Current Anthropology Faculty & Staff

Links lead to personal pages or email for each member of the faculty.
fulltime | parttime | affiliated faculty | teaching fellows

fulltime faculty

	Feinberg, Richard Ph.D., University of Chicago.  Symbolic anthropology, kinship and social organization, indigenous seafaring and navigation techniques, oral traditions, cultural politics, and economic and political development; Oceana, Native North America. E-mail: rfeinber@kent.edu		Fisher, Christopher T. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison.  Mesoamerican archaeology and ethnohistory, prehispanic agriculture and land-use, landscape archaeology, geoarchaeology, intensification. E-mail: cfisher1@kent.edu
	Lovejoy, C. Owen  Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, at Amherst.  Biomechanics, forensics, skeletal biology, human evolution. E-mail: olovejoy@aol.com		Meindl, Richard  (Dept. Chair and Undergraduate Coordinator) Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, at Amherst.  Paleodemography, historical demography, population genetics, aging and sexing techniques, human ergonomics, and quantitative methods. E-mail: rmeindl@kent.edu
	Norconk, Marilyn A.  Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. Primate feeding ecology and behavior, female competition, digestion properties; white-faced and bearded sakis; Neotropics. E-mail: mnorconk@kent.edu	photo not available	Prufer, Olaf H.  Ph.D., Harvard University.  Psychological anthropology, culture conflict, culture change; North American prehistory, Old World prehistory; India, Germany, eastern United States, Ohio Valley.
	Seeman, Mark  (Graduate Coordinator) Ph.D., Indiana University.  Archaeology, human ecology, exchange, style; Eastern North America. E-mail: mseeman@kent.edu		Sherwood, Chet Ph.D., Columbia University. Comparative neuroanatomy of primates and other mammals, evolution of behavior, cognition and communication. Email csherwoo@kent.edu

parttime faculty

Perusek, David J.  Ph.D., Michigan State University.  Culture in the contemporary United States, medical anthropology, language and culture, social theory, "race" and ethnic relations, and the ethnography of "cultural diversity" and "multiculturalism." Email: dperusek@kent.edu

affiliated faculty

teaching fellows

	Raghanti, Mary Ann (Anthropology) M.A., Kent State University.  Hormonal correlates of primate behavior: salivary cortisol levels in a captive group of capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella), and fecal cortisol levels in wild and captive white-faced saki monkeys (Pithecia pithecia). E-mail: mraghant@kent.edu		Sayers, Kenneth (Anthropology) M.A., Kent State University. Primate ecology and behavior; foraging theory; Nepal. E-mail: kasayers@kent.edu
	Serrat, Maria (Anthropology) M.A. Kent State University. Skeletal morphology; evolutionary developmental biology. Email: mserrat@kent.edu