All Personnel


Jennifer Birch

Professor, Anthropology, Faculty Associate
jabirch@uga.edu

Jay Boyd

Museum Assistant
jay.boyd@uga.edu

Kariana Colon

Spring 2025 Intern, Entomology

Doug Crowe

Professor, Curator Economic Geology
dcrowe@uga.edu
706-542-2382

Bud Freeman

Former Director, Professor Emeritus, Faculty Associate, Ichthyology Collections
bud@ttrout.ecology.uga.edu

Carey Garland

Research Archaeologist and Compliance Bioarchaeologist, Staff Associate
crg79217@uga.edu

Ervan Garrison

Professor Emeritus, Anthropology and Geology, Faculty Associate
egarriso@uga.edu
706-542-1097

Anna Grubbs

Spring 2025 Intern, Archaeology

Attila Gyucha

Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Faculty Associate
Attila.Gyucha@uga.edu

Richard Hoebeke

Associate Curator & Collection Manager, Collection of Arthropods
rhoebeke@uga.edu
(706) 542-5572

Steven Hughes

Herbarium Collection Manager
sthughes@uga.edu
706.583.0565

Guinever James

Spring 2025 Intern, Archaeology

Stephen Kowalewski

Anthropology, Professor Emeritus, Faculty Associate
skowalew@uga.edu
706-542-1462

Jean Lodge

Curator, Julian Miller Mycological Herbarium
DeborahJean.Lodge@uga.edu

Brita Lorentzen

Assistant Professor, Faculty Associate, Anthropology
brita.lorentzen@uga.edu

Joseph McHugh

Professor, Entomology, Curator
mchugh@uga.edu
706-542-3574

Sarah Moore

Spring 2025 Intern, Entomology

Daphne Onderdonk

Curatorial Staff, Vertebrate collections, exhibits, science boxes
d.onderdonk@uga.edu

Suzanne Pilaar Birch

Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Geography, Director, Quaternary Isotope Paleoecology Lab, Coordinator, Georgia Museum of Natural History Internship Program
sepbirch@uga.edu
706-542-4171

Nicole Pontzer

Collection Manager; Fish, Mammals, Birds, Reptiles and Amphibians Collections, Staff Associate
npontzer@uga.edu

Jim Porter

Josiah Meigs Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, Geology, Curator of Marine Invertebrates
jporter@uga.edu
706-207-5177

Arabella Reddish

Fall 2024 Intern, Fall 2025 Intern, Genetics, Museum Collections Management

Elizabeth Reitz

Professor Emerita, Curator, Zooarchaeology Laboratory
ereitz@uga.edu
706-542-1464

Liv Ritacco

Spring 2025 Intern, Invertebrates

Kristine Schenk

Registrar and Collections Manager, Staff Associate
kschenk@uga.edu
(706) 542-8737

Emma Sprigle

Fall 2024-Spring 2025 Intern, Coral Collection

Amanda Thompson

Director, Laboratory of Archaeology
arobthom@uga.edu

Victor Thompson

Executive Director, GMNH, Distinguished Research Professor , Fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science
vdthom@uga.edu

Sally Walker

Professor- Geology, Professor - Marine Sciences, Invertebrate Paleobiology
swalker@gly.uga.edu
706-542-2396

John Wares

Professor, Department of Genetics and Odum School of Ecology, Curator of Genomics and Aquatic Invertebrates
jpwares@uga.edu
(706) 542-7720

Tanisha Williams

Assistant Professor, Curator, UGA Herbarium
Tanisha.Williams1@uga.edu

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