Mark Williams Photo: First Name: Mark Last Name: Williams Phone Number: (706)-542-9234 (archaeology lab) Read more about Mark Williams Education Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Georgia 1983 Expertise & Interests
Bram Tucker Photo: First Name: Bram Last Name: Tucker Office: 259 Baldwin Hall Read more about Bram Tucker I am fascinated by the economic lives of people in rural places, where food and other resources come from the land, forest, and sea. Rural economies are highly diversified, partially integrated into markets, and vulnerable to risk and uncertainty. We often think of them as "traditional," and traditions are important; but they have experienced long histories of social change.
Victor Thompson Photo: First Name: Victor Last Name: Thompson Read more about Victor Thompson I study significant transitions in human history, specializing in the application of archaeological science to the study of collective social formations and the historical ecology of wetland and coastal environments. In the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts, my recent research focuses on socioecological histories and zooarchaeological indicators to achieve high resolution, localized histories of human-climate dynamics. More broadly, my work centers on the nature of Indigenous governance by addressing cases that demonstrate the variability in the forms that democratic institutions might take.
Susan Tanner Photo: First Name: Susan Last Name: Tanner Office: Baldwin Hall, 0266 Read more about Susan Tanner I study how the environment, biology, and culture shape human health and disease. My recent research in Panama focuses on Zoonotic diseases and deforestation, while in Bolivia, I study nutrition, health, and life history. I am interested in how individual and household conditions may shape disease patterns, and also how they shape childhood growth, diet, and nutrition.
Elizabeth Reitz Photo: First Name: Elizabeth Last Name: Reitz Read more about Elizabeth Reitz I am a zooarchaeologist who focuses on Latin American and southeastern archaeology with an emphasis on ecological and ecological archaeology. As the head of the zooarchaeology lab and as a consultant, I work with collections management.