Scott Ortman’s research focuses on:

Research interests— economic anthropology, institutional analysis, land tenure, West Africa, United States

Associate professors Julie Velásquez Runk and Susan Tanner are part of a collaborative and interdisciplinary current project investigating links between deforestation and the zoonotic diseases leishmaniasis and Chagas Disease. 

Bioarchaeologist Carey Garland presents his dissertation prospectus, fully titled "Biocultural Dynamics of Spanish Colonization on St. Catherines Island, GA: Bioarchaeological Perspectives from the Sites of Fallen Tree and Santa Catalina de Guale."

Dr. González teaches many of the introductory course sections and a few smaller upper level courses.  Dr. González has not done anthropological research in a while, being focused on teaching, but his past research focused on Classic Maya archaeology in Belize, with interests in built environments, political/domestic/ritual landscapes, political and social organization, human/environmental dynamics, and the negotiation of daily power relationships.  

Ben Steere, alum of this department, now a faculty member at Western Carolina University, has won this recent award given by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

Click here to read more about Steere's award.

The Laboratory of Primate Behavioral Ecology provides a workspace for graduate and advanced undergraduate students interested in research on primate behavior, ecology, and conservation.