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F. Barg
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.    
                 
P. Chase
Philip Chase PhD University of Arizona 1983  
   
  Adjunct Associate
Professor
began teaching at Penn in 1987
  Appointments Anthropology Adjunct Faculty; 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  
   
  Professor began teaching at Penn in 1986
  Appointments Biology Department Faculty; Anthropology, and 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  
   
  Annenberg Professor 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.
 
K. Hall
Kathleen Hall PhD University of Chicago 1993  
   
  Assistant Professor 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    
   
  Professor 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  
     
  Assistant Professor   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.
P. McGovern
Patrick E. McGovern PhD University of Pennsylvania 1980  
   
  Adjunct Associate
Professor
began teaching at Penn in 1979
  Appointments Senior Research Scientist, MASCA and Near East Section, Director of Baq'ah Valley (Jordan) Project, University Museum; Anthropology Adjunct Faculty
  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.
 
Monge & friend
Janet M. Monge PhD University of Pennsylvania 1991  
   
  Adjunct Assistant
Professor
began teaching at Penn in 1996
  Appointments Bryn Mawr College Adjunct Faculty; Anthropology Adjunct Faculty; Keeper of Collections, Physical Anthropology Section, University Museum
  Research Interests Paleoanthropology; Europe; comparative vertebrate and human osteology; dental histology; skeletal biology.
 
M. Norcini
Marilyn Norcini PhD University of Arizona 1995  
   
  Adjunct Associate
Professor
began teaching at Penn in 1998
  Appointments Senior Research Scientist, American Section, University Museum; Anthropology Adjunct Faculty
  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.
 
P. Sabloff
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  
   
  Professor 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  
   
  Professor 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  
   
  Assistant Professor 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  
   
  Adjunct Associate
Professor
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; ethnoecology; palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in Thailand; development of prehistoric agriculture; heterarchy; methodology of site analysis.
 
S. Wortham
Stanton Wortham PhD University of Chicago 1992  
   
  Associate Professor began teaching at Penn in 1998
  Appointments Graduate School of Education Faculty; Chair, Educational Leadership Division; Anthropology Graduate Group; Folklore & Folklife Graduate Group
  Research Interests Linguistic anthropology, social theory, semiotics, indexicality, social identity, narrative, discourse analysis, interactional functions of speech, narrative self-construction, situated cognition, classroom discourse, media discourse.
 
Babette Zemel PhD University of Pennsylvania 1989  
   
  Adjunct Associate
Professor
began teaching at Penn in 1996
  Appointments Scientific Director, Nutrition Growth Lab, CHOP; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Medical School; Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania Nursing; Anthropology Adjunct Faculty
  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  
   
  Adjunct Professor teaching at Penn, 1972-1977 and since 1980
  Appointments Anthropology Adjunct Faculty
  Research Interests Medical anthropology; paleopathology of Egyptian and Alaskan mummies and early hominid skeletal remains; Egyptology; Alaskan prehistory; hominid evolution.