Anthropology Faculty
Permanent Faculty | Adjunct Instructors | Professors Emeriti
Permanent Faculty
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Associate Chair, Anthropology
Croft Associate Professor of Anthropology & International Studies
PhD, University of Chicago
Cultural: Science & Technology, Medical Anthropology, Latin America
Lamar Hall 561 | 662-915-7129
kmcentel@olemiss.edu
![Simone Delerme](https://socanth.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/154/2017/01/sdelerme-2.jpg)
McMullan Associate Professor of Southern Studies & Associate Professor of Anthropology
PhD, Rutgers University
Cultural: Latin American Migration, Critical Race Theory, Language & Identity, Inequality
Lamar Hall 523 | 662-915-7797
sdelerme@olemiss.edu
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
PhD, Arizona State University
Archaeology: Comparative Latin American Research, Ceramic Technology, Quantitative Methods, Ethnohistory
Lamar Hall 552 | 662-915-7421
kleschba@olemiss.edu
![Carolyn Freiwald](https://socanth.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/154/2017/01/cfreiwald.jpg)
Associate Professor of Anthropology
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bioarchaeology: Mesoamerica and the Maya, Osteology, Archaeological Chemistry
Lamar Hall 539 | 662-915-6544
crfreiwa@olemiss.edu
Croft Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Studies
PhD, University of Chicago
Lamar Hall 551 | 662-915-7421
kghickma@olemiss.edu
![Christine Lee](https://socanth.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/154/2023/11/Lee_Christine.jpg)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
PhD, Arizona State University
Biological: Bioarchaeology, Dental Anthropology, Paleopathology. Ethnic and Gender Identity, Central/East Asia and Egypt.
Lamar Hall 543 | 662-915-5733
clee19@olemiss.edu
![Bridget Martin](https://socanth.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/154/2022/11/Martin2.jpg)
Bridget Martin
Croft Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Korean Studies
PhD, University of California, Berkeley (Geography)
Korea, urbanism, militarism, land dispossession, geopolitics
bkmartin@olemiss.edu
![Marcos Mendoza](https://socanth.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/154/2017/01/mmendoza-2.jpg)
Associate Professor of Anthropology
PhD, University of Chicago
Cultural: Economic & Political Anthropology, Environment, Latin America
Lamar Hall 547 | 662-915-7343
mendoza@olemiss.edu
![Matthew Murray](https://socanth.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/154/2017/01/mmurray.jpg)
Instructional Professor of Anthropology
PhD, Harvard University
Archaeology: Ancient Celts, Death & Burial, Landscape, Resource Management
Lamar Hall 553 | 662-915-3995
mlmurray@olemiss.edu
![Catarina Passidomo](https://socanth.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/154/2017/01/cpassidomo.jpg)
Southern Foodways Alliance Associate Professor of Southern Studies and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Southern Studies
PhD, University of Georgia
Cultural: Food, Human-Environment Interactions, Race, Urban Geography
Lamar Hall 552 | 662-915-3427
passidomo@olemiss.edu
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Associate Professor of Anthropology & Southern Studies
PhD, University of Texas
Historical Archaeology: Cultural Resource Management, Museum Studies, African Diaspora
Lamar Hall 522 | 662-915-3468
jskippe1@olemiss.edu
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Studies
PhD, Ohio State University
Lamar Hall 560 | 662-915-7297
ntsylvan@olemiss.edu
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Director, Center for Archaeological Research
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
PhD, Texas A&M University
Lamar Hall 565
jwtune@olemiss.edu
Adjunct Instructors
Scott Barretta
Instructor
MA, University of Virginia
Lamar Hall 511 | 662-915-7421
barretta@olemiss.edu
Adjunct Instructor of Anthropology
MA, Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Linguistic Anthropology, Law, Legal Profession
Lamar Hall 521 | 662-915-6533
ggorbun@olemis.edu
![Patrick Lewis](https://socanth.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/154/2022/11/Lewis2.jpg)
Adjunct Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Chicago
Linguistics: Linguistic and semiotic anthropology, Economic anthropology, Anthropology of value
Lamar Hall | 662-915-7421
pclewis@olemiss.edu
![Royce Kurtz](https://socanth.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/154/2016/12/rkurtz.jpg)
Royce Kurtz
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
![Jay Johnson](https://socanth.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/154/2017/01/jjohnson.jpg)
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
![Robert Thorne](https://socanth.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/154/2016/12/UMlogo.png)
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
PhD, University of Missouri
Lamar Hall 510 | 662-915-7421