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Tenure and Tenure Track Faculty

Alan Covey 

R. Alan Covey

  • Associate Professor, Ph.D. 2003, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Inka archaeology, archaeology of complexity and social inequality, state formation and imperial strategies, ethnohistory of contact period and Colonial Peru, anthropological theory, South American archaeology and ethnography, dynamics of ancient and modern empires.
  • r.alan.covey at dartmouth.edu
  • Telephone: (603) 646-3235
  • Office: 406A Silsby
Sienna

Sienna Craig

  • Associate Professor, Ph.D. 2006, Cornell University
  • Medical anthropology; social studies of science; international development; ethnicity and identity; Nepal, Himalaya, Tibetan areas of China.
  • sienna.r.craig at dartmouth.edu
  • Telephone: (603) 646-9356
  • Office: 403B Silsby
Seth

Seth Dobson

  • Assistant Professor, Ph.D. 2006, Washington University, St. Louis
  • Biological anthropology, primatology, social behavior, communication, facial expression.
  • seth.dobson at dartmouth.edu
  • Telephone: (603) 646-3436
  • Office: 406 Silsby
Nate Dominy

Nathaniel J. Dominy

  • Associate Professor, Ph.D. 2001, University of Hong Kong
  • evolutionary and behavioral ecology of humans and nonhuman primates
  • nathaniel.dominy at dartmouth.edu
  • Telephone: (603) 646-1849
  • Office: 405A Silsby
Dale

Dale F. Eickelman

  • Ralph and Richard Lazarus Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations and Department Chair, Ph.D. 1972, University of Chicago
  • Social anthropology, religion and politics, education, Muslim societies in the Middle East and Central Asia, secrets and deception, political intelligence .
  • dale.eickelman at dartmouth.edu
  • Telephone: (603) 646-2621
  • Office: 413C Silsby
Lourdes

Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera

  • Assistant Professor, Ph.D. 2007, University of Michigan
  • Globalization, transnational migration, gender and migration, indigenous political movements, U.S./Mexico borderlands
  • lgn at dartmouth.edu
  • Telephone: (603) 646-1626
  • Office: 121 Silsby
Igoe Unnatural History

James J. Igoe

  • Associate Professor, Ph.D. 2000, Boston University
  • Cultural anthropology, political ecology, environmental justice, biodiversity conservation, the commodification of nature, globalization, identity, indigenism, and civil society.
  • james.j.igoe at dartmouth.edu
  • Telephone: (603) 646-0926
  • Office: 410 Silsby
Sergei Kan

Sergei A. Kan

  • Professor, Ph.D. University of Chicago
  • Ethnology and ethnohistory, history of anthropology, death and dying, native North America, circumpolar peoples, Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet culture.
  • sergei.a.kan at dartmouth.edu
  • Telephone: (603) 646-2550
  • Office: 315 Silsby
deborah

Deborah L. Nichols

  • William J. Bryant 1925 Professor, Ph.D. 1980, Pennsylvania State University
  • Archaeology, complex societies, early cities, cultural ecology, Mesoamerica, North America.
  • deborah.nichols at dartmouth.edu
  • Telephone: (603) 646-3033
  • Office: 403 A Silsby
 

John M. Watanabe

  • Associate Professor, Ph.D. 1984, Harvard University
  • Ethnicity; religion; evolution of culture; historical ethnography of community, state, and nation; Maya Indians; Mesoamerica; Latin America.
  • john.watanabe at dartmouth.edu
  • Telephone: (603) 646-2040
  • Office: 405 Silsby

Adjunct Faculty

Carpenter-Song, Elizabeth

Elizabeth A. Carpenter-Song

  • Research Assistant Professor, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Ph.D. 2007, Case Western University
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology
  • elizabeth.carpenter-song at dartmouth.edu
  • Telephone: (603) 646-0925
  • Office: 413 Silsby
Muldoon

Kathleen M. Muldoon

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor/ Assistant Professor of Anatomy, Dartmouth Medical School, Ph.D. 2006, Washington University
  • Biological anthropology, primate evolution and ecology.
  • kathleen.m.muldoon at dartmouth.edu
  • Telephone: (603) 650-1638 (Office, Medical School) - (603) 646-9831 (Office, Anthropology Department)
  • Office, Anthropology: 413B Silsby

Fellows

Jason Herrmann

Jason Herrmann

  • Neukom Fellow, Ph.D. 2012, University of Arkansas
  • Landscape, environmental archaeology; historic preservation; geophysics; remote sensing; geographic information science, Ancient Near East, Persian Gulf, Arabia, Eastern U.S.
  • jason.t.herrmann at dartmouth.edu
  • Telephone: (603) 646-8192
  • Office: 409 Silsby
Chelsey Kivland

Chelsey Kivland

  • Robert A. and Catherine L. McKennan Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow of Anthropology, Ph.D. 2012, University of Chicago
  • Popular politics; anthropology of the state and sovereignty; ritual performance; embodiment and performativity; Vodou; carnival and crowd theory; anthropology of violence and misery; masculinity; youth; race and nation; Haiti and Caribbean
  • chelsey.l.kivland at dartmouth.edu
  • Telephone: (603) 646-3334
  • Office: 404 Silsby
Amanda Melin 

Amanda Melin Meachem

  • NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Ph.D. 2011, Universty of Calgary, AB Canada
  • Primate behavior ecology; primate origins; color vision; visual ecology; molecular evolution of opsin genes
  • amanda.melin at dartmouth.edu
  • Telephone: (603) 646-0925
  • Office: 413 Silsby

 

 Howard Morphy

Howard Morphy

  • Montgomery Fellow, Ph.D., Australian National University
  • Multicultural, intercultural and cross cultural studies; religion and society; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performing arts; art history; museum studies; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander archaeology; aesthetics; performance and installation art; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history; Australian history (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history); studies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander society; social and cultural anthropology; visual cultures; fine arts (incl. sculpture and painting); biography; art theory; anthropology; history and philosophy of specific fields art theory and criticism
  • howard.morphy at dartmouth.edu
  • Telephone: (603) 646-1275
  • Office: 413A Silsby Hall

Research Faculty

 Lauren Gulbas

Lauren Gulbas

  • Research Assistant Professor, Ph.D. 2008, Southern Methodist University
  • Medical anthropology, structures of inequality, health disparities, mental health, Latin America, ethnographic and qualitative research methods
  • lauren.e.gulbas at dartmouth.edu
  • Telephone: (603) 646-1275
  • Office: 413A Silsby Hall

Emeriti Faculty

Hoyt

Hoyt Alverson

  • Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. 1968, Yale University
  • Cognitive and economic anthropology, Africa, the United States, mental health services research.
  • hoyt.alverson at dartmouth.edu
  • Telephone: (603) 646-3336
  • By appointment
Kirk

Kirk Endicott

  • Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. 1974, Harvard University, D.Phil. 1976, Oxford University
  • Hunter-gatherers, egalitarian societies, gender, indigenous rights, Southeast Asia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia.
  • kirk.endicott at dartmouth.edu
  • Telephone: (603) 646-1275
  • By appointment
The Best of Korey

Kenneth Korey

  • Emeritus Associate Professor, Ph.D. 1974, University of Chicago
  • Human population genetics, human evolution, evolutionary theory, human osteology.
  • ken.korey at dartmouth.edu
  • Telephone: (603) 646-0925
  • By Appointment

Visiting Faculty

Virginia Herrmann

Virginia Herrmann

  • Ph.D. 2012, University of Chicago
  • Bronze and Iron Ages of the Levant and Anatolia, as well as the Neo-Assyrian empire
  • virginia.herrmann at dartmouth.edu

Staff

Thérèse Périn-Deville

  • Department Administrator
  • therese.perin-deville at dartmouth.edu
  • Telephone: (603) 646-3256
  • Office: 408 Silsby

Last Updated: 3/12/13