The University of Arizona has a long legacy of anthropological research in the Southwest region that spans all subfields of anthropology and involves numerous other campus units. This theme promotes ...

My research examines health and disease in prehistoric populations through their skeletal remains. I am specifically interested in understanding prehistoric human adaptations in desert ecosystems and ...

Linguistic anthropology is the study of language as a social and cultural practice.

The School of Anthropology celebrates its graduate alumni as they continue on their riveting careers! Our alumni, reaching all the way back to 1928 when the first M.A. degrees in archaeology were ...

David Killick and Frances Hayashida (2022). Copper smelting and refining in the Pampa de Chaparrí, Lambayeque, Peru,ca. 1030–1180 cal AD. Journal of Archaeological ...

My research interests focus on the study of the sociopolitical development of small sedentary societies and societies that were more hierarchically organized, as well as prehistoric economic systems.

I'm interested in the behavioral and physiological strategies that are used to cope with environmental change, and allow individuals to survive, grow, and reproduce. I prioritize actively blending ...

I am a socio-cutural and medical anthropologist. In my scholarship I draw on insights garnered from over two decades of field-based research that has centered on multi-dimensional aspects of violence, ...

I am a biological/evolutionary anthropologist. I started teaching at the University of Arizona in 2012 and worked as the laboratory manager for LEEP (Laboratory for the Evolutionary Endocrinology of ...

Comparative popular culture and media studies, East Asia (People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong), and North America. I approach them from the perspectives of globalization (not only ...

Ethnography of the American Southwest and Mesoamerica; American Indian Studies; craft organization, production, and marketing; textile production, organization and analysis; museum studies.

My research concerns the constitutive role of language in contexts of social change and globalization. Specifically, my work has dealt with the entanglements of linguistic practice and rapid ...