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.

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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

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Chapurukha M. Kusimba, Ph.D.
ckusimba@usf.edu   

Professor, Department of Anthropology, Director of Center for East Africa and the Indian Ocean Studies (CEAIOS) 

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Davide Tanasi, Ph.D.
dtanasi@usf.edu  

Professor, Department of History, Director of the Institute for Digital Exploration

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Chris Kiahtipes, Ph.D.
kiahtipes@usf.edu 

Curator, ÐßÐßÊÓÆµ Environment and Natural History, USF Libraries 

Curriculum vitae

List of Publications

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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.

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Christine Bergmann

clbergma@usf.edu 

PhD 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

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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.