Affiliated Faculty
Affiliated faculty members are TXST faculty who are conducting long-term research or educational programs in the lab.

Dr. Angela K. VandenBroek
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
science and technology studies (STS), feminist STS, business anthropology, design anthropology, innovation, tech entrepreneurship, futures and foresight, expertise

Dr. Augustine Agwuele
Professor, Anthropology
Interests: Linguistics\ Phonetics,- C-V Coarticulation, Socio-Cultural Studies, Peoples & Cultures of Africa

Dr. Lise Byars George
Asst. Professor of Instruction, Internship Director
Applied anthropology; disasters; gender, vulnerability and social support; ethnicity; identity; anthropology and law; transnationalism and migration

Dr. Karla Hernandez-Swift
Lecturer, Anthropology
Veterans, Latinas in the Military, Mexican American Studies, Mexico, Gender and Identity

Dr. Nicole Taylor
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Language, gender, and identity; teasing and gossip; childhood obesity and body image; adolescent health; social media; ethnographic and applied research methods

Dr. Aimee Villarreal
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Social movements in the US-Mexico borderlands; immigration & asylum; religion & transnationalism; Chicanx spiritual politics & performance; comparative ethnic studies

Dr. Rich Warms
Professor, Anthropology
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, Anthropology
Maya, anthropology of religion, culture, theory, and field research methods