Eder's interests center on sociocultural anthropology in Palawan, Philippines and natural resource management.

Hudaks studies sociocultural anthropology: Linguistics and Southeast Asia.

Steadman's research area is sociocultural anthropology: kinship; religion; witchcraft;and Papua New Guinea

Williams is the past associate director of the Mayo Clinic/ASU Obesity Solutions initiative.

Mathew is an evolutionary anthropologist studying the origins of human cooperation and warfare. She conducts field research among Turkana pastoralists in Kenya.

BurnSilver is interested in how economic and climatic changes are affecting resource-based livelihoods of hunters and pastoralists, their social relationships and their well-being.

Perreault's research focuses on the intersection of archaeology and evolutionary anthropology.

Aguilar's interests range from sociocultural anthropology: insider vs. outsider perspective to ethnic and class relations.