Research Clusters

Applied anthropology addresses contemporary problems related to health, society, the environment, and heritage. Collaborating with affected communities is key to this type of research.

Faculty:

Michael Adler, Eric Bing, Maryann Cairns, B. Sunday Eiselt, Kacy Hollenback, Neely Myers, Nia Parson, Christopher Roos, Carolyn Smith-Morris

Culture contact research explores the dynamic processes that occur when distinct populations interact with one another.

Faculty:

The study of human-environment dynamics both in the past and today.

Faculty:

Maryann Cairns, Kacy Hollenback, Karen Lupo, David Meltzer, Christopher Roos, Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna

Asking archaeological questions in contemporary contexts, whether it be the lab or with modern cultures.

Faculty:

B. Sunday Eiselt, Kacy Hollenback, Karen Lupo

Focus on understanding the impacts of a rapidly globalizing world on local communities and culture, as well as their responses.

Faculty:

Caroline Brettell, Maryann Cairns, Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna

Examine the social, cultural, and environmental implications of collective trauma in contemporary communities and in the past over the short and long-term.

Faculty:

Maryann Cairns, Kacy Hollenback, Christopher Roos, Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna

Focus on traditional and contemporary indigenous forms of culture, art, knowledge, economy, ecology, politics, and identity, as well as contemporary issues surrounding sovereignty, tradition, human rights, intellectual property rights, heritage, health, environmental justice, and development.

Faculty:

Michael Adler, B. Sunday Eiselt, Kacy Hollenback, Mark McCoy, Christopher Roos, Carolyn Smith-Morris

Theoretical focus in critical medical anthropology and political economy, as well as Psychological Anthropology.

Faculty:

Eric Bing, Neely Myers, Nia Parson, Carolyn Smith-Morris

Examine the causes, processes, and consequences of the movement of people in the past and today.

Faculty:

Michael Adler, Caroline Brettell, David Meltzer

Faculty:

K. Ann Horsburgh, David J. Meltzer

Includes the application of archaeological and anthropological science as well as the anthropological study of the science and technology in society.

Faculty:

Matthew Boulanger, B. Sunday Eiselt, Kacy Hollenback, Christopher Roos, Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna