Department of Anthropology

Anthropology Faculty

Jamie L. Clark. Assistant Professor; PhD (anthropology) University of Michigan. Zooarchaeology. South Africa.

David V. Fazzino. Visiting Assistant Professor; PhD (anthropology)/JD, University of Florida, 2008. Food security and sustainibility, globalization.
Phone: 907-474-6188
E-mail: dvfazzino @ alaska.edu

Kara C. Hoover. Assistant Professor (Anthropology) and Affiliate Faculty (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology); PhD (anthropology) Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2001. Evolutionary genetics & biology of olfaction, population biology, systemic developmental stress.
Phone: 907-474-6110
E-mail: kara.hoover @ alaska.edu

Joel D. Irish, Department Chair and Professor, Curator of Biological Anthropology at the UA Museum; PhD (biological anthropology), Arizona State University, 1993. Dental anthropology, paleopathology, human osteology, human variation, bioarchaeology; Africa, Southeast Alaska.
Phone: 907-474-6755
E-mail: jdirish @ alaska.edu

David C. Koester, Associate Professor; PhD (anthropology) University of Chicago, 1990. Culture and history, historical and national/ethnic consciousness; anthropological study of children; history of ethnography; Iceland, Russian Far East, circumpolar.
Phone: 907-474-7133
E-mail: dckoester @ alaska.edu

Patrick Plattet, Assistant Professor; PhD (anthropology), University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland), Practical School of Higher Studies (Paris/Sorbonne, France), 2005. Religious anthropology, Modes of ritualization, Hunting/herding/fishing practices and ideologies, Ritual efficacy, Sacrifice, Symbolic and cognitive anthropology, Ethnography, Russian Far East, Central & Eastern Europe
E-mail: pplattet @ alaska.edu

Ben A. Potter , Associate Professor; PhD (anthropology), University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2005. Subarctic and Arctic archaeology, site structure and organization, intersite variability, world prehistory.
Phone: 907-474-7567
Email: bapotter @ alaska.edu

Peter P. Schweitzer, Professor; PhD (anthropology), University of Vienna, 1990. Kinship, Social Organization and Identity Politics; Global Climate Change and Northern Indigenous Communities; Contemporary Hunting and Gathering Societies; History of Anthropological Theory; Methods of Historical Anthropology; Siberia, Alaska, Circumpolar North
Phone: 907-474-5015
E-mail: ppschweitzer @ alaska.edu

Mark A. Sicoli Assistant Professor; PhD (anthropology and linguistics), University of Michigan, 2007. MA (Native American linguistics), University of Pittsburgh 1999. Linguistic anthropology,
multimodal interaction, prosody, ethnopoetics, semiotics, language variation and linguistic change; Mesoamerica, Zapotecan; Alaska, Athabascan.
Phone: 907-474-6884
E-mail: msicoli @ alaska.edu

Post-doctoral Researchers

Tobias Holzlehner, PhD (Anthropology), University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2006. Circumpolar North, Russia, Borderscapes, Migration, Cultural Change, Informal Networks, Social Network Analysis

Amber Lincoln, PhD (Anthropology), University of Aberdeen, 2011. Northern anthropology, ethnohistory, material culture, and phenomenology

Sveta Yamin-Pasternak, PhD (Anthropology), University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2007. Foodways, post-Soviet studies, Alaskan ethnography, anthropology and contemporary art

Affiliated Faculty

Nancy Bigelow, Affiliate Research Professor; PhD (paleoecology) University of Alaska Fairbanks,1997. Research Associate, Alaska Quaternary Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Quaternary paleoecology, palynology, Beringian environments.
Phone: 907-474-5433
Email: ffnhb @ uaf.edu

Courtney Carothers, Assistant Professor of Fisheries; Ph.D. (anthropology) University of Washington, 2008. Environmental anthropology, political ecology, marine policy, fishing communities.
Office: 207B O’Neill
Phone 474-5329
Email: carothers @ sfos.uaf.edu

Patty A. Gray, Affiliate Associate Professor; PhD (cultural anthropology), University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1998. Political and economic anthropology, social movements, transformation in post-Soviet rural communities, reindeer herding systems; rural European Russia, Russian Far North, Alaska.

Charles E. Holmes, Affiliate Research Professor; Ph.D. (anthropology) Washington State University, 1984. Beringian archaeology, Subarctic cultural adaptations, Athabascan archaeology, lithic analysis. Email: charles.holmes @ alaska.edu

Michael Koskey, Assistant Professor of Alaska Native Studies, Ph.D. (anthropology) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2003.
Office: 307 Brooks Bldg., Phone: 474-6604;
E-mail: mike.koskey @ alaska.edu

Robin O. Mills, Affiliate Assistant Professor; PhD (anthropology), University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1998. Fairbanks District Archaeologist, Bureau of Land Management. Historical archaeology, mining history, cultural resource management.

Richard Nelson, Affiliate Research Professor; PhD (anthropology), University of California, Santa Barbara. Indigenous cultures of Alaska, author and natural historian.

Diane O’Brien, Assistant Professor, Institute for Arctic Biology/Department of Biology and Wildlife. PhD (ecology and evolutionary biology), Princeton University, 1998. Stable isotope ecology, nutritional physiology of insects; understanding patterns of stable isotope variation among biological compounds.
Phone: 907-474-5762
Email: ffdo @ uaf.edu

Rosemarie Plaetke, Affiliate Associate Professor; PhD (statistical genetics), Free University Berlin, Germany 1986. Human genetics - focus on type 2 diabetes and complications, genetic epidemiology - focus on statistics and bioinformatics , genetics of behavior - focus on development of phenotypes for genetic studies, biostatistics.
Phone: 907-750-5375
Email: rplaetke @ alaska.edu

Kerrie-Ann Shannon, Affiliate Professor; PhD (anthropology), University of Aberdeen, Northern anthropology.

William Schneider, Emeritus Professor of Library Science; Ph.D. (anthropology) Bryn Mawr College, 1976.
Phone: 907-474-5355
Email: ffwss @ uaf.edu

Anne D. Shinkwin, Affiliate Professor; PhD (anthropology), University of Wisconsin, 1975. Northern anthropology.

Adjunct Faculty

Emeritus Faculty

Staff

Charu Uppal, Administrative Assistant
Phone: 907-474-7009
E-mail: cuppal@alaska.edu

Brian Green, Student Assistant
Phone: 907-474-7288
E-mail: uaf-anthropology-dept@alaska.edu