Anthropology Department Faculty

Amaral, Adela
Assistant Professor
Office: Washington Hall 116
Email: [[alamaral]]
Areas of Specialization: Historical anthropology, archaeology of the contemporary, material ethnography, Spanish colonialism, the colonial present, racialization, fugitivity, (colonial) political ecology, art/archaeology, Mexico

Blakey, Michael
National Endowment for the Humanities Professor
Office: Washington Hall 112
Phone: 757-221-7681
Email: [[mlblak]]
Areas of Specialization: Biological anthropology, biohistory, bioarchaeology; history and philosophy of science; White supremacy in science and society; publicly engaged archaeology; North America, African diaspora.

Brown, Marley
Research Professor
Email: [[mrbro1]]
Areas of Specialization: Historical archaeology; North America and the Atlantic islands

Dicenta, Mara
Assistant Professor
Office: Washington Hall 114
Email: [[mdicentavilker]]
Website: www.afternatures.com
Areas of Specialization: Science & Technology Studies; Environmental Knowledges; Conservation; Race and Racialization; Multispecies ethnography; Feminist Epistemologies; Settler colonialism; Southern Cone

Fisher, William
Associate Professor
Office: Washington Hall 123
Phone: 757-221-1068
Email: [[whfish]]
Areas of Specialization: Social organization, indigenous Amazon, political economy and history of Amazonia, ethnoecology; Brazil

Gallivan, Martin
Professor
Office: Washington Hall 104
Phone: 757-221-3622
Email: [[mdgall]]
Areas of Specialization: Archaeology; American Indians; Colonial Encounters; Landscape and Spatiality; Cartography; Politics of Heritage; Quantitative Research Methods; Ceramic Analysis

Glasser, Jonathan
Associate Professor, and Director of the Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Program (2024-2025)
Office: Washington Hall 122
Phone: 757-221-1058
Email: [[jglasser]]
Areas of specialization: History of anthropological theory; music and poetics; exchange and patrimony; Muslim-Jewish relations; language ideology; comparative colonialism; North Africa and the Middle East

Harvey, Megan
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Office: Washington Hall 117
Email: [[maharvey01]]
Areas of Specialization: Linguistic Anthropology; Language Revitalization

Horning, Audrey
Chair, and Forrest D. Murden Professor
Office: Washington Hall Room 107a
Email: [[w|ajhorn]]
Phone: 757-221-1062
Areas of Specialization: Historical Archaeology; Atlantic World; Comparative Colonialism; Ireland; Chesapeake; Archaeological Ethics; Heritage and Conflict Transformation.

Jones, Joseph
Associate Teaching Professor
Office: Washington Hall Rm 118
Phone: 757-221-1064
Email: [[jljones01]]
Areas of Specialization: Publicly engaged anthropology; skeletal biology w/focus on African diaspora biohistory and health; trace element and stable isotope analysis; histories of race and scientific racism

Kahn, Jennifer
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies: Anthropology
Office: Rm 125 Washington Hall
Phone: 757-221-1054
E-mail: [[jgkahn01]]
Areas of Specialization: Archaeology; Oceania; Household Archaeology; House Societies; Social Complexity; Monumental Architecture and Ideology; Human-Landscape Interactions; Exchange and Geochemistry; Lithic Analysis; Chronometric Techniques

Lelièvre, Michelle
Associate Professor
Office: Room 201b Washington Hall and Samuel E Jones House Room 216
Phone: 757-221-1957
E-mail: [[malelievre]]
Areas of specialization: Mobility; Indigenous sovereignty; Political subjectivity; Socio-cultural theory; Space, place and landscape; Northeastern North America; Decolonizing pedagogies and collaborative research methods; Heritage and museum studies; History of anthropology and archaeology; Oral history

McCuistion, Ashley
Adjunct Lecturer
Email: asmccuistion@wm.edu
Areas of Specialization: Historical Archaeology; Colonial America; Archaeology of Childhood; Public Archaeology; Digital Documentation Methods

McEnroe, Katherine
Adjunct Lecturer
Email: klmcenroe@wm.edu
Areas of Specialization: Conservation; Metals Conservation; Glass and Ceramics Conservation; Archaeological Conservation; Health and Safety for Conservators and Museum Professionals

Moretti-Langholtz, Danielle
Teaching Professor
Office: Washington Hall 105
Phone: 757-221-1112
Email: [[dmoret]]
Areas of Specialization: Cultural anthropology, American Indians, museology, life history; North America

Norman, Neil
Associate Professor
Office: Washington Hall 102a
Office Phone: 757-221-1960
Email: [[nlnorman]]
Areas of Specialization: African Archaeology, Archaeology of the African Diaspora, Hand-Built Low-Fired Ceramic Analysis, Urbanism, Archaeological Survey, Monumental Ditches, Archaeology of Emotions, Landscape Archaeology

Palencia Frener, Sergio
Assistant Professor
Office: Washington Hall 119
Phone: 757-221-5834
Email: [[sergio.palenciaf]]
Areas of Specialization: Historical and Visual anthropology; Critical Theory; Indigenous memories of the Cold War; Caste, ground-rent, and state formation in Latin America; Mesoamerican studies; Revolution and Genocide in 20th century Latin America.

Weiss, Brad
Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies: Anthropology
Office: Washington Hall 121
Phone: 757-221-1209
Email: [[blweis]]
Areas of specialization: Africa; The Anthropology of Food; The Body; Space, place, and locality; Urban transformation; Popular Culture; Socio-cultural theory; Theories of Value; Ritual and Religious Practice

Woodard, Buck
Assistant Professor
Office: Washington Hall 109
Phone: 757-221-4915
Email: [[bwwood]]
Areas of Specialization: Cultural and historical anthropology; Indigenous/Native Studies; kinship; material culture; cosmology & ritual life; political economy

Wright, Andrea
Class of 1952 Distinguished Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Office: Washington Hall Room 120
Appointments and office hours may be booked online: {{ https://andreawright.youcanbook.me/}} (On Leave AY 2024-2025)
Email: [[w|agwright]]
Research Interests: : Cultural anthropology, anthro-history, energy production, labor, migration, security, kinship, rights, South Asia, the Arabian Peninsula