Faculty & Staff

The Anthropology Department faculty include a wide range of research interests, including socio-cultural anthropology, Archaeology, and Biological Anthropology. Faculty who can provide advising are indicated.

Jump to Affiliated Faculty, Faculty Emeriti, Adjunct Faculty, or Office Coordinators. Also see our Anthropology graduate students.

Full Time Faculty

Contact		Fall 2013 Office Hours	Research Interests
	Shelby Anderson ashelby@pdx.edu 503-725-3318 Faculty Profile	TBA CH 141M Provides Advising	PhD University of Washington 2011; Assistant Professor Complex hunter-gatherers; social and technological change; ceramics; environmental archaeology; public archaeology; cultural resource management; Arctic, Sub-Arctic, Pacific Northwest
	Virginia L. Butler butlerv@pdx.edu 503-725-3303 Faculty Profile	TBA Cramer 141L Provides Advising	PhD University of Washington 1990; Professor Archaeology; zooarchaeology; long-term connections between people and animals; applications of zooarchaeology to conservation biology and education; western North America
	Sharon A. Carstens carstenss@pdx.edu 503-725-3315 Faculty Profile	TBA CH 141O Provides Advising	PhD Cornell University 1980; Professor Cultural anthropology; symbolic anthropology; identity; gender; ethnohistory; education; China, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asian Americans
	Michele R. Gamburd gamburdm@pdx.edu 503-725-3317 Faculty Profile	TBA CH 141H Provides Advising	PhD University of Michigan 1995; Professor and Chair Cultural anthropology; transnationalism; globalization; migration; alcohol consumption; disaster studies; violence; gender; aging; political economy; Sri Lanka, West Asia, South Asia
	Charles Klein charles.klein@pdx.edu 503-725-3316 Faculty Profile	TBA CH 141P	PhD University of Michigan 1996; Assistant Professor Applied medical anthropology; gender/sexuality/queer theory; urban anthropology; sexual & reproductive health; social movements; non-governmental organizations; health disparities; food justice; Brazil; Latin America; North America
	Jeremy Spoon jspoon@pdx.edu 503-725-9729 Faculty Profile jeremyspoon.com	TBA CH 141Q Provides Advising	PhD University of Hawai'i 2008; Assistant Professor Local ecological knowledge and understanding; political economy; environmental sustainability; mountainous protected areas; place-based spirituality; applied anthropology; public education; mixed methods; South Asia, Native North America, East Africa
	Sarah Sterling sster@pdx.edu Faculty Profile	TBA CH 141E	PhD University of Washington 2004; Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Extended Studies, Affiliate Faculty Middle Eastern Studies Center Predynastic and Old Kingdom Egypt; North American prehistory; geoarchaeology; general method and theory; evolutionary theory; ceramic analysis; quantitative analysis
	Natalie Vasey nvasey@pdx.edu 503-725-3912 Faculty Profile	TBA CH 141N Provides Advising	PhD Washington University 1997; Associate Professor Biological Anthropology; primate behavioral ecology; life history adaptations; primate evolution; endangered and recently extinct primates of Madagascar Biological Anthropology at PSU Lemur Conservation Foundation Field School
	Douglas Wilson doug_wilson@nps.gov 360-921-5241 Faculty Profile	TBA CH 141I	PhD University of Arizona 1991; Adjunct Associate Professor Historical archaeology; method and theory; public archaeology; cultural resource management; North America Fort Vancouver Archaeological Field School

Faculty Emeriti

	Kenneth M. Ames amesk@pdx.edu 503-725-3049 Faculty Profile	None CH 141G	PhD Washington State University 1976; Professor & Chair Emeritus Archaeology; method and theory; cultural ecology; complex hunter-gatherers; social archaeology; northeast Asia, North America
	Marc R. Feldesman feldesmanm@pdx.edu Faculty Profile	None	PhD University of Oregon 1974; Professor & Chair Emeritus Physical anthropology; primate and human evolution; primate anatomy; evolutionary theory; morphometrics; computer applications; forensic osteology
	Jacob Fried	None	PhD Yale University; Professor Emeritus Culture change and acculturation; psychological anthropology; adaptation to specialized and severe physical settings; Latin America, Arctic, and Subarctic America

Affiliated Faculty

	Robert Boyd pdx01537@pdx.edu Faculty Profile	None	PhD University of Washington 1985; Departmental Affiliate Northwest Native American early contact era ethnohistory; culture contact and change; disease and demography; historical epidemiology; depopulation and its cultural effects; hunter-gatherer resource management and anthropogenic fire
	Douglas Deur deur@pdx.edu deur@u.washington.edu Faculty Profile	None	PhD Louisiana State University (Geography and Anthropology); Associate Research Professor Cultural and political ecology; cultural landscapes; indigenous peoples; ethnobiology; applied research; cultural perspectives on natural resource management and restoration; ethnohistory; Northwestern North America
	Arunima Kashyap arunima.kashyap@intel.com Faculty Profile	None	PhD Michigan State University 2006; Departmental Affiliate Archaeology; starch grain analysis; lithic use-wear analysis; corporate ethnography and user research; South Asia; Pacific Northwest
	Tom Thornton Thomas.Thornton@ouce.ox.ac.uk Faculty Profile	None	PhD University of Washington 1995; Departmental Affiliate Sociocultural anthropology, applied anthropology, ecology, environmental anthropology, film, subsistence economies, space and place, social change, public policy, globalization, indigenous peoples and states, Native North America, Pacific Northwest Coast, Circumpolar North.

Adjunct Faculty

	Jennifer Aengst jaengst@pdx.edu Faculty Profile	TBA	PhD University of California - Davis 2011; Adjunct Assistant Professor Cultural and Medical Anthropology; reproduction; population studies; fertility politics; gender; contraceptive technologies; ethnic/religious conflict; Ladakh, Himalayas, South Asia
	William Cornett cornettw@pdx.edu 503-725-8463 Faculty Profile	None	MA Portland State University 1998; Adjunct Instructor Political Ecology; Power and Resistance; Ethnographic Writing; Archaeological Fieldwork Methods
	Anne Mertl Millhollen hplam_1998@yahoo.com Faculty Profile	None	PhD University of Oregon 1974; Adjunct Assistant Professor Ringtailed lemur visual and olfactory communication; territorial boundaries; food resources; gallery forest ecosystems; Madagascar
	David Lee Moore b5dm@pdx.edu Faculty Profile	TBA CH 141T	PhD (ABD) Simon Fraser University, MA Portland State University 1994; Adjunct Instructor Cultural Anthropology; Southeast Asia; South Asia; Nationalism; Ethnicity; Globalization; Historical Anthropology
	Amiee Potter potteram@pdx.edu Faculty Profile	None	PhD University of Oregon 2004; Adjunct Assistant Professor Biological Anthropology; Molecular Anthropology; Skeletal Biology; Human Evolution; Craniofacial growth and development; Peopling of the Americas; bioarchaeology of southern California and the Great Basin
	Cameron M. Smith smithcm@pdx.edu Faculty Profile	TBA CH 141J	PhD Simon Fraser University 2004; Adjunct Assistant Professor Archaeology; spatial analysis; lithic usewear analysis; European and North American Prehistory; evolution
	Mary Soots mary.soots@pdx.edu Faculty Profile	TBA CH 141J	MA Portland State University; Adjunct Instructor Latin America; environmental and economic sustainability; geography; Hispanic communities in Oregon
	Eric Wynkoop wynkoop@pdx.edu Faculty Profile	None	MA Portland State University 2009; Adjunct Instructor Cultural anthropology; globalization; urbanization; food culture; South Asia; East Asia

Office Coordinators

	Connie Cash cashc@pdx.edu 505-725-3361 Staff Profile	9:00am-5:30pm CH 141F	Departmental budget, grants, personnel
	Ember Stevens ember.stevens@pdx.edu 503-725-3081 Staff Profile	8:00am-12:00pm Front Counter	MLS University of Missouri 2011 By arrangement forms, purchasing, departmental website