Department Directory
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Diane Austin Research Anthropologist, Professor and Director of the School of Anthropology daustin@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-3879 Office: Haury Anthropology Building, Room 210F Dr. Diane Austin’s work examines the impacts of the offshore oil and gas industry in communities along the Gulf of Mexico; addresses environmental issues along the Arizona-Sonora border, and involves Southern Paiute cultural resource and environmental monitoring and... |
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Mamadou Baro Associate Research Anthropologist baro@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-2624 Office: Haury 316B & Geronimo 308
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Luis Barros luisb@email.arizona.edu Luis Barros is currently a PhD Candidate at the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. He holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies, also from the University of Arizona, and his Master Thesis focused on Brazilian fishing cooperatives linked to the Tilapia value-chain. His current... |
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Brandi Bethke Graduate Research Assistant brandibethke@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Katherine Brooks kbrooks4@email.arizona.edu Katherine Brooks specializes in American Indian ethnography and material culture and is currently working as a a Post-Doctoral Research Associate for BARA under the direction of Dr. Richard Stoffle. Dr. Brooks has been working with American Indian communities for the past eight years, on... |
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Kevin Bulletts Research Aide bulletts@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520)626-3898 Office: Geronimo 350-B [more information] |
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Leila Castro leilavcastro@email.arizona.edu Leila began working with BARA as a student intern in the fall of 2016. As an intern she worked on various projects with community partners in Tucson, AZ and Nogales, Son., Mex. In May 2018, Leila graduated from the University of Arizona with a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology and a B.A. in Global... |
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Timothy Finan Research Anthropologist finan@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-6972 Office: Geronimo 300 I was born in Bad Axe, Michigan, and raised in Port Austin, a small town of friendly bean farmers situated on the shores of Lake Huron. I studied... |
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James Greenberg Research Anthropologist jgreenbe@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-6316 Office: Geronimo 324 Dr. Greenberg's areas of expertise lie in political ecology, natural resource anthropology, economic anthropology, globalization, law and development, violence, urban anthropology, migration, household livelihoods,... |
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Amanda Hilton Research Scientist ajhilton@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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François Lanoë Assistant Research Professor, Career Track lanoe@email.arizona.edu Office: Haury 316 http://francoislanoe.weebly.com [more information] |
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Lumi Mandache lmandache@email.arizona.edu Luminita-Anda Mandache is a PhD student in socio-cultural and applied anthropology. Lumi earned her M.A. degree in Anthropology in 2011from the University of Louvain, located in Belgium. This stimulated her curiosity for topics related to economic and development anthropology. During her five... |
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Ben McMahan Assistant Research Scientist bmcmahan@email.arizona.edu TEL: 5206262283 Office: ENR2 N509 [more information] |
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Lauren Penney Postdoctoral Research Associate lpenney@email.arizona.edu Lauren is a medical anthropologist, currently working as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate for BARA. For the past 10 years, she has worked, in many different capacities, on five projects for Drs. Austin and McGuire studying the history and impacts of the offshore oil and gas industry in the... |
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Rayshma Pereira rpereira@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Evelyn Pickering evelyn.r.pickering@gmail.com Evelyn Pickering has been a part of BARA since the spring of 2012 and is currently a Research Specialist. As a member of Dr. Richard Stoffle's ethnographic research team, she has participated in multiple studies with American Indian tribes in the Midwest and Southwest regions. Most of these... |
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Malavika Ramamurthy malavikajinka25@arizona.edu [more information] |
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Megan Sheehan Research Staff sheehan@email.arizona.edu Megan is an anthropology graduate student at the University of Arizona, and is currently writing up her dissertation research on labor migration to Chile. As a research assistant working Dr. Diane Austin, Megan works on three BARA initiatives. megan assists in the coordination of the BARA... |
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Richard Stoffle Research Anthropologist rstoffle@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-2462 Office: Haury 319 As an applied cultural anthropologist I have spent my professional career trying to understand human problems and provide systematic research findings that may be used to reduce these problems. For the past four decades my applied research has contributed to Social Impact... |
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Kathleen Van Vlack Postdoctoral Research Associate kvanvlac@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Marcela Vásquez-León Associate Research Anthropologist mvasquez@u.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-3331 Office: Harvill 345 & Geronimo 332 Marcela was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. She has an interdisciplinary background, with a Ph.D. in Anthropology and an M.S. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Arizona. Currently, she has a joint appointment at BARA and the... |
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Niki vonHedemann nvonhedemann@email.arizona.edu Niki is a PhD student in the School of Geography and Development and a Research Assistant for BARA. Her dissertation work focuses on the social and ecological impacts of payments for ecosystem services programs that aim to incentivize forest conservation in Guatemala. As a research assistant for... |
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Maria Nieves Zedeño Chair of Administrative Affairs, Research Anthropologist mzedeno@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-9607 Office: Haury 318 I am a North American archaeologist, who, upon joining the Native American Cultural Resource Revitalization Program at BARA in 1994, saw an opportunity to apply my archaeological... |
