Dr. Linda A. Bennett
Professor and Associate Dean, CAS
lbennett@memphis.edu
(901) 678-3371

Alcohol and drug use and abuse in cultural context; family, neighborhoods, and rituals; ethic identity; trends in applied and practicing anthropology; European ethnic groups in the US; culture change in former Yugoslavia (especially Croatia). 

Dr. Keri Brondo
Assistant Professor
kbrondo@memphis.edu
(901) 678-3289

Applied anthropology; gender, development, and indigenous land rights; tourism and natural resource management; women, work and economic justice; consumerism and environmental sustainability; applied qualitative methods; participatory action research; Central America, US.

Dr. Robert P. Connolly
Director, CH Nash Museum at Chucalissa

rcnnolly@memphis.edu
(901) 678-3331

Museum studies; applied archaeology; research methods; Native American cultures of the Eastern Woodlands from 2000 B.C. to the present; New World prehistoric monumental architecture.

Dr. Michael Duke
Assistant Professor
mrduke2@memphis.edu
(901) 678-2467

Gender and masculinity; labor; Latin American and Caribbean populations; mental health; migration; research methods; sexual risk; social movements; substance abuse; social theory.

Dr. Ruthbeth D. Finerman
Professor and Department Chair
finerman@memphis.edu
(901) 678-3334

Applied medical anthropology; family health and caregiving, human sexuality and childbirth; ethnomedicine; mental health; international health services delivery and barriers to care among immigrant, refugee, and economically disadvantaged populations; indigenous and peasant populations in South and Central America.

Dr. Kathryn A. Hicks
Assistant Professor
kahicks2@memphis.edu                                        (901) 678-5472

Biological anthropology; environmental injustice; health inequalities; political economy; urban anthropology; Andes, US.

Dr. Stanley E. Hyland
Professor and School Head, SUAPP
shyland@memphis.edu
(901) 678-1445

Community building; grassroots economic activities; housing; neighborhood revitalization; new urbanism; evaluation; philanthropy; voluntary associations; and policy.

Dr. A. Katherine Lambert-Pennington
Assistant Professor
k.lambert-pennington@memphis.edu                  (901) 678-3328

Urban anthropology, identity production, race and social inequality, culture change, human rights, post-colonialism, the state, community development, housing and home ownership, qualitative fieldmethods; Indigenous Australia, US.

 
Dr. Ross D. Sackett
Instructor
rsackett@memphis.edu
(901) 678-1424

Ecological anthropology; environment and adaptive strategies; household economics; ecology and nutrition; South American Ethnography and World Ethnography; Latin America with special emphasis on the Andes and Amazonia; global cross-cultural and cultural-historical comparison.

Ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological research in the Mid-South; iconography and warfare in the Southeast; analysis of artifacts, collections.

Landscape archaeology, GIS applied to ancient patterns of land use.

Dr. Cynthia Sadler

(Dept. of African American Studies)

csadler@memphis.edu

Political economy; cultural theory; community development; educational anthropology; labor history; technology and labor.

Anthropological theory/analysis; math concepts in archaeology; cultural resource management; North America.

Dr. Charles Williams, Jr.
cwilliams@memphis.edu
(901) 678-0847/3333