Anthropology Faculty

Dr. Arthur Durband

Assistant Professor, Physical Anthropology,
Anthropology Graduate Program Advisor
Ph.D., University of Tennessee, 2004

Areas of Specialization: Paleoanthropology, with research interests in modern human origins

Email: arthur.durband@ttu.edu

Office: Holden Hall 273
Phone: 806-742-2401 x237

Fall 2009 Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:00-3:00pm, or by appointment.

Dr. Tina Harris

Assistant Professor, Cultural Anthropology
Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center, 2009

Areas of Specialization: space and place, material culture & consumption, globalization, political economy, East Asia, South Asia

Email: christina.harris@ttu.edu

Office: Holden Hall 272
Phone: 806-742-2401 x240

Fall 2009 Office Hours: Mondays, 2:00-5:00pm, or by appointment.

Dr. Brett A. Houk

Assistant Professor, Archaeology
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 1996

Areas of Specialization: Texas prehistory, Mesoamerica, Maya archaeology, site planning, Cultural Resource Management (CRM)

Email: brett.houk@ttu.edu
Website: http://www.webpages.ttu.edu/bhouk/

Office: Holden Hall 277
Phone: 806-742-2401 x234

Fall 2009 Office Hours: Tuesdays, 9:30–10:30, Wednesdays, 9:00–11:00, or by appointment

Dr. Robert R. Paine

Professor of Anthropology, Forensic Anthropologist
Director of the Forensics Sciences Minor Program
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1994

Areas of Specialization: Human osteology, skeletal histology, forensic anthropology, paleopathology (Texas prehistory, Villanovan culture, Iron-Age to Roman Imperial periods of Italy, 20th century South Africa autopsies, Roman-Byzantine burials of Turkey), nonhuman primate functional anatomy & histology

Email: robert.paine@ttu.edu
Website: http://www.webpages.ttu.edu/rpaine/

Office: Holden Hall 274
Phone: 806-742-2401 x241

Fall 2009 Office Hours: By appointment.

Dr. Tamra L. Walter

Associate Professor, Archaeology
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 2000

Areas of Specialization: Historic archaeology, Spanish Colonial Texas, coastal Ecuador

Email: tamra.walter@ttu.edu

Office: Holden Hall 270
Phone: 806-742-2401 x235

Fall 2009 Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m., or by appointment

Lauren Whitman

Instructor
MA, Texas Tech, 2009

Areas of Specialization: Historical Archaeology, Spanish Colonial Ceramics, Texas Archaeology

Email: lauren.whitman@ttu.edu

Office: Holden Hall Room 269

Fall 2009 Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 10:00 to 11:00 or by appointment

Dr. Jeff Williams

Professor of Anthropology
Chair, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 1987

Areas of Teaching: linguistics, anthropological linguistics, expressive
culture, anthropology of music

Areas of research: descriptive and documentary linguistics, contact
linguistics, dialectology, endangered languages, Papuan languages,
varieties of English in the West Indies, languages of mainland Southeast
Asia

Email: jeff.williams@ttu.edu

Office: Holden Hall 158a
Phone: 806-742-2400 x223

Fall 2009 Office Hours: By appointment.