Faculty & Staff

Faculty

	Dr. Keri Brondo Professor, Associate Dean kbrondo@memphis.edu Environmental Anthropology, Gender & Development, Indigenous Rights, Conservation & Protected Areas, Central America
	Dr. Lindsey Feldman Assistant Professor lrfldman@memphis.edu Cultural criminology, masculinity, identity, justice studies, intersectional race and gender studies, anthropology of emotions, ethnography of prison, critical social theory
	John M. Gilmore Assistant 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.
	Dr. Kathryn Hicks Associate Professor kahicks2@memphis.edu Biological Anthropology, Political Economy, Developmental Systems Theory, Environmental Justice, Health Inequality, Andes, US
	Dr. Wesley James Interim Chair, Pat E. Burlison Professor wes.james@memphis.edu Medical sociology, demography, and rural health.
	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
	Kenneth S. Latta Assistant 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.
	Dr. Ted Maclin Associate Professor of Teaching / Graduate Studies Coordinator emaclin1@memphis.edu Politics of knowledge; science, technology, and society; political ecology; climate change; organizational and institutional ethnography
	Dr. Erin Mellett Assistant Professor emellett@memphis.edu Medical anthropology, linguistic anthropology, deaf studies, disability studies, sign language(s), migration, language and social justice, linguistic discrimination, health inequalities, identity and belonging
	Dr. Michael Perez Associate Professor mvperez@memphis.edu Migration and displacement, ethnicity and nationalism, memory, violence, human rights, Muslim societies and Islam
	Dr. William Robertson Assistant Professor W.Robertson@memphis.edu Medical anthropology; anthropology of care; queer and trans anthropology; the body and embodiment; risk; conceptualizations and practices of biomedical research (e.g., clinical trials, experimentation); medical education, training, specialization, and expertise; clinical ethnography; social science of human papillomavirus (HPV); science and technology studies; health disparities; science, medicine, and popular culture; teaching and pedagogy; culture theory; qualitative social science methodology
	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

	Dr. Sage Graham Associate Professor sgraham2@memphis.edu Department of English; Applied Linguistics
	Dr. Satish Kedia Professor skkedia@memphis.edu School of Public Health

Anthropologists in Other Departments

	Dr. David Dye Department of Earth Sciences daviddye@memphis.edu
	Dr. Andrew Mickelson Department of Earth Sciences amicklsn@memphis.edu
	Dr. Ryan Parish Department of Earth Sciences rmparish@memphis.edu

Professors Emeriti

	Dr. Linda Bennett Professor lbennett@memphis.edu Alcohol Consumption & Alcoholism, Ethnicity & Identity, Family Rituals & Routines, Engaged Scholarship, Croatia & the former Yugoslavia
	Dr. Ruthbeth Finerman Professor finerman@memphis.edu Medical Anthropology, Reproductive Health, Health Program Evaluation, South America, US, and Immigrant Populations
	Dr. Stanley Hyland Professor shyland@memphis.edu
	Dr. Ross Sackett Instructor rsackett@memphis.edu Evolutionary Anthropology, Quantitative Methods, Native South America

Part-Time Instructors

Jenessa Mae Spears
j.m.spears@memphis.edu
901.678.2080

Nikia Grayson
npuyol@memphis.edu
(901) 678-2080

Michele Safa
msafa@memphis.edu
(901) 678-2080

Megan Wilkinson
mrwlkns2@memphis.edu
(901) 678-2080

Staff

	Paulette Wilkerson, Assistant to the Chair pwilkrsn@memphis.edu 901.678.3329 Fax: 901.678.2069
	Karma Rakow Undergraduate Representative to the Faculty Quinn Houlihan Graduate Representative to the Faculty