Department Faculty
Chair of the Anthropology Department • Professor
Cultural and environmental anthropology, development and social movements, knowledge, science and technology, cultures of mobility, tourism, ethnographic methods; Latin America.
luis.vivanco@uvm.edu (802) 656-1184
Lecturer
Biological anthropology, primatology, locomotion, palynology.
katie.bailey@uvm.edu (802) 656-5058
Associate Professor
Archaeology, osteology, ethnicity, body adornment, social complexity; Andean South America.
deborah.blom@uvm.edu (802) 656-2932
Lecturer
Critical Language Policy, Existentialism, Indigeneity, Site Ontology, Non-Representational Theory, Geopolitics, Social Theory, Radicalism
Thomas.Brasdefer@uvm.edu (802) 656-3884
Assistant Professor • Co-Director, Digital Anthropology Laboratory
Landscape and environmental archaeology; Hunter-gatherers; GIS and geospatial modeling; Paleoenvironment/Paleoclimate; Ancient Mesoamerica; European Mesolithic
marieka.brouwer-burg@uvm.edu (802) 656-0837
Associate Professor • Director of Consulting Archaeology Program
Archaeology of eastern North America; archaeology of the Circum-Caribbean; heritage management
john.crock@uvm.edu (802) 656-4310
Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Student Success • Associate Professor
Linguistic anthropology; material culture and museum anthropology; economic anthropology; Sign Languages; advertising and media; Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Transcarpathia.
jennifer.dickinson@uvm.edu (802) 656-0903
Vice President for Research and Economic Development • Professor of Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology, health disparities, substance abuse, public health, religion, politics, native rights, community-engaged research and interdisciplinary methods integrating social, health, and computer sciences. North America and Native Alaska.
Kirk.Dombrowski@uvm.edu (802) 656-2918
Research Assistant Professor
Archaeology, Biochemistry. Historical Ecology, Forensic Anthropology, Participatory Archaeology, Cultural Resources Management, and Regulatory Archaeology. Mobility, and dietary reconstructions through stable isotope analysis.
Jorge.Garcia@uvm.edu (802) 656-4310
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Psychological and Medical Anthropology, Global Mental Health, Ethnographic Methods, Social Determinants of Health, Migration and Health, Moral Experience, Social Justice and Health Equity, Religious Healing, US - México Border Zone
Ellen.Kozelka@uvm.edu
Associate Professor
Latino/a migration in the United States, food security, sustainable food systems, and food movements.
teresa.mares@uvm.edu (802) 656-5706
Associate Professor
Sociocultural anthropology; medical and psychological anthropology; cultural aspects of health, healing, and health care; global health; aging societies and social change; aging in family and community context, productive aging, caregiving; research design and methods; China, North America.
jeanne.shea@uvm.edu (802) 656-3181
Associate Professor
North American archaeology; ancient societies of the US Southwest; ceramic decoration and technology; materiality; ritual; preservation archaeology.
svankeur@uvm.edu (802) 656-5058
Emeritus Faculty
Professor, Emeriti
Cultural Anthropology, former African hunter-gatherers, Colonialism, Law, Disorder, Social Justice, Southern Africa, Papua New Guinea
Professor Emeritus
Archaeology, Ethnography, Ethnohistory and Physical Anthropology
Associate Professor Emerita (1942-2022)
Cultural Anthropology, Gender, marriage, and feminist anthropology. Museum anthropology. Holocaust Studies. Middle East.
Associate Professor Emerita (1930-2003)
Archaeology, Mississippian societies in U.S. Midwest, Vermont/Abenaki archaeology
Affiliates and Visiting Scholars
Francis "Jess" Robinson
Lecturer -Vermont's State Archaeologist
Vermont's Precontact and Historic Past; Ritual and Ceremony; Long-Distance Interaction and Exchange; Ritual Economy; Mortuary Studies; Hunter-Gatherer Studies; the far Northeast.
francis.robinson@uvm.edu