Faculty & Staff

Faculty

	Professor John M. Gilmore Associate Professor of Teaching/Online Coordinator jmgilmor@memphis.edu Urban Anthropology, community development, leadership, religion, African and African-American Studies, and HIV/AIDS Online students: set up an advising appointment.
	Dr. Beck Henriksen Visiting Associate Professor bhnrksen@memphis.edu LGBTQ studies, queer and trans anthropology, critical ethnography, African studies, medical humanities, visual culture, crip theory & disability studies, religious studies
	Dr. Kathryn Hicks Department Chair/Associate Professor kahicks2@memphis.edu Biological Anthropology, Political Economy, Developmental Systems Theory, Environmental Justice, Health Inequality, Andes, US
	Dr. Katherine Lambert-Pennington Associate Professor, Director of School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy almbrtpn@memphis.edu Race and social inequality, social movements, identity production, community development, food justice, alternative food networks, participatory action research, community-university partnerships, US, Australia, Italy
	Dr. Ted Maclin Associate Professor of Teaching/Undergraduate Advisor emaclin1@memphis.edu Politics of knowledge; science, technology, and society; political ecology; climate change; organizational and institutional ethnography
	Dr. Erin Mellett Assistant Professor emellett@memphis.edu Medical anthropology, linguistic anthropology, deaf studies, disability studies, sign language(s), migration, language and social justice, linguistic discrimination, health inequalities, identity and belonging
	Dr. Michael Perez Associate Professor/ Graduate Studies Coordinator mvperez@memphis.edu Migration and displacement, ethnicity and nationalism, memory, violence, human rights, Muslim societies and Islam
	Dr. William Robertson Assistant Professor W.Robertson@memphis.edu Medical anthropology; LGBTQ+ health disparities and equity; anthropology of care; queer and trans anthropology; the body and embodiment; risk; conceptualizations and practices of biomedical research, education, and expertise; clinical ethnography; social science of human papillomavirus (HPV); science and technology studies
	Dr. Micah Trapp Associate Professor mmtrapp@memphis.edu Food Systems; Taste; Food Entitlements and Humanitarian Aid; Economic Anthropology; Refugees and Migration; Ethnographic Methods; West Africa and US

Faculty Affiliates

Dr. Amanda Gaggioli
Assistant Professor
gaggioli@memphis.edu
Department of History

	Dr. Sage Graham Associate Professor sgraham2@memphis.edu Department of English; Applied Linguistics
	Dr. Laurel Hackley Assistant Professor of Practice ldhckley@memphis.edu Department of Art and Design

Dr. Satish Kedia
Associate Dean, Administration & Faculty Affairs, Interim Director and Professor, Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences
skkedia@memphis.edu
School of Public Health

Dr. Anthony J. Lauricella
Manager
jlrcella@memphis.edu
CH Nash Museum at Chucalissa

Anthropologists in Other Departments

	Dr. David Dye Department of Earth Sciences daviddye@memphis.edu
	Dr. Andrew Mickelson Department of Earth Sciences amicklsn@memphis.edu
	Dr. Ryan Parish Department of Earth Sciences rmparish@memphis.edu

Professors Emeriti

	Dr. Linda Bennett Professor lbennett@memphis.edu Alcohol Consumption & Alcoholism, Ethnicity & Identity, Family Rituals & Routines, Engaged Scholarship, Croatia & the former Yugoslavia
	Dr. Ruthbeth Finerman Professor finerman@memphis.edu Medical Anthropology, Reproductive Health, Health Program Evaluation, South America, US, and Immigrant Populations
	Dr. Stanley Hyland Professor shyland@memphis.edu
	Dr. Ross Sackett Instructor rsackett@memphis.edu Evolutionary Anthropology, Quantitative Methods, Native South America

Part-Time Instructors

Jenessa Mae Spears
j.m.spears@memphis.edu
901.678.2080

Michele Safa
msafa@memphis.edu
(901) 678-2080

Megan Wilkinson
mrwlkns2@memphis.edu
(901) 678-2080

Staff

Paulette Wilkerson,
Assistant to the Chair
pwilkrsn@memphis.edu
901.678.3329
Fax: 901.678.2069

Representatives to the Faculty

	Karma Rakow Undergraduate Representative to the Faculty
	Charlee Coker Graduate Representative to the Faculty