Anna C Roosevelt

Professor

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Department of Anthropology

Research Interests

  • General Areas of Interest: Anthropology of tropical South America and Central Africa, human prehistory, paleoanthropology, and paleo-ecology, evolution of human societies, human ecology, complex societies, colonialism, human rights, peopling of the Americas.
  • Current research projects:
  • Central Africa: history of kingdoms, role of colonialism and post-colonialism in the history of violence in the Great Lakes region, NATO Coalition war crimes in Central Africa, Iron-Age societies, roles of women in dual rulership, food and craft production, trade, and war.
  • Amazonia: paleoecology, prehistoric human ecology, ethnography.
  • General Americas: the archaeology of paleoindians, paleoecology.
  • North America: the ethnography of recent hunting and foraging societies and environmental impacts.

At a Glance

  • Title Professor
  • College College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Department Department of Anthropology
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