Department of Anthropology

Anthropology Faculty

Jamie L. Clark. Assistant Professor; PhD (Anthropology) University of Michigan, 2009. Paleolithic archaeology, modern human origins, hunter-gatherer lifeways, zooarchaeology. Southern Africa and the Near East.
Office: 312 Bunnell
Phone: 907-474-5911

E-mail: jlclark7 @ alaska.edu

David V. Fazzino. Term Assistant Professor, 2012-2014; PhD (anthropology)/JD, University of Florida, 2008. Food security and sustainibility, globalization.
Office: 307B Bunnell

Phone: 907-474-6188
E-mail: dvfazzino @ alaska.edu

Brian Hemphill. Associate Professor; PhD (anthropology), University of Oregon, 1991. Dental Morphology, Odontometrics, Dental Pathology, Skeletal Biology, Biological Distance Analysis, Bioarchaeology, Human Evolution, South Asia, Central Asia, Great Basin, Northwest Coast
Office: 401 Bunnell

Phone: 907-474-TBA

Email: bhemphill @ alaska.edu

Kara C. Hoover. Associate Professor (Anthropology) and Affiliate Faculty (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology); PhD (anthropology) Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2001. Evolutionary genetics & biology of olfaction, paleo-population biology, bioarchaeology (diet, nutrition, developmental stress), hunter-gatherers, Jomon Japan, Eurasia.
Office:402A Bunnell
Phone: 907-474-6110
E-mail: kara.hoover @ alaska.edu

David C. Koester. Department Chair and 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
Office: 305B Bunnell
Phone: 907-474-
E-mail: pplattet @ alaska.edu

Ben A. Potter. Associate Professor; PhD (anthropology), University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2005. Subarctic and Arctic archaeology; intersite variability; site structure and organization; human-environment interactions; field survey and excavation; cultural resource management; lithic and faunal analyses; geographic information systems.
Office: 308 Bunnell
Phone: 907-474-7567
Email: bapotter @ alaska.edu

Joshua D. Reuther. Assistant Professor, Curator of Archaeology, University of Alaska Museum of the North; PhD (anthropology), University of Arizona, 2013. Subarctic and arctic archaeology; geoarchaeology; geochronology; hunter-gatherer ecology; archaeological science; museum studies; cultural resources management.
Office: 042 Museum of the North
Phone: 907-474-6945
Email: jreuther @ alaska.edu

Robin A. Shoaps. Assistant Professor; PhD (linguistics), University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004. Linguistic anthropology, anthropology of Christianity, discourse analysis, self and subjectivity, ethnography of moralities, indigenous languages and cultures; Mesoamerica and the United States.
Office: 307D Bunnell
Phone: 907-474-6884
E-mail: rashoaps @ 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

Brian Green, Administrative Assistant
Phone: 907-474-7009
E-mail: bmgreen@alaska.edu

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