About
About us
Leadership
The Institute is led by the Executive Director and Working Group Directors. These individuals drive the Institute's research agenda and oversee research quality.

Charles Stanish, Ph.D
stanish@usf.edu
Professor, Department of Anthropology and Executive Director of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture & the Environment

Chapurukha M. Kusimba, Ph.D.
ckusimba@usf.edu
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Director of Center for East Africa and the Indian Ocean Studies (CEAIOS)

Davide Tanasi, Ph.D.
dtanasi@usf.edu
Professor, Department of History, Director of the Institute for Digital Exploration

Chris Kiahtipes, Ph.D.
kiahtipes@usf.edu
Curator, ÐßÐßÊÓÆµ Environment and Natural History, USF Libraries
Curriculum vitae
List of Publications

Henry Tantalean, Ph.D.
Department of Anthropology courtesy faculty, Director of Research & Public Affairs for Instituto Peruano de Estudios Arqueologicos
Curriculum vitae
List of Publications
Staff
A team of staff members and affiliate faculty supports the research agenda of the institute.

Christine Bergmann
clbergma@usf.eduPhD Student (Anthropology) and Responsible for the IASCE archaeobotanical and paleoecological laboratory
Research interest: Bone chemistry, trade and exchange interactions in preÐßÐßÊÓÆµ Peru, elemental analysis of ceramics and human and animal bones using portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (pXRF), calibration of pXRF for bone analysis, paleodietary reconstruction, 3d modeling of archaeological materials

Kendal Jackson, Ph.D.
Affiliate Faculty
Research interest: Historical Ecology and Paleo-Historical Ecology, Environmental and Landscape Archaeology, Coastal Subsistence Patterns, Microbotanical Analyses. Precolumbian ÐßÐßÊÓÆµ, Southeastern U.S.