Faculty & Staff
Department Chair
Faculty
Ping-Ann Addo
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Anthropology
Email: Ping-Ann.Addo@umb.edu
Expertise: Socio-cultural anthropology, Tongan/Pacific Islander material culture, and contemporary cultural...
Daniela Balanzategui
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Anthropology
Email: Daniela.Balanzategui@umb.edu
Expertise: Archaeology of the African Diaspora in Latin America, Community-based and...
Jean-Philippe Belleau
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Anthropology
Email: Jeanphilippe.Belleau@umb.edu
Expertise: Lowland indigenous societies, hunters-gatherers, human rights, anthropology of becoming, Amerindian...
Douglas Bolender
Title: Senior Lecturer
Department: Anthropology
Email: Douglas.Bolender@umb.edu
Expertise: Archaeology of the North Atlantic, landscapes and geographic information systems...
Christopher Fung
Title: Senior Lecturer
Department: Anthropology
Email: Christopher.Fung@umb.edu
Expertise: Race, nationalism, hybridity, museums, settler societies, archaeology, Mesoamerica, United States...
Nedra Lee
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Anthropology
Email: Nedra.Lee@umb.edu
Expertise: Historical archaeology, African Diaspora, Critical Race Theory, and Intersectionality
Jose Martinez Reyes
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Anthropology
Email: Jose.Martinez-Reyes@umb.edu
Expertise: Environmental Anthropology, Political Ecology, Agroforestry, Biocultural Diversity Conservation...
Stephen Mrozowski
Title: Distinguished University Professor
Department: Anthropology
Email: Stephen.Mrozowski@umb.edu
Expertise: Social theory, historical archaeology, environmental and urban archaeology
Rosalyn Negron
Title: Professor
Department: Anthropology
Email: Rosalyn.Negron@umb.edu
Expertise: Major areas & specializations: Urban anthropology, linguistic anthropology, medical...
James Pasto
Title: Senior Lecturer
Department: Anthropology
Email: James.Pasto@umb.edu
Expertise: Religion, language, ethnicity, archaeology and nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
Meredith Reiches
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Anthropology
Email: Meredith.Reiches@umb.edu
Expertise: Biocultural anthropology, feminist science studies, human life history, evolutionary and...
John Schoenfelder
Title: Senior Lecturer
Department: Anthropology
Email: John.Schoenfelder@umb.edu
Expertise: Prehistoric and historical archaeology, complex societies, agriculture, ideology, GIS, aerial...
Rita Shepard Valley
Title: Senior Lecturer
Department: Anthropology
Email: Rita.Shepard@umb.edu
Expertise: Arctic and subarctic archaeology, ethnohistory, historical archaeology, colonialism and culture...
Stephen Silliman
Title: Professor
Department: Anthropology
Email: Stephen.Silliman@umb.edu
Expertise: Historical archaeology, colonialism, identity, labor, collaborative methods with indigenous...
Lauren Sullivan
Title: Senior Lecturer III
Department: Anthropology
Email: Lauren.Sullivan@umb.edu
Expertise: Mesoamerican Archaeology; Maya lowlands; development of complex society; ceramic analysis
Elizabeth Sweet
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Anthropology
Email: Elizabeth.Sweet@umb.edu
Expertise: Biocultural Anthropology
Amy Todd
Title: Senior Lecturer III
Department: Anthropology
Email: Amy.Todd@umb.edu
Expertise: Urban anthropology, marketplace systems in Oaxaca, Mexico, Mesoamerica, biological anthropology
Alan Waters
Title: Senior Lecturer III
Department: Anthropology
Email: Alan.Waters@umb.edu
Expertise: Ethnomusicology, the anthropology of art and religion, Africa, the Caribbean...
Barbara Worley
Title: Senior Lecturer III
Department: Anthropology
Email: Barbara.Worley@umb.edu
Expertise: Cultural Anthropology: Social performance, contested identities, pastoral nomads, gender...Fiske Center Staff
Christa Beranek
Title: Research Scientist II
Department: Anthropology
Email: Christa.Beranek@umb.edu
Expertise: Eastern North American material culture studies, vernacular architecture, and archaeological...
David Landon
Title: Associate Director & Senior Scientist
Department: Anthropology
Email: David.Landon@umb.edu
Expertise: Archaeology of historic and industrial sites, environmental archaeology, zooarchaeology, and...
Dennis Piechota
Title: Archaeological Conservator
Department: Anthropology
Email: Dennis.Piechota@umb.edu
Expertise: Conservation, micro-analysis, soil micromorphology
Virginia Popper
Title: Researcher
Department: Fiske Center
Email: Virginia.Popper@umb.edu
Expertise: Paleoethnobotany
John Steinberg
Title: Senior Scientist
Department: Anthropology
Email: John.Steinberg@umb.edu
Expertise: Prehistoric and historic archaeology, economic anthropology, methodology, regional analysis, remote...
Heather Trigg
Title: Senior Scientist
Department: Anthropology
Email: Heather.Trigg@umb.edu
Expertise: Paleoethnobotany, American Southwest, colonialism, environmental archaeologyEmeritae & Retired Faculty
Tim Sieber
Professor
Childhood, urban anthropology, applied anthropology, the culture history of Amazonia, and immigrant and minority education.
Maria Idalí Torres
Associate Professor
Judith Zeitlin
Professor Emerita
Archaeology - Prehistoric and historical archaeology, ethnohistory, complex societies, New World colonialism. Geographical area: Mesoamerica, Andean South America.
Staff
- Dagny McKinley, Administrative Assistant II, Anthropology
- Marisa Patalano, Graduate Program Coordinator, Anthropology
- Melody Henkel, Technical Assistant I, Anthropology