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New Mexico State University

Anthropology Faculty

Archaeology Faculty

Rani Alexander 

  • Mesoamerican archaeology, historical archaeology of Yucatán, ethnohistory and colonialism, agrarian ecology, fauna analysis
  • raalexan@nmsu.edu


Fumi Arakawa

  • Prehistoric American Southwest, lithic technological organization, pottery in Mesa Verde region, sociopolitical organization in tribal-level societies
  • farakawa@nmsu.edu

 

Beth O'Leary 

  • Southwest archaeology, cultural resource management, subarctic ethnography
  • boleary@nmsu.edu

 

William Walker 

 

Biological Anthropology Faculty

Brenda Benefit 

  • Evolution of Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Catarrhine primates, paleoecology
  • bbenefit@nmsu.edu

 

Monte McCrossin

 

Cultural Anthropology Faculty

Miriam Chaiken, Department head

  • Participatory development, resettlement, and rural health and nutrition, gender, applied anthropology, Africa and SE Asia
  • mchaiken@nmsu.edu

 

W Thomas Conelly

  • Agriculture, ecological anthropology, applied anthropology, SE Asia, East Africa, Amish communities in the U.S.
  • tconelly@nmsu.edu

 

Don Pepion

  • Ethnohistory of the indigenous Blackfoot peoples (Canada, U.S.)
  • dpepion@nmsu.edu

 

Scott Rushforth


Mary Alice Scott

  • Medical Anthropology, public health, transnational migration, Latin America


M. Lois Stanford

  • Applied anthropology, Latin American studies, agricultural economics
  • lstanfor@nmsu.edu

Emeritus Faculty

Christine Eber

  • Art, drugs, gender, religion, Mesoamerica, women's studies, and writing about culture
  • ceber@nmsu.edu

 

Edward Staski

 

Wenda Trevathan 

 

Affiliated Faculty

Weldon Lamb, PhD

  • Maya epigraphy and astronomy; anthropological linguistics
  • weldon@nmsu.edu


Jennifer Robles, Ph.D.

 

Judy Berryman, PhD


Debra LeBeau

 

Noel T. Boaz, PhD

  • Human evolution, Biomedical anthropology
  • CV


Silvia Torezani, PhD

  • Migrant communities, multiculturalism,global health, digital technologies in anthropology
  • CV


Larry Loendorf

  • Cultural resource management