Curricula Vitae in Anthropology

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Dr. Joanna Casey Associate Professor	Anthropology, Archaeology	My current research involves prehistoric Archaeology and ethnoarchaeology in Northern Ghana. I have an on-going archaeology project doing excavation and analysis at the multi-component Birimi Site near the towns of Gambaga and Nalerigu in the Northern Region of Ghana.My primary archaeological interest is in the origins and nature of early food production in West Africa. Toward that end, my technical specialty is the analysis of informal stone tool technologies.
Chelsea Fisher Assistant Professor	explores how community-engaged archaeology can help us understand, mitigate, and resolve environment, colonial and modern cattle farming in Yucatec Maya communities	Dr. Fisher is an Assistant Professor of anthropological archaeology at the University of South Carolina. She earned her PhD in anthropology from the University of Michigan in 2019. Prior to joining the faculty at USC in 2023, she also was an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Washington and Lee University.
Dr. Katherine Elisabeth Goldberg Clinical Assistant Professor	conducting research at two US National Parks- part of "Civil War to Civil Rights" initiative	Dr. Goldberg is an Instructor for the Honors College at the University of South Carolina. She earned her PhD in anthropology, with a focus on historical archaeology, here at UofSC in 2018. She had a one-year teaching post doctoral fellowship in the department of Social Advocacy and Ethical Life. She came to UofSC in 2011 after receiving her bachelors degree from Hofstra University in 2009, and working a couple years at a laser-induced optics testing facility.
Jelena Jankovic Rankovic Assistant Professor	understanding of the relationships between current migratory flows, social inequalities, investigate water insecurity impact on mental health and psychobiology among marginalized, studying job-related stressors among humanitarian workers	Dr. Jankovic-Rankovic is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina. She earned her PhD in anthropology from the University of Notre Dame in 2021. Prior to her appointment at USC in 2023, she held positions as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame and as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Center for Global Health & the Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation at Arizona State University.
Dr. Kathryn Luchok Senior Instructor	Maternal and Child Health, Women's Health, Community Health Promotion	Kathryn J. Luchok, PhD, is a Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology and a Senior Instructor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Her expertise is in medical and applied anthropology and she is cross trained in Anthropology and Public Health. She specializes in women’s reproductive health, pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum, maternal and child health, and health equity. Her work is interdisciplinary and she has research experience in the US, Togo, Nigeria and Nepal.
Dr. Marc Moskowitz Professor	The intersection between gender and popular culture in Chinese-speaking Asia	Marc L. Moskowitz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina and the Visual Anthropology Review Editor for the American Anthropologist.
Dr. Jennifer Fiona Reynolds Professor	Linguistic Anthropology	I am a Linguistic Anthropologist who studies the nexus of language, power, and performance as it pertains to the reproduction of social life in families and communities. I am a specialist in language ideology, and the anthropology of childhood, with area specialization in Latin America and the United States.
Joshua Robinson Instructor
Dr. David Sean Simmons Associate Professor	International Health, Health and Healing in the African Diaspora, Social and Health Disparities	My current research focuses on the relationship between human rights abuses and health outcomes for Haitian agricultural workers, or braceros, in the Dominican Republic. This work is sponsored through the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School and builds on my intersecting interests in health and the social determinants that undergird it.
Dr. Kimberly Eison Simmons Associate Professor	Women in development, Migration and immigration, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Dominican Republic in particular	Kimberly Simmons is Director of the Latin American Studies Program and holds dual appointments in the departments of Anthropology and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina. She has conducted research in the Dominican Republic that has focused on the cultural construction of gender and female identity (for the MA) as well as issues of racial-national identity formation and competing discourses surrounding Dominicanness in terms of race/color and racial/color identities.
Dr. Magdalena Stawkowski Assistant Professor	cultural & medical anthropology, focusing on militarized & nuclear spaces & the political economy	Magdalena Stawkowski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and a faculty associate at the Walker Institute for International Studies. She is also a researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen and a fellow in the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Stawkowski received her PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2014.
Dr. Jonah Steinberg Associate Professor
Dr. Terrance Maurice Weik Professor	Maroon, Ethnogenesis, Resistance, Diaspora, Transformation	I chose archaeology as a career in order to explore the cultural origins, social formations, and transformations that have shaped people of African descent.
Dr. Carlina M. de la Cova Professor	Skeletal biology, Paleopathology, Biohistory	Although trained as a biological anthropologist, I have always taken a four-field approach in my work, employing an interdisciplinary research agenda that integrates bioanthropological, biocultural, historical, sociological, and cultural methodologies. Skeletal analyses comprise the core component of my research design, but primary historical sources (census records, manuscripts, family papers, government documents, and medical records) also form an integral part of my work.