DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY FACULTY
Our faculty have geographical specialization in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, North America, Asia and Europe. In addition to a broad focus on comparative diasporic studies and social justice, their topical interests include historical archaeology, medical anthropology, transcultural identities and processes, political economic anthropology, anthropology of place, visual anthropology, ethnobotany, gender, migration studies, and human/environment interactions. Every faculty member in the Department of Anthropology also participates in at least one interdisciplinary program. There are vibrant interdisciplinary conversations on this campus, and these provide many excellent opportunities for student participation.
Crosscutting topical and regional faculty interests are shared theoretical interests in inequality, globalization, gender, ethnicity, race/racialization, and class. The Department of Anthropology offers programs of study leading to baccalaureate, masters of arts, and doctoral degrees. Currently we have over 130 undergraduate majors and our masters and doctoral programs have more than 30 students enrolled.
Drucilla Barker
Professor
(Ph.D., Univ. of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, 1988 ) Gender, globalization, economic development, feminist epistemology, methodology.
On Leave Spring 2013
Email: barkerdk@sc.edu
Hamilton 203
803-777-3200
Joanna Casey
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Univ. of Toronto, 1993) Ethnoarchaeology, prehistoric archaeology, early farming communities, trade, gender, lithics; West Africa.
Email: jlc@sc.edu
Hamilton 319
803-777-6700
Charles Cobb
Chair
Professor
(Ph.D., Southern Illinois Univ., 1988) Archaeology, political economy, colonialism, lithic analysis; S.E. United States.
Email: cobbcr@mailbox.sc.edu
Hamilton 317-B
803-777-1532
Carlina de la Cova
Dual Position with Anthropology and African American Studies
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., INdiana University-Bloomington, 2008) paleopathology, skeletal
biology, skeletal health disparities, social inequality, the African Diaspora
and African American biohistory/bioarchaeology, nineteenth century
historical medicine and disease
Email: delacova@mailbox.sc.edu
Hamilton 301
803-777-2957
Sharon DeWitte
Dual Position with Anthropology and Biology
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2006) Human osteology,
paleodemography, paleoepidemiology, infectious and epidemic diseases, and
medieval plague; Europe
Email: dewittes@mailbox.sc.edu
Hamilton 305
803-777-6940
Sherina Feliciano-Santos
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan, 2011) Linguistic anthropology, the politics of language use, social activism, language and cultural revitalization, racial and ethnic formations, religion; narrative, face-to-face interaction; Puerto Rico, Caribbean, Latin America, US
Email: Felicias@mailbox.sc.edu
Hamilton 314
803-777-5760
Erica Gibson
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Univ. of Alabama, 2007) Biocultural medical anthropology, reproductive health, health disparities, research methods; Latino Studies.
Email: ericagibson@sc.edu
Hamilton 305
803-777-7259
Maimuna Huq
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Columbia Univ., 2006) Cultural anthropology; Muslims, religion, politics, gender, media, education; Bangladesh; Middle East; U.S.
Email: huqm@sc.edu
Hamilton 202
803-777-1518
Kenneth Kelly
Professor
(Ph.D., Univ. of California-Los Angeles, 1995) Archaeology, historical archaeology, culture change, African Diaspora; West Africa, Caribbean.
On Sabbatical until Fall 2013
Email: Kenneth.kelly@sc.edu
Hamilton 200B
803-777-2616
Courtney Lewis
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Univ. of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 2012) Economic anthropology, Native Nation economic development and stability, boundaries, sovereignty, colonialism & ‘post’ coloniality, political economy, American Indian and indigenous rights, globalization, entrepreneurship.
Email: lewisco@mailbox.sc.edu
Hamilton 312
803-777-6500
Marc Moskowitz Interim Graduate Director
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Univ. of California-San Diego, 1999) Cultural and visual anthropology, gender, popular culture, religion, sexuality ; China, Taiwan.
Email: moskowit@mailbox.sc.edu
Hamilton 209
803-777-1536
Jennifer Reynolds
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Univ. of California-Los Angeles, 2002) Linguistic anthropology, language socialization, ideology and representation, childhood; US and Latin America.
Email: jenreyn@sc.edu
Hamilton 304
803-777-2392
David Simmons
Dual Postion with Anthropology and Public Health 
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Michigan State Univ., 2002) Medical Anthropology, International Public Health, West and Southern Africa, Dominican Republic.
On Sabbatical in Spring 2013
Email: dsimmons@mailbox.sc.edu
Hamilton 311
803-777-2321
Kimberly Simmons Dual Position with Anthropology and African American Studies
Director of Latin American Studies (LASP)
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Michigan State Univ., 2002.) Cultural anthropology, race and ethnicity, gender, identity formation, women's formations, African Diaspora; US, Dominican Republic, Caribbean, Latin America.
Email: ksimmons@mailbox.sc.edu
Gambrell Hall 427
803-777-3797
Gail Wagner
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Washington Univ.-St. Louis, 1987) Archaeology, paleoethnobotany, ethnobotany, chiefdoms; Southeastern, North America
Faculty member in the School of the Environment.
On Leave Spring 2013
Email: Gail.wagner@sc.edu
Hamilton 300
803-777-6548
Terrance Weik
Undergraduate Director
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Univ. of Florida, 2002) Historical archaeology; African diaspora, resistance, ethnogenesis, Maroons, African-Native American interaction; Latin & North
America.
Email: weik@mailbox.sc.edu
Hamilton 309
803-777-6789
Karl G. Heider, Emeritus
Email:heiderkg@gmail.com
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