Brian Billman (Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara, 1996; Assistant Professor of Anthropology) Archaeology, origins and development of complex societies, warfare, settlement pattern analysis, cultural resource management; Central Andes, southwestern North America.

Donald L. Brockington (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1965; Professor Emeritus of Anthropology) Archaeology; Latin America.

Carole L. Crumley (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1972; Professor of Anthropology) European (especially Iron Age/Celtic) archaeology; archaeological theories of complex societies; ethnohistory; historical ecology; regional archaeology.

R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr. (Ph.D., University of Tennessee, 1986; RLA Research Archaeologist and Associate Director; Adjunct Professor of Anthropology) Archaeology, quantitative methods, computer applications, ceramic analysis, settlement systems, contact period; southeastern United States.

Donald C. Haggis (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1992; Professor of Classics) Bronze Age and Early Iron Age archaeology, ceramic studies, regional survey, early states; eastern Mediterranean, Aegean.

Dale L. Hutchinson (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1991; Associate Professor of Anthropology). Physical anthropology, skeletal anthropology, forensic anthropology, disease and nutrition, transition to agriculture, coastal adaptations; southeastern United States, Bolivia.

Scott Madry (Ph.D., Univ of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 1986, Res Assoc Prof of Anthropology.) Spatial analysis, remote sensing, geographic information systems, GPS, modeling, Old World prehistory.

Jodi Magness (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1989; Professor of Religious Studies). Classical and Syro-Palestinian archaeology, ancient pottery, ancient synagogues, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Roman army in the East, early Islamic settlement.

Patricia McAnany(Ph.D., ; Professor of Anthropology). Archaeology, Ritual Practice, Ancestor Veneration, Cultural Heritage, Economic Organization, Lithic Technology, Quantitative Methods, Mesoamerica

Brett H. Riggs (Ph.D., University of Tennessee, 1999; RLA Research Archaeologist; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology) Archaeology, ethnohistory, Cherokee culture history; southeastern United States.

John J. W. Rogers (Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1955; Kenan Professor of Geological Sciences, Emeritus) Igneous petrology, geochemistry; effects of geology on human history.

G. Kenneth Sams (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1971; Professor of Classics) Classical archaeology, architecture, pottery, architectural conservation; Greece, Anatolia.

John F. Scarry (Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 1984; Research Professor of Anthropology) Archaeological theory, cultural ecology, development and operation of hierarchical societies, prehistory, quantitative methods, Spanish colonial period archaeology; eastern United States.

C. Margaret Scarry (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1986; Associate Professor of Anthropology) Paleoethnobotany, archaeological theory and method, development and operation of chiefdoms, archaeology of contact period in southeastern United States; eastern United States.

Laurie Cameron Steponaitis (Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1987; Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology) Archaeology, hunter-gatherers, settlement systems, coastal adaptations; eastern North America.

Vincas P. Steponaitis (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1980; RLA Director; Professor of Anthropology) Archaeology, complex societies, ceramic analysis, quantitative methods, locational analysis; North America.

Mary C. Sturgeon (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, 1971; Professor of Art History) Classical archaeology, Greek and Roman sculpture, Greek Painting; Greece, Italy.

Silvia Tomaskova (Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1995; Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Anthropology) Paleolithic archaeology, human evolution, gender and science, women in science, lithic technology, microscopic use wear; Eurasia, central and eastern Europe.

H. Trawick Ward (Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1980; RLA Research Associate) Archaeology, spatial analysis, culture change; southeastern United States.

Richard A. Yarnell (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1963; Professor Emeritus of Anthropology) Ethnobotany; North America.