Anthropology Department Faculty and Staff

Email: aa21@txstate.edu
Office: ELA 242
Phone: 512.245.4726

Primary Focus:
Linguistics

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

Office: Pecos Building
Phone: 512.245.2728
Email: toddahlman@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Archaeology

Research Interests:
Cultural resources management; pre-contact archaeology of Spring Lake in San Marcos, Texas; the study of African American potteries in Texas and the South; and the study of the African Diaspora in the South and Caribbean.

Email: cb26@txstate.edu
Office: ELA 232
Phone: 512.245.7787

Primary Focus:
Archaeology

Research Interests:
Stone Age archaeology of sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Plains archaeology, hunter-gatherer technological organization, and geoarchaeology and paleoenvironmental analysis.

Office: ELA 255
Phone: 512.245.0727
Email: cb55@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Archaeology

Research Interests:
Prehistoric art, iconographic analysis, hunter-gatherer archaeology, applied anthropology, Native American myth, ritual, cosmovision, and iconography

Email: ebrunson@txstate.edu
Office: ELA 237
Phone: 512.245.6753

Primary Focus:
Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests:
Applied anthropology, medical anthropology, public health
Crisis and risk communication, health care equity, health policy, infectious diseases, vaccination

Email: lbyarsgeorge@txstate.edu
Phone: 512.245.8272
Office: ELA 271C

Primary Focus: 
Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests: 
Applied anthropology; disasters; gender, vulnerability and the use of social social support; ethnicity and identity; anthropology and law; transnationalism and migration

Email: npcarter@txstate.edu
Office: ELA 258
Phone: 512.245.5680

Curriculum Vitae

Primary focus:
Archaeology

Research interests:
Maya archaeology and epigraphy; international heritage management; artifact imaging; ceramic analysis; polity formation and collapse.

Email: elainechu@txstate.edu
Phone: 512.245.8272
Office: ELA 271D

Primary Focus: 
Biological Anthropology

Research Interests: 
Human variation, virtual and computational anthropology, data science, growth and development 
 

Office: ELA 266A
Phone: 512.245.2535
Email: adam.clark@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Website, Marketing, Photography/Videography, Technical Support

Email: cconlee@txstate.edu
Office: ELA 266
Phone: 512.245.8272

Primary Focus:
Archaeology

Research Interests:
Dynamics of complex societies, causes and consequences of collapse, early empires and colonialism, foundations and relations of power, population movements, cultural boundaries, Andean archaeology, archaeology of north-central Oregon, ceramic analysis, stable isotope analysis 

Email: deborah.cunningham@txstate.edu
Office: ELA 238
Phone: 512.245.8272

Primary Focus:
Biological Anthropology

Research Interests:
Evolution of East and South African hominins, the paleobiology of Homo erectus, patterns of sexual dimorphism in Australopithecus, species boundaries in the fossil record, and the effect of obesity on the trabecular architecture of the human skeleton

Email: pdering@msn.com

Primary Focus:
Archaeology

Research Interests:
Economy of Foragers, Agricultural Systems, Field Archaeology, Archaeobotany

Email: berhart@txstate.edu
Office: ELA 233
Phone: 512.245.3435

Primary Focus:
Biological Anthropology

Research Interests:
Primate behavior and ecology

Office: ELA 266C
Phone: 512.245.5852
Email: gbg18@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Administrative Assistant for Graduate Programs (M.A. & Ph.D.)

Office: GEB
Phone: 512.245.1900
Email: tim.gocha@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Biological Anthropology

Office: ELA 240
Phone: 512.245.8429
Email: mh69@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Biological Anthropology

Research Interests:
Forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, paleopathology, trauma, taphonomy, postmortem interval, dental anthropology.

Office: ELA 266D
Phone: 512.245.0544
Email: th36@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Budget, Departmental Operations

Office: ELA 243
Phone: 512.245.6440
Email: nph16@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Biological Anthropology

Research Interests:
Forensic and dental anthropology, geospatial and geophysical applications, eastern Mediterranean bioarchaeology

Office: Pecos Building
Phone: 512.245.2724
Email: jodijacobson@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Archaeology

Office: ELA 247
Email: david.kilby@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Archaeology

Research Interests:
North American Paleoindians, hunter-gatherer archaeology, Southwest prehistory, the organization of lithic technology, geoarchaeology, paleoenvironments, landscape archaeology, human evolutionary ecology, Cultural Resource Management and applied archaeology.

Office: GEB 112
Phone: 512.245.1900
Email: sm78@txstate.edu | facts@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Biological Anthropology

Phone: 512.245.2474
Email: rm08@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests:
Maya, anthropology of religion, culture, theory, and field research methods

Office: ELA 256
Phone: 512.245.4964
Email: ahm@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Biological Anthropology

Research Interests:
The human skeleton

Office: ELA 228
Phone: 512.245.7838
Email: pruetz@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Biological Anthropology

Research Interests:
Vervet and patas monkey socioecology focusing on the influence that food availability had on female primate competition and dominance.  Assessing the presence and distribution of chimpanzees in savanna habitats in Senegal.  The environmental pressures that influences ape behavior in Senegal and how such behavior differs from chimpanzees living in forested environments.

Office: TRIN 120
Phone: 512.245.2724
Email: areid@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Archaeology

Office: ELA 271
Phone: 512.245.8432
Email: fr04@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Archaeology

Research Interests:
Mayan and Southeastern ideological systems and epigraphy

Office: ELA 266B
Phone: 512.245.6797
Email: ugr11@txstate.edu

Primary Focus
Travel and Social Media

Email: mschoch@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests:
Culture and politics of disasters and epidemics, National security policy and history, Community resilience to extreme events, Public engagement in policy making

Office: ELA 266F
Phone: 512.245.7407
Email: bsheffield@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Grants, Purchasing

Office: ELA 241
Email: heather.smith@txstate.edu
Phone: 512.245.7961

Curriculum Vitae

Primary Focus: 
Archaeology

Research Interests: 
Paleoindian Archaeology, Paleolithic Archaeology, Human Dispersals, Lithic Technology, Fluted Projectile Points, Geometric Morphometrics, GIS, Cultural Transmission, Evolutionary Archaeology

Office: ELA 234
Phone: 512.245.6539
Email: mks@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Biological Anthropology

Research Interests:
Human biological variation, forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, and quantitative methods.

Office: ELA 236
Phone: 512.245.2473
Email: ntaylor@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Cultural Anthropology

Research 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

Email | akvbroek@txstate.edu
Office | ELA 271A
Phone | 512.245.4304

Curriculum Vita

Primary Focus:
Cultural Anthropology

Research 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

Email:  aimeevillarreal@txstate.edu
Office: ELA 271B
Phone: 512.245.7862

Primary Focus:
Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests:
Social movements in the US-Mexico borderlands; immigration and asylum; religion and transnationalism; Chicanx spiritual politics and performance; comparative ethnic studies.

Office: ELA 260
Phone: 512.245.2504
Email: r.warms@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests:
West African economies, merchants, veterans of colonial armies, Islam in West African society, history of theory in anthropology, pedagogic methods.

Office: GEB 111
Phone: 512.245.1945
Email: dwescott@txstate.edu

Primary Focus:
Biological Anthropology

Research Interests:
Forensic anthropology, bone biomechanics, human skeletal variation, bioarcheaology