Faculty in Biological Anthropology
Faculty in Linguistic Anthropology
Faculty in Sociocultural Anthropology
Archaeology Faculty
Sebastien C.P. Lacombe
Research Assistant Professor/Director of Undergraduate Studies
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Archaeopetrography
- lithic analysis and sourcing
- landscape archaeology
- experimental archaeology
- CRM
- Prehistoric Europe
Research Interests
- Paleoethnobotany
- Landscape archaeology in the Andes Mountains of South America
Carl P. Lipo
Professor; Associate Dean for Research and Programs
Anthropology; Harpur College of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests
- Evolution of Past Human Populations
- Models of Cultural Transmission
- Methods in Remote Sensing, Geophysics
- North American Prehistory, Prehistory of the Pacific
Research Interests
- Cultural Resource Management
- Northeastern United States
- Late Precontact Period
- Pottery Analysis
- Public Outreach and Archaeology
Maria O'Donovan
Senior Staff Assistant; Director of MAPA Program
Public Archaeology Facility; Anthropology
Research Interests
- Cultural Resource Management and Heritage
- Historical and Contemporary Archaeology
- Northeastern United States
- Social Theory
- Landscape
Lubna Omar
Lecturer; Associate Director/CMENAS; Associate Director/CMENAS
Anthropology; Center for Middle East and North Africa Studies
Research Interests
- Zooarchaeology
- Near Eastern Archaeology
Research Interests
- Lithic Analysis
- Feminism and Gender
- Communities of Practice
- Sociopolitics of Archaeology
- Ethics of Archaeology
- Prehistoric Europe
Research Interests
- Southwest United States
- Landscape, place, and space
- Social theory
- Phenomenology, materiality, and representation
- Historical archaeology
- Archaeology of pilgrimage
Biological Anthropology Faculty
Research Interests
- Human evolutionary ecology
- Social endocrinology
- Health disparities
Research Interests
- Forensic anthropology
- Population-specific standards
- Age-at-death estimation
- Trauma analysis
- Prehistoric and historic health; stress; and well-being
- Latin America; Caribbean; Europe Bioarchaeology; Paleopathology
- North Africa
- North America
- Ancestry and social race
Research Interests
- Ancient DNA
- Forensic genetics
- Bioarchaeology
- Molecular anthropology
Research Interests
- Molecular anthropology
- Forensic genetics
- Malaria
- epidemiology; Melanesia
- Melanesia
D. Andrew Merriwether
Professor; Collegiate Professor for College in the Woods
Anthropology; Residential Life
Research Interests
- Ancient DNA/PaleoGenomics
- Molecular Anthropology
- Peopling of the New World and The Pacific
- Plant and Animal Domestication
- Population Genetics/Phylogenetics
- Forensic DNA
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Biomedical Anthropology
- Evolutionary Biology/Molecular Evolution
- Paleodemography
Research Interests
- Paleoanthropology
- Neandertals
- Language Evolution
Deborah Schechter
Instructor/Director of Graduate Program in Biomedical Anthropology
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Health disparities
- Risk-taking behavior
- Biocultural models of health and disease
- Community-based research methods
Research Interests
- Growth and development
- Human variation
- Biomedical anthropology
- Skeletal biology
- Health, stress, wellbeing
- Quantitative methods
- Statistical computing
Katherine Wander
Associate Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- infectious disease ecology
- immune function
- growth and development
- nutrition
- female circumcision
- East Africa
- West Africa
Linguistic Anthropology Faculty
Sabina Perrino
Professor/Director of Linguistics Program
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Intimacy in Interaction
- Language use in Ethnomedical Encounters & Political Speeches
- Oral Narratives as Discursive Practices
- Racialized Language in Everyday Conversation
- Spatiotemporal Relations (Chronotope)
- Research Methods in Linguistic Anthropology
- Fitness Culture and Practices
Sociocultural Anthropology Faculty
Deborah A. Elliston
Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Feminist Anthropology
- Sexuality Studies
- Queer Theory
- Postcolonial Theory
- Nationalism
- Modernity
- Oceania/Pacific
Research Interests
- Anthropology and Development
- Political Ecology
- Consumption
- Urban Anthropology
- Borders
- Globalization
- Latin America
Research Interests
- Contemporary fascism
- Central banks and monetary policy
- Technologies of money
- Sovereign wealth funds
- Experimental ethnography
Joshua Reno
Professor/Graduate Director; TRIP Courtesy Title
Anthropology; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- Environmental anthropology
- Semiotics and language
- Critical disability studies
- Science and technology studies
- Gaming, games and play
Research Interests
- National identity and nationalism; international borders and frontiers; ethnicity and ethnic conflict; political ritual and symbolism; commercial farming; agrarian economic strategies and politics; public policy and interest group formation; local government and political parties; cinema and popular culture; European integration; the borderlands of the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hungary, Canada, and the United States.
Affiliated Faculty
Abagail Breidenstein
Research Development Specialist
Office of Strategic Research Initiatives
Barrett Brenton
Faculty Engagement Associate
Center for Civic Engagement
Sule Can
Outreach Coordinator
Center for Middle East and North Africa Studies
Michel Shamoon Pour
Molecular and Biomedical Anthropology, Research Assistant Professor
First-year Research Immersion Program
Emeritus Faculty
Ralph M. Garruto
Professor Emeritus/Director, BU Biospecimen Archive Facility
Anthropology
William H. Isbell
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Anthropology
Randall H. McGuire
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Anthropology
H. Stephen Straight
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Linguistics
Anthropology
Nina M. Versaggi
Research Associate; Senior Research Associate
Anthropology; Public Archaeology Facility
Michael A. Little
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Anthropology