| Rani
Alexander: Dr.
Alexander is an archaeologist whose interests include Mesoamerican
complex societies, colonial ethnohistory, and political economy. |
| Brenda
Benefit: Dr. Benefit
is a biological anthropologist focusing on the evolution of Miocene,
Pliocene, and Pleistocene catarrhine primates (Old World monkeys
and apes) in Africa, paleoecology, dental variation, and dental
correlates of diet (including functional morphology and enamel
microwear) in living and fossil primates. |
| Christine
Eber: Dr. Eber is
a cultural anthropologist whose areas of research include gender,
religion, art, humanistic anthropology, feminist theory, women's
studies, and indigenous peoples of Mexico. |
| Weldon Lamb:Dr.Lamb is an archaeologist with special interests in Maya astronomy, calendrics and hieroglyphic writing. |
| Lawrence
L. Loendorf: Dr.
Loendorf is an archaeologist whose research focuses on the Great
Plains, the U. S. Southwest, ethnography, and rock art. |
| Lisa
Lucero: Dr.
Lucero is an archaeologist whose
interests include Mesoamerica, political power, and ritual. Her
resource control and ritual articulate
in the emergence of political leaders, particularly in the Maya
lowlands. |
| Monte
McCrossin: Dr. McCrossin
is a biological anthropologist whose interests include the following
topics: fossil evidence for human evolution; paleoanthropology
of Africa (study of human origins that comes from integration
of evidence from biological anthropology and paleolithic archaeology);
the ecology, behavior, and adaptive history of non-human primates;
dietary and locomotor adaptations; paleoecology. |
| Beth
O'Leary: Dr.
O’Leary’s areas
of interest include both cultural anthropology and archeology.
She has done research on Athapaskan cultures in Canada and the
U.S. She also has 25 years of experience in cultural resource
management in New Mexico and west Texas. She is also a published
fiction writer. |
| Don
Pepion: Mr. Pepion
iscurrently preparing an article for publication on a massacre
of Blackfeet Indians in 1870. He's continuing research on a theme
called the "Myth of the Chief" that is examining leadership
within the social organization of Native Americans and how it
was impacted and influenced by European contact after 1492. The
research exams the implication of the Spanish, British and later
the United States creating "Chiefs" by gifting certain
individuals within a tribe. |
| Terry
Reynolds: As an anthropologist,
Dr. Reynolds is an ethnohistorian/ethnographer. Her research interests
include Southwestern arts and crafts production; historic village
economies among Southwestern peoples; and the ethnohistory of
peoples in the Mesilla and El Paso Valleys. |
| Scott
Rushforth: Dr. Rushforth
is a cultural anthropologist and linguistic anthropologist who
studies American Indian language, culture, and society. He is
especially interested in Athapaskan languages and cultures. |
| Lois
Stanford: Dr. Stanford
is a cultural anthropologist who focuses on economic anthropology,
development, Latin America, and Mexico. |
| Ed
Staski: Dr. Staski is an historical
archaeologist who is interested in ethnic relations, overseas
Chinese peoples, the 19th century American frontier, and human
evolution. |
| Wenda
Trevathan: Dr. Trevathan
is a biological anthropologist concerned with childbirth, medical
anthropology, nutritional anthropology, human sexuality, and human
evolution. |
| William
Walker: Dr. Walker
is an archaeologist who studies southwestern archaeology and ritual
in prehistory. |
