Research

Anthropological Research at UNCG

The faculty at UNCG are all active researchers with a wide range of interests and expertise within Anthropology.  The following is a sample of the research that is actively being carried out by the Anthropology faculty at UNCG.

• Cultural Anthropology
  • Agriculture and foods production systems in US and Peru (Andreatta)
  • Applied anthropology (Andreatta, Murphy)
  • Social networks in relation to grief and recovery from disasters in Mexico (Murphy)
  • Water, Sanitation, and Health in Africa (Workman)
  • Science and Technology Studies (Friede)
  • Environmental Humanities (Friede)
  • Politics of Indigeneity in the Global South (Friede)
• Archaeology
  • Social inequality and material culture in Southeastern US (Hughes)
  • Historical archaeology of farmsteads and plantation in NC (Hughes)
  • Historical archaeology of Old Salem (Hughes)
  • Paleoanthropology
    • Paleolithic archaeology in E. Africa and Eurasia (Egeland)
    • Zooarchaeology and taphonomy (Egeland)
    • Human and primate evolution in Africa and the American West (Anemone)
    • Geospatial approaches in paleoanthropology (Anemone)
• Biological Anthropology
  • Human and primate growth and development (Anemone)
  • Race and human diversity (Anemone)