Faculty

David Anderson

Professor & Associate Head
Email: dander19@utk.edu

Archaeology (Prehistoric): Hunter-Gatherers; cultural evolution; CRM; colonization/migration; Southeast U.S.

Benjamin M. Auerbach

Assistant Professor
Email: auerbach@utk.edu

Biological Anthropology (Morphometrics): Variation & biomechanics; New World

Gregory V. Button

Assistant Professor
Email: gbutton@utk.edu

Cultural Anthropology (Environmental, Medical): Disasters & displacement; human rights; media & policy; North America.

Graciela S. Cabana

Assistant Professor
Email: gcabana@utk.edu

Biological Anthropology (Molecular, Bioarchaeology): Method & theory; anthropological genetics & ancient DNA; migration/colonization; Americas.

Jefferson Chapman

Research Associate Professor & Director, McClung Museum
Email: jchapman@utk.edu

Archaeology: paleoethnobotany; Southeast U.S. & Americas.

Joanne Devlin

Lecturer & Adjunct Assistant Professor

Biological Anthropology (Forensic): osteology, fire dynamics.

Elizabeth Kellar DeCorse

Research Assistant Professor, Archaeological Research Laboratory
Email: ekellard@utk.edu

Archaeology (Historical): plantations & slaver; public ed/outreach; Southeast U.S. & Caribbean.

Boyce N. Driskell

Research Professor & Director, Archaeological Research Laboratory
Email: bdriskel@utk.edu

Marisa O. Ensor

Assistant Professor
Email: mensor@utk.edu

Cultural Anthropology: Forced and voluntary migration; humanitarian disasters; human rights; childhood; gender; education in emergencies; international development; peoples of Africa and Latin America.

Barbara J. Heath

Assistant Professor
Email: bheath2@utk.edu

Archaeology (Historical): Slavery & race; material culture; historic landscapes; middle Atlantic, Southeast US & Caribbean.

Tricia Redeker Hepner

Associate Professor
Email: thepner@utk.edu

Cultural Anthropology (Political, Legal): Transnationalism & globalization; conflict, war, & violence; human rights; African diasporas & refugees; Northeast Africa.

Kandace D. Hollenbach

Research Associate Professor, Archaeological Research Laboratory
Email: kdh@utk.edu

Archaeology (Prehistoric): paleoethnobotany; hunter-gatherers, foodways; eastern U.S.

Lee Meadows Jantz

Lecturer; Coordinator, Forensic Anthropology Center & Adjunct Associate Professor

Biological Anthropology (Forensic): skeletal biology; osteology; growth.

Richard L. Jantz

Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus, Forensic Anthropology Center
Email: rjantz@utk.edu

Biological Anthropology: osteology, dermatoglyphics, anthropological genetics, Americas.

Walter E. Klippel

Professor
Email: wklippel@utk.edu

Archaeology (Zooarchaeology): Method & theory; taphonomy; North America.

Andrew Kramer

Professor and Department Head
Email: akramer@utk.edu

Biological Anthropology: Paleoanthropology; species recognition in fossils; teaching evolution; Southeast Asia.

Michael H. Logan

Professor
Email: mlogan@utk.edu

Cultural Anthropology; Medical Anthropology; Evolutionary Theory; Mesoamerica; Plains Indian Art

Bertin M. Louis, Jr.

Assistant Professor
Email: blouis2@utk.edu

Cultural Anth, Africana Studies, Haitian Protestantism, Migration & Transnationalism, Race and Ethnicity, the African diaspora; the Caribbean (the Bahamas, Haiti) and the United States