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Archaeological | Biological | Linguistic | SocioCultural
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. 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. 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 2009 Ruth Behar (Ph.D., Princeton 1983). Professor, Anthropology. Peasant society, religion, gender, historical anthropology, photography, life stories, feminist ethnography; Spain, Mexico, Cuba, Latinas/os. 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. David William Cohen (Ph.D., London, 1970). Professor, Anthropology and History, Director, Program in Anthropology and History. Historical anthropology, law, politics
of expertise, Africa. 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. On Leave 2009-2010 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 and Chair. Social and cultural anthropology, cultural demography, culture and agriculture, kinship, work, morality, field methods, documentary writing; Nepal, South Asia, US. David Frye (Ph.D., Princeton, 1989)Lecturer III, 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. 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. Rebecca Hardin (Ph.D., Yale, 2000). Associate Professor, 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. On leave Winter 2009 Matthew Hull (Pd.D., Chicago, 2003). Assistant Professor, Anthropology. Semiotics, bureaucracy and governance, corporations, urban planning, material culture, science and technology, South Asia. Judith T. Irvine (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1973). Edward Sapir Collegiate Professor. Linguistic Anthropology. Language ideology, language and political economy, performance, colonial and historical linguistics, social organization. Africa. On leave 2009-2010 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 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 2010 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. 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. Michael Lempert (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2004). Assistant Professor, Anthropology; linguistic anthropology; interaction; semiotics; social theory; stance and affect; religion; Tibet; South Asia. 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. 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 2010 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. On leave Winter 2010 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. |
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