Affiliated faculty members are TXST faculty who are conducting long-term research or educational programs in the lab.
InnoAnth Affiliated Faculty
Dr. Angela K. VandenBroek
Director of the Innovative Anthropologies Lab
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Interests: science and technology studies (STS); feminist STS; business anthropology, design anthropology, applied anthropology; innovation; entrepreneurship; technologies; design; futures and foresight; expertise; ignorance and agnotology; and infrastructure
Dr. Aimee Villarreal
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Interests: Social movements in the US-Mexico borderlands; immigration and asylum; religion and transnationalism; Chicanx spiritual politics and performance; comparative ethnic studies.
Dr. Augustine Agwuele
Professor of Anthropology
Interests: Linguistics\ Phonetics,- C-V Coarticulation, Socio-Cultural Studies, Peoples & Cultures of Africa
Dr. Emily Brunson
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Interests: Medical anthropology, applied anthropology, qualitative methods, social network analysis, vaccination, health equity, crisis and risk communication, health policy
Dr. Nicole Taylor
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Interests: Language, gender, and identity; teasing and gossip practices; childhood obesity and body image; adolescent and emerging adult health; youth and social media; ethnographic and applied research methods; contemporary U.S. and educational research settings
Dr. Rich Warms
Professor of Anthropology
Interests: West African economies, merchants, veterans of colonial armies, Islam in West African society, history of theory in anthropology, pedagogic methods.
Dr. R. Jon McGee
Professor of Anthropology
Interests: Maya, anthropology of religion, culture, theory, and field research methods
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