Faculty & Staff
Department Chair, Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Phone:
617.287.6845
Email:
Ping-Ann.Addo@umb.edu
Expertise: Socio-cultural anthropology, Tongan/Pacific Islander material culture, and contemporary cultural migration to New Zealand and the U.S.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Phone:
617.287.6851
Email:
Daniela.Balanzategui@umb.edu
Expertise: Archaeology of the African Diaspora in Latin America, Community-based and Collaborative Archaeology, History of Slavery and Racial Thinking in Latin America, Afro-descendant Women and Archaeology.
Associate Professor
Phone:
617.287.5718
Email:
Jeanphilippe.Belleau@umb.edu
Expertise: Lowland indigenous societies, hunters-gatherers, human rights, anthropology of becoming, Amerindian perspectivism, mass violence, Brazilian cinema, raw art
Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Phone:
617.287.6828
Email:
Douglas.Bolender@umb.edu
Expertise: Archaeology of the North Atlantic, landscapes and geographic information systems, property and social inequality, Viking Age and medieval archaeology.
Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Phone:
617-287-6858
Email:
Patrick.Clarkin@umb.edu
Expertise: Biocultural and evolutionary models in anthropology, effects of war on nutrition and growth; developmental origins of chronic disease; SE Asian diaspora
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Phone:
617.287.6845
Email:
Christopher.Fung@umb.edu
Expertise: Race, nationalism, hybridity, museums, settler societies, archaeology, Mesoamerica, United States, Hawai`i, China and Sub-Saharan Africa
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
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N/A
Email:
Eric.Kelley@umb.edu
Expertise: N/A
Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Phone:
617.287.5177
Email:
Nedra.Lee@umb.edu
Expertise: Historical archaeology, African Diaspora, Critical Race Theory, and Intersectionality
Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and School for the
Phone:
617.287.4871
Email:
Jose.Martinez-Reyes@umb.edu
Expertise: Environmental Anthropology, Political Ecology, Agroforestry, Biocultural Diversity Conservation, Material Culture, Social and Critical Theory, Ecomusicology, Mexico, Caribbean, Fiji, Galicia
University Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Phone:
617.287.6842
Email:
Stephen.Mrozowski@umb.edu
Expertise: Social theory, historical archaeology, environmental and urban archaeology
Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Phone:
617.287.6812
Email:
Rosalyn.Negron@umb.edu
Expertise: Major areas & specializations: Urban anthropology, linguistic anthropology, medical anthropology, United States, Latinos, diversity, ethno-racial relations, immigration, health disparities, research methods, social networks.
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Phone:
617-287-6855
Email:
James.Pasto@umb.edu
Expertise: Religion, language, dreams, ethnicity, Italian American studies.
Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Phone:
617.287.5752
Email:
Meredith.Reiches@umb.edu
Expertise: Biocultural anthropology, feminist science studies, human life history, evolutionary and literary narrative
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Phone:
617-287-6846
Email:
John.Schoenfelder@umb.edu
Expertise: Prehistoric and historical archaeology, complex societies, agriculture, ideology, GIS, aerial photography
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Phone:
617.287.6846
Email:
Rita.Shepard@umb.edu
Expertise: Arctic and subarctic archaeology, ethnohistory, historical archaeology, colonialism and culture contact, household archaeology, gender
Professor
Phone:
617.287.6854
Email:
Stephen.Silliman@umb.edu
Expertise: Historical archaeology, colonialism, identity, labor, collaborative methods with indigenous communities, North American archaeology.
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Phone:
617.287.6855
Email:
Lauren.Sullivan@umb.edu
Expertise: Mesoamerican Archaeology; Maya lowlands; development of complex society; ceramic analysis
Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
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N/A
Email:
Elizabeth.Sweet@umb.edu
Expertise: Biocultural Anthropology
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Phone:
617.287.6828
Email:
Amy.Todd@umb.edu
Expertise: Urban anthropology, marketplace systems in Oaxaca, Mexico, Mesoamerica, biological anthropology
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Phone:
617.287.6855
Email:
Alan.Waters@umb.edu
Expertise: Ethnomusicology, the anthropology of art and religion, Africa, the Caribbean, and contemporary American culture, as well as the history of social theory
Director, Institute for New England Native American Studies Director, Critical Ethnic and Community Studies Program
Phone:
617.287.5784
Email:
Cedric.Woods@umb.edu
Expertise: Tribal government, American Indian education, economic development, chronic disease prevention
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Phone:
617.287.6851
Email:
Barbara.Worley@umb.edu
Expertise: Africa and Islamic societies; Sahel, Sahara, North Africa, West Africa; Tuareg pastoral nomads; asymmetric warfare; climate change; biological anthropology; linguistics; gender, ethnicity, race; religion, ritual; classical civilizations.
Fiske Center Staff
Research Scientist I for the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Phone:
617.287.6859
Email:
Christa.Beranek@umb.edu
Expertise: Eastern North American material culture studies, vernacular architecture, and archaeological writing.
Associate Director of the Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Phone:
617-287-6835
Email:
David.Landon@umb.edu
Expertise: Archaeology of historic and industrial sites, environmental archaeology, zooarchaeology, and archaeological science
Archaeological Conservator of the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Phone:
617-287-6829
Email:
Dennis.Piechota@umb.edu
Expertise: Conservation, micro-analysis, soil micromorphology
Anthropology Department, College of Liberal Arts
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N/A
Email:
Virginia.Popper@umb.edu
Expertise: Paleoethnobotany
Research Scientist II for the Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Phone:
617.287.6824
Email:
John.Steinberg@umb.edu
Expertise: Prehistoric and historic archaeology, economic anthropology, methodology, regional analysis, remote sensing; Northern Europe, Northeast US
Research Scientist II in the Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Phone:
617.287.6838
Email:
Heather.Trigg@umb.edu
Expertise: Social and economic effects of colonization, paleoethnobotany
Emeritae & Retired Faculty
Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Phone:
617-287-6853
Email:
Tim.Sieber@umb.edu
Expertise: Childhood, urban anthropology, applied anthropology, the culture history of Amazonia, and immigrant and minority education.
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Phone:
617.287.5790
Email:
Idali.Torres@umb.edu
Expertise: N/A
Professor Emerita of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Phone:
617.287.6836
Email:
Judith.Zeitlin@umb.edu
Expertise: Archaeology - Prehistoric and historical archaeology, ethnohistory, complex societies, New World colonialism. Geographical area: Mesoamerica, Andean South America.
Staff
Administrative and Support Staff
Melody Henkel
Office Location: McCormack Hall 02-331
Phone: 617.287.6833
MA, University of Massachusetts Boston
Laboratory Coordinator in the Anthropology Department and the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research.
Melody received a BFA in Graphic Design with a concentration in photography from Southeastern Massachusetts University in 1980. She received a BS in public archaeology with a minor in earth sciences from Bridgewater State College in 1992. She began working for the Anthropology Department while working on her MA in historical archaeology at UMass Boston. She received her MA in 2001. She brings her skills of design and photography along with public and historical archaeology to her job as lab manager for the Anthropology Department.
Dagny McKinley
Office Location: McCormack Hall M-04-434
Phone: 617.287.6851
Administrative Assistant, Department of Anthropology
Dagny received a B.A. in Psychology in 2022 from the University of Connecticut.
Marisa D. Patalano
Office Location: McCormack Hall M-01-517
Phone: 617.287.6856
Graduate Program Coordinator, Historical Archaeology, Department of Anthropology
Marisa received a B.A. in History and Archaeology in 2005 and an M.A. in Historical Archaeology in 2009, both at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is passionate about recruitment planning and outreach, dedicated to ensuring positive cohort experience and retention, and committed to providing quality student support.