FACULTY
Department of Anthropology
Professors
Associate Professors
Assistant Professors
Research & Adjunct
Professors and Instructors
Professors Emeriti
PROFESSORS
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Drucilla Barker, Director of the Women's Studies Program and Professor of Women's Studies

(PhD University of Illinois 1988; Prof) Feminist Political Economy, Gender and Globalization, Feminist Methodology, and International Political Economy
Email: barkerdk@gwm.sc.edu
Flinn Hall 201, 777-4007
Charles Cobb, Director of South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA)

(PhD Southern Illinois U Carondale 1988; Prof) Archaeology, political
economy, colonialism, lithic technology; southeastern North America
Email: cobbcr@gwm.sc.edu
1321 Pendleton St., SC Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA),
777-8170, ext. 30
Karl Heider
(Ph.D., Harvard 1966; Prof) Cultural, psychological, emotions, visual anthropology,
ethnographic film, fiction film, nonverbal behavior; Oceania, Indonesia (Irian Jaya,
Sumatra).
Email: Heiderk@gwm.sc.edu
Hamilton 312, 777-5130
Alice Kasakoff

(PhD Harvard 1970; Prof) Social organization, demography, endogamy, migration,
history and
anthropology; North American Indians.
Email: Kasakoff@gwm.sc.edu
Hamilton 301, 777-6979
Thomas Leatherman, Chair
(PhD U Massachusetts Amherst 1987; Prof) Biological anthropology, human adaptability,
political ecology, health and nutrition, Latin America.
Email: Leatherman@sc.edu
Hamilton 317B, 777-7261
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
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Joanna Casey, Graduate Director
(PhD U Toronto 1993; Assoc. Prof) Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, Lithics, Early
Farming Communities, and West Africa.
Email: jlc@sc.edu
Hamilton 319, 777-6700
Kenneth Kelly, Undergraduate Director
(Ph.D., UCLA 1995; Assoc. Prof) Archaeology, historical archaeology, culture change,
African diaspora; West Africa, Caribbean.
Email: KGKelly1@gwm.sc.edu
Hamilton 200B, 777-2616
Ann Kingsolver
(PhD Massachusetts, Amherst 1991; Assoc. Prof) Theory and practice, development
discourses,
work, representations of places, transnational policy; US. Latin America.
Email: aekingso@gwm.sc.edu
Hamilton 314, 777-5927
Gail Wagner
(PhD Washington, St. Louis 1987; Assoc. Prof) Archaeology, paleoethnobotany,
ethnobotany, archaeological methods.
Email: Gail.wagner@sc.edu
Hamilton 300, 777-6548
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ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
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Laura Cahue
(Ph.D. Michigan State U, 2000; Asst. Prof) Bioarchaeology, biocultural models, social
complexity and health, paleodiet reconstruction, stable isotope geochemistry,
political ecology of Highland Lake environments, Mesoamerica, West Mexico, Latin
America
Email: Cahue@gwm.sc.edu
Hamilton 314, 777-2957
Janina Fenigsen
(Ph.D. Brandeis U, 2000; Asst. Prof) Lingusitic Anthropology, anthropology of social
and cultural theory, Caribbean studies; Caribbean; Political economy of language,
linguistic ideologies, gender and emotion, politics of representation, postcolonial
selves,creole languages, plantation societies, Caribbean art and belief systems
Email: Fenigsen@gwm.sc.edu
Hamilton 307, 777-6941
Maimuna Huq

(PhD Columbia U, 2006; Asst. Prof., joining department in Fall 2007) Muslim societies; subjectivity and culture; Islam and religio-political movements; religion and gender; Bangladesh; South Asia and the Middle East.
Email: huqm@gwm.sc.edu
Hamilton 202, 777-1518
Marc Moskowitz

(PhD University of California, San Diego; Asst. Prof., joining department in Fall 2007) China Studies, Religion, Gender and Popular Culture
Email: moskowit@gwm.sc.edu
Hamilton 209, 777-1536
Jennifer Reynolds
(PhD U of California - Los Angeles, 2002, Asst. Prof) Linguistic anthropology,
Anthropology/Sociology of Childhood, Latin America/Latino Studies, Maya Studies.
Language Socialization, Linguistic ideologies, Political Economy of Languages,
Language revitalization, Narrative, Indigenous social movements, the Politics of
culture and representation/translation, Transnational immigrant networks, Verbal art
as
performance.
Email: jenreyn@sc.edu
Hamilton 305, 777-2392
David Simmons
Dual Postion with Anthropology and Public Health
(PhD Michigan State U, 2002; Asst. Prof) International Public Health, HIV/AIDS,
Health and Human Rights, Cultural Issues of Development, Religion and Social
Transformation, Social Impact Analysis, Discourse on Identity, African Vernacular
Medicine, West and Southern Africa,
Caribbean.
Email: dsimmons@gwm.sc.edu
Hamilton 311, 777-2321
Kimberly Simmons
Dual Position with Anthropology and African American Studies
(Ph.D Michigan State U, 2002; Asst. Prof.) Social Race, ethnicity, gender, migration,
and identity formation in the African Diaspora. Geographical Areas inlcude the
Dominican Republic (in particular), Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United
States.
Email: ksimmons@sc.edu
Hamilton 313, 777-9898
Terrance Weik
(Ph.D. U of Florida, 2002; Asst. Prof) Archaeology, historical archaeology, African
diaspora, maroon settlements, Southeastern USA, Latin America
Email: weik@gwm.sc.edu
Hamilton 309, 777-6789
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RESEARCH, ADJUNCT & VISITING
PROFESSORS AND INSTRUCTORS
RESEARCH PROFESSORS:
Daniel Buxhoeveden
Email:BUXHOEVE@gwm.sc.edu
Hamilton 308, 777-4460
Christopher Toumey
Email: Toumey@gwm.sc.edu
Sumwalt 103, 777-2221
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR:
Mark Whitaker
Email:markw@usca.edu
VISITING PROFESSOR:
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Francisco D. Gurri
(Ph.D. Indiana University 1997),
Biological Anthropology, Adaptability, Human Ecology, Growth and Development, Nutrition, Southern Mexico, Agricultural populations, Seasonality, Energy Balance, Hazards and Sustainability.
Email:gurrif@gwm.sc.edu
Hamilton 203, 777-3200
INSTRUCTORS:
Audrey Dawson
Email:auggie_doo@yahoo.comu
Chris Judge
Email: judgec@gwm.sc.edu
Adam King
Email: aking@sc.edu
Jonathan Leader
Email: Leader@sc.edu
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PROFESSORS EMERITI
John W. Adams
Personal Web
Page
(PhD Harvard 1970; Distinguished Professor Emeritus) Social anthropology,
myth, art, ritual, political economy,
migration, history and anthropology; Northwest Coast.
Email: JWAdams0@gwm.sc.edu
777-6500
Leland Ferguson
Personal Web
Page
(PhD U N Carolina Chapel Hill 1971; Distinguished Professor Emeritus)
Historical archaeology, African and Native
Americans, complex society
Email: lelandferguson@aol.com
777-6500
Morgan Maclachlan
(PhD Stanford 1971; Distinguished Professor Emeritus) Economic anthropology,
sex roles;
India.
E-mail: drmorganmac@bellsouth.net
Hamilton 111, 777-2169
Ted Rathbun
Personal Web Page
(PhD U Kansas 1971; Distinguished Professor Emeritus) Physical anthropology,
osteology, forensic identification, paleopathology; Iran, Iraq, South Carolina.
Email: Rathbunt@gwm.sc.edu
Hamilton 111, 777-2169 or 777-6500
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