Affiliated Faculty

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

Director of the InnoAnth Lab
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Director of the InnoAnth 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

Affiliated Faculty
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Affiliated Faculty

Dr. Augustine Agwuele

Professor, Anthropology

Interests: Linguistics\ Phonetics,- C-V Coarticulation, Socio-Cultural Studies, Peoples & Cultures of Africa

Affiliated Faculty
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Affiliated Faculty

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

Affiliated Faculty
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Affiliated Faculty

Dr. Karla Hernandez-Swift

Lecturer, Anthropology

Veterans, Latinas in the Military, Mexican American Studies, Mexico, Gender and Identity

Affiliated Faculty
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Affiliated Faculty

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

Affiliated Faculty
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Affiliated Faculty

Dr. Aimee Villarreal

Assistant Professor, Anthropology

Social movements in the US-Mexico borderlands; immigration & asylum; religion & transnationalism; Chicanx spiritual politics & performance; comparative ethnic studies

Affiliated Faculty
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Affiliated Faculty

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.

Affiliated Faculty
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Affiliated Faculty

Dr. R. Jon McGee

Professor, Anthropology

Maya, anthropology of religion, culture, theory, and field research methods