Full-Time Faculty

PROFILE: I am a linguistic, cultural, and psychological anthropologist with a broad range of interests in linguistic diversity and change, migration and climate change migration, children’s languages and cultures, racialization, socialization and education, and Pacific Islanders. I am broadly interested in the sociolinguistic construction of difference—be it age, race, or gender. My current work focuses […]

PROFILE: Falconer Curriculum Vitae Dr. Steven Falconer joined the department as Chair in January, 2015. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Arizona, and taught for many years at Arizona State University. He has most recently been the head of the Department of Archaeology at Latrobe University in Australia. Dr. Falconer is […]

Teaching Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator PROFILE: Dr. Catherine Mitchell Fuentes is a teaching professor of anthropology at UNC Charlotte. She specializes in applied and medical anthropology. She has worked in Latin America, New England, and the southeastern United States. Her research has looked at how trauma, particularly in the form of domestic violence and sexual […]

PROFILE: Dr. Sara Juengst is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at UNC Charlotte and specializes in bioarchaeology and mortuary archaeology. She has worked on (bio)archaeological projects in Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Kenya, Nigeria, and North Carolina and is broadly interested in past peoples’ lived experiences of power and social organization as they are reflected through skeletal […]

PROFILE: Luca Lai is an archaeologist specializing in stable isotopes, Western Mediterranean prehistory and particularly Sardinia, and human-environment interactions. He has conducted research on paleodiet and paleoclimate in prehistoric Sardinia from the 5th through the 1st millennium BC, focusing on long-term continuity and change, and on differential access to resources based on social status and […]

Dr. Melissa Manus is a human biologist and biological anthropologist whose research explores the influence of early life environments on health. Her work highlights the microbiome as a system that is environmentally sensitive, shared across generations, and predictive of health outcomes. Specifically, Dr. Manus applies ecological and evolutionary perspectives to study the social transmission of microbes as a pathway through which early life […]

Kofi Mensah is a medical anthropologist with an interest in the social and behavioral aspects of mental health and drug addiction. His research looks at the influence of social dynamics and social structures on mental healthcare systems from a critical medical anthropology perspective. He is particularly interested in the impact of stigma on mental healthcare […]

Timothy Murtha, a practicing anthropologist and design educator, joined the faculty at Charlotte as a professor of anthropology in 2023. For two decades, his research and practice have been focused on leveraging geospatial tools for anthropological and archaeological research and planning, design, and preservation at a landscape scale. Before joining the faculty at Charlotte, Murtha […]

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PROFILE: Nicole Peterson is a Professor of Anthropology at UNC Charlotte. As an applied, environmental, and economic anthropologist, they engage with communities dealing with changes and inequities around food, health, and the environment. Dr. Peterson has studied decisions about resource management and economic development around a Mexican marine protected area, culminating in the book, Net Values: Environment, Economic, and […]