Faculty and Staff Directory

Faculty

Dr. Christopher Beekman

Christopher S. Beekman

Ph.D. • Professor
Department of Anthropology
Expertise Areas: Archaeological Theory and Method, Mesoamerican Archaeology, Political Systems and Ideology of Rulership, Landscape, Identity, Migration, Traditional Agriculture
Jamie Hodgkins

Jamie Hodgkins

Ph.D. • Graduate Director, Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Expertise Areas: paleoanthropology, paleolithic archaeology, zooarchaeology
Sarah Horton

Sarah B Horton

Ph.D. • Chair, Professor
Department of Anthropology
Expertise Areas: Latino health disparities, migration and transnationalism, migrants' access to care, cross-border health, and farmworkers' occupational health
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Marty Otañez

Ph.D. • Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Expertise Areas: Critical Medical Anthropology, Digital Storytelling, Cannabis, Psilocybin Use Among BIPOC, Harm Reduction, Overdose Prevention, Workers' Rights, Corporate Accountability, Global Health Policymaking
Chris Sargent

Christine Sargent

Ph.D. • Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Expertise Areas: kinship, disability, bioethics, Middle East, North America
Tiff Terneny

Tiffany Terneny

Ph.D., Undergraduate Director, Senior Instructor
Department of Anthropology
Expertise Areas: Field Archaeologist by training, but feel extremely comfortable and am interested in the cultural dimensions of anthropology, Mortuary Anthropology and Archeology, Bioarcheology, Forensic Anthropology, technological change among hunter-gatherers, Human Behavioral Ecology, and Lithic Technology.
David Tracer

David P. Tracer

Ph.D. • Chair of Health and Behavioral Sciences, Professor
Department of Anthropology
Expertise Areas: Decision-Making Theory, Evolutionary Theory, Global Health
Anna Warrener

Anna G. Warrener

Ph.D. • Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Expertise Areas: Evolution of the human musculoskeletal system using biomechanical techniques to assess how variation in physical structure affects locomotor performance--human pelvis and anatomy impact--human birth

Affiliate Faculty

Kathryn Rhine

Kathryn Rhine

Associate Professor, Director of the Arts & Humanities in Healthcare Program
Department of Anthropology-Affiliate
Kathryn Rhine is a critical medical anthropologist and author of The Unseen Things: Women, Secrecy, and HIV in Northern Nigeria (2016, Indiana University Press), which traces how the structural forces of the epidemic contour the everyday worlds of individuals living with HIV. She is passionate about humanistic approaches to health care and medicine, and her areas of specialization include Nigeria, Brazil, HIV, disclosure, kinship, gender. She is currently Associate Professor...
Caley Orr

Caley M. Orr

Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, CU Anschutz Medical Campus
Department of Anthropology-Affiliate
Expertise Areas: biological anthropology, paleoanthropology, primate functional morphology

Professor Emeritus

Steve Koester

Steve Koester

Ph.D. • Professor Emeritus
Department of Anthropology
Expertise Areas: Medical Anthropology (disease transmission, health intervention, social inequality, substance abuse) and Political Ecology and Sustainable Development
Jean Scandlyn

Jean Scandlyn

Ph.D. • Clinical Professor Emerita
Department of Anthropology
Expertise Areas: Medical anthropology, global health, adolescence and young adulthood, gender, social science theory, qualitative research, U.S. society and culture, Andean Latin America
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Tammy Stone

Ph.D., RPA • Professor Emerita
Department of Anthropology
Expertise Areas: Southwestern Archaeology; issues of migration, ethnicity and identity; Architectural analysis of the pueblo period in the Mogollon highlands

Professor - Retired

Paleoanthropological Research at Laetoli

Charles Musiba

Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology (Duke University)
Department of Anthropology
Expertise Areas: Human Origins and Adaptability, Eastern and Southern Africa. Management of Archaeological World Heritage Sites in Africa.

Staff

Sulastri Carr

Sulastri Carr

Business Operations Coordinator
Department of Anthropology
Expertise Areas: empathetic leader in business operations, sociological research and analysis, Kaizen techniques in higher education and corporations