People Group Archives: Faculty

Dr. Melina Sherman is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology who specializes in medical anthropology. She received her B.A. in Communication from Northwestern University (2013) and both her M.A. and PhD in Communication from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism (2016; 2018). During her time at USC, Dr. Sherman trained with […]

Dr. Rodriguez is a cultural anthropologist with a specialization in applied medical anthropology. Her work focuses on personhood and the varied experiences of D/deaf, hard of hearing and Latinx peoples. In the US, she has worked on research projects in Los Angeles and Detroit. Internationally, she has worked in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Switzerland. […]

Dr. Emily Zavodny is an environmental archaeologist specializing in paleoecology, zooarchaeology, and stable isotope geochemistry. She received her MA and PhD from The Pennsylvania State University and BA from Wake Forest University. She is broadly interested in how prehistoric human and animal populations successfully adapted to uncertainty and risk posed by marginal landscapes, resource scarcity, […]

Dr. Freidline is a biological anthropologist who specializes in paleoanthropology. Her research focuses on the evolution and development of human craniofacial morphology. She applies state-of-the-art methods to interpret craniofacial growth in fossil species ranging from Homo erectus to H. neanderthalensis and H. sapiens with the ultimate goal of better understanding the evolution of the H. […]

Dr. Adams is a biological anthropologist who specializes in dental anthropology, bioarchaeology, and forensic anthropology, mixed methods, and ethics. They received their B.A. and B.S. from University at Albany, SUNY (2013); M.S. in Forensic Anthropology from Boston University School of Medicine (2015); and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Nevada, Reno (2020). Their bioarchaeological […]

Dr. Walker is an associate professor specializing in archaeology. He received his Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include political and social organization, landscape archaeology, common poor resources, the relationship between nature and culture, complex societies and agricultural intensification in the Amazon Basin, the Andes, and Bolivia. Dr. Walker currently […]

Dr. Wheeler is an senior lecturer specializing in bioarchaeology. Dr. Wheeler received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Western Ontario in 2009 and joined UCF in 2010. Her current research focuses on the bioarchaeological analysis of infants and children to shed light on mortuary practices involving the youngest members of society. This research […]

Dr. Williams a bioarchaeologist specializing in research of human health and diet. She received her PhD in 2008 from University of Western Ontario and was awarded the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal in 2009. She has been a member of the Dakhleh Oasis Project in Egypt since 2002, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven project at Dayr […]

Dr. Sinelli is an senior lecturer of anthropology who specializes in archaeology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 2010. Dr. Sinelli’s research interests include Caribbean prehistory, migration and island colonization theory, settlement patterns and ecological adaptation, archaeological ceramics, physical anthropology and maritime and underwater archaeology.   Dr. Sinelli has been at UCF […]