Full Time Faculty

Martha C. Ward, Research Professor (Ph.D. Tulane University 1969) Cultural and Social Anthropology, sociolinguistics, urban studies, qualitative methods, women's studies, health and fertility; Micronesia, contemporary southern United States. LA 259, (504)280-6406 (mcward@uno.edu ).

Jeffrey David Ehrenreich, Professor (Ph.D. New School of Social Research, 1985) Cultural anthropology, critical theory and history of ethnology, qualitative methods, comparative religion and shamanism, medical anthropology, visual anthropology, the body as social text, culture contact and colonialism; Amazonia and Mesoameraca. LA 279 (504)280-6407 (jehrenre@uno.edu).

David I. Beriss, Associate Professor and Chair (Ph.D. New York University 1992) Sociocultural Anthropology, ethnicity, multiculturalism, urban and applied anthropology, foodways, Western Europe, Caribbean, New Orleans. LA 281 ( 504) 280-6306 (dberiss@uno.edu).

Ann Kos Edwards, Instructor (M.A. City University of New York 1979) Social anthropology, ethnicity, complex societies. applied anthropology, eastern Europe, Gulf Coast United States. LA 281 (504) 280-6356 (akedward@uno.edu).

Part-time and Research Faculty

Rachel Breunlin, Instructor (MSUS, University of New Orleans 2004), Co-Director of the Neighborhood Story Project. Cultural anthropology, urban and applied anthropology, African Diaspora; New Orleans (rbreunlin@yahoo.com).

Margaret R Clarke, Research Associate (PhD California-Davis 1982) Physical Anthropology, primate behavior and ecology, sociobiology; Central America; (mclarke@uno.edu).

Juana L. C. Ibáñez, Instructor (M.A. University of Texas 1986) Archaeology, origins of agriculture, cultural ecology, cultural resource management; Mediterranean, western North America. LA 275 (504)280-6356 (jibanez@uno.edu).

Javier Ruedas, Instructor (PhD Tulane 2001) Political economy, language, oral history, indigenous rights; Latin America, Brazil (mranthro@grandecom.net).

Anne R. Titelbaum, Instructor (M.A. Washington University 1994) Physical anthropology, skeletal biology, paleopathology, bioarchaeology, Peru (atitelb@tulane.edu).

Andrea P. White, Greater New Orleans Regional Archaeologist (M.A. College of William and Mary) Director of the Greater New Orleans Regional Archaeology Program, Historical archaeology, public archaeology, cultural resource management; southeastern United States. LA 272 (504)280-6492 (apwhite1@uno.edu).

Emeritus and Retired Faculty

Malcolm C. Webb, Professor Emeritus (Ph. D. University of Michigan 1964) Prehistory, cultural evolution, economic anthropology, origins of the state, cultural theory; southeastern United States, Mesoamerica. LA 272 (504) 280-6492.

Richard C. Beavers, Associate Professor for Research and Director of the Archaeological and Cultural Research Program (BE University of Mississippi 1961, BA Memphis State University 1974) Archaeology, paleoecology, computer applications; southeastern United States. LA 272 (504) 280-6492 (rbeavers@uno.edu).

In Memoriam: J. Richard Shenkel, Professor Emeritus (Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo, 1971) Archaeology, cultural evolution, processes of stability and change in deep time, physical anthropology, paleoanthropology, fringe theories of human origins and development, Columbian consequences, public archaeology; southeastern United States, Mexico, Europe.

Anthropologists in other Departments

Dr. Nicholas R. Spitzer, Zemurry Professor of Folklore and Cultural Conservation, College of Urban and Public Affairs (Ph.D. University of Texas 1986) Folklore, documentary media, creolization, ethnomusicology, ethnic identity; Louisiana and the United States Gulf Coast, African-French Creole communities. (nspitzer@uno.edu).

Staff

Brandie Mitchell, LA 269 (504) 280-6294 (bsmitch1@uno.edu).