(773) 442-5860
Lesa Davis
Lesa
C.
Davis
Professor; Anthropology Coordinator
Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5862
Courses Taught
ANTH 109b - FYE: Skeletons in Chicago Closets
ANTH 200 - Writing in Anthropology
ANTH 215 - Human Origins: Introduction to Biological Anthropology
ANTH 261 - Biology of Behavior
ANTH 282 - Primates of the World
ANTH 290 - Graduating Anthropology
ANTH 302 - Human Osteology
ANTH 323 - Evolution of Skin Color
ANTH 343 - Anthropology of the Body (w/ T. Luedke)
ANTH 356 - Human Variation
ANTH 368 - Primate Biology and Adaptation
ANTH 371 - Forensic Anthropology
ANTH 376 - Primate Behavior
ANTH 397 - Senior Seminar in Biological Anthropology
ANTH 3871-6 - Field Museum Internship
ANTH 3891-6 - Lincoln Park Zoo Research
Research Interests
My research explores how evolution has shaped the bones and joints of different primate species, and the role of phylogeny and ecology in these processes. I just finished a project on the skeletal adaptations and evolution of locomotion of pitheciin primates with SE Walker-Pacheco and our work is featured in a Cambridge volume on the pitheciins. I also recently co-edited a Springer volume on the biology, behavior, and ecology of the marmosets and callimicos of South America (see above). I am working on a new collaborative project that focuses on the anatomy and locomotion of the night monkey (genus Aotus). Other ongoing projects include the analysis of faunal remains from Suriname harpy eagle predation, and the foraging adaptations of the golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia). Finally, I am collaborating with two students on two projects, one involving the faunal remains from Suriname, and the other on the origins of malocclusion in postindustrial populations.
Education

Ph.D. Anthropology, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, 2002

M.A. Anthropology,  Arizona State University, 1987

B.A. Anthropology, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, 1984

Selected Publications

Davis LC, Walker SE.  2013.  Functional morphology and positional behaviour in the Pitheciini. In:  LM Veiga AA Barnett, SF Ferrari, and MA Norconk (Eds).  Evolutionary Biology and Conservation of Titis, Sakis and Uacaris Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 84-96.

Ford SM, Porter LM, Davis LC.  2009.  The Smallest Anthropoids: The Marmoset/Callimico Radiation.  508 pgs.  New York: Springer.

Ford SM, Davis LC.  2009. The skeleton of Callibella humilis, a new species of marmoset. In: SM Ford, LM Porter, and Davis LC.  (Eds.):  The Smallest Anthropoids: The Marmoset/Callimico Radiation.  New York: Springer.

Walker SE, Davis LC.  2007.  Postcranial features of Cacajao with comparisons to Chiropotes and Pithecia.

Davis LC, Walker SE, Ford, SM.  2006.  Locomotion and skeletal differentiation within the Pitheciini.

Davis LC, Fitton LJ, Nickels MK.  2005. The introductory course in physical anthropology: a status report on its current nature and role.  American Association of Physical Anthropology Newsletter.

2005 Davis LC.  Anatomical correlates for trunk-to-trunk leaping in the forelimb and hindlimb of Callimico goeldii. Am J Phys Anthropol, Suppl. 40:115-116.

Ford SM, Davis LC.  2005.  The skeleton of Callibella humilis: functional and phylogenetic implications. Am J Phys Anthropol, Suppl. 40:128.

Davis LC, Ford SM.  2003. Comparative postcranial morphology of the marmosets.  Am J Phys Anthrop Suppl. 36: 84.

Davis LC.  2002.  Functional anatomy of the callitrichid forelimb and long bones.   Neotropical Primates 10 (2):98.

1996 Davis LC.  Functional and phylogenetic implications of ankle morphology in Callimico goeldii.  In MA Norconk, AL Rosenberger, PA Garber (Eds.): Adaptive Radiations of Neotropical Primatess, New York: Plenum Press, pp. 133-156.

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Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5862
Office Hours
Spring 2024
Monday: 10:00 a.m.-noon via Zoom
Tuesday: 1:00-4:00 p.m. via Zoom
And other times by appointment (current students, see Zoom link in D2L announcement)
Best contact method: email
Main Campus
Tracy Luedke
Tracy
J.
Luedke
Professor; Coordinator, Global Studies Program
Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5621
Expertise
Cultural Anthropology, African Studies, Global Studies
Courses Taught
ANTH 212 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH/AFAM 224 - Contemporary African Culture
ANTH 290 - Graduating Anthropology
ANTH 307 - Anthropology of Gender, Sexuality, and the Body
ANTH 317 - Medical Anthropology
ANTH/AFAM 320 - Religion in Africa
ANTH 375 - Anthropology of Globalization
ANTH 377 - Anthropology of Television
ZHON 360 - Honors Seminar in Research and Creative Processes
GS 201 - Introduction to Global Studies I
AFAM 303 - Global Collaborations-Ghana
Research Interests
Religion, healing, southern Africa, globalization, immigration, transportation
My research concerns the Christianized healing practices of the prophets of central Mozambique, a network of people possessed by biblical spirits who work to heal individual bodies afflicted with illness as well as social bodies recovering from the effects of warfare and dislocation. I recently collaborated on an edited volume about healing in southeastern Africa. The book addresses the important relationship between African healing practices and borders of various sorts, which healers both transgress and reify in the course of their work. I am also interested in material culture, especially the ways objects, buildings, and other materialities figure in healing practices.
Education

Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, Indiana University, 2005

M.A., Cultural Anthropology, Indiana University, 1999

 

Selected Publications

Luedke, Tracy. 2014. “Health, Illness, and Healing in African Society.” In Africa, 4th Edition, edited by Patrick O’Meara, John Hanson, and Maria Grosz-Ngate. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Luedke, Tracy. 2011. “Intimacy and Alterity: Prophetic Selves and Spirit Others in Central Mozambique.” Journal of Religion in Africa  41(2):154-179.

Luedke, Tracy. 2007. “Spirit and Matter: The Materiality of Mozambican Prophet Healing.” Journal of Southern African Studies 33(4): 715-31. Special Issue: Histories of Healing, edited by Lyn Schumaker, Diana Jeater, and Tracy Luedke.

Luedke, Tracy J. 2006. “Presidents, Bishops, and Mothers: The Construction of Authority in Mozambican Healing.” In Borders and Healers: Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa, edited by Tracy J. Luedke and Harry G. West. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

West, Harry G. and Tracy J. Luedke. 2006. “Healing Divides: Therapeutic Border Work in Southeast Africa.” In Borders and Healers: Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa, edited by Tracy J. Luedke and Harry G. West. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

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United States

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Office Hours
Spring 2024
Monday: 3:30-5:30 p.m. (On campus in Room BBH 138 or via Zoom)
Tuesday: 1:30-3:00 p.m. and 4:00-5:30 p.m. (Via Zoom)

Zoom link:
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Main Campus
Russell Zanca
Russell
Zanca
Professor
Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5866
Expertise
Cultural Anthropology with regional focus on Central Asia; post-Soviet economies, collectivized farming; oral history of rural life; Islam and Muslim societies; culinary traditions and cookery; Eurasian labor migration and globalization.
Courses Taught
ANTH 212 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 238 - Peoples of Central Asia
ANTH 355 - WIP: History of Anthropology
ANTH 357 - Shells, Pigs, and Gold: Anthropology and Economy
ANTH 364 - Culinary Anthropology
ANTH 365 - Anthropology of Islam
ANTH 378 - Anthropology of Power
Research Interests
Writings on history of Stalinist collectivization in Uzbekistan and contemporary labor migration among Central Asians.
Education

Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999

Selected Publications

Fearing Islam in Uzbekistan: Islamic Tendencies, Extremist Violence, and Authoritarian Secularism in Reclaiming the Sacred: Morality, Community and Religion after Communism, Mark D. Steinberg and Catherine Wanner, Editors. 2008 Woodrow Wilson Center and Indiana University Press (in press), 2008.

Writing the History of Collectivization in Uzbekistan: Oral Narratives (Written with Dr. Marianne Kamp of the University of Wyoming), National Council for Eurasian and East European Research Working Paper, February 2008.

Everyday Life in Central Asia, co-editor with Dr. Jeff Sahadeo (Carleton U.), Indiana University Press, 2007.

Dilemmas of Representation: Stalinist Collectivization in Uzbekistan and an Ethnographic Past in the Present in Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (5:1, January/February 2005).

Needing a Place to Pray or Believing in God at Your Own Risk: Religion and Terrorisms in Central Asia in Religion, State and Society, March 2005, 33/1:71-82).

"Central Asian Food" in The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink (2004), New York: Oxford University Press.

"'Explaining' Islam in Central Asia: An Anthropological Approach for Uzbekistan," in the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 2004 Vol. 24 No. 1.

"Field Report on Oral and Archival Histories of Collectivization in Uzbekistan" in Central Eurasian Studies Review, (Winter) 2003 Vol. 2 No 1, pp. 10-12.

Take! Take! Take! Host-Guest Relations and All that Food: Uzbek Hospitality Past and Present. Anthropology of East Europe Review. Spring:8-16. 2003.

The Greasier the Better: Dumba and Its Place in the Uzbek Diet in The Fat of the Land, Harlan Walker, Editor. Proceedings of the 2002 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery:294-302. 2003.

Sovyet Sonrasi Ozbekistan'da Kirsal Kesimde Ozbek Kimliginin Yeniden Sekillenisi/Dueling Identities Down on the Farm: Mediating Ethnicity in the Ferghana Valley in Turkler (19:672-682). Guzel et al., editors. Ankara: Yeni Turkiye Yayinlari. 2002.

Tashkent. In Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures (4:280-289). Melvin Ember and Carol Ember, Editors. Grolier Press/Human Relations Area Files: New Haven. 2002.

Uzbekistan In Encyclopedia of World Cultures (Supplement: 362-367).  Melvin Ember, Carol Ember, and Ian Skoggard, Editors. Macmillan Reference USA. 2001.

Intruder in Uzbekistan: Walking the Line between Community Needs and Anthropological Desiderata In Fieldwork in Postsocialist Societies (153-171). Hermine de Soto and Nora Dudwick, eds. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. 2000.

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5500 North St. Louis Avenue
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United States

(773) 442-5866
Office Hours
Spring 2024
Tuesday and Thursday: 8:15-9:25 a.m. in Room BBH 142
Wednesday: 10:00 a.m.-noon in Room BBH 142
or by appointment

Please let me know via email how you would like to meet and when.
Main Campus
Jon Hageman
Jon
B.
Hageman
Professor; Coordinator, University Honors Program
Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-6045
Expertise
Archaeology
Courses Taught
LLAS 101 - Introduction to Latino and Latin American Studies
FYE 109d - Aliens, Curses, and the chicago Cemetery
ANTH 212 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 200 - Writing in Anthropology
ANTH 213 - Introduction to Archaeology
ANTH 250 - Latin American Archaeology
ANTH 252 - North American Archaeology
ANTH 290 - Graduating Anthropology
ANTH 337a - Anthropology of Death
ANTH 355 - History of Anthropology
ANTH 374 - The Maya
ANTH 380 - Archaeological Field School
ZHON 193 - Honors Introduction to the Social Sciences
Research Interests
Method and theory; settlement and landscape; complex societies; social organization; Mesoamerica.
Education

Ph.D., Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, 2004

M.A., Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, 1992

B.A., History, Trinity University, 1989

Selected Publications

Hill, Erica, and Jon B. Hageman (editors). 2016. The Archaeology of Ancestors: Death, Memory, and VenerationUniversity Press of Florida, Gainesville.  

Hageman, Jon B. and Erica Hill. 2016. Leveraging the Dead: The Ethnography of Ancestors. In The Archaeology of Ancestors: Death, Memory, and Veneration, edited by E. Hill and J.B. Hageman, pp. 1-41. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.

Hill, Erica and Jon B. Hageman. 2016. The Archaeology of Ancestors. In The Archaeology of Ancestors: Death, Memory, and Veneration, edited by E. Hill and J.B. Hageman, pp. 42-80. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.

Hageman, Jon B.  2016. Where the Ancestors Live:  Shrines and Their Meaning among the Classic Maya. In The Archaeology of Ancestors: Death, Memory, and Veneration, edited by E. Hill and J.B. Hageman, pp. 213-248. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.

Duncan, William N. and Jon B. Hageman. 2015. House or Lineage? How Intracemetery Kinship Analysis Contributes to the Debate in the Maya Area. In Archaeology and Bioarchaeology of Population Movement among the Prehispanic Maya, edited by A. Cucina, pp. 133-142. Springer, New York. 

Goldstein, David J. and Jon B. Hageman. 2014. Status and Food Choice:  Late Classic Maya Foodways for Ancestor Worship and Subsistence. In Plants and People: Choices and Diversity Through Time, edited by Alexandre Chevalier, Elena Marinova, and Leonor Peña, pp. 444-48. EARTH Sustainable Agriculture Reference Series, Volume 1. European Science Foundation, Brussels. 

Goldstein, David J., and Jon B. Hageman. 2010. Power Plants: Paleobotanical Evidence of Rural Feasting in Late Classic Belize. In Food and Feasting in Mesoamerican Civilization: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Roles of Consumables and Ritual Performance, pp. 421-440, edited by John E. Staller and Michael Carrasco. Springer, New York.  

Hageman, Jon B., and David J. Goldstein. 2009. An Integrated Assessment of Archaeobotanical Recovery methods in the Neotropical Rainforest of Northern Belize: Flotation and Dry Screening. Journal of Archaeological Science 36:2841-2852.  

Sullivan, Lauren A., Jon B. Hageman, Brett A. Houk, Paul J. Hughbanks, and Fred Valdez, Jr. 2008. Structure Abandonment and Landscape Transformation: Examples from the Three Rivers Region. In Ruins of the Past: The Use and Perception of Abandoned Structures in the Maya Lowlands, edited by Travis Stanton and Aline Magnoni, pp. 91-112. University Press of Colorado, Boulder. 

Houk, Brett A., and Jon B. Hageman. 2007. Lost and Found: (Re)-Placing Say Ka in the La Milpa Suburban Settlement Pattern.  Mexicon 29:152-156. 

Hageman, Jon B. 2004. The Lineage Model and Archaeological Data in Northwestern Belize. Ancient Mesoamerica 15:63-74. 

William R. Fowler and Jon B. Hageman. 2004. New Perspectives on Ancient Maya Social Organization. Ancient Mesoamerica 15:61-62. 

Hageman, Jon B., and Jon C. Lohse. 2003. Heterarchy, Corporate Groups, and Late Classic Resource Management in Northwestern Belize. In Heterarchy, Political Economy, and the Ancient Maya, edited by V.L. Scarborough, F. Valdez, Jr., and N.P. Dunning, pp. 109-121. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Beach, Timothy, Sheryl Luzzader-Beach, Nicholas Dunning, Jon Hageman, and Jon Lohse. 2003. Upland Agriculture in the Maya Lowlands: Ancient Maya Soil Conservation in Northwestern Belize. The Geographical Review 92 (3):372-397.  

Hageman, Jon B. and David A. Bennett. 2000. Construction of Digital Elevation Models For Archaeological Applications. In Practical Applications of GIS for Archaeologists: A Predictive Modeling Toolkit, edited by K. Wescott and R.J. Brandon, pp. 113-127. Taylor and Francis, London. 

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Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-6045
Office Hours
Fall 2022 Virtual Office Hours
Tuesday and Thursday: 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Main Campus
Curriculum Vitae
NEIU logo
Zada
N.
Johnson
Assistant Professor
Educational Inquiry and Curriculum Studies
College of Education
(773) 268-7500 ext. 161
Courses Taught
Theory and Methodology in Ethnic Group Research
Communication in the Inner City
Contemporary Issues in the Inner City
Cultures of the Inner City
Research Methods in Inner City Studies
Research Interests
urban anthropology, popular culture, urban culture, historical consciousness, race, Bronzeville, New Orleans
Education

University of Chicago

Room CCICS 417
Jacob H. Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies
700 E. Oakwood Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60653
United States

(773) 268-7500 ext. 161
Office Hours
Tuesday: 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Thursday: 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies
Martin Giesso
Martin
Giesso
Senior Instructor
Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5794
Courses Taught
ANTH 212 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 213 - Introduction to Archaeology
ANTH 250 - Latin American Archaeology
ANTH 306 - The Rise of Complex Societies: The Archaeology of State Formation and Urbanization
ANTH 350r - South American Archaeology
Research Interests
Andean archaeology, archaeometry, lithic analysis
Education

Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Chicago, 2000

M.A., Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1990

Lic, Anthropology, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 1981

Selected Publications

2023 Pérez, Alberto Enrique, M. Giesso, M.D. Glascock, J.J. Sauer. Obsidianas Yuco en los lagos y bosques andinos norpatagónicos: caracterización geoquímica, procedencia y distribución espaciotemporal (1000-500 AP). Arqueología Iberoamericana, vol. 52, Dec. 2023. 

2023 Pérez, Alberto E., M. Sacchi, G. Lucero, M. Giesso. Análisis de obsidianas a partir de técnicas no destructivas: Registro occidental cordillerano de obsidiana del grupo químico CP-LL1 en contextos alfareros tempranos del área centro sur de Chile. Latin American Antiquity, vol. 34 nr.2, June 2023

2021 Sanhueza, Lorena, L. Cornejo, V. Duran, V. Cortegoso, L. Yebra, M.D. Glascock, B L. MacDonald, M. Giesso. Sources, circulation, and use of obsidian in central Chile. Quaternary International vol 574, 10 February 2021, Pages 13-26.

2019. XRF obsidian analysis from Ayacucho Basin in Huamanga province, south‐eastern Peru. M. Giesso, H.G. Nami, J.J. Yataco Capcha, M.D. Glascock, B.L. Macdonald. Archaeometry.

2019. Deconstructing a Complex Obsidian ‘Source-scape': A Geoarchaeological and Geochemical Approach in Northwestern Patagonia. Ramiro Barberena, María V. Fernández, Agustina A. Rughini, Karen Borrazzo, Raven Garvey, Gustavo Lucero, Claudia Della Negra, Guadalupe Romero Villanueva, Víctor Durán, Valeria Cortegoso, Martín Giesso, Catherine Klesner, Brandi L. MacDonald, Michael D. Glascock Geoarchaeology.

2019. Procurement and Circulation of Obsidian in the Province of La Pampa, Argentina. Berón, Mónica A., Páez, Florencia N., Carrera Aizpitarte, Manuel P., Giesso, Martín & Glascock, Michael D. Journal of Lithic Studies.  

2019. Obsidian distribution of the northern Patagonian forest area and neighboring sectors during the late Holocene (Neuquén province, Argentina). Open Archaeology. Alberto E. Pérez; Martin Giesso; Michael D. Glascock  

The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Ancient South America was included in Choice's list of 2018 Outstanding Academic Titles:

https://www.choicereviews.org/review/10.5860/CHOICE.210177

Hugo G. Nami, Martin Giesso, Alicia Castro, Michael D. Glascock

New Analyses of Late Holocene Obsidians from Southern Patagonia

(Santa Cruz Province, Argentina)

Bulletin of the International Association of Obsidian Studies 57: 13-25, Summer 2017.

2018 Historical Dictionary of Ancient South America. Second edition. Rowman and Littlefield eds.

2017    Geografía humana y tecnología en el norte de Neuquén: proyecto de geoquímica de obsidianas. In Florencia Gordon, Ramiro Barberena and Valeria Bernal (eds.). El poblamiento humano en el norte del Neuquén. Estado actual del conocimiento y perspectivas. Coauthored with Ramiro Barberena, M. Victoria Fernández, Agustina Rughini, Valeria Cortegoso, Gustavo Lucero, Víctor A. Durán, Raven Garvey, Michael D. Glascock, and Guadalupe Romero. Buenos Aires: Aspha.

2015   Las Cargas: Characterization and Prehistoric Use of a Southern Andean Obsidian Source.Geoarchaeology 30(2); 139-150. Coauthored with Laura Salgan, Raven Garvey, Gustavo Neme, Adolfo Gil, Michael D. Glascock, and Vıctor Duran.

2017. Impacto del volcanismo Holocénico sobre el poblamiento humano del extreme noroeste de la Patagonia Argentina. María Fernanda Ugalde (ed.) Volcanes, cenizas y ocupaciones antiguas en perspectiva geoarqueológica en América Latina, p. 23-41. Quito, Publicaciones de la Universidad Católica del Ecuador. Coauthored with Victor Duran, Raul Mikkan, Ramiro Barberena and Gustavo Lucero. 

2017    Geografía humana y tecnología en el norte de Neuquén: proyecto de geoquímica de obsidianas. In Florencia Gordon, Ramiro Barberena and Valeria Bernal (eds.). El poblamiento humano en el norte del Neuquén. Estado actual del conocimiento y perspectivas. Coauthored with Ramiro Barberena, M. Victoria Fernández, Agustina Rughini, Valeria Cortegoso, Gustavo Lucero, Víctor A. Durán, Raven Garvey,

Michael D. Glascock, and Guadalupe Romero. Buenos Aires: Aspha.

2015    Fuentes de aprovisionamiento y uso de obsidianas del ámbito boscoso y lacustre andino norpatagónico (provincia del Neuquén, Argentina). Special volume, p. 17-26. Intersecciones en Antropología, Universidad del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Coauthored with Alberto E. Pérez and Michael D. Glascock, 

2015   Las Cargas: Characterization and Prehistoric Use of a Southern Andean Obsidian Source.Geoarchaeology 30(2); 139-150. Coauthored with Laura Salgan, Raven Garvey, Gustavo Neme, Adolfo Gil, Michael D. Glascock, and Vıctor Duran.

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538102367/Historical-Dictionary-of-Ancient-South-America-Second-Edition

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Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5794
Office Hours
Spring 2024
Tuesday and Thursday: 11:00-11:45 a.m.
Monday and Wednesday: 3:30-4:15 p.m. in person at El Centro in the classroom
or by appointment
El Centro
Main Campus
Edward Maher
Edward
F.
Maher
Instructor
Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5794
Courses Taught
ANTH 212 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 213 - Introduction to Archaeology
ANTH 306 - Rise of Complex Societies: Archaeology of State Formation and Urbanization
ANTH 309 - Egyptian Archaeology
ANTH 310 - Near Eastern Archaeology
ANTH 315 - Greek Archaeology: Bronze Age
ANTH 335a - Zooarchaeology
Research Interests
Regional Expertise: Archaeology with regional focus on Israel and the Eastern Mediterranean Basin.
Research Interests: Iron and Bronze Age Levant, zooarchaeology, economies, empire, ethnicity, trade, ritual, animal sacrifice, site abandonment.
Education

Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2003

M.A. Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 1997

B. A. Anthropology, University of Lethbridge, Canada 1993

Selected Publications

2018  Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age IB Fauna from Beqo'a. ‘Atiqot 90: 67-73.

2017a  E. F. Maher and B. Hesse. The Iron Age II Faunal Remains. In: S. Gitin, ed., The Tel Miqne-Ekron Excavations 1985-1988,1990, 1992-1995: Field IV Lower – The Elite Zone Volume 9/2 Part 2: The Iron Age I Early Philistine City, pp. 357-363. Eisenbrauns.

2017b  E. C. M van den Brink, R. Beeri, D. Kirzner, E. Bron, A. Cohen-Weinberger, E. Kamaisky, T. Gonen, L. Gershuny, Y. Nagar, D. Ben-Tor, N. Sukenik, O, Shamir, E. F. Maher, and D. Reich. A Late Bronze Age II clay coffin from Tel Shaddud in the Central Jezreel Valley, Israel: context and historical implications, Levant 49: 105-135.

2017c  Flair of the Dog: The Philistine Consumption of Canines. In: Justin Lev-Tov, Paula Hesse, and Allan Gilbert, eds., The Wide Lens in Archaeology:Honoring Brian Hesse's Contributions to Anthropological Archaeology, pp. 117-147. Lockwood Press.

2016  E. F. Maher and B. Hesse. The Middle Bronze Age II and Iron Age I Faunal Remains. In: S. Gitin, ed., The Tel Miqne-Ekron Excavations 1985-1988,1990,1992-1995: Field IV Lower – The Elite Zone Volume 9/1 Part 1: The Iron Age I Early Philistine City, pp. 515-570. Eisenbrauns.

2014a  Lambs to the Slaughter: Cultic Orientations at Philistine Ekron in the 7th century BCE. In: John R. Spencer, Aaron J. Brody, and Robert A. Mullens, eds., Material Culture Matters: Essays on the Archaeology of the Southern Levant in Honor of Seymour Gitin, pp. 111-130. American Schools of Oriental Research.

2014b  Temporal Trends in Animal Exploitation: Fauna Analysis from Tell Jemmeh. In: David Ben-Shlomo and Gus W. Van Beek, eds., The Smithsonian Institution Excavation at Tell Jemmeh, Israel (1970-1990), pp. 1038-1051. Contributions in Anthropology Series. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press.

2013  Animal Husbandry. In: D. M. Master, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Archaeology. Oxford University Press.

2012  Mortuary Faunal Remains. In: David Ben-Shlomo, ed., The Azor Cemetery: Moshe Dothan's Excavations, 1958 and 1960 (IAA Reports 50), pp. 195-198. The Israel Antiquities Authority.

2006/07  Imminent Invasion: The Abandonment of Philistine Ekron. Scripta Mediterranea, Special Issue - Cyprus, The Sea Peoples and the Eastern Mediterranean: Regional Perspectives of Continuity and Change 27-28: 323-337.

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Office Hours
Spring 2024
Monday and Wednesday: 12:50-1:50 p.m. in Room BBH 140
or by appointment
Main Campus
Shimelis Gebru
Shimelis
Gebru
Instructor
Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
Courses Taught
Anthropology 215
Anthropology 376
Research Interests
Humans and Nonhuman Primates
Education

PhD: Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.

M.A.: Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.

Background

Shimelis B. Gebru got his M.A. and Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. Dr. Gebru is an anthropologist whose research interests are multifaceted, including both humans and nonhuman primates. His recent research focuses on the relationships between traditional natural resource management practices and food security in Ethiopia. Specifically how the introduction of new technologies, programs and policies affect traditional livelihood practices as well as food security, nutrition and heath outcomes of highland farmers and lowland pastoralists. 

Office Hours
Spring 2022
8:30-9:20 a.m. and 1:40-2:25 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday or by appointment.
Main Campus
Photo of Matilda Stubbs
Matilda
Stubbs
Instructor
Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
Expertise
Cultural and linguistic anthropology, ethnographic research methods.
Courses Taught
ANTH 212 Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 363 The Anthropology of Tourism
ANTH 307 The Anthropology of Gender, Sexuality, and the Body
ANTH 109E First Year Experience, Sweet Home Chicago: Identity and Culture in the Windy City
Research Interests
U.S. state social service administration, child welfare, adoption, fosterage, semiotic theory, ethnographic methods, digital, visual, and material culture (cars, tourism, ASMR).
Education

2018 Ph.D. Anthropology, Northwestern University 
2012 M.A. Anthropology, Northwestern University 
2005 B.A. Anthropology, Cultural Track, Honors, University of California, Santa Cruz

Selected Publications

Stubbs, Matilda. 2021. “Slimefulness as Self-care.” Anthropology News, 62 (3).

Office Hours
Spring 2024
Thursday: 12:05-2:00 p.m. in Room BBH 156 (Anthropology classroom)
Main Campus