People - Faculty

Ann S. Anagnost

Ann S. Anagnost

Professor
Sociocultural Anthropology
anagnost@uw.edu
Denny Hall, M246
Ethnography, Popular Culture, Sociocultural Anthropology
Not accepting new graduate students
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Holly M. Barker

Teaching Professor
Sociocultural Anthropology
hmbarker@uw.edu
Denny Hall, 127
critical sport studies, Indigenous Methodologies, museum decolonization, Nuclear weapons, Oceania, Sociocultural Anthropology
Laada Bilaniuk

Laada Bilaniuk

Professor
Sociocultural Anthropology
bilaniuk@uw.edu
Denny Hall, M244
East European, Ethnography, Identity, Language, Nationalism, Popular Culture, Race and Ethnicity, Socialism and Post-Socialism, Sociocultural Anthropology, Ukraine

Margarite Blignaut

Full-Time Lecturer
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Ángela Castillo Ardila

Assistant Professor
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Rachel R. Chapman

Professor
Sociocultural Anthropology
rrc4@uw.edu
Denny Hall, 236
African American, austerity, Decolonization, embodiment, Ethnography, Health Disparities, intersectional Black feminisms, Medical Anthropology, Performance Studies, Political Economy, Public Health, Race and Ethnicity, Reproduction, Social Justice, transformative justice
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Heather D. Clark

Instructor, Rainier Scholars and UW Lecturer
Sociocultural Anthropology
hdc2@uw.edu
Office Hours: Monday's 10:30am-11:30am
DEN 228
Disability, Identity, Language, Sociocultural Anthropology

Jade d'Alpoim Guedes

Associate Professor
Archaeology
jguedes@uw.edu
Denny Hall, M238
Archaeology, Ethnobotany
Andi Duncan

Andrea E. Duncan

Lecturer
Biological Anthropology
andid@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Denny Hall, 137
Animal Studies, Behavioral Ecology, Biological Anthropology, Disease, Evolution, Global Health, Human Disease Ecology, Human Paleontology, Nonhuman Primates
Not accepting new graduate students
Dan T. A. Eisenberg

Dan T. A. Eisenberg

Professor
Biological Anthropology
dtae@uw.edu
Denny Hall 138
Aging, Biological Anthropology, Biology, Evolution, Global Health, Medical Anthropology, Public Health, Quantitative Methods, Research Methods, Statistics
Accepting new graduate students
Ben Fitzhugh_2024

Ben Fitzhugh

Professor
Archaeology
fitzhugh@uw.edu / (206) 543-9604
Office Hours: By appointment
Denny Hall, 242
Archaeology, Arctic archaeology, Behavioral Ecology, Climate Change, Demography, Ecology, Environment, Human Ecology, Indigenous Archaeology, Subarctic archaeology
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Denise Glover

Full-Time Lecturer
Sociocultural Anthropology
dglover@uw.edu
Denny Hall, 141
China Studies, East Asian, Environment, Ethnoecology, Ethnography, Ethnomedicine, medical anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Medicine, Sociocultural Anthropology, Tibetan Studies
Sara L. Gonzalez

Sara L. Gonzalez

Associate Professor
Archaeology
gonzalsa@uw.edu / (206) 543-9603
Denny Hall, M241
Archaeology
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Steven M. Goodreau

Professor
Biological Anthropology
goodreau@uw.edu / (206) 685-3870
Denny Hall, M236
Biological Anthropology, Computational Methods, Demography, Health Disparities, HIV, Human Disease Ecology, Medical Anthropology, Public Health, Sexuality, Statistics
Accepting new graduate students

Radhika Govindrajan

Associate Professor
Sociocultural Anthropology
rgovind@uw.edu
Denny Hall, 142
Animal Studies, Environment, Postcolonial, Religion, Sociocultural Anthropology, South Asian, Storytelling
Accepting new graduate students

Jenna Grant

Associate Professor
Sociocultural Anthropology
jmgrant@uw.edu
Ethnography, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Global Health, Medical Anthropology, Science and Technology, Sociocultural Anthropology, Southeast Asian, Visual Culture
Sven L. Haakanson

Sven D. Haakanson

Department Chair & Professor
Archaeology
Sociocultural Anthropology
svenh@uw.edu
Denny Hall, 314B
Archaeology, Indigenous Archaeology, Museum Studies/Museology, Politics of Representation, Sociocultural Anthropology
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Christine Harper

Assistant Professor
cmharper@uw.edu
Denny Hall 146
Biological Anthropology, Computational Methods, Evolution, Human Paleontology, Nonhuman Primates, Quantitative Methods, Research Methods, Statistics
Accepting new graduate students
Alex Hill

Alexander K. Hill

Associate Teaching Professor
Biological Anthropology
akhill@uw.edu
Denny Hall 145
Behavioral Ecology, Biological Anthropology, Evolutionary Psychology, Sexual Selection., Sexuality
Darryl Holman

Darryl Holman

Associate Professor
Biological Anthropology
djholman@uw.edu / (206) 543-7586
Denny Hall, M237
Biological Anthropology, Demography, Evolution, Fertility, Field Research Methods, Population, Quantitative Methods, Reproduction, Reproductive ecology, Statistics
Accepting new graduate students
Patricia 2021

Patricia A. Kramer

Professor
Biological Anthropology
pakramer@uw.edu / (206) 616-2449
Denny Hall, DEN143
Biological Anthropology, Evolution, Human Paleontology, Nonhuman Primates, Quantitative Methods
Accepting new graduate students
Peter V. Lape

Peter V. Lape

Professor
Archaeology
plape@uw.edu / (206) 685-9364
Office Hours: By appointment
Denny Hall, 129
Agriculture, Archaeology, Climate Change, Community Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, island seascapes, Landscape Archaeology, Material Culture, Museum Studies/Museology, Religion, Southeast Asian, trade networks
Marcos Llobera

Marcos Llobera

Associate Professor
Archaeology
mllobera@uw.edu
Denny Hall, M242
Archaeology, Computational Methods, Geographic Information Systems, Landscape Archaeology
Celia Lowe

Celia Lowe

Professor
Sociocultural Anthropology
lowe@uw.edu
Denny Hall, M245
Indonesia, Multispecies Ethnography, Science and Technology, Sociocultural Anthropology, Southeast Asian
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Melanie Martin

Associate Professor
Biological Anthropology
martinm7@uw.edu / 206-616-7701
Behavioral Ecology, Biological Anthropology, Evolution, Global Health, Growth and Development, Health, Maternal and Child Health, Medical Anthropology, Quantitative Methods, Reproduction, Research Methods
Not accepting new graduate students
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Ben Marwick

Professor
Archaeology
bmarwick@uw.edu / (206) 552-9450
Office Hours: Make an appointment at https://calendly.com/bmarwick
Denny Hall, 230 (not on mezzanine level)
Archaeology, Behavioral Ecology, Computational Methods, Data science, Evolution, Geoarchaeology, Indigenous Archaeology, Lithic Analysis, Quantitative Methods, Southeast Asian
Accepting new graduate students
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Jamaal Muwwakkil

Assistant Professor
Jmuww@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Den M233
African American, Cultural Anthropology, Education, Ethnography, Government, Identity, Institutions, Linguistics, Pedagogy, Storytelling
James T. Pfeiffer

James T. Pfeiffer

Professor WOT
Sociocultural Anthropology
jamespf@uw.edu
Global Health, Medical Anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology
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Paula Saravia

Assistant Teaching Professor
Sociocultural Anthropology
psaravia@uw.edu
Office Hours: by appointment
Cultural Epidemiology, Environmental Precarity, Field Research Methods, Global Health, Health Disparities, History of Medicine, Indigenous Medicines, Medical Anthropology, Political Economy, Sociocultural Anthropology, South American
Not accepting new graduate students
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Marieke van Eijk

Associate Teaching Professor
Sociocultural Anthropology
mariev2@uw.edu / (206) 543-3974
Denny Hall, M228
Global Health, Health, Health Disparities, Institutions, Medical Anthropology, Qualitative Methods, Queer Studies, Research Methods, Sexuality, Sociocultural Anthropology
Accepting new graduate students
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