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Dr. Sharon DeWitte (PhD 2006, Pennsylvania State University) is a Professor in the Institute of Behavioral Science and Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder and a fellow […]
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Sabina Cveček is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellow at the Field Museum in Chicago and the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Her research concerns contextualizing prehistoric households, kinship, and social […]
Anne Duray is a Greek archaeologist and intellectual historian. She completed her PhD at Stanford University in 2020, and is currently a Science and Technology Policy Fellow with the American […]
Alice Kehoe’s experiences in archaeology range widely from fieldwork on the Northwestern Plains of North America, to Upper Paleolithic sites in Europe and Tiwanaku in Bolivia. Her long-term interest in […]
Brita Lorentzen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and director of the Tree-Rings and Archaeological Wood Analysis Lab at University of Georgia. She completed her PhD at […]
Robert (Bob) Carr co-founded the Archaeological and Historical Conservancy in 1985, and has served as its full-time director since 1999. He has a Master’s Degree in Anthropology from Florida State […]
Lisa Ayla Çakmak is the Mary and Michael Jaharis Chair and Curator of the Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium at the Art Institute of Chicago. Since coming to Chicago […]
William (Bill) Parkinson is an archaeologist who specializes in European and Eastern Mediterranean Prehistory. His anthropological and archaeological research explores the social dynamics of early village societies and the emergence […]
Debra L. Martin, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, is an expert on violence in past societies, which includes expertise in human osteology […]
Dr. Ashley Lemke is an anthropologist, archaeologist, and Explorers Club Fellow. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and received her PhD in Anthropology from the University […]
Dr. Justin Dunnavant is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA. His current research in the US Virgin Islands investigates the relationship between ecology and enslavement in […]
Professor Akin Ogundiran is the Cardiss Collins Professor of Arts and Sciences, Professor of History, and Affiliate Professor in Anthropology and Black Studies at Northwestern University. He is also the […]
Professor Christopher DeCorse is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Syracuse University. He is also a Senior Research Associate of the Maxwell African Scholars Union, and […]
Professor Whitney Battle-Baptiste is a Professor of Anthropology at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Center at UMass Amherst. She holds degrees from Virginia […]
Dimitris Plantzos is a Professor of Classical Archaeology at the National& Kapodistrian University of Athens, as well as the co-director of the Argos Orestikon Excavation Project (Kastoria, Greece). He holds […]
Bice Peruzzi is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, after earning her Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on the construction of cultural identity in pre-Roman Italy. […]
Dr. Jayur Madhusudan Mehta is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at Florida State University. He holds degrees from the University of Alabama (M.A.) and University of North Carolina (B.A.), and […]
Professor Liwy Grazioso is the current Minister of Culture and Sports of Guatemala. She received her degree in Archaeology at the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) Mexico, and […]
Dr. Anastasia Dakouri-Hild is an Associate Professor in Aegean and Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at the University of Virginia. She holds degrees in Greek Archaeology from the University of […]
Uzma Z. Rizvi is Professor of Anthropology and Urban Studies at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY; and Visiting Faculty in the Department of Archaeology, Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, Pakistan. Dr. […]
