Emeritus Faculty

Jeanne E. Arnold

Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology

I am an archaeologist interested in the evolution of political complexity in ancient western North America.

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Areas of Interest:

Archaeological theory; complex hunter-gatherers; craft specialization; political evolution; exchange systems; modern material culture; ethnoarchaeology; prehistory and early contact; California and British Columbia

Robert L. Brown

Professor, Department of Art History

Areas of Interest:

India and Southeast Asia

Giorgio Buccellati

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Areas of Interest:

Institutional history; history of religion; historiography; linguistics; archaeology

Elizabeth F. Carter

Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC)

Areas of Interest:

Near East, currently working in Turkey and southeastern Turkey; Bronze Age urban sites

Christopher Donnan

Department of Anthropology

Areas of Interest:

South American archaeology; iconography; ancient technology; the Moche people

Robert K. Englund

Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC)

Areas of Interest:

Assyriology and Sumerology

Diane Favro

Professor Emerita, Department of Architecture and Urban Design

Areas of Interest:

Architectural history

Gail Kennedy

Department of Anthropology

Areas of Interest:

Biological anthropology, Human evolution, Bioarchaeology, Evolutionary theory, Anthropological forensics, Paleopathology, Africa

Cecilia F. Klein

Department of Art History

Areas of Interest:

Aztec art, ideology and politics, Gender rhetoric in Aztec art, Historiography of “Primitive” and Pre-Columbian Art, Early colonial Mexican art

Merrick Posnansky

Department of Anthropology; Department of History

Areas of Interest:

The archaeology of state formation and urban growth in Ghana and Togo; archaeology of the African Diaspora; cultural conservation and archaeological education in tropical Africa; postage stamps and national cultural policy

Dwight Read

Department of Anthropology

Areas of Interest:

Mathematical anthropology, kinship terminology, theory of social organization, hominid evolution, archaeological classification

David A. Scott

Professor Emeritus, Department of Art History; Conservation Program

Areas of Interest:

Analysis of museum objects, the characterization of pigments, ancient metals and microstructure, the teaching of conservation, and the archaeometallurgy of preHispanic Colombia and Ecuador

Charles Stanish

Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology

Areas of Interest:

Andean anthropology; settlement archaeology; evolution of social complexity

Dell Upton

Professor, Department of Art History

Areas of Interest:

Dell Upton studies the history of architecture, cities, and material culture.