Faculty and Staff

Dr. Joanna Gautney

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Bio

Ph.D. Biological Anthropology, Tulane University (2016)
M.A. Biological Anthropology, Tulane University (2012)
B.A. Anthropology, California State University, Sacramento (2007)

Dr. Gautney is a biological anthropologist specializing in paleoanthropology. Her primary research focuses on the phylogenetic relationships between fossil hominin species, and the role interspecific hybridization may have played in human evolutionary history. Other areas of interest include paleoecology, paleodemography, and climate change during the late Pleistocene, and their role in recent human evolution and dispersal.

Abigail Mack

Assistant Professor
Bio

PhD: UCLA - 2021
MA: Indiana University Bloomington - 2013
BA: Indiana University, Bloomington - 2010

Abby Mack is a medical and linguistic anthropologist. Her research examines how people navigate the everyday ethical and political dilemmas that emerge in the course of providing and seeking care for psychiatric and substance use disorders in the United States, with established field programs in Los Angeles and Central Appalachia. Abby engages people seeking care in a diverse range of settings including: hospital and clinical facilities, jails and prisons, diversion and therapeutic justice courtroom programs, and church and faith-based recovery programs. She uses her research in applied settings to help increase access to affordable and effective care.

Dr. Madeline Mackie

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Bio

Ph.D. University of Wyoming 2019
M.A. University of Wyoming 2014
B.S. University of California, Davis 2011

Madeline Mackie is an archaeologist who specializes in western North American hunter-gatherers. Her research interests include the early inhabitants of North America, quantitative methods, spatial analysis, and big game hunting. Her recent research has included the La Prele Mammoth site, a Clovis site in Converse County, Wyoming, and the compilation of a radiocarbon database for North America.

https://madelinemackie.weebly.com/

Dr. Mark Stevenson

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Bio

B.A. Anthropology & Political Science, State University of New York College at Oneonta (1984); Ph.D. Anthropology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (1996)

In addition to introductory courses (Intro. to Anthropology, Peoples & Cultures of the World, Language & Culture), Dr. Stevenson teaches a variety of electives, including courses on the cultures of contemporary Europe, post-socialism in Eastern Europe, globalization, Celtic culture and history, technology & culture, political and economic anthropology. He has also led numerous study abroad courses to Europe and China. Dr. Stevenson has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Ireland and Germany, including studies of the process of German unification in public broadcasting and film institutions and of the intersection of labor market policies, education reform and professionalization in the non-profit arts sector.

His current research projects and interests include:

• Professionalization and the influence of social media in Irish traditional music
• Sustainability in the business and non-profit sectors
• Cultural heritage, cultural policy and tourism
• Anthropology of work
• Anthropology of education
• Environmental anthropology
• Visual anthropology

Dr. David Yoder

Professor of Anthropology
Bio

Dr. Yoder is an archaeologist who focuses on the prehistory of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau of North America. His primary areas of research include Fremont societies, the Paleoarchaic to Early Archaic Transition, archaeometry, and cultural resource management (CRM). Outside of the university system, Dr. Yoder’s career has included positions in state government and private sector CRM.

Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2009); M.A. Anthropology, Brigham Young University, Provo (2005); B.S. Anthropology/History, Weber State University, Ogden (2003).