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PROFESSORS
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Drucilla Barker, Director of the Women's Studies Program and Professor of Women's Studies

(PhD University of Illinois 1988; Prof) Feminist Political Economy, Gender and Globalization, Feminist Methodology, and International Political Economy
Email: barkerdk@mailbox.sc.edu
Flinn Hall 201, 777-4007


Charles Cobb, Director of South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA)

(PhD Southern Illinois U Carondale 1988; Prof) Archaeology, political economy, colonialism, lithic technology; southeastern North America
Email: cobbcr@mailbox.sc.edu
1321 Pendleton St., SC Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA), 777-8170, ext. 30


Alice Kasakoff

(PhD Harvard 1970; Prof) Social organization, demography, endogamy, migration, history and anthropology; North American Indians.
Email: Kasakoff@mailbox.sc.edu
Hamilton 301, 777-6979



Ann Kingsolver, Chair
(PhD Massachusetts, Amherst 1991; Prof.) Theory and practice, development discourses, work, representations of places, transnational policy; US. Latin America.
Email: aekingso@mailbox.sc.edu
Hamilton 317B, 777-5927



Thomas Leatherman

(PhD U Massachusetts Amherst 1987; Prof) Biological anthropology, human adaptability, political ecology, health and nutrition, Latin America.
Email: Leatherman@sc.edu
Hamilton 203, 777-7261



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ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
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Joanna Casey, Graduate Director

(PhD U Toronto 1993; Assoc. Prof) Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, Lithics, Early Farming Communities, and West Africa.
Email: jlc@sc.edu
Hamilton 319, 777-6700




Kenneth Kelly, Undergraduate Director

(Ph.D., UCLA 1995; Assoc. Prof) Archaeology, historical archaeology, culture change, African diaspora; West Africa, Caribbean.
Email: Kenneth.kelly@sc.edu
Hamilton 200B, 777-2616




Gail Wagner

(PhD Washington, St. Louis 1987; Assoc. Prof) Archaeology, paleoethnobotany, ethnobotany, archaeological methods.
Email: Gail.wagner@sc.edu
Hamilton 300, 777-6548



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ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
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Laura Cahue
(Ph.D. Michigan State U, 2000; Asst. Prof) Bioarchaeology, biocultural models, social complexity and health, paleodiet reconstruction, stable isotope geochemistry, political ecology of Highland Lake environments, Mesoamerica, West Mexico, Latin America
Email: Cahue@mailbox.sc.edu
Hamilton 314, 777-2957



Janina Fenigsen
(Ph.D. Brandeis U, 2000; Asst. Prof) Lingusitic Anthropology, anthropology of social and cultural theory, Caribbean studies; Caribbean; Political economy of language, linguistic ideologies, gender and emotion, politics of representation, postcolonial selves,creole languages, plantation societies, Caribbean art and belief systems
Email: Fenigsen@mailbox.sc.edu
Hamilton 307, 777-6941



Erica Gibson
(Ph.D. U of Alabama 2007; Asst. Prof - will be joining the Anthropology Dept. in Fall 2008) Biocultural Medical Anthropology; gender birth studies; health disparities research methods; Latino studies

Email: gibsoneb@mailbox.sc.edu
Hamilton 305, 777-6500 (Main Office)



Maimuna Huq
(PhD Columbia U, 2006; Asst. Prof.) Muslim societies; subjectivity and culture; Islam and religio-political movements; religion and gender; Bangladesh; South Asia and the Middle East.

Email: huqm@mailbox.sc.edu
Hamilton 202, 777-1518





Marc Moskowitz, Interim Director for the Center of Asian Studies
(PhD University of California, San Diego; Asst. Prof.) China Studies, Religion, Gender and Popular Culture
Email: moskowit@mailbox.sc.edu
Hamilton 209, 777-1536







Jennifer Reynolds
(PhD U of California - Los Angeles, 2002, Asst. Prof) Linguistic anthropology, Anthropology/Sociology of Childhood, Latin America/Latino Studies, Maya Studies. Language Socialization, Linguistic ideologies, Political Economy of Languages, Language revitalization, Narrative, Indigenous social movements, the Politics of culture and representation/translation, Transnational immigrant networks, Verbal art as performance.
Email: jenreyn@sc.edu
                               Hamilton 304, 777-2392



David Simmons
Dual Postion with Anthropology and Public Health
(PhD Michigan State U, 2002; Asst. Prof) International Public Health, HIV/AIDS, Health and Human Rights, Cultural Issues of Development, Religion and Social Transformation, Social Impact Analysis, Discourse on Identity, African Vernacular Medicine, West and Southern Africa, Caribbean.
Email: dsimmons@mailbox.sc.edu
                              Hamilton 311, 777-2321



Kimberly Simmons
Dual Position with Anthropology and African American Studies
(Ph.D Michigan State U, 2002; Asst. Prof.) Social Race, ethnicity, gender, migration, and identity formation in the African Diaspora. Geographical Areas inlcude the Dominican Republic (in particular), Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States.
Email: ksimmons@sc.edu
                                   Hamilton 313, 777-9898



Terrance Weik

(Ph.D. U of Florida, 2002; Asst. Prof) Archaeology, historical archaeology, African diaspora, maroon settlements, Southeastern USA, Latin America
Email: weik@mailbox.sc.edu
Hamilton 309, 777-6789




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RESEARCH, ADJUNCT & VISITING PROFESSORS AND INSTRUCTORS

RESEARCH PROFESSORS:
Daniel Buxhoeveden

Email:BUXHOEVE@mailbox.sc.edu
Hamilton 308, 777-4460


Adam King
Email: aking@sc.edu
SCIAA
1321 Pendleton St., Ste. 12

Jonathan Leader
Email: Leader@sc.edu
SCIAA
1321 Pendleton St.

Christopher Toumey

Email: Toumey@mailbox.sc.edu
Sumwalt 103, 777-2221

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR:
Mark Whitaker
Email:markw@usca.edu


INSTRUCTORS:
Audrey Dawson
Email:auggie_doo@yahoo.comu

Chris Judge
Email: judgec@mailbox.sc.edu

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PROFESSORS EMERITI

John W. Adams
Personal Web Page
(PhD Harvard 1970; Distinguished Professor Emeritus) Social anthropology, myth, art, ritual, political economy, migration, history and anthropology; Northwest Coast.
Email: JWAdams0@gwm.sc.edu
777-6500

Leland Ferguson
Personal Web Page
(PhD U N Carolina Chapel Hill 1971; Distinguished Professor Emeritus) Historical archaeology, African and Native Americans, complex society
Email: lelandferguson@aol.com
777-6500

Karl Heider
Personal Web Page
(Ph.D., Harvard 1966; Prof) Cultural, psychological, emotions, visual anthropology, ethnographic film, fiction film, nonverbal behavior; Oceania, Indonesia (Irian Jaya, Sumatra).
Email: Heiderk@gwm.sc.edu
Hamilton 312, 777-5130

Morgan Maclachlan
(PhD Stanford 1971; Distinguished Professor Emeritus) Economic anthropology, sex roles; India.
E-mail: drmorganmac@bellsouth.net
Hamilton 111, 777-2169

Ted Rathbun
Personal Web Page
(PhD U Kansas 1971; Distinguished Professor Emeritus) Physical anthropology, osteology, forensic identification, paleopathology; Iran, Iraq, South Carolina.
Email: Rathbunt@gwm.sc.edu
Hamilton 111, 777-2169 or 777-6500


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