  |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|||||||
|
|
       |
 |
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. Jacinta C. Beehner (Ph.D. Washington University, 2003). Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Psychology. Biological anthropology, behavioral endocrinology, evolution of social behavior, behavioral aggression, reproductive ecology, baboons (Papio spp.) and geladas (Theropithecus). On leave Fall 2008 Ruth Behar (Ph.D., Princeton 1983). Professor, Anthropology. Peasant society, religion, gender, historical anthropology, photography, life stories, feminist ethnography; Spain, Mexico, Cuba, Latinas/os. On leave Winter 2009 David William Cohen (Ph.D., London, 1970). Professor, Anthropology and History, Director, Program in Anthropology and History. Historical anthropology, law, politics
of expertise, Africa. Fernando Coronil (Ph.D., Chicago, 1987) Associate Professor, Anthropology and History. Director, Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Historical anthropology, modernity, post-coloniality, state formation, capitalism, popular culture, gender; Latin America. On leave Fall 2008 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). 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. 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.
Kent Flannery (Ph.D., Chicago, 1964). James B. Griffin Professor, Anthropology; Curator, Environmental Archaeology, Museum of Anthropology. Archaeology, cultural ecology; Middle America, South America, Near East.
Tom Fricke (Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1984). Professor, Anthropology. Social and cultural anthropology, cultural demography, culture and agriculture, kinship, work, morality, field methods, documentary writing; Nepal, South Asia, US. A. Roberto Frisancho (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State, 1969). Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Anthropology; Research Scientist, Center for Human Growth and Development. Adaptive aspects of growth, human biological adaptation to environmental extremes including heat, cold, solar radiation, high altitude, undernutrition and overnutrition, Westernization; Latin America. 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. 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. 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. Augustin F.C. Holl (Ph.D., Sorbonne, 1993) Professor, Anthropology; Curator,Ethnoarchaeology. Food production, complex societies, West Africa (Sahara, Mauritania, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Senegal), Southern Levant (Negev Desert, Israel). Matthew Hull (Pd.D., Chicago, 2003). Assistant Professor, Anthropology. Semiotics, bureaucracy and governance, corporations, urban planning, material culture, science and technology, South Asia. Marcia Inhorn (Ph.D., Berkeley, 1991; M.P.H., Berkeley, 1988) Professor, Department of Anthropology, School of Public Health, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Women's Studies. Medical anthropology, infertility and reproductive technologies, gender and health, globalization, global and reproductive health, science and technology studies, comparative medical systems, gender and feminist theory, ethnographic research design and methodology, intersection of anthropology and epidemiology, Middle East. Egypt. Lebanon. Arab Gulf, Islamic Studies. Judith T. Irvine (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1973). Edward Sapir Collegiate Professor and Chair, Anthropology. Linguistic Anthropology. Language ideology, language and political economy, performance, colonial and historical linguistics, social organization. Africa. 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. Stuart Kirsch (Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1991) Associate Professor, Anthropolgy. Ritual, indigenous movements, mining ethnography, NGOs, political ecology, cultural property; Melanesia, Oceania. 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 2009 Alaina Lemon (Ph.D., Chicago, 1996). Associate Professor, Anthropology. Ethnology, socio-cultural, Performance and language, historical narrative, racial and national ideologies, visual culture and visual anthropology. Russia, Romani (Gypsy) diaspora, post-Socialist states. Jeff Long (Ph.D., U Michigan Genetics, 1984) Adjunct Professor, Anthropology; Professor, Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School. Population and evolutionary genetics, complex traits, statistical genetics. Laura MacLatchy (Ph.D., Harvard, 1995). Associate Professor, Anthropology. Postcranial functional morphology, primate locomotion, vertebrate paleontology,
Miocene hominoids, bone biomechanics; Uganda, Ecuador. Bruce Mannheim (Ph.D., Chicago, 1983). Professor, Anthropology. Linguistic anthropology, the politics of language use, social theory, poetics and narrative, historical ethnography; Andean South America. On leave Fall 2008 Joyce Marcus (Ph.D., Harvard, 1974). Robert R. Carneiro Distinguished University Professor of Social Evolution; Curator, Latin American Archaeology, Museum of Anthropology; Associate Chair, Department of Anthropology. Ethnohistory, ancient writing systems, early complex societies; Mexico, Central America, South America. Barbra A. Meek (Ph.D. University of Arizona 2001) Associate Professor, Anthropology. Child language socialization and acquisition, endangered and/or dormant language issues, linguistic theory and Athabaskan linguistics. North America. John Mitani (Ph.D., University of California-Davis, 1984). James N. Spuhler Professor of Anthropology. Primate behavioral ecology. Chimpanzees. Erik Mueggler (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1996). Associate Professor, Anthropology. Religion, memory, ideology, state, power, gender; China, minorities in China. On leave, Winter 2008 John O'Shea (Ph.D., Cambridge, 1978). Professor, Anthropology; Curator, Great Lakes, Museum of Anthropology. Prehistoric economics, theory and method; Old World archaeology, North America. On leave Fall 2008 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. On leave Fall 2008 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. Julia Paley (Ph.D., Harvard, 1994). Assistant Professor, Anthropology. Sociocultural anthropology, political anthropology, democracy, urban studies, ethnographic methodology; Latin America. 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. On leave Fall 2008 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. 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. 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. On leave Fall 2008 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. 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. On leave 2008-2009 Carla Sinopoli (Ph. D. Michigan, 1986) Professor, Anthropology; Director, Museum of Anthropology; Curator, Asian Archaeology, Museum of Anthropology. Complex societies craft specialization, ceramics. Political economy of early states and empires; archaeology and history; material culture -- use, technology, and social meaning, ethnoarchaeology, gender; South Asia. Julie Skurski (Ph.D. U. Chicago, 1993) Lecturer IV, Anthropology and History. Historical anthropology, nationalism, race and ethnicity, gender, political violence, Latin America, Caribbean. John D. Speth (Ph.D., Michigan, 1971). Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Anthropology; Curator, North American Archaeology, Museum of Anthropology. Hunters and gatherers, cultural ecology, diet and subsistence, Paleolithic and PaleoIndian studies; North America. Beverly Strassmann (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1990) Associate Professor, Anthropology. Human evolutionary ecology, life history theory,
culture, endocrinology, reproduction, genetics of kinship, Dogon, West Africa. Thomas Trautmann (Ph.D., London, 1968). Marshall Sahlins Professor of History and Anthropology. History of anthropology, kinship; India. Dravidian Kinship, Cambridge University Press, 1981. Robert Whallon (Ph.D., Chicago, 1966). Professor, Anthropology; Curator, European Archaeology, Museum of Anthropology. Ecology and evolution of hunter-gatherers, quantitative methods, prehistory; Europe, Middle East. Melvin D. Williams (Ph.D., Pittsburgh, 1973). Professor, Anthropology. Macroanthropology, human behavioral biology and ecology, religion, African Americans, contemporary American society, the global village. Milford Wolpoff (Ph.D., Illinois, 1969). Professor, Anthropology. Paleoanthropology, multiregional evolution, human paleontology, biomechanics, genetic modeling; Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia. Henry T. Wright (Ph.D., Chicago, 1967). Professor, Anthropology; Curator, Mesopotamian and African Archaeology, Museum of Anthropology. Origins of the state, political and economic operation of developed chiefdoms and archaic states; Middle East, Africa, Indian Ocean, Eastern USA. Norman Yoffee (Ph.D., Yale, 1973) Professor, Anthropology. Assyriology, Mesopotamian culture, languages, history; Near Eastern archaeology; late prehistoric and early historic periods; Comparative early civilizations; Legal anthropology. Lisa C. Young (Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1996) Lecturer IV, Anthropology; Adjunct Assistant Research Scientist, Museum of Anthropology Archaeology, agricultural societies, American Southwest, settlement and subsistence, technology. |
|
-TOP- |
||