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Dr. Doug Owsley speaking to reporters about an iron coffin

Chair: J. Daniel Rogers
Associate Chair: Laurie Burgess

Central Services

Division Head: J. Daniel Rogers

  • Frohlich, Bruno -- Statistician
  • Payne, Zaborian -- Administrative Specialist
  • Shorey, Nancy -- Administrative Specialist

Collections and Archives Program

Director: Jake Homiak

Anthropology Conservation Laboratory

Conservation Manager: Greta Hansen

Collections Management

Collections Manager: Deborah Hull-Walski

National Anthropological Archives
Human Studies Film Archives

Director: Robert Leopold

Division of Archaeology

Division Head: Dennis J. Stanford

  • Bishop, Ronald -- Senior Research Archaeologist
  • Blackman, James -- Senior Research Chemist
  • J. Daniel Rogers -- Curator (North American Archaeology)
  • Van Beek, Gus -- Curator Emeritus (Old World)

Archaeobiology Program

Director: Bruce D. Smith

  • Perry, Linda -- Research Associate
  • Piperno, Dolores -- Curator (Archaeobotany and South American Archaeology)
  • Rufolo, Scott -- Research Affiliate
  • Zeder, Melinda A. -- Curator (Zooarchaeology)

Arctic Studies Program

Director: William Fitzhugh

  • Broadbent, Noel -- Research Associate
  • Burch, Ernest S., Jr. -- Research Associate
  • Crowell, Aron -- Archaeologist/Alaska Office Director
  • Fienup-Riordan, Ann -- Research Associate
  • Gero, Joan -- Research Associate
  • Hallendy, Norman -- Research Associate
  • Krupnik, Igor -- Arctic Ethnologist
  • Loring, Stephen -- Museum Anthropologist
  • McCarty, Jennifer -- Outreach Coordinator
  • Nagel, Chris -- Research Associate
  • Odess, Daniel -- Research Associate
  • Rusk, Katherine -- Program Assistant
  • Siegel-Causey, Douglas -- Research Associate

Latin American Archeology Program

Director: Betty J. Meggers

    • Ledergerber, Paulina -- Research Associate
    • Del Rio, Mercedes -- Research Associate

    Paleoindian/Paleoecology Program

    Director: Dennis J. Stanford

  • Jodry, Margaret -- Adjunct Scientist, Field Director
  • Anta Montet-White -- Research Associate
  • Bruce Bradley -- Research Associate

Division of Ethnology

Division Head: William Merrill

  • Arnoldi, Mary Jo -- Curator (Africa)
  • Crocker, William -- Curator Emeritus (South America)
  • Goddard, Ives -- Curator Emeritus (North America, Linguistics)
  • Kaeppler, Adrienne -- Curator (Oceania)
  • Krupnik, Igor -- Ethnologist (Arctic)
  • Laughlin, Robert -- Curator Emeritus (Mesoamerica)
  • McLendon, Sally -- Research Associate
  • Merrill, William -- Curator (North America)
  • Scherer, Joanna C. -- Emeritus Anthropologist, (North America,
  • Visual Anthropology)
  • Thomason, Lucy - Museum Technician (Linguistics)
  • Watanabe, Barbara -- Museum Specialist (South America)

American Indian Program

Director: JoAllyn Archambault

  • Snyder, Lynn -- Research Collaborator
  • Tenoso, Don -- Research Collaborator

Asian Cultural History Program

Director: Paul Michael Taylor

  • Cho Houchins, Chang-su -- Museum Specialist (East Asian Ethnology)
  • Shook, Gregory P. -- Program Manager
  • Lotis, Christopher J. -- Publications Director & Project Coordinator
  • Parker, Ian N. -- Researcher & Project Coordinator
  • Thompson, Michael S. -- Researcher

Division of Physical Anthropology

Division Head: Douglas Owsley

  • Jones, Erica -- Museum Specialist (New World)
  • Bruwelheide, Kari -- Museum Specialist (Skeletal Biology)
  • Ortner, Don -- Curator (Skeletal Biology)
  • Owsley, Douglas -- Curator (North America, Forensics)
  • Ubelaker, Douglas -- Curator (New World)

Human Origins Program

Director: Richard Potts

  • Brooks, Alison -- Research Associate
  • Clark, Jennifer -- Museum Specialist
  • Gordon, Kathleen -- Research Associate/Exhibit Developer
  • Noll, Michael -- Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Petraglia, Michael -- Research Collaborator
  • Richmond, Brian G. -- Research Associate
  • Wood, Bernard -- Adjunct Senior Scientist
  • Yellen, John -- Research Associate

Repatriation Program

Program Manager: Bill Billeck
Repatriation Review Committee Coordinator: Lana Gendlin

Science Outreach and Education

Anthropology Outreach Office

  • Kaupp, P. Ann -- Head, Anthropology Outreach Office
  • Walsh, Jane -- Museum Specialist (Mexican archaeology & ethnohistory);
    Affiliations Coordinator

Illustration Unit

  • Bakry, Marcia -- Scientific Illustrator

John Wesley Powell Library of Anthropology

  • Margaret R. Dittemore -- Branch Librarian
  • James Haug -- Reference Librarian
  • Carmine Eyzaguirre -- Library Technician

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