Faculty and Staff

Professor and Chair  Areas of Interest: Anthropology of hunter-gatherers; assemblage formation; New World Paleo-Indian societies; Lithic analysis  More >>

Departmental Administrative Assistant

(330) 972-7875

Carolyn Behrman, Ph.D. (1997) University of Pennsylvania.

Associate Professor  Geographical Areas of Research: Southern Africa (Swaziland) and the U.S.  Interest Areas: Medical Anthropology; women's work and single-parenting; urbanization; urban subsistence strategies and the political economy of food for the hungry in the U.S.       More >>

J. Clayton Fant, Ph.D. (1976) University of Michigan.

Professor Interest Areas: Roman architecture, marble trade, Pompeii, architecture of Rome, ancient sports, Roman history.    More >>

Assistant Professor Geographical Areas of Research: East Africa (Tanzania) and the U.S. Interest Areas: The political economy of food and famine, urbanization, urban cultures and poverty, street people, urban agriculture   More >>

Associate Professor  Interest Areas: Protohistoric and early historic archaeology, early urbanism, city planning and the spatial analysis of ancient domestic residences. Dr. Matney currently directs fieldwork at two sites in southeastern Turkey: Early Bronze Age Titriş Höyük (2600-2100 BC) and Assyrian Period Ziyaret Tepe (1300-600 BC).    More >>

Instructor, Classical Studies  Interest Areas: Religion and Ritual in archaeology and literature, prehistoric Greek archaeology, archaeological methods and theory.  More >>

Instructor, Anthropology Interest Areas: Mechanics and evolution of human and non-human primate locomotor anatomy; skeletal biology and forensics; and the history of evolutionary thought in physical anthropology.  More >>

Contract Professional Director of The Community Archaeology Project.  Teaches: Introduction to Archaeology, The Archaeology of Ohio, Archaeology of the Americas, Archaeology Lab Methods  More >>

Elizabeth Mancz, Ph.D. (1989) University of Minnesota.

Senior Lecturer Interest Areas: Zooarchaeology, Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age, Northeastern Ohio Archaeology, and cultures as expressed through fiction with an emphasis on the differences shown by Japanese and American animation. More >>

Associate Lecturer

Lynn R. Metzger, Ph.D. (1989) Case Western Reserve University.

Senior Lecturer Interest Areas: Contemporary culture change, race & ethnicity, Native Americans in the 20th Century. Applied, community based research in health, homelessness and hunger issues.  More >>

Assistant Lecturer Teaches Mythology of Ancient Greece, Greek Literature, and Sports and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome. 

Joycelyn Drozd Ramos, M.A. (1980) Northern Illinois University.

Associate Lecturer Interest Areas: Religion and rites of passage (especially funeral ritual), disabilities and accessibility, folklore, museums & cross-cultural comparative education.  More >>

Ken Sayers, M.A.

Associate Lecturer Teaches Human Evolution.  Research interests include: primate ecology and behavior, primate models for hominid evolution, Himalayan langur monkeys, foraging theory.  

Megan Shaeffer, M.A. (2002) University of York, UK.

Assistant Lecturer  Interest Areas:  Medieval Archaeology.  Teaches: Human Diversity, Old World Archaeology, and Medieval Archaeology.     More >>

Senior Lecturer

Janai Tegland, M.A. (1997) Kent State University.

Assistant Lecturer  Interest Areas:  Archaeology.  Teaches Introduction to Cultural Anthropology and Introduction to Archaeology.  More >>

Senior Lecturer Interests areas:human and primate evolution. Research interests: variation in primate and human locomotor anatomy.

Staff

Research Associate  Interest areas: geophysical survey for archaeology (numerous sites local and abroad), remote sensing, mapping, data and image management.