Adjunct Faculty
Raymond P. Dannenhoffer
PhD, SUNY at Buffalo, 1987
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anatomical Sciences; Supervisor, Gross Anatomy Lab
Research Interests: Physical anthropology, demography, heritability of infertility, US
Stephen Dyson
PhD, Yale U, 1963
Professor of Classics; Adjunct Professor
of Anthropology
Research Interests: Roman Italy, Sardinia
Sara M. Elder
MA, Brandeis U, 1972
Adjunct Associate Professor
Research Interests: Ethnographic films, Native Americans, Eskimos
David M. Engel
J.D., University of Michigan, 1973
Professor, Law School
Research Interests: Law and society, comparative law; Southeast Asia
William Engelbrecht
PhD, U Michigan, 1971
Adjunct Associate Professor
Research Interests: Archeology, Iroquois ceramic style North America
Rebecca R. French
PhD, Yale, 1990; JD, University of Washington, 1974
Professor,
Law; Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
Research Interests: Buddhism and law; Asian legal systems. Tibet, Nepal
Caroline Funk
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005
Research Interests: Human decision-making in the context of environmental influence and impact: cognitive archaeology and landscape approaches in prehistoric, historic contact, and historic eras; hunter-gatherers in coastal landscapes: Aleutian Islands, Yukon - Kuskokwim Delta of Alaska, central Portugal; oral history, ethnohistory, settlement pattern analysis, faunal analysis, GIS, statistics.
Jennifer Gaynor
PhD, University of Michigan, 2005
Assistant Professor of History; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Research Interests: Social and cultural history of modern Indonesia and Maritime SE Asia; historiography and the intersections of history and anthropology Indonesia, SE Asia
Kimberly L. Hart
PhD, Indiana University, 2005
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Buffalo State; Adjunct Assistant Professor at UB
Dr. Hart conducted ethnographic research in villages in western Turkey, 2000-2010. Her doctoral work explored the social, economic, and spiritual consequences of the commodification of a cultural heritage product, handwoven carpets in DOBAG, a women’s cooperative project. In her second project, she studied villagers’ engagement with state policies regarding Sunni Islam, the determination of some to remember cultural Islamic practices, and others to forget them in favor of a purified Islam. Her book on this subject, And then we work for God, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press in 2013. Hart curated the exhibit “What Josephine Saw” or Josephine’in Gordü?ü at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University in Istanbul, June 2012. A catalog of the same name was published by Koç University Press. Hart was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, 2010-2011.
Linda S. Kahn
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1985
Research Interests: Medical anthropology, health disparities, chronic illness, mental illness, community-based participatory research, North American society
PhD, University of California - San Diego, 2010
Research Assitant Professor
Research Interests: Archaeology in Sri Lanka; Early Iron Age, Bronze Age in central Asia; Mortuary archaeology.
Dustin Keeler
PhD, SUNY at Buffalo, 2010
Research Associate
Research Interests: Western Europe Upper Paleolithic: France Sub-Arctic Neolithic: Finland, Russia, GIS Spatial-Temporal Modeling, Intrasite Spatial Analysis, Regional Settlement Patterns
Richard V. Lee
MD, Yale U, 1964
Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine; Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
Research Interests: Health care delivery systems in third-world countries, Medical Anthropology
PhD, University of Chicago, 1996
Research Assistant Professor
Frank Mendel
PhD, U California-Santa Barbara, 1973
Associate Professor, Anatomical Sciences
Research Interests: Paleoprimatology, functional primate anatomy, hominoid evolution
I. Florin Pendea
PhD, McGill University (submitted); Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania, 2005
Assistant Professor, Lakehead University – Orillia
Henry Schwarcz
PhD, CIT, 1960
Adjunct Professor
Research Interests: Archaeometry, paleoclimate and chronology of the quaternary, paleodiet
Mateo Taussig-Rubbo
PhD, Chicago, 2007; JD, Yale, 2001
Associate Professor Law; Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology
Research Interests: Gift, sacrifice and consecration as applied to modern political and legal situations. U.S. immigrants
Dennis Tedlock
PhD, Tulane, 1968
James H McNulty Professor, English; Research Professor of Anthropology
Research Interests: Interpretive anthropological dialogue, ethnopoetics, translation North and Middle American Indians
Patricia K. Townsend
PhD, University of Michigan, 1969
Adjunct Associate Professor
Research Interests: Environmental anthropology, medical anthropology, North America, Papua New Guinea.
Livingston Vance Watrous
PhD, U Pennsylvania, 1974
Professor of Art History; Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
Research Interests: Eastern Mediterranean archaeology, Bronze Age Greece