Department of Geography and Anthropology
Meet Our Dedicated Faculty & Staff Members
Listed below are the current faculty and staff for the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Kennesaw State University.
Administration
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Brandon Lundy Chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology and Professor of Anthropology
Chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology and Professor of Anthropology
blundy@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-2893
SO 4050Brandon D. Lundy is chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology and professor of anthropology. Dr. Lundy's scholarship focuses on climate change, sustainable livelihoods, ethnoeconomics, transnational labor migration, indigenous conflict management, and entrepreneurship. He is the editor or co-editor of five books and has published in many journals including Economic Anthropology, Cross-Cultural Research, Human Organization, and African Arts. Dr. Lundy has served as a country specialist (Guinea-Bissau) for Fulbright and the State Department and regularly presents nationally and internationally. His current NSF-funded research explores the valuation of artisanal alcohol in Cabo Verde, West Africa.
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Alice Gooding Assistant Chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology and Associate Professor of Anthropology
Assistant Chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology and Associate Professor of Anthropology
afazloll@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-2503
SO 4046Alice F. Gooding is the assistant chair of the department of Geography and Anthropology and an associate professor of anthropology. Dr. Gooding is a board-certified forensic anthropologist and serves the state of Georgia at-large. She manages the KSU Forensic Anthropology Field Lab and the KSU Biological Anthropology Lab. She teaches classes in osteology, biological anthropology methods, forensic medicine, and field recovery. Dr. Gooding provides professional training in the excavation of clandestine graves. Her current area of research explores interdisciplinary approaches to grave detection technologies. She regularly presents her work at national scientific and technical conferences.
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Susanne Rothery Academic Program Support Specialist
Academic Program Support Specialist
srothery@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-2373
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Briana Bonds Office Manager
Office Manager
bbonds1@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-2373
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Full-Time Anthropology Faculty
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Matthew Davis Lecturer of Anthropology
Lecturer of Anthropology
mdavi464@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-2373
SO 3016Matthew M. Davis is a Lecturer of Anthropology and a certified Ethnographer. He is a cultural anthropologist with a certification in ethnographic research methods. His research interests have focused on Black Americans in a post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans as well as those in the Katrina diaspora. Additionally, his research focuses on pedagogies of anthropological praxis within and beyond the classroom, and the decolonization of higher education. Mr. Davis obtained his MA in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnography Certification from Georgia State University, and BA in Art History from Oglethorpe University.
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Nicholas Ellwanger Capstone Coordinator in the Honors College and Senior Lecturer of Anthropology
Capstone Coordinator in the Honors College and Senior Lecturer of Anthropology
nellwang@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-3541
ALC 5525Nicholas Ellwanger is a biological anthropologist that studies primate behavioral ecology and human evolution. He obtained his BS in Neuroscience (Emory University), MA in Anthropology (University of Victoria, Canada), and Ph.D. in Anthropology (University of Texas at San Antonio). He has conducted field studies on chacma baboons in South Africa and ring-tailed lemurs in Madagascar, focusing primarily on the impact of ecological seasonality and human-induced habitat change on dietary and social strategies of female primates. At Kennesaw State University, Dr. Ellwanger teaches Introduction to Biological Anthropology (ANTH 1105), Introduction to Anthropology (ANTH 1102), Paleoanthropology (ANTH 4440), and Special Topics: Primate Behavioral Ecology (ANTH 4490). Dr. Ellwanger also serves as a faculty member in the KSU Journey Honors College, where he serves as Director of the Presidentâ s Emerging Global Scholars cohort.
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Macario Garcia Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
mgarc126@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-2373
SO 4078Macario Garcia is a socio-cultural anthropologist who focuses on legal systems, incarceration, settler violence, and abolition as transformative justice in the contemporary United States. Their ongoing research projects investigate human-making practices in American prisons, poverty and inequality in rural and urban landscapes, and carceral migration in the American Southwest. Some of their published works can be found in Anthropology and Humanism, Critique of Anthropology, and Human Organization. In the classroom, they specialize in liberative education models, applied research, qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and collaborative data analyses. Their courses include Anthropology of Gender, Colonialism and Incarceration, and Anthropology and Science Fiction.
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Shimelis Gebru Lecturer of Anthropology
Lecturer of Anthropology
sgebru1@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-2373
SO 3016Shim Gebru earned a Ph.D. degree in Biological Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis, MO. His research focuses on both humans and nonhuman primates. He studied baboon behavioral ecology in Ethiopia. More recently, he has been involved in multidisciplinary food security research projects, focusing on nutrition and natural resource management, in two drought prone areas in Ethiopia. Dr. Gebru joined Kennesaw State University in fall of 2024 as a Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Anthropology. He teaches ANTH 1102, Introduction to Anthropology, and ANTH 1105, Introduction to Biological Anthropology.
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Alice Gooding Assistant Chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology and Associate Professor of Anthropology
Assistant Chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology and Associate Professor of Anthropology
afazloll@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-2503
SO 4046Alice F. Gooding is the assistant chair of the department of Geography and Anthropology and an associate professor of anthropology. Dr. Gooding is a board-certified forensic anthropologist and serves the state of Georgia at-large. She manages the KSU Forensic Anthropology Field Lab and the KSU Biological Anthropology Lab. She teaches classes in osteology, biological anthropology methods, forensic medicine, and field recovery. Dr. Gooding provides professional training in the excavation of clandestine graves. Her current area of research explores interdisciplinary approaches to grave detection technologies. She regularly presents her work at national scientific and technical conferences.
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Brandon Lundy Chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology and Professor of Anthropology
Chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology and Professor of Anthropology
blundy@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-2893
SO 4050Brandon D. Lundy is chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology and professor of anthropology. Dr. Lundy's scholarship focuses on climate change, sustainable livelihoods, ethnoeconomics, transnational labor migration, indigenous conflict management, and entrepreneurship. He is the editor or co-editor of five books and has published in many journals including Economic Anthropology, Cross-Cultural Research, Human Organization, and African Arts. Dr. Lundy has served as a country specialist (Guinea-Bissau) for Fulbright and the State Department and regularly presents nationally and internationally. His current NSF-funded research explores the valuation of artisanal alcohol in Cabo Verde, West Africa.
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Terry Powis Associate Professor of Anthropology
Associate Professor of Anthropology
tpowis@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-2373
SO 4048Terry Powis is a New World archaeologist in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia. He joined the faculty at Kennesaw State University in August 2005 and is currently an Associate Professor of anthropology. He received his master's degree in anthropology from Trent University (Ontario, Canada) and his PhD in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. He is an archaeologist who conducts research both in the Maya Lowlands of Belize, Central America, and the Southeastern United States. Dr. Powis specializes in pottery, diet and subsistence, architecture, and the evolution of complex societies. His recent research has focused on the origin of chocolate, vanilla, chili peppers, and Datura in the New World.
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Teresa Raczek Professor of Anthropology
Professor of Anthropology
traczek@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-2373
SO 4077Teresa P. Raczek studies heritage and archaeology in India, focusing on the development of communities in the third millennium BCE and the role that archaeology plays in our contemporary lives. She has worked collaboratively with Indian and American colleagues to undertake multiple field projects and train KSU students in Rajasthan, India. This research has been supported by the William J. Fulbright Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Geographic Society. Dr. Raczek formerly served as Associate Dean of RCHSS and Chair of Geography and Anthropology. She obtained her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and BA in History from Barnard College.
Areas of expertise: Archaeology of India, Archaeology of South Asia, Heritage, Early Complex Societies
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Susan Kirkpatrick Smith Associate Professor of Anthropology
Associate Professor of Anthropology
ssmith1@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-2373
SO 4044Susan Kirkpatrick Smith is an associate professor of anthropology with a specialization in bioarchaeology. Her research is focused on understanding the lived experiences of people from ancient Greece based on the stories told in their skeletal remains. Dr. Smith regularly offers her Greek Osteology Field School for undergraduate students at the Institute for Aegean Prehistory Study Center for East Crete. She is a member of the managing committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Dr. Smith has participated on study abroad programs to Italy, France, and Ireland.
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Kenneth Williamson Professor of Anthropology
Professor of Anthropology
kwill254@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-2373
SO 4095Kenneth Williamson is an Associate Professor of Anthropology jointly appointed in the Departments of Interdisciplinary Studies and Geography and Anthropology and is a Black Studies program faculty member. He earned his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a Black Feminist scholar, Dr. Williamson teaches courses that intersect Black Studies, Anthropology, and Gender Studies such as Black Masculinities, Cultural Diversity in the U.S., Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics, Cultural Anthropology, Research Methods, and Issues in Black Studies. Dr. Williamsonâ s scholarship focuses on Black Social Movements, Black Womenâ s Activism in Brazil, Community-Based Research and Participatory Action Research to create social change, Anti-Black Racism, and Social Justice. He has written extensively on how the intersections of race, gender and class impact Black people and people of color in Brazil and the United States.
