Faculty & Staff
Faculty
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Dr. Keri Brondo Professor, Associate Dean kbrondo@memphis.edu Environmental Anthropology, Gender & Development, Indigenous Rights, Conservation & Protected Areas, Central America |
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Dr. Lindsey Feldman Associate Professor lrfldman@memphis.edu Cultural criminology, masculinity, identity, justice studies, intersectional race and gender studies, anthropology of emotions, ethnography of prison, critical social theory |
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John M. Gilmore Associate Professor of Teaching/Online Coordinator jmgilmor@memphis.edu Urban Anthropology, community development, leadership, religion, African and African-American Studies, and HIV/AIDS |
Online students: set up an advising appointment. |
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Dr. Kathryn Hicks Department Chair/Associate Professor kahicks2@memphis.edu Biological Anthropology, Political Economy, Developmental Systems Theory, Environmental Justice, Health Inequality, Andes, US |
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Dr. Katherine Lambert-Pennington Associate Professor, Director of School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy almbrtpn@memphis.edu Race and social inequality, social movements, identity production, community development, food justice, alternative food networks, participatory action research, community-university partnerships, US, Australia, Italy |
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Kenneth S. Latta Associate Professor of Teaching / Undergraduate Advisor kslatta@memphis.edu Urban anthropology, community development, community organizing, social capital, social network mapping, food systems, urban agriculture, Memphis and the Midsouth. |
Set up an advising appointment. |
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Dr. Ted Maclin Associate Professor of Teaching emaclin1@memphis.edu Politics of knowledge; science, technology, and society; political ecology; climate change; organizational and institutional ethnography |
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Dr. Erin Mellett
Assistant Professor |
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Dr. Michael Perez Associate Professor/ Graduate Studies Coordinator mvperez@memphis.edu Migration and displacement, ethnicity and nationalism, memory, violence, human rights, Muslim societies and Islam |
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Dr. William Robertson Assistant Professor W.Robertson@memphis.edu Medical anthropology; LGBTQ+ health disparities and equity; anthropology of care; queer and trans anthropology; the body and embodiment; risk; conceptualizations and practices of biomedical research, education, and expertise; clinical ethnography; social science of human papillomavirus (HPV); science and technology studies |
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Dr. Micah Trapp Associate Professor mmtrapp@memphis.edu Food Systems; Taste; Food Entitlements and Humanitarian Aid; Economic Anthropology; Refugees and Migration; Ethnographic Methods; West Africa and US |
Faculty Affiliates
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Dr. Amanda Gaggioli Assistant Professor gaggioli@memphis.edu Department of History |
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Dr. Sage Graham Associate Professor sgraham2@memphis.edu Department of English; Applied Linguistics |
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Dr. Laurel Hackley Assistant Professor of Practice ldhckley@memphis.edu Department of Art and Design |
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Dr. Satish Kedia Associate Dean, Administration & Faculty Affairs, Interim Director and Professor, Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences skkedia@memphis.edu School of Public Health |
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Dr. Anthony J. Lauricella Manager jlrcella@memphis.edu CH Nash Museum at Chucalissa |
Anthropologists in Other Departments
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Dr. David Dye |
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Dr. Andrew Mickelson Department of Earth Sciences amicklsn@memphis.edu |
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Dr. Ryan Parish Department of Earth Sciences rmparish@memphis.edu |
Professors Emeriti
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Dr. Linda Bennett |
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Dr. Ruthbeth Finerman |
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Dr. Stanley Hyland |
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Dr. Ross Sackett |
Part-Time Instructors
Jenessa Mae Spears
j.m.spears@memphis.edu
901.678.2080
Michele Safa
msafa@memphis.edu
(901) 678-2080
Megan Wilkinson
mrwlkns2@memphis.edu
(901) 678-2080
Staff
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Paulette Wilkerson, Assistant to the Chair pwilkrsn@memphis.edu 901.678.3329 Fax: 901.678.2069 |
Representatives to the Faculty
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Karma Rakow Undergraduate Representative to the Faculty |
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Quinn Houlihan |