Anthropology Faculty
Jamie L. Clark. Assistant Professor; PhD (anthropology) University of Michigan. Zooarchaeology. South Africa. Starting Fall 2012.
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
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
Julie Esdale, ABD (anthropology), Brown University. Arctic archaeology, geoarchaeology, and lithic analysis.
Carrin Halfman, PhD (anthropology), University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2009. Biological anthropology, stable isotope analysis.
Nicole Dufour, PhD student (anthropology), University of Alaska Fairbanks, linguistic anthropology.
Howard Maxwell, MA (anthropology), University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1987. Instructor, Rural Alaska Honors Institute, UAF.
Howard Smith, MA (anthropology), University of Utah, 1975. Field Office Archaeologist (retired), Bureau of Land Management. Cultural resource management, Arctic and northwest Alaska, Alaska mining history.
Joshua D. Reuther, ABD (anthropology), University of Arizona. Geoarchaeology, radiometric dating, archaeometry.
Emeritus Faculty
Charlotte Basham, Associate Professor; PhD (linguistics), University of Michigan, 1986. Discourse analysis, second language acquisition, and contrastive rhetoric.
Phone: 907-474-6884
E-mail: ffcsb @ uaf.edu
Patricia B. Kwachka, Professor; PhD (linguistics), University of Florida Gainesville, 1981. Sociolinguistics, language acquisition, language shift, and medical communication. (Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts.)
Phone: 907-474-6610
E-mail: ffpbk @ uaf.edu
Molly Lee, Professor, Curator of Ethnology at the UA Museum; PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 1992. Sociocultural anthropology, Native Alaskan, Eskimo and Inuit art of the historical and contemporary periods.
Phone: 907-474-7828
E-mail: ffmcl @ uaf.edu
Phyllis Morrow (Former Dean of the College of Liberal Arts), Professor; PhD (social and cultural anthropology), Cornell University, 1987. Linguistic anthropology, socio-legal studies, folklore, Inuit/Yup'ik ethnography, and ritual and symbolism.
Staff
Charu Uppal, Administrative Assistant
Phone: 907-474-7009
E-mail: cuppal@alaska.edu
Student Assistant, Brian Green
Phone: 907-474-7288
E-mail: uaf-anthropology-dept@alaska.edu