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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
  • Rick, Torben -- Curator (North American Archaeology)
  • 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)
    • Bell, Joshua -- Curator (Globalization)
    • 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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