Faculty and Staff

Curt Grimm
Eleanor Harrison-Buck
Meghan Howey
Joe L.P. Lugalla
Edgar Martin del Campo
Justus Ogembo
Svetlana Peshkova
Jolan Rivera
Robin Sheriff
Carolyn Stolzenburg
Sara Withers

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Faculty 

Curt Grimm

Curt Grimm

Research Associate Professor of Anthropology

Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3788
E-mail: curt.grimm@unh.edu
 

Education:
B.A., University of New Hampshire, 1979
M.A., State University of New York, Binghamton, 1985
Ph.D., ibid., 1991

Fields of Research: 
sustainable development

 


Eleanor Harrison-Buck

Eleanor Harrison-Buck

Assistant Professor of Archaeology

311 Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-4742
Fax: (603) 862-1131
E-mail: e.harrison-buck@unh.edu

Education:
B.S., Skidmore College, 1994
M.A., Boston University, 2001
Ph.D., Boston University, 2007

Courses Taught:
ANTH 412: Adventures in Archaeology
ANTH 501B: World Archaeological Cultures: Mesoamerica
ANTH 620: Ritual and Religion of Ancient Mesoamerica
ANTH 674: Archaeological Survey and Mapping in Belize
ANTH 675: Archaeological Field School in Belize
ANTH 697: Special Topic: Maya Civilization
ANTH 797: Advanced Topic: The Archaeology of Identity
ANTH 797: Advanced Topic: Ancient Mesoamerican Religion

Fields of Research: 
Mesoamerican archaeology, Maya culture, complex societies, social organization and identity, religious ideology, and technical and stylistic studies of material culture

 


Meghan Howey

Meghan Howey

Assistant Professor of Archaeology

313 Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-2518
Fax: (603) 862-1131
E-mail: meghan.howey@unh.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education:
B.A., University of Delaware, 2000
M.A., University of Michigan, 2002
Ph.D., ibid., 2006

Courses Taught:
ANTH 413: Introduction to Physical Anthropology
ANTH 415: The Human Story: Evolution, Fossils, and DNA
ANTH 500A: Peoples and Cultures: North America
ANTH 514: Method and Theory in Archaeology
ANTH 697: Special Topic: Landscape Archaeology
ANTH 699H: Honors Senior Thesis
ANTH 796: Independent Study

Fields of Research: 
archaeology of North America, ritual practice, non-hierarchical societies, ethnohistory, Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

 


Joe L.P. Lugalla

Joe L.P. Lugalla

Professor of Anthropology &
Chair of the Anthropology Department

316 Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1847
Fax: (603) 862-1131
E-mail: jlpl@unh.edu

Curriculum Vitae
Website

Education:
B.A., University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, 1982
M.A., ibid., 1983
Ph.D., Bremen University, Germany, 1990

Courses Taught:
ANTH 500D: Peoples and Cultures: Sub-Saharan Africa
ANTH 627: Urbanization in Africa
ANTH 680: Globalization, Development, and Poverty
ANTH 685: Gender, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
ANTH 695: Globalization and Global Population Health
ANTH 699: Senior Thesis/Honors
ANTH 795: Reading and Research

Fields of Research: 
social & cultural anthropology
medical anthropology/sociology
development anthropology/sociology
urban anthropology/sociology
development & politics of Sub-Saharan Africa
HIV/AIDS

 


Edgar Martin del Campo

Edgar Martin del Campo

Lecturer

307 Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-2548
Fax: (603) 862-1131
E-mail: efx9@unh.edu

Education:
B.A., Rice University, 1996
M.A., Claremont School of Theology, 2000
Ph.D., State University of New York, Albany, 2006

Courses Taught:
ANTH 411: Introduction to Anthropology
ANTH 500: People and Cultures of the World: Latin America
ANTH 511: Core Concepts in Anthropology
ANTH 616: Religion, Culture and Society
ANTH 670: Language and Culture

 


Joe L.P. Lugalla

Justus Ogembo

Associate Professor of Anthropology and Education

306 Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-2401
Fax: (603) 862-1131
E-mail: justus.ogembo@unh.edu

Website

Education:
B.A., Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya, 1986
M.A., University of Nairobi, 1990
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1997

Courses Taught:
ANTH 411: Global Perspectives: Introduction to Anthropology
ANTH 450: Intro to Race, Culture and Power
ANTH 616: Religion, Culture and Society
ANTH 699: Senior Thesis/Honors
ANTH 796: Reading and Research
ANTH 730: Anthropological Thinking on Education
ANTH 740: Teaching Race

Fields of Research: 
anthropology of education
anthropology of religion
ethnomusicology

 


Svetlana Peshkova

Svetlana Peshkova

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

315 Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1848
Fax: (603) 862-1131
E-mail: s.peshkova@unh.edu

Curriculum Vitae


 

Education:
M.A., State University of Linguistics, Pyatigorsk, Russia, 1996
M.T.S., Emory University, 1999
M.A., Syracuse University, 2002
Ph.D., ibid., 2006

Courses Taught:
ANTH 411: Global Perspectives: Introduction to Anthropology
ANTH 500C: Peoples and Cultures of the World: Middle East/N. Africa
ANTH 513: Ethnographic Methods
ANTH 616: Religion, Culture and Society
ANTH 640: Anthropology of Islam-Muslim's Everyday Lives in Contemporary Communities
ANTH 697: Special Topic: Gender and Islam
ANTH 750: Islam and Gender-Gendered Lives of Women & Men in Muslim Communities

Fields of Research: 
Islam, gender dynamics, Islamic movements, globalization, transnationalism

 


Jolan Rivera

Jolan Rivera

Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-2821
E-mail: jolan.rivera@unh.edu

 

Education:
B.A., University of the Philippines College Baguio, 1987
M.S., Southern New Hampshire University, 2000
M.A., ibid., 2005
Ph.D., ibid., 2006

Fields of Research: 
community economic development

 


Robin Sheriff

Robin Sheriff

Associate Professor of Anthropology

308 Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-2162
Fax: (603) 862-1131
E-mail: rsheriff@unh.edu

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Education:
B.A., Bard College, 1984
Ph.D., Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 1997

Courses Taught:
ANTH 500B: Peoples and Cultures: South America
ANTH 616: Religion, Culture and Society
ANTH 625: Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspectives
ANTH 697: Special Topic: Anthropology of Dreaming
ANTH 699: Senior Thesis/Honors
ANTH 770: Anthropology of the Sinister
ANTH 785: Anthropology of Dreams and Dreaming
ANTH 796: Reading and Research

Fields of Research: 
The politics of discourse and narrative, stratification and inequality, race/ethnicity, culture and globalization, United States; Brazil

 


Sara Withers

Sara Withers

Lecturer

317 Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1842
Fax: (603) 862-1131
E-mail: sara.withers@unh.edu

Education:
B.A., Bowdoin College, 1999
M.A., Brandeis University, 2002
Ph.D., ibid., 2009

Courses Taught:
ANTH 411: Global Perspectives: Introduction to Anthropology
ANTH 500B: Peoples & Cultures of Latin America
ANTH 611: History of Anthropological Theory

 

Staff

Carolyn Stolzenburg

Carolyn Stolzenburg

Administrative Assistant

310 Huddleston Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1864
Fax: (603) 862-1131
E-mail: cas24@unh.edu

 

EMERITUS                                                                                                                                                            

Stephen P. Reyna
Emeritus Professor, Anthropology

Glick Schiller, Nina
Emeritus Professor, Anthropology




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