Faculty

Traci A Ardren

Traci A Ardren

Professor

(305) 284-4912
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Traci is an anthropological archaeologist interested in New World prehistoric cultures. Her research focuses on issues of identity and other forms of symbolic representation in the archaeological record, especially the ways in which differences are explained through gender. Current preoccupations include the role of cuisine in identity formation...
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Karlisa Alicia Callwood

Karlisa Alicia Callwood

Lecturer - ECS

(305) 284-8385
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Karlisa Callwood is a faculty lecturer in the Ecosystem Science and Policy program and a marine scientist, seasoned educator, and science communicator. Working at the intersection of science, community engagement, and inclusion, Dr. Callwood’s work focuses on transforming how we view, interact with, and talk about our environment, as...
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Toni Cela

Toni Cela

Adjunct Lecturer

(305) 284-5069
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Dr. Cela is an educational anthropologist whose research focuses on migration and interrelated themes of education, health, violence, and disaster.  Through her research on migration, Dr. Cela examines how issues related to processes of marginalization, structural violence, and the production of vulnerability intersect with individual...
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David W. Forrest

David W. Forrest

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-6045
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David is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research focuses on sexual risk behavior and substance use among people who use drugs, men who have sex with men, and heterosexuals at increased risk for HIV infection. His methodological interests include rapid assessment and the triangulation of qualitative and quantitative data to understand the...
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Pamela L. Geller

Pamela L. Geller

Professor

(305) 284-5091
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Pamela L. Geller is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Miami. Over the years, she has conducted fieldwork in Hawaii, Belize, Honduras, Perú, and Haiti. Her intellectual interests include archaeology and bioarchaeology, feminist and queer studies, materiality of identity, the sociopolitics of the past, and...
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Jorge Ulloa Hung

Jorge Ulloa Hung

Lecturer

(305) 284-2535
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Jorge is Ph.D. in Anthropology and Historian. His research and academic experiences include diverse aspects of the Caribbean and Latin America's material cultures, landscapes, cultural legacies, and heritages, studied from archaeological, ethnohistorical, and sociocultural perspectives. His research interests are Indigenous and African...
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Lydia Light

Lydia Light

Asst. Professor

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Lydia is a biological anthropologist and conservationist. Her research focuses on the behavioral ecology of primates, specifically investigating how our closest living relatives (nonhuman primates) modify behavior to cope with rapidly changing environmental conditions. Lydia’s primary research site is in western Thailand where she has...
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Louis Herns Marcelin

Louis Herns Marcelin

Professor

(305) 284-8493
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Dr. Marcelin is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research focuses on anthropology of family and kinship in the Americas. His research also examines questions related to health and human security, and the roles of power, violence, and marginalization in society (particularly in Brazil, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the United States). He...
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Claire Oueslati-Porter

Claire Oueslati-Porter

Senior Lecturer

(305) 297-0865
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Claire Oueslati-Porter is an anthropologist (Ph.D. at University of South Florida, 2012). Oueslati-Porter is a core lecturer in the Gender & Sexuality Studies program at University of Miami, where she teaches courses including Introduction to Gender & Sexuality Studies, Gender in the Middle East and North Africa, and Gender and Forced...
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Cyrus Flint Owens

Sr. Research Associate 2, SOM (A)

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Cyrus Owens is an adjunct professor and applied cultural anthropologist studying bloodborne disease in the context of urban intravenous drug usage. He serves as Senior Research Associate at Miller School of Medicine's IDEA Exchange, the first and foremost legal SSP in Florida. His work focuses on both the immediate physical and...
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Theresa Pinto

Theresa Pinto

Lecturer - Ecosystem Science and Policy

(305) 284-6162
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Theresa is a faculty lecturer in the Ecosystem Science and Policy program and the Director of Civic Engagement for the Abess Center. She is a trained evolutionary geneticist and a practicing attorney. Her current research focuses on socio-ecology and resilience at the intersection of the built and natural environments. Her legal practice and...
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