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Anthropology Department Research and Teaching Faculty

  • CURRENT FACULTY
  • EMERITUS FACULTY
  • RESEARCH FACULTY
  • ADJUNCT FACULTY

MICHAEL ADLER

Archaeology of the Southwest US, Director of SMU-in-Taos

CAROLINE B. BRETTELL

Cultural anthropology of Europe and India

ALAN COVEY

Archaeology of South America

JAMIE L. CLARK

Paleolithic archaeology of South Africa

SUNDAY EISELT

Archaeology of the Southwest US

ROBERT V. KEMPER

Cultural Anthropology of the US and Mexico

BRIGITTE KOVACEVICH

Archaeology of Mesoamerica

VICTORIA S. LOCKWOOD

Cultural Anthropology of Oceania

DAVID J. MELTZER

Archaeology of North American Paleoindians, Department Chair

NIA PARSON

Medical Anthropology and Gender in Chile and the US

CAROLYN SMITH-MORRIS

Medical Anthropology of American Indians

BEN J. WALLACE

Cultural Anthropology of Southeast Asia

RONALD WETHERINGTON

Forensic Anthropology

SARAH S. WILLEN

Medical Anthropology, Middle East

DAVID J. WILSON

Archaeology of South America

JOHN F. PHINNEY

ISEM Library Director

 

LEWIS BINFORD, University Distinguished Professor emeritus Ph.D. 1964 University of Michigan - archaeology; statistics and data analysis; cultural ecology; primitive technology; ethnographer.

HAROLD J. HIETALA, Associate Professor emeritus Ph.D. 1973 University of California, Los Angeles - anthropological statistics; quantitative methods; archaeological spatial analysis. Email: hhietala@smu.edu

ANTHONY E. MARKS, Professor emeritus Ph.D. 1966 Columbia University Email: amarks@smu.edu

LADISLAV P. NOVAK, Professor emeritus Ph.D. 1962 University of Minnesota - Physical anthropology, biological growth and aging, body composition, physiology of exercise, physiological adaptation, applied nutrition. Email: lnovak@smu.edu

C. GARTH SAMPSON, Professor emeritus Ph.D. 1969 Oxford University - Paleolithic archaeology; relationship between hunters and nomadic stock herders, Africa. Email: gsampson@smu.edu

D. FRED WENDORF, Henderson-Morrison Professor, emeritus Ph.D. 1953 Harvard University - Paleolithic archaeology; origins of agriculture, North Africa, U.S. Southwest. Email: fwendorf@smu.edu


MARY MOORE-FREE

DAVID A. FREIDEL, Senior Research Archaeologist
Ph.D. 1976 Harvard University - archaeology; origins of civilization; evolution of cultural realities; Mesoamerica.
Email: dfreidel@smu.edu

TORBEN C. RICK, Assistant Professor & Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D. 2004 University of Oregon - Archaeology, zoo archaeology, coastal and island societies; Pacific Coast, western North America 
Phone:  214-768-3542 
Email: trick@smu.edu

CAROLYN SARGENT, Senior Research Anthropologist
Ph.D. 1979 Michigan State University - medical anthropology; gender studies; comparative religion; Africa and Caribbean.
Email: csargent@smu.edu

ABIGAIL BARTOSHESKY, Adjunct Lecturer,

KENNETH KAEMMERER, Adjunct Lecturer, and Curator of Mammals at the Dallas Zoo.  M.A. 1978 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale