More Anthropologists in Our Midst
Anthropology at GSU is not limited to our department only. Below are profiles of other practicing anthropologists within other departments at Georgia State University.
Dr. Sarah Brosnan, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Brains and Behavior Program & Language Research Center
Dr. Brosnan received her Ph.D. from Emory University in 2004. Her research interests include cooperation, inequity, barter, social cognition, and economic behavior, primarily in non-human primates. She directs the Comparative Economics and Behavioral Studies Laboratory (CEBUS Lab) and does research with nonhuman primates at both the Language Research Center of GSU and the Michale E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research of the UT/MD Anderson Cancer Center, where she is a visiting assistant professor.
Dr. Doris A. Derby, Office of African American Student Services and Programs
Dr. Doris A. Derby has been Georgia State University’s Director of the Office of African American Student Services and Programs since 1990. In the 1990’s, she also held the title of Adjunct Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department. Additionally, she is the Minority Advising Program Officer, at Georgia State University, for the University System of Georgia. She received her Doctor of Philosophy degree in Cultural/ Social Anthropology with a concentration in African American Studies from the University of Illinois/ Urbana.
Dr. Jonathan Gayles, Assistant Professor, Department of African-American Studies
Jonathan Gayles received his Ph.D. in Applied Anthropology from the University of South Florida in 2002. His primary research area is the cultural context of educational outcomes. He is also nurturing a growing interest in educational policy analysis and cultural studies. A graduate of Morehouse College, he earned an M.S. in School Psychology from Winthrop University before working as a program officer at the Florida Education Fund in Tampa, Florida for a number of years. During that time he directed a statewide achievement program for African American students as part of the Florida Education Fund's efforts to increase the representation of African Americans in the professoriate. He has published a number of articles in scholarly journals including Educational Policy, International Journal of Educational Reform, Multicultural Education, The Journal of African American Studies, and Anthropology and Education Quarterly.
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Dr. Melinda Hartwig, Associate Professor, School of Art & Design, Art History Program
Dr. Hartwig received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University in 2000, specializing in the Art & Archaeology of ancient Egypt. In addition to teaching a wide range of courses, she has curated several national exhibitions on ancient Egyptian art and has a number of publications to her credit. She has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East, and leads a study abroad program for GSU in Egypt. Currently, she is the director of a project to document and conserve the world-famous painted tomb of Menna (TT 69) in Thebes (modern Luxor) Egypt.
Dr. Megan Sinnott, Assistant Professor, Women's Studies Institute
Dr. Sinnott received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research interests include globalization and sexuality; queer theory; transnational media studies, anthropology of gender and sexuality.
Dr. Valerie Fennell, Faculty Ombudsperson, Office of the Ombudsperson
Since 1998, Valerie Fennell has served as Faculty Ombudsperson for Georgia State University. She is currently a member of the Professional Development Committee of the University and College Ombuds Association [UCOA], a professional organization that she joined in 1998 when she became Faculty Ombudsperson. Dr. Fennell received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1974. She came to GSU as an assistant professor that same year. Her research has always focused on age and gender relations in human communities. She authored "Epilogue: Musings on Ethnocentric Sexism in Traditional Ethnographies of the South," in Women in the South, an Anthropological Perspective edited by Holly F. Matthews, and "Meanings of Aging in a Southern Town," in Many Mirrors, Body Image and Social Relations edited by Nicole Sault.
