Faculty

Core faculty

Ann-Sophie Barwich

Ann-Sophie Barwich

Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science Program

Assistant Professor in Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine

2025/2026 Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

  • abarwich@iu.edu
  • Geology Building 603H

Research Interests
cognition & neuroscience, empirical philosophy, methodology, contemporary life sciences

Farrah Bashey-Visser

Farrah Bashey-Visser

Assistant Scientist, Biology

Lecturer, Human Biology

Research Interests
ecology, evolution, microbial interactions and pathogenesis

Amy Berndtson

Amy Berndtson

Senior Lecturer, Biology

Research Interests
hormonal regulation of reproduction

Leiha Edmonds

Leiha Edmonds

Assistant Professor, Geography and Human Biology

  • lmedmond@iu.edu
  • Student Building 010

About Leiha:I am an assistant professor of Geography at Indiana University Bloomington with a joint appointment in the Human Biology Program. My research focuses on the challenges of aging well in U.S. cities, with particular attention to caregiving, age-friendly policies, and housing stability. I integrate qualitative and spatial data to examine how aging is shaped by place, political economy, and community.  

Research Interests
Geographies of Aging; US Urban Geographies; Health Geographies Care Economies; Affordable Housing; Community Development Policy; Community Engaged Methodologies; Creative Mapping

David Graham

David Graham

Visiting Lecturer, English

  • grahamda@iu.edu
  • Ballantine Hall 469
Amit Hagar

Amit Hagar

Professor, History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine

  • hagara@indiana.edu
  • Goodbody Hall 120

Amit Hagar (Ph.D. UBC, 2004), is a philosopher of physics interested in the foundations of modern physics, especially in the notion of objective chance, the philosophy of time, the notion of physical computation, the foundations of quantum information theory, and the biophysical modeling of cancer.

Vivian Nun Halloran

Vivian Nun Halloran

Professor, English

Associate Professor, American Studies

Director, Graduate Studies, American Studies

Richard Hardy

Richard Hardy

Professor, Biology

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, College of Arts and Sciences

Research Interests
eukaryotic cell biology; cytoskeleton and signaling; virology; genome functions of RNA viruses and the roles of trans-acting factors

Anna Kalinovsky

Anna Kalinovsky

Lecturer, Human Biology

Lecturer, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Assistant Research Scientist, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Sarah Phillips

Sarah Phillips

Professor, Anthropology

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

  • sadphill@indiana.edu
  • (812) 855-7309
  • Global and International Studies Building 4016

Research Interests
postsocialist; transformations; civil society and non-governmental organizations (NGOs); globalization; development; gender studies; medical anthropology; post-Chernobyl health and healing; folk medicine; disability studies

Heather Reynolds

Heather Reynolds

Associate Professor, Biology

Research Interests
ecology; microbial interactions and pathogenesis

Leah Savion

Leah Savion

Senior Lecturer, Philosophy

Director, Associate Instructor Training

Research Interests
logic; cognitive science; philosophy of language; philosophy of logic; epistemology; pedagogical theories

Thomas Siek

Thomas Siek

Visiting Lecturer, Anthropology and Human Biology

  • siekt@iu.edu
Dana Urbanski

Dana Urbanski

Assistant Professor and Licensed Audiologist Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Assistant Professor, Human Biology Program, Affiliate Scientist, Indiana University Center for Aging Research Regenstrief Institute

  • urbanski@iu.edu
Michael Wasserman

Michael Wasserman

Director, Human Biology

Associate Professor, Anthropology and Human Biology

  • mdwasser@Indiana.edu
  • 1103 Atwater Ave.

Primate Environmental Endocrinology Lab (PEEL)

Research Interests
primate ecology and evolution; environmental endocrinology; nutritional anthropology; evolutionary medicine; conservation and sustainability

Andrea Wiley

Andrea Wiley

Professor, Anthropology

Affiliate, Human Biology

Research Interests
human diet and nutrition and the adaptive significance of human dietary behavior; human adaptability, particularly to stressful environments such as high altitude; human health and disease, especially maternal and infant health within an evolutionary framework; demography and determinants of fertility and mortality in human populations