnicity, and identity; migration; human rights; labor; methodologies of activist research; the U.S. South and Southwest; Latino and Latin America; Equatorial Guinea
*On Leave Fall 2023*
Amanda Thompson
Professor and Department Chair
althomps(@)email.unc.edu
(919) 843-2060
Biomedical anthropology, nutrition, human biology, early life determinants of body composition and obesity, infant and child feeding
Colin Thor West
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
ctw(@)email.unc.edu
(919) 966-5588
Human ecology, households, climate change, social-ecological systems, Sahelian West Africa, and sustainable livelihoods
Margaret J Wiener
Associate Professor
mjwiener(@)unc.edu
(919) 962-2399
Actor Network Theory, Ontology, and Science Studies; History and Memory; Magic; Human and Animal Relations; Colonial Societies; Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Bali.