UAF Department of Anthropology Contact Information
Faculty
Tammy Buonasera Assistant Professor |
PhD, University of Arizona, 2013. |
307C Bunnell
tybuonasera@alaska.edu |
Justin Cramb Assistant Professor |
PhD, University of Georgia, 2020. |
305B Bunnell
jecramb@alaska.edu |
Elaine Drew |
PhD, University of Kentucky, 2004. Culturally-based health promotion and intervention research with AI/AN, Latino, and African-American communities; mixed methods research; research ethics review processes (institutional & community-based). |
407 Bunnell
emdrew@alaska.edu |
Kara C. Hoover Professor Associated Faculty, Chemistry and Biochemistry |
PhD, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2001. Bioarchaeology of hunter-gatherers, Paleo-population biology (diet, nutrition, developmental stress), Ancient hominin paelogenetics, Human olfactory evolution and contemporary variation, Japan, UK, Eurasia. |
404 Bunnell
kchoover@alaska.edu |
Sveta Yamin-Pasternak |
PhD, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2007. Food and culture, ethnomycology, aesthetics, Circumpolar North, contemporary art, gender, post-Soviet studies |
305B Bunnell
syamin@alaska.edu |
Patrick Plattet |
PhD, University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland), 2005.
Ritual, anthropology of festive events, cultural resources documentation, ethnohistory,
online teaching of ethnographic methods, Alaska/Kamchatka. |
307D Bunnell
pplattet@alaska.edu |
Ben A. Potter Professor |
PhD, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2005. Subarctic and Arctic archaeology, intersite variability, site structure and organization,
spatial analysis, geographic information systems, human-environmental interactions,
field survey and excavation, cultural resource management, multivariate statistical
analyses, lithic analysis, faunal analysis. |
308A Bunnell
bapotter@alaska.edu |
Joshua D. Reuther Curator of Archaeology, University of Alaska Museum of the North; Professor |
PhD, University of Arizona, 2013. Subarctic and arctic archaeology; geoarchaeology; geochronology; hunter-gatherer ecology; archaeological science; museum studies; cultural resources management. |
042 Museum of the North
jreuther@alaska.edu |
Robin A. Shoaps |
PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004. Linguistic anthropology, ritual language, discourse, power, semiotics, ethnography of morality, stance, human-animal relations, political media; Mesoamerica and the United States. |
312 Bunnell
rashoaps@alaska.edu |
Adjunct Faculty
Julie Esdale
Ph.D. (anthropology), Brown University. Arctic archaeology, geoarchaeology, and lithic analysis.
David Lukaszek
M.A. (Anthropology) University of Montana, 2004. Evolutionary Theory, Fossil Hominins, Osteology, Biomechanics, and Bipedalism, Taxonomy and Epistemology
Howard Maxwell
M.A. (anthropology), University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1987. Instructor, Rural Alaska Honors Institute, UAF.
Howard Smith
M.A. (anthropology), University of Utah, 1975. Field Office Archaeologist (retired), Bureau of Land Management. Cultural resource management, Arctic and northwest Alaska, Alaska mining history.
Affiliated Faculty
Nancy Bigelow
Affiliate Research Professor; Ph.D. (paleoecology) University of Alaska Fairbanks,1997. Research Associate, Alaska Quaternary Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Quaternary paleoecology, palynology, Beringian environments
Courtney Carothers
Assistant Professor of Fisheries; Ph.D. (anthropology) University of Washington, 2008. Environmental anthropology, political ecology, marine policy, fishing communities
Jamie Clark
Affiliate Professor of Anthropology; Ph.D. (paleoecology) University of Michigan, 2009. Paleolithic archaeology, modern human origins, hunter-gatherer lifeways, zooarchaeology. Southern Africa and the Near East
David Fazzino
Affiliate Assistant Professor; Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Anthropology Department, Faculty Member. Medical Anthropology, and Food Systems.
Patty A. Gray
Affiliate Associate Professor; Ph.D. (cultural anthropology), University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1998. Political and economic anthropology, social movements, transformation in post-Soviet rural communities, reindeer herding systems; rural European Russia, Russian Far North, Alaska.
Carrin Halffman
Affiliate Research Assistant Professor, Ph.D. (anthropology). University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2009. Biological anthropology, bone stable isotope analysis, past human diet, archaeological toxicology, Arctic and sub-Arctic populations
Charles E. Holmes
Affiliate Research Professor; Ph.D. (anthropology) Washington State University, 1984. Beringian archaeology, Subarctic cultural adaptations, Athabascan archaeology, lithic analysis.
Anne M. Jensen
Affiliate Research Assistant Professor. Ph.D. (anthropology), Bryn Mawr College, 2009. Long-term ecodynamics of socio-natural systems in Arctic and subarctic environments, coastal adaptations, global change effects on the archaeological and paleoecological record, zooarchaeology, community archaeology
Michael Koskey
Associate Professor of Cross-Cultural and Indigenous Studies; Ph.D. (anthropology) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2003. Oral history, traditional and local knowledge, ethnohistory, culture change, food sovereignty, decolonization, political economy, resource use and allocation, community-based research, Indigenous cosmology/mythology.
Amber Lincoln
Collections Manager, LA County Natural History Museum. Ph.D. (Anthropology), University of Aberdeen, 2011. Northern anthropology, material culture, ethnohistory and phenomenology.
David Alexander Lukaszek
Affiliate Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Ph.D. (Anthropology) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2017. Biological Anthropology, Osteology, Biomechanics, Evolutionary Theory, Fossil Hominins, Taxonomy, and Epistemology.
Holly J. McKinney
Affiliate Research Professor; Ph.D. (anthropology) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2013; Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT&PF) Cultural Resource Specialist; Faunal, Taphonomic, Lithic, and Stable Isotopic Analyses; Fisheries; Subarctic, Arctic, and Pacific Northwest Coast Archaeology; Excavation Methods; Multivariate Statistical Analyses; Human Behavioral Ecology; NHPA (Section 106), AHPA, and NEPA Compliance.
Robin O. Mills
Affiliate Assistant Professor; Ph.D. (anthropology), University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1998. Fairbanks District Archaeologist, Bureau of Land Management. Historical archaeology, mining history, cultural resource management.
Richard Nelson
Affiliate Research Professor; Ph.D. (anthropology), University of California, Santa Barbara. Indigenous cultures of Alaska, author and natural historian.
Diane O’Brien
Assistant Associate Professor, Institute for Arctic Biology/Department of Biology and Wildlife. Ph.D. (ecology and evolutionary biology), Princeton University, 1998. Stable isotope ecology, nutritional physiology of insects; understanding patterns of stable isotope variation among biological compounds.
Rosemarie Plaetke
Affiliate Associate Professor; Ph.D. (statistical genetics), Free University Berlin, Germany 1986. Human genetics - focus on type 2 diabetes and complications, genetic epidemiology - focus on statistics and bioinformatics , genetics of behavior - focus on development of phenotypes for genetic studies, biostatistics.
Feng Qu
Affiliate faculty; Feng Qu, the founding Director and Professor of Arctic Studies Center at Liaocheng University, China. He is also a professor in archaeology at Nanjing Normal University. He received PhD in anthropology from University of Alaska Fairbanks. He focuses his research on Arctic prehistory and ethnography, shamanism, ritualism, and animism. He has published three monographs including An Exploration of Prehistoric Ontologies in the Bering Strait Region published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2021. He also published numerous research articles, reviews and miscellanea about circumpolar shamanism, eco-cosmologies, and prehistoric religious ideas in both Chinese and English.
Nicholas Schmuck
Gerad M. Smith
Affiliate Assistant Professor; Ph.D. (anthropology) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2020; Project Archaeologist, Brice Environmental Services Corporation;Traditional Dene Place Name analysis, Lithic Analysis, Taphonomy, Subarctic and Arctic archaeology, Non-linear Complexity Modeling, Human Behavioral Ecology, Site Structure and Intersite Variability, GIS, Ichnological analysis, Photomodeling, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, NHPA (Section 106), AHPA, and NEPA Compliance
William Schneider
Emeritus Professor of Library Science; Ph.D. (anthropology) Bryn Mawr College, 1976.
Kerrie-Ann Shannon
Affiliate Assistant Research Professor; Ph.D. (anthropology), University of Aberdeen, Northern anthropology.
Anne D. Shinkwin
Affiliate Professor; Ph.D. (anthropology), University of Wisconsin, 1975. Northern anthropology.
Emeritus Faculty
Charlotte Basham
Associate Professor; PhD (linguistics), University of Michigan, 1986. Discourse analysis,
second language acquisition, and contrastive rhetoric.
Phone: 907-474-6884;
Email: ffcsb @ uaf.edu
Joel D. Irish
Professor, Curator of Biological Anthropology at the UA Museum; Ph.D. (biological
anthropology), Arizona State University, 1993. Dental anthropology, paleopathology,
human osteology, human variation, bioarchaeology; Africa, Southeast Alaska.
Phone: 907-474-6755
Email: jdirish @ alaska.edu
David C. Koester
Professor; PhD, University of Chicago, 1990. Culture and history, historical and national
consciousness; anthropological study of insult and discursive manipulation of status;
early history of ethnography; energy concepts and discourse; Iceland, Russian Far
East, North Pacific, circumpolar.
Phone: 907-474-6188
Email: syamin@alaska.edu
Molly Lee
Professor, Curator of Ethnology at the UA Museum; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1992. Sociocultural anthropology, Native Alaskan, Eskimo and Inuit art of the historical and contemporary periods.
Phyllis Morrow
(Former Dean of the College of Liberal Arts), Professor; Ph.D. (social and cultural anthropology), Cornell University, 1987. Linguistic anthropology, socio-legal studies, folklore, Inuit/Yup'ik ethnography, and ritual and symbolism.
Peter P. Schweitzer
Professor; Ph.D. (anthropology), University of Vienna, 1990. Kinship, Social Organization
and Identity Politics; Global Climate Change and Northern Indigenous Communities;
Contemporary Hunting and Gathering Societies; History of Anthropological Theory; Methods
of Historical Anthropology; Siberia, Alaska, Circumpolar North.
Phone: 907-474-5015;
Email: ppschweitzer @ alaska.edu
In Memorium
Brian Hemphill
Professor PhD, University of Oregon, 1991. Dental Morphology, Odontometrics, Dental Pathology, Skeletal Biology, Biological Distance Analysis, Bioarchaeology, Human Evolution, South Asia, Central Asia, Great Basin, Northwest Coast.
Patricia B. Kwachka
Professor; Ph.D. (linguistics), University of Florida Gainesville, 1981. Sociolinguistics, language acquisition, language shift, and medical communication. (Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts)