Elliot Blair, Assistant Professor
25-E ten Hoor Hall | (205) 348-6542 | ehblair@ua.edu
Research Interests
- Complex societies of the Americans
- Mississippi and Colonial Southeast U.S.
- Mission Santa Catalina de Guale
John H. Blitz, Professor
25-D ten Hoor Hall | (205) 348-4074 | jblitz@ua.edu
Research Interests
- Theoretical: Anthropological archaeology, origins of rank, class, and complex societies, sociopolitical differentiation and integration, political economy of households and communities, material correlates of social memory and collective identity, technological change
- Methodological: regional and site settlement analysis, pottery chronology and function, analysis of monumental architecture
- Regional and Temporal: U.S. Southeast, especially Mississippian and Woodland periods (Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia), Maya Lowlands (Belize)
Ian W. Brown, Professor
416 Mary Harmon Bryant Hall | (205) 348-9758 | ibrown@ua.edu
Research Interests
- Southeastern U. S. archaeology
- Museum anthropology
- Archaeological material culture
- Native American prehistory and ethnohistory
- The role of salt in world history and prehistory
- Historical archaeology
- Historic cemeteries and gravestone studies
Katherine L. Chiou, Assistant Professor
24-D ten Hoor Hall / LAB: 415 Mary Harmon Bryant Hall | (205) 348-1929 | klchiou@ua.edu
Research Interests
- Anthropological Archaeology
- Paleoethnobotany/Archaeobotany
- Andean Archaeology
- Archaeology of Food
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and 3D Modeling
- Household Archaeology
- Archaeological Ethics
- Genus Capsicum
Jason DeCaro, Marilyn Williams Elmore and John Durr Elmore Professor
14 ten Hoor Hall | Office: (205) 348-9061, Lab: (205) 348-7792 | jason.a.decaro@ua.edu
http://dehb.ua.edu/jason-decaro.html
Research Interests
- Human development across the lifecourse
- Biocultural medical and psychological anthropology
- Human evolutionary biology
- Social epidemiology
- East Africa, Central America, USA
Marysia Galbraith, Professor
17 ten Hoor Hall | (205) 348-8412 | mgalbrai@ua.edu
http://mgalbraith.people.ua.edu
Research Interests
- National and ethnic identity
- East and Central Europe
- Globalization
Courtney Helfrecht, Assistant Professor
13 ten Hoor Hall | (205) 348-7293 | chelfrecht@ua.edu
https://chelfrecht.people.ua.edu/
Research Interests
- Biocultural medical anthropology
- Impact of cultural/physical stressors on biomarker patterning and developmental trajectories
- Socio-cultural and evolutionary determinants of childhood health and growth
- Evolution of human childhood
- Sub-Saharan Africa: Ethiopia (Sidama agropastoralists) and Central African Republic (Aka foragers and Ngandu horticulturalists)
Holly Horan, Assistant Professor
10-B ten Hoor Hall | hhoran@ua.edu
Research Interests
- Applied biocultural, medical anthropology
- Decolonizing anthropology
- Syndemic Theory
- Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and Latin America
- Maternal and infant health with an emphasis on timing of delivery
- Developmental origins of health and disease and stress during the childbearing year
- Alternative models of maternity/reproductive health care
- Birth workers (doulas and midwives) and their capacity for improving health outcomes for the under/unjustly-served
- Social justice and community engaged research (CEnR)
- Health Systems Reform
Keith Jacobi, Professor and Chair
19 ten Hoor Hall / LAB: 301 Mary Harmon Bryant | (205) 348-1960 | kjacobi@as.ua.edu
Research Interests
- Osteology
- Forensic anthropology
Cameron Lacquement, Assistant Teaching Professor
24-C ten Hoor Hall | (205) 348-1961 | clacquement@ua.edu
Research Interests
- Southeastern archaeology
- Monumental and domestic architecture
- Moundville
Lisa LeCount, Professor
25-C ten Hoor Hall | 205-348-3733 | llecount@as.ua.edu
http://llecount.people.ua.edu/
Research Interests
- Latin American archaeology
- Origins of ancient Maya states
- Pre-Columbian households
- Feasting
- Pottery
Christopher D. Lynn, Associate Professor
12 ten Hoor Hall / LAB: 37a Rowand-Johnson Hall | 205-348-4162 | cdlynn@ua.edu
Research Interests
- Biocultural medical anthropology
- Human behavioral ecology
- Evolutionary studies
- Cultural impacts on health
- Dissociation, absorption, and trance
- Signaling theory, cooperation, and commitment
Stephanie McClure, Assistant Professor
15 ten Hoor Hall | (205) 348-2855 | smcclur1@ua.edu
Research Interests
My overarching area of interest is culture, the body, and health. Said in another way, my primary research interest (currently) is the body as the subject andobject of culture, and the bearing that subject/object duality has on how health is understood, experienced, assessed, etc.
My current pursuits with respect to that overarching interest fall into three categories:
- physicality and identity
- intersectionality
- physical activity and wellbeing
My current projects and their category alignment:
- Utility of robust norms assessment for increasing the predictive capacity of health behavior theories (physicality and wellbeing)
- Effect of the psychosocial benefits of physical activity on girls’ school performance (physicality and wellbeing)
- Collage construction as a method for exploring physicality and identity (physicality and identity)
- The role of race/gender as a key intersection in African American adolescent girls’ physicality (intersectionality)
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History as a social determinant of health (this really goes back to my overarching question).
My population focus is African American women and girls.
Lisa Pawloski, Professor and Associate Dean for International Programs
Clark Hall 302 | (205) 348-0047 | lpawloski@ua.edu
Research Interests
Dr. Pawloski is the Associate Dean for International Programs and a Professor of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences. Her previous roles included founding Chair of the Departments of Nutrition and Food Studies and Global and Community Health at George Mason University. She also served as Dean of Academic Affairs on the George Mason University Korea campus in Songdo Korea.
Dr. Pawloski is an expert in childhood obesity and biocultural aspects of health and nutrition among children, adolescents, and young adults. As a Fulbright Scholar in 1997, she examined the nutritional status of adolescent girls from the Segou Region in Mali, West Africa to explore factors impacting malnutrition in that region. Her current interests involve exploring the biocultural, geographic, and social determinants of obesity in transitional countries. Dr. Pawloski has most recently worked and conducted research in Thailand, Iraq, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Chile, and Paris, France.
Education
- PhD, Anthropology, Indiana University, 1999
- MA, Anthropology, Indiana University, 1996
- BA, Biology (Minors: Chemistry and Anthropology), Texas A&M University, 1991
Sonya E. Pritzker, Assistant Professor
15 ten Hoor Hall | (205) 348-6554 | spritzker@ua.edu
http://spritzker.people.ua.edu/
Research Interests
- the treatment of chronic discomfort with Chinese medicine
- methodology in integrative medicine research
- the globalization of Chinese medicine
- the development of integrative medicine in the U.S. and China
- morality and reflective practice in medical care
Alexandre Tokovinine, Assistant Professor
25-B ten Hoor Hall | (205) 348-1906 | atokovinine@ua.edu
http://atokovinine.people.ua.edu/
Research Interests
- Maya archaeology and epigraphy
- Iconography
- 3D scanning and virtual reality