Faculty

Six members of the Department of Anthropology and Haffenreffer Museum participate directly in the Program in Circumpolar Studies. Other faculty members of the department also serve as members of the M.A. and Ph.D. committees of the students incorporating additional theoretical or topical interests.

Professor Douglas D. Anderson, current Director of the Laboratory for Circumpolar Studies, is a specialist in Arctic anthropology, particularly Alaskan and Northeast Asian archaeology; paleoecology; Eskimo ethnography and historical archaeology; and northern maritime and riverine adaptations.

Professor Richard Gould is an authority on method and theory in hunter-gatherer archaeology and historical archaeology. His specialties include Fenno-Scandinavian anthropology; the archaeology of stressed environments; ecological perspectives in anthropology; and hunter-gatherer ethnoarchaeology.

Professor Shepard Krech, also director of the Haffenreffer Museum, specializes in sub-Arctic cultures, ethnohistory, and social anthropological theory. His current research interests include Native American "ethnoecology" and the history of the northern fur trade.

Associate Professor (Research) Wanni Anderson, Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, has a part-time teaching appointment in the department. Her specialties include oral history, ethnic relations, changing settlement patterns, and women's roles and networks in the north.

Associate Professor (Research) Bruce J. Lutz, a Research Associate in the department, specializes in the prehistory of Western Alaska. He is also a specialist in GIS applications in northern Archaeology.

Barbara Hail, Associate Director of the Haffenreffer Museum, is a specialist on northern art and clothing, the history of collectors and collecting in the North, and the maintenance of traditional northern arts today.

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