Faculty of Anthropology

Anthony P. Andrews
Professor of Anthropology
B.A. Harvard University (1972)
M.A. University of Arizona (1976)
Ph.D. University of Arizona (1980)
Email: andrews@ncf.edu
Website

Research Topics:
Prehispanic and historic Maya archaeology; coastal adaptations, ecology, subsistence and settlement patterns; trade and economics; Yucatecan history, historical archaeology and historical cartography

Teaching Subjects:
Survey of Archaeology; Human Origins; Method and Theory in Archaeology; Ecological Anthropology; Urban Anthropology; Primate Evolution and Behavior; Andean Prehistory; Old World Prehistory; Mesoamerican Civilization; Mesoamerican History and Culture; Prehispanic and Historic Maya Archaeology, Maya Ethnography and Ethnohistory.

Uzi Baram
Associate Professor of Anthropology
B.A. (1986) SUNY Binghamton
M.A. (1989) and Ph.D. (1996)

University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Email: Baram@ncf.edu
Website

Uzi Baram is an anthropologist who teaches a wide range of archaeology and cultural anthropology courses.  As a Historical Archaeologist, Professor Baram’s principle area of research has been the eastern Mediterranean, where he has studied the material culture, cultural landscapes, Western travel accounts, and social identities of the Ottoman Empire.  Current research on the Middle East examines the intersection of archaeology and heritage tourism.  Baram has edited and contributed to A Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire: Breaking New Ground (2000), Marketing Heritage: Archaeology and the Consumption of the Past (2004), and Between Art and Artifact: Approaches to Visual Representation in Historical Archaeology (2007) among other publications.  Recently Baram has contributed to a locally-based public anthropology program called Looking for Angola which employs the dual lens of archaeology and ethnography to reveal a `history from below' for a maroon community in the context of the anthropological critiques of racism and the histories of southwestern Florida.

Erin Dean
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
B.A., University of Kansas;

M.A. (2002) and Ph.D. (2007) University of Arizona

Email: EDean@ncf.edu

Professor Dean is an environmental anthropologist whose research focuses on community-based conservation in Tanzania and Zanzibar.  She has also worked with the Southern Paiutes in the American Southwest on cultural and environmental resource management issues.  Before arriving at New College, she taught at the University of Puget Sound. 

Maria Vesperi
Professor of Anthropology
B.A. University of Massachusetts, Commonwealth Scholars Program (1973)
M.A. Princeton University (1975)
Ph.D. Princeton University (1978)

Professor Vesperi is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in the analysis of contemporary social issues and the communication of anthropological ideas to the public. Using ethnographic data collection methods and symbolic theory, she focuses on identifying beliefs that underlie cultural constructions of age, ethnicity and community. She offers courses in cultural anthropology, myth and ritual, history of anthropological theory, anthropology and literature, language, culture and society, contemporary U.S. cultures and anthropological approaches to the study of aging.

Before joining the New College faculty, Professor Vesperi was a member of the editorial board and a staff writer/columnist at the St. Petersburg Times. She currently serves as a trustee of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. She is author of City of Green Benches: Growing Old in a New Downtown and co-editor with J. Neil Henderson of The Culture of Long Term Care: Nursing Home Ethnography. She is currently completing a manuscript about the relationship between anthropology and journalism and collecting material for a co-edited collection of essays by anthropologists whose work reaches audiences beyond the academy.

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