
Faculty | Staff | Anthropologists in Other Departments | Professors Emeriti | Part-Time Instructors
| Dr. Linda A. Bennett
Professor and Associate Dean, CAS
lbennett@memphis.edu
(901) 678-3371
Alcoholism and drug-related problems; cross-cultural dynamics of treatment; applied clinical research; culture and family; family and community rituals and routines; ethnic identity, socialization, and culture change; European ethnic groups in the U.S. (Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes); Europe, especially the former Yugoslavia (Croatia and Serbia); and Native Americans
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Dr. Keri Brondo
Assistant Professor
kbrondo@memphis.edu
(901) 678-3289
Applied anthropology; gender, development, and indigenous land rights; tourism and natural resource management; women, work and economic justice; consumerism and environmental sustainability; applied qualitative methods; participatory action research; Central America, US.
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Dr. Robert P. Connolly
Associate Professor
rcnnolly@memphis.edu
(901) 678-3331
Museum studies; Public interpretation in archaeology; Native American cultures of the Eastern Woodlands from 2000 B.C. to the present; New World prehistoric monumental architecture
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| Dr. Ruthbeth D. Finerman
Professor and Department Chair
finerman@memphis.edu
(901) 678-3334
Applied medical anthropology; family health and caregiving, human sexuality and childbirth; ethnomedicine; mental health; international health services delivery and barriers to care among immigrant, refugee, and economically disadvantaged populations; indigenous and peasant populations in South and Central America.
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| Dr. Stanley E. Hyland
Associate Professor and School Head, SUAPP
shyland@memphis.edu
(901) 678-1445
Community building; grassroots economic activities; housing; neighborhood revitalization; new urbanism; evaluation; philanthropy; voluntary associations; and policy
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Dr. Satish Kedia
Associate Professor and Director, I-SATE
skkedia@memphis.edu
(901) 678-1433
Alcohol and drug abuse treatment evaluation, health impacts of development projects, HIV/AIDS, caregiving and compliance behavior, pesticide use and Integrated Pest Management, program evaluation, impact assessment, India, United States, Philippines
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Dr. A. Katherine Lambert-Pennington
Assistant Professor
k.lambert-pennington@memphis.edu
Urban anthropology, identity production, race and social inequality, culture change, human rights, post-colonialism, the state, community development, housing and home ownership, qualitative field methods; Indigenous Australia, US.
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Dr. Ross D. Sackett
Instructor
rsackett@memphis.edu
(901) 678-1424
Ecological anthropology; environment and adaptive strategies; household economics; ecology and nutrition; South American Ethnography and World Ethnography; Latin America with special emphasis on the Andes and Amazonia; global cross-cultural and cultural-historical comparison
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Dr. Charles Williams, Jr.
Associate Professor and Director, TADPOLE
cwilliams@memphis.edu
(901) 678-0847/3333
African American studies; alcohol and drug prevention; HIV/STD; community health and addiction; urban issues; migration; Diasporas; religion; Oceania |
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Kaveh Safa
(University College)
ksafa@memphis.edu
(901) 678-5372
Ecological anthropology, Anthropology of religion, anthropology and colonialism; Middle East, Caribbean
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Dr. David Dye
(Dept. of Earth Sciences)
daviddye@memphis.edu
(901) 678 -3330
Ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological research in the Mid-South; iconography and warfare in the Southeast; analysis of artifacts, collections
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Dr. Andrew M. Mickelson
(Dept. of Earth Sciences)
amicklsn@memphis.edu
(901) 678-2177
Landscape archaeology, GIS applied to ancient patterns of land use
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Dr. Thomas Collins
tcollins@memphis.edu
(901) 678-2080
Political economy, cultural theory, community development; educational anthropology, labor history, technology and labor
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Dr. Charles McNutt
mcnutt@memphis.edu
(901) 678-2618
Anthropological theory/analysis, math concepts in archaeology, cultural resource management; North America
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