Marean’s research interests focus on the origins of modern humans, the prehistory of Africa, the study of animal bones from archaeological sites and climates and environments of the past.

Rosemarie Dombrowski is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Phoenix, AZ and the founding director of Revisionary Arts, a poetic medicine nonprofit committed to improving health outcomes through poetry.

Christie holds doctorate, master’s, and bachelor’s degrees in English with emphases respectively in cultural studies, composition and rhetoric, and American literature.

Michelaki is an anthropological archaeologist interested in human-environment-material interactions. She has undertaken archaeological, experimental, and archaeometric projects in Hungary, Italy, and Canada.

Haines co-directs the Center of Muslim Experience in the U.S. As assoc. prof. of religious studies and cultural anthropologist, he studies marginal communities, Islamic values of peace, community well-being and lived ethics.

Sugiyama's major research focuses on the Mesoamerican social histories, particularly of Teotihuacan, ancient urbanism, iconography, and symbolism; theory and method, particularly cognitive archaeology.

I am an anthropological archaeologist and cultural resource management professional who examines the social impacts of long-distance exchange and long-term human-animal relationships in pre-Hispanic North America.

Maupin directs the Community Health and Medical Anthropology Field School in Guatemala through the School of Human Evolution and Social Change.

Silk moved to ASU in 2012, from UCLA. She is interested in how natural selection shapes the evolution of social behavior in primates.

Morehart is an environmental anthropologist, an ethnobotanist/paleoethnobotanist, an archaeologist, and a Latin Americanist.