Department of Anthropology Faculty
ECU’s faculty covers a wide spectrum of specialization ranging from studies in Eastern North Carolina focusing on archaeology, medical, and migration studies of the area to broader global studies involving applied anthropology, cultural anthropology, the anthropology of religion, gender, economic anthropology, Middle East studies, primate behavior, and human evolution.
I. Randolph Daniel, Jr. – Chair
(PhD, Chapel Hill, 1994)
Office: 271 Flanagan Building
Telephone: 252-328-9455
E-mail: danieli@ecu.edu
Website: Personal ECU Page
Interests: Chipped stone technologies, Cultural adaptations of Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene hunter-gatherers in the Southeast, Public Archaeology
Charles R. Ewen, THCAS Distinguished Professor, Director – Phelps Archaeology Laboratory
(PhD, Florida, 1987)
Office: 267 Flanagan Building
Telephone: 252-328-9454
E-mail: ewenc@ecu.edu
Website: Personal ECU Page
Interests: Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Archaeological methods and theory, Public Archaeology, Southeastern North America and Caribbean
Eric J. Bailey
(PhD, Wayne State University, 1988, MPH, Emory University, 1996)
Office: 209 Flanagan Buildling
Telephone: 252-328-9448
E-mail: baileye@ecu.edu
Website: Personal ECU Page
Interests: Applied Medical Anthropology, Public Health, Ethnic Health and Health Disparities, African American Culture, Global Health, and Culturally Competent Health Care Strategies
Joint Appointment with Department of Public Health
B. Blakely Brooks
(PhD, University of Alabama)
Office: 223 Flanagan Building
Telephone: 252-328-9433
E-mail: brooksb@ecu.edu
Website: Personal ECU Page
Interests: Applied Medical Anthropology, Cognitive Anthropological Theory and Methods, Social Stress, Peruvian Andean Culture, Cultural Syndromes, Andean Farming Practices
Robert L. Bunger (Emeritus)
(PhD, Northwestern, 1972)
E-mail: bungerr@ecu.edu
Interests: Cultural/social Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion, Africa, Oceania, Buddhism
Cynthia A. Grace-McCaskey
(PhD, University of South Florida, 2012)
Office: 211 Flanagan Building
Telephone: 252-328-9443
E-mail: gracemccaskeyc15@ecu.edu
Websites: Personal ECU Page, Research Website
Interests: Environmental anthropology, Political ecology, marine resource management, traditional ecological knowledge, social-ecological systems, and cooperative resource management and institutions.
David Griffith, Department of Coastal Studies
(PhD, Florida, 1983)
Office: 250 Flanagan Building
Telephone: 252-328-1748
E-mail: griffithd@ecu.edu
Website: Personal ECU Page
Interests: Economic Anthropology, Labor Studies, Migration, Caribbean
James E. Loudon
(PhD, University of Colorado, 2009)
Office: 211 Flanagan Building
Telephone: 252-737-1263
E-mail: loudonj@ecu.edu
Website: Personal ECU Page
Interests: Ethnoprimatology, Stable Isotope Ecology, Eco-toxicology, Parasitology, Primate Nutritional Ecology, The Human-Nonhuman Primate Interface
Holly F. Mathews (Emeritus)
(PhD, Duke, 1982)
E-mail: mathewsh@ecu.edu
Website: Personal ECU Page
Interests: Psychological Anthropology, Gender Roles, Medical Anthropology, Latin America, Southeast United States
Laura Mazow – Department Director of Undergraduate Studies
(PhD, University of Arizona, 2005)
Office: 207 Flanagan Building
Telephone: 252-328-9432
E-mail: mazowl@ecu.edu
Website: Personal ECU Page
Interests: Archaeology of the Middle East, archaeology and the Bible, ancient technologies
Sarah Page
(PhD, University of Florida, 2018)
Office: 217 Flanagan Building
E-mail: pagesa18@ecu.edu
Website: Personal ECU Page
Megan Perry
(PhD, New Mexico, 2002)
Office: 221 Flanagan Building
Telephone: 252-328-9434
E-mail: perrym@ecu.edu
Website: Personal ECU Page
Interests: Biological Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Forensic Anthropology, Near East
Ryan Schacht – Department Director of Graduate Studies
(PhD, University of California Davis, 2014)
Office: 287 Flanagan Building
E-mail: schachtr18@ecu.edu
Website: Personal ECU Page
Benjamin A. Saidel
(PhD, Harvard University, 1998)
Office: 283 Flanagan Building
Telephone: 252-737-1074
E-mail: saidelb@ecu.edu
Website: Personal ECU Page
Interests: Ethnoarchaeology, Middle Eastern/Near Eastern Archaeology, Pastoral Populations, Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Research on Bedouin Populations
Christopher A. Wolfe
(PhD, University of Nevada, Reno, 2023)
Office: 215 Flanagan Building
Telephone: 252-328-9445
E-mail: wolfec23@ecu.edu
Website: Personal ECU Page
Interests: Human Growth and Development, Human Variation, Forensic Anthropology, Virtual and Computational Anthropology, Data Science and Statistics
Linda D. Wolfe (Emeritus)
(PhD, Oregon, 1976)
E-mail: wolfel@ecu.edu
Interests: Biological Anthropology, Primate Behavior, Human Evolution, Women’s Studies
Emily Kancharla – Administrative Support Associate
Office: 229 Flanagan Building
Telephone: 252-737-5510
E-mail:griffinem18@ecu.edu