InnoAnth Lab Affiliated Faculty

Affiliated Faculty

Affiliated faculty members are TXST faculty who are conducting long-term research or educational programs in the lab.

Dr. Angela K. VandenBroek

Director of the Innovative Anthropologies Lab
Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Interests: science and technology studies (STS); feminist STS; business anthropology, design anthropology, applied anthropology; innovation; entrepreneurship; technologies; design; futures and foresight; expertise; ignorance and agnotology; and infrastructure

Portrait of Dr. Angela K. VandenBroek
Portrait of Dr. Augustine Agwuele

Dr. Augustine Agwuele

Professor of Anthropology

Interests: Linguistics\ Phonetics,- C-V Coarticulation, Socio-Cultural Studies, Peoples & Cultures of Africa

Dr. Nicole Taylor

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Interests: Language, gender, and identity; teasing and gossip practices; childhood obesity and body image; adolescent and emerging adult health; youth and social media; ethnographic and applied research methods; contemporary U.S. and educational research settings

Portrait of Dr. Nicole Taylor
Portrait of Aimee Villarreal

Dr. Aimee Villarreal

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Interests: Social movements in the US-Mexico borderlands; immigration and asylum; religion and transnationalism; Chicanx spiritual politics and performance; comparative ethnic studies.

Dr. Rich Warms

Professor of Anthropology

Interests: West African economies, merchants, veterans of colonial armies, Islam in West African society, history of theory in anthropology, pedagogic methods.

Dr. Rich Warms sitting at a table filled with food and containers.
Dr. R. Jon McGee Standing with one arm raised above his head.

Dr. R. Jon McGee

Professor of Anthropology

Interests: Maya, anthropology of religion, culture, theory, and field research methods