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	Asif Agha			PhD	University of Chicago			1990
		Associate Professor			began teaching at Penn in 1998
		Appointments		Department of Anthropology Faculty; Graduate Groups in Linguistics, Folklore, South Asia Regional Studies, and the Lauder Program in International Studies; Associate Member, Center for East Asian Studies; Faculty Master, Hill College House; Consulting Curator, Asian Section, University Museum
		Research Interests		Linguistics, anthropology, semiotics; language structure and function, language typology and universals; social theory; language and social relations; discourse analysis; metaphor and tropes, register and style; communicative practices in the media; Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan linguistics.
	Sandra T. Barnes			PhD	University of Wisconsin			1974
		Professor			began teaching at Penn in 1973
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Founding Director, African Studies Center; Folklore and International Relations Graduate Groups; Consulting Curator, African Section, University Museum
		Research Interests		Social and Cultural anthropology; Sub-Saharan Africa; complex societies, political anthropology; religion; popular culture; historical anthropology.
	Jay T. Dautcher			PhD	University of California, Berkeley			1999
		Assistant Professor			began teaching at Penn in 2001
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Folklore and Folklife Graduate Group; Consulting Curator, Asian Section, University Museum
		Research Interests		Language, folklore, expressive culture, humor, masculinity, cultural politics, memory, ethnic conflict, economic anthropology, political economy, globalization, health issues, alcohol and drinking; China, Central Asia.
	Harold L. Dibble			PhD	University of Arizona			1981
		Professor			began teaching at Penn in 1982
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Curator-in-Charge, European Archaeology Section, University Museum; Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, University Museum.
		Research Interests		Archaeology; Middle Paleolithic of Western Europe, Egypt, and the Near East; project Director of excavations at Pech de l'Azé IV, and Roc de Marsal in France, and the Abydos Survey for Prehistoric Sites in Egypt; currently working on issues of Pleistocene hominid behavioral evolution; computer applications to archaeological fieldwork and analysis; lithic technology, typology, and experimentation.
	Clark L. Erickson			PhD	University of Illinois			1988
		Associate Professor			began teaching at Penn in 1988
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Associate Curator, American Section, University Museum; Latin American Cultures Program.
		Research Interests		Archaeology; South America and New World; archaeology of landscapes; prehistoric agricultural systems; technology and social organization; analogy; ethnobotany; experimental and applied archaeology.
	Gautam Ghosh			PhD	University of Chicago			2000
		Assistant Professor			began teaching at Penn in 2000
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Member, South Asia Graduate Group; Member, History Graduate Group; Member, Folklore Graduate Group; Affiliated Faculty, Center for the Advanced Study of India; Consulting Curator, Asian Section, University Museum.
		Research Interests		Anthropology and History; Migration and Diaspora; Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity; Asian-American Studies; Social Theory and Social Thought; Religion; Development; Cultural Studies and Cyberia; Music; South Asia and U.S.
	Melvyn Hammarberg			PhD	University of Pennsylvania			1970
		Associate Professor			began teaching at Penn in 1970
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Graduate Group Chair, American Civilization Program; Consulting Curator, American Section, University Museum; History Graduate Group; Folklore Graduate Group.
		Research Interests		Cultural and psychological anthropology; U.S.--historical and contemporary ethnography; the American West; the Latter-day Saints; Native American Indian Peoples; social organization and cultural values; life history analysis; mental health; psychological trauma and cultural response. Current work: ethnography of the Latter-day Saints; psychological trauma; native peoples.
	Rebecca Huss-Ashmore			PhD	University of Massachusetts			1984
		Associate Professor			began teaching at Penn in 1984
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Research Associate, Population Studies Center; Associate Curator-in-Charge, Physical Anthropology Section, University Museum; Anthropology Graduate Group; History and Sociology of Science Graduate Group.
		Research Interests		Medical anthropology (healing systems, semiotics of healing, narrative, discourse, cosmetic surgery); Psychological anthropology (self and identity, cultural models of mental illness); Human adaptibility.
	Igor Kopytoff			PhD	Northwestern University			1960
		Professor			began teaching at Penn in 1962
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Consulting Curator, African Section, University Museum
		Research Interests		Cultural anthropology; Africa; history of anthropology; social structure; African religious transformations and African political culture; culture history; economic anthropology.
	Gregory L. Possehl			PhD	University of Chicago			1974
		Professor			began teaching at Penn in 1973
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Curator in Charge, Asian Section, University Museum; South Asia Graduate Group
		Research Interests		Archaeology; South Asia, Near East; Old World pre-history; food production; urbanization; settlement patterns; history of archaeology; field work continues to focus on the Harappan civilization, especially the eclipse of urbanization; currently excavating a Harappan settlement in Gujarat, India.
	Robert W. Preucel			PhD	University of California, Los Angeles			1988
		Associate Professor			began teaching at Penn in 1995
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Associate Curator, American Section, University Museum; American Civilization Graduate Group; Resource Faculty, Latin American Cultures Program
		Research Interests		Archaeological method and theory; post-processual archaeology, meaning and practice, semiotics, materiality, landscape, gender, ethnogenesis, NAGPRA, native North America, American Southwest, Pueblo cultures.
	Jeremy A. Sabloff			PhD	Harvard University			1969
		University Museum Term Professor of Anthropology			began teaching at Penn in 1994
		Appointments		The Williams Director, University Museum; Anthropology Department Faculty; Curator, Mesoamerican Section, University Museum; Resource Faculty, Latin American Cultures Program; History & Sociology of Science Graduate Group
		Research Interests		Archaeological theory and method and the history of American archaeology; ancient civilizations, pre-industrial urbanism and the use of settlement pattern studies; Maya lowlands; and the study of the transition from Classic to Postclassic Maya civilization.
	Peggy R. Sanday			PhD	University of Pittsburgh			1966
		Professor			began teaching at Penn in 1972
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Consulting Curator, Asian Section, University Museum
		Research Interests		Cultural anthropology; southeast Asia, US; religion, culture, history, sex and gender; ethos; world view. Author of Anthropology and the Public Interest: Fieldwork and Theory (ed.); Female Power and Male Dominance; Divine Hunger: Cannibalism as a Cultural System; Beyond the Second Sex: New Directions in the Anthropology of Gender (ed.); Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood and Privilege on Campus; A Woman Scorned: Acquaintance Rape on Trial.
	P. Thomas Schoenemann			PhD	University of California at Berkeley			1997
		Assistant Professor			began teaching at Penn in 1998
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Consulting Scholar, Physical Anthropology Section, University Museum
		Research Interests		Biological anthropology; human variation; evolution of the brain; evolution of human behavior; evolutionary psychology; language evolution; behavioral neuroanatomy; cognitive neuroscience.
	Theodore G. Schurr			PhD	Emory University			1998
		Assistant Professor			began teaching at Penn in 2001
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Consulting Curator, Physical Anthropology Section, University Museum
		Research Interests		Subject areas: Molecular anthropology; modern human evolution; human biology; biomedical genetics; ancient DNA. Geographic areas: Siberia; Americas; Southeast Asia; South Asia; Australia; Melanesia; Ethiopia; South Africa.
	Robert L. Schuyler			PhD	University of California at Santa Barbara			1975
		Associate Professor			began teaching at Penn in 1979
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Associate Curator in Charge, Historical Archaeology, University Museum; American Civilization Graduate Group
		Research Interests		Archaeology--North America and global; anthropological theory and history of anthropology and archaeology; evolutionism; historical archaeology, both colonial period and the 19th century; East Coast and the historic American West. In 2001 initiated the South Jersey Project, a long-term investigation of Vineland, New Jersey (founded in 1861) and the region around this planned Victorian Period agricultural community. Project will equally explore both the 19th and the 20th centuries and involve not only archaeology but also archival, oral historic and ethnographic research.
	Robert J. Sharer			PhD	University of Pennsylvania			1968
		Sally & Alvin V. Shoemaker Professor of Anthropology			began teaching at Penn in 1972
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Shoemaker Curator, American Section, University Museum; Research Faculty, Latin American Cultures Program
		Research Interests		Archaeology; Mesoamerica; Maya area; origins and development of complex societies; archaeological method and theory; process of cultural change. Chalchuapa Archaeological Project: origins and development of Preclassic cultures of S.E. Maya area; Verapaz Archaeological Project: origins and development of Preclassic highland Maya culture; Quirigua Project: development and testing of functional and explanatory models for Classic Maya presence in the Southeast Lowlands; El Mirador Project: origins and development of classic lowland Maya civlization; Copan Acropolos Project: architectural and functional development of the Eastern Acropolis.
	Brian J. Spooner			D. Phil	Oxford University			1967
		Professor			began teaching at Penn in 1968
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; South Asia Regional Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, and Religious Studies Graduate Groups; Curator, Near Eastern Ethnology, University Museum
		Research Interests		Cultural anthropology; Middle East, South Asia, Central Asial; social organization; religion; ethnohistory; ecology; rural development.
	Gregory Urban			PhD	University of Chicago			1978
		Professor			began teaching at Penn in 1994
		Appointments		Chair, Anthropology Department; Folklore and Folklife Graduate Group; Resource Faculty, Latin American Cultures Program; Consulting Curator, American Section, University Museum.
		Research Interests		Linguistic and cultural anthropology; metaculture; cultural motion; public sphere processes; world cultures; corporations and culture; business anthropology; Amerindian cultures; Brazil, U.S.
	Richard L. Zettler			PhD	University of Chicago			1984
		Associate Professor			began teaching at Penn in 1986
		Appointments		Anthropology Department Faculty; Graduate Group Chair, Anthropology; Associate Curator in Charge, Near East Section, University Museum
		Research Interests		Archaeology; Near East; complex society; Mesopotamian urbanism; institutional administration; integration of material culture and written sources.