At present, there are four core faculty in IAS: Shankar Aswani, Steven Gaulin, Michael Gurven, and John Tooby.  The IAS unit is currently conducting a search for an ecological anthropologist, who will join the Anthropology Department in 2009 as its fifth core faculty member.  There are also 6 affiliate members of IAS drawn from the Anthropology Department: Michael Jochim, Katharina Schreiber, Susan Stonich, Amber VanDerwarker, Phillip Walker, and Gregory Wilson, and 3 emeritus members of IAS: Donald Brown, Napoleon Chagnon, and Donald Symons.

The faculty of IAS share a strong scientific and integrative orientation, and teach and do research in ecological anthropology, human behavioral ecology, sociocultural anthropology, human biology, biological/physical anthropology, evolutionary psychology, economic anthropology, evolutionary anthropology, cognitive anthropology, hunter-gatherer studies, psychological anthropology, the anthropology and archaeology of foragers and small scale societies, biosocial anthropology, biocultural anthropology, demography, and medical anthropology.

For more information on research foci, please visit our IAS Faculty Information page.