Cultural Anthropologists

Allen, Mark
Pomona College anthropology instructor whose interests include cultural resource management in New Zealand.
http://www.csupomona.edu/~mwallen/

Anderson, Kermyt G.
Lecturer at the University of Oklahoma with research interests in anthropological demography, behavioral ecology, parental care, fertility, education and schooling outcomes and evolutionary theory.
http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/A/Kermyt.G.Anderson-1/

Bacigalupo, Ana Mariella
Professor at the University of Buffalo who researches religion, ritual, gender, in indigenous highland South America
http://wings.buffalo.edu/anthropology/Faculty/bacigalupo.htm

Banks, David J.
Professor at the University of Buffalo researching kinship, culture, historical methods, and contemporary social change in Southeast Asia.
http://wings.buffalo.edu/anthropology/Faculty/banks.htm

Bateson, Gregory
Features a biography, a bibliography, a forum, and articles focusing on Bateson's epistemological work.
http://www.oikos.org/baten.htm

Beck, Lois C.
Professor of sociocultural anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.
http://artsci.wustl.edu/~anthro/blurb/b_beck.html

Bernard, H. Russell
Cultural anthropologist at the University of Florida. Includes curriculum vitae, class materials, and a list of his academic papers available online.
http://nersp.osg.ufl.edu/~ufruss/

Boyd, Robert
Professor of anthropology at UCLA whose research interests focuses on mathematical models of human behavior.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/boyd/

Brown, Margaret L.
Anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis whose research interests are on examining the connection between social norms and the development of beliefs about the social world.
http://artsci.wustl.edu/~anthro/blurb/b_brown.html

Calkowski, Marcia
Ethnographic research on the Tibetan exile community. University of Regina.
http://www.uregina.ca/arts/anthropology/faculty/calkowski.htm

Colson, Elizabeth
Biographical overview of the University of California, Berkeley Emeritus Professor that details her contributions to the field of Cultural Anthropology.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Anthro/colson/index.html

Cushing, Frank Hamilton
Biographical sketch of the 19th Century ethnologist who lived among the Zuni.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/cushing.htm

D'Alisera, JoAnn
Research explores the importance of religious institutions as spiritual centers in transnational communities, the ways in which religious commodities are utilized to affirm personal piety and identity, as well as call others to faith, and the growing production of popular "religious texts" in a variety of media. University of Arkansas.
http://www.uark.edu/depts/anthinfo/dalisera.htm

David L. Crawford
Features links to courses in cultural anthropology and Islamic societies and cultures. Also offers publications on Berber society, Morocco, labor relations, migration and the Amazigh identity movement. Fairfield University.
http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/dcrawford/

DeBernardi, Jean
University of Alberta, Canada researcher whose interests include China, Southeast Asia, religion, language in society. Provides contacts, curriculum vitae and essays.
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~jdeberna/

Dentan, Robert K.
Anthropology professor at the University of Buffalo who studies social organization, ecology and ritual in Southeast Asia and Africa.
http://wings.buffalo.edu/anthropology/Faculty/dentan.htm

Dow, James Winslow
Anthropology professor at Oakland University. Includes collection of online papers and articles.
http://personalwebs.oakland.edu/~dow/

Eggertsson, Sveinn
Research areas include knowledge, perception, phenomenology, medical anthropology, Melanesia, and Papua New Guinea. University of Iceland.
http://www.hi.is/~sveinne/sveinnee.html

English-Lueck, J.A.
Professor at San Jose State University in California, currently working on an ethnography of Silicon Valley cultures and their connection to centers of high technology worldwide.
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/jenglish/

Erickson, Kirstin
Research with the Yaquis of northern Mexico that focuses on women's verbal and non-verbal production of gendered and ethnic identities of self. University of Arkansas.
http://www.uark.edu/depts/anthinfo/erickson.htm

Feinberg, Richard
Professor at Kent State University who researches kinship and social organization, political development, indigenous seafaring techniques in Oceana and Native North America. Features recent publications and a photo gallery.
http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rfeinber/

Fiona Jordan
University College London PhD student interested in cultural evolution and diversity in the Pacific, especially the Austronesian world. Uses phylogenetic comparative methods to understand and examine cultural change and adaptation.
http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucsafmj

Fiske, Alan Page
Associate Professor of Anthropology at UCLA whose research and teaching explores the ways in which culture, psychology, and natural selection operate together to shape human sociality.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/fiske/

Frake, Charles O.
Professor at the University of Buffalo who researches cultural ecology and cognitive anthropology in Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Europe.
http://wings.buffalo.edu/anthropology/Faculty/frake.htm

Gardner, Peter M.
Research interests include: ecology, social organization and cognition of foragers in Canadian subarctic and India; cultural transmission in Hindu India and among South Indian sculptors; problems in the study of cognition; and anthropological perspectives on culture theories. University of Missouri.
http://web.missouri.edu/~anthwww/people/gardner.html

Graves, Theodore D.
Features a short biography, list of publications, contact details and information on his new books.
http://www.tedgraves.org/

Gundaker, Grey
Research and teaching interests include the ethnography of expressive and material practices, and learning environments, particularly involving African Americans in the U.S. and West Indies, and European Americans in the Appalachian corridor. College of William and Mary.
http://www.wm.edu/anthropology/directory.php?personid=1228168

Heider, Karl
Research activity is in the area of exploring the cultural shaping of emotions with field work in Indonesia. University of South Carolina.
http://www.cas.sc.edu/ANTH/Faculty/HeiderK/Heider.html

Hoffer, Cor
Sociologist and anthropologist conducting research at the University in Leiden (The Netherlands). His research interests include studying Muslim religion and health care.
http://www.corhoffer.nl/

Ilahiane, Hsain
Professor at Iowa State University whose primary research focuses on natural and cultural resource management, ethnicity and social mobility, and technological and agricultural change.
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~hsain/

Jackson, Jason Baird
Assistant Professor of Folklore, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University and researcher at the American Indian Research Institute.
http://www.indiana.edu/~aisri/the_institute/personnel.shtml#jason

Jason Danely
Psychological anthropology graduate student at UCSD. Features short biography, CV and links to related sites.
http://weber.ucsd.edu/~jdanely

Jauregui, Carlos
Provides personal academic information and contact details. Features a collection of essays that address identity in Latin America.
http://www.geocities.com/jauregca/

Judd, Ellen R.
Professor of social anthropology at the University of Manitoba whose research interests includes gender and kinship in China.
http://myprofile.cos.com/judde14

Kasakoff, Alice
Research interests include gender, ethnography, and the individual in modern Egypt. University of South Carolina.
http://www.cas.sc.edu/phil/scistud/members/kasakoff.html

Kenyon, Susan
Associate professor of anthropology and director of the anthropology program at Butler University. Professor Kenyon's research expertise includes gender studies, religion and healing, in Africa.
http://blue.butler.edu/~skenyon/

Kingsolver, Ann
Her research is focused on contributing to a broader social project of recognizing and addressing inequalities; with long-term ethnographic research concerns situated interpretations of transnational capitalism. University of South Carolina.
http://www.cas.sc.edu/ANTH/Faculty/AEKingso/Kingsolver.html

Koolage, William W.
Associate professor of cultural and medical anthropology at the University of Manitoba who studies indigenous societies of northern North America.
http://www.umanitoba.ca/colleges/uc/faculty/koolage.html

Kroeber, Alfred L.
A biography of Kroeber's life and catalog of his contributions to the field of anthropology.
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/nativeamericans/22.html

Leacock, Eleanor Burke
Eminent American cultural anthropologist recognized primarily for her enthohistorical studies of the subarctic Innu and her contributions to feminist anthropology.
http://web3.cas.usf.edu/main/depts/ANT/women/leacock/leacock.htm

Ledgerwood, Judy
Research interests include gender, refugee and diaspora communities, and the transnational movements of people and ideas. Northern Illinois University.
http://www3.niu.edu/anthro/people/faculty/ledgerwood.htm

Linke, Uli
Research focuses on historic and modern Europe, with an emphasis on Germany. Rochester Institute of Technology.
http://www.rit.edu/~uhlgss/

Loker, William
Web site of the CSU Chico professor that discusses his research in applied anthropology in Honduras.
http://www.csuchico.edu/anth/loker/

Mitchell, Winifred
Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department of Minnesota State University, Mankato.
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/klmno/mitchell_winifred.html

Molnar, Andrea
Research interests in religion, symbolism, social organization, language, ecological anthropology, and culture change. Northern Illinois University.
http://www3.niu.edu/anthro/people/faculty/molnar.htm

Montague, Susan P.
Research interests focused on the Trobriand Islands and American culture. Northern Illinois University.
http://www3.niu.edu/anthro/people/faculty/montague.htm

Moretti-Langholtz, Danielle
Currently studying the political resurgence of Virginia Indians during the twentieth century. College of William and Mary.
http://www.wm.edu/anthropology/directory.php?personid=1228176

Munson, Henry
University of Maine anthropology professor whose interests include the comparative study of religion, and religion and politics.
http://www2.umaine.edu/anthropology/Munson.html

Otterbein, Keith F.
Research specialist at the University of Buffalo who studies warfare, social structure and cultural ecology of peoples of the Caribbean and West Africa.
http://wings.buffalo.edu/anthropology/Faculty/otterbei.htm

Packwood, Nicholas
Research interests include mapping inter-organizational relationships through the flow of material assemblages. York University, Toronto, Canada.
http://www.nicholaspackwood.com

Pandey, Shanta
Professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis whose research focuses on factors that affect women's pursuit of economic opportunities and rural development in Nepal.
http://gwbweb.wustl.edu/Faculty/FullTime/Pages/ShantaPandey.aspx

Pradip K Singh
Features professional memberships, CV, publications and contacts. Ranchi University, Ranchi, India.
http://www.geocities.com/pradip_k_singh/

Pradip Kumar Singh
Features contact details, academic achievements and summary of research for this Indian anthropologist.
http://pksingh_ranchi.tripod.com/

Provencher, Ronald
Specializes broadly in the study of complex societies. Northern Illinois University.
http://www3.niu.edu/anthro/people/faculty/provencher.htm

Prufer, Olaf H.
Professor at Kent State University who teaches psychological anthropology, culture conflict, North American and Old World prehistory.
http://dept.kent.edu/anthropology/prufer.html

Ridinger, Robert
Research interests in cultural ecology, the archaeology of Mesoamerica, North America, Africa and South Asia and in the field of gay and lesbian studies. Northern Illinois University.
http://www3.niu.edu/anthro/people/faculty/reidinger.htm

Riner, Reed D.
Professor at Northern Arizona University who studied applied anthropology as it relates to the enculturation Native American Indians.
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rdr/

Robbins, Michael
Research and teaching interests reside in mathematics, methods, and psychological anthropology. University of Missouri.
http://web.missouri.edu/~anthwww/people/robbins.html

Roufs, Tim
Research interests focus on Middle America, culture and personality, and the sociocultural change of prehistoric cultures. University of Minnesota, Duluth.
http://www.d.umn.edu/~troufs/

Rubenstein, Joe
Professor of Anthropology at Stockton College.
http://loki.stockton.edu/~rubenstj/HomePage/rubenstein.htm

Russell, Susan D.
Research interests in economic anthropology and the Philippines. Northern Illinois University.
http://www3.niu.edu/anthro/people/faculty/russell.htm

Salovesh, Michael
Research focused on social organization (both kinship and politics) and inter-group relations. Northern Illinois University.
http://www3.niu.edu/anthro/people/faculty/salovesh.htm

Sanger, David
Anthropology professor at the University of Maine with expertise in the ecology of maritime hunter gatherers and the causes and effects of climatic events on small scale societies.
http://www2.umaine.edu/anthropology/Sanger.html

Sattenspiel, Lisa
Research interests are in biological effects of disease, the spread of disease along social networks and in prehistoric populations, and a study of the spread of the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic among aboriginal peoples in the Norway House District of Manitoba, Canada. University of Missouri.
http://rcp.missouri.edu/lisasattenspiel/index.html

Schneider, Mary Jo
Researches the human effects of agricultural mechanization and the shift from agricultural to industrial employment. University of Arkansas.
http://www.uark.edu/depts/anthinfo/schneider.htm

Small, Cathy
Anthropology professor at Northern Arizona University researching culture change, gender issues, applied, and development in Polynesia.
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~small/

Smeltzoff, Sarah K.
University of Miami researcher who studies industrial and small-scale fisheries analyses in the Indo-Pacific and Spanish West Africa.
http://mafweb.rsmas.miami.edu/people/Sarah/smeltzoff.html

Smith, Court
Researches domestic society, contemporary issues, and future-oriented. Interests focused on how human well-being changes as a result of resource use and economic development. Oregon State University.
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/anth/smith/

Sosis, Richard
Research interests in human behavioral ecology, the evolution of cooperation, foraging theory, costly signaling, and the evolution of religion and morality. University of Connecticut.›
http://www.anth.uconn.edu/faculty/sosis/

Sperber, Dan
Site of the French anthropologist and cognitive scientist, with brief biography and online texts.
http://www.dan.sperber.com/

Spier, Robert
Research interests focus on tools, tool use, and the material culture of non-industrial peoples, including Euro-Americans of the 19th century and before. University of Missouri.
http://web.missouri.edu/~anthwww/people/spier.html

Stone, Glenn Davis
Professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis whose research focuses on social, spatial, and political aspects of agriculture, sustainability, and biotechnology.
http://artsci.wustl.edu/~anthro/blurb/b_gds.html

Stoner, Bradley P.
Professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis whose research focuses on issues at the interface of anthropology, medicine and public health.
http://artsci.wustl.edu/~anthro/blurb/b_stoner.html

Striffler, Steve
Researches the political struggles between U.S. multinationals, the state, and peasant workers in Ecuador's banana producing region and the poultry industry and Latin immigration into the US South. University of Arkansas.
http://www.uark.edu/depts/anthinfo/striffler.htm

Sulkin, Carlos Londono
Research among the Muinane, an indigenous people of the Colombian Amazon. University of Regina.
http://www.uregina.ca/arts/anthropology/faculty/sulkin.htm

Swedenburg, Ted University of Arkansas
Research focuses on popular music, including: Franco-Algerian Rai music, Islamic African-American rap, Mizrahi dance music in Israel, and the popular music of Nubians in Egypt. University of Arkansas.
http://www.uark.edu/depts/anthinfo/swedenburg.htm

Thorn, David L.
Offers articles, photos, crafts, artwork, and professional qualifications.
http://www.littlewolf.us

Thu, Kendall M.
Research in applied anthropology, food systems, public and environmental health, the anthropology of sports, North America, and Northern Europe. Northern Illinois University.
http://www3.niu.edu/anthro/people/faculty/thu.htm

Trujillo, Michael
Specializes in the ongoing negotiation of social relations in the US Southwest. Colorado College.
http://personalwebs.coloradocollege.edu/~mtrujillo/Welcome.htm

Turnbull, Colin
A short biography from Science News of the celebrated anthropologist who launched the study of African pygmies in the 1950's.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1200/11_158/65860857/print.jhtml

Wadley, Reed
Research interests include agricultural and economic anthropology, demography, conservation, and indigenous management of natural resources. University of Missouri.
http://rcp.missouri.edu/reedwadley/index.html

Weisner, Thomas S.
Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Psychiatry at UCLA whose research explores the relationships between culture and human development. Contains contact information, research interests, and full bibliography.
http://cultureandhealth.ucla.edu/tweisner/

Welland, Sasha Su-Ling
Research interests include contemporary Chinese art worlds, gender, and visual culture. Features links to publications, and information on the "Cruel/Loving Bodies" exhibition project. University of California, Santa Cruz.
http://home.earthlink.net/~swelland/homepage/

White, Douglas R.
University of California Irvine researcher interested in the dynamics and organizational theory of social networks and in complex adaptive systems.
http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/

Whiteford, Michael B.
Professor at Iowa State University whose research interests focus on alternative curing practices and health-care decision-making processes in Latin America.
http://www.anthr.iastate.edu/whiteford.shtml

Wiedman, Dennis
Anthropologist and director of the Program Review Office of Planning and Institutional Effectiveness at the Florida International University.
http://www.fiu.edu/~wiedmand/

Wiegele, Katharine L.
Current research interests include new religious movements and religious change, mass media, global and popular culture, community in cities, and colonialism. Northern Illinois University.
http://www3.niu.edu/anthro/people/faculty/weiegle.htm

Wilk, Richard
Cultural anthropologist and professor at Indiana University. Biographical information and various projects, including software reviews and the Global Consumer Culture Project.
http://www.indiana.edu/~wanthro/

Wilson, H. Clyde
Interests include the economic and political organizations of modern societies, as well as the interaction between biological and cultural factors. University of Missouri.
http://web.missouri.edu/~anthwww/people/wilson.html

Wissler, Clark
A biographical sketch of the anthropologist associated with the Culture Area concept.
http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/wissler.shtml

Wright-Parsons, Ann
Director of Northern Illinois University's Anthropology Museum with special research interests in Southeast Asia.
http://www3.niu.edu/anthro/people/faculty/parsons.htm