Faculty
| Petra Banks Term Assistant Professor |
PhD, Texas State University, 2024. Forensic Anthropology, Skeletal Trauma, Blast Trauma, Mass Disasters, Disaster Victim Identification, Forensic Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Historic Cemeteries, 3D Imaging |
401 Bunnell
pmbanks@alaska.edu |
| Justin Cramb Assistant Professor |
PhD, University of Georgia, 2020. Zooarchaeology, Cultures of Island Oceania, the Alaska Gold Rush, Historical Archaeology, Radiocarbon Dating, Environmental Archaeology, Historical Ecology, Animal Translocation. |
305B Bunnell
jecramb@alaska.edu |
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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 |
| Brian Hemphill Associate 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 |
401 Bunnell
bhemphill@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 |
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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 |
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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 Associate 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 |
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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 |