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Department of Anthropology: professors and courses

Course codes ANT, S S

Who teaches here

Department of Anthropology professors and instructors
NameTeaches
Professors · 53
Adebimpe A Adegbite CVAssistant professor of instructionLinguistic Anthropology · Language Maintenance and Revitalization · Language Pedagogy · Sociolinguistics
No classes listed this year
Kamran Ali Evaluations CVProfessorGender · sexuality · health · political economy
ANT 302
Craig A Campbell Evaluations CVAssociate professorDesign Anthropology · Photography · Trans-Pecos · Sierra Diablo). Indigeneity in Siberia
ANT 302, ANT 324L, S S 302E
Paola Canova Evaluations CVAssociate professorGender and sexuality · indigeneity · political ecology · Mennonites
UGS 303
Ainash Childebayeva Evaluations CVAssistant professorPopulation genetics · Epigenetics · ancient DNA · Adaptation
ANT 301, ANT 348E
Jason Cons CVAssociate professorBorders · security · climate change · agrarian change
ANT 302
Ronald Covey EvaluationsCVProfessor
ANT 304, ANT 324L
Jonathan Crosson CVAssociate professor
ANT 324C
Patience L Epps CVProfessorDescriptive and documentary work on indigenous Amazonian languages · linguistic typology · language contact and language change · Amazonian indigenous histories
No classes listed this year
Anthony F Di Fiore EvaluationsCVProfessor
ANT 301, ANT 348J, ANT 348R, ANT 388C
Kevin M Foster CVAssociate professorEducation Policy · Student Achievement
No classes listed this year
Maria FranklinProfessorHistorical archaeology · public archaeology · race and gender · feminist anthropology
No classes listed this year
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Department of Anthropology professors and instructors, continued
NameTeaches
Professors · 53
Thomas Garrison Evaluations CVAssistant professorMaya archaeology · Mesoamerican archaeology · GIS · remote sensing
ANT 324L
Lyndon K Gill Evaluations CVAssociate professorQueer aesthetics in the African Diaspora · the erotic · LGBT art and activism in Caribbean cultures · African-based spiritual traditions in the Americas
ANT 310L, ANT 324J, ANT 324L
No classes listed this year
Lauren E Gulbas CVAssociate professorMedical anthropology · culture and mental health · women and gender studies
No classes listed this year
Courtney Handman CVAssociate professorLinguistic anthropology · translation · religion and media · the anthropology of Christianity
ANT 320E
John Hartigan Evaluations CVProfessorMultispecies ethnography (wild horses in Spain) · bullfighting in Peru · Colombia & Mexico
ANT 302, ANT 325G, ANT 327M, S S 302E
Heather Anne HindmanAssociate professorCritical Development · Entrepreneurialism · Expatriate Communities · Social Theory
No classes listed this year
Mary E Ibarrola Evaluations CVAssistant professorHistorical Archaeology · Public and Community-Engaged Archaeology · Placemaking · Liberation
ANT 304, ANT 327E, ANT 327F
Ward W Keeler CVProfessorAnthropology and expressive culture (performing arts and literature) · hierarchy · gender · Buddhism
ANT 324L
Edward C Kirk EvaluationsCVProfessor
ANT 301, ANT 350C, ANT 366D
Charles Koenig Evaluations CVAssistant professorIndigenous cooking methods · earth ovens · rockshelters/caves · rock art (pictographs
ANT 326N, ANT 331C, ANT 384M
Daniel A Law CVAssociate professor
No classes listed this year
Randolph R Lewis CVProfessorsurveillance and society · creative nonfiction · documentary expression · public scholarship
No classes listed this year
Rebecca J Lewis Evaluations CVProfessorEvolution of primate social behavior · intersexual conflict · social relationships · power dynamics
ANT 301, ANT 346M
Mallory Emiko Matsumoto CVAssistant professor
No classes listed this year
Sofian Merabet Evaluations CVAssociate professorEurope · South America
ANT 324L
Chelsi West OhueriAssistant professorRace and racialization · nations and nationalism · medical anthropology · Romani Studies
No classes listed this year
Robert M Oppenheim CVProfessorKorean Anthropology and History · Science/Tech/Society · Heritage · Objects/Materiality
ANT 358F
Marina Louise Peterson Evaluations CVProfessorsound · urbanism · critical and social theory · elemental and atmospheric materialities
LAH 350, T C 358
Denne N Reed CVProfessorHuman evolution · micromammal paleoecology · taphonomy · GIS
ANT 301, ANT 348
Ashante M Reese CVAssociate professorCritical food studies and food justice · plantation geographies · Black geographies · abolition
No classes listed this year
Iyaxel Ixkan Cojti Ren EvaluationsCVAssistant professor
ANT 304, ANT 324L, ANT 361M
Enrique R Rodriguez EvaluationsCVProfessor
ANT 324L, ANT 326O, ANT 453
Sergio Romero CVAssociate professorLanguage variation and change · language contact · new dialect formation · deixis
No classes listed this year
Arlene Rosen Evaluations CVProfessorEnvironmental archaeology · Prehistory of the Near East · Mongolia · and China
ANT 324L
Celina Aisha Davidson de Sa EvaluationsCVAssistant professor
ANT 328G, ANT 328I
Aaron G Sandel Evaluations CVAssociate professorfriendship · emotions · chimpanzees · adolescence
ANT 346L, ANT 348K
Suzanne K Seriff CVProfessor of instructionissues of museum representation · public folklore and folklife · Jewish museums and material culture · folk arts and social change
ANT 305, ANT 325F
Liza J Shapiro Evaluations CVProfessorPrimate evolution and functional morphology · locomotion
ANT 351E, ANT 432L
Maria Sidorkina Evaluations CVAssistant professorsemiotic anthropology · language and politics · postsocialism · collective action
ANT 322W, ANT 391
James Slotta Evaluations CVAssociate professorpolitical communication · listening practices · expertise · science communication
ANT 307
Alexander Sogo Evaluations CVAssistant professor of instruction; Director of the JapanLab
ANT 324D
Xisai Song Evaluations CVAssistant professorMedical anthropology · chronic illness · care · science and technology studies
ANT 324E
No classes listed this year
Pauline T Strong CVProfessorCultural · historical · Indigenous North America
ANT 336L
David S Stuart CVProfessorArchaeology · art · linguistics and epigraphy · Mesoamerica
No classes listed this year
Circe Sturm CVProfessorRace · sovereignty · and citizenship · comparative colonialisms
ANT 302, S S 302E
Amy Thompson CVAssistant professorMesoamerica · ancient Maya · ancient and modern Maya settlement patterns · geospatial modeling
No classes listed this year
Fred Valdez Jr Evaluations CVProfessorArchaeology · ceramic technology · Texas · Mesoamerica
ANT 304
Anthony K Webster Evaluations CVProfessorLinguistic anthropology · anthropological linguistics · ethnopoetics · (Southern) Athabaskan languages
ANT 307, ANT 322I
Anthony C Woodbury CVProfessorLanguage documentation · description · and revitalization · verbal art
No classes listed this year
Graduate and other instructors · 6
Manda Adam EvaluationsCV
ANT 304
Monica Heintz
ANT 324L
Martin Miller Evaluations CVPostdoctoral Fellow in Religion and HealthAnthropology of Science and Technology · Environmental Anthropology · Secularism Studies · History of Biology
ANT 323N
Maria Fernandez Pello EvaluationsCV
ANT 302
Syed Baqar Mehdi Rizvi CV
ANT 310L
Vera Tiesler
ANT 324L

Who teaches each course

Department of Anthropology: who teaches each course
CourseTaught by
ANT 301Ainash Childebayeva, Anthony F Di Fiore, Edward C Kirk, Rebecca J Lewis, Denne N Reed
ANT 302Kamran Ali, Craig A Campbell, Jason Cons, John Hartigan, Circe Sturm, Maria Fernandez Pello
ANT 304Ronald Covey, Mary E Ibarrola, Iyaxel Ixkan Cojti Ren, Fred Valdez Jr, Manda Adam
ANT 305Suzanne K Seriff
ANT 307James Slotta, Anthony K Webster
ANT 310LLyndon K Gill, Syed Baqar Mehdi Rizvi
ANT 320ECourtney Handman
ANT 322IAnthony K Webster
ANT 322WMaria Sidorkina
ANT 323NMartin Miller
ANT 324CJonathan Crosson
ANT 324DAlexander Sogo
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Department of Anthropology: who teaches each course, continued
CourseTaught by
ANT 324EXisai Song
ANT 324JLyndon K Gill
ANT 324LCraig A Campbell, Ronald Covey, Thomas Garrison, Lyndon K Gill, Ward W Keeler, Sofian Merabet, Iyaxel Ixkan Cojti Ren, Enrique R Rodriguez, Arlene Rosen, Monica Heintz, Vera Tiesler
ANT 325FSuzanne K Seriff
ANT 325GJohn Hartigan
ANT 326NCharles Koenig
ANT 326OEnrique R Rodriguez
ANT 327EMary E Ibarrola
ANT 327FMary E Ibarrola
ANT 327MJohn Hartigan
ANT 328GCelina Aisha Davidson de Sa
ANT 328ICelina Aisha Davidson de Sa
ANT 331CCharles Koenig
ANT 336LPauline T Strong
ANT 346LAaron G Sandel
ANT 346MRebecca J Lewis
ANT 348Denne N Reed
ANT 348EAinash Childebayeva
ANT 348JAnthony F Di Fiore
ANT 348KAaron G Sandel
ANT 348RAnthony F Di Fiore
ANT 350CEdward C Kirk
ANT 351ELiza J Shapiro
ANT 358FRobert M Oppenheim
ANT 361MIyaxel Ixkan Cojti Ren
ANT 366DEdward C Kirk
ANT 384MCharles Koenig
ANT 388CAnthony F Di Fiore
ANT 391Maria Sidorkina
ANT 432LLiza J Shapiro
ANT 453Enrique R Rodriguez
LAH 350Marina Louise Peterson
S S 302ECraig A Campbell, John Hartigan, Circe Sturm
T C 358Marina Louise Peterson
UGS 303Paola Canova
Bachelor’s degrees1 program
Master’s degrees1 program
Doctoral degrees1 program
Pay after graduationUp to $48,500
Median pay after graduation by field
Field of study1 year out4 years out
AnthropologyBachelor’s · Anthropology$39,900$48,500

Median earnings of graduates who received federal student aid, from the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard: 1 year out is 2020–21 pay (2022 dollars), 4 years out is 2019–20 pay (2021 dollars). Fields group related programs.

About the department

Department of Anthropology is part of College of Liberal Arts, led by Dean David Sosa. Its course codes are ANT and S S.

SourcesUT catalog, HB 2504

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