Department of Anthropology

http://anthropology.tamu.edu

Head: D. J. de Ruiter

Director of Graduate Studies: L. Wright

Director of Undergraduate Studies: A. Hopkins

The Department of Anthropology offers programs of study and research leading to a PhD in Anthropology. Students admitted to the PhD program may elect to earn an MA en route to their terminal degree. Additionally, a MS in Maritime Archaeology and Conservation is offered as a separate track. Students enrolled within these programs receive training preparing them for professional research and/or teaching careers in academic institutions, governmental agencies, museums or private industry. The department has a well-rounded program in anthropology with offerings in archaeology, biological anthropology and cultural anthropology. The department is particularly noted for its strength and emphasis in the fields of nautical archaeology, the archaeology of the first Americans, archaeological conservation, palynology and paleoethnobotany, behavioral ecology, economic anthropology, globalization, biological anthropology, and zooarchaeology.

Once admitted to the graduate program, students concentrate their academic and research efforts in one or more areas within the Department of Anthropology. The degree plan is prepared by the individual student with the assistance of a faculty advisory committee and the department's academic advisor, and the coursework is kept flexible (within the guidelines of graduate studies) in order to allow students to pursue their individual professional goals. In addition, whenever possible graduate students are encouraged to gain teaching and/or research experience as assistants within the department.

Alvard, Michael S, Associate Professor
Anthropology
PHD, University of New Mexico, 1993

Anderson, Monya, Instructional Assistant Professor
Anthropology
PHD, University of Oregon, 2019

Athreya, Sheela, Professor
Anthropology
PHD, Washington University in St. Louis, 2003

Bojakowski, Katie, Instructional Assistant Professor
Anthropology
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2011

Bojakowski, Piotr, Assistant Professor
Anthropology
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2012

Carlson, Deborah N, Professor
Anthropology
PHD, University of Texas, 2004

Crisman, Kevin J, Professor
Anthropology
PHD, University of Pennsylvania, 1989

De Ruiter, Darryl J, Professor
Anthropology
PHD, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2001

Dostal, Christopher M, Assistant Professor
Anthropology
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2017

Gursky, Sharon, Professor
Anthropology
PHD, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1997

Halligan, Jessi, Associate Professor
Anthropology
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2012

Hopkins, Allison L, Associate Professor
Anthropology
PHD, University of Florida, 2009

Kennedy, Carolyn, Instructional Assistant Professor
Anthropology
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2019

Laporte, Catharina M, Instructional Professor
Anthropology
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2013

Lemus Sevilla, Sergio, Assistant Professor
Anthropology
PHD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016

Lynch, Darrell W, Lecturer
Anthropology
PHD, University of Tennessee, 2014

Nutor, Benjamin, Assistant Professor
Anthropology
PHD, University of Texas at Austin, 2021

Pulak, Cemalettin M, Professor
Anthropology
PHD, Texas A&M University, 1996

Rademaker, Kurt, Associate Professor
Anthropology
PHD, University of Maine, 2012

Sarathi, Akshay, Lecturer
Anthropology
PHD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2020

Thakar, Heather B, Assistant Professor
Anthropology
PHD, University of California at Santa Barbara, 2014

Wachsmann, Shelley A, Professor
Anthropology
PHD, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, 1991

Waters, Michael R, University Distinguished Professor
Anthropology
PHD, The University of Arizona, 1980

Werner, Cynthia A, Professor
Anthropology
PHD, Indiana University, 1997

Winking, Jeffrey W, Professor
Anthropology
PHD, The University of New Mexico, 2005