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Kelly M. Askew (Ph.D., Harvard, 1997). Associate Professor, Anthropology and Center for Afro-American and African Studies. Performance, cultural politics, ethnomusicology, nationalism, socialism/postsocialism, media, Swahili studies; East Africa.
| kaskew@umich.edu | webpage |

Sepideh A. Bajracharya (Ph.D., Harvard, 2008). Michigan Society of Fellows, Assistant Professor, Socio-cultural Anthropology, rumor, vigilantism, political violence, public culture, urban ethnography, Nepal, South Asia.
| sbajrach@umich.edu |

Ruth Behar (Ph.D., Princeton 1983). Professor, Anthropology. Peasant society, religion, gender, historical anthropology, photography, life stories, feminist ethnography; Spain, Mexico, Cuba, Latinas/os.
| rbehar@umich.edu | webpage |

Thomas Chivens (Ph.D. North Carolina, 2004) Lecturer I, Anthropology; Faculty Associate with the Center for Emerging Democracies. Postsocialism and Europeanization; Anthropology of the State; Violence, Gender, and Security; Human Rights, Policing and Policy Circulation; Awareness Politics. Poland, European Union, North America.
| tchivens@umich.edu |

David William Cohen (Ph.D., London, 1970). Professor, Anthropology and History, Director, Program in Anthropology and History. Historical anthropology, law, politics of expertise, Africa.
| dwcohen@umich.edu |

Amal Hassan Fadlalla (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2000). Adjunct Assistant Professor, Anthropology; Assistant Professor, Women's Studies and Afro-American and African Studies. Cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, gender studies, population and development, sexuality, identity, poverty, social inequalities, political economy, and diaspora and transnationalism (Sudan, Africa, the Middle East, and the Diaspora).
| afadlall@umich.edu |

Gillian Feeley-Harnik (Ph.D. New York 1976) Kathleen Gough Professor of Anthropology; Socio-cultural anthropology, religion, phenomenology, political ecology, kinship, gender, historical anthropology, history of life sciences; Madagascar, US, UK. On leave 2009-2010
| gfharnik@umich.edu | webpage |

Krisztina E. Fehervary (Ph.D. U Chicago 2005) Assistant Professor, Anthropology. Socio-cultural, consumer and material culture, political economy, middle-class culture, built environment, domestic space, body, transformations, film and popular culture, Hungary, postsocialist states.
| fehervary@umich.edu |

Tom Fricke (Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1984). Professor and Chair, Anthropology. Social and cultural anthropology, cultural demography, culture and agriculture, kinship, work, morality, field methods, documentary writing; Nepal, South Asia, US.
| tomf@isr.umich.edu |

David Frye (Ph.D., Princeton, 1989)Lecturer II, Anthropology; Education Officer, LACS. Ethnography and history of Mexico; the colonial construction of Indianness; religious movements in Mexico; Latin American societies and cultures; Latin American colonial history.
| dfrye@umich.edu | webpage |

Zeynep Devrim Gürsel (Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2007) Michigan Society of Fellows, Assistant Professor, Anthropology.Visual anthropology, media anthropology, photography, anthropology of news and journalism, anthropology of the imagination, moving image studies, ethnographic film, theories of representation, narrative forms, cultures of knowledge production. France, US, Turkey.
| zgursel@umich.edu |

Rebecca Hardin (Ph.D., Yale, 2000). Assistant Professor, Anthropology and School for Natural Resources and Environment. Cultural politics of biodiversity conservation, nature tourism, and hunting, historical anthropology of concessionary politics and corporate social responsibility; historical and cultural ecology of disease emergence and management in rainforest environments, central and southern Africa.
| rdhardin@umich.edu | webpage |

Janet Hart (Ph.D., Cornell, 1991). Associate Professor, Anthropology. Oral history and narrative theory and methods, anthropology of Europe, urban ethnography, postcolonialism and diaspora in Paris, France, gender and nationalism, comparative social movements and cultures of activism, political prisons and prisoners.
| janeth@umich.edu |

Matthew Hull (Pd.D., Chicago, 2003). Assistant Professor, Anthropology. Semiotics, bureaucracy and governance, corporations, urban planning, material culture, science and technology, South Asia.
| matthew.hull@umich.edu | webpage | office hours |

Webb Keane (Ph.D. Chicago, 1990) Professor, Anthropology. Social and cultural theory, language and discourse, semiotics, ritual and religion, exchange, material culture, history and historical consciousness. Indonesia, Oceania. On leave Fall 2009
| wkeane@umich.edu | webpage |

Stuart Kirsch (Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1991) Associate Professor, Anthropolgy. Ritual, indigenous movements, mining ethnography, NGOs, political ecology, cultural property; Melanesia, Oceania.
| skirsch@umich.edu |

Laura Lein (Ph.D., Harvard, 1973). Dean and Collegiate Professor, School of Social Work; Professor, Anthropology. Poverty and poverty programs in the United States; Homeless and dislocated populations; Child care, health care, and non-governmental organizations.
| leinl@umich.edu | webpage |

Conrad Kottak (Ph.D., Columbia, 1966). Julian H. Steward Professor of Anthropology. Ecology, development, social change, global change, media studies, mass culture; Brazil, Madagascar, contemporary United States. On leave Winter 2010
| ckottak@umich.edu | webpage |

Erik Mueggler (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1996). Associate Professor, Anthropology. Religion, memory, ideology, state, power, gender; China, minorities in China. On leave Winter 2010
| mueggler@umich.edu | webpage | curriculum vitae |

Maxwell Owusu (Ph.D., Chicago, 1968). Professor, Anthropology; Research Scientist, Center for Research on Economic Development. Social anthropology of the nation-state, legal and political systems, socio-economic development and underdevelopment, democratization, liberalization, economic reform and culture; Africa, Caribbean.

Mark Padilla (Ph.D., Emory, 2003). Adjunct Assistant Professor, Anthropology; Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education. Medical anthropology, gender / sexuality, tourism, sex work, Caribbean, Dominican Republic, political economy, HIV/AIDS.
| padillam@umich.edu |

Julia Paley (Ph.D., Harvard, 1994). Assistant Professor, Anthropology. Sociocultural anthropology, political anthropology, democracy, urban studies, ethnographic methodology; Latin America.
| jpaley@umich.edu | webpage |

Damani Partridge (Ph.D., U California, Berkeley, 2003). Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Center for Afro American and African Studies. Cultural anthropology, race and displacement, citizenship and non-citizens, technologies of exclusion, gender and sexuality, critical visual anthropology, German studies, European studies, anthropology of the state, post-socialism.
| djpartri@umich.edu |

Holly Peters-Golden (Ph.D. North Carolina, 1980) Lecturer IV, Anthropology; Lyle C. Roll Scholar for Humane Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine. Medical anthropology, cancer, physician-patient interaction, explanatory models of illness, social construction of disease, medical education, illness narrative, North America. | hollypet@umich.edu | webpage |

Elisha P. Renne (Ph.D. New York University, 1990) Associate Professor, Anthropology and Center for African and AfroAmerican Studies. Cultural anthropology, demographic/medical anthropology, material culture; Nigeria, West Africa.
| erenne@umich.edu | webpage |

Elizabeth F.S. Roberts (Ph.D. U.C. Berkeley, 2006) Assistant Professor, Anthropology and the Residential College). Critical study of medicine, science and biotechnology, modernity, exchange, kinship, race, religion, Latin America, Ecuador.
| lfsrob@umich.edu |

Jennifer Robertson (Ph.D. Cornell, 1985). Professor, Anthropology. Ethnography, art and visual culture, colonialism/imperialism, historical anthropology, mass/popular culture, performance and theatre, sex/gender/sexuality, urban anthropology, eugenics and bioethics, humanoid robots and cyberculture; Japan, Israel, Asia.
| jennyrob@umich.edu | webpage and bio |

Gayle Rubin (Ph.D. U Michigan, 1994). Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Women's Studies. Sexualities and genders, sexual populations, cities, sexological theory, durable inequalities, gay/lesbian ethnography, racial taxonomies, urban North America.
| grubin@umich.edu |

Andrew J. Shryock (Ph.D. Michigan, 1993). Associate Professor, Anthropology. Modernity, historical ethnography, oral tradition, tribe-state relations, identity politics, (trans) nationalism; Middle East and Middle Eastern communities in North America.
| ashryock@umich.edu | webpage |

Thomas Trautmann (Ph.D., London, 1968). Marshall Sahlins Professor of History and Anthropology. History of anthropology, kinship; India. Dravidian Kinship, Cambridge University Press, 1981.
| ttraut@umich.edu |

Melvin D. Williams (Ph.D., Pittsburgh, 1973). Professor, Anthropology. Macroanthropology, human behavioral biology and ecology, religion, African Americans, contemporary American society, the global village.
| mddoublu@umich.edu | webpage |

   

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