Faculty | Graduate Group and Adjunct Faculty | Lecturer and Research Fellows | Emeritus Faculty | Graduate Student Research Interests | Alphabetical Department Directory | Department Administration

	Fran Barg			PhD	University of Pennsylvania			2000
		Assistant Professor			began teaching at Penn in 2000
		Appointments		Faculty, Dept. of Family Practice and Community Medicine, School of Medicine; Anthropology Graduate Group.
		Research Interests		Medical anthropology, urban US, ethnic differences in disease, anthropology of aging.
	Philip Chase			PhD	University of Arizona			1983
		Graduate Group			began teaching at Penn in 1987
		Appointments		Senior Research Scientist, University Museum.
		Research Interests		Paleolithic archaeology, evolution of culture, evolution of symbolism and symbolic behavior, zooarchaeology, European prehistory, taphonomy, site formation processes.
	Dorothy L. Cheney			PhD	University of Cambridge			1977
		Graduate Group			began teaching at Penn in 1986
		Appointments		Biology Department Faculty; Psychology Graduate Groups.
		Research Interests		Behavior and ecology of non-human primates; vocal communication and social cognition of nonhuman primates; behavioral ecology of birds and mammals. Field work in Kenya, Rwanda, and Botswana on free-ranging vervet monkeys, gorillas, and baboons.
	Nancy Farriss			PhD	University of London			1965
		Graduate Group			began teaching at Penn in 1971
		Appointments		History Department Faculty; Chairman, Executive Committee, Latin American Cultures Program; Director, Ethnohistory program; Anthropology Graduate Group.
		Research Interests		Cultural change; Mesoamerica; religion and symbolic systems; colonization and colonialism; intercultural communication; ritual; narrative.
	Kathleen Hall			PhD	University of Chicago			1993
		Associate Professor Graduate Group			began teaching at Penn in 1995
		Appointments		Graduate School of Education; Anthropology Graduate Group; South Asia Regional Studies Graduate Group.
		Research Interests		Sociocultural anthropology; Great Britain, US, and South Asia; education and social stratification; ethnicity, race relations and nationalism; the politics of identity and difference; civil society and public policy discourse; immigration and globalization; media studies and youth culture; urban ethnography; social theory.
	Morrie Kricun			MD	Thomas Jefferson Medical College
		Graduate Group			joined Radiology Department at HUP 1981
		Appointments		Department of Radiology, HUP; Anthropology Graduate Group.
		Research Interests		Skeletal disorders: bone tumors, spinal disorders, arthritis, metabolic diseases, congenital anomalies, trauma; paleopathology; prehistoric Australian Aborigines; Neandertals; radiology of skeletal specimens; health status of prehistoric populations.
	Ritty A. Lukose			PhD	University of Chicago			2001
		Graduate Group			began teaching at Penn in 2001
		Appointments		Graduate School of Education Faculty; Anthropology Graduate Group; South Asia Regional Studies Graduate Group.
		Research Interests		Sociocultural anthropology; South Asia, US; modernity, transnationalism and globalization, gender; education, youth, migration, feminism, nationalism, (post) colonialism; feminist, political and cultural theory.
	Patrick E. McGovern			PhD	University of Pennsylvania			1980
		Graduate Group			began teaching at Penn in 1979
		Appointments		Senior Research Scientist, MASCA and Near East Section, Director of Baq'ah Valley (Jordan) Project, University Museum.
		Research Interests		Archaeology; Near East and Egypt; Bronze and Iron Ages; applications of the physical and biological sciences in archaeology; directing archaeological projects in Jordan; head of the Archaeochemistry and Archaeoceramics Laboratory; organic contents analysis; pottery provenancing; technological innovation and cultural change.
	Naomi F. Miller			PhD	University of Michigan			1982
		Adjunct Associate Professor			began working at Penn in 1987
		Appointments		Senior Research Scientist, MASCA and Near East Section, University Museum; Anthropology Adjunct Faculty.
		Research Interests		Archaeology; ancient Near East and Central Asia; paleoethnobotany; research at Gordion and Hacinebi (Turkey), Tell es-Sweyhat (Syria), Anau (Turkmenistan), et al.; long-term human impact on the land; ancient agriculture and land use.
	Janet M. Monge			PhD	University of Pennsylvania			1991
		Adjunct Professor			began teaching at Penn in 1996
		Appointments		Bryn Mawr College Adjunct Faculty; Anthropology Associate Professor; Keeper of Collections, Physical Anthropology Section, University Museum.
		Research Interests		Paleoanthropology; Europe; comparative vertebrate and human osteology; dental histology; skeletal biology.
	Carol Ann Muller			PhD	New York University			1994
		Graduate Group			began teaching at Penn in 1998
		Appointments		Department of Music; Anthropology Graduate Group; and Folklore Graduate Group.
		Research Interests		Ethnomusicology; cultural anthropology; religious studies; gender; diaspora and post-colonial studies. Fieldwork in South Africa: South African jazz, music and migration, women, narrative, song and indigenous Christianity; USA, on gospel music in West Philadelphia (ABCS related work), Free Jazz Performance in/by those in Philadelphia.
	Marilyn Norcini			PhD	University of Arizona			1995
		Graduate Group			began teaching at Penn in 1998
		Appointments		Senior Research Scientist, American Section, University Museum.
		Research Interests		Museology; anthropological archives; history of American anthropology; Southwestern ethnography; American Indians of the Southwest, particularly Pueblo societies; tribal museums and indigenous cultural centers; indigenous scholars.
	Deborah I. Olszewski			PhD	University of Arizona			1984
		Adjunct Associate Professor			began teaching at Penn in 2001
		Appointments		Anthropology adjunct faculty; Senior Research Scientist, Penn Museum; Fellow, Penn Center for Native American Studies.
		Research Interests		Prehistoric hunter‑gatherer adaptations; origins of agriculture; Middle Eastern, Egyptian, and North African Paleolithic, Epipaleolithic, and Neolithic; applications of chipped and ground stone analyses; American Southwest; European Paleolithic and Mesolithic; pre-Contact Hawai’i.
	Paula L. W. Sabloff			PhD	Brandeis University			1977
		Adjunct Associate Professor			began teaching at Penn in 1996
		Appointments		Senior Research Scientist, Asian Section, University Museum; Anthropology Adjunct Faculty; Penn's representative to Human Relations Area Files (HRAF); Associate Fellow, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Department.
		Research Interests		Cultural anthropology; political anthropology; methodology; applied anthropology; Mongolia, US, Latin America; anthropology of complex societies.
	Gillian Sankoff			PhD	McGill University			1968
		Graduate Group			began teaching at Penn in 1979
		Appointments		Linguistics Department Faculty; Anthropology Graduate Group.
		Research Interests		Socio- and ethnolinguistics; Oceania (especially Papua New Guinea), French Canada; pidgins and creoles; languages in contact; creolization of New Guinea Tok Pisin; Buang (Morobe Province, PNG) language and society, especially cognitive anthropology, bilingualism, ethnopoetics; language change and social stratification of Montreal French; acquisition of French by English Canadians.
	Robert Seyfarth			PhD	University of Cambridge			1977
		Graduate Group			began teaching at Penn in 1985
		Appointments		Psychology Department Faculty; Anthropology and Biology Graduate Groups.
		Research Interests		Social organization, communication, and cognition in nonhuman primates; vocal communication in animals and its relation to language.
	Josef W. Wegner			PhD	University of Pennsylvania			1996
		Graduate Group			began teaching at Penn in 1996
		Appointments		Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department Faculty; Assistant Curator, Egyptian Section, University Museum; Anthropology Graduate Group.
		Research Interests		Egyptian Archaeology; excavations at Abydos (southern Egypt); archaeology of religion; settlement archaeology; structure/evolution of administrative systems; specializing in Egypt's Middle Kingdom-Second Intermediate Period.
	Joyce White			PhD	University of Pennsylvania			1986
		Graduate Group			began teaching at Penn in 1987
		Appointments		Senior Research Scientist, Asian Section, University Museum; Director Ban Chiang Project; Anthropology Adjunct Faculty.
		Research Interests		Archaeology; mainland Southeast Asia, especially Thailand and Laos; ethnoecology; palaeoenvironmental reconstruction; development of prehistoric agriculture; heterarchy; methodology of site analysis.
	Stanton Wortham			PhD	University of Chicago			1992
		Graduate Group			began teaching at Penn in 1998
		Appointments		Graduate School of Education Faculty; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, GSE; Anthropology Graduate Group; Folklore & Folklife Graduate Group; Associated Faculty, Annenberg School for Communication.
		Research Interests		Linguistic anthropology, social theory, semiotics, indexicality, social identity, narrative, discourse analysis, narrative self-construction, situated cognition, classroom discourse, media discourse.
	Babette Zemel			PhD	University of Pennsylvania			1989
		Graduate Group			began teaching at Penn in 1996
		Appointments		Scientific Director, Nutrition Growth Lab, CHOP; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Medical School; Professor, University of Pennsylvania Nursing; Anthropology Graduate Group.
		Research Interests		Nutritional anthropology; human adaptation; energetics; growth & development; body composition and bone mineralization; biomedical anthropology; Papua New Guinea; genetic epidemiology; living with chronic disease.
	Michael R. Zimmerman			PhD	University of Pennsylvania			1976
				MD	New York University			1963
		Graduate Group			teaching at Penn, 1972-1977 and since 1980
		Appointments		Anthropology Graduate Group.
		Research Interests		Medical anthropology; paleopathology of Egyptian and Alaskan mummies and early hominid skeletal remains; Egyptology; Alaskan prehistory; hominid evolution.