Welcome to the Faculty page

Here you will find information on the professors and staff of the Anthropology Department. Course information, interests and other information are listed here. Click on the links on the left.

Bonnie Clark

bclark@du.edu, 303.871.2875
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of CA, Berkeley, 2003

Portfolio: http://portfolio.du.edu/bclark

Interests: Archaeology, especially historic and protohistoric periods; cultural landscapes; gender, ethnicity, and material culture; public anthropology; Western North America.

Richard Clemmer-Smith

rclemmer@du.edu, 303.871.2679
Professor and Chair
Curator of Ethnology, DU Museum of Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1972

Interests: Ethnohistory, ethnology of the Southwest and Great Basin, cultural ecology, culture change.
portfolio access: http://portfolio.du.edu/rclemmer

Larry Conyers

lconyers@du.edu, 303.871.2684
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1995  

Interests: Archaeology, archaeometry, geological methods, Latin America, Plains, U.S. Southwest.
web site: http://www.du.edu/~lconyers
 

Tracy Ehlers

tehlers@du.edu, 303.871.2683
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1980

Interests:Peasants, development, political economy, Guatemala, women and development.
 

Christina Kreps

ckreps@du.edu, 303.871.2688

http://portfolio.du.edu/ckreps
Associate Professor
Director of Museum Studies, Director DU Museum of Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1994

Interests: Anthropology of museums, art and cultural expression, politics of culture, development, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Borneo.
 

Dean Saitta

dsaitta@du.edu, 303.871.2680
Professor
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1987

Interests: Archaeology, historical archaeology, biological anthropology, political economy, material culture, North America, US Southwest.

portfolio access: http://portfolio.du.edu/dsaitta
 

Sarah Nelson

snelson@du.edu, 303.871.2682
Research Professor
Curator of Archaeology, DU Museum of Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1973

Interests: Archaeology of East Asia, especially origins of agriculture and complex societies, statistical methods, gender stratification.