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Laurie Reitsema

My research seeks to explain how human beings come to physically embody the biological and social aspects of our environments. In varying sites across Europe, my work encapsulates the challenges of bioarchaeological analysis as the most direct indicator of human behavior. I examine diet change from the time of Greek colonization to the Medieval period, and I also helped geochemically assess archaeological human remains to test early written…


Suzanne Pilaar Birch

I have a joint appointment in Anthropology and Geography and direct the Quaternary Isotope Paleoecology Lab. My research is focused on human adaptation and resilience to climate change and natural resource unpredictability in prehistory, and how our understanding of past human response to environmental change informs current thinking about these issues. I combine archaeology and biogeochemistry to investigate changes in diet, mobility, and…


Don Nelson

I didn’t always plan to be an anthropologist. However, during an undergrad anthropology course I realized that the field of anthropology would provide an excellent arena to pursue my innate curiosity about the diversity of people and their interactions with each other and their environments. My goal as an anthropologist is to pursue research that is intellectually challenging and that enhances our abilities to resolve complex social and…


Ted Gragson

My research over the last 20 years has centered on the origin and practice of agropastoralism in the Pyrenees Mountains and Iberian Systems of continental Europe. I am particularly interested in the pivotal role played by agropastoralism in the social, political, economic and religious transformations in the Franco-Iberian region during the last 2,000 years. I seldom work alone and my collaborations are designed to integrate geomorphic…


LAURA A. GERMAN, PH.D.

I am a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Integrative Conservation Research at the University of Georgia. I am an interdisciplinary scholar with a broad interest in how more-than-human futures are made through land and environmental governance ideas and practices.  My current research has several current threads. The first is a focus on how customary land in Africa is being re-made and re-purposed…


J. Peter Brosius

Much of my research has been engaged with issues related to the political ecology of environmental degradation, indigenous rights, and conservation in Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo). My research in Sarawak initially focused on the international rainforest campaign centered on Penan hunter-gatherers, and I continue to be involved in efforts to seek acknowledgement of Penan land claims in oil palm plantations and national parks. From 2004-2010 I…


Jennifer Birch

The major impacts of my research have been developing approaches for understanding organizational complexity and diversity in Indigenous Pre-Columbian eastern North America and in non-state societies globally. My work as an archaeologist is inherently comparative and multi-scalar and has evolved from the study of settlement aggregation in eastern North America to the development of theories, models, and approaches that productively interrogate…
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