People

Email: aa21@txstate.edu
Office: ELA 242
Phone: 512.245.4726

Primary Focus:
Linguistic Anthropology

Research Interests:
Linguistics\ Phonetics,- C-V Coarticulation, Socio-Cultural Studies, Peoples & Cultures of Africa

Office: Pecos Building
Phone: 512.245.2724
Email: t_a57@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Archaeology

Research Interests:
Production and trade of pottery by enslaved and freed Africans in the Caribbean through Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA).

Office: ELA 271B
Phone: 512.245.7862
Email: sblack@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Archaeology

Research Interests:
Hunter-gatherer lifeways, archaeological method and theory, research design, cooking technology, cultural ecology, social interaction, experimental archaeology, and applied archaeology.

Email: cb26@txstate.edu
Office: ELA 232
Phone: 512.245.7787

Primary Focus:
Archaeology

Research Interests:
Stone Age archaeology of sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Plains archaeology, hunter-gatherer technological organization, and geoarchaeology and paleoenvironmental analysis.

Office: ELA 255
Phone: 512.245.0727
Email: cb55@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Archaeology

Research Interests:
Prehistoric art, iconographic analysis, hunter-gatherer archaeology, applied anthropology, Native American myth, ritual, cosmovision, and iconography

Email: ebrunson@txstate.edu
Office: ELA 237
Phone: 512.245.6753

Primary Focus:
Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests:
Medical anthropology, applied anthropology, service learning, qualitative methods, social network analysis, vaccination, health care access, health disparities, health policy, health communication

Office: ELA 271E
Phone: 512.245.2535
Email: adam.clark@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Website, Marketing, Photography/Videography, Technical Support

Email: cconlee@txstate.edu
Office: ELA 235
Phone: 512.245.6582

Primary Focus:
Archaeology

Research Interests:
Andean archaeology, archaeology of north-central Oregon, dynamics of complex societies, causes and consequences of collapse, foundations and relations of power, impact of imperial conquest in provincial regions, population movements, cultural boundaries, ceramic analysis, stable isotope analysis

Email: deborah.cunningham@txstate.edu
Office: ELA 254
Phone: 512.245.8272

Primary Focus:
Biological Anthropology

Research Interests:
Evolution of East and South African hominins, the paleobiology of Homo erectus, patterns of sexual dimorphism in Australopithecus, species boundaries in the fossil record, and the effect of obesity on the trabecular architecture of the human skeleton

Email: pdering@msn.com

Primary Focus:
Archaeology

Research Interests:
Economy of Foragers, Agricultural Systems, Field Archaeology, Archaeobotany

Email: berhart@txstate.edu
Office: ELA 266
Phone: 512.245.3435

Primary Focus:
Biological Anthropology

Research Interests:
Primate behavior and ecology

Office: ELA 266
Phone: 512.245.5852
Email: gbg186@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Administrative Assistant for Graduate Programs (M.A. & Ph.D.)

Email: jg07@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Archaeology

Research Interests:
Mesoamerican archaeology

Office: GEB
Phone: 512.245.1900
Email: tim.gocha@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Biological Anthropology

Office: ELA 241
Phone: 512.245.7961
Email: nh16@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Cultural Anthropology

Office: ELA 240
Phone: 512.245.8429
Email: mh69@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Biological Anthropology

Research Interests:
Forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, paleopathology, trauma, taphonomy, postmortem interval, dental anthropology.

Office: ELA 266
Phone: 512.245.0544
Email: th36@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Budget, Departmental Operations

Office: ELA 243
Phone: 512.245.6440
Email: nph16@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Biological Anthropology

Research Interests:
Skeletal Biology, Bioarchaeology, Forensic Anthropology, Southeastern Archaeology/Bioarchaeology, Eastern Mediterranean Bioarchaeology (Greece and Cyprus)

Office: Pecos Building
Phone: 512.245.2724
Email: jodijacobson@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Archaeology

Office: ELA 228
Phone: 512.245.7838
Email: aj07@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests:
Race and Ethnicity, Gender; Ethnohistory; Hispanic, Mexican American, Latino/a, Maya, and Latin American Studies; Cemetery and Funerary Practices; Borderlands Theory; Critical Cultural Studies; Tourism; Globalization

Office: ELA 247
Phone: 512.245.3033
Email: david.kilby@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Archaeology

Research Interests:
North American Paleoindians, hunter-gatherer archaeology, Southwest prehistory, the organization of lithic technology, geoarchaeology, paleoenvironments, landscape archaeology, human evolutionary ecology, Cultural Resource Management and applied archaeology.

Office: GEB
Phone: 512.245.1900
Email: sm78@txstate.edu | facts@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Biological Anthropology

Office: ELA 262
Phone: 512.245.2474
Email: rm08@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests:
Maya, anthropology of religion, culture, theory, and field research methods

Office: ELA 256
Phone: 512.245.4964
Email: ahm@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Biological Anthropology

Research Interests:
The human skeleton

Office: ELA 271A
Phone: 512.245.4304
Email: pruetz@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Biological Anthropology

Research Interests:
Vervet and patas monkey socioecology focusing on the influence that food availability had on female primate competition and dominance.  Assessing the presence and distribution of chimpanzees in savanna habitats in Senegal.  The environmental pressures that influences ape behavior in Senegal and how such behavior differs from chimpanzees living in forested environments.

Office: TRIN 120
Phone: 512.245.2724
Email: areid@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Archaeology

Office: ELA 271
Phone: 512.245.8432
Email: fr04@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Archaeology

Research Interests:
Mayan and Southeastern ideological systems and epigraphy

Office: ELA 271C
Phone: 512.245.6797
Email: jr1476@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Faculty and Student Travel

Email: cs48@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Archaeology

Research Interests:
Palaeolithic archaeology, ethnoarchaeology of hunter-gatherers, Paleoanthropology, Quaternary palaeoecology, multidisciplinary archaeology, and spatial archaeology.

Phone: 512.245.5680
Email: mschoch@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests:
Culture and politics of disasters and epidemics, National security policy and history, Community resilience to extreme events, Public engagement in policy making

Office: ELA 271D
Phone: 512.245.7407
Email: bsheffield@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Grants, Purchasing

Office: ELA 234
Phone: 512.245.6539
Email: mks@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Biological Anthropology

Research Interests:
Human biological variation, forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, and quantitative methods.

Office: ELA 236
Phone: 512.245.2473
Email: ntaylor@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests:
Language, gender, and identity; teasing and gossip practices; childhood obesity and body image; adolescent and emerging adult health; youth and social media; ethnographic and applied research methods; contemporary U.S. and educational research settings

Office: ELA 260
Phone: 512.245.2504
Email: r.warms@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests:
West African economies, merchants, veterans of colonial armies, Islam in West African society, history of theory in anthropology, pedagogic methods.

Office: ELA 239
Phone: 512.245.1945
Email: dwescott@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Biological Anthropology

Research Interests:
Forensic anthropology, bone biomechanics, human skeletal variation, bioarcheaology