All Personnel


Carly Ashcraft

Fall 2025 Intern, Mammalogy

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

Cassandra Hall

Museum Fellow, Assistant Professor of Computational Astrophysics
cassandra.hall@uga.edu

Megan Hammond

Fall 2025 Intern, Archaeology

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

Fall 2025 Friends of the GMNH Intern, 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

John Maerz

Museum Fellow, Dennis and Sarah Carey Distinguished Professor of Forestry and Natural Resources and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor
jcmaerz@uga.edu
706-705-2003

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

Museum Fellow, Assistant Professor of 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

Danielle Raad

Museum Fellow, Assistant Professor of History and Museum Studies
raad@uga.edu

Arabella Reddish

Fall 2025 Friends of the GMNH Intern, Fall 2024 Intern, Genetics

Elizabeth Reitz

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

Danielle Riebe

Museum Fellow, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
danielle.riebe@uga.edu

Liv Ritacco

Spring 2025 Intern, Invertebrates

Kristine Schenk

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

Emma Sprigle

Fall 2024-Spring 2025 Intern, Coral Collection

Erin Summers

Fall 2025 Parents Leadership Council GMNH Intern, Spring 2025 Intern, Bioarchaeology

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

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

John Wares

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

Emma Webb

Fall 2025 Intern, Zooarchaeology

Tanisha Williams

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

Gabriella Zasimczuk

Fall 2025 Intern, Ichthyology