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All faculty can be contacted through the main office:
211 Lafferty Hall, University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0024; Phone: 859-257-2710
FACULTY:

Department Chair:
Peter D. Little
Professor

pdlitt1@uky.edu

Economic anthropology, development anthropology, ecological anthropology, agrarian change, pastoralism; sub-Saharan Africa

Director of Graduate Studies:
Deborah L. Crooks
Associate Professor

deborah.crooks@uky.edu

Political economy of child growth; poverty, gender and ethnicity in food and nutrition; international health and nutrition; the biology of inequality; U.S. and the Philippines

Director of Undergraduate Studies: Monica Udvardy Associate Professor

udvardy@uky.edu

Cultural anthropology, gender, symbolism, women's activism, medical anthropology; sub-Saharan Africa

Mary K. Anglin Associate Professor

manglin@uky.edu

Medical anthropology, breast cancer /reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, cultural anthropology, gender, political economy; Appalachia and US, Latin America

Lisa Cliggett Assistant Professor

cligget@uky.edu

Ecological and economic, household, kin networks and social organization, migration, aging, anthropological demography; sub-Saharan Africa, Haiti, Caribbean

George Crothers
Director, W.S. Webb Museum and Office of State Archaeology

gmcrot2@uky.edu

Archaeology, hunters and gatherers, institutional economics, cave archaeology, public education; eastern U.S.

Richard W. Jefferies Associate Professor

rwjeff1@uky.edu

Archaeology, lithic analysis, cultural ecology, settlement archaeology; southeastern and midwestern US

Kim A. McBride Adjunct Assistant Professor; Co-Director, Kentucky Archaeological Survey

kamcbr00@uky.edu

Historical archaeology, anthropological study of population, Euro-American community studies, anthropological theory, historical preservation issues; eastern US

Christopher A. Pool Associate Professor

capool0@uky.edu

Archaeology, complex societies, political economy, cultural ecology, ceramic analysis; Mesoamerica

Michele Rivkin-Fish Assistant Professor

mrivk2@uky.edu

Gender, reproduction and sexuality, medical anthropology, health development, post-socialist change, Russian culture, political economy

John van Willigen Professor

ant101@uky.edu

Cultural change, social aging, applied anthropology; South Asia, North America

EMERITUS FACULTY:

Susan Abbott-Jamieson Associate Professor Emerita
Senior Social Scientist, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin. - Fisheries

Susan.Abbott-Jamieson@noaa.gov

Psychological anthropology, community studies, family and household, fisheries management and policy, US, East and West Africa

William Y. Adams Professor Emeritus

wadams@uky.edu

Archaeology, ethnology; US Southwest, Sudan, Egypt, Near East

Margaret Lantis Professor Emerita

Ethnology, applied anthropology; circumpolar area
AFFILIATED FACULTY IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

Lee Blonder Associate Professor, Behavioral Science, Sanders-Brown Center on Aging

lxblond@uky.edu

Brain and behavior, evolution of language, emotion and psychopathology, medical anthropology

Beth Goldstein Associate Professor, Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation

bethg@uky.edu

Anthropology and education; Southeast Asia

Joachim Knuf Associate Professor, Communication

jknuf@uky.edu

 

Robert Kraus Professor, Psychiatry

cbtris0@uky.edu

Cultural anthropology, cultural psychiatry, culture and personality; Arctic and Subarctic

Sandra Kryst Part-Time Instructor, Anthropology

skryst@mindspring.com

 

Karl Raitz Professor, Geography

gegraitz@uky.edu

Cultural geography, recreation, tourism, settlement; North America, Appalachia

Nancy Schoenberg Assistant Professor, Behavioral Science

nesch@uky.edu

 

 

Shaunna Scott Assistant Professor, Sociology

soc247@uky.edu

Political economy, gender, social theory; US, Appalachia

Jean Wiese Associate Professor, Behavioral Sciences

bsc111@uky.edu

Medical anthropology, communications, response to illness; Caribbean