Instructors

Welcome to the course web site for ANT 2301, Human Sexuality and Culture, at the University of Florida. This course is one of the largest at the University, enrolling some 650 students each term. In addition to your professor, Dr. Gravlee, there are nine teaching assistants (TAs) who are responsible for weekly discussion sections. Learn a little more about us below.

Dr. Gravlee


Dr. Clarence (Lance) Gravlee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology. He also has affiliate appointments in the College of Public Health and Health Professions, the African American Studies Program, and the Center for Latin American Studies. Dr. Gravlee’s research focuses on culture, stress, and disease. His primary current research project examines the health effects of racism among African Americans in Tallahassee, FL. He has done fieldwork in Puerto Rico and Germany and is developing a new collaboration in the Bolivian Amazon as part of the Tsimane’ Amazonian Panel Study.

Office: Turlington B370
Office hours: Mon and Wed, 10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., and by appointment

Amanda D. Concha-Holmes, Head TA


Amanda Concha Holmes is an ecological and visual anthropologist focusing on the relationships between religio-ecological values and practices of the Yoruba diaspora in Matanzas, Cuba. She is learning to make documentaries that examine perspectives of ecology and to explore the use of video to improve representation through sensorial experiences that evoke as well as explain.

Sections: 5734, 0271
Office: Mon, 10:40 -11:30 a.m., 12:50 - 1:40 p.m., and 3:00 - 3:50 p.m.
Office hours: Turlington B137

Sarah Cervone


Sarah Cervone is writing her dissertation for a doctoral degree in economic anthropology. Her dissertation fieldwork investigated the social implications of mountain tourism development in the Amazighe/Berber village of Aremd in Toubkal National Park in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco.

Sections: 0276, 0264, 0281
Office: Turlington B329
Office hours:Thurs, 12:50 - 2:45 p.m., 6:15 - 7:05 p.m.

Hilary del Campo


Hilary del Campo works with traditional people in the Xingu river basin, state of Pará, Brazil. Her dissertation is about the formation of personal and collective identities rooted in place, which is linked with people’s cultural and economic histories, their use of forest and riverine resources, and their social networks. Prior to pursuing her PhD, she spent several years in the Peruvian Amazon, specifically working with indigenous and traditional people and colonist settlers on local participation in the creation and management of community reserves and other protected areas.

Sections: 0282, 0274, 0269
Office: TUR B333
Office hours: Tues, 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., and by appointment

Suzanne Dolwick Grieb


Suzanne Dolwick Grieb has a Masters of Public Health specializing in infectious disease. Currently, she is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology and is researching gender, migration, and HIV/AIDS among the Garifuna of Honduras and New York City.

Sections: 0285, 0267, 0273
Office: TUR Tur 4407
Office hours: Wed, 10:40 a.m. -1:40 p.m.

Rachel Harvey


Rachel Harvey is a Ph.D. candidate focusing on cultural anthropology. She spent the last academic year completing fieldwork in South Africa funded by a Fulbright-Hayes grant. Her dissertation research concerns cultural tourism in the urban townships of Cape Town. Rachel is investigating how the local community is engaged in tourism practices as well as how the tourism industry shapes the production of place, history, and culture in the post-apartheid era.

Sections: 0290, 0278, 0270
Office: TUR B134
Office hours: Mon, 12:00 - 3:00 p.m., and before or after lecture by appointment

Alana A. Lynch

Alana Lynch is a PhD candidate concentrating in historic archaeology. Specifially, she focuses on historical dietary practices via an examination of animal remains recovered from archaeological sites. She has over 10 years experience working throughout the Southeast US. Her PhD dissertation work centers on exploring the foodways of early American unlisted soldiers in the Southeast.

Sections: 0287, 0266, 0265
Office: Turlington B134
Office hours: Wed, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Jeremy Pye


Jeremy Pye is a second-year Ph.D. student focusing on historical archaeology, particularly in19th century cemeteries, mortuary patterning, cemetery landscapes, historic preservation, as well as socioeconomics, ethnicity and capitalism reflected in mortuary treatment. He received the MA in anthropology from the University of Arkansas in 2007. His thesis research involved the socioeconomic and historical study of a small 19th century cemetery in Kansas that was excavated in 2004. He received his BA in anthropology from the University of Oklahoma in 2005. His undergraduate research focused on contact-period Native American archaeology, the archaeology of the North American Great Plains, and obsidian x-ray fluorescence analysis.

Sections: 0283, 0289, 0272
Office: B355
Office hours: Mon, Tues, Fri 12:50 - 1:40 p.m.

Megan Ann Teague


Megan Ann Teague is a Ph.D. student focusing in historical bioarchaeology. She has trained broadly in three of anthropology’s traditional subfields: archaeology, biological anthropology, and cultural anthropology.

Sections: 5736, 5741, 0284
Office: Turlington B355
Office hours: Mon, 1:00 -2:00 p.m. and Wed, 2:00 - 4: 00 p.m.

Joshua Toney


Joshua Toney is an archaeologist who works in South America and the Caribbean. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Vermont in 1997 where he concentrated on developing a background in anthropology and history.

Sections: 0277, 0288, 0268
Office: Turlington B309
Office hours: Mon, Wed, Fri, 8:30 - 9:20 a.m.