Faculty

• Glen H. Doran
  (PhD University of California Davis 1980) Professor and Chair: Archaeology, physical anthropology (osteology, evolution); New World, SE US, Archaic population adaptation, paleodemography, paleopathology, site predictive models, wetsite archaeology.
  
  
• Dean Falk
  

  (PhD University of Michigan 1976) Hale G. Smith Professor of Anthropology: Paleoanthropology, primate behavior, evolution of the brain and cognition, origins of prelinguistic substrates and language.
  
  

• Joseph Hellweg
  (PhD University of Virginia 2001) Assistant Professor: Religion, Islam, Christianity, sacrifice; performance aesthetics, ethnopoetics; social theory, politics, social movements, applied, medical, HIV/AIDS; Africa, Mande West Africa, Cote d'Iviore.
  
  
• Frank Marlowe
  (PhD UCLA 1997) Associate Professor: Evolutionary anthropology, behavioral ecology, mating systems, cooperation and food-sharing, hunter-gatherers, human evolution.
  
  
• Rochelle A. Marrinan
  (PhD University of Florida 1975) Assoc Professor: Prehistoric and historic archaeology, method and theory in archaeology, zooarchaeology; Southeastern United States and Caribbean.
  
  
• William Parkinson
  (PhD University of Michigan 1999) Associate Professor: Prehistoric Archaeology of Central/Eastern Europe and the Balkans, archaeological theory and methodology, tribal societies.
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• Elizabeth H. Peters
  (PhD University of Florida 1983) Assoc Professor: Physical anthropology, language origins, infancy, primatology, behavioral evolution.
  
  
• Mary Pohl
  (PhD Harvard University 1977) Laura Jepsen Professor: Archaeology of early complex societies especially Olmec and Maya, Mesoamerican archaeology, ethnozoology, gender studies, origins of writing, ancient economics and politics, early agriculture.
  
  
• Lynne A. Schepartz
  (PhD University of Michigan 1987) Associate Professor: Paleoanthropology (evolution of language and behavioral complexity), bioarchaeology (skeletal biology and mortuary archaeology); China, Mediterranean
  
  
• Michael A. Uzendoski
  (PhD University of Virginia 2000) Associate Professor: Social and Symbolic Anthropology, Political Anthropology, The Anthropology of Religion, Gender, Kinship, Hierarchy, Anthropology and History, Economic Anthropology, Ethnopoetics and Anthropological Linguistics; Amazonia, Andes, Ecuador.
  
  
• Cheryl A. Ward
  (PhD Texas A&M University 1993) Associate Professor: Maritime archaeology, ancient ship construction and global seafaring, archaeobotany, technology and culture, eastern Mediterranean archaeology; Eastern Mediterranean, Red Sea, Black Sea.
  
  

Emeritus Faculty

• John T. J. Ho
  (PhD Indiana University 1975) Professor Emeritus: Cultural anthropology, folklore, archaeology; Southeast Asia; overseas Chinese.
  
  
• Bruce T. Grindal
  (PhD Indiana University 1969) Professor Emeritus: Education, religion, humanism, peace studies, literary ethnography; West Africa, American South, Mexico.
  
  
• J. Anthony Paredes
  (PhD University of New Mexico 1969) Professor Emeritus: Cultural anthropology, psychological anthropology, contemporary native Americans, applied anthropology; North America.
  
  

Adjunct Faculty

• Adrienne S. Harmon
  (PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1993) Adjunct Instructor: Medical anthropology, alternative approaches to health and health care, contemporary societies (US, Mexico, and Latin America), women's studies (narrative analysis).
  
• Rachel K. Wentz
  (PhD Florida State University 2006) Adjunct Instructor: Human Osteology, bioarchaeology (North America), paleopathology, and forensics.
  

Affiliated Anthropologists

• Brinnen Carter
  (PhD University of Florida 2003) National Park Service/Southeast Archeological Center.

• Daniel J. Pullen
  (PhD Indiana University 1985) Courtesy Associate Professor; Chair of FSU Classics Department: Prehistoric Aegean archaeology, Classical antiquity.

• Ryan J. Wheeler (PhD University of Florida 1996) Bureau Chief of Florida State Bureau of Archaeology.
  

• Elizabeth Purdum
  (PhD University of Florida 1983) Research Assoc Institute of Science and Public Affairs Anthropology and law, political and applied anthropology.

Department Chair

• Dr. Glen Doran (5/8/08 - present) E-Mail, Phone: (850) 644-8154

Office Manager

• Trish Barineau: E-mail, Phone: (850)644-8146

Student Affairs Program Coordinator

• Ms. Shannon Tucker: E-mail, Phone: (850)644-4281

Office Assistant

• Ms. Malinda Bethea: E-mail, Phone: (850)644-4281

Director of Information Systems

• Mr. Brian Tillman: E-Mail, Phone: (850)645-1360

Graduate Coordinator

• Dr. William Parkinson: E-Mail

Undergraduate Coordinator

• Dr. Joseph Hellweg E-Mail

• For information about majoring in anthropology contact Ms. Shannon Tucker by e-mail at srtucker@mailer.fsu.edu

Graduate Students

• Graduate Student Research Interests