Lacey Carpenter, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
lcarpent@hamilton.edu
Areas of expertise: household archaeology, Latin America, Mesoamerica, increasing sociopolitical complexity, craft production, and public scholarship
Meet Our Faculty
Dannah Dennis, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
dkdennis@hamilton.edu
Mariam Durrani, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
mdurrani@hamilton.edu
Areas of expertise: linguistic anthropology, migration/diaspora/transnationalism, Muslim youth/communities, higher education in the U.S. and Pakistan, anti-Muslim racism/Islamophobia, multimodality, ethnographic filmmaking, social media, gender and patriarchy
Nathan Goodale, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Dean of Faculty
ngoodale@hamilton.edu
Areas of expertise: complex hunter-gatherers in the interior Pacific Northwest, the forager/farmer transition in Southwest Asia, and rural coastal adaptations in western Ireland
Chaise LaDousa, Chair, Professor of Anthropology
cladousa@hamilton.edu
Areas of expertise: language and culture, particularly the ways in which institutions serve as loci for cultural production
Colin Quinn, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
cpquinn@hamilton.edu
Areas of expertise: origins of inequality, increasing social complexity, mortuary archaeology, landscape archaeology, material culture signaling, public archaeology, mining communities; Europe, Near East, North America
Arjun Shankar, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
ashankar@hamilton.edu
Areas of expertise: visual anthropology, anthropology of value, globalization and development, urban-rural linkage, postcolonial theory, affect theory, ethnographic writing, participatory and multimodal methods, critical pedagogy, curiosity studies
Julie Starr, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
jstarr@hamilton.edu
Areas of expertise: China, East Asia, cultural anthropology; bodies, gender, race; food, urban ethnography, consumer culture, comparative ethnography, history of anthropology
Chenyu Wang, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
cwang1@hamilton.edu
Areas of expertise: service-learning and volunteerism, international development and education, comparative education, critical pedagogy in global context; race and education in the American South, race theory
Charlotte Beck, Professor of Archaeology Emerita (retired)
cbeck@hamilton.edu
Areas of expertise: colonization of North America, with emphasis on the Intermountain West, Great Basin Prehistory, with emphasis on the Paleoindian period, evolutionary and ecological theory, surface archaeology and shronology, Lithic artifact analysis