In addition to teaching, the faculty have extensive research and service experience, representing the fields of archeology, social/cultural, linguistic, and biological anthropology, in diverse cultural settings including the American Southwest, Southern California, Appalachia, South Florida, the Atlantic coastal areas, France, India, North Ossetia Russia, Barbados, Mexico, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, and China.

Student Involvement

Each faculty member welcomes the opportunity to provide individual career advising and instruction to students, who are encouraged to speak with faculty members about research/internship possibilities.

There are many opportunities for students to work with faculty members on research projects and through internships.  Here are a few areas in which students may want to pursue these opportunities:

• Spring break field course to Southwestern American Indian communities
• Summer archeological field school in western North Carolina or elsewhere in the Eastern United States
• Summer ethnographic field school in the Ecuadorian Amazon
• Summer ethnographic field school in Appalachia
• Internship field school in Honduras
• Internships with a variety of service agencies and archeological projects, e.g. Appalachian Voices (environment); High Country Amigos (hispanics); Laboratories of Archeological Science; Sustainable Communities Coordinator; Legal Services of the Blue Ridge; Watauga Medical Center Forensic Pathology Lab; Hunger Coalition; Appalachian Cultural Museum; Student Action with Farmworkers, English as a Second Language, etc.