Faculty and staff

Here, you’ll find contact information for your professors or learn about their professional backgrounds and interests. If you want to know more about your professors’ publications, visit our research page.

Faculty

Scott Antes, MA
Instructor
Special interests: cultural anthropology and education
Office: Bldg 98D, Rm 101C
Phone: 928-523-9664
E-mail: Scott.Antes@nau.edu 

Aaron R. Denham, PhD
Assistant Professor
Special interests: medical, sociocultural and psychological anthropology                                      
Office: Bldg 98D, Rm 101A
Phone: 928-523-9656
E-mail: Aaron.Denham@nau.edu 

Christian E. Downum, PhD
Professor, Director of Anthropology Labs
Special interests: archaeology, cultural resource management
Office: Bldg 98D, Rm 109I
Phone: 928-523-6275
E-mail: Chris.Downum@nau.edu 

Jill Dubisch, PhD
Regents' Professor Emeritus
Special interests: cultural anthropology, religion and ritual
Office: Bldg 98D, Rm 101F
Phone: 928-523-6795
E-mail: Jill.Dubisch@nau.edu 

George Gumerman, IV, PhD
Professor, Director of NAU's Honors Program
Special interests: archaeology, complex societies
Office: Bldg 98D, Rm 101B
Phone: 928-523-3498
E-mail: George.Gumerman@nau.edu
Research 

Lisa Jane Hardy, PhD
Research Assistant, Professor
Special interests: Community-engaged research, health, cities
Office: Bldg 98D, Rm 109H
E-mail: Lisa.J.Hardy@nau.edu
Research
 
Corina M. Kellner, PhD
Assistant Professor
Special interests: biological anthropology, stable isotopes and Peruvian archaeology
Office: Bldg 98D, Rm 109E
Phone: 928-523-6574
E-mail: Corina.Kellner@nau.edu 

Kelley A. Hays-Gilpin, PhD
Professor
Special interests: archaeology, ceramics and visual arts
Office: Bldg 98D, Rm 101D
Phone: 928-523-6564
E-mail: Kelley.Hays-Gilpin@nau.edu
Research 

Verónica Pérez Rodríguez, PhD
Associate Professor
Special interests: urbanism, complex societies, landscape and regional studies, ecological and environmental anthropology, agriculture, terracing, Mesoamerica
Office: Building 98D, Rm 101H
Phone: 928-523-0966
Email: vero.perez@nau.edu 

Reed D. Riner, PhD
Emeritus Professor
Special interests: cultural anthropology, futures
Office: Bldg 98D, Rm 109F
Phone: 928-523-6583
E-mail: Reed.Riner@nau.edu 

James D. Sexton, PhD
Regents' Professor
Special interests: cultural anthropology, modernization and culture change
Office: Bldg 98D, Rm 109G
Phone: 928-523-6576
E-mail: James.Sexton@nau.edu
Research 

Cathy A. Small, PhD
Professor
Special interests: cultural anthropology, culture change
Office: Bldg 98D, Rm 109A
Phone: 928-523-6923
E-mail: Cathy.Small@nau.edu
Research
 
Francis E. Smiley, IV, PhD
Professor, MA Internship Coordinator
Special interests: archaeology, method and theory
Office: Bldg 98D, Rm 109C
Phone: 928-523-6923
E-mail: Francis.Smiley@nau.edu 

Kerry F. Thompson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Special interests: indigenous issues in Anthropology and Archaeology
Office: Bldg 98D, Rm 109J
Phone: 928-523-0712
E-mail: Kerry.Thompson@nau.edu 

Robert T. Trotter, II, PhD
Regents' Professor, Department Chair
Special interests: sociocultural anthropology, medical and drug research
Office: Bldg 98D, Rm 101G
Phone: 928-523-4521
E-mail: Robert.Trotter@nau.edu
Research
 
Walter M. Vannette, PhD
Professor
Special interests: cultural anthropology, education and economic development
Office: Bldg 98D, Rm 101J
E-mail: Walter.Vannette@nau.edu
Research 

Michael L. Vasquez, PhD
Professor
Special interests: cultural anthropology, indigenous agriculture and cultural ecology
Office: Bldg 98D, Rm 101F
Phone: 928-523-9506
E-mail: Michael.Vasquez@nau.edu
Research 

James M. Wilce, PhD
Professor
Special interests: linguistic anthropology, medical discourse
Office: Bldg 98D, Rm 101E
Phone: 928-523-2729
E-mail: Jim.Wilce@nau.edu
Research 

Adjunct faculty

Ethan M. Braunstein, MD
Special interests: paleopathology, paleoanthropology, application of diagnostic imaging technology to anthropology
E-mail: Ethan.Braunstein@nau.edu
 
Frederick (Fritz) P. Lampe, PhD
Adjunct Professor
Special interests: cultural anthropology, religion, and development
Office: Bldg 98D
Phone: 928-523-3180
E-mail: frederick.lampe@nau.edu
 
Janneli Miller, PhD
Adjunct Professor
Special interests: cultural anthropology, women, health and healing, ethnobotany, symbol, myth, and ritual
 
Diane M. Notarianni, PhD
Adjunct Professor
Special interests: cultural anthropology, kinship and social relations, medical anthropology, ethnohistory
 
Peter John Pilles, Jr., PhD
Adjunct Professor; Archaeologist, USFS Coconino National Forest
Special interests: archaeology of Central Arizona, rock art, ceramics, cultural resource management.
 
James Potter, PhD
Adjunct Professor; Archaeologist, SWCA Inc.
Special interests: faunal analysis, settlement patterns, lithics, ritual and power, social differentiations.
 
Zdenek "Denny" Salzmann, PhD
Adjunct Professor
Special interests: linguistic and cultural anthropology, folklore, folk art, Native Americans, US plains, Eastern
Europe
Office: Bldg 98D, Rm 108
E-mail: DennySalz@aol.com
 
Robert M. Schacht, PhD
Adjunct Professor; Senior Research Specialist, NAU Institute for Human Development
Special interests: early civilization, analytical methods, medical anthropology, computer information systems
 
Susan Gregg Smiley, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor
Special interests: prehistoric agricultural economies, population interaction, computer modeling and
visualization
E-mail: susansmiley@nau.edu
Research 

Laurie Webster, PhD
Adjunct Professor
Special interests: archaeology; textiles and material culture; US Southwest
 
David R. Wilcox, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor; Archaeologist, Museum of Northern Arizona
Special interests: archaeology, ethnohistory, method and theory, history of archaeology
 
Michael Yeatts, MA
Adjunct Professor; Archaeologist, Hopi Cultural Preservation Office
Special interests: archaeology, cultural resource management; Hopi
Office: Bldg 98D, Rm 109D
Phone: 928-523-6573

Practitioner associates

Evelyn Billo, BS
Practitioner Associate
Special interests: computer science, rock art, digital image enhancement; US Southwest
E-mail: Evelyn.Billo@nau.edu
 
Phyllis Hogan
Practitioner Associate; Ethnobotanist, AZ Ethnobotanical Rsrch Asso; Owner, Winter Sun Trading Co.
Special interests: Mexican, Yaqui, and Arizona Indian herbology
E-mail: wintersn@primenet.com
 
Robert Mark, PhD
Adjunct Professor
E-mail: Robert.Mark@nau.edu