Anthropology Faculty
Permanent Faculty | Adjunct Instructors | Professors Emeriti
Permanent Faculty
Director, Center for Archaeological Research
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D, University of North Carolina
Archaeology: Late Prehistoric & Contact Period (Southeastern US)
Lamar Hall 565 | 662-915-7339
tboud@olemiss.edu
Associate Chair, Anthropology
Croft Associate Professor of Anthropology & International Studies
Ph.D, University of Chicago
Cultural: Science & Technology, Medical Anthropology, Latin America
Lamar Hall 561 | 662-915-7129
kmcentel@olemiss.edu
McMullan Associate Professor of Southern Studies & Associate Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D, Rutgers University
Cultural: Latin American Migration, Critical Race Theory, Language & Identity, Inequality
Lamar Hall 523 | 662-915-7797
sdelerme@olemiss.edu
Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D, University of Georgia
Cultural: Ethnohistory, Environment, the American South and Southeastern Indians
Lamar Hall 562 | 662-915-7317
rethridg@olemiss.edu
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D, University of Wisconsin
Archaeology, Maya and Mesoamerican, Bioarchaeology, Zooarchaeology, Archaeological Chemistry
Lamar Hall 544 | 662-915-7421
crfreiwa@olemiss.edu
Croft Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Studies
Ph.D, University of Chicago
Lamar Hall 551 | 662-915-7421
kghickma at olemiss dot edu
Croft Assistant Professor of Anthropology & International Studies
Ph.D, Columbia University
Cultural: Contemporary culture and neoliberal transformation of South Korea
Lamar Hall 550 | 662-915-1966
slee48@olemiss.edu
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D, University of Chicago
Cultural: Economic & Political Anthropology, Environment, Latin America
Lamar Hall 547 | 662-915-7343
mendoza@olemiss.edu
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D, University of Kentucky
Archaeology: Southeastern US, Ceramics
Lamar Hall 560 | 662-915-7297
memeyer1@olemiss.edu
Instructional Associate Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D, Harvard University
Archaeology: Ancient Celts, Death & Burial, Landscape, Resource Management
Lamar Hall 553 | 662-915-3995
mlmurray@olemiss.edu
Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Southern Studies
Ph.D, University of Georgia
Cultural: Food, Human-Environment Interactions, Race, Urban Geography
Lamar Hall 552 | 662-915-3427
passidomo@olemiss.edu
Associate Professor of Anthropology & Southern Studies
Ph.D, University of Texas
Historical Archaeology, Cultural Resource Management, Museum Studies, African Diaspora
Lamar Hall 522 | 662-915-3468
jskippe1@olemiss.edu
Adjunct Instructors
Adjunct Instructor of Sociology & Anthropology
MA, University of Virginia
Lamar Hall 511 | 662-915-7421
smbarretta@olemiss.edu
AICPA Research & Instruction Librarian and Associate Professor
Adjunct Instructor of Anthropology
PhD, University of Iowa
Ethnohistory, History of Anthropology, North American Indians
J. D. Williams Library 106 | 662-915-7985
ulkurtz@olemiss.edu
Professors Emeriti
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
PhD, Southern Illinois University
Lamar Hall 507 | 662-915-7421
sajay@olemiss.edu
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology & Art History
PhD, Harvard University
Lamar Hall 549 | 662-915-7421
sasisson@olemiss.edu
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
PhD, University of Missouri
Lamar Hall 510 | 662-915-7421
