Giovanni Bennardo

Cecil Brown

Winifred Creamer

Daniel Gebo

Michael Kolb

Sibel Kusimba

Judy Ledgerwood

Mark Mehrer

Andrea Molnar

Susan Montague

Leila Porter

Ronald Provencher

Rob Ridinger

Susan Russell

Kendall Thu

Katharine Wiegele

Ann Wright-Parsons

Faculty

The anthropology faculty numbers 11 full-time scholars, three part-time scholars, five emeritus professors, and a museum director.  Faculty research and teaching interests span all four subdisciplines of anthropology (archaeology, linguistic anthropology , physical/biological anthropology and social/cultural anthropology), and the department boasts excellent research programs and research and teaching collections.

Several faculty play central roles in NIU's Women's Studies Program, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and Latino and Latin American Studies. Ongoing research programs include NIU's Contract Archaeology Program, The Sicilian Elymi Project (Sicilian Prehistory) the Northern Rio Grande Archaeological Research Project, and Na Heiau o Maui (Hawaiian Prehistory). Two faculty members hold adjunct or research associate positions at the Field Museum in Chicago, and one at the Burpee Natural History Museum. Another integral aspect of anthropology at NIU is the Museum of Anthropology, which provides student experience in anthropological museology. Additionally, we also have expertise in applied anthropology, forensic anthropology, museum studies, and cognitive science. Lastly, we provided numerous opportunities for our students to exercise their knowledge by offering field schools in archaeology, applied anthropology, and cultural anthropology in such far-flung places as Peru, Maui, Sicily, Cambodia, and exotic Illinois.