Department Faculty
Chair of the Anthropology Department • Professor
Cultural and environmental anthropology, development and social movements, knowledge, science and technology, cultures of mobility, tourism, ethnographic methods; Latin America.
luis.vivanco@uvm.edu (802) 656-1184Lecturer
Biological anthropology, primatology, locomotion, palynology.
kbailey5@uvm.edu (802) 656-5058Associate Professor
Archaeology, osteology, ethnicity, body adornment, social complexity; Andean South America.
deborah.blom@uvm.edu (802) 656-2932Lecturer
Critical Language Policy, Existentialism, Indigeneity, Site Ontology, Non-Representational Theory, Geopolitics, Social Theory, Radicalism
Thomas.Brasdefer@uvm.edu (802) 656-3884Assistant Professor • Co-Director, Digital Anthropology Laboratory
Landscape and environmental archaeology; Hunter-gatherers; GIS and geospatial modeling; Paleoenvironment/Paleoclimate; Ancient Mesoamerica; European Mesolithic
marieka.brouwer-burg@uvm.edu (802) 656-0837Associate Professor • Director of Consulting Archaeology Program
Archaeology of eastern North America; archaeology of the Circum-Caribbean; heritage management
john.crock@uvm.edu (802) 656-4310Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Student Success • Associate Professor
Linguistic anthropology; material culture and museum anthropology; economic anthropology; Sign Languages; advertising and media; Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Transcarpathia.
jennifer.dickinson@uvm.edu (802) 656-0903Vice President for Research and Economic Development • Professor of Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology, health disparities, substance abuse, public health, religion, politics, native rights, community-engaged research and interdisciplinary methods integrating social, health, and computer sciences. North America and Native Alaska.
Kirk.Dombrowski@uvm.edu (802) 656-2918Assistant Professor
Migration and displacement, war and conflict, uprisings and social movements, ethics, gender, inequality and poverty, human rights and humanitarianism, borderland and the Middle East
foroogh.farhang@uvm.eduResearch Assistant Professor
Archaeology, Biochemistry. Historical Ecology, Forensic Anthropology, Participatory Archaeology, Cultural Resources Management, and Regulatory Archaeology. Mobility, and dietary reconstructions through stable isotope analysis.
Jorge.Garcia@uvm.edu (802) 656-4310Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Psychological and Medical Anthropology, Global Mental Health, Ethnographic Methods, Social Determinants of Health, Migration and Health, Moral Experience, Social Justice and Health Equity, Religious Healing, US - México Border Zone
Ellen.Kozelka@uvm.eduAssociate Professor
Latino/a migration in the United States, food security, sustainable food systems, and food movements.
teresa.mares@uvm.edu (802) 656-5706Henderson Harris Fellow Anthropology
Anthropologies of Media, Race, and Gender; Colorblindness, Post-racialism, and Afrofuturism discourses; Black Feminism; Media Production and Distribution; Gender and Sexuality; Body and Embodiment; Cultural Studies
marlaina.martin@uvm.eduAssociate Professor
Sociocultural anthropology; medical and psychological anthropology; cultural aspects of health, healing, and health care; global health; aging societies and social change; aging in family and community context, productive aging, caregiving; research design and methods; China, North America.
jeanne.shea@uvm.edu (802) 656-3181Associate Professor
North American archaeology; ancient societies of the US Southwest; ceramic decoration and technology; materiality; ritual; preservation archaeology.
svankeur@uvm.edu (802) 656-5058Emeritus Faculty
Professor, Emeriti
Cultural Anthropology, former African hunter-gatherers, Colonialism, Law, Disorder, Social Justice, Southern Africa, Papua New Guinea
Professor Emeritus
Archaeology, Ethnography, Ethnohistory and Physical Anthropology
Associate Professor Emerita (1942-2022)
Cultural Anthropology, Gender, marriage, and feminist anthropology. Museum anthropology. Holocaust Studies. Middle East.
Associate Professor Emerita (1930-2003)
Archaeology, Mississippian societies in U.S. Midwest, Vermont/Abenaki archaeology
Affiliates and Visiting Scholars
Francis "Jess" Robinson
Lecturer -Vermont's State Archaeologist
Vermont's Precontact and Historic Past; Ritual and Ceremony; Long-Distance Interaction and Exchange; Ritual Economy; Mortuary Studies; Hunter-Gatherer Studies; the far Northeast.
francis.robinson@uvm.edu