People

Chair

Ph.D. State University of New York-Stony Brook 1992
Human origins, primate evolution, dental microwear, functional anatomy, computer image analysis, feeding ecology of living primates
pungar@uark.edu

Archeology

Jesse Casana | Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Chicago 2003
Landscape archaeology, geoarchaeology, Near East and Mediterranean, human-environment relationships
jcasana@uark.edu

Ann Early | Associate Professor
Ph.D. U Massachusetts Amherst 1973
Prehistoric Caddo, Midwestern archeology, Ouachitas
amearly@uark.edu

Thomas J. Green
Ph.D. Indiana University 1977; Director, Arkansas Archeological Survey
North American prehistory and ethnology, public archeology, cultural resource management
tgreen@uark.edu

Marvin Kay | Professor
Ph.D. University of Colorado 1975
Primitive technology, lithic, microscopic use-wear, Quaternary, Ozark highlands, Great Plains, Old World Paleolithic
mkay@uark.edu

Kenneth L. Kvamme | Professor
Ph.D. University of California-Santa Barbara 1983
GIS, geophysics, remote sensing, quantitative analysis, settlement archeology; Great Plains, Western U.S.
kkvamme@uark.edu

W. Fredrick Limp | University Professor
Ph.D. Indiana 1983
Computer applications, economic anthropology, Midwestern archeology
fred@cast.uark.edu

Robert C. Mainfort, Jr. | Professor
Ph.D. Michigan State 1977
Arkansas Archeological Survey, eastern North America, mortuary studies, systematics
mainfort@uark.edu

George Sabo III | Professor
Ph.D. Michigan State 1981
Arkansas Archeological Survey, Southeast U.S. ethnohistory, European exploration and colonization in the South, Southeastern Indians
gsabo@uark.edu

Biological Anthropology

Justin M. Nolan | Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Missouri 2000
Ethnobiology, ecological anthropology, applied linguistics, folklife studies, North American cultures
jmnolan@uark.edu

Michael Plavcan | Associate Professor
Ph.D. Duke University 1990
Biological anthropology, research methods, evolutionary ecology
mplavcan@uark.edu

Jerome C. Rose | Professor
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts-Amherst 1973
bioarcheology and dental anthropology, Egypt, Jordan, Southeast and Midwest
jcrose@uark.edu

Peter S. Ungar | Chair

Ph.D. State Uiversity New York-Stony Brook 1992
Human origins, primate evolution, dental microwear, functional anatomy, computer image analysis, feeding ecology of living primates
pungar@uark.edu

Cultural Anthropology

JoAnn D'Alisera | Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Illinois 1997
West Africa, Africans in America, Islam, American Islam, aymbolic and interpretive anthropology, religion, material culture, transnational communities and identities
dalisera@uark.edu

Kirstin Erickson | Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin 2000
Native Americans, Northern Mexico, sociolinguistics, gender, performance studies, U.S.-Mexico borderlands, memory, culture, narrative
kirstin@uark.edu

Mary Jo Schneider | Professor
Ph.D. Univeristy of Missouri 1972
Cultural anthropology, Southern culture, history, gender
maryjo@uark.edu

Ted Swedenburg | Professor
Ph.D. University of Texas 1988
Cultural Middle East, popular culture, world music, cultural studies, transnational identities, domination and resistance
tsweden@uark.edu

Staff

Carl Hitt | Administrative Secretary

Carl Paul Hitt has been at the University of Arkansas since January 1972. He was the university photographer from 1974 to 1984. He has a B.A. and M.A. in sociology from the university and came to us from the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Criminal Justice, where he was a research assistant. His hobbies are reading, writing, and video photography.

Sarah Horne | Secretary