Full-time Faculty
Adjunct Faculty
Anthropologists in Other Departments
Emeritus Faculty
Full-time Faculty
David J. Davies, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. U Washington 2002) History & anthropology, social memory, nostalgia, travel and representation; P.R. China.
Office Location: GLC 144S
Telephone: 651-523-2832
E-mail
Verne "Van" A. Dusenbery, Professor
(Ph.D. U Chicago 1989) Sociocultural anth, theory, globalization; Sikh diaspora.
Office Location: GLC 4S
Telephone: 651-523-2129
E-mail
Kathryn Linn Geurts, Associate Professor
(Ph.D. U Pennsylvania 1998) Psychological anth, medical anth, anthropology of the senses & subjectivity, cultural phenomenology, theory in ethnography, postcolonialism; West Africa, Ghana, North America.
Office Location: GLC 5S
Telephone: 651-523-2524
E-mail
Brian W. Hoffman, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. U Wisconsin 2002) Hunter-gatherers, household archaeology, sociopolitical complexity, lithic analyses; Arctic, North Pacific.
Office Location: DSC 209
Telephone: 651-523-2891
E-mail
Lewis "Skip" C. Messenger, Professor
(Ph.D. U Minnesota 1984) Archeology of complex societies, tropical food-producing systems, cultural ecology and environmental change; Middle America, SE Asia.
Office Location: GLC 8S
Telephone: 651-523-2682
E-mail
Susan M. T. Myster, Associate Professor
(Ph.D. U Tennessee 2001) Biological anth, human osteology, biological distance, forensic anth; N America.
Office Location: GLC 7S
Telephone: 651-523-2554
E-mail
Barbara H. O'Connell, Professor (Chair)
(Ph.D. Northwestern U 1983)Biological anth, human osteology, bioarchaeology, diet/disease adaptation, forensic anth, race concept; N America.
Office Location: DSC 212
Telephone: 651-523-2253
E-mail
Adjunct Faculty
Marc Anderson (B.A. U Minnesota 1990; Adj Instr) Practice of non-Western music forms; W Africa, N India.
E-mail
Elizabeth Coville (Ph.D. U Chicago 1988; Adj Asst Prof) Linguistic anth, symbolic anth, religion and politics, comparative systems of healing, ethnographic writing; Indonesia, Toraja, SE Asia.
E-mail
Anthropologists in Other Departments
Phyllis Mauch Messenger (M.A. U Minnesota 1993; Adj Instr) Archaeology and public education, cultural property; Middle America.
E-mail
Emeritus Faculty
Cynthia A. Cone (Ph.D. U Minnesota 1976; Prof Emeritus) Community and rural development, comparative study of art and aesthetics, psychological anth, applied research; Middle and N America.
E-mail