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Religious Studies Interdisplinary Program

FACULTY

Warren L d'Azevedo (PhD Northwestern 1962; Prof Emeritus) Ethnology, comparative art and religion; Africa, western U.S. More information. (retired, contact the department at 775-784-6704).

Michael R. Bever - (PhD Southern Methodist University 2000; Asst Prof and Executive Director of the Sundance Archaeological Research Fund) Prehistoric archaeology, Paleoindians and the Pleistocene peopling of the New World, hunter-gatherer ecology, lithic analysis, digital applications in archaeology; Western North America, especially Alaska, Texas, California and the Great Basin. More information: mbever@unr.edu 775-682-7687

Deborah A. Boehm (PhD U of New Mexico 2005; Asst Prof) Cultural anthropology and Women's Studies; (im)migration, transnationalism, and globalization; gender and women’s studies; childhood and kinship; Mexico, the U.S. West and Southwest, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. More information: dboehm@unr.edu 775-682-6503.

Louis C. Forline (PhD U of Florida-Gainesville 1997; Asst Prof) Sociocultural anthropology, lowland peoples of South America, ecological anthropology, racial-ethnic identity; Brazilian Amazon, U.S. More information: forline@unr.edu 775-682-7840.

Catherine S Fowler (PhD U of Pittsburgh 1972; Prof Emerita) Ethnology, language and culture, linguistics, ethnobiology; North America. More information: csfowler@unr.nevada.edu (retired, contact the department at: 775-784-6704)

Don D Fowler (PhD U of Pittsburgh 1965; Mamie Kleberg Prof Emeritus of Historic Preservation and Anthropology) Historic preservation, history of anthropology, archaeology; North America. More information: dfowler@unr.edu (retired, contact the department at 775-784-6704)

Donald L Hardesty (PhD U of Oregon 1972; Prof & Chair) Historical archaeology, ecological anthropology, archaeological theory and method; western U.S. More information: hardesty@unr.edu 775-682-7524

Gary Haynes (PhD Catholic 1981; Prof) Archaeology, Pleistocene ecology; North America, southern Africa, northern Eurasia. More information: gahaynes@unr.edu 775-682-7692 (office) or 775-682-9308 (lab)

LaVerne Masayesva-Jeanne (PhD MIT 1978; Assoc Prof) Anthropological linguistics, anthropology and education; American Southwest. More information: jeanne@unr.edu 775-682-7693

M. Eleanor Nevins - (PhD U of Virginia, 2005; Asst. Prof). Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology, discourse and social change, language and place, language and religion, anthropology of media, language shift and endangerment, oral literatures and traditions, Native American ethnography, Western Apache language and culture. More information: mnevins@unr.edu 775-682-7953

G Richard Scott (PhD Arizona State U, 1973; Asst Prof) Dental anthropology, skeletal biology, bioarchaeology; American Southwest, Alaska, North Atlantic. More information: grscott@unr.edu 775-682-7630

Carolyn L. White (PhD Boston University, 2002) Historical Archaeology, gender and material culture, colonial archaeology, and museum studies. More information: clwhite@unr.edu 775-682-7688

Robert Winzeler (PhD U of Chicago 1970; Prof) Religion, indigenous peoples, psychological anthropology, ethnic relations, architecture; insular Southeast Asia. Chair of Religious Studies Interdisplinary Program. More information: winzeler@unr.edu 775-682-7686

 

ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS

Marie I Boutté (PhD U of California Berkeley 1987; Assoc Prof) Cultural and medical anthropology, anthropology of stigma, inherited maladies, health effects of nuclear radiation, rural health; Western Europe with focus on Azores Islands, western US.
(boutte@unr.nevada.edu)

Sandra Ott (PhD Oxford University, 1979; Assoc Prof) Social Anthropology specialist in the northern Basque Country (France); research interests include relationships among ethnography/memory/history, especially in relation to the German Occupation; wartime letter-writing; and the ethnographic study of denunciation and collaboration. (sott@unr.edu)

David E Rhode (PhD U of Washington, 1987; Assoc Res Prof) Archaeology, archaeobotany; Western North America, China.
(dave@dri.edu)

Joseba Zulaika (PhD Princeton U, 1982; Dir, Center for Basque Studies) Symbolic anthropology, discourse of terrorism, museum culture; Basque country of northern Spain and southern France.
(zulaika@unr.edu)

 

MANAGEMENT ASSISTANT

Verla M. Jackson (Asst to the Chair, Manager of Graduate Programs, Search Coordinator) (verla@unr.edu) 775-784-6704 or 775-784-4834.

 

ADJUNCT FACULTY

The Department of Anthropology maintains a close connection with numerous anthropologists in the University of Nevada and Reno communities. These Adjunct Faculty serve on graduate student committees and occasionally teach courses for the Department.

James "Pat" Barker (PhD U California Riverside, 1982; Adj Prof) Great Basin prehistory, political evolution, cultural resources management and archaeology in ecosystem management.
(barkerj@unr.edu)

Robert G Elston (PhD Washington State U, 1973; Adj Prof) Prehistoric archaeology, hunter-gatherers; Great Basin, China.
(elston@pyramid.net)

Eugene M Hattori (PhD Washington State U, 1982; Adj Prof) Prehistoric archaeology, historic archaeology, paleoenvironmental analysis; North America.
(emhattor@clan.lib.nv.us)

Deniz Kaptan (PhD Anakara U, 1988; Adj Lecturer) Classical archaeology; Turkey.
(dkaptan@unr.edu)

Ronald L. Reno (PhD U of Nevada Reno, 1973; Adj Prof) Historical archaeology and industrial archaeology, prehistoric archaeology, cultural anthropology theory, history and preservation planning; American West with focus on Nevada and Intermountain West.
(rlreno@gbis.com)