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Amanuel Beyin, Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies
amanuel.beyin@louisville.edu | 502-852-2424
Research Areas: human origins and dispersal, stone tool technology, shoreline adaption
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Anna T. Browne Ribeiro, Associate Professor
anna.browneribeiro@louisville.edu | 502-852-8303
Research Areas: human-environment interactions, Amazonian archaeology, Afro-Latin archaeology
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Aaron Comstock, Assistant Professor
aaron.comstock@louisville.edu | 502-852-3079
Research Areas: climate change, migration, transition to agriculture
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Fabian Crespo, Professor
fabian.crespo@louisville.edu | 502-852-2427
Research Areas: human immunology, ecological immunology, infectious diseases
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M. Ruth Dike, Assistant Professor Term
miriam.dike@louisville.edu | 502-852-5575
Research Areas: reproductive labor, gender, social class
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Jonathan Haws, Professor & Department Chair, Director of Portuguese Studies Program (On Sabbatical Fall 2025)
jonathan.haws@louisville.edu | 502-852-2423
Research Areas: palaeolithic archaeology, European prehistory, coastal settlement patterns
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Thomas Jennings, Associate Professor, Director of Center for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (CACHe)
thomas.jennings@louisville.edu | 502-852-0446
Research Areas: colonization of North America, hunter-gatherers, geoarchaeology
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Yvonne Jones, Associate Professor, Associate Professor Department of Pan African Studies
yvonne.jones@louisville.edu | 502-852-0446
Research Areas: social anthropology, nationalism and genocide, Afro-American culture
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Kathryn Marklein, Assistant Professor
kathryn.marklein@louisville.edu | 502-852-9024
Research Areas: bioarchaeology, palaeopathology, commingled remains
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Lisa Markowitz, Professor & Director of Graduate Studies
lisa.markowitz@louisville.edu | 502-852-2426
Research Areas: rural livelihoods, food studies, social movements
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Shawn Parkhurst, Associate Professor
shawn.parkhurst@louisville.edu | 502-852-2425
Research Areas: space, place and power, regional and national cultures
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Ashley Smallwood, Associate Professor & Interim Department Chair
ashley.smallwood@louisville.edu | 502-852-0446
Research Areas: prehistory of American southeast, paleoindin and archaic hunter-gather adaptions, flaked stone artifact analysis
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Angela D. Storey, Associate Professor & Director of the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research
angela.storey@louisville.edu | 502-852-3012
Research Areas: political anthropology, social movements, environmental anthropology
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Christopher Tillquist, Associate Professor
christopher.tillquist@louisville.edu | 502-852-2422
Research Areas: anthropological genetics, humans and disease, human variations
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Jianhua Zhao, Associate Professor
jh.zhao@louisville.edu | 502-852-3078
Research Areas: capitalism, family and kinship, clothing and the clothing industry, China and East Asia
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Paula Huffman, Program Coordinator
paula.huffman@louisville.edu | 502-852-2421
Anthony Hundley, IT Support Technician
Carey Garland, Part-Time Lecturer
Vivian Gornik, Part-Time Lecturer
David Hoefer, Part-Time Lecturer
Sneha Thapa, Part-Time Lecturer
Jeneen Wiche, Part-Time Lecturer
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