Faculty and Staff
Faculty and Staff
Anthropology is part of the Department of Social Sciences.
Department Chair
Debra Gold
Email: dlgold@stcloudstate.edu
Kelly M. Branam Macauley (she/her/hers)
- Professor
- Ph.D., Anthropology, Indiana University
(320) 308-2772 | 249 Stewart Hall
Research interests: Native North America; indigenous constitutionalism; American Indian law; ethnohistory; sacred sites and CRM; contemporary urban ethnography; homelessness; citizenship and immigration.
Debra Gold (she/her/hers)
- Professor
- Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Michigan
(320) 308-2159 | 258 Stewart Hall
Research interests: North American archaeology, especially eastern woodlands; historic archaeology of the upper midwest; bioarchaeology; paleonutrition; mortuary archaeology; public archaeology.
Mark P. Muñiz
- Professor
- Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Colorado Boulder
(320) 308-4162 | 255 Stewart Hall
Research interests: Hunter-gatherers of the midwest and Great Plains; lithic analyses; geoarchaeology; paleoenvironmental reconstruction; environmental anthropology; human ecology; anthropology of sport; four-field anthropology.
Matthew Tornow
- Professor
- Director, SCSU Biological Anthropology Laboratory
- Ph.D., Anthropology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
(320) 308-5496 | 259 Stewart Hall
Research interests: Biological anthropology; primate origins and evolution; primate behavior and ecology; dental anthropology; climate change, behavior, and adaptation; forensic anthropology.