Overview
Our faculty is actively engaged in research in all four sub-fields and publish regularly in journals appropriate to their fields. (Please individual webpages and bios under People.) We have a traditional focus on the circumpolar North. Recent departmental growth has resulted in a new thematic focus on language, culture, and evolution. Our research has an immediate impact on our instruction. We illustrate fundamental principles with data from our fieldwork and engage students in the analysis of complex issues found in our own work. Comments on IASs frequently note that the material was made much more accessible by the instructors' ability to relate it to actual research experience.
Subfields
Archaeology
- Justin Cramb
- Ben Potter
- Josh Reuther
Biological Anthropology
- Brian Hemphill
- Kara C. Hoover
Social/Cultural
- Elaine Drew
- Patrick Plattet
- Robin A. Shoaps
- Sveta Yamin-Pasternak
Linguistic Anthropology
- Robin A. Shoaps
Geographic Areas
Alaska/Circumpolar North
- Justin Cramb
- Elaine Drew
- Kara C. Hoover
- Patrick Plattet
- Ben Potter
- Josh Reuther
- Robin A. Shoaps
- Sveta Yamin-Pasternak
Latin America
- Robin A. Shoaps
North America
- Elaine Drew
- Robin A. Shoaps
Asia (Siberia, Russian Far East, Japan, SE Asia, China)
- Brian Hemphill
- Kara C. Hoover
- Patrick Plattet
- Sveta Yamin-Pasternak
Eurasia
- Brian Hemphill
- Kara C. Hoover
Oceania
- Justin Cramb